The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-19

eeived several other ugly wounds
about his head and face from the
blows Of the men He was attended
by physician and several stitches
were required to sew up the cuts.
Bell swore to warrants for the three
men, charging them with assault and
battery and White also charged Bell
with assault. The case against
Schmitt was dismissed. White was
bound over to the Grand Jury and his
bond fixed at $1,000, and King was also
bound over and his bond fixed at 5000.
Kenneth Hilker, secretary and treas
urer of the Hamilton Machine Tool
CO., was on hand to see that his men
were set free and that Bell would get
the limit of the law, but in this he
was sadly mistaken.
The Grand Jury will meet in Octo-
Der, but it is not thought that indict-
ments will be found against these
thugs, because union men very seldom
get justice in our county courts. From
what we can learn the union pickets
doing duty at the struck shop have
always been orderly and have done
nothing at all during the strike that
was unlawful. 1t seems that the
strike breakers and their leader, J.
White, have threatened the union men
time and again, and Monday when
they found Bell alone on the picket
line they made good their threat. In
the court room Tuesday morning the
company had about ten witnesses and
no two of them had the same story to
tell of the assault. All of them de
MED starting the assault on Bell and
claimed that Bell started it.
Monday evening Ted Smith, bust
ness agent for the machinists' local,
visited the scene of the trouble, and
while standing on the sidewalk oppo-
site the plant, one of the strike break
ers told him that "they would get him
next" Since their assault on Bell
these strike breakers have become
bold and might be of the opinion that
they can try their cowardly attacks
of three big, bulry bruisers onto one
man.
These men denied in court that they
had a gun, knife or club to beat
up Bell. 1t is the first time in the
history of scabbery that this breed of
parasites did not carry weapons.
When a man accepts the exalted posi-
tion of strike breaking the firm gen
orally sees that he is well armed.
The Hilkers who are connected with
the company have tried every way
possible to kill the strike and have
even gone so far as to try to trick
the machinists in a fake settlement,
but in this they have failed. The
strike breakers who are now employed
in the plant, we are told, are not ma
chinists, but farmers from and around
New Burlington. Some of them have
been brought here by this man White
and not for the purpose of working at
the machinist trade, but to do the dir
ty work for the company.
At the outset of the war this COM
pany was in the hands of receiver,
and financially they were in terrible
mess. The same union machinists
who are on strike now went into that
shop and worked heroically for the
firm, and we are told five and six
weeks elapsed before the got their
pay. This did not discourage them,
they went on working and helped to
get the company out of the financial
rut and in one years time had the
firm out of debt, the receiver released
and two hundred thousand dollars in
the bank. To show their appreciation
for what the men had done for them,
the company forced them to strike,
and in their places have secured the
services of the Whites, Schmitts,
Kings and other aliases to break the
strike.
The strike at the Hamilton Machine
Tool Company plant is not settled and
the pickets will continue to advertise
the unfair methods adopted by the
firm more vigorously than before.