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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
Protest Portion OF Decision.

Washington, April 6. President
Gompers and Secretary Morrison,
of the A. F. of l., presented to
Attorney General Gregory a pro-
test in the name of the workers Of
this country against the supreme
court going out Of its way in mat
ters not before the court and in
dragging Ia compulsory arbitration
when deciding the legality Of the
Adamson eight hour law for rail-
road employees.
The supreme court, it was stated
bv injecting into the law and ar
gument a foreign matter, denial to
workers of the right to quit work
pointed the way to those who wish
TO tie workers to their work in or
der to protect the supposed con,
vience Of the public.
President Gompers called atten.
ton to the progressive fundamental,
declarations in both Mexico and
Russia, countries which are passing
through a period of danger and ma
tional stress, assuring to the work
ers of those countries the right t,
strike.
1t was declared that this portion
of the courts opinion belongs *
the old reactionary despotism o
Russia and Mexico, and is out o
harmony with the free institution!
of the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
PRESIDENTS REELECTED.
Mr.. Wilson Made the Tenthj Four Vice
Presidents Re elected.
Journal.

MIR. Wilson Made the Tenth Four Vice
Presidents Re elected.
Woodrow Wilson is the tenth presi-
dent to be elected for "a second term.
The other nine were Washington, JEFF
ferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lin
coin, Grant, Cleveland and Mckinley.
Thomas Riley Marshall is the first
vice president to he inaugurated q sec
ond time since the present system OF
party conventions came into use. Actu-
ally he is the fourth man to hold the
office second time,
John Adams was twice elected vice
president to serve with George Wash
ington; Daniel u. Tompklns served
through the terms with President Mon
roe John c. Calhoun was twice elect
ed vice president on tickets with John
Quincy Adams aud Andrew Jackson
and served until his resignation near
the end of his second term in 1882.
March 4 has fallen on Sunday three
times In an inauguration year. Presi-
dent Monroe, acting on the advice of
Chief Justice Marshall, set a precedent
and took the oath on Monday, March 8.
General Zachary Taylor followed this
precedent when he was inaugurated In
1S49. March 4 again fell on a Sunday,
and he postponed taking the oath until
the following Monday. President Hayes,
however, took precautions against any
opportunity for charge of irregularity.
The final vote of the tribunal which
gave to him the high office and thus
ended the Tilden Hayes controversy
was announced on Saturday, March 3,
1877. Mr. Hayes at once took the oath.
The form of presidents inaugural
was largely devised by George Wash
ington, and, like most all Of his work,
has stood the test of time The cere-
mony was conceived when the fore
fathers We're In the throes Of great
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
r O 8 II DR.
Local Organizers and BuSi-
ness Agents.

Charles r. Vaughn. A. F. Of L.
Residence, 80 So. Second Street
Bell Phone 308 x.
Timothy Rowan, Internationa
Molders Union, Residence, 939
Central Ave, Bell Pbore 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 Hamilton.
Home Phone 81. Bell Phone 81.
Swain B. Corson, Carpenters
and Joiners' Union, No. 637, Resi-
deuce 107 Brosey Ave, Bell Phone
756 L
Conrad Moebus, Business Agent
Baltenders' Union, 258 Walnut St.
VIM Geppinger, Business Agent
Theatrical Stage Employees Union,
726 Z High St. Home Phone 1l01
Thos. Brennan, Business A ent,
Stage Employees Urion No. 1886
Residence 205 South Third street.
DAYTON OHIO
Ben Closterman Poltshers.
] T. Eichorn, Bartenders, 7
Market street.
W. ] Gregg, Hosting Engineers
Al w, Great Miami Boulevard.
VIM schneberger Cigarmakers'
l25 Samuel street.
George Richardson, Teamsters'
$40 Wayne, Ave, Bell Phone 541
Home Phone 2541.
Earl Nyswander, Carpenters 25
N Main street.
Geo. Lorah, Plumbers corne
Washington and Main, street
Plumbers Hall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
Butchers Elect Officers.

AT the last meeting held by the
Butchers and Meat Cutters Union
the following officers were elected
Fred Motzer, president.
Robert Jacobs, vice-president.
Clifford Lamb, recording and corr
secretary.
Chas. Tendam, financial sec'y.
Raymond Schwen, guard.
Fred Stephens, Paul Rigling and
Raymond Houseman, trustees.
Cards have been sent for to place
in all stores employing union help.
The charter will remain open
from April 14th to the 25th. An
other meeting will be held Monday
night.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
A Correction.

A slight error appeared in the
proceedings of Trades Council and
published in the issue of last week.
The resolution asking that com
mittee be appointed to call mass
meeting and invite speak rs here
was pot to further the cause Of war
as published, but to stand by the
president. The vote for the reso-
luton was seven instead of three.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
Union Officials Aid U. S.
Navy Department.

Washington, April 3.-In a cir
cular to all afhliates, Secretary
treasurer Berres of the metal trades
department, A F. of l., calls at
tention to efforts eing made by the
navy department to secure skilled
workers with the aid of the trade
union movement When men are
wanted they are examined wherever
they may be Immediately, are given
their rating, if they pass the exam
ination, and will be paid the highest
rate in their class for 10 days. AT
ter this date, if they fail to show
sufficient skill to be entitled TO the
highest rate, they will be re-rated
by the yard authorities and given
the option of remaining at work at
the lower rate or of quitting their
employment.
After examination they are hand
ed voluntary contract, by which
they agree, if their services are
wauted, to remain at the yard fol
six months. If they sign the con.
tract they are given proper creden-
tials, upon the presentation ot
which at the yard they are to bt
reimbursed for their transportation
and necessary Pullman accommo
dations from the point where they
were examined to the yard.
Where the demand for men j,
not sufficiently urgent, the depart
lnent announces that it will be glal
to employ such men without REIN
bursing them for car or Pullman
fare.
Secretary Treasurer Berres sug
gests to officials of metal trades TN
ions that they advise their member
desiring employment in the navy
yards or naval stations TO commu
nicate direct with him and tn,
metal trades department will pre-
pare a card index so that 1t will b,
in a position to get In touch will
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
A COLONY OF BEES.
It's Members, Their Product and the
Heat of Sting.

Heat OF sting.
A colony of bees in summer consists
Of from $4,000 TO 100000 individuals.
Each colony contains a queen, several
hundred drones and the balance work
ers. The latter are neuter or unde-
yeloped females, ana they do all the
work in the hive, gather their food
from the flowers, which consists of
honey and pollen They also gather
propolis, resinous substance used to
stop cracks and holes in the hive
1t is not generally known that honey
is not thick and sirupy when first gath
cred. 1t is called nectar by beekeepers
and looks like water When first gath
cred 1t can be shaken from the combs
easily
Sometimes it is necessary TO shake
bees from a brood comb, and the bees
as they fall are so deluged by the wa
terry nectar that they look like the pro-
verbal drowned rats" This, how
ever, does no harm, as they at once
proceed TO clean each other and when
bees clean up they do a good job.
have put out dish from the table that
was dauhed with honey, and in very
short time it was as clean as though
washed.
Many persons are very much afraid
Of the business end Of the bee, and
those who are ii used to bee sting
poison suffer pain when stung. The
sensation Of a bee sting can be comper-
ed to the prick Of a needle point in the
flesh ana then try to imagine that
while just under the skin the needle is
heated white hot and held there for
about five minutes Beekeepers win
agree that this statement is not over
drawn. Beekeepers working about the
hives every lay are seldom stung, as
they know the habits of the bees and
avoid their prols. IN time one becomes
more or less immune to the poison
George Shiher i'm New York sun.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
WHY NOT WALK 1T Off
Try This Mans Scheme When You
fiave a Fit OF Depression.


iiave a Fit OF Depression.
"On my desk, between the calendar
and the clock" said Mr. MacKicker-
ton, "I have placed little card with
this on it. Now Get Out and Walk
Il used to carry that card tucked
away in my hat but then 1 never
thought of it when | needed to. Now
have it where l can't fail to see it
several times a day, where it is kept
practically always in mind.
81 suppose the best of US have pc
RODS Of depression, times when we
sink, If not into a slough Of despond,
at least into state In which we lose
cheerfulness and energy. a state in
which we can accomplish little and
what we do is Of no account.
II can shake off all mental ills and
stave off pretty much If not quite all
of a bodily nature, too just by walk
ing. After l have once got fairly start.
ed l shed troubles at every step till
they are all gone From a good brisk
walk l come back always refreshed,
invigorated. renewed
Il always knew that ! could have
walked off one of those fits Of depres-
sion any time, but the trouble was that
I never thought of doing this when the
depression was on. And then i struck
the card plan
Now when l begin to get duh and
sluggish, with things dragging and go
ing hard, l ann not permitted, as | once
was, to slide inseusihly down 70 the
bottom Of the decline Ny eve is sure
to light on that sign and I drop things
right whore they are aud set ont and
walk.
"And it works every time New
York Sun.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
To Urge Eight-HOur Day.

Kansas City, April 6.-At
meeting of division No. of the
railroad employees department, A.
F. of L. comprising all territory
west of Chicago, it was voted to
authorize federations on various
railroad systems to proceed in their
own way and negotiate for an eight
hour day and a 10 per cent wage
increase.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
Begin War On
Tobacco.
HE Shall Attend To The Smoker
In Due Course. "
SAY DRY LEADERS.

Next in line, for abolishment, is
the tobacco business Simultan-
eously with the passage of Senator
Bankhead's bill to prohibit news
papers from crossing state borders
carrying advertisements of commo-
dities not sold legally In those
states there is introduced in the
Oklahoma Legislature a bill to
make giving away, selling or smok-
ing cigarette punishable ofense.
There was time when such laws
were proposed by freaks in Legis-
lures and regarded as freak pro
posals. They had equal chances
with bills to abolish the headache
upon the morning after or prevent
rains upon picnic days, but since
Congress has begun seriously to
consider such bills as the Bankhead
and Randall measures 30 legisla-
ton aimed at the abolition Of the
rights of individuals can be looked
upon as too fantastic to be passed.
They're Not So "Dry."
Liquor and tobacco are bracketed
together by practically all advocates
Of prohibition. Many ardent pro-
hibitiopists use both liquor and
tobacco but recommend prohibition
as means of preventing other
persons from indulging, intemper
ately perhaps, in drinking Or smok,
ing. There are other prohibition
lists, more numerous, more logical,
who are total abstainers and who
believe that all persons should be
compelled by law-by the abolition
of constitutional guarantees, if need
be-to abstain They hold in equal
adherence the tobacco user and
the uses of alcoholic beverages.
Their hope is to tackle tobacco after
downing rum. There is no reason
why they should not legislate the
tobacco factories and tobacco plan
tations of Kentucky and 9th,
states out of existence if they sue
ceed IN legislating the distilleries
into the limbo of things that were.
There is no reason why they should
hesitate to destroy the tobacco
business, along with the right to
use tobscco, if they can destroy
distilling and the right to drink a
toddy Indulgence in tobacco docs
not differ in kind so much as in de-
gree from indulgence in whiskey.
+ Ii sometimes is the case that The
intemperate consumer Of tobacco
Injuries himself more than the In
temperate consumer Of alcoholic
beverages, anG kills himself sooner.
The cigarette 6end as he is
called popularity, and SO called often
by equally intemperate smokers Of
cigars or pipes, may be as much a
slave to his vice, and as much a
sufferer from it, mentally morally,
physically, as the tippler. If the
one is to lie made to abstain, why
not the other Why, indeed ~
; says the ardent prohibitionist.
! We shall attend to the smoker in
due course louisville Courier
Journal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
Painters Make Gains.

Springfield, Mo. April 6-Em-
ployers have signed the new wage
agreement of Painters union No.
367. Rates are increased cents
an hour until April |, 1918, when
an additional 5 cents will be paid.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06

Machinists Of Dayton have
made a demand for the 8-hour
day Monday, August q, 1916
All Machinists, Toolmakers
Screwmakers and other ma
chine shop employees Stay
Away.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
Labor Editors To Meet.

R. f. Woodmansee, secretary Of
the international Labor Press of
America has issued the following
call for the 1917 convention to be
held in St. Louis, Mo.
The annual convention of the In
ternational Labor Press of America
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06

revolution, and they Intended it TO be
distinctiyely American. Through the
lapse of more than a century virtually
no change has been made in the actual
ceremonies, although elaborate and
beautiful accomplishments have been
added. d.-New York Times.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06

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to to
the the the in
wanted to to o
fo ovoo in Hwedo
But to
other they don't for It's thank you job for them
he could show make garden, and it didn't
ANYTHING Id look into it, Well it's the thing
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
1aChinists

Stay away from Hamilton, Ohio,
strike still on at the Black & Claw
son Co, unfair conditions, STAY
AWAY.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-04-06
Little Bits.

Middletown Metal Polishers' I'm
ion, Local AZ will give their TWEEN
ty-seceud annual ball, Easter Mon
day evening, April 9th. The ball
will BE- held in Eagles hall east
Third Street, aud the music will
be furnished by Nate Kunin's or
chestra The polishers always have
a large attendance at their dances
and this year they expect to have a
record breaker.
U
The Hamilton local of Theatrical
Stage Employees, No. 1856, will give
their benefit show at the Grand
Theatre. April 16-17-18th, Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday. Tickets
10 cents. An extra attraction will
be secured for this occasion.
~
At the last meeting of Machinists
Local No. 24l, a communication
was read, which came through the
International Association of Ma
chinists that the United States Gov
ernment is asking for machinists to
be employed at the Newport Tor
pedo station at Newport, Rhode
Island, with good wages and eight
hours per day. The same kind OF
letter was received from ST. Louis,
Mo-, also receiving through the
postofice department that the
United States government need ma
chinists and helpers In the follow
ing states: Pennsylvani, New Jer-
sey, Massachusetts,, New York,
Virginia, and Washington. D. c.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
MANY HEAR BOSTON SPEAKER ON IRISH
 RACE IN AMERICA

The parochial hall of St. Augustine's church was filled last night when James E. O'Connell, lawyer from Rostea, spoke. The speaker paid high tribute to the spirit of freedom which has dominated the Irish race mentioning the incident of the five O'Brien brothers leaving the coast of Maine in a small boat to battle with a British frigate, of Matthew Lyman the Irishman from Vermont, who cast the deciding vote that made Tn omas Jefferson president of the United States, Eugene Scott and Ned McCar- thy who fought with Jonn Paul Jones and O'Higgins, who freed Chilli from Spanish rule and became it's first pres- ident.
 A concert was later given by Misses Elizabeth Stanton, May ORourke, Aurelia Berger, Kathleen Ryan, Eve lyn McKiernan, Arthur LeVasseur, Joseph Wade and Frank Green. Prof. Alfred Brisebois directed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
FRENCH EMPLOY PICK OF CHINESE
 LABOR IN SHOPS
Thousands of Experts I'm ported to Work in Muni-
 tions Factories

The pick of Chinese skilled and partly skilled laborers is being sent from Tientsin, China, to France. at the rate of more than 1000 d week, and from Indo-China to France in at least equal numbers, mainly to work in French munition factories, accord ing to representative of one of the largest British manufacturing and trading concerns in China, now on a visit to this country.
 ''They are carried over to France at the rate of between 2,OOO and B. 900 a ship" he said. "It does not take large ship to carry 2,OO0 Chinese, for they go practically as freight. A Chinese can flourish in a space that would hardly do a white man for his grave.
 Only the best selected stock Is go- ing to France from Tienstin. A large percentage of the men are six feet tall. For the most part they are Chinese who have learned something about machinery in British mills and factories or in construction camps Some are agricultural laborers, talk en to France to increase food produc- ton.
 France has been going on at Tien- tsin for considerably more than a now in France, including those from French China, is probably more than 100000.
 Before they can be induced to leave China these Chinamen all insist on a contract providing not only for their wages, which are small enough, but binding the French government to ship their bodies back to China for burial if they die in France. It also provides in detail for the apparatus of a Chinese burial. Every Chinese who dies must have a new set of clothing for his appearance in the fu- ture world and for the food which goes for the spirit of Chinese of his class, from rice to roast goose and pig. He must be assured that other funeral ceremonies will be faithfully observed, such as the burning of a string of tinfoil limitations of Chinese money. the burning of paper house, 8 paper chair or carriage.
 "In our factories in China we pay Chinese workingmen who have some mechanical knowledge 12 1-2 cents a day, American money. The con- tract which induces them to go to France provides for wages of 20 or 25 cents a day, and that is enough to recruit the Chinese as fast as ships can be found to carry them out.:'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
LETTER ADDRESSED TO
 LORD WELLINGTON

I have read with g. mixture Of ln- dignation and regret, your letter ad- dressed to Lord Castelbragh, wherein you attempt to justify the sacklnS or the museum at Paris. You fight pet ter than you write, my lord, tho the principles which actuate in both, ap- pear to be the same, to distress others and fatten on their spoil. You nave admitted that these monuments are the trophies of former victories anu permit me to say, that even as sucn' they ought to have been held sacred by a soldier. They were the right ana fruits of conquest, nay more, they were given and received in dlmunlulon of the calamities and contributions or war They were as much the prop erty of the French nation as the soil of Malta is a gem of the British crown.
 You say the convention of 1915 made no provision for them. Had that instrument been so worded as to guarantee them. you would no doubt have said, with all the substility of English. probity and policy. that such q clause was of no avail from the H. legitimacy of the provisional govern ment. But what says the convention ! Paris shall be respected; do circum- stances alter the case, or do you feel that you do not know as ally, owe as much to Louis Is, as you did then or has the weight of his misfortunes Iessened your commiseration for this afflicted venerable monarch. Fie, my lord, you weigh the finest sentiments of the human heart, rather by the de- preciated scale of a London merchant than by the noble feeling or a sol- dier or the generosity of an ally. You have taken from victory it's reward, from a nation its ornaments; you have transported the arts from a gen. iaI cline to the smoke of London, or the frozen zone of the north, and though you strain hard as con- queror to pass unstained with the crime of blood, you appear to court the crime of treason.
 Gro Be Continued)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
''PEACH BASKET"
 MASTS OF U. s. SWAY LIKE REEDS

The strange cage or peach basket masts of United States battleships and larger cruisers are unlike those of any other naval ships afloat. No seaman of wooden ships days would recognize these odd structures as masts. They are really observation towers of steel
 The cage mast is the result of years of experiment by American naval of ficers in an effort to create a light tower that could be shot full of holes and still stand up.
 The cage mast is built of large number of slender steel rods, so ar ranged that every one of them could be pierced by shells and unless these hits were closely grouped the mast would stand. So far no other nation has copied the United States style of mast.
 .'spotting top." This is a platform from which observing officers work out ranges and with powerful sea glasses "spot" the shots as they land. Corrections in the ranges are telephon- ed to the fire control stations if a white squirt of water on the surface of the sea shows the shots are falling short or overreaching the mark.
 The spotting top of battleship in action is no place for a faint hearted man. Every time a salvo is fired the mast whips from one side to the other with a sickening sway. The men in the'top are whipped back and forth like kids playing the game of "crack the whip land must hang on for their lives to the shoulder high rails. 1n some cases the men are strapped to the rails.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
OUCA! LUMBAGO?
Try Musterole. See How Quickly
 1t Relieves

You just rub Musterole in briskly, and usually the pain is gone-a delicious, soothing comfort comes to take its place.
 Musterole is clean, white ointment, made with oil of mustard. Use it instead of mustard plaster. Will not blister.
 : Many doctors and nurses use Muster ole and recommend it to their patients.
 They will gladly tell you what relief it gives from sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, ,pleurisy, rheumatism, 1umbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest Git often prevents pneumonia). Always dependable.