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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
JAILED SEAMEN
CHEERED
And Loudly Applauded At
Meeting of Their Organ
izatiOn

Norfolk, Va-At a meeting of over
500 members Of the Seamen's Union,
the following message was forwarded
to 81 members of the union who are in
Jail in this city as a protest against
a sentence for mutiny when they quit
their vessel when in a safe harbor:
I'VE, the seamen now in the port
Of Norfolk, appreciate the hardship
which you will be suffering, but, with
you, we realize that there will be no
difference between a vessel and your
jail if this ruling is not reversed. We
thank you We glory in you. You
are men. You are the kind of mater
ial out Of which real seamen are made.
The seamen of the country are with
nou We thank you in the name Of all
the seamen whose burdens you are
now bearing"
Before the meeting adjourned,
three cheers were given for the jail
ed seamen.
The seamen shipped on the vessel
Poughkeepsie for a six months trip
to Europe. On the return voyage th5
ship put in at Bermuda after the
six months had expired. When the
vessel was safely docked the men ask
ed for their pay and when this was
refused they quit They were arrest
ed for mutiny and brought to Nor
folk under guard and each sentenced
to 40 days in jail and a $50 fine The
seamen show there is no law to JUS
tify this procedure, and ask if they
are guilty Of mutiny why are they not
sentenced to terms in the penitentiary
Of from five to 10 years, as the law re
quires. They can secure their release
on $500 bond, pending appeal to a
higher court but this they refuse to
| do.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
COAL OWNERS
Agree to Increase Wage Of
Miners

New York-Coal owners and min
ers of the central competitive field
have signed two-year wage agree
ment which embodies the 81 per cent
award of the presidents coal commits
sion. The central competitive field is
western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois, and serves as a basis for
other fields.
Starting with the miners conven-
ton last fall, this wage movement in
cluded many unusual features, among
them being an injunction issued by
federal court at the request of the
department of justice that was intend
ed to break the nationwide strike of
miners. The injunction was failure,
and then Fuel Administrator Garfield
handed down his famous award of ID
per cent increase which would re-es-
tablish, he said, the miners living
standards that existed before the war.
The miners rejected this theory They
refused to accept standard of six
years ago.
The campaign Of opposition to the
miners was in startling contrast to
the praise heaped upon them during
the war. On October 20, 1918, the
publicity division of the department
of labor issued this statement
LESS than 100000 miners are now
actually bearing the greatest respon-
sibility that has come to any class of
workers who are giving their strength
to the winning of the war They have
broken all previous records in pro-
duction, although thousands Of their
comrades have gone into the army
and navy
Before the first draft approximate
Ily 100000 mine workers were EN-
ployed in the United States Then the
war took about Is per cent of the
workers, for a large number volun-
teere3 IN addition to loss by draft.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
HIGH COST
SOLUTION
Presented BY Trade Union
lists Conference

Washington the question of
high costs of living and wages, the
conference of trade unionists, called
by President Gompers, last December,
declared:
mo factor contributes more to in
dustrial unrest and instability than
excessive costs Of necessaries of life.
1t is a demonstrated truth that the
cost of living has advanced more rap
idly than have wages The claim that
increasing wages make necessary in
creased prices is false 1t is intended
to throw upon the workers the blame
for a process by which all the people
have been made to suffer. Labor has
been compelled to struggle desperate
iy to keep wages in some measure up
to the cost of living The demand for
higher compensation to meet new
price levels has made industrial re-
adjustment necessary.
Existing high and excessive prices
are due to the present imitation of
money and credits, to profiteering by
those who manufacture, sell and mar
ket products, and to burdens levied
by middlemen and spectators We
urge:
The defation of currency; preven-
tion Of boarding and unfair price fix
ing; establishment Of cooperative
movements under the Rochdale sys-
tenn; making accessible all income tax
returns and dividend declarations as a
direct and truthful means of revealing
excessive costs and profits.
"The ideal Of America should be the
organization Of industry for service
and not for profit alone. The stigma
of disgrace should attach to every per-
son who profits unduly at the expense
q mis- fellow men"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
COOP. AN EDUCATION

Springfield, President Walker,
of the State Federation of Labor,
shows that the cooperative movement
possess advantages other than re Que
ing prices.
The trade union executive is a
member of the A. F. of L. co-operat-
tive committee, and says that workers
are acquiring, to a surprising degree,
a knowledge of cooperative theory
and practice In addition they will
eventually possess a knowledge of in
dustry, commerce and economics.
These requirements" said Presi-
lent Walker, will enable the workers
to operate their own stores, conduct
their own productive enterprises and
to know the relationship between law
(the government and industry and
commerce, and thus be able to act
more intelligently politically in pro
tecting and promoting their interests.
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PAINTERS RAISE WAGES
St. Louis, Mo- Painters have raised
wages to 81 an hour until September
Is, when the rate will be $l.25 an
hour.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
STARTING FROM BOT
TOM

Temple, Texas Trade unionists in
this state are urged to take an active
part in the precinct and county con-
ventions that will elect delegates to
the state convention that will elect
delegates to the San Francisco con
vention Of the dominant party in this
state.
Every wage Garner" says Secre-
tary- Treasurer Mckinley, Of the
State Federation Of Labor, should
take an active part in these conyen-
tions to the end that none but friends
Of organized labor be sent as dele
gates To the state convention"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
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TO END BUILDING STRIKES
San Francisco The building trades
council and organized contractors
have signed an agreement to adjust
disputes without resorting to strikes
and ockouts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
LIBRARY BONDS
INDORSED
By Unanimous Vote of
Trades Council
Delegates

Trades Council again comes to the
front as THE big Hamilton booster.
Trades Council has got down to where
it will lend its support to every move
ment for the betterment of the city or
the good of its people no matter what
the cost. This time Trades Council
says, Get back of the $15O,000 Ii
brary bonds and boost them through. :
And this means a big boost for the
bonds There is no doubt whatever
that it was the loyal support given by
Trades Council that put through the
$650,000 electric light bonds and saw
ed the Hamilton public from being
shackled by some big corporation via
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16
PRESSMEN RAISE
WAGES.

Pressman's Home, Tenn.-Nearly
two score Of wage agreements have
been secured the past month by locals
affiliated with the international Print
ing Pressmen and Assistants Union.
These wage increases are scattered
throughout North America and include
St. John, Nova Scotia, Canada, with
a $12 week increase, and locals in Cal
iforni.a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16

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BIG ELECTRIC PROFITS.

New Yoeh.-lhe General Electric
Company reports profits last year
We're the greatest in its history After
all charges and taxes were paid there
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-16

employees of the Variety Manufactur-
ing Company have won union recogni-
ton, the 44-hour week and a 10 per
cent wage increase The majority of
the employees are structural iron work
ers, with a number of machinists anil
hlacksmiths.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Edison Electrical Medal
Awarded to w. l.. Emmett
Designer of Curtis Steam Tur.
bine Wins Engineering
Honor for 1919

William lie Roy Emmett, designer Of
the Curtis steam turbine and developer
of the principle Of electrical propul-
sion Of ships, has been awarded the
Edison medal Of 1919 for meritorious
achievement in electrical science. This
announcement was made yesterday by
the committee Of the American Insti-
tute of Electrical Engineers. which
made the award in accordance with the
rules Of the medal association founded
by Thomas A. Edison.
Mr.. Emmett, who was born at Pelham,
N. Y, in 1859, has been a consulting
engineer of the General Electric Com
pany at Schenectady for many years.
He was educated at the Naval Academy,
from which he was graduated in 1881.
He served in the navy for years, then
resigned, and reantered the service in
1898 as a junior lieutenant for the
period of the war with Spain.
He designed the electrical propelling
machinery for the battleship~ New
Mexico, the first warship of any nation
to be so equipped. He also designed
similar machinery for the battleship
California, recently launched at San
Francisco. He invented several types
Of transformers and the oil switch now
in general use in large electrical works,
but has been more generally identified
wi"h- he development Of new methods.
Mr.. Emmett is member of the
American Philosophical Society," the
Anne rican Institute of Engineers, the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers and the Society Of Naval Archi-
tects. His home is in Schenectady.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Treaty Plea Is Memorial
Father of Ensign Tinkham
Appeals to Senate for League

AS memorial to his son, Ensign
Edward l. Tinkham, Julian R. Tinkham,
of Montclair, N. j., is publishing to-
day in papers in various parts Of the
country an appeal to the Senate to rat
ify the peace treaty with only such
reservations as will not impair the
obligations of the United States under
the league Of nations covenant The
appeal appears as an advertisement
signed by officers Of Ensign Edward l..
Tinkham Post, No. 59S, New York
Branch, American Legion. 1t is ad-
dressed to Senators Wadsworth and
Calder, of New York, and all other
members of the Senate
Ensign Tinkham, Cornell student.
went to France in the American ambu-
lance service in 1916 and joined the
naval aviation service when the United
States entered the war. He was cred
tied with having led the first Aneri-
cans in armed conflict against the Ger
mans. He died in Ravenna, Italy, after
the armistice.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Grain Corporation,
Dying ON June l,
Warns of Hazards
Fs s"NNV9N% ~
u. S. Wheat Director Tells
Flour Handlers Thrift Is
Likely to Become as
Popular as Extravaganza

!. I'm an offcial bulletin ISSUED yester-
day by Julius H. Barnes, United States
Wheat Director, wheat and flour han
dlers are warned of price hazards
which may confront them when the
United States Grain Corporation ceases
operations June /.
The Wheat Director and the Grain
Corp9rat ation," reads the bulletin, zap
proach the last haf Year of their Of
flcial service. For over two years the
Grain Corporation has been domi-
nant influence in grain marketing. The
end of the Official influence and control
is in sight.
"Forty.two thousand licensees should
realize that the withdrawal of such a
market and price influence cannot be
made without introducing large hazards
to the wheat and -four handler. World
influences of great potentiaiity in price
making exist to-day"
Mr. Barnes said that all grain han
dlers should study the corporation's
weekly reports of trade data, which will
be issued. until June l.
The total wheat crop Of the United
States for 1919 exceeded that of 1918,
according to the bulletin. "F our pro-
duction in the United States for six
months" according to the bulletin, "ex-
cecded the production of 1918 by 12.-
900 600 barrels, while exports Of -four
have been 100000 barrels less.
"Restricted transportation and ex-
traordlnary indifference to expenditure
by section Of our people have facili-
tated easy price advances in certain
gu lities Of flour
"Our own campaign of placing the
lower priced flours through the retail
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
SAYS Smiths Milk Plan
Would Cost Billions
Dairymen's League Official De.
clarcs State Would Have.
To Ruv All Ear,ns


Unless New York State buys all the
dairy farms. Governor Smiths sugges-
tion, in his message to the Legislature,
that the production and distribution of
milk be controlled by the state as
public utility can never be realized.
This was the statement yesterday of
Albert Manning, secretary of the
Dairymcn's League, in announcing that
the project favored by the Governor
would be opposed vigorously by the
farmers and milk producers If the
state.
AS there are 10000 producers afrili-
ated with the league, it would cost the
state billions to buy their farms, and
milk would be an expensive luxury in
deed, said Mr.. Manning. In addition,
would have to be put on the state pay
roll to operate the farms for the pub
iic, adding billions more to the cost
Of putting in effect the Governors
scheme, and there would remain the
difficulty Of inducing independent
farmers to work for wages.
"A survey of the 10000 farms sun
plying milk to New York City shows"
Mr.. Manning continued, "that the aver
age investment has been $4,000.
10 own and operate these farms would
cost the state an initial outlay Of
540,oO0,000 at least. But there are
in the eighborho ood of 125 900 farms
producing milk for the market, which
would call for total minimum invest
ment of $3.50 100000. The annual
pay roll in addition would be $3.50 ,0OO,
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
One-Stop Aerial
Mail to Chicago

Cleveland, Jan. 11.--A one
stop aerial mail service between
New York and Chicago, with
500 horsepower Martin air
planes, which will displace the
present machines and a railway
mail car as we'll, is to be in
augurated Thursday morning,
George O. Norville, superin-
tendent Of the aerial mail serv-
ice, announced to-day.
Service will be started stimuli
taneously from both cities. The
pilots will bring their machines
as far as Cleveland, which will
be the only stop, where they
will be relieved. The capacity
Of the Martin machines is 1900
pounds, four times greater than
the De Havilands now in use.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Chicago Crook
Roundup Fills
Police Stations
Prisoners Are Lined Up and
Marched Before 200 Vic
tins of Robberies in
Hope of Identification
About 1000 Arrested
Crime Ha. Dropped so Per
Cent Since Drive Start
ed, Says Deputy Chief
About 1000 Arrested
Special Correspondence

Special Cn,vespo~deMcs
CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-Following the
city-wide raids Of Saturday night, in
which more than 900 criminals and per-
sons known to the police as suspicious
characters" were taken, squads of po-
lice began their second raid to-day in
an attempt to rid the city Of crime.
AS result Of the arrests Chicago
crookdom held an Eat home" at the
Desplaines Street police station to-day.
In the receiving line were the murderer,
the journeyman highwayman and the
apprentice thief. Their guests" were
some 200 men and women who had
made unsought, but costly, acquaint-
ances with some Of them before. and
before the days reception closed vic
those held as robbers.
ten days, in any event indefinitely if
necessary" First Deputy Superintend-
ent of Police Alcock declared "Re-
ports show that since we began the
raids recently crime has dropped about
90 per cent. When the crooks really
learn what preparations we have made
to pick them up they will leave town."
Two suspects have been killed and
two wounded since the first of the raids
began.
Police activity of the last thirty
hours is recognized as q repetition Of
the ""drive" started by First Deputy
Alcock in the spring of 1917. when 5000
suspects were arrested.
Soon after noon to-day victims be-
gan streaming into the Desp .aines
Street station from all parts of the city.
They were seated on benches in the
squad room and the "show-up" then
began. In groups Of thirty to forty the
prisoners were brought up from the
cells. The suspects, 179 in all, marched
before the victims in. single file and
then were tolled off into squads.
Captain Max Danner or Lieutenant
Patrick ]. Kelleher or Detective Ser
geant Paine, of headquarters, subjected
each to questions. Those who were rec
ognized by victims were separated from
the others. !
The places on which raids were made
included poolrooms, cafes and saloons.
The raiders were policemen in civilian
clothes. One of the suspects killed
was chased and sot by police squad.
The other was mortally wounded by
the raiders.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
$2,0OO,00O Firm
Will Do Trucking
For Greater CITY
Twenty-seven Companies in
Big Merger That May
Relieve Traffic Condi-
tiOns

Announcement. vas made last night
of the merger ofatwenty- seven of the
leading trucking companies of New
York under the fifm name of the United
States Trucking Corporation.
The company will be capitalized at
S2,000,000 and, it is said, will handle
large percentage Of the trucking busi-
ness of the city. AS result of the
merger it is expected that traffic con-
gestion in New York. will be greatly
relieved and the delivery and forward
ing of goods expedited.
Plans for the operation of the United
States Trucking Corporation were dis
cussed at dinner at Cavana0h's res
taurant Officers of the various COM
panies predicted that the merging Of
the trucking interests will make pos
sible the elimination of vast number
OF empty trucks returning after deliver
always have affected the city's traffic at
congested points.
Through the establishment of sys-
tenn of depots in various parts of the
city all trucks operated by the company
will carry loads on all return trips, &C.
cording to announcement. Commits
sioner Of Docks Murray Hubert last
night expressed satisfaction with the
merger He said it will tend to relieve
the river fronts.
The corporation was organized by 8.
NJ Schatzkin, organizer Of William
Farrell & Son, Inc, and the United
states Distributing Corporation. The
president of the new concern will be
]: J. Riordan, of Monohan's Express.
Closely associated in its management
will be j. S. Reardon, of P. Reardon.
Inc: Edward F. Kelley, William ]. Nc
Cormack, of J. j. Gillian & Co.. and
George Daniels, of Daniels g. Kennedy.
George F. Getz, president of the United
States Distributing Corporation, will
be chairman of the board Of directors.
To Employ Thousands
The new company will operate ap-
proximately three hundred automobile
4 trucks and will employ thousands Of
h men.
The following firms we're included IN
the merger; Oscar C. Drummer, Inc:
Theodore Feck, Inc; E. X. Lowe Com.
/ pany, William Casey, Inc; Monohan
Inc; Edward r. Kelley, J. S. Hannon
dalvey Brothers, r. S. Stewart, Daniel
& Kennedy, D. Gilroy 4 Sons, J. Law.
renee. Z. ]. Mulligan. James F. Stanton
]. J. Sullivan, j. J. Gillen Company. R
H .Thornberry, Matthew J. Sullivan
John F. Lange, P. Reardon, Inc; Pau
Viani. Meade Transfer, Kirvin Bros
and Richard Fitzpatrick.
Headquarters Of the United States
Trucking Corporation will be at Cana
and Thompson streets
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Walker to Renew Inquiry
Rebut.alTestimony To Be Heard
in Soldiers, Home Probe

BATH, N. Y. Jan. 11.-Investigation
of alleged Irregularities and unsatis-
factory conditions at the state Soldiera'
Home will be resumed this week by
Lieutenant Governor Harry Walker, IL
is expected. There are understood TO
be many witnesses yet to be heard, in-
cluding a volume of testimony in re-
buttal Of charges that have been pre-
ferred. These are brought through
George Peck member of the board
of managers Of the home and now
Mayor of Elmira 4
He charges other members Of tbs
board with mismanagemeht, neglect
and infiction of hardships on Civil
War veterans living at the home Il
is believed the investigation may ee-
cupy several weeks.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Details Perfected
For Movies to Helm
Americanizationn
Secretary Lane Confers With
Leaders of Industry Here,
Campaign Will Start
ALI Over u. S. Feb. u

The plans for a countrywide Am....
canization campaign through motto,
pictures and under the direction ~
Franklin K. Lane, Secretary Of the. rs rs
terror, were discussed yesterday ~
conference at the Waldorf Astoria -
leaders Of the motion picture indm.A@ss. -
with Secretary Lane. '''s
The campaign will be begun In sv.,,
motion picture house in the urit.$
States on February IL, Lincoln's Ri,h-
day. when films representing the Iife ~
that great American will be exkihitsA
Thereafter pictures depicting events N
the lives Of the men who have made ths
history Of this country will be showr
on every national holiday IN motion
picture houses in every state.
The meeting, which was attended =,
more than hundred men and womsr ,
was the second step in this Amerie.rs
zation movement. At the previous meet.
ing in Washington at hearing befnre
The joint Committee on Education Of ths
House and the Senate a resolution was
passed urging that the motion picture
industry. bend its efforts to cope with
he problems of Bolshevism and social
unrest. The working out in detail Of
the campaign was placed In the hands
Of q committee, consisting of Secretarv
Lane, chairman; William A. Brsdy
Lewis ]. Selznick, Adolph Zuckor anX
Major Raymond W. Pullman. Some Of
the prominent motion picture men vhe
have pledged their support are D. ".
Griffith, William Fox. Jesse L. LAskv
Marcus Loew, B. s. Moss, Samuel Gold
wyn and j. Stuart Blackton.
In the course oY his address 70 ths
motion picture men yesterday Seers-
tary Lane said:
"It is within the. power Of you men
in whose hands the motion picture in
dustry Of the country Is centered 70
exceed If possible the great work which
you carried on during the ware Ger
vice, frankly believe, was not outdone
by any other single agency. There hss
been challenge hurled at che people
of America, challenge to prove to The
have established is sufficient unto e.
self to settle and solve the many
problems which are a part Of our ns.
tional life.
~ believe the greatest single in.
stance Of the soundness Of this coun-
try's ideals was the universal accept.
ance in the spirit of patriotism of tho
conscription measures taken during tho
war. Such meeting as we are hold
ing is a significant event Here are
you gentlemen, representing a new art,
new means Of thought transmission
through the medium solely of pictures
that move, being called upon to crystal
lize your efforts in the betterment Of
great groups Of people. wonder Il
there is any one who can foresee what
the motion picture will become in the
next twenty-five years, fully cognizsnt
Of what the motion picture has grown.
to be in the last twenty-five years."
Other speakers were Major Franklin
D'Olier. national president of tho
American Legion. and Colonel Arthur
Woods, former Commissioner of Police
here.