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Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08

Fresh from a string of sixteen con Seeutlve victories up in the old Bay State Marlboro made the mistake of crossing the line into territory famous for wooden lnutmegs last sunday and were given wallop that put them so soundly to sleep that they forgot to get up and make a run until the game was over at the end of nine innings.
 Putnam in the meantime was step ping around like an aggregation of well trained lightweights and were swatling the ball whenever it came across the corner of ,the plate. AL though the visitors gol men on bases in four innings they were unable to tie. liver the btngles to bring them around.
 All there was to it, Marlboro was oulclaSsed at al points. Putnam was playing tn ilne form and Hanley only allowed four hits, two in the second, one in The lhlrd and one in the sixth.
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Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08

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Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08
UT Show I E211O1,ee>

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Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08
eeod Work of enoIIsh snarrov..

The thistle and the caterpillar have been eliminated from New Zealand by the English sparrow
Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08
Algerian Coal Deposits

Nigeria has been added to the lands In which valuable deposits of coal have been discovered in recent years.
Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08
Hay and Straw.

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Putnam patriot., 1916-09-08

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Expose R, R, Poverty Plea.

Washington, Dec. 15-The joint
congressional committee that is in
vestigating the transportation ques-
tion gave the railroads an oppor-
tunity to prove their cry that they
can't get capital to expand.
Senator Cummins asked Alfred
P. Thorn, courcil for the railroads
executive advisory committee if he
knew Of any railroad company that
has tried to get money for new con
struction and has failed
The railroad man acknowledged
he knew of no such case, but in
sisted that railroad stocks and
bonds are no longer attractive TO
investors" The senator suggested
that watered stock might be the
answer, while calling attention to
the fact that the roads have carried
an amount in the last ten years
equivalent to s per cent on their
watered stock and actual money
invested.
Mr.. Thorn said that this was not
enough. He thought the millions
of watered stock that has been
pumped into railroads only repre-
sented the full worth of these pro-
perties. He said he knew nothing
of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific railroad, which has been
looted by stock jugglers. He was
positive, however, that railroad
stock no longer appeals to inves-
tors.
The commission is investigating
every phase of transportation, In
Guiding government ownership.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Trainm8n TO Aid Probes.

New York, Dec. 15-The four
railroad brotherhood executives
have agreed to assist in every way
possible the commission appointed
by President Wilson to observe the
operation of the Adamson law
The railroad managers have made
a similar agreement. The commits
sion is preparing to conduct its in
vestigation regardless of the fact
that the law is now before the
United States Supreme court. The
commission, it Is stated, will give
the brolherhoods every opportunity
to check mp the railroad reports.
Former grand chief Clark of the
order of railway conductors, now a
member of the interstate commerce
commission is a member of the in,
vestigating commission. Its chair
man is Major General Goethals,
ex governor of the Panama canal
zone.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Will Make Storage Costly.

Washington, Dec. 15.-The in
terstate commerce commission has
authorized railroads to establish a
new demurrage scale, starting May
|, which will make storage costly
for those men who allow commo
dities to remain in freight cars un-
I'll convenient for them, IS the
charge of 81 day is often less ex-
pensive than unloading
Under the new scale two free
days are allowed, and subsequent
charges are 81 for the third day,
s. fol the fourth day, So for the
fifth day and S. for the sixth and
each day thereafter.
1t is stated that the order is in
tended to stimulate prompt unload
ing of cars and releasing the same
for industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Can't Deliver Labor Vote.

Oklahoma, City, Okla, Dec. Is.
The Oklahoma Federationists IS
the latest labor paper that has
tackled the almost hopeless task of
convincing certain folk who fear
politics will wreck the trade un-
ions" that the labor vote cannot
be delivered.
"The opinion that a labor off
cial can deliver the labor vote to
any party" says the Federationist,
arises from ignorance of the prac-
tices and principles Of trade union
ism. The trade union is thor
oughly democratic institution and
the power of the official rests on
the authority delegated to him by
its membership. He has no power
other than that which he has been
entrusted. and we know from long
experience and observation that no
labor official has been entrusted
with the power to control any vote
but his own in any political cam
paign.
The members of trade unions
would not tolerate for moment
the control of their votes by a la
Dor official. They understand their
rights too we'll TO make such sac
rifce of their liberty. They are
just as free to support their politi-
cal principles and preferences as
any other citizen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Why Living Costs Are High.

Denver, Dec. 15.-The only
shortage in cars and commodities
that exist are occasioned by an ap-
parent collusion between the rail-
roads and the middleman, reports
special committee appointed by
the Trades and Labor Assembly to
investigate the high cost of living.
The committee found refrigera-
tor cars loaded with hay and cement
I'VE find potatoes, reports the
investigators, selling at s. 80 for
white and So. % for reds, and three
years ago whites sold al 90 cents
and reds at $l.05 hundred. 1t is
evident that there is no shortage
of potatoes, as there were 45 car
loads in the yards of the week of
November 19, 1916, left to freeze.
There was brought to the attention
of the committee that one man in
the Greely district with 10 acres of
potatoes was compelled to cover
them with straw to keep them from
going to ruin, owing to his inability
to get cars for shipment. Your
committee made visit TO the West
minister district to try and buy ap-
pies and we found a FIVE acre tract
unpicked. When inquiry was made
as to price we were told that they
were not for sale. Then we asked
to be permitted either to pick or
take fruit on the ground or, in
other words; windfalll apples. We
were then told that they were not
priviledged to grant our request,
as they had been bought by com
mission merchant.
The committe recommended that
the president and congress be urged
to have the government investigate
this and related questions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Trade UniOnIst Makes Good.

Washington, Dec. 15.-F. c.
Roberts. member of Typographical
union No. 101 of this city. Is com
mended for his work as labor com
missioner of Porto Rico by Govor
nor Yeager of Porto Rico in the
latter's report to the sec etary of
war, which has just been made
public.
In his annual report to the Porto
Rico legislature Roberts aroused
the antagonism of every reactionary
influence in the island when he de-
clared:
"The labor movement of Porto
Rico, as expressed through the un-
ions affiliated with the American
Federation of L. is the only In
fuerce in the island that is trying
to Americanize the working people
of Porto Rico to the American
standard of living, and as long as
such efforts are antagonized by the
employers there will be conflict be
tween capital and labor in the
island.
"It is no longer possible for big
enterprises to be conducted in the
island, as in the states, with view
only to paying dividends. TIE
plan may succeed for while, but
strikes and industrial unrest will
follow.
MANY employers in Porto Rico
ought to think a little less abont
how much money they are making
and give little attention to what
kiud of people they are making"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Family Receives Benefits.

Scranton. Pa, Dec. 15.- The
state compensation board has ruled
that the widow and children of the
late Peter Novak shall be paid
s., 900 compensation benefits by
the Lehigh & Wilkes Barre coal
company. Novak was injurei while
in the employ of the company and
would not have his leg amputated.
He died as a result of gangrene
pois Dning. The company claimed
exemption from liability because
he refused surgical attendance, but
the board ruled that Novak's fam
ilv should not suffer because of this
fact.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Defends Union Shop.

Tacoma, WASH, Dec. -. Sec
retary Taylor of the state fedora
ton Of LABOR defended the union
shop in joint debate with Secre-
tary Irvine Of the Washington En-
ployers' association. The union
ist declared that there is a certain
moral price below which it is crime
for the toiler to sell his labor
Secretary Irvine favored the nor
uuicn shop, which he called open
shop He believed many strikes
could be avoided if employe and
would get their feet
under the same table and talk
things over He was against
strong organization Of the workers
however, despite the fact that ex-
perience has shown that that power
alone forces employers to meet their
employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
BartenterS' Social Session.

Once or twice each year the
members of the Bartenders' Union
arrange for a social session and
smoke. On next Sunday the Ham
ilton Local will give another one
one of those get-to-gether festivals
and we are told that nothing has
been left undone by the committee
In charge TO serve the boys with
everything in the line of eats.
Several visitors have been invited
to attend the social and some choice
speaking will be heard. The So
cial and smoker will be held in
Trades Council hall in the east
room. The bartenders at the
present time are making progress
In organizing saloons and getting
some of the proprietors to sign
their contract and employ union
bartenders. The social next Sun
day will be up to plans and specifi-
cations and every bartender should
be on hand.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Need For Efficiency.

Philadelphia, Dec. 15-In an ad-
dress to the chamber of commerce
of this city Edward N. Hurley
chairman of the federal trade com
mission, told these business men
that no. more than 10 per cent of
any group of men representing any
industry who have appeared before
the federal trade commission had a
good cost system.
These business men, it appears,
have been SO busy urging the gov
ernment to adopt the Taylor sys-
tenn and other sweating processes
shat they have failed to figure what
it costs them to produce goods and
thereby equip themselves to better
meet foreign competition.
Commissioner Hurley has issued
a book on the subject of pricing
goods. He says 80 per cent of the
manufacturers of the United States
price their goods without knowing
anything of the costs.
The goods are either priced
upon a basis that will sell them as
soon as they are manufactured, or
upon basis of what their competi-
tors are charging" he says.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
lJniOniStS EnjOinet.

Moline, H. Dec. 15.-Judge F.
Ramsey has issued a temporary in
junction against four Machinists'
unions and the Tri- City Fedora
ton of Labor, al the Moline Forg-
ing Manufacturing company, who
are resisting an eight-hour demand.
The writ includes practically every
unionist in the tri-cities of Moline
and Rock Island, Illinois, and Da-
venport, Iowa.
President MacGowan of the fed
Grafton is referred to as a 'profes-
sional agttator," and the court or
ders he and his fellow unionists to
absolutely desist and refrain from
assulting, beating, or in any man
ner injuring or distributing either
in person or property any and all
of the employees and any aud all of
the persons who seek to become
employees of the said companies.
In an attempt to justify Judge
Ramseys unconstitutional act, the
bill of complaint makes this rehec-
tion on the proper constituted peace
officials of Rock Island county
The union is becoming more
violent menacing and dangerous
from day to day
AN attempt was made to wreck
a Burlington train
The dignity Of the law has
been belittled and ridiculed.
Local trade unionist insist that
no one brings law into greater con
tempt than injunction judges, and
that If strikers violate law there
are ample statutes covering every
conceivable offense.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Eight Hours Lessons Fatigue

New York, Dec. Is. Fatigue
is caused by the intensity and fire.
quency of repetition of muscular
acts, - said DR.. F. S. Lee of Colum-
bia university, in an address on
the III effects of overwork.
"The way to avoid fatigue is to
shorten the workday The shorter
workday, where it has been tried
out, has resulted in better health
and morals, better social environ
ment, more efficient industrial or
CARNATIONS. These results have
been clearly demonstrated, in view
of the reduction, as we'll as its
honest but timid opponents.
Modern labor saving machinery
has, no doubt, increased the inten-
sity of the muscular acts. A work
man at a machine is no longer re
qui-ed to lift heavy weights, for
the machine does ii. But this la
Dor saving machine has made the
frequency of repitition of muscular
acts greater, the worker makes
quicker and more movements.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
FRED DRUMMOND
TO Be President of The BARRIERS

Following spirited meeting last
night the Barbers' Local union No.
1872 elected the following officers:
President, Fred Drummond; vice
president, Adam Westrick. 6nan-
cial secretary, E. R. Legg; record
Ing and corresponding secretary,
Theodore Hackley; guard, John
Sheppard; guardian, Albert Nixon;
trustees, John Sheppard, Stephen
Clay and Albert Nixon; finance
committee, Charles Dye, Albert
HEM and Adam Westrick.
The installation of officers which
Is to take place on January s will
be accompanied by a social time
and banquet.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15

commerce in its attempt to sur
round non union job with armed
gunmen.
There will be no gunmen pick
citing city property" he declared
"The chamber of commerce sue
ceeded IL having an anti-picketing
ordinance adopted at the last cleo
ton and l intend to see that no
armed pickets are used in labor
difficulties. y
A strike was called by structural
iron workers, employed by Dyer
Brothers, who have the contract
for erecting an addition to a hospi-
tai. The contractors refused to
obey the state law AID placed plank.
ing between the floors of the struc-
ture, thereby protecting the lives
of workers.
When the union workers struck
because of this violation of law the
chamber of commerce furnished
four armed gunmen to protect the
strikebreakers. The business men
are silent on the queetion of organ
lied workers striking to protect
their lives, and to enforce state
law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
YOnksrS Car Law illegal.

Yonkers, n. Y. Dec. Is. The
ordinance pro ibiting the employ
ment of motormen and conductors
on the lines Of the Yonkers Trolley
company, unless they had had Is
days training was declared uncon-
stitutional by Judge Beall of the
City court. The ordinance was
passed several years ago 1t was
supported by the Street Car Men 5
union and has proven a powerful
aid to these workers in their present
strike. An attempt to have city
council repeal the law failed.
Judge Beal has evidently been
reading criticism Of the Adamson
law, for ia his decision invalidat-
ing the ordinance, he uses this now
familiar phrase
Aud it should be declared in
valid for its very obscurity. No
man can tell what it means.
The street car mems union and
the street railway company, as
we'll as the public generally, have
a clear ides of what the law means,
as we'll as its effectiveness in pro-
hibiting the use of inexperienced
men, strikebreakers and thugs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Injunction Judge Denies
Free Press.

Chicag, Dec. 15.-Judge FIRE.
derrick Smith of the Cook County
Circuit Court has shown how far
injunction judges will go la their
contempt for the state bill of rights
and the federal constitution by sen.
fencing two striking iron workers
to Jail for 10 days and pay fine
of 800 and costs.
Jan Michalek and Stanley Kas-
zubski are maleable iron workers
and were employed by the Illinois
Mallleable Iron Company They,
together with their fellows, organ
lzed a union and Micha!ek was
elected president and Kaszubski,
secretary The union called a
strike to enforce higher wages and
Judge Smith issued a sweeping in
junction against them at the re-
quest of the company. The court
now jails these two workingmen
because they signed their names to
the following announcement which
was published in a Polish news
paper;
To the strikers of the Illinois
Malleable Iron Co.
Strikers meeti G are held three
times week at night. At these
meetings we have crowds of people.
Strikers from the above concern
have agreed to stay away out on
strike until the company will give
in to their demands. We have
made up our minds not to pay at
tention to the company's chasers,
who make all kinds of promises
and draw men into the shops on ac-
count Of these promises, because
the scabs are cursing not only
themselves but all others, and they
claim they will strike again because
they are being cheated by the com
pany's foremen, and also because
they did not receive the wages
which the foremen promised them.
These foremen have promised COLO
apples on trees, and now the scabs
are getting Sl6l per day, and they
are required to give up money 10
the bosses.
"The committee informs the pub
lie in the name Of the strikers to
stay away from the struck shops,
as this would harm us in the battle
we have been fighting for weeks,
because we are not only fighting
for those who are striking, but also
for those who are working there.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Machinist Elect Officers.

Hamilton, Lodge, No. 241, In
ternationai Association of Machin-
lists held their annual election of
officers last Tuesday night. About
two hundred members attended the
meeting which was the largest held
by that organization since the last
strike. Fred Griffith International
organizer from Dayton, Ohio, came
down and also attended the meeting
Griffith talked on the Dayton situ
alton and the machinists' strike of
few months ago.
The sesult of the election was as
follows:
VIM. Phillips, President.
Doc Bergman, Vice President.
Ed Butler, Financial Secretary.
Truman Zilliox, Recording and
Corresponding Secretary.
Carl Getz, Treasurer.
Ernest Stephen, Conductor,
Robert Puthoff, Doorkeeper.
Harry Berry and Ed Keller,
Trustees.
Robert Puthoff, delegate to
Trades Council. The new officers
will take their seats about the first
of the new year.
The machinists union is In a
healthy condition both financially
and in membership.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Object To Convict Labor

Oklahoma City, Okla Dec l5-
Organized labor does 1ot take
kindly to Governor Williams leg
islative policy, as out lined in a
newspaper interview, in which he
is quoted as favoring The building
of a terrace around the capitol with
convict labor The governor con
stlues this as within the law which
provides for the state u.s. of con
victs, but organized labor insists
that this monument 70 convict la
Dor would be disgrace to Okla
homa
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15

nouncement by the Standard Oil
company of California that it has
decided to establish the eight hour
day for all its employees is highly
suggestive of the tendency of the
times.
Incidentally" continues the
editor, "it Is a strong, though
doubtless unintential, Endorsement
of the presidents position in the
case of the railroad trainmen, in
which the inherent justice of the
eight hour day was recognized.
"In the light of It's voluntary
adoption of the shorter workday
for Standard Oil employees, it is
hard to understand how the Rookie
feller interests can consistently
jim in the refusal to recognize the
demand of the railroad men for the
same measure of justice. The rail-
road man, collectively, is under
far greater mental and physical
strain than the oil employe, and
his responsibility for the lives of
the public is far heavier. A high
standard of sobriety and obedience
is exacted of him, and to maintain
that standard, short hours of ser
vice should be recognized not only
as his right but the requirements
of nature"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Can't Strike Law Ignored

Toronto, Ontario, Dec. Is
About 200 Canadian Pacific rail-
road freight handlers suspended
work because they were refused
wage increase. They ignored the
Canadian industrial disputes act
which makes 1t illegal to strike un-
til a government commission inves-
ligates.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
Wages By Law Weakened,

Detroit Mich, Dec 15.-Iu
letter to the public lighting com
mission Corporation Counsel Dinge-
man has notified anti-unionist and
cheap labor advocates that the
amendment to the city charter
which provides that municipal en-
ployes shall receive the highest
prevailing wage, does not mean
what it says, and that there is no
danger OF their rates being disturb
ed by the city recognizing higher
rates.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-12-15
StrikehreakerS Are Costly.

New York, Dec. 15-Representa-
tives of the New York railways
company acknowledged that s 250
strikebreaking motormen and con-
ductors have been employed since
September 8 last, when the strike
on these lines started. Of this mum
Der the company has been com
PEELED to dischage all bat 3, 778 be-
bause of ineficiency and thievery.