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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
II-HOur Day Causes Strike.

Charlottesville, Ind. Feb. g.
Girls employed in the packing de-
partment Of the Indiana Match com
pany suspended work when they
were called upon to accept an IL
hour work day After four days
the company agreed to re-establish
the 10 hour day and abandon over
time two days a week.
Last October the girls were
forced to work two days a week for
l3 hours. Later this was increased
to three nights week and before
Christmas the girls were working
13 hours four nights a week.
1t is claimed that the work OF a
packer is the hardest in the plan'
and that 10 hours work wears the
girls out. They have no chance
to rest because of the speed of the
machine that brings the matches tc
them. Local unionists are urging
the girls TO organize.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09

means for restricting, limiting and
better regulating immigration,
On hree other occasions this bill
has been vetoed by chief executives
President Wilson, January 28, 1915
by President TAFT, February IA,
1913, and by President Cleveland,
March 2, 1897.
Organized labor has insisted that
immigration be restricted because
of the lowering of living stan lards
by immigration stimulated by the
trusts and large corporations. De
Tenders of the literacy test have
agreed that this system is far from
ideal, but that it is the most prac-
teal While acknowledging that
immigration restriction is necessary
opponents of the literacv tess have
failed to even suggest a substitute e
for this plan.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09

commorlon behind him ana, wnen he
turned, saw a horse racing toward
him in frenzy of fear In the spring
wagon was a little boy Of six or seven,
and behind the swaying vehicle was
gray haired man evidently the child's
misunderstanding the runaway.
In an instant the farmer was ont In
the middle Of the road with his hat
whisked off his head, both arms gyrat-
ing In wide circles The hat did the
work. for the farmer told folks after
ward that his mother had told him
that horse would always stop at the
sight of hat being whirled directly In
front of it, The animal came to stop
within few inches of the farmer, who
stood his ground. 1t was the work of
a few seconds to calm the quivering
animal, and soon the grandfather came
up He threw his arms around the
rescuer and fairly wept for joy
Next time you see a runaway Dobbin
coming your way don't forget TO use
your hat and your head.-Columbus
Dispatch.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09

DELEGATI
Wanted In Columbus
Next Wednesday By
DOnnelly.

Thos. ]. Donnelly, secretery Of
the Ohio St te Federation of Labor
in communication requests the
labor unions throughout the state
to send delegations to Columbus
Wednesday, Fed. l4th. A public
hearing will be held in the house
by the House and Senate Labor
Committees, for the purpose of
hearing arguments tor and against
House Bill No. 18l by Mr. Thos
Reynolds, and known as the Won
ans S Eight Hour Bill
The labor unions of Hamilton,
Middletown and Dayton should i'm
nediately make arrangements to
send delegations to Columbus.
Call special meeting of your union
# necessary to send your delegates.
The manufacturers will be there
to fight the bill and the trade uu-
ionists should be there to fight for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Wage Scale Un-
settled.

Another meeting was to be held
by the committee to represent the
street car men and Benton S. Op-
penheimer receiver for the electric
line. The meeting was to be held
in the offices of w. c. Shepherd
but was postponed until next Wed
nesday. Practically ali of the
working conditions asked for by
the men have been granted. The
only thing to settle now is the wage
scale which the men have submit
ted This will probably be settled
by the board of arbitration. While
there Is no talk of another strike
vet the men are fully prepared tc
quit work if necessary.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
C0WARDS IN DAYLIGHT.
But the Great Eagle Owls Are Fierce
Fighters by Night


Fighters by Night.
There are about 200 kinds of owls
Some are tiny owls, some are big eagle
owls. twenty eight inches In length,
very fierce and strong, ready to attack
a man who goes near, able to kill
fawns and large game birds and to do
battle with the golden eagle The cour-
age Of one of these golden owls de
serts it In the daytime, and then little
birds, led by crow, may and 1t and
drive It into the open and tease and
worry II without danger to themselves
But when night comes and the bird can
see, only q mighty eagle dare do battle
with 1t.
The hawk owl is one of the owls
which work by day 1t is big and
strong and savage There are owls
with great ear tufts of feathers and
owls with none at all Some are snowy
white; others are notified. Some live
In holes In the ground with prairie
dogs and such animals; some make
burrows for themselves. But most
owls live in hollow trees or In church
belfries or other high towers Among
so many kinds of owls there are some,
OF course, that do harm, but most Of
them do more good for men than evil
Exchange.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
WHY NOT BE CHEERFUL?
lt Will Help You TO Increase Your
Mental and Physical Power.


Good cheer is a great lubricant 1t
oils ali OF life's machinery.
Good cheer Is a great producer. 1t
adds wonderfully to ones active ability
and increases mental and physical pow
er. 1t makes hosts Of friends and helps
US to be interesting and agreeable.
Good cheer viii attract more custom
ers, sell more goods, do more business,
with less wear and tear than almost
any other quality
Optimism is the greatest business get
ter, biggest trader, truest achiever, in
the world
Pessimism has never done anything
but tear down and destroy what opti-
mism has built up.
In the business office, in society, in
politics, in workshops. everywhere, the
favorite is always the cheerful fellow
with the bright smile and bright
thoughts.
Good natured, cheerful ones do not
waste their vital energies as rapidly as
the grumblers or the too sober, too sour
ones do. They work and live with
much less friction.
Good cheer is a simple habit. 1t is
one of the best in all the list.-Chris-
tian Herald
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
The Union Men And
Prohibition.

VIM. .ABRAHAMs.

Having been requested by publication
contribute another article showing mocy the Prohibition
ment, will prove worthy
fanac friends the liquor issue but purely
omc and exploit the producing power of the workers the
highest efficient point
Jennings Brya, grape juice apostle of
Crucifa emblem speak
Ing Dry city Cincinnati ago.
vital point In one of his illustrations which goes far in the
hundreds and thousands of king
of their jobs and throw them Labor compete
job by doing produce
competition, which lower wages ard longer hours.
Bryan said: There is just 1 will give you; you
apply yourself you
desires written recommendation for Write praise
him extravagant you think point
qualification for the position but add these words in red ink he
drinks Then watch the result.
Whether Willingly unwittngly Bryan laid bare in that simple
illustration the real motive force behind the prohibition
moral primarily conceived is often
Its advocates with solely intellectual welfare
Of he massest undmer tally employers movement design
ed with through efficiency
endurance the part of the workers.
In other powerful corporations such as steel railroad
mining employers employees
have their lot with the probbons who for
the moral" aspects of the liquor traffic without
past few than did century previously AS another speaker
the meeting pouted whereas years ago only
country twenty
prohibtionists hope add Ohio their list the election
these perceive that preponderance
economic interest passing has passed the side of the prohibition
ist That's why the dry is winning movement
formerly unable hadway
change in the morality of the employing class, however still
the old familiar morality OF profit taking In the days when
suited the mining and lumber couparvs
keep saloons apenty and wenou hours day in the
week they personal
anyone question their right
plentiful
independent afraid hunting jobs
denly experience change of heart They suddenly
efficiency workers. proc
aghtway the knowing they reap larger pro
fits In bnce Dry workers properly Billy SundaYizsd ting
the formula of Paul Dignt business serving the Boss
sought after by the master class.
the above analysis be sound will be practically unavaing
the labor of IT. oppose the dry
compelled exclusively drink the poison
freely through the pipes of big cities
sonal glass beer least be thankful for thing another
class of socaed Union Mn who have deliberately sold
low by preaching prohibition for and much speech
whowt to deal
with The illusion
dry" regime will be speedily disspated
man would get they
through organization job.
The morality of the 'proftmotve" without
pensaton.
SO Brother Unionsts, believe pay any
misleading fine being
ganaon sailing the
Publicity Association which Edward
Ex Agent Of the United Shoe Workers of Americas
ions of Cincinnati keenan, the leader of the
against the Seby Shoe Company Portsmouth, brilliantly
oosing poor shoewokers
Sby strike aganstyes
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toward organized labor.

2
Among the strikers are appren-
tices who were from six months to
three years on their time.
These apprentices have stood
loyal to organized labor and refuse
TO be enticed to go back to work
either by threats or promises from
the firm, In all this has been a
very determined strike of eight
months
This is the only unfair shop in
town at this time and all machin
lists and men working at the ma
chinist trade are requested to stay
away as there is plenty of work in
the other shops and under better
conditions.
The bonus system as adopted at
this shop should be looked upon
with suspicion AS it is only tenn
porary and can be withdrawn at
any time At the same time il fur
nishes a bait to catch the unwise
machinist.
While this bonus money is good
as long at it lasts, we think the or
dinary envelope is large enough to
hold an increase in wages equal to
the or even greater than the bonus,
and eliminate the extra office work
of an extra bonus pay which must
be very ~orrysome to that part of
the off e force connected with it,.
J Organized labor should insist on an
increase in wages instead Of the
false bonus system.
That the Black & Clawson Com
papy has ard will feel the weight
of organized labor is we'll known.
As long as they keep up the fight
against o, ganized labor, that long
will they find stern resistance.
The fight, as is well known, was
forced by the firm. One Leroy
Stacks being prominent factor and
very nspicuous in his determine
tion to kill organization in general
and at the Black & Clawson plant
ia particular
Let Mr.. Stacks go to it. We as
sure him that all is we'll in ou1
trenches. 1t may be long fight
but one that will not be forgotten
by the Black & Clawson Company
While it is true there is always q
force Try ing to destroy organiza
ton Let US all put our schoulder
to the wheel and show the worlc
that we are net organized just fol
fun, but for business aud intend tc
get results. The firm refuses tc
meet with committee
M ,chinsts' Local No 241
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
The ''Great Detective" Fined,

New York, Feb. 8 William ]
Burns, the great detective, was
fined 500, with an alternative o.
30 days in Jail, for entering the of
fees of law firm, making copies
of private p pers and then publish
ing them.
In finding Burns guilty the court
laid down the legal principle that
no private detective has the right
0 enter a mans office or dwelling
and examine his private correspon-
dence and papers.
It would be giving a private
detective more power than police
man." declared Justice Collins.
"The law puts a protection around
a man s home. 1t would be a de.
plorable thing if, in America, a
private house were not safe from
being entered by private detectives
and, if lawyers Office may safely
he entered, what protection would
a client have
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
r Q 9 T DR.
Local Organizers and BusI-
ness Agents.

Charles E. Vaughn, A. F. Of L.
Residence, 80 So. Second Street
Bell Phone 308 x.
Timothy Rowan, Internationa
Molders' Union, Residence, 939
Central Ave, Bell Phore 403 x.
VIM. E. Bennett, Painters
Decorators and Paper Hangers
Union, No. 1876. Residence Mt.
Pleasant Pike.
w. R. Smith, Paper Makers I'm
ion, Residence, Hotel DeArmond.
Home Phone 81, Bell Phone 81.
Swain B. Corson, Carpenters
and Joiners Union, No. 637, Resi-
dence 107 Brosey Ave, Bell Phone
756 L.
Conrad Mot bus, Business Agent
Baltenders Union, $50 Ludlow St.
VIM Geppinger, Business Agent
Theatrical Stage Employ es' Union,
726 4 High St. Home Phone 1101
DAYTON OHIO.
Ben Closterman, Polishers.
]. F. Eichorn, Bartenders, Z
Market street
w. j. Gregg, Hosting Engineers
Al W. Great Miami Boulevard.
VIM Schneberger, Cigarmakers'
125 Samuel street.
George Richardson, Teamsters'
80 Wayne, Ave, Bell Phone 54l
Home Phone 2541.
Earl Nyswander, Carpenters 20
n. Main street.
Geo. Lorah, Plumbers corne
Washington and Main, street
Plumbers Hail.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
ESKIMO ICE CREAM.
It's Fine Dish, No Doubt, but Your
Guests MFuht Not Like IL.

quests Mf9ht NOT Like It.
The main food of the Alaskan Indian
Is meat and fish In the winter many
people do not cook the fish at all; sim
ply leave them in the house for two or
three days and then eat them raw.
Women always serve the food and al
ways see that others are satisfied be
fore beginning their own meal. They
have to be very careful not to spill
anything, for that would bring bad
luck to the one whom they are serving.
When a person is invited to eat In
the village it is considered bad man
ners to eat all that is before him. He
must leave enough to take home to
the members of the family who did
not come. The host generally gives
his guest d piece of dried fish to hold
the food which he is to take home
The fish Is broad and fat, about one
half inch thick, and the bundle is
carried away openly without any at
tempt at hiding it In the summer
berries, fruit and roots are added to
the diet, and berries are frozen in the
fall to last through the winter
Since white people came flour and
canned goods have changed the food
very much. 1t is easy to have ice
cream for dessert any time. There is
no cream about 1t, but tallow and ber-
ries are mixed with snow. sometimes
fish Is added to it, and when it is fro
zen 1t makes a fine Southern
Workman.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
BUFFALO BILL COMING TO
Lyric Theatre ss5i ssd 10 g
Special Matinee Friday, the
9th. All Seats I0c
hrill-P Play
In 5 Parts
Col. VIM. F. Cody acts
In Photo d r a m a
Which Portrays His
Exciting g Life in
Wild West.

Col. William F. Cody Buffalo
Bill is dead. Civilization pro
gress has tanned the wild and woody
West, where he fought and killed
the redskins. faced the stampeding
buffalo herds, and laughed at the
rattlesuake's warning buzz. No
more will this country know such
thrills in real life, but
Motion pictures have accomplish
ed another triumph They have
made Buffalo Bill" to live again,
to battle with the redskins as of
yore; to face the stampeding buf-
falo herds, and to endure the perils
of pioneer days, which made him
the most picturesque figure in the
world
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
THE BONUS
BY Thomas H West

BY Thomas H West
H worked like blazes all The year,
Made overtime galore,
Zach month his pay was sixty
plunks
And not a penny more.
The last week Of the year came
round,
He got an awful thrill,
When with his check he found en-
closed
A new ten dollar bill
His heart was filled with gladaess,
AS he gazej upon the ten;
They told him twas a bonus.
And he softly said, Amen
OF all the extra hours he worked
He never gave thought;
H seemed like one in a paradise,
Such happiness it brought
This bonus proposition
Is very crafty way
To discourage agitation
For real increase of pay
Too many fall for it just like
A fish does for a worm,
Then boast Of how they re working
For a ph.lanthropic (?) firm.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
A. F. of [. Weekly
News Letter.

Washington, Feb. o Monday
January 20, President Wilson We
toed the Burnett immigration res
friction bill.
Last Thursday the House, re-
jected the veto by a vote of 287 to
l06, or rs more than the necessary
two thirds vote.
In his message to the House,
where the bill originated, President
Wilson objected to the literacy test
section because 1t constitutes a
radical change in the policy of the
nation which Is not justified in
principle"
The veto will now be passed upon
by the Senate. That body approved
the bill December IA last by vote
of 64 to Z. 1t passed the House
March 80 by a vote of 307 10 81.
During the last two decades the
Senate and the House, by over
whelming majorities. have voteo
for literacy test at every oppor
tunity. In 1917 Congress created
federal immigration commission
to study this question and after 8
thorough investigation eight of the
nine members of the commission
recommended the adoption OF ths
literacy test as the most practica
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Avertina ! nefeat.

A certain political boss always con.
trolled his delegations to the conven-
lions. and the delegates voted the way
he told them to-and not until he did
tell them
At one convention a delegate pre-
sented a resolution that the boss ia
vored, but had not heard about soon
enough to post his delegates as TO how
they should vote on it,
The chairman of the convention put
the question. "All IN favor of this res
olution say aye"
There were a few ayes, and the boss
delegates looked at him inquirlngly
Seeing that he would not have time to
pass the word and wanting the resolu.
ton passed, he dashed down the aisle
toward the chairman waving his
hands and shouting
Don't put tile negative. Don't put
the negative did that once and got
In a deuce of a 6x Saturday Evening
Post
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Indian Relics.

A copper bonner stone or ceremonial
weapon Of ancient Indian days, which
was unearthed in Fond du Lac during
the digging of a sewer, is shaped like
an ancient battleax and has two blades
and hole for handle. 1t was found
six feet in the earth and is believed to
have been lost on the lake shore many
ages ago, before the lake receded to its
present level. or buried by later gen
Grafton of Indians. A cache of inter
esting Indian relics and weapons was
dug up in the same city several years
Exchange
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Still Here

Edw. McMorrow aud P j Shea
representatives, OF the Amalgamated
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployees' Union are still in the city.
McMorrow left Sunday for Atlanta,
Ga. but returned Thurday. Shea
will remain in Hamilton and vicin,
ity until the demands cf the men
are satisfactorily adjusted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Trouble Between Carpenters
And JOffGe Has Been
Settled.
Agreement February S, 1917.

l, Max Jofee, PARTY Of the first
tart do this day agree with Car
penters' Local Uuion No 637 party
of the second part
That Union Carpenters will com
plete my work and in future moth
ing but Union Labor will do my
work.
Party Of tie first part; Max Jofee
Party of the second part; Louis
Nau President; Local 637; S B,
Corson, B. A.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Vocational Education.

One day Morton came home from
school much discouraged. 1t seems the
teacher had been explaining the diff
ference between pints and quarts, but
Morton failed to understand it. To
make it plain his mother showed him
the actual milk bottles of two sizes,
when he impatiently declared;
There is no use bothering about this
any more. l am not going to be a
milkman. New York American.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09

IN one nelgnDornood ne Tasrens Lne
two cabinets to a bamboo rod and
slings it over his shoulder. He tramps
through the towns burdened In this
way and stops when he is called, much
as scissors grinder or umbrella
mender does in our country. - Wide
World Magazine
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Tho Black & CIaWsOn Co.

The new bonus system at the
Black & Clawson plant has failed
to induce any more machinists to
scab at that plant. The strikers
are very determined in the action
they took, and not one of them
have returned to work since the
s.rike. Neither will they return
until the Black and Clawson
Company changes their attitude
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09

THE man they picked up on the
street and carried to the hospital was
suffering from knockout drops"
knockout drops given him on the
public street? Impossibler
Two bricks fell on his head from a
building he passed Baltimore Amer
ican.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Sale Of Contractor Tools

] c. Riegler & Sen will on Sat
urday Feb. 10th sell all their con
tracing tools at Goetkers Hall,
anybody interested Il tools can see
same at hall on Thursday aud Fri
day of this week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Chinese Looksmiths.

The earliest locks known to man
were Of Chinese make. Although 1t is
impossible to tell the exact date of
those still extant they are wonderfully
well made and as strong as any manu-
factured in Europe up to the middle
Of the eighteenth century The Chi
nese locksmith OF today uses exactly
the same kind Of tools that his forefa-
theirs had for they are very simple
and primitive lie carries all his i'm
pements in two cabinets, sitting on
one and working at the other When
he has finished an the work available
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Room For a SIeufh.

Goat Misses Coats"
The man read this sign with interest.
Maybe | could trace some of 'em
for you" he said. How'd you like to
hire me as a detectiye?" Louisville
Courier Journal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09

Machinists of Dayton have
made demand for the 8-hour
day Monday, August II, 1916
All Machinists, Toolmakers
Screwmakers and other ma
chine shop employees Stay
Away.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Manarove Forests In the Rahamaa

Mangrove Forests In the Bahamas
Mangroye trees are to me the most
fascinating Of all the vegetable growths
of our strange planet When young
1--WE must first come upon them at the
opening of the creek) there is some
thing tender and idyllic about them.
with the fresh childllke laurelme
leaves and dangling rods Of emerald
that were really the suckers of theil
barren-like roots; but as we proceeded
inland they grew into am obscene and
bizarre maturity, like nightmares strid-
ing out In every direction, with pranc-
ing skeleton feet planted in noisome.
fostering swamps and stretching out
horned, clawing hands that seemed to
take root as one looked and threw out
other roots of horror like a dream.
Richard lie Gallenne in Hart er's Mag.
azine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Toe Honest.

Hes too frank to be a good politi-
clan"
"Why?"
When he has said something that
the people don't like he doesn't deny
that he said it, Detroit Free Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-02-09
Good corn is not reaped from o bad
field. Danish Proyerb.
A RUNAWAY HORSE.

Use Your Hat and Your Head, IL is
Said, and You Can Stop Him.
The observer of people and events
wonders how many people have the
slightest notion as to how to stop a
runaway horse. An old farmer in an
adjacent state was coming home the
other morning when he heard a terrific