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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-08-22
NEWS FROM DAWSON.

Mr.. Herbert Butts and Miss Bessie
aPrtine motored to Halifax Friday.
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Miss Norma Staten, of Mullins, Wis
tied Miss Louise Barnhill last week.
~
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Butts attended
services at Kekukee Sunday.
-
Mr.. w. J. Partine went to Weldon
this morning on business.
Mrs. Mania Butts, of Halifax, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. J. W. Butts
Mrs. Streeter Cherry, of Scotland
Neck, is visiting Mrs. J. W. Butts a
few days this week
Miss Maude Fryer, of Tarboro, and
Miss Emma Allbrook, OF Scotland
Neck, are visiting Mrs. J. w. Butts
-
Mr.. A. B. Barley left this mfrn-
ing for Weldon to have dental work
DONE
Mr.. Dee Harris and family spent
Thursday visiting Mr.. and Mrs. r. L.
Simmons.
Miss Lila Blanch Barnhill visited
her sister, Mrs. J. L. Simmons, near
Enfield, last week.
Mr.. Lewis Butts, Of Halifax, visited
his cousin, Mr.. II. S. Butts, few DAYS
last week.
Mr.. Eustice Thorne and Miss Fife
Viverette, Of Enfield, motored here
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. 7. Locke, Of En-
field, visited their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Barnhill, Sunday.
Misses Lillian and Urtie Belle Par
tine is visiting relatives and friends Of
Battleboro this week.
Messrs. R. L. and J. L. Simmons at
tended the family reunion at Mr.. Dee
Harris, of Tarboro, Thursday.
Master Murray Simmons is visiting
his cousin, Master Billy Harris. Of
tbs week.
Messrs. Jimmie and Robert Simmons
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Dee Harris. of
Tarboro a few days last week.
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Messrs. III. S. and Louis Butts and
Misses Stella Weeks, Nettie and Mar
garet Barnhill and Bessie Partin mo-
Eored to Mr.. R. L. Simmons Monday
aight.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-08-22
To Improve Your Digestion

For years my digestion was 80 poor
that [ could only eat the ightest foods
[ tried everything that I heard Of to
get relief, but not until a. ~ a year
ago when I saw Chambe1a1n s Tablets
advertised and got a bottle Of them
did [ find the right treatment. Since
taking them my digestion is fine.''-
Mrs. BLANCHE BOWERS, Indiana Pa
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-08-22
R. F. D. NO. 8. NEWS.

Miss Annie Mae Allsbrook spen
Sunday with Miss Lena Lovegrove.
-
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Walston. Jr.
spent Tuesday with his sister Mrs
s. L. Lovegrova.
Mr.. j. II. Medford and son. Mr.. W
ii. Medford, was in town Tuesday ar
ternoon on business.
Mr. Claude Lilley and family, of
the river, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Medford
Miss Matte Medford and Miss
Annie Mae Allsbrook was in town
Wednesday morninb shopping.
Mr.. Linwood Lovegrove returned
Monday night from Virginia Beach.
Mrs. S. L. Lovegrove was in town
oMnday afternoon shopping.
Mrs. s. L. Lovegrove, baby and
daughter, and Miss Matte Medford,
spent Sunday with Miss Fannie Ed
monds, Of Roseneath.
Mr.. Ed Walston and brother, Mr..
Henry Walstor; Jr., and wife, and
niece, Miss Lena Lovegrove, motored
over to Tarboro Monday afternoon
visiting friends and relatives.
Messrs. Linwood and Robert Love
grove and Mr.. Henry Walston, Jr.,
motored over Wednesday night to
Mr.. and Mrs. Moody Lovegrove of
Rosneath.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-08-22
METHODIST CENTENARY

One-fifth of the Centenary pledge
is now due. Mr.. R. A. Philips is the
Centenary Treasurer. All navmon+s
should be made to him. It will be an
preciated if the first instalment will
be paid during the coming week.
M. Y. SELF
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-08-22

we nave taken the agency for
SUNBEAM MAZDA LAMPS
and can supply yur wants
Tor electric lights for the home
From 10 to 100 Watts
NJ "A. Riddick Motor Car Companv
A>ech North Caro1in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30

that is accompanied by the bitterest
strife.
The workers of Toledo did not go
on strike because the employer was
growing to altruistic. They opposed
the idea of chimerical proftsharing
plan followed by an arbitrary increase
in the hours of labor.
Labor doesn't want to be coddled.
1t wants justice and will have it.
Labor doesn't seek war It prefers
peace, but when a fight is thrust upon
it--well, the other fellow will wake up
conscious of the fact he has been in a
battle
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
44-HOUR WEEK
And Wage Increase Won By
$4,000 Strikers In Dress
Industry.
Eleven Wesks of Fighting
Ends In Victory-B Bosses
Sign At Conference, Work
ers Accept AT Mass Meet
ing.

Eleven weeks after the waist and
dress industry Of New York City was
tied up by the walkout of the $4,000
workers employed in its hundreds of
shops, the girls march back today,
having decisively defeated the employ
ers.
They have won the 44-hour week
They go back to shops that, are to
be run as union shops They go back
to shops from which strikebreakers,
hired for the duration of the conflict,
have been cleared, according to the
agreement signed by representatives
of both sides early Saturday morning
and voted upon favorably by the work
ers yesterday.
They have large increases in wages.
After ,ong weeks of striking, after
enduring agony and humiliation, af-
ter having been subjected to brutal
tiles unheard of hitherto al the hands
VI OllS pOilSe dIio SIilhe SudIuS -
many of them in uniform-the strike
is won.
After a week of ceaseless negoti-
ations, with sessions lasting until 3,
and 5 in the morning, the represen-
tatives of the union compelled the rep
resentatives of the Association of
Dress and Waist Manufacturers to
sign their names to terms that spell
their complete defeat
OF the $4,000 workers who walked
out on January 21, some 27,000 had
previously returned to work, with all
their demands granted Most of them
were employed in independent shops
that is, non-association factories
but number of the association shops
broke away and signed up with the
union before last weeks negotiations.
Stood Out For Principle.
For the past three or four weeks
the strike had been virtually over for
the non-association shops, some 1900
altogether, the conflict having been
confined to some 180 large waist
factories, whose proprietors belong to
the erstwhile powerful association.
For the past two weeks the en-
ployers have been trying TO get to-
gether with the workers. Their sea
son was rapidly slipping away. They
were losing money. They wanted to
save the fragments of their fortunes
But the union, through its general
office, made it plain that the workers
would enter into no conferences until
the principle that the worker is en-
titled to a job free of fear of unjust
discharge was granted
The bosses did not want to grant
it. They baked. They offered COM
promises.
The workers refused to enter into
conferences.
Then the employers offered conces-
sions that permitted discussion. The
workers then entered into conferences
Four times did the employers offer to
meet.
Three times did the workers refuse
to continue comforting with the basic
demand of the union not granted as
fundamental.
Then the employers accepted. The
two sides signed, and the committees
went back to their constituents
New York Cali.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30

Edgar K. Wagner, one of Hamilton's
most popular and well known young
men, has engaged in business for him
self. Mr.. Wagner has opened a hand
some undertaking establishment adj
jacent to his residence, 228 Heaton
street. The establishment includes
an office, morgue, garage, show room
and chapel. He has spared no ex-
pcnse in selecting equipment which
also includes a beautiful -hearse,
Winton Six of latest design, and is
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
NATIONAL
OLE HANsoN's TRUTH

A great deal of CUFF has been ere
dited to Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle
since the strike in that city. The
western mayor has broken into the
magazines and has hit the lecture
platform with bound. Some rough
stuff has come from him since he
jumped into page-one position and
and some of it has sounded a good
deal like the talk of man trying
hard to cinch his hold on the lime
light.
However, Ole Hanson has said one
little say that is worth something
Employers ought to read it and learn
ed writer's of advice to labor ought to
give heed to it. Said Ole Hanson:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30

able to serve the public with the best
and most modern that can be obtained.
Mr. Wagner is graduate of Ham
ilton Hi, also of the Cincinnati Col
lege of Embalming. After gradual
ing from college he received an ap-
pointment as instructor of embalming
and sanitary science at the college,
which position he held until being
called for military service. He was
discharged from service the latter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
''The trouble started with the EN-

''The trouble started with the EN-
PLOYERS in the lumber camps. The
men were vilely treated; two camps
out Of three were denounced by the
Government as unfit for human beings
when war compelled the Government
to take an interest in workers.
"The men packed their vermin-in-
tested blankets from camp to camp.
They lived under disgraceful, unheal-
thy conditions. In the periods be-
tween work no one would receive
them, or check their dreadful packs,
or cash their pay checks except the
basement saloon. The worst kind of
saloon was the only place for these
men to go, they knew no other home.
And no human being took the trouble
to seek them out there, except the |.
w. w. agitator. No one else knew
that they were alive or cared what be-
came of them. In the lumber camps
the l. w. W. literature was the only
thing they had to read.
"Do you wonder that the l. w. w.
teachings became their Bible? They
did not know, what know, that the
i. w. w. is in no sense labor organ
ization; that it does not seek to help
labor; but seeks to make industry of
all kinds and government of all kinds
impossible, by making it impossible
for the employer to do business on
any basis whatever"
"The trouble started with the en-
ployers in the lumber camps" says
Mayor Hanson A year ago in st.
Paul the American Federation of La
Dor listened to the report of the exc
cutive council, which recounted the
story of the timber workers in the
northwest. The convention of the pre-
vious year, at Buffalo, had directed
the council to continue it's efforts in
assisting the timber workers to or.
| ganize and to secure the eight-houl
day. At st. Paul the council reported
that the timber workers had STRUCK
to secure the eight-hour day, but
that the strike failed of its object.
The war entered in then and lum
Der became war need The gov
ernment took a hand in the situation
and in agreement with Federation
organizers and the companies ordered
the eight-hour day into effect.
Few places in American industria
life have baked against progress al
fiercely as the lumber regions. Iso
lation, desolation and desperation
have gone hand in hand. The result
has been lumber barons" and hope
lessly exploited slaves of the camps
But we have got past the poin
where lumber camp policy can be tol
Grated. That is the policy which
fruits most readily and surely in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
pa Es Em
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS.

Bogalusa, Law. L. Donnels,
general organizer Brotherhood of Car
penters, initiated 453 members in a
new union. He has forwarded appli-
cations for six charters of unions re-
Gently formed, including the carpen-
ters, sawyers, timber workers, pap
per makers, pulp workers and painters
He also reports that the retail clerks
boiler makers, plumbers and steam
filters are in line for organization.
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Buy Thrift Stamps and help.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
Bolshevik desperation.

Bolshevik desperation.
That nation which would avoid the
results of desperation must be free
from conditions which cause desper-
alton BY united effort, all acting for
the greater good of all, America can
be freed entirely of the kind of reac-
ton and brutality that compelled Ole
Hanson to say, "the trouble started
with the employers"
va m R pa ~
The same old recommendation in the
same old way was handed into the
court by the last grand jury. We re-
fer to the recommendation that toilets
be installed in the mems department
in the county jail. This recommends
ton is being made so regularly that
we suggest it be put up in printed
form for future grand juries to use.
1t has been suggested that the county
commissioners be made to stay in the
jail until they do install toilets and
that they be made to clean the bucket.
We venture to bet that this method
would bring on a contract for toilets
in less than twenty minutes. Or,
perhaps they are used to odors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
part of January.

pt1 OA UttIItsdIy y
The Cincinnati College of Embalm-
ing operates in connection with the
Cincinnati General Hospital and while
there Mr.. Wagner personally super
vised the disposition of over a thous
and cases of embalming. With this
large experience Mr.. Wagner is well
qualified to serve the citizens of this
community. His many friends wish
him every success in his venture.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30

N 80 N1A PAA
BENEVOLENT BUNKSHOOTERS.
Beneyolence of employers is theme
that seems most pleasing to some
newspaper publishers.
Lately much good ink has been used
in telling of the perfectly delightful
profit-sharing scheme of a Toledo
automobile manufacturer.
While the whole story is still RUM
ing and catching comments and re-
prints the benevolent manufacturer
finds he has precipitated lockout
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
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SHALL WAGES BE REDUCED

In an attempt to pave the way for
a reduction in wages, an insidious
campaign has been begun. 1t is gent
ly feeling its way through the rural
press and at times creeping into la
Dor papers through boiler plate" pro
cesses. This little, soft spoken propa-
ganda is dangerous.
Prompt reductions" are to be made
in the prices of basic commodities
and the cost of living followed by a
moderation of the wages of labor"
This at the outset seems a conces-
sion. Heretofore the demand has been
for reduction of wages first and a
promise of reduction in prices. This
latest seems a new slant.
1t is notable, however, in this pro-
posal that steel and building mater
ials are the first thing mentioned as
slated for reductions. Nothing about
food or rents.
Labor may well be on guard The
relative wage is the workers safe
guard
Lowering of prices of the neces-
sites of life are desirable, but labor
must see to it that the old order is
reversed.
A relative wage must be preserved
and extended. Conditions must be
better, not worse. THERE MUST BE
| NO LOWERING OF THE STAN
DARDS OF AMERICAN WORK
ERs.
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Two years ago, 1886 striking min
ers and sympathizers, whose only
crime was that of trying to better
their conditions, were loaded in to
box cars at the muzzles of loaded guns
in the hands of lot of thugs hired
by the copper mine owners at Bisbee
Arizona, and hauled out into the des-
ert where they were dumped and would
have died of thirst and hunger if they
hadn't been rescued by detachment
of the United States army, sent out
by the government authorities. The
mine owners gave as excuse for their
action that the men were l. w. VS.
and destroyers of property This was
later disproved. 1t was also shown
that many of the men were members
of organized labor and that this was
the real reason of the crime The
purpose was to break up the union.
Charges were filed by many of the
miners and indictmens were returned
Now these same deporters of honest
workingmeH are down on their knees
begging the miners to accept settle
ments amounting to nearly 81, 2,O00, 900
They don't like the thought of Jail
bars. This is sweet music to the ears
of all fair minded workingmen. The
workers are now at the bat in this
case and are likely to hit for a HOME
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
STRUCK FOR BETTER FOOD

Seattle, Wash, "A strike of $50
linemen Of Electrical Workers union
No. n resulted becauseA of the very
undesirable food furnished by contrac-
tors electrifying the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad. This
action was taken after repeated eff
forts had been made to have the cause
of the complaint removed, but with
out success. The men are working
in camps along the line of the road.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-30
SECOND WAGE INCREASE.

Cincinnati-The clothing. manufac-
turers Of this city using the union la
bel have granted the members of the
United Garment Workers, numbering
several thousand, another increase in
wages that has been granted this year.
The advance was the result of several
meetings with the manufacturers and
the friendly relations that have here
tofore existed were renewed. During
the progress of these meetings there
was no occasion for the cessation of
work, nor was there any threat of
such action on the part of the workers.
The manufacturers readily assented
to change some shop conditions that
had previously caused some complaint
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-13
Health Conn. Bristol
Invited to Tennessee

DIR. Leyerett D. Bristol, State COM
missioner Of health for Maine, has
recently received an invitation from
the State University Of Tennessee to
become dean Of the Medical School
and professor of public health in that
Southern university.
The University Of Tennessee IL
building up one Of the strongest med
ical departments in the South at
Memphis. and hopes to develop one
Of the best courses for students and
health officers in the United States.
In many respects public health work
has been developed to a higher de-
gree and is better recognized in the
Southern States than in any other
part of the country. This has been
due largely to the need for combat
ting such serious plaques as malaria,
honkworm disease, and yellow fever
which in past years have created big
problems for southern health officials
to solve.
DR.. Bristol was appointed health
commissioner Of Maine by Governor
Milliken in 1917 as the first commits
sioner for term of six years. Be-
fore coming to Maine DR.. Bristol was
associated with the Massachusetts,
State Department Of Health and the
department of public health at the
Harvard Medical School. At the time
he accepted the position in Maine he
was offered the health commissioner
ship Of the State Of Nebraska and
also Of Kansas City. Missouri. Com
missioner Bristol has received de-
grees from Wesleyan. Johns Hopkins,
and Harvard Universities, and dur
ing the last ~ years has held teach
ing and administrative positions in
the states Of New York. Missouri,
Minnesota, North Dakota and Mas
sachusetts. During his work In
Maine he has also had charge Of the
course in public health at the Bow
dom Medical school
The position in Tennessee. to which
DR.. Bristol has been invited, would
permit moro time to scientific re-
search work and teaching Of medi-
cal students and health officers and
would involve considerable adminis-
trative work as dean Of the school
The salary would be much larger
than the. salary Of tho commissioner
Of health a. epecihed BY the laws Of
Maine. the appointment would be q
permanent one, not limited to any
term Of years, and an entire sum-
mer's vacation each year Tor special
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-13

DR.. Augustus o. Thomas, State SUI
perintendent Of public schools, has
sent out card to all the superinten-
dents Of schools for return to the Of
fice as means Of securing accurate
data relative to the organization of
schools in connection with the United
States School Garden Army.
"R. p. Currier. assistant regional
director, is spending one half of his
time in Maine in the interests of the
garden work but cannot reach per-
sonally more than small part of the
schools, and We wish to secure for
him a report Of the progress in gar
den work throughout the State and
the total number of pupils enrolled
in the United States School Garden
Army for either home or school gar
dens." says DR.. Thomas in his COM
munication.
IF the whole town is not organ
lied please report individual cases
where teachers have taken up the
work. In case no schools are organ
lied please return the card in order
that a complete tabulation can be
made.
"A frank statement Of your atti-
tude toward school, directed home
gardens would be helpful in making
future plans for cooperation be-
tween this department and towns or
cities in garden work.
"Officers' and privates' badges may
be secured by sending to the Bureau
Of Education, Washington, D. c."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-13
ton approved by the Office of the at
torney general:

ton approved by the Office of the at
torney general:
Sherman Local No. II. Aroostook
Federation Of Farmers. organized
May at Sherman Station, the COR
poration being located at Sherman.
Capital stock. 100000; all common:
paid in. 5000; par value, $40; shares
subscribed. 20. President. r. E. Bow
ers, Sherman Station; treasurer. H.
r. Gould. Sherman Station; clerk, f.
c. Mitchell. Sherman Station; direc-
tors, r. E. Bowers. II. r. Gould. F. c.
Mitchell, F. S. Porter. William z. Bry-
ant. r. H. Patterson, Luther Clark,
f. w. Hughes and E. c. Young. all of
Sherman Station. Purposes, to act as
general agent Of the Aroostook Fed
Grafton of Farmers as selling and pur-
chasing agent of farm products and
supplies. Approved May 9.
w. H. Dugan & Son, organized
May at Portland. Capital stock.
$4,000: all common: nothing paid in;
par value, 800: shares subscribed. 3.
President and treasurer. William H.
Dugan. Portland: clerk, William l..
Bradford, South Portland: directors.
William Fl. Dugan of Portland. Will
liam L. Bradford of South Portland:
Charles n. Dugan of Portland. Pur-
poses, a general shipping and steve
dore business. Approved May ..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-13
STATE HOUSE
Next Meeting Governor and Council P m Tuesday, May 10

Governor Carl E. Milliken re-
turned Monday afternoon from St
Louis, where he went to attend the
convention for the organization Of
the American Legion. being a char
ter member as one Of the War Gov
ernors. He reports a most enjoyable
time, every session Of the World War
veterans being lively and full Of in
terest.
The other members of the Maine
party are returning by different
routes and at different times, some
staying longer at the convention and
others visiting other cities on their
way home. Adjutant General Presson
stopped over in Washington on bus
mess connected with the Maine Ma
tional Guard, meeting there Col
onel F. H. Farnum, the inspector in
structor for the Guard in this State.
The hour of the meeting Of the
Governor and Executive Council has
again been changed, the hour Of con-
vening being o'clock Tuesday at
ternoon, May Is.