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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-07-13
Strike Breakers Find
Hamilton Bad Place
To ROOSt.
Willing To Leave The City After I'm
ion Men Show Their Strength And
Determination To Not Let Outside
Thugs And Gunmen Take Their
Jobs.

in the crowd and he agreed 10 take
the first train out
The Niles truck put on st aam and
took the balance of the men some
where and up to this time men or
truck have not returntd.
The strike breakers who SO bra
2enly seated themselves in the hotel
lobby and sneered at the crowd
outside, by this time realized that
things were not as comfortable as
expected and as the Niles company
represented to them. A few min
utes later they hoisted the flag of
truce and through our big chief
Chas. Stricken they agreed to leave
Hamilton ON the $40 train for Gin
cinnati if the molders agreed to let
them leave peacefully The mol
defs who are always reasonable,
agreed to this if they would be al
lowed to escort them to the depot.
This WAS done in due time and the
strike breakers with their hands
placed above their heads were es-
corted through solid lines of people.
When the {. II. & D. was reached
one of the men was found to carry
a large gun which was taken from
him By one of the union molder5.
Thousands OF people cheered as the
train pulled out and up to this time
nothing has been heard or seen of
the strike breaking hoodlums.
The people of Hamilton demon
strated Sunday and Sunday night
that they will not stand for the
scum of the earth to be dumped
into this city for the purpose of
aking the jobs Of our molders.
The union molders who have been
on strike for the past six weeks
have not started any trouble and
they will not as long as the Niles
company fights fair and agrees TO
keep strike breakers from our city.
These strike breakers are not mol
ders or mechanics, but men who
are employed by strike breaking
agencies TO break strikes where men
go out for more wages and better
conditions They are dumped from
place to place and one of their in
structions is to start trouble with
strikers. This Is done to create
sentiment against the strikers and
TO have an excuse to appeal for the
state troops,
The moIders in all of the foun-
dries were called out Monday morn
ing and all of them responded nobly
This was done to show that the
molders in this city are on the job
and they intend to protect the jobs
of the men on strike. The molders
returned to work on advice of the
officers Of the union Wednesday
morning. If necessary these nen
will be called out at any time they
are needed to assist their brothers.
Not only have the molders In the
other foundrieS responded TO call
of the molders on strike, but the
Papermakers of the Champion
Coated Paper Company and the
Textile Workers of the Shuler &
Benninghofen Wooden Mills who
are on strike also, were on duty to
cheer the striking molders on to
victory.
Up to this writing the Atlas
Hotel is as silent as a tomb and the
last man that left its grimy walls
was Andy Graf who left at four A.
NJ. Monday morning. Since that
time no one has entered or left the
place except Ernst Owens the col
ored barber who entered and re.
moved the BARRIERS union card and
his belongings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-07-13
For Equal Pay Plan.

The National American Woman guf.
frage association announced 1t had re-
ceived assurances from the PennsylYa-
MIA railroad that the corporation has
accepted the principle OF equal pay for
equal work" wherever women are en-
ployed in places of men. The United
Cigar Stores company has given like
assurances. The association is con
ducting nation wide campaign for
the principle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-07-13
Organized Toilers.

We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to
our families, we owe 1t to labor In gen
eral, we owe it to the coming genera
ton, to protect ourselves by organiza-
hon against unfair and cutthroat com
petition, against insanitary conditions,
against low wages and long hours,
against unfair treatment in shop and
factory, against sickness, involuntary
idlensss and the degrading influences
Of poverty.-Shos Workers Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-07-13
,s@~~~% . . . . . Q . . . 90,
ORGANIZED LABOR.

Organized labor is raising the
standards of workingmen by
) compelling them to think rap
) idly and to speak clearly The
) trade union movement has de-
) veloped a company of speakers
) who are abundantly able to pre-
sent the cause Of the toilers.
) This is constantly being demon
) strated at the national meetings
) of labor bodies, where states
) manship of the highest order is
) demanded and where some OF
the addresses would easily rank
with the best that are delivered
; In the conferences and conven-
tions of other national bodies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-07-13

The mysterious Atlas Hotel dea
was solved to the satisfaction of
the striking molders last Saturday
when it became known that the
place was purchased by the Niles
Tool Works interests for the pur-
pose of housing strike breakers.
As soon as the truth was known
the striking molders of Molders'
Union, No. 68 sent out their pick
cts and early Sunday morning the
first consignment of strike breakers
was brought to the city.
AS near as could be seen twelve
men were brought in the first bunch
and all landed safely III the scab
roost but one. This man strayed
from the balance of his kind and
somehow fell into the hands of the
union molders who very suddenly
changed his course and persuaded
him TO return to the c. II. &. d.
depot, where he boarded train for
pastures new. The other eleven
meu seated themselves in the lobby
of the one time Hotel Atlas In view
of the strikers and the public and
all through the day they could be
seen sreering at the strikers aud
flashing large rolls of money, which
was enough evidence to the strikers
that they were paid in advance for
the filthy work they were TO per
form.
On Sunday afternoon large
crowds of our citizens passed the
hotel eager to look at what is
known as professional gunmen and
strikebreakers. These men who
are always picked from the slums
of large cities were guarded by
Andy Graf and Marshall Thomas
Graf and Thomas have for some
time been special police at the Niles
plant and little attention was paid
TO them in that capacity until they
were found plotting these strike
breakers from the railway depcts
10 their newly purchased roost
Shortly after noon Sunday a pas
senger train from Dayton carrying
a peculiar baggage car pulled into
the station ard upon investigation
by the molders ii was found to CON
tain baggage, trunks and suit cases
from Pittsburg. 1t was tipped of
10 the molders early in the week
that strike breakers were coming
to Hamilton from that city and
when this baggage was examined
they were convinced that the strike
breakers were headed this way. Re
ports from the moldars are that out
of forty-four foundries in Pittsburg
where a strike hss been IN progress
for several weeks, forty have made
peace with the molders and are
now operating union foundries.
After this settlement in Pi.tsburg
the strike breakers used in those
foundries were to be shipped TO
Hamilton.
On Sunday evening one of the
trucks of the Niles pulled up TO the
curb at the c. H. & D., and when
the train arrived from the west five
strike breakers jumped off the train
and were immediately taken in
charge by Graf and Thomas and
escorted to the truck where the
molders and the citizens of Hamil-
ton gave them the once over. Ev-
cry one of them were tough 10 k
ing characters and 1t was plainly
seen that these men carried guilty
conscience and were pale and nerv-
Gus. The truck pulled out and
made fer the strike breakers rooost
where it was met by several thou
sand union men, union women and
sympathizers and friends. The
men were asked by the striking
molders to not scab against them
and they refused. One of the men
was handled little rough by some
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
Geo. White Comes Back.

Editor COurant:-
Judging from the ''holler" our good
brother, the News man, is making we
must have hit him pretty hard. He
asks a few questions that he wants
answered and wants Geo. to do it.
Geo. is willing.
First Of all he wants us to tell him
why the N. P. L. voted down the 2
cent passenger fare bill, we can tell
him; perhaps the good brother knows
that at least one half Of the people of
this state do not travel on the rail-
roads to exceed $500 IN any one year
but every one Of them have to pay
freight and anyone who has studied
freight rates knows that this whole
state has been Systematically and
continuously Disseminated against so
that it costs little, If any more, to
get freight from Minneapolis than it
does from Fargo or Minot, on GER
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
CHILD SCALDED
IN WATER TUB
Three Year Old Child of A. J. Bouvier
Dies From Scalding Burns in
Tub of Water.

The three year old son of A. J.
Bouvier died Tuesday night as the
result of severe burns when the child
fell into full tub of scalding water
standing on the floor. The horrible
accident happened at the home of the
child's grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Tetrault, southeast of Botti-
neau, Saturday afternoon.
Medical aid was Immediately sum-
moned and for a time there were
hopes that the little life could be
saved, but death came to relieve the
fearful suffering, after lingering for
three days in horrible pains. The en-
tire back of the child was scalded so
badly that the skin peeled entirely off.
AS the child was dressed when the ac-
cident happened, the clinging gar
ments made it difficult to relieve the
scalding for few moments.
The members of the family are al
most PROSTATE with grief over the
fearful tragedy.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
81 CARLOADS OF AUTOS
TO B0TTINEAU in 1916

According to figures just compiled
at the Great Northern station, there
were no less than sixty-seven car
sloads of automobiles shipped into Bot
tineau in the year 1916.
AS an indication of the rapid growth
of the business, it is significant to
note that the previous year only rs
carloads were shipped into the city,
or a little more than one third of last
years business.
From present indications the year
1917 will eclipse even the big record
of last year. Already nine carloads
have been received by local dealers
since the first of the year and, as all
the local dealers have taken on big
ger contracts and some new lines have
been added, there is every possibility
that Bottineau will set one of the high
marks in the state.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
PREPAREDNESS PUBLICITY.

The following statement was made
by Oscar Galloway, a representative
from Texas and appears on pages 1920
and 1921 Of the Congressional Rec
ord of Feb. 8, 1917, and was placed
there with the unanimous consent of
all the members of the house of rep
resentatives: "In March, 1915 the J.
+. Morgan interests, the steel, ship
building, and powder interests, and
their subsidiary organizations, got to-
gether IL men high up in the news
paper world and employed them to
select the most influential newspap-
ers in the United States and suf-
ficient number of them to control gen.
orally the policy of the daily press Of
the United States.
"These IL men worked the problem
out by selecting 179 newspapers and
then began, by elimination process, to
retain only those necessary for the
purpose of controlling the general
policy of the daily press throughout
the country. They found it was only
necessary to purchase the control of
25 OF the greatest papers. The rs
papers were agreed upon, emissaries
were sent to purchase the policy,
national and international, of these
pepers; an agreement was reached;
the policy of the papers was bought,
to be paid for by the month; an editor
was furnished for each paper to
properly supervise and edit informa-,
tion regarding the question of pre-
paredness, militarism, financial poll
cies and other things of national and
international nature considered vital
to the interests of the purchasers.
This contract is in existence at
the present time and it accounts for
the news columns of the daily press
of the country being filled with all
sorts of preparedness arguments and
Misrepresentation as to the present
condition Of the United States army
and navy and the possibility and
probability of the United States be-
ing attacked by foreign foes.
"This policy also includes the sup
preston of everything in opposition
to the wishes of the interests served.
The effectiveness of this scheme has
been conclusively demonstrated by
the character of the stuff carried in
the daily press throughout the coun-
try since March, 1915. They have
resorted to anything necessary to
commercialize public sentiment and
sandbag the National Congress into
making extravagant and wasteful ap-
preparations for the army and navy
under the false pretense that it was
necessary. Their stock argument is
that it is "patriotism." They are
playing on every prejudice and pas
sion of the American people,"
Now then, who is it that wants
war? 1t is very plain to be seen that
it is "Big Biz" and not the people
that want war. We would like to hear
from Lo. Garden, Falky, the star; and
the other defenders (?) of the "deer
peepul's" rights concerning this af-
fair. 'Tis not complete without their
opinion, you know.
Roth, N. D. Val. H. Cowles,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD.

The North Dakota State Union of
the American Society of Equity has
taken another step forward in their
fight for the cooperative marketing
of farm products. Several years ago
when the organization was new, the
North Dakota farmers, not having
a livestock selling agency of their
own, endorsed the J. r. Kirk Commits
sion Company as their selling agen-
cy, and in turn the Commission Com
pany assisted them in organizing
livestock shipping associations, c''0
instructed the farmers in the CO. ~
ative method Of shipping livestock
and pro rating the returns on same.
This agreement lasted until last Fri
day, when the State Union met for
their annual convention and the farm
ers withdrew their endorsement of
the Kirk Commission Company and
endorsed the Equity Cooperative Ex-
change, which recently established a
Live Stock selling agency at South
st. Paul, Minnesota; the only one on
this market that is owned and con-
trolled by farmers I'D the only one
that divides it's dir, 'nds among the
shippers in the &C operative way.
This is one more st :, in the right d.
rection and it is a long one toward
the ultimate goal-the cooperative
marketing of farm products. From
this on the Equity Exchange will
be the official selling agency for
Equity members in North Dakota, and
the farmers who are shipping to their
own selling agency will be able to get
a part Of the profit that the specu-
lators have been making on their cat
tie in the past, as it will be the OBJ
ject of the Equity Cooperative Ex-
change to sell the North Dakota cat
tie direct to the Iowa feeders, thus
eliminating the spectators profit.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

O. L. Palmer and wife to Elgie B.
Cameron, WD, 81; SW 20, 1853, 80.
William Cameron and wife to O. L.
Palmer, WD, 81; NE 80, 1853, 80.
Samuel Desoe to Overly Id & Mtge.
Co. WD, 81; NE 21, NV %, SW IA,
SzNW %, ShNW, SINE ID, 100,
"a; NKSW, NASW, MISE %, 100,
IA.
Melvin S. Severson to Louis Sever
son, WD, 5000; lot 6, block 10, Overly.
Charles j. Gordon and wife to Zean-
GUS H. Howery, WD, $1,000; Sc 26,
1853, 80.
Eugene D. Mossman and wife to
Bottineau County Bank, WD, 81; NE
81, 162, 76.
Bottineau County Bank to Oscar T.
Flanery, WD, 81; NE 81, 1862, 76.
H. H. Ames and wife to John Nc
Lemon, WD, 1925; lot 6, block 3,
Overly.
Northern Town and Land Co. to
P. J. Nordberg, A. P. Anderson and
wife, M. w. Arndt, WD, 1915; lot 2,
block 8; lots 10, 13 and ID, block a,
lots 8, 16 and II, block 5, lots 1, 2, 8,
4, S, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, IL, IL, 13, IA, Is,
16, II, 18, block 6; lots 8, 18, block
Z; lots 1, 4, 13, ID, Is, 16, II, 18 block
g.; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, S, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 II, IL,
block II; lots 5, 6, Z, 8, 8, 10, II, IL,
block IL, Newburg.
Rostvedt & Smette to Randel H.
Smette, WD, 81; lots 10, II, IL, block
IL, Newburg.
Bank of Westhope to James Town
send, WD, $4,000; SWINE, Sc 33, 164,
80.
Peter C. Jesme and wife to Gus
tav Jesme, WD, 81; Sc rs, 1872, 70;
lots to 13, block 2, Landa; 5x140 #.
of lot IA, block 2, Landa.
Marcus E. Hayes and wife to J. P.
Shahane, WD, $3.50; lots 10 and 20,
block 2, east Souris.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
Junior High School Notes.


No school Friday. Hurrah for
George Washington!
The First Girls basket ball team
was organized as follows: Center
Ada Mckenzie; Forwards-Annie
Hunter and Olive TAFT; Guards-Ger-
trude Murdoch and Beatrice Bacon;
Subs.-Helen Falkenstein and Helen
Mcintosh.
One of our stalwart senior girls is
on first team in s. II. S. We know
how to raise 'em.
Who are the boosters in Junior
High? Look at the blackboard in the
back of the Junior Assembly room.
The next Literary program, to be
held Thursday afternoon is as follows:
Piano Solo ..-..--.-.--....... Ada Mckenzie
Current Events Beatrice Bacon
Comic Newspaper Helen Scott
Song ....Ge Gertrude Murdoch
Recitation Lillian Murdoch
Country Justice-Mock Trial
Cast Of Characters
Justice of Peace Bernard OMAHA
Spludge -,...,..--,-......R Roy Smedsrud
Fudge ................-............M Merle McBain
Attorney for Plaintiff, Orin Smedsrud
Atty for Defendant Palmer Wigeby
Witnesses-Bulge, Milton Quamme;
jerks, Frank Hunter; Smith, Lor-
entz Wigeby.
Jury-Wilfred Condie, Victor Will
hanson, Philip Lescault, Danial Nc
Caughna, Loren Lindberg.
Song-I Wish I'd Been Born Boy
Frances Weeks
The Senior girls basket ball team
in ]. H. S. will play against the Jun
ior girls, Thursday afternoon at 4:15,
admission 7c.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
tain goods. What the N. P. l. is 60
n, n fn dn ic %~ NIT %Lo fp,:c.IA ~oAa,

tain goods. What the N. P. L is 60
ing to do is to put the freight rates
on mileage basis similar to passen-
ger rates and also change certain
classifications. When this is done
you will hear the companies crying,
"confiscation." We are not disposed
to put the R. r. out of business by re-
ducing both but will lower the one
that will benefit the poor man and
let the roads continue to "soak" the
rich and successful editors and "sich."
Yes, Bro. we can and do most en-
phatically deny that the socialist bos-
ses killed the 2-cent fare bill, but the
farmer legislature did and for their
own and our best interests.
The good Bro. also wants Geo. to
tell him if he didn't perjure himself
by signing up as republican when
the good Bro. says he knows we are a
socialist. Most people understand
that socialist is person who be-
lieves in public ownership and con-
troll, but nobody can tell us what the
republican party stands for as it has
stood for and against almost every
thing at some time or other. Just at
present the party in this state stands
for state ownership and control, (see
the state platform.) l don't give a
whoop who gets us state ownership
50 long as the people control. Yes,
Bro. am a good "pious" republican
who has somehow got out of the
shell. Our good Bro. says we "pro-
pose to have many million dollar
corporation, the state, run by bunch
Of men who could not make peanut
stand pay" Wrong again Bro. Fal-
kenstein, we, the people, as electors
will continue to elect good Success
full" republicans as representatives
and trust them to run the state and
its business and leave the peanut pol
itician at home. The good Bro. takes
q whack at the N. P. L. for passing a
workman's compensation act and
lnnvingg the r. R. 1cen cut. The factts
are that these men had their represen-
tatives at Bismarck instructed to
leave them out as they preferred to
come under the Federal law, as at
present. Now if these men are sat-
isfied, who else sho,-'' complain.
More political thunder, rs all.
Geo. R. White.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
HOUSE PASSES
RESOLUTIONS
Asks For Seizure of All Useful
Properties in the Event That War
Becomes Inevitable.
Special to the Courant.

SpeCl8l 10 the COufant.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 21.-
The house of representatives fired
shot yesterday that will prob
ably be heard around the world.
1t was a concurrent resolution,
calling upon the president and
congress to do all within their
power to avoid being drawn into
the European war. It recited
that it was generally believed
that the extensive war propa-
ganda now flooding the land is
due to some invisible force'-
that the munitions manufactur-
ers would be the gamers from a
war and pledged that it is "our
firm and unalterable purpose to
support and stand by our nation
in case of war with our lives and
our property. But we most fer.
vently recommend and request
that congress empower and auth
orize the president that if war
becomes inevitable to seize all
the properties useful and neces-
sery in carrying on the war, to be
used during the war without COM
pensation and to be surrendered
after the war to the owners, to
the end that our citizens, regard
less of social position or economic
advantage, shall contribute equal
ly to the common defense of our
nation, SO that the citizens of
wealth may be enabled and COM
2elleo to contribute to the com.
mon welfare and need of their
country, as the enlisted soldiers
and sailors, who give their lives
and their all.
Said President A. C. Townley,
supporting the resolution: But
we demand that the wealthy indi-
vidual who does not care to risk
his life should be forced to risk
his property. If we must have
war to defend human lives,
rights and property, property
should do it's share and give it.
self as freely to this defense as
workers and citizens generally
give their lives in defense of all.
The senate passed the resolu-
ti0n, then reconsidered it, referred
it to a committee, which has not
yet reported it out.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-22
COMMUNICATION.

To the editor of the Courant:-
Having noticed an :cle in last
weeks issue of your valuable paper
contributed bv some one, evidently
a disciple O. oNlcyism and quite
probably an enthusiastic socialist, l
hope you will grant me the s,:ace to
reply thereto, insofar as the remarks
therein referred to myself.
Such attacks are usually hardly
worth while replying to, the author
generally being person of small,
mean calibre with most limited Wis
ion, and coward Of the lowest type,
as well as containing the stuff from
which traitors are made.
The writer has no particular desire
to have the books mentioned placed
upon the shelves of any of the public
Libraries. However, if the unknown
person will communicate with Pope
Townley at once, a law might be
passed prohibiting such desecration.
The author of the communication
referred to will probably never be
known to us, and we doubt whether
his acquaintance would add anything
to our prestige. but if he will take
another trip down to the shrine and
kiss Pope Townley's big toe again,
he might, through some mysterious
metamorphis, be further enlightened
on this great subject, and be able to
think like a man. I will say further,
that I am glad that have been priv
ileged to do what I could, in a linn
tied way, against Townleyism, an
archism, I. w. w. Ism and all other
forms Of graft.
I believe that our state should be
protected against the depredations OF
Townley and his bunch of carpet-bag-
gers, and shall be glad to do what
can to that end.
Furthermore, am not ashamed OF
the stand have taken and will so in
dicate by signing my name to this ar
ticle.
Respectfully submitted,
L. II. Bratton.