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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12

and other expense IN connection with
securing more food IN the future The
question is just this, if Mr. Murphy,
whose business it IS TO manage big
Industrial plant, can sell car load
cf potatoes at $500 per bushel and
rake a profit of $50 80, why can't
some of our dealers whose regular bus
iress it is to sell potatoes, do the
same? 1t looks to be pretty fair
profit, and Mr. Murphy is willing that
one of the dealers should have it.
If one or two of our produce dealers
think that Mr.. Murphy's attempt to
bring down the cost of living is only
spasmodic, and their actions indicate
this, and that they can offset him and
run him out by bringing in a car load
u two of potatoes and selling them
lew cents cheaper, they've got another
think coming He welcomes them to
&c these very things; that is what he
IS playing for Mr.. Murphy makes no
secret Of it that if he is unable TO
handle the project himself financially.
that he has backing enough to furnish
the whole of Butler county with food
stuffs.
That Mr. Murphys ideas are prov
nag popular, with all classes, goes
without saying. Especially is this so
with the fellow who is laying awake
nights figuring how he is to make both
ends meet.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12
TRREE COUNTIES SELL
WAR SAVINGS QUOTA

Columbus, o Special. Three
Ohio counties, Morrow, Licking
and Warren, have sold their 1919
quota of War Savings Stamps.
They are the first three counties
in the United States to make their
quotas. thereby gaining the title
of Champion War Savings Stamp
counties OF the United States. F.
B McMilin of Mt. Gilead, @. H
Spencer OF Newark and Harry
Hamilton OF Lebanon, respective
ly are chairmen of the banner
counties
Morrow county has an average
per capita sale of $2497 Licking,
s1764. and Warren, $15.56. ghe
total sales to Sept / for Morrow
county were s436, ,564; Licking
county, $972,ls5, and Warren coun-
ty, 1864, l52 Morrow county had
a per capita sale Of $40 last year,
leading every county in the nation.
Chairman McMillin OF Mt. Gilead
is nationally known now as the
champion War Savings Stamp
chairman of the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12
TRADES COUNCIL.

The Cooperative Trades and Labor
Council met Tuesday night in regular
session. President Albert Brown pre-
sidede over the meeting and forty
delegates were present.
The credentials of VIM. G. Nc
Kenny, Edison DeNeen and Minor
Milspaugh to represent the National
Federation of Post Office Clerks,
Walter E. Jackson, Fred R. Rife and
Maurice Shelhouse TO represent the
National Association of Letter Car
riers, were read, received and same
laid over for another reading. The
itors.
The local Pattern Makers League
delegates attended the meeting as VS.
will gain affiliate with the Council.
and the credentials Of Elmer Artolf
and Otto Glouch were read, received
and the delegates obligated
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12
Artificial Landscape Targets.

Most young men are city or town
bred. Hence few Of the soldiers Of
our national army have clear idea
Of distances in nature. AS many Of
the cantonments have not been placed
amid scenery like that which marks
men are likely to see somewhere In
France" or "on the way to Berlin" "
artificial landscapes are provided on
which they can ctice.-Popular Sci
enco Monthly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12
THANKS

The room occupied by the Labor
Day picnic committee, at $40 High
street. to arrange the goods for the
country store, is owned by Mark Bril-
ant. Mr. Brilliant was kind enough tc
aonate the room to the committee, for
which they extend their thanks. Mark
Brilliant has always been friend Of
labor and never fails to do a goo
turn if in his power.
E ms o.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12
SOLOMON GOMPERS
Father OF President Of Amer
lean Federation Of Labor
Passed Away.

Boston Samuel Gompers president
OF the American Federation of Labor
arrived here Tuesday after losing a
race with death. His father, Solomon
Gompers, 81, died Monday night at
the home Of. his daughter
Solomon Gompers began life as .
'gar maker ia London, later coming
10 New York He became totl Ally bica
10 1893.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-09-12
RUSH FOR WAR STAMPS
ohioans During August Scramble TO
Get Savings Securities.

SCl savings SSCuFfkiCSs
Columbus, Especially Ohio Of
acials who have urged that the surest
way to bring down the cost of living
was to increase the savings and to
essen the expenditures of the people
have taken hope In the report of the
Ohio War Savings Committee that
the sale of War Stamps in Ohio dur
ing August showed an increase of so
per cent over the July sales.
With the reopening of the schools
he sales for September will show an.
other increase it is expected, There
ire only four months remaining in
which Ohio can reach her 1918 quota.
7ut savings officials confidently ex-
sect to make it. Ohio still continues
10 lead the nation by comfortable
margin
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Nahoning- Valley
Strikers Weaken
Meeting Called Il, Vote
on Return; Chicago and
Gnry Milis Make Gains

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 25.-Thc
first sign of a break ln.the ranks of the
Mahoning Valley strikers came TODAY
when meetings OF the scmi-skillcd and
unskllled employees of practically all the
large steel mills of the valley were
called Tor to-morrow to vote on the
question of returning to work.
The manufacturers say they have
not called the meetings, and that they
evidently have been arranged by some
OF their employees. At strike headquar-
tcrs 1t was declared the unions are not
responsible for the meetings, and that
they will be picketed to prevent mon
from attending. Posters announcing
the meetings have appeared in various
parts of the city.
The tie-up in the Mahoning valley
has been moro nearly complete than in
any other steel district, and it has been
the boast of strike leaders here that
they had far exceeded their expecta-
tlOnS
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26

an announcement made last night by
Thomas l.. Delahunty, business agent
of the Marine Engineers Beneficial AS
sociation. There is wide range Of
difference between the wages demand
ed by the association and those Offered
by the employers. 1t was originally
intended that the general strike should
be called early this ronth, but the de-
cision was held up pending the taking
Of referendum on the proposals SUBJ
nitted by the boat owners.
Efforts will be made to avoid strike
Of the drug clerks of the city at a
meeting this evening of the New York
Pharmaceutical Conference and com
mittee from the United Drug Clerks
Union. At it's meeting last week the
conference, representing 5000 retail
druggists, decided to invite the clerks
TO come before it and air their
grievances. II. j. Conway, secretary Of
the Retail Clerks international Pro
tective Association, will head the com
mittee Of union representatives. The
conference will take place at the Col
lcge Of Pharmacy, 115 West Sixty
eighth Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Big. g. Chief
Walks Out of
Conference
Refuses 40 Arbiirate a.
Hour Week for Compost
tors With Employers III
the Book and Job Offices

One phase OF the labor troubles in
volving the book and Job printing
houses was tentatively settled yestcr-
day when seven unions of the print
ing trades agreed to arbtrate all their
differences with the employing print
ers.
But the differences between Typo
graphical Union No. and the Associ-
alton Of Employing Printers still are
unsettled. Leon Rouse. president Of
big g." announced that there would
be no arbitration of the forty-four
hour week demand Of the members of
his union, and walked out of the joint
conference of employers and printers
when it was made plain by the en-
ployers that nothing but arbitration
would te acceptable to them
festerday's conference, which was
held IN the Offices of the Typothet;e
in the Flatiron Building, was the re-
suit of the request of big s. for fur
ther efforts to reach an agreement.
When the conference WAS called the
seven unions of binderymen and mail
ers, as we'll as the representatives Of
Big g. participated in It.
Have Arbitration Agreements
canvass of the union men revealed
that all but the Typographical union
have arbitration agreements extend
ing beyond October / Asked if they
were prepared to abide by those agree
ments, the union men said they were.
Then President Rouse was asked II
his organization would join the others
and arbitratc their demands.
"We'l! albitrato the wage question,
but the forty-four hour week cannot
be arbitratcd' he said
Previous to this it had been agreed
by the various unions of the print
ing trade to permit Rouse to act as
spokesman for them. Since all but
Rouse accepted arbitration it was de-
cided that this arrangement could not
continue. Therefore the head of Big
g. relinqnished this position and with
drew from the meeting.
The other unions remained for an
a.i-day conference. at which sub-com-
mittees were appointed. and the task
of working out the details Of q peace
tul settlement was begun.
Another meeting Of the members of
Typographical Union No. has been
called fer next Sunday afternoon
Unless some conference between the
employing body and the workers is
called in the meantime it is expected
that strike vote will be taken at
that meeting.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26

children, grown 20 maturity, might
strike for IN their urn
Turning from such speculations, Il
tour Of the laundering, sleaming, sput-
tering forges. the mastery Of which old
Vulcan would have greedily coveted
was taken 70 observe the effects of the
strike On the colossus of the world s
steel mills
Three days before the strike began
J made tour Of the same mills and
was thus in q position, even as an anna
tour. 60 perceive the effects Of the with
drawal OF two or three thousand men
from q force OF about 1900 In gem
era the superficial appearance was
about the same The molten steel was
boiling, purple and iridescent, in the
long rows Of open hearth furnaces
fi. rolls were ceaselessly booming and
hanr ng or the blooms, and plates and
manifold forms of sem- finished steel
were howlng out to waiting cars.
Scene of Busy Industry
The molten iron came swinging in
ffty-ton cauldrons, picked up by huge
cranes from the dinky cars that rushed
It from the blast furnaces in Rankin
across The river. The glowing blasts
Of sparks up and down the long bays
~''s'|'rN r'S~ HNtA4Ai7 VI Il.iH2 Ol tiit
furnaces, and behind them poured the
glowing. dazzling white Of steel as
fluid rs water. In the heat and dust
md steam Of it all men worked in
haste, Griny with sweat and soot and
wltb concentration that betokcned
70 thought for the industrial turbu-
lence THAT prevailed without. They
we're, in TACT, working too hard, and
therein the shortage Of help was evil
dent
The modern machine Is master in
metallursy but there is an irrcducible
minimum Of common labor Though
She machine may be replaced. there is
no replacing tho laborer in these times
Of industrial activity. The common
.s borer has become most uncommon
he whole trend Of social ambition is
1oward the skilled mechanics job OF
'he whjte-collared position Of the
e.crk.
What Foster Meant
The supply Of unskilled labor is
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
British Rail
Dispute Still
Deadlocked
All.Day Conference of Gov
ernment Officials and
Labor Leaders Is Adj
journed Until To-day
Menu York Tribune
EuroEcnn Ratrcdu
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LONDON, Sept. 25.-Al day long
England waited for the result Of the
conference between government Off
cals and leaders of the railwaymen's 8
lnion over the threatened railway
strike. wEich had been going on behind
closed doors at the Ministry of Trans
port. The union men demanded basis
for Standardization of wages.
Immense crowds watched for the
bulletins. The last one stated that the
conference had been adjourned until
tomorrow. In the mean time the
country made preparations to face the
impending tie-up of railroad transpor-
tation. A situation approaching panic
IS reported from several of the most
crowded holiday resorts on the coasts,
and hundreds of trains are coming into
London packed with returning passen-
gers.
me principal London hotels, already
full to overflowing, are overwhelmed
with demands for accommodations
from all parts Of the country.
One airplane company has made spc-
cial arrangements by which traveller,
in cases OF urgent necessity, could fly
10 various places. The rates vary from
Sl25 for one hour trip to $3.50 for
longer journeys to Edinburgh and
Glasgow. 1t is also planned to use
airplanes to transport food wherever
practicable.
Food Causing Most Concern
The problem of transporting the
country's food supplies from the ports
to London and the inland towns is
causing the gravcst concern among
those who fear that the strike is in
evitablc. The country's entire avail
able supply of motor lorries is already
mobllixed. Arrangements also have
been made to commander the majority
of private automobiles. Plans are be-
ing made TO provide an endless chain
of vehicles between Liverpool, the
southern coast ports aud London.
bringing food to the capital. So
project is being considered for
mobilizing mechanics, engineers and
assist in running trains and furnish4
ing them with armed guards in the
event Of trouble.
Premier Lloyd George had intended
to visit North Wales and speak at Car
naryon Saturday. but he is postponing
his arrangements until the railway
crisis is settled
Bulletins Aim at Hope
There was an attempt to give a hope
ful tone to the bulletins from the coun-
ell to-day, but, outside Of the fact that
the union executives agreed TO discuss
the situation with Sir Erics Geddes, the
Minister Of Transport, there was moth
ng that satisfied the millions who were
awaiting the outcome OF the confer
.nce.
The only announcement given out by
he Ministry of Transport after the
morning session was:
"Fu' and frank discussions have
taken place.
j ii. Thomas. secretary of the rail
~t.ymens union and the central figure
m the crisis. was equally reserved. OBJ
serving:
"Ail can say is that we are having
a talk"
As if making allowance for a possible
prolongation Of the necotiations, c. T.
Cramp, president of the union. an
nounced that the strike action, IL de-
cided upon, would take place ut mid
night TOMORROW and not at noon
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Three Unions .4pprorc
synpothefic Strike or
Greet Ln':es Steamers

BUFFALO, n. z. Sept. 25-Three
unions of Great Lakes steamship work
ers nave voted unanimously to en-
power their respective executive COM
mittees to call strike in sympathy
with the steel and iron workers. The
date Of the strike VIII be decided at a
Joint meeting OF the executive commit
tee to be held in Cleveland within q
few days.
The unions involved are the marine
tremen, oilers, water tenders aud coal
passers, The marine cooks and stew
ards and the seamen. Their combined
membership is Approximately IS 0O0.
The strike, which local union men
expect the executive committees TO de-
clare at once, will be directed against
vessels controlled by the Lake Car
riers' Association. comprising so per
cent of the vessels on the Great Lakes
and practically all ships engaged in
the ore carrying trade
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Phone Men May Organize

Members of the Repair Mems Coun-
ell Of the New York Telephone Com
pany adopted resolutions last night at
= meeting at the New York Telephone
Club, 35l West Seventeenth Street.
which indicated the probability of a
national brotherhood of telephone en-
9loycs in the near future. There we're
lhout five hundred at the meeting. and
L was said that they had the support
Of telephone company employees
throughout New York and New Jersey.
4 wage increase of % per cent for
gcpair men and installers was de-
manded. with standardized wage
scale giving minimum wage Of SIS 4
week after five years service The
abolition Of overtime work, except IN
emergency, also was demanded A
copy Of this resolution will be sent
10 the company, which will have three
weeks to answer it before amy further
action is taken by the employees.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Wll Keep, Strike Fran -.
Causing Rail,Cay Crisis

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.--fn an
effort to meet the first effects of the
steel strike on the transportation
system the railroad stration
to-day instituted system of moving
coal and iron ore to the steel mills
by permit, which will limit the guam
titles shipped to what the steel mills
can consume during the strike.
Regional directors Of the railroad
administration will handle the per-
mits. The new order is intended to
prevent congestion of terminals and
also prevent large quantities of rail-
road equipment from being tied up.
The plan will operate much the same
as that which was adopted for move
ment of the wheat crop.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Gains in Chicago District

.SpeciHl Corlesnn0doncc
CHICAGO, Sept % -Four thousand
men were reported to be at work at
the Illinois Steel Company's South Chi
cago plant to-day. The slab mill was
stlll IN operation and preparations were
made Tor the opening of additional
blast furnaces Two Bessemer fur
naces were in operation and some steel
was run through the rolling mil $.
No steel was being manufactured
in the furnaces, which evidently had
Just been started. 1t has been the con
tention Of union chiefs that big Bes-
semer plants could not be handled
except by skilled labor which, they
sald, the company could not obtain.
Rumors that more than half the
workers are negroes brought into the
plant by way OF the Calumet River in
boats caused considerable excitement
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Machusists Oppose
Strike in -AiabUnsu
Refuse to Join Walkout;
Workers in Indepen-
dent NILS Deaf to Cal
Special Correspondon c


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept 25.-Ma-
chinists and boilermakers of the steel
corporation officially went on record
to-day as opposed 10 a strike. The re-
fusal of the machinists to go out caused
some apprehension in the camps of the
strikers, it is reported. Company of
hcias take ii to mean the beginning
of the end of the strike III this district.
Thirty machinists working in the
birmingham Southern Railroad shops.
q subsidiary Of the steel company,
voted last night to strike, bat to-day,
it was reported, many of them returned
to work.
The first setback for the strikers
was the apparent refusal of steel work
ors employed by Independent steel
plants to heed the general sympathetic
strike order issued Wednesday. Union
leaders were committal tonight
or the result OF this CALL but company
officials maintained that their plants
were unetTected BY the walk-out order.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26

among the strikers. Police guards in
the negro districts were increased to
prevent possible outbreaks.
Meantime the United States Steel
Corporation made an effort to reopen
some of its plants with skeleton forces
recruited from the ranks of employees,
Enough workers had reported back to
their jobs at the Gary plants Of the
corporation to permit the opening of
the slab mill and five batteries of coke
ovens.
Officials of the American Bridge Com
panv announced that their large mills
were in full operation, with The eXcep-
ton of two units. This resumption Of
work was made possible by the recruit
ing of more than one thousand men
from the ranks of the strikers.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
u. S. Guards OF Trains
Crews Refuse to Operate UnIes-
Protected From Strikers

TAMPA, Fla, Sept. 25.-Every train
entering the phosphate mining region
of Hillsboro and Polk counties, where
a strike of miners has been in progress
for several weeks, was heavily guarded
to-day by deputy United States mar
shale.
The arming of trains, ordered by the
Department Of Justice, followed threats
by strikers and the firing upon several
trains from ambush. Crews refused 10
operate the trains unless protection
was afforded.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
"Foreign Man No Go Back

In Clairton, where the alleged brutal
ltles of the "Cossacks" have been most
conspicuous and where in the first
rush of the strike the mills We're swept
almost clean OF workers, Hungarian
on strike said: yes, dc id Eng
llsh, nifty of dem went back to work
dis morning. De foreign man no 90
back"
But if the current continues to set
even sluEglshy III its present direction
ne II 20 back some day. He may even
hasten ilttie 10 get away from the
monotony OF the boarding house or the
little home in these saloonless days.
and the mounted police that Chase
them like flies" as one labor organizer
puts IT. Even as he talked the "husky"
looked anxlopsly toward the mills.
where 1our OF the open hearth furnaces
were boiIing after quiescence Two of
the mills were working and the bv-
product coke ovens were still eoinp
hut the psychology of the situation
ls not altogether simple. and some
'hlng may happen in another day that
VIII reverse the current, for the strike
IS st'ii too young for the nescapable
torces to begin to control effectively.
Crane Operators Quit
"hile the wounded mills up the vail
icy are slowly gaining, the big Jones
l.aughlin plant in the city was set
back to-day, to about the extent of the
ordinary effect Of Polish wedding. as
W. I. Mossman, of the company, esti-
mated 1t, Here it was not the ordi.
nary common laborer that Quit. but
the American born boys who operate
the cranes. The hghting spirit caught
these wild youngsters after three davs
OF rejection of temptation, and their
detection was serious enough to make
the thousands who remained on the
Job hustle. to maintain production at
the normal Their quitting UNA mora
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26

Justice Faber, in Ae Brooklyn su.
preme Court, yesterdat continued the
temporary INDUCTION recently issued by
Justice Callaghan restraining the Man
haitian Funeral Coach Drivers, Local
CAB, from interfering with the drivers
OF Brooklyn Local 763 Friction dc
veloped between the two unions be-
cause of the ruling of the American
Federation Of Labor that there can be
only one union Of funeral coach dlv-
ers IN each city. Members of the
Brooklyn union. contending that their
organization antedates the Manhattan
group by eight years, have refused to
ashland. Members of the Manhattan
local it is alleged. have refused to all
low Brooklyn drivers to take charge
Of coaches. Brooklyn leaders also
CHARGED that the Manhattan drivers
have interfered with funerals by tell
ing mourners they must have Manhat-
cemetery.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
500 Hosiery Workers Strike

Five hundred members of Branch ),
of the American Federation Of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers, have Joined
the strike of weavers. warpers, cutters
and other employees Of the Julius kayser
Company, one OF the country's largest
manufacturers of silk products, who
have been out on strike since last May.
Their walk-out has completely tied up
the production in the hosiery depart
ment, according to an announcement
made yesterday at the company's
Brooklyn plant.
Robert F. Stump, union organizer,
SAID yesterday that more than 4,20j
workers Of twelve locals are out at all
the company's plants in New York and
Pcnnsylyania. The orc demand of the
strikers is Tor union recognition. Sew
cral efforts have been made to arbitrate
the demand
New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Lenoir " i'll BE ronfron,ed
By aillaux in pr;

IA Hia. Sept Pierre
whose execution was postpone
Friday morning by ts so.hor..s.
u is expected. be confronted sg ~, a.
Cail'aus. former l-rcr er o.,
Saturday 80 ''aal !
According 70 thu "f.ao dc ps-,..
is IN state Of e&trrra ,gest,...' :
unable 10 stand. 1s l.ss'''s ness Z,
the idea thai he ha= hean exser..l
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