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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
PROVIDES FOR
WAGE INCREASE
Result of Agreement Reached
Between Packers and
Federal Official.
SATISFACTORY TO BOTH SIDES
Provision Making Eight Hours tho
Work Day One of the important
Points-General News Of In
terest to the Workers.

Between $500 and 5000 employees
of 13 packing companies belonging to
the st. Louis Local Packers and Provi-
sion association, will receive increases
in wages as a result of an agreement
between the association and d. w
Benjamin, United States commissioner
Of Cancellation.
IL. w. Wahlert, manager of the Krey
Packing company, outlined the provi-
sions of the agreement as follows: A
minimum wage of 4215 cents an hour
for all employees over 81 years old !;
time and half for all over eight
hours work granting of bonus equal
TO the recent award by Judge Alschu-
Ter to Chicago packing house em-
ployees, amounting to about 81 q week,
and dating from January %, last; and
retaining intact all other provisions of
the contract of April 18, 1918
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

or to obtain the cooperation of the
Metal Trades council and the Central
Labor Union council in the plan. Boil
ermakers said they believed the time
change would benefit the street car
company, and that this was one rea-
son they were opposed to it.
Dining car conductors have become
unionized ]. A. Hennessy, national
chairman, says there are now 300 in
the union, 104 of which are Chicago
men.
Denial of adyices made public at
Portland, Ore, that the Washington
shipyard wage conference had reached
an agreement to extend the Macy
award six months from March 80 was
made by c. r. Barrett, secretary Of the
Tacoma Metal Trades council He said
the denial was contained In a tele-
gram from representatives OF the coun-
ell attending the Washington confer
ence.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

strike. Work in the yards was practi-
cally suspended
More wages and shorter hours will
be asked for 10000 railroad telegraph
ers of the Pennsylvania lines. The ex-
ecutive committee of the Railroad
Telegraphers association, In meeting,
decided to take the question to the
railroad administration.
The secretary of the loomfxers
union has received word that the war
labor board had granted the demand
of textile workers in the Blackstone
Valley Or. ID for 10 per cent In
crease which will date back to July |
and affect about 10000 employees.
More than 200 granite cutters de
clared a strike at Milford, N H.. claim
ing that manufacturers failed to keep
an agreement made recently relating TO
proposed increase in wages. The
wage increase was held up by the Ma
tional Granite Manufacturers associa-
ton
Approximately $10OOOo,000 viii be
spent in road building in Pennsylvania
in the next four years. A bill authoriz-
inc the state to issue bonds up to 500
00000O is going through the legisla
ture. In addition, the state will re-
ceive federal aid. and the counties are
expected to eXpend many millions Of
dollars for road purposes.
Employees of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company which operates the
subways, elevated lines and many Of
the surface lines in that borough, de-
cided ut meeting to submit demand
for new working conditions to Lindley
NJ. Garrison, recently appointed federal
receiver of the company.
The Boston & Albany railroad inau-
gurated five-day working schedule for
its employees in the railroad shops in
West Springfield, Mass, the plan to
continue until business improves. The
plan was adopted in preference to
laying off any of the skilled workers.
Between $50 and 600 men are affected.
The men are said to be agreeable TO
the plan.
The national committee Of the Cen
eral Federation of Labor has decided
to placard the walls of France with an
appeal to workers and to public opin-
ion generally. A protest Will be made
against armed Intervention in Russia,
the incomplete character of the inter
national labor charter and "the alb
sence of guarantees in the league of
nations covenant, which does not full
all the conditions set forth by Presi-
dent Wilson's fourteen points" 1t Is
said.
Mems clothing workers affiliated with
the Amalgamated Workers OF America,
involving two locals, were called out
on strike at Cincinnati by Sidney Hill
man, New York, general president.
The demands are said to be for 20
per cent increase in wages, a system
of collective bargaining, time and
half for overtime and division Of
work among employees In slack sea
sons Recently the men were granted
a 44hour week Approximately 1000
men went out.
Members of the Portland (Ore.)
Boilermakers' union adopted a resolu-
ton In which they expressed their de-
termination to "go to work at the
regular time" disregarding the turn
ing forward OF clocks on March 30.
Committees were appointed to endeav-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
ARRANGE FOR LABOR MEET

Washington The department of
labor has appointed Miss Grace Alb
bott to assist the organization com
mittee Of the international labor con-
ference which meets in London to ar
range for the first conference in Wash
ington, next October The labor CON
ference was created by the peace
treaty Americas representative on
the organization committee is Profes-
sor Shotwell Of Columbia university,
who is also assisted in London by
Ethelbert Stewart Of the department
Of labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
IN WORLD OF LABOR

Six thousand Welsh miners went an
strike as a protest against the action
of the coal inquiry commission in not
making a favorable report on all Of
their demands
The Russian soviet government, says
a wireless dispatch, Is instituting
system of registration preparatory to
enforcing the principle of compulsory
work for all.
Advices from Barcelona, Spain, state
that the recent solution to the strikes
there appears to be merely of pro-
visional nature and that the present
calm in that city may prove transitory.
Refusing to work under the super
vision of a newly appointed general
foreman, more than 1000 shipworkers
at the Merill-Stevens Shipbuilding
yard, near Jacksonville, Fla, went on
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
E "A -
MAY END MINERS TROUBLES
mends That Men Accept Offer
Made by the Government

The miners conference Al London,
Eng. decided 10 recommend 20 its
members that they accept the Sanhey
report for the settlement Of the miners
demands on the government and tlat
ballot be taken on the question. The
men are urged to continue nj work on
duy-to-d;ly contracts. pending il further
conference after the ballot is taken.
The report of the coal commission, OF
which Justice Sir John Sankey Is
chairman. was issued March 20 and
recommended seven hours work in
stead OF eight from July rs neXt and
six hours from July 1921. Increases OF
so cents day We're advocated, with
naturalization Of the men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
BRIGHT, SNAPPY
MAGAZINE PUBLISHED
BY WORKERS
Proctor & Gamble Employees Have
Magazine of Their Very Own.

Proctor & Gamble Employees Have
Magazine of Their Very Own.
A copy of 'Moonbeams, the maga-
zine put out entirely by the employees
of the Proctor & Gamble Company,
has been received at this office.
1t is unusually bright and clever,
and fairly sparkles with wit and good
cheer, all having to do with the work
ers and their work, written and illus
trated by other workers.
The issue contains forty EIGHT pages
and is the work of special commit
tee of employees consisting of thirty
six men and women.
Every department comes in for its
full share of news and comment. AL
though there is some little propagan-
da for some of the movements which
have resulted from employees confer
ence suggestions, such as Pension and
Benefit Fund, Safety First Service,
and so on, yet there is no preaching.
1t is delightfully."- refreshing and whole
some and can only cause more har-
monious feeling among the workers
and inspire them to a greater appre-
citation of their opportunities and their
duties.
Particular attention has been paid
to the Proctor & Gamble Baseball
League, in which there are six teams,
which play regular schadule of
games. The pages devoted to this
pastime fairly TEEN with the spirit
of rivalry between the teams.
If magazine reflects the spirit of
its readers, then "Moonbeams" shows
wonderful spirit of good cheer and
happiness on the part of Proctor &
Gamble employees. We believe that
this is the only publication of its
kind in existence, prepared, financed
and managed exclusively by the work
ers in manufacturing plant.
This spirit is shown perfectly by a
verse contributed by one of the work
ers, who signs himself as Frame
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29
GENERAL. LABOR NEWS

The National Association OF Laun-
dry Workers has membership of over
5000.
Labor unions in the United States
have a total membership Of over g.
100000
The Blythe tEng) Soldiers and Sail
ors federation has refused to join the
Labor party.
Chemical workers wages Ia England
have increased to a greater extent than
the cost of living.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-08-29

House Charlie" few lines of which
we will quote:
For remember, little brother, when
you're roasting some guy brown,
That the devil lived in heaven till he
knocked his old home town.
Slip your hammer to the smithy, who
will put it to good use, then,
Join the free and ancient order of the
brothers of the Boost.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
SAVED APlA FROM GERMANS
Interesting Now TO Recall Commando
~Lesry's Defiance of O~verbearing
Teuton Captain.

Persons who have said the United
States had no case against Germany
prior to the sinking Of the Lusitanla
and events dating from 1914 perhaps
are unacquainted with the trouble over
the Samoan islands which occurred in
the eighties. Attempts by Prince Bis
marck, then German chancellor, to
dominate the islands, had been frus-
trated and q German consul had been
withdrawn after he had caused a crisis
by raising a German flag over Apia,
one of the principal cities. Another
consul, Herr Becker, acting on his gov
ernment's instructions, again precipi-
tated trouble by deposing the Samoan
king and setting up a ruler favorable
to German interest.
The climax came when the German
corvette Adler prepared to shell Apia,
the natives of which had become hos
tile to the Germans. Commander Rich
ard Leary of the United States gunboat
Adams had been in the vicinity of the
islands expecting trouble. An account
Of what happened Is a tribute to the
courage of the American navy. 1t fol,
lows:
"At the appointed hour, the Adler
steamed out with the German ensign
flying at her peak. The Adams follow.
ed closely at her heels. Soon the Adler
slowed down and swung into position
so as to bring her broadside guns tc
bear on the helpless village. The
Adams dashed in between the Adler
and the shore, where she, TOO, swung
about, her guns at port and pointed
directly at the Germans. Presently
Commander Leary in full uniform ant
accompanied by his staff. boarded the
Adler. His %colloquy with the German
captain was short and sharp: If yor
fire. he said, you must fire through
the ship which I have the honor Il
command. l shall not be ~answerablt
for the consequences" So saying, h
took his leave.
Captain Fritze could scarcely be
lieve his ear Such audacity had new
err yet confronted him. He knew tina
the first shot would be answered by al
American b~roadside, and this would b
the signal for a war between his coun
try and the American republic. III
faltered, and then, his heart swelling
with humiliation, he steamed suddenl
away."-Detroit News.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
CRYING o HELP
Lots Of IL I'm Madison, but Daily
Growing Less.

The kidneys often cry for help.
Not another organ in the whole
body more d~elicately constructed;
Not one more important to health.
The kidneys are the filters of the
blood.
When they fail the blood becomes
foul and poisonous.
There can be no health where
there is poisoned blood.
Backache is one Of the frequent in
dications of kidney trouble.
1t is often the kidneys cry for
help. Heed it.
Read what Doan's Kidney Pills
have done for overworked kidneys.
Read what Doan's have done fol
Madison people.
John A. Norton, Egan avenue
Madison, says: my kidneys trou.
bled me a lot. / had severe back
aches and over my kidneys
that made 1t hard for me to bend
over or lift anything. My kidney!
acted i~rregularly. I used Doan's
Kidney Pills and they soon fixed my
kidneys up in good shape and stopped
the aches and pains in my back"
Price, COO, at all dealers. Dom
simply ask for'a kidney remedy-ge
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same tina
Mr.. Norton had. Foster-Milburn Co.
lMfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01

Doctor Saleeby, the British eugenics
advocate, suggests that the new min
istry of health should have a special
department to deal with recreation,
The department should take London
choirs and choral societies singing, in
which all could engage. In his view
this department would keep the young
persons off the streets and out of the
saloons. +
A scheme for a confederation of
London choirs and choral societies
with the idea of directing the masses
In the celebration Of national rejoic,
ings instead of the senseless mafick'
Ing that was In evidence on armistice
night is being considered by several
musicians.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01

might be firing another torpedo which
would take him and his part Of the
crew into eternity.
at was a bit of a strain" he said.
II rather wanted to know what he was
up to-" AT last, slowly, slowly, they
had a sight of her moving into the
line of vision. / had a look from an
other slit, and the gun layer had a
look, but 1t was too clancy to open
out. In this job you must get your
bird dead or there is big trouble. At
last he was right. He suspected moth
ing. I wanted to be quite sure, but at
any moment he might go down. He
didn't. We hoisted the colors and let
go when he was $50 yards away in a
position, SO that WI could get both
guns on him almost Immediately. The
first shot got him aft the coming tow
er. The second shifted the coming
tower bodily over the side. blew the
| commander up In the air. The Sec
ond gun came in and blazed away on
the hull. We got IL shots into him.
The submarine seemed to shake HIM
self, and then settled down by the
stern, his bow coming out of the water.
The last shots put him down altogeth.
err"
Crew Saw the Show.
The abandon ship" party, the spec
tators of the drama, then returned.
The wounded, who had been hurriedly
~bandaged, got further attention, and
everything possible was done to save
the ship. The man held down under
the ~dismounted gun had been told that
he could not be released for a time.
All he had said was "All right, sir"
The whole time Of the affair was five
hours, and the time from the torpedo
ing of the ship till the submarine went
down was so minutes.
"The crew was marvellous" the
commander said, "as 1t lay In that
intolerable so minutes" Officers and
crew were violently sick from the
gases Of the torpedo explosion on the
small vessel. The ships books went
overheard in the explosion, and one OF
the crew jumped over the side and res
cued them, knowing their value to the
Germans IL they had fallen into their
hands.
Meanwhile the collier was settling
down. Two trawlers had come up, hav.
ing heard the firing, and the wounded
were transferred. The commander
carried on till they got in sight of land,
with the ship rapidly filling. Ten miles
off land the ship was awash to the
bridge; the commander and his first of.
ficer remained on board till five min
utes before she sank. The whole ships
company arrived safely in England
: The submarine and its crew had gone
TO the bottom.
The commander received v. G. and
high decorations went to officers and
men. There is no finer or more sue
cessful deed in the splendid annals o.
Britain's anti-submarine warfare.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
WATCHING for Treasure.

Captain Kidd's supposed treasures
along the New England and Long Is
land coasts have a parallel In the an
thracite coal banks Of the Lehigh field
in Pennsylvania. Several huge culm
Ipiles, reported to contain buried chests
Of money stolen nearly 30 years ago
in nearby villages, are being run
through washeries att Drifton and
Yorktown. Close watch is kept by
the workmen as the stun Is put
through the screens and chutes. but
nothing has been discovered except
the bones Of mules.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
Welcome News.

Mayor Woodman vas speaking about
the results that have accrued from the
merging of the two telephone systems
SITS a wonderful Improvement" he re
marked, "and ! laugh when think OF
the old days. 1t reminds me of the
man who was called out of bed at three
o'clock in the morning TO answer q
phone call.
Hello, hello he yelled. all wrought
up.
There Is nobody on the line now,
said central sweetly.
"'Glad you woke me up and told m,
about it, retorted the man, 'it's tht
first time l ever knew this line TO b.
tdle.'"-Los Angeles Times.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01

President Wilson during a visit to
his mothers childhood home ut Car
Isle. England, shaking hands with
Thomas Watson, a native of Carlisle,
who attended The Sunday school con-
Quoted by President Wilson's grand
father, Doctor Woodrow. many years
ago. Mr.. Watson, who is ninety Years
old. is the only surviving member Of
the class taught by Doctor Woodrow.
President Wilson was greatly inter-
ested In the old mans description Of
his grandfather and the Sunday
school.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
kiplinq's r fame.

The vogue of Kipling today is not
what it once was. Fewer find fellow.
ship with those descendants of Bar.
dolph, Nym and Pistol, the Soldiers
Three. His rough-hewn verse was
largely topical and ephemeral. His
~latterday songs detracted from his
fame. His stories have come and gone
and await the judgment of time
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
STRENGTHENS
KIDNEYS
PURIFIES BLOOD

You can't expect weak kidneys to
filter the acids and poisons out of your
system unless they are given a little help
Don't allow them to become diseased
when a little attention now will pre-
vent it. Don't try to cheat nature.
AS soon as you commence to have
backaches, feel nervous and tired, GET
BUSY. These are usually warnings
that your kidneys are not working
properly.
Do not delay a minute. Go after the
cause of your ailments or you may find
yourself in the grip of an incurable dis
sease. GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil cap
sules will give almost immediate relief
from kidney troubles. GOLD MED
AL HARLEM Oil Capsules will do
the work. They are the pure original
HARLEM Oil Capsules imported direct
from the laboratories in HARLEM, Hol-
land. Ask your druggist for GOLD
MEDAL and accept no substitutes.
Look for the name GOLD MEDAL ON
every box. Three sizes, sealed packages.
Money refunded If they 90 not quickly
help you.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01

The average production Of eggs by
hens of all kinds and ages In the Unit
ed States Is So. Unsolicited White
Leghorns, however, produce an aver.
age Of $50 eggs for the first year, 40
for the second, 40 for the third, 50
for the fourth. and fall off about ten
a year up to the eighth. These figures
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
AGED strong Man.

Isaac Staley, eighty.three years Of
age, claims to be the champion
strong man OF his age in Ohio. Every
day at his home in M~arysville he chops
~ cross ties-a hard days work for
4 man City years younger. lizard out
door work is the secret Of long hfe.S
he says.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01

The Canadian department Of mines
has recently investigated Is peat boys
In Manitoba and in a report on the
supply of this fuel available in that
province states that there are boys
in the Winnipeg river district contain
Ing 1906 900 tons of peat fuel, %
Der cent moisture.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01
influenza and kindred
diseases start with acold.
Don't trifle with it.
At the first shiver or
sneeze, take
ALtr
A'eAsARI|eO'1'"s

are from a bulletin Of the Utah expert
ment station. IL the first year pro-
duction be low the second will be high
and vice versa, the total production
for three years being about the same.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-03-01

Wanted. To hear from owner of
good farm for sale. State cash price
and full description.-D. F. Bush,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-11-12
Bagaas-JacObsOn.

Albert Jacobson and Miss Gertrude
BaSaas were married at the Swedish
Lutheran church at Warren OH Oct.
25th, Rev. S. w. SwensOn tieing the
nuptial knot. The groom is son of
Mr.. and Mrs. N. J. Udeland and the
bride daughter of. Mr.. and Mrs Toilet
Bagaas, Of East Of Stephen. Following
the ceremony the young couple left for
short visit to the Northwest School
Of Agriculture at CrOokstOn, from
which institution they both graduated
a few years ago. They are now nicely
settled on the groom's farm east of
Stephen. Both are splendid young peo-
pie, well deserving the congratulations
and we'll wishes which their many
friends will join the Messenger in ex-
tending to them. Stephen Messenger.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-11-12
w. c.. T. u.
The society met with Mrs. Aug. job

The society met with Mrs Aug. John
son, Tuesday, Nov. 18th. The special
features of the evening were the paper
by Mr.. Sjostrand and the presence of
several gentlemen A very interesting
program was given. The devotionals
were conducted by the Rev. Swenson,
singing by the company. A recitation,
Mother, A Promise" which was well
spoken, by Dorothy Robinson. Mr..
Sjostrand's paper was on the subject
of "a Saloonless Nation and A Stain
less Flag" 1t was stirring appeal to
all to carry on the good work so we'll
begun We obtained one new member
and two honorary members. We would
be very much pleased if more men
would join US. The dues Of the hon
orary members are devoted to our local
work. Our hostess served a delicious
lunch, and all had very delightful
time, 2sf ro'
We wish to thank Mr. Johnson, man
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-11-12
Pretty Wedding

On Wednesday, October 29th at high
noon, Frank L. Shrewsbury and Edith
I. Rankin We're united in marriage at
the home Of the brides father, Joseph
NJ. Rankin, of Como Rev. Drysdale'
Oflciated and only the immediate rela-
tives were present. After "a dainty
wedding breakfast Mr.. and Mrs.
Shrewsbury boarded the train for
Strathcona for a short honeymoon, ICON
their return they will make their home
for the present in Como. where the
bride has grown to womanhood and Mr..
Shrewsbury owns a farm.-Middle Ri
yer Pioneer.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-11-12
PROF. HARDWOOD, OF THE
STATE UNIVERSITY, is
IN THE CITY TODAY

Prof. w. p. KirkwOod. of the Divi-
sion of Publications, University of Min
nesota, is visitor in the city today.
He has been newspaper man himself
and his work in the State University
is Of such nature that it frequently
brings him in contact with the editorial
fraternity of the state. 1t is the aim
Of the University to extend it's .enlight-
ening influence to the Masses especial
" to the farmers Of the state, and the
country press is the medium thru which
this can be done most effectively. The
Sheaf acknowledges a pleasant call
from Prof. KirkwOod. a