The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1920-04-23

they have never received a return and
never hope for any. He hopes, no
doubt, that they will feel repaid if he
can put his plan over. But we don't
believe that these gentlemen want to
be paid in this manner when they
know what Tobey's plan viii cost the
city in general.
We believe that it is the duty of
Mayor Smith right now to take this
matter up and nip the scheme in the
bud while the nipping is good. Any
one with any conception whatever can
readily see what is going to happen
in this city when the time comes that
union man or woman is told that
there is no room for him or her in our
big shops as long as they remain mem
bership in their union, that they can't
bargain collectively, that they must
work 10 or II hours instead of eight,
and at much lower pay than they now
receive. And that's just what is going
to happen if this man Tobey's appar-
ent plan succeeds. Protests, leading
to strikes which mean suffering and
misery to the workingmen and their
families, great loss to the manufact-
urers, merchants and business men,
such is to be our lot if Tobey is per-
mitted to go ahead with his low down
plot.
Hamilton is not Texas. Hamilton
with population of 10000 souls, has
nearly 5000 union men and women
and thousands of sympathizers to
stand with them Think it over. It
is up to you, Mayor Smith, with very
little effort, to keep the city running
along in the smooth Industrial groove
in which we are running at the pres
ent time It is better to get in now
than wait until a few union men,
fighting for the existence of their
families and themselves, are sent to
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We might add also that here is
another opportunity for that club that
is doing so much for the city's well
fare lately, the Boosters Club, to get
in and stop this scheme, which if put
through would throw our city back
another hundred years.
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library is to promote and unite intel
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1t holds within its walls a collection
of all the wise and witty things ever
said; these it marks and indexes and
offers to its friends.
1t is in its community sort of in
tellectual minuteman, always ready to
supply every conner something of in
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legislation, how to plan a home, why
bread won't raise, and can tell more
about the mental failings that give
Jamaica and Venezuela trouble than
most of our congressman ever dream
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the girls are the benfts of public
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