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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
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PROFITEER TRAPPED

FL Paso, Texas.-The Labor Advo-
cate records these troubles of one
profiteer:
Houston, Texas, furnishes US with
good profteer story. Il all started
with felony case brought against
negro porter for stealing suit of
clothes valued by the merchant at $65,
At least this was the price the retailer
sold it for and the sum was SIS over
the amount needed to make the al
legged act felony. At the suggestion
of his lawyer, the negro, instead of
denying guilt, submitted the price tag
from the stolen suit and showed that
the strange marks under the price
mark indicated cost price of S22.
When the merchant learned of this
defense he rushed over to the district
attorney and had the whole case
thrown out
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
OPINION OF
SOLDIERS
Not Very High at Hamilton
Machine Tool Co., Accord
ing to Leaflet Placed IN Pay
Envelopes of Workers.

1t was the big war that really put
the Hamilton Machine Tool Company
back on its feet 1t was the men that
made up that big war machine that
really caused the demand for the i'm
mense munitions furnished by the
Hamilton Machine Tool company. No
men to use them, no need for the
munitions. Yet, the Hamilton Ma
chine Tool company who owed then
very existence to these men seemed to
have very low opinion of them.
Even while they were at the front,
in the trenches, fighting that democ-
racy might live and that we be free
forever, the Hamilton Machine Tool
company was scattering literature
among its employees at the Linden
wald plant, warning tcem what they
might expect when the soldier boys
come home, that they would take their
jobs at any old price and under any
old conditions-intimating that they
would be willing to scab or line up
the strikebreakers any time they
were called upon to do so.
But taking the company at it's word
we present an excerpt from one of
the little leaflets found IN the pay en-
velope of one of the workers during
the war which reads as follows:
No man can accurately predict
what is going to happen after the
war, but it should be pain to you that
when the war ceases millions of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
(By Chester M. Wright. J

Americans are faced with numbe.
of highly important issues at this mo.
ment of history.
Here are some of them:
Bolshevism-which may be any.
thing from Soyietism to a general
state of discomfort
2-High cost of living, which in
cludes profiteering.
3-1ndustrial autocracy, which is
typifie1 by Mr. E. H. Gary, of the
United States Steel Corporation.
Political laundering, which is
typified by the clamor in the senate
for anti-strike legislation.
We have with US foridable quar-
tet of troubles.
There is actual menace in all of
them. Some menace us from the left,
while others menace from the right.
The forces in America that actually
understand democracy, that believe II
democracy, that are willing to stake
everything on the practicability of
democracy, are walking down a rough
road between two fires.
On the eft is crazy turbulence, Boil
shevism- the real philosophy of Boil
shevism-is there on the left. The di-
rect action fanatic, made desperate
either by crushing circumstances or a
weak brain, is there.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
Cure Offered BY Democracy. Recon-
struction Program Of A. F. of L.
Will protect Wage Farmers.

On the right is the employer who
believes he can restore the arbitrary
methods of olden days-the union-hat.
ting kaiser of an employer to whom
organization of working people is a
heresy and collective bargaining a
blasphemy Standing with him is the
politician who believes in a rule of
iron and who seeks to twist and tor
ture democratic form Of government
into an autocratic ana bureaucratic
power over ALL
To large degree the future well
being of our country depends upon
the strength of those constructive
forces that are intelligent enough to
understand the meaning of democracy
and patient enough to seek progress
through it.
The machinery of democracy must
be the machinery by which democracy
emerges safe through trial and storm.
The spirit of democracy must be the
standby in all crises.
So it must be in humanizing that
portion of Industrial and political life
that still clings to the autocratic con-
cept. The profiteer, the arbitrary en-
ployer, the alchaic legislator these
are at the opposite extreme from the
Bolshevist. The Bolshevist feeds on
what they do and say. The pendu-
lum swings from one to the other
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
STEEL STRIKE
NEWS
STUBBORNyILLE is FROM MIS-
SOURI,

steubenville, o.-The strikers in
Steubenville had read so much in the
newspapers about the failure" of the
strike that they sent delegates Black,
Crawford and Kirchsein to make a
tour of the Pittsburgh district and
find out at first hand the truth of
the situation. Here are some of the
things which they found out and have
reported to the central body mill
council and the local unions of Steu-
benville;
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
DoNoRA WINS BY SCORE OF
Donora, Pa-About $50 "men" are
in the mills, $500 on strike
SCAB KILLS sCAB.

Johnstown, Pa-The men here are
more determined than ever and say
they have the Cambria mills licked
and, regardless of what happens any
where Else, are going to cash in on
their victory The arrests of organ
izers and the activities of the ''citi-
zen's committee" driving the leaders
out of town, has soliditied the strik-
ers. A big laugh goes up every time
the mills blow the whistle, which they
have named "the call of the lost hope.
An inexperienced crane man upset
a ladle of hot metal, inJuring 81 scabs,
Of whom 10 have died
The above report was made by the
delegates named, during the week be-
ginning Monday, November 17th
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
Ea Ea Hz
SOLDIERS ARE AIDED

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The government announces that
$4,000 of public funds are advanced to
each soldier for clearing and improv-
ing allotments of land for agricultural
purposes. The work is done under
government supervision under the
community plan. Of the money allot-
ted, $3.50 may be used for the pur-
chase of live stock and $50. for tools.
State training farms pay the soldiers
$40 a week while the land is being
prepared for cultivation and $35 a
month is allowed for the purchase of
the necessaries of life while the set
tier is waiting for the first crop.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05

SanFrancisco.-Or Organized cracker
bakers have rejected the employers
offer that wages be raised so cents \
day if they increase their output by
using five additional barrels of flour
day. The bakers declare this is not
a wage increase and that they are
working at top speed now.
Va "a "
Tampa, Fla.-The newly-organized
Journeymen Tailors' Union has estab-
lished the 48-hour week and wage
rate of S28 and $50 a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
AT TOP SPEED NOW

N q 3
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
They Are The Roads Of Danger
Through Which The Nation
Must Pass To Safety

Students in physics learn something
about this phenomenon of action and
reaction. Too often politicians and
industrial barons seem to be ignor-
ant of it.
The protiteer transgresses every
moral law of man. In literal sense,
he takes the bread from the mouths of
the hungry and lifts away the rocf
from over their heads. Democracy. if
it is to be true to itself, must hold the
profteer in loathing ard contempt.
But to remove him from among us we
shall succeed only as we use the
methods of democracy Those who
today are charged with the response
bility of the nations conduct will be
successful in vindicating democracy
only if they use methods of which
democracy approves.
With the arbitrary employer and the
autocratic politician the same is true
Democracy has provided the means
for dealing with distractions and
faults.
1t may be wholesome to read bit
from the reconstruction program of
the American Federation Of Labor
document Of great merit and credit
to the inspiration that democracy of
fers to it's believers. Read then this
bit:
There are no means whereby tl.e
workers can obtain and n.aintain fair
wages except through tra@e union eff
fort. Therefore, econom organiza-
tion IS paramount to ali their othe,
activities.
Organization of the workers lead
to better wages, fewer working hours.
improved working conditions; it de-
velops independence, manhood and
character; it fosters tol9rsrce en-: real
justice and makes for :, constantly
growing better economlc, social and
political life for the blrlen- -beaing
masses.
I'm countries where wages are best,
the greatest progress has been made
in economic, social AMI political al
vancement, in science, art. literature,
education, and in the wealth of the
people generally. Al low wage paw.
ing countries contrasted with Amen
ca is proof for this statement.
"The American standard os lie
must be maintained and improved The
value of wages is determined by the
purchasing power of the dollar. There
is no such thing as ID wages when
the cost of living in decency and COM
fort equals or exceeds the wages re-
ceived. There must be no reduction
in wages; in many instances wages
must be increased.
''The workers of the nation demand
living wage for all wage earners,
skilled or unskilled--a wage which will
enable the worker ant his family to
live in health and comfort, provide a
competence for illness and old age and
afford to all the opportunity of cul-
tivating the best that as within man
kind"
We have here at once all expression
of the justified aspirations of the peo-
pie and a program 70. their attain
ment-all in keeping with the ma
chinery and the purpose of democracy.
There are some among employers who
would stifle and crush the trade union
movement. 1t offers resistance to ar
bitrary decisions in industry. It COM
pels acknowledgement of the reason
ing power of workers and of their
right to a voice in the determination
of conditions affecting them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
THE COMPANY CALLS THIS
NORMAL"

Homestead, Pa.-The mills are try
ing to produce and have probably
about 1000 (the companies claim
$1,000 people at work. out of nor
NAL 10000 Included among these (as
reported by a union man who worked
in the mills there during the week
ending November 22) are about 200
women, a large number of boys of
Is and under lin some cases the boys
admitted that they were under the
legal age for employmAnt), hundreds
of "floater" and "hobo' types, and
great many negroes, the latter COM
posing approximately half of the to-
tai number employed in the mills. As
in all cases, the turnover among the
negroes is exceedingly high, and it
takes two or three of these inexper-
fenced negroes TO do the work of one
experienced, steady steel worker.
There are 1900 of the Homestead
workers who went on strike still out
and standing like Gibralter.
Production at the Homestead mills
is about 10 per cent of normal. Rail
road men state that the pre-strike
shipments of finished steel were 200
to $50 cars day The best that they
have been able to get out during the
strike is % cars a day About hale
the steel made is scrap
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
HERE'S A TOUGH ONE FOR YOU,
ELBERT.

Braddock, Pa.-Here there are 5000
men on strike out of 10000. 1t should
be recalled that no meetings whatever
are permitted in Braddock The strik-
ers have stood and are standing solid
because of their determination to win,
and their confidence that they will
win.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-12-05
RANKIN RANKLEs GARY.

Rankin, Pa.-About 5 per cent of
normal force is at work in the Rankin
mill Production, of course, is neg
ligible.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-08-15
.TRANSP0Rt&bRlE1'
IN MIDDLE PACIFIC

LOS ANGELES, Aug. l4.-lhe
United States Army transport Sher-
idan, en- route from Honolulu to San
Francisco, is adrHt about e00 sAaliaa,
out from San Francisco, ha yaA
a propelter, according to a raQl
sage picked 10 today, by thg
New Mexico in port. here. M
+ The message said only sSstS elvesz7,
day supply ~of>coal was on FsSSst and
asked that a., vessel be sseht~te fow
the Sheridan, to, San~Francisee, IL Us
probable that thesFRirie or VestaA ;,
mother shfeS of,thej DESTROYER sAlas-
ron of, e>PHffic fleetAt in port hsrS
will be sentfo the aid ohthe sheridsns
>SAN>FNNCfSCo,tAdg -14;sf~A y !
dio presSsee received here yes Sterday
from the army transport Sheridan
stated Athe vessel was making slow
headway with .a>broken PROPELLER
Shaft and w6uad d~aos> need the pro-
offered aid of a naval tus;;-s -s.army
transpo officials said tonight. Thy
said 10 subsequent messages, to taeir
knowledge have been reqeived ere
since. The olcal Chamber Of CommFceN
reporteasppo advices had bdkn receiSed
from theSsessel. Es
Imperial Valley press., 1919-08-15
HOUSE DEMAND
GROW|NC>DA|LY

A notice in last nights issue Of
the Brawley paper States that store
room in that city reWains uDoecupied
No such conditions exists in Ell Cen.
tro. Every store room in the city j.
occupied and business men are clam
!, oring for more stores and offices
/, Keeping pace with the demand fol
more houses the demand for addition.
al stores is becoming more apparent
every day. In the last week several
| former business men of San Diego
have been in Ell Centro seeking a To-
cation for the opening of business
houses here but have been unable to
find anything that promised to be
suitable.
With the coming of the San Diego
Arizona railroad which promises to be
in operation by the first Of December
if not sooner. Ell Centre will boom
as never before and the need Of more
housing facilities is growing more
acute. The matter of houses has
come up before the Chamber of Com
merce and the city council and both
bodies agree that El Centre should
take immediate action on building
program which will partially insure
the prospective resident house to
live in.
1t is well known fact that many
families have been forced TO find
ZONES in the other towns in the val
ley owing to the scarcity of houses
in Ell Centre. who would have made
Ell Centro their home if houses could
have been found.
Big financial returns await the man
or company that erects houses for
rent in this city. A number of the
business men in the city are interested
in and are fathering a plan for the
formation of building association
which will, be composed of local men
and backed by local capital.
At this time propaganda issued by
the government has been sweeping
the country on nation wide campaign
to "own your own home," and if the
proposed building association is form
ed there is no doubt that large num-
ber of renters of houses in Ell Centre
would avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity and would build homes for
themselves. According to statistics,
there is no one thing that adds to the
prosperity and future of a town as
having as many people as possible
own their homes. In other words to
have Ell Centre a city of homes, each
man owning the home in which he
lives, well enhance the desirablility !
Of Ell Centre as city in which to live. |
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04

and It is expected that q number q
hem from points near Grand Forks
will attend the bhnquet-smoker.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04

Movement of Property Fast
Compared to . Year
Ago.

sS There has been an enormous In,
crease in the 4 amount OF property
transfers In Grand Forks county dur
irS the last two months over q year
ago. showing a decided activity In the
sreal.estate market. l
3ssS The amount Of work done in the,
Register Of Deeds Office since the
iirst OF October is about double that
OF q year ago at the same time. ac-
cording to q statement made today
by Don Mcdonald, register of dedes.
The work. of course. includes the
Ming Of numerous records that have
been neglected before and shows
desire on the part of property own
ers OF the county to have all transac-
lions legally recorded in order to es-
tablish the clearest possible title
"A large amount Of the Office work.
however, ,is that of transferring prop
erty which makes apparent the live
illness Of the real estate market In
this section. -f
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04

alton Of Police Chiefs against bombs
concealed in Christmas packages was
treated as q joke, and the insinuation
was made that the sender Was suffer
"home BREW
"Of course I don't expect to re-
ceive any bombs," said the chief, ''but
after the recent attempt to blow up
the house Of Attorney General Palmer
and the Wholesale bomb plot uncov-
cred last May, 1t would seem that any
sensible man should realize that such
q warning very probably has ample
basis and should be taken seriously"
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
AMOUNT OF COAL
ATsHEAD OF LAKES
REGARDED AS SECRET

Duluth, Mimi, Dec. Allow much
coal, hard or soft, remains on docks
at the American head Of the lakes,
seems to be regarded as deep, dark
erman, sub-regional directors for this
district, who today refused to make
public the figures. For the season up
to December /, receipts, of soft coal
aggregated 6,355, 700 tons and Of hard
coal 1,5S2,4OO tons arrived. but how
much of this tonnage has since been
shipped from docks here is unknown
outside the sub-regional office. 1t is
known that 192,955 cars OF all coal
left the head of the lakes up to No
yember % last, but what kind Of cars
is not known. It is known, too. that
seven steamers of large tonnage are
en- route here with hard coal.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
Official. May Give
Information On Train
Service Cut Tonight

p. S. Keating, general superintend-
ent and f. Bell, assistant general
manager Of the Great Northern rail-
road will arrive in the city on train
No. 10 this evening and it is expected
that they may be able to give local
information regarding one-third cut
Of passenger lines.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago today carried the informa-
ton that all railroad passenger serv-
ice on north, west and northwest
lines running out of Chicago will be
cut one-third beginning hext Monday
under an order issued today by P. S.
Eustis, chairman of passenger sys-
TENS Of these roads.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
COUNTY BOARD HAS
ADJOURNED UNTIL
LAST MEET OF YEAR

After transacting considerable rou-
tine business during two-day ses-
sion the board of county commits
sioners for Grand Forks county ad-
journed last night to meet again De-
cember 80. ~,
At the meeting the last of this
month the commissioners will "clean
up the years business in order to
have a clean slate for the ensuing
year. There will be good deal Of
business to transact at the last meet
ing of the year.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
DldliciO OllS Lie
III So cidlist
Sheet Nailed

The local Socialist organ lied rather
more crudely than usual Wednesday,
night In publishing the following
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
NECKWElAR

Frilly. lacy, dainty-no, adjectives
do not describe the charm Of this new
ing to see many a friend delighted
with these dainties.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
Story Hour Club Met
Wednesday Afternoon

Tht Story Hour. club OF the Grand
Forks high school gave q fine pro-
gram in the. school auditorium We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock. Folr
lowing the program social hour was
enjoyed and games were. played.
The program follows: 81
The Three Little Pigs-Mary Par
sons.
The Three Bears-Beth Common.
The Old Woman and Her Pig
niscussion-M. Helen Davies. =
Why Roses Are Pink-Charlotte
Keeby.
Why Morning Glories climb-Nora
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
PERFUME

Did wife or friend ever hint that
her perfume had been used up? Sup
pose You replenish 1t at Christmas
time. She will be delighted.
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
MAN ARREST TED FOR
OBS GENE 1 AN NGUACE

& Martinius Nesvik.s 4 railway laborer
was arrested "Wednesday night for
using obscene language and making
improper advances to girls in q local
restaurant. & s5Sl .,s
He was given a hearing this morn
ing before Police Magistrate Il. !.
ence was delayed until this afternoon:
THE authorities are inclined to think
that he is not sane. . it9
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
POLICE CHIEF Is.
UNABLE TO SEE
JOKE IN BOMBS

"My sense Of -humor is fairly good,
but never could see anything very
funny in bomb explosions"
This was the comment of Odin
OVERLY. chief of police. when shown
an article in the local Socialist daily
in which warning sent out by the
president Of the. International Associ-
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
F Former Guardsmen To
Banquet This Evening

All former members Of Company NJ
of the old First North Dakota Ma
tional Guard regiment will be guests
at banquet and smoker at the Harry
Harm cafeteria tonight at o'clock.
Invitations to the get-together ban
quet were. extended to all former
Company M guardsmen throughout
the state where they are scattered
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04
PROMISE MADE
TO SAFEGUARD
STATE INTERESTS

Assurances from Senator A. J.
Gronna and Congressman George
Young Of North Dakota that every
effort would be made to safeguard the
interests of North Dakota in the pres
sent fuel crisis were received today
by the Grand Forks Commercial club.
The kilograms were in answer to
messages sent out by the club Wed
nesday protesting against the ship
ment of coal from the Head Of the
Lakes to Chicago and other eastern
nofnta
Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-04

kHo lOChl SOCldll0I organ ASu IdlUoE
more crudely than usual Wednesday
light IN publishing the following
tory: M " H.
''The Hotel Dacotah was the
scene Of arrests late last might, aE
when four Grand Forks youths
were taken into custody by Cap
tain of Police Clarence sullivan
and Patrolman Henry Vixen on
a charge Of gambling. ~
The boys appeared at the
desk of the hotel In which they
are all well-known; applied for
room and were served. They
proceeded to engage in the
pastime of poker, and. but for q
tip given to the authorities by
guest would have been allowed .s
to enjoy themselves unmolested. VI
Parents Of the young men,
(whose age prohibits The Amer
! ican from publishing their
{ names) were very indignant to-
day, to think that taany hotel clerk
knowing the boys, would allow
them to engage q room for any
purpose whatever. They all have
good homes here, and this fact
together with the fact that they
are mere youngsters, should at
once arouse the suspicion Of any
AAosOA NSSPSASS "AS1A SAASS FAAAouO
application for room, parent
Of one of the youngsters declared
5 today"
This story is correct in one particu-
lar. Four young men were arrested
The rest Of the yarn appears to be q
deliberate and malicious lie.
The facts in the case, according to
Odin overly, chief Of police, and the
testimony given by the syoung men
themselves in police court wednesday
are as follows:
The police were called to the Hotel
Dacotah Tuesday night by the hotel
not by a guest, and in
formed that the management sus-
pected that gambling was in progress
tered and arrested Edgar Wilson,
aged FL; Emery Lingle, aged 1S; Roy
Morgan, aged Is, and fourth youth
who is under 18 and was therefore
turned over to Henry O'Keefe, ju-
venile, court officer.
When given hearing before Po-
lice Magistrate R. ]. Purcell, the
boys testified that the room was rent
ed only by Wilson, who is 21 years Of
age, and that the other three sneak
ed'' up to it later without the knowl-
euBo VI luc Holel AdIla&eiIleHL. 1Hcy
also said that they had worked the
same scheme successfully at other
Grand Forks hotels recently, and had
no trouble getting by with 1t until
they tried it at the Dacotah Tuesday
night.
"There is. absolutely no excuse fol-
the attempt to put the blame on the
hotel management" said Odin Over.
by, chief of police today after read
ing the article appearing in the So.
cialist organ. The blame, If any
rests on the parents themselves, fol
allowing their sons to form such
habits. The management of the hote
notified the police Immediately or
having reason to suspect tha
gambling was in progress