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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09
No 10 cent cigar like La
Mureda. Try one.
Telephone Girls Win.

Toledo, Ohio, March 9. Tele
phone girls employed by the Home
Telephone company have forced
this concern to acknowledge their
right to join union, after a four
months strike. When the girls or
ganized, four of their number were
discharged and the others struck.
They were joined by the outside
electrical workers.
The company agrees to reinstate
all strikers without discrimination
acknowledges their right to organ
ize and to present grievances which
shall be adjusted by representatives,
Of both parties. After work is re
sumed, the employs shall present
demands for wage increases.
The strike was a dramatic one
and the Toledo organized workers
wheeled behind the girls to man.
Every union contributed to a strike
benefit and many of the urions
carried weekly assessments on every
member to pay the girls an amount
equal to their former wage The
strike proved most disastrous to the
company, which lost thousands of
patrons. Federal Judge Klllitt is
sued an injunction against vic.
lence' at the request of prominent
citizens who are active in the Citi-
zen's Alliance. This court was
asked to act because the company is
a subsidiary of an interstate cor
poration. The unionists denounced
Judge Killits for his usurpation of
duties that belong TO officials chqrg
ed with the enforcement of criminal
law and showed that his honor was
more interested in breaking the
strike, as he insisted that service
the public must not be Interrupt
ted. +"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

Do YOU remember the argument
used several years ago by the pro-
hibition element Do you remem-
Der them saying that in the coun-
ties that went dry there would be
no more need of jails, poor farms
ard orphan institutions. 1t has
been six or eight years since some
of the counties have been voted
dry, but we haven't heard of them
closing any of the institutions they
said they would Their argument
of securing jobs for the men who
will be thrown out OF employment
by their fanatical ideas is just as
fimsy. Don't believe such rot
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09
Boost a high grade, home
made LaMureda 10 cent cigar
One Reason For H. C. [.

San Francisco, March 9.-The
financial and market departments
of daily news papers are seldom
read by workers and the following
item, published in the San Francis
co Bulletin financial section, will
be given scant attention by those
most affected by the high cost of
living,
Reports of Gamers and whole
sale men would inditate that Cali
fornia farmers are exercising an
unusual amount of caution in con
tracing for their 1917 crops. Re-
membering the opportunities lost
last year. growers are much slower
to sign up this year and large
number are refusing contracts,
choosing to wait and see what con-
ditions will be later on
The fact that jobbers are now
cleaning up profit of from 20O to
800 per cent Oh some varieties of
farm produce, on account of soar
ing prices, is one reason for grow
ers to hold on for longer period
than usual and try their own luck
All of the onions that are now
being sold out by locol jobbers at
S12 so per central (hundred weight
were bought from the growers at
an average price of 81 per Genital. /"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09
TO, 900 Street Gar Men Given
More Pay In 1916.

Detroit, Mich, March 9.-How
street car workers have benefited
by unionism Is told by President
w. D. Mahon of the Amalgamated
Association of Street ard Electric
Railway Employees in his summary
of gains for last year. President
Mahon says more than 70,000
workers have received wage in
creases. His summary says:
"Thirty-one divisions have been
established and put in good work
ing order, with an increase of over
1000 new members to the associa
ton. Wages have been increas> d
for over 10000 members, ranging
from / to 6 cents an hour. Even
in places where we were unable to
completely establish our association
and properly enroll the membership
wages have Increased; for instance,
in New York city, where the strug-
gle is still on, the men have te-
ceived an increase of 4 cents an
hour. The total increase of the es-
tablished locals for the year (not
considering places like New York
city that are not yet permanently
organized) amount to over s., 600
900.
The benefits paid by the organ
ization to its membership during
the year exceed anything in the
history of the association. The 10
cal divisions have disburs d 1921, :
269. so for sick and death benefits
while the international association
has paid in death, disability and
strike benefits 1869, 333. II, making
a total of $3.50, 603 p paid during
the year by the entire association
This means there has been expend-
ed in benefits by the association
during the year 81, 1876, 04 each day,
or $50 25 for every hour and frac-
tion over 81. so for every minute.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09
GOmpers Cables To Japan.

Washington, March 9.-For the
purpose of establishing fraternal
relations between workers of this
hemisphere and the far east, Presi-
dent Gompers cabled this message
to President Suzu of the Labor
ers' Friendly Society Of Japan;
The most important immediate
duty of our labot movements is TO
use every influence in our power
upon the governments of Japan
and the United States to maintain
the best possible relations between
our respective countries and en-
deavor amicably to solve vexa,ious
problems. =
President Suzuki replied as fol
lows:
Cooperate for labor and hui
manity."
Mr.. Suzuki came to the United
States in 1915 on a fraternal mis-
sion, and last year he again visited
this country aud attended the con
ventions of the California State
of Labor and the Amer
can Federation of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

A GREAT many men boast over
the fact that they are union men
when they are not. The mere hold
ing of card does not make them
union men To b. a union man
you must purchase union made ar
ticles wherever ard whenever pos
sible. Labels of other unions
should be recognized the same as
you expect other laboringmen to
recognize the labels OF your craft.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

the business of tue non union con-
cern by ref Using to work for 1t and
by announcing it Is unfair to or
ganized labor.
In supporting Judge Dickson S
position the court said:
Defendants have the right TO
work for whom they please. 1t is
best that we give both employer
and employe broad field of action.
AS ssid by Judge Cooley: "It is
part of every man S civil rights
that he be left at liberty to refuse
business relations with any person
whomsoever, whether the refusal
rests upon reason or is the result of
whim, caprice, prejudice or malice.
With his reasons neither the public
nor third persons have any legal
concern. "
The interference with the trade
relations of one with whom you
have no trade relations yourself is
presumptively unlawful, bue condl
tions may be such rs to furnish us
tihcation for such conduct. A per
son may justify such interference
if be is in persuit of some lawful
object.
"A person in furtherance of his
own interests may take such action
as circumstances may require, and
so long as he does not act malicious
ly toward or unreasonably or un-
necessarily interfere with rights of
his neighbor, he cannot be Charged
with actionable wrong, whatever
may be the result of his conduct in
pursuing his own welfare
In the case of the Minneapolis
Moving Picture Operators union
verses Albert Steffes, proprietor of
picture theatre, the court upholds
the refusal of lower court TO en-
join the workers from carrying a
banner stating that Steffes' place is
unfair tc organized labor
In supporting this rule by the
lower court, the state supreme court
says: The term unfair, as used
by organized labor, has come to
have a meaning we'll understood.
1t means that the person SO desig
mated is unfriendly to organized la
Dor or that he refuses to recognize
its rules and regulations. 1t charges
no moral shortcoming and no want
OF business capacity or integrity.
AS applied to theatre it signifies
nothing as to the merit of its per
formauces. As a rule one man has
no right TO interfere in the business
affairs of another, but if his act in
SO doing is in pursuit of jrst pur-
pose, and SO long as he does not act
maliciously and does not unreason-
ably or unnecessarily interfere with
the rights of his neighbor, he can
not be charged with actionable
wrong.
IF the banner itself is lawful we
are unable 20 see how the mere
display of it by pedestrian upon a
public street is unlawful"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

cause of the people who believe in
personal liberty. 1t will alse pub
lish articles beneficial to organized
labor and their friends. The PRESS
wishes the new conner a long life
with heaps of prosperity.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09
WORLD OF LABOR

Boiler Makers Union No. 500 of
Casper, Wyo., has secured a union
shop agreement with the Standard
Oil Company, which Is declared to
oe the best agreement the boiler
makers have anywhere for this
class of work. The rate for boiler
makers is 68A cents an hour and
for helpers, go cents. The mana
ger of the company has promised
to dc all IN his power to raise the
latter scale 21a cents within the
next sixty days.
Federal labor union No. Is, ,284
of Rice Lake, Wis, affiliated to
the A. F. of {. has petitioned the
Rice Lake Lumber company TO es-
tablish a minimum wage scale of
81 for ten hour day. Non union
lists signed the petition prepared by
the union. 1t is stated that the
present scale of wages "is such as
to place Rice Lake in a class by
itself as the poorest town in the
State for the laboring man"
Judge Edwards of Scranton, Pa. j,
has ruled that the Pennsylvania
Mothers Pension Act is constitu-
tional and has ordered the County
Comptroller to provide initial funds
of $4,000 for the pension com mis-
sion of this county. The attempt
to bring the provisions of the Moth
ers' Peusion law within the prohi-
bition of the constitution is strain
on the principle of reasonable in
depreciation, said the court.
The United Trades and Labor
Assembly of louisville, KY, has
protested to Governor Stanley and
the prison commissioners against
the renewal of contracts for the la.
Dor of prisoners in the Kentuck y
penitentiary that will expire next
April. The unionists declare against
any and all contracts for convict
labor in the State, and insist that
convicts be employed only on State
work and not for tue prof, of in.
dividuals or corporations in compe-
titton with free labor.
Justice Evans has upheld an
agreement between bootblacks IL
Tacoma, Wash, that if any oi
them violated a shorter workday
pledge they would pay each of the
others 82, Prior TO the agreement
the bootblacks worked sixteer
hours day Two of the signers
to this contract violated it and at.
tachment proceedings were started
by the others. Justice Evans ruled
against the defendants and ordered
that they pay $50 in each. S15 at.
torneys' fees, 81 costs and S19 for
witness fees,
The Washington State conference
for Social Welfare made this
shorter work day declaration at its
recent convention: For the pur-
pose of minimizing unemployment
and conserving the health of the
workers, promoting industrial eff
cheney and high citizenship, we ia
vor the shortest possible work and
business day, with eight hours
maximum during a 81 hour period;
a six-day week for all labor with
Saturday half holiday wherever
possible, or in lieu thereof, a mid
week half holiday for all workers. +"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

THE fanatics are going little to
far when they attempt to tell the
balance of the people what they
shall chew, eat, drink and smoke.
We have been taught, to believe
that this was the land of the free
and the home of the brave, but we
must have been mislead.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

THE Hamilton Sunday World is
the name Of the new publication
that has entered the field of jour
nalism. w. Harry Spears and the
Hon. Jacob Halperin are the edi-
tors, managers and proprietors Of
new paper The paper from typ
ographical standpoint is we'll got
ten up and arranged and chuck
full of good live reading matter.
The new paper will be nonpartisan
in politics and will champion the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

whatever Is intended for insertion must be
authenticated by the name and address OF the
writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a
guarantee of good faith.
Subscribers changing their address will please
notify this Office, giving old and new address TO
insure regular delivery of paper.
We do not hold ourselves responsible tot any
views or opinions expressed in the articles or
communications of correspondents.
Communications solicited from secretaries OF
all societies and organizations and should pc
addressed to THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS, Slo
Market Street, Hamilton Ohio.
The publishers reserve the right to reject any
advertisements at any time.
Advertising rates made known on application
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middietown Trades
and Labor Council of Middlelown o,
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Preble and Mont
gomery Counties.
Endorsed by Metal Trades Council
of Hamilton Ohio.
Endorsed by the United Trades and
Labor Council, Dayton, Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09

I'VE have enough prohibition
laws, said the gentlemen from
Macon. What we now need is
more law enforcement. To pass a
law shutting out the importation Of
liquor entirely from Alabama would
bring about a reaction, sure, that
would have the same eff ct as the
prohibition amendmen: voted on in
1909. 1t was that word forever
in that amendment that helped to
defeat it.
"There are a great many prohi-
bitionists in this state who do not
wish to see Alabama bone dry.
l am not one Of those prohibition
lists that drink one way and vote
the other, but there are enough of
that kind to make absolute prohi-
bition politically unpopular here.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09
Congress t1og-WiId.

Congress seems to have gone
more hog wild on the subject than
the latest Alabama legislature was
ever accused of being. We could
not have been induced to go as far
as the senate went today when that
body made 1t crime to even order
whiskey to be shipped into a dry
state - Montgomery Gala. Ad-
vertiser.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-03-09
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917.

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Second Class Mail Matter.
ISSUED WEEKLY AT S26 MARKET STREET,
HAMILTON, OHIO.
HOME TELEPHONE S0e,
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
STUDY WOOD FOR AlRPLANES
Students from Buffalo, NJ. ", Spend
Week at Madison FaniIiarizing
Themselves With Building

Madison - A party of nine future
inspectors of Airplane Wooden
Parts, u. S. Signal Corps at Large.
spent a week at the forest products
laboratory to study the structure OF
wood, it's grain and texture, Identified
ton of species; properties, such as
strength, shrinking and swelling, alb
sorption of moisture, effect on strength
of heat, internal stresses, cross grains,
and other defects; causes OF case
hardening, honey combing and col
lapse, and how to prevent them;
proper methods of kiln drying; diff
ferent kinds of glue used in veneer,
and it's preparation and application.
These men came direct to Madison
from Buffalo, N. Y, where they were
enlisted in the training school of the
Curtis plant, under the supervision of
the government.
The construction of airplanes re-
Quires a most intimate knowledge of
all the parts that go into it. Some
900 pieces of wood go into the con-
struction of one airplane.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
ALBERT WOLFE QUITS POST
Resigns as Federal District Attorney
for Western District Of Wiscon-
sin - In Office Six Months.

Washington c. Wolfe, Unit
ed States district attorney for the
western district of Wisconsin, has re
signed that Office. He continues to
hold the place pending selection and
approval of his successor.
Recommendation of a successor will
be made by P. H. Martin, Green Bay,
Wisconsin member of the Democratic
national committee, in view of the
fact that since the accidental death of
Senator Hustfng, Wisconsin has no
Democratic senator or member of con-
gress In such cases the states pat
ronage is looked after by the state
committeeman.
Mr. Wolfe was appointed on nomi-
nation of Senator Husting to the de-
partment of justice, after the sudden
death of his brother, William Wolfe,
at Democratic party dinner in Madi-
son about six months ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
NELSON PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Returns Voluntarily From Canada on
Learning of indictment for
Failure to Register.

Madison-Byron Nelson, under fed
eral indictment for failure to register
under the army law, registered for
military service here, was arraigned
before Federal Judge Sanborn, pleaded
not guilty, and trial was set for the
December term.
Nelson, the son of Congressman
John M. Nelson, and graduate of the
University of Wisconsin, arrived from
Spring Conlee, Alberta, where he man
ages his fathers wheat farm.
He filed, through attorneys, demand
for an early trial. The attorneys
agreed that the main question was one
of construction of the law, and the
court agreed to early trial. Bonds of
$1,000 were furnished by relatives.
Young Nelson, notified by wire that
he was under federal indictment and
that a warrant for his arrest would
be issued Immediately, boarded train
and hurried to Madison.
in filing his registration card he
asked exemption on two grounds;
first, that he is employed as manager
of farm and is thereby aiding the
military machine of the nation; sec
ond, that he is a married man.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
GERMAN U. TEACHER QUITS
DR.. Ernest Feise Resigns as Result
of an Offensive Remark Regard
ing Recent Liberty Loan.

Madison-Dr. Ernest Feise, associ-
ate professor of German in the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, resigned as a
result of an offensive remark regard
ing the Liberty button which he made
during the recent Liberty loan cam
paign.
Prof. Feise is citizen of Germany
who has been on the university staff
since 1908. On April 10, Immediately
after Americas entrance into the war,
he was placed on parole by President
Van Hise and permitted to continue
his teaching work in the university,
after he had signed statement to
take no part in the war or the war
preparations.
DIR. Feise was born at Braunschweig,
Germany, in 1884, and received his
education in Germany, doing his grad
uate work in Munich, Berlin and Leip-
zig. He came to America and became
instructor in German at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin in 1908, assistant
professor in 1913, and associate pro-
lessor in 1915.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
MILK PROBE RULES MADE
Producers Will Be Compelled to Tell
What They Know of the Trans
actions of the Association.

Racine The milk producers, who
have been cited into court with their
books and papers to testify to many
facts connected with the fixing of the
price of milk for October, will be
compelled to tell what they know of
the transactions of the milk produc-
ers' association, according to a ruling
to that effect handed down by Judge
e. B. Belden of the Circuit court.
Another question ruled on was that
of full and complete immunity for
witnesses. The court ruled that COM
plete immunity is provided and that
the witnesses could not be prosecuted
under the state or federal laws as a re-
suit of the disclosures they might
make.
1t will be necessary for the state to
commence new proceedings against
these men under the second clause of
the antitrust act.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
WISCONSIN BOYS
TO GET FIRST SHOT
BIG RIFLE RANGE AT CAMP
GRANT TO BE OPENED
BY BADGER TROOPS.
EAGER FOR TARGET PRACTICE
Men to Be Trained to Become Dead
Shots at Close Range - Most
Shooting to Be From Prone POI
sition-Eat on Firing Life.

Camp Grant, Rockford, III. = The
Wisconsin infantrymen at Camp
Grant, the 341st regiment, leaders IN
many of the camps activities, are tc
have the honor of opening the new
rifle range here. Ever since r11es
were put into the hands of the selected
men, they have been eager for target
practice, and much to their Joy an or
der was issued announcing that the
range would be ready for real business
on Nov. l.
The range is of such generous pro
portions that it will be possible fol
about three thousand men to practice
in single day When the boys OF the
341st get into action, the entire regf
pany at a time. Each man will hire
ten shots, slow fire, at 100 yards II
is the observation of military experts
that most of the rifle fire Of troops On
the firing line in France is at short
distance, and it is planned to make
Uncle Sans boys dead shots at limited
ranges. Most of the firing will be from
prone position.
1t is planned to give maximum OF
rifle practice to the men before winter
sets in, but throughout the cold season
every favorable day will be utilized at
Uncle Sans big sharpshooter's school,
at the local cantonment To insure
the comfort of the men while learning
to shoot and to allow maximum OF
time on the range provision has been
made to serve hot meals at midday
to the boys on the firing line. Under
these conditions, they will learn how
to feed themselves while in the field
and how to face general campaign
conditions.
When each company has finished
firing at the targets, it will devote the
remainder of the day to kindred in
struction in shooting. The topics to be
taken up are estimating distances, fire
control, target designation, finding the
range, distribution of fire, fire disci-
pine, fire direction, signaling and the
construction of dugouts and shelters.
In preparation for the actual work
on the range, considerable time will
be devoted to drills in aiming and
sighting and to the technique of the
rifle. Supplementary work will in
volve training in the use of ths bay
onet and bomb throwing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
VETERANS FORM NEW GUARD
Spanish War Soldiers Organize to
Take Place of Company Now On
Duty at Fort Macarthur.

Fort Atkinson - This city is ready
with another dependable company of
the National guard to take the place
of the company now on duty at Fort
Macarthur. Lieut.. Col. I'll. M. Seamon
of Milwaukee has mustered it 100
strong, forty-fve of them being Span
ish war soldiers, into the service. The
captain is Robert J. Parks, who was
sergeant major of a regiment in the
Spanish war and who later for several
years commanded National Guard
company in Milwaukee. The lieuten-
ants are John f. and Harry Mueller
Capt Parks is a son of Richard Parks
of Milwaukee, a civil war veteran who
served five years in the regular army
after the war
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02
INDIANS HARVEST WILD RICE
Put in Only Enough for Winter Need
With Little Idea for Marketing 1t.
Gathering Is Done In Boats.

Ashland-The wild rice harvest on
the Bad river reservation has been
completed. There are nine sections of
the Indian reservation, containing the
finest rice in Wisconsin. The Indians
drive their boats out among the rice
fields, bend the tops over the sides Of
the boats, and beat off the rice into
the bottom of the boat. Most of them
simply procure what they need for the
winter, with little idea of marketing
it. The Wisconsin wild rice is deli
cious food, cooked exactly as oat meal
and served the same, and it is also
veiy fine for soups.