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Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03
HEAVY SNOW FALLING
 AT COLORADO SPRINGS

COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo, Dec. 2. -- Snow. which started falling at Il o'clock this morning and continu- ed intermittently through the day, was estimated at five inches deep at 10 o'clock tonight A strong north wind accompanied the snow. Two Santa Fe locomotives were derailed by striking frozen switch points to- night. At Palmer Lake. the snow was reported five inches deep at 10 o'clock and drifting badly.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03

VIENNA, Dec. 2.-(By the Associat- ed Press )-Virtually all business was suspended today as a consequence of the serious rioting which ragged here yesterday. Damage is estimated by the newspapers at many billions of crowns The plate glass losses alone are said to be more than 60o,oo0,000 crowns.
 The business streets presented d desolate eXpanse of iron shuttered or boarded up shops. interspersed with broken glass doors and windows, dis closing wrecked and footed interiors. In addition to the attacks on the fash
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03
r OO I BALL!

Bisbee and Phoenix High school football elevens will play this af- ternoon at Warren park for the championship of Arizona. The game should prove one of the best in years. Bringing the Phoenix team to Bisbee for the game today means a big expense to the local high school. This expense can only bet met by a big attendance.
 Bisbee is out to win the cham pionship of Arizona, if possible
 Bisbee Hi is your home team: it's greatest game will be played this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 Put little more pep in the old town by following the crowd 10 Warren park this afternoon, join ing in the cheering and pulling" for the home team.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03
ARBUCk[E JURY IS LOCKED UP FOR NIGHT
Japan And US. Near Agreement
Sixteen Koreans Sentenced For
 Revolt Plot

SEOUL, Korea, Nev. 15. - Six teen Koreans, accused to aVing fomented an abortive plot against Japanese authority, whose climax was eimed to synchroniZe with the arrival here year ago of the American congressional party which toured the Far East, were sentenced to prison terms ranging up to 10 years.
 Officials who frustrated the con- spiracy alleged that the Koreans had planned to assossinate distin- guished personages. bomb govern ment buildings, threaten million aires and raise a fund for the Ko- rean independence movement.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03

HAVRE. Dec. 2.-(By the Associat- ed ss)-Premier Briand of France, returned home today on the steamer Paris from the arms conference at Washington.
 'I went to Washington" he said, bearing a lawyers brief in pleading the cause of France. The most medi- ocre lawyer could have pleaded 1t sue cessful!y. I have full confidence in the future"
 He left for Paris at noon.
 France could not have been absent from gathering such as that called by President Harding for relieving the
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03
Will Defy Court

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2.--EXecutive boards of 10 packing plant unions in Kansas City, Kans., summoned to ap- near tomorrow at hearing before the Kansas industrial court on the threatened packing strike as it affects Kansas, late tonight voted unanimous ly to ignore the courts order
 The decision was reached after R. s. Brennan, of Kansas City. national counsel of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America, had advised them not to appear before the court and had announced that he would file a brief in connection with the case in
 lCAN-TINrI-n.IA 4 IEAIrRA
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03
Dali Eireann Convenes

LONDON, Dec. ?. - (By the Asso- ciated Press) - Eyes of all those interested in Ireland are fixed on Dub lin, seat of the Dail Eireann. All Sim Fein peace delegates have left London to meet with the Dail Fir cam cabinet tomorrow to consider the governments latest proposals for settlement of the strife between Eng
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03

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MONTHLY QUOTATIONS
 Average for Aug. 1921 ---- .ll94s Average. September. 1921 .1l94s Average. October. 1921 ---. .12673
Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-03

Average TeeE n .lal14l Close week l1-23-'2I .-..-- 1925
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CONTINUED ON PAGE rOUR)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23

charge that food prices, issued by the
British ministry of labor, are mac
curate.
The governments figures are i'm
portant, as some employments have
adopted the principle of sliding wage
scales based on the cost of living.
The workers appointed commit
tee to investigate the governments s
figures, which allege that food costs
increased 1913 per cent from July, 1914,
to May, 1921. The workers commit
tee consisted of represents tives of the
trade union movement, the parlia-
mentary committee of the British
Trade Union Congress, the labor party
and the cooperative movement. The
committees investigators found that
food prices increased $50 per cent
during the 1914-1921 period.
The workers are now demanding
that the government adopt cost of
living index number ''in keeping with
the actual figures as to the cost OF
living"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23

~ "a m
JUICY MELON
Cut By Lumber Trust Dur
ing War-PrOfits Run
1000 Per Cent

Seattle, Wash.-The company union
of the lumber trust is fine institu-
tion--for the lumber trust But de-
spite the willy tricks of the company
union, and regardless of the efforts
of the trust to drive out of the lum-
Der industry every member of the IN
ternational Union of Timber Work
ers, the spirit of those workers to
stand by the principles of legitimate
organized labor is stronger than ever.
What the company union has done
for the lumber workers is precisely
what it has done for other workers
wherever they have been coerced into
it.
The purpose of the company union
in the lumber industry is to exploit
the workers, not to benefit them.
That's why the company gets back of
its union; that's why the word loyal"
is chucked into the name Loyalty
is now used to cover every shady
scheme devised by willy press agents.
The workers, however, are not fooled
by the use of words. Deeds count
with them. The loyalty" of the lum-
Der trust to the government during
the war is we'll Illustrated by state
ment of its profits made by an au-
thority on the question.
Spruce" says this authority
(Which sold before the war at from
| $40 to SIS per thousand, was sold tc
the government for the fabulous price
of from 5000 to $3.50 per thousand
loyal profit of 1000 per cent. Al
grades of lumber were likewise placed
in the loyal class of profits, and these
great profits are now being used tC
crush the workers in the industry
through the loyal company unior
and to restrain trade to the further
advantage of the operators loyal tC
their own interests.
These lumbermen, who control g
per cent of the standing timber in the
United States, have used this control
TO manipulate the log market, set
ting fabulous price on logs, which
they charge up to themselves as cos
of raw material, making the cost o.
producing lumber ready for use tire
mendous. The buying public mus
pay this enormous stumpage price OF
| go without lumber, for the small op
orator, who usually owns no timber
of his own, must buy his raw mater
ial in the open market.
"There is no other industry il
America today that men can regar(
with more justifable scorn than tina
of the loyal lords of the great, clear
woods"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
lifts THE LID"
Editor Baine Shows Labor
Cost of Shoes to Be
Small

Boston.-E Baine of the Shoe
Workers Journal, lifts the lid" on
shoe prices, and in explaining why
labor refuses to accept wage reduc-
tions in this industry he shows who
is profiteering.
Before the war, he says, the labor
cost of a pair of shoes retailing at
$3.50 ranged around so cents. Later
this shoe sold as high as S12 and the
labor cost advanced to ST or 81 per
cent of the retail price.
''Shoes that retailed at $40 or over
would show a still smaller percentage
of labor cost in proportion to the sell
ing price at retail he says.
During the period of advance
shoe prices were made without rea-
son. The excuse given the consum-
ers was the high cost of material and
labor. One man who paid $18 for 9
pair of shoes was blaming labor fol
it. He was asked what he supposed
labor received for making that pain
of shoes and he replied: Probably
four or five dollars When told that
labor received less than $130 he was
astounded
"For something over year we
have had a falling market for shoe
materials Prices for shoe materials
now very nearly equal pre-war prices
Yet manufacturers and dealers seen
unable to make shoe prices anywhere
near pre-war plevels.
"A manufacturer said he wanted tt
make a shoe to sell to dealers at Sc
to be sold at retail at SO, and woulC
like reduction in labor cost The
same shoe used to be sold to the re
taller at $285 and retailed at $4. La
Dor receives about 40 cents per pail
more on that shoe.
Labor was asked to contribut,
! from its 40 cents to help the manu-
facturer sell at S6 what he used t,
sell at $2.S5, when his market fo
raw materials is nearly the same a
before the war.
"There are other instances of pro
posed reduction in labor cost tina
have no better foundation than TIN
one just related. 1t is not strang,
that labor is not enthusiastic to CO
operate for such ends.
"These policies are among tn
causes of the public resentmen
against the shoe business that result
in the jeering of a shoe manufacture
on the floor of the house of represen
tatives at Washington
I'VE know there are circumstance
somewhat eXtenuating, such as hig
rents, freight and other expenses, bu
still it is in order for manufactures
and dealers to introduce little tear
work into their lead pencils.
Labor declines to be the goat 70
the public prejudice to pay the freigh
for margins that few years ag
would have seemed extremely extray
apant
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
NON-UNION BREAD
Being Distributed in Hamil-
ton By National Biscuit
Company

None of the product of the National
Biscuit Company, including bread,
cakes, crackers, etc, being distributed
in Hamilton, bears the union label
The company refuses to adjust the
differences existing getween itself
and the Bakers Union, and the union
has placed these products on the "we
don't patronize list" The members
of the local Bakers Union request
that all union men and friends alb
stain from purchasing of the National
Biscuit Company's products.
There is very little non-union bread
distributed in this city, all the bake
shops being unionized so that there
is no reasonable excuse for any union
man purchasing bread that does not
bear the union label Remember
your obligation" say the bakers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23

groceries. He points out that if the
decree is modified as desired by the
fruit growers more than canned
fruits will be handled by the packers.
"The Decree" he says, covers tea,
coffee, sugar, cereals; in fact, every
thing from soup to nuts" The pack
ers will then be in position to control
the entire food industry, and can die
tate prices all along the line. This
would put the wholesale grocers prac-
tically out of business so far as trade
in canned goods is concerned 1t
would also have the effect of making
the silent consumer contribute a lit
tie more of his mite to the "big five"
The really big question involved in
modifying the consent decree is, "Are
the big five seeking to control the
food supply of the American people -
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
To Boost Treasury

the month and year stamped on it.
When one finds a clerk without this
button, he or she is either not a
member of the union, one who is in
bad standing or one who does not at
tend meetings and not entitled to
wear a button, and of course not de-
serving to be allowed to serve a real
union man or woman
Secretary Robert Fallert is to rep
resent the local at the convention of
the Ohio State Federation of Labor
in this city week of October 10th,
and already is lining things up so
that everyone is assured the conven-
tion will be a success.
The local discussed the question of
giving some sort of entertainment
this fall for the purpose of boosting
the treasury and something big can
be looked for. With this advance no.
tice no doubt everyone will hold their
breath for definite announcement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
FREEDOM IS
STRANCLED
If Workers Accept Contract
of Eastern Concern
GOmpers Hands a Few Hot
Ones to Individual"
Wage Contract

Washington. - James O'Connell,
president of the metal trades depart
ment of the A. F. of L., has received
this form of individual contract" in
use by the Moore Drop Forging Com
pany at its plants in Springfield and
Chicopee, Mass:
II apply to Moore Drop Forging
Company for employment as (blank)
and if employed agree that such en-
ployment will be upon the following
terms and conditions: Wages (blank)
Hours of labor: to be arranged as
employer may deem expedient not ex-
ceeding (blank) hours in any one
week. Overtime: To be optional. for
which time and a half will be paid.
Factory conditions are accepted as
satisfactory and will not be the sub
ject of controversy during my en-
ployment, though suggestions for inn
provement will be welcomed by en-
ployer / understand that employ
ment is upon a strictly non-union ba-
sis and | agree that while retained
in employment | will not be or be-
come a member of any trade union
That if | hereafter apply for member
ship in any trade union | will at
once notify my employer, who may
thereupon terminate my employment
That upon termination of my employ.
ment for any reason / will not in any
manner annoy, molest or interfere
with the business, customers or EN-.
ployes of said employer"
In the September number of tn,
American Federationist Presiden
Gompers deals a body blow to tn,
individual" wage contract in genera
and forcefully analyzes the Moore
contract in particular
1T is difficult to understand" ht
writes, "how any employer attempt
ing to operate a modern industrial
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23

tracts are not signed freely by work
men. They are signed only under
duress and thus, even at the very out
set, they constitute denial of free
dom of action No worker signs away
his rights freely. He does so only
under compulsion. 1t is principle
that contract signed under duress
or compulsion is void in law and in
fact. 1t is reprehensible to compel
workers to renounce their industrial
franchise, their right to exercise a
voice in cooperation with their fell
low workers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23

enterprise can hope to achieve sue
cess in relations with workers on the
basis of document as completely
autocratic as the contract by which
the Moore Drop Forging Company
seeks to enslave its employees. Every
sense of justice is outraged by such
a document. The entire concept of
democracy in industry is made void
by its use. Industrial life is plunged
back to the day of the tyrant and serf
wherever workmen are compelled to
work and live under the terms of a
contract of this character. These con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
REDUCE WAGES
Then Labor Barons Close
Markets By Monopoly
Prices

Seattle, Wash.-Less than 35 men,
or corporations, have virtual monop-
oily of northwestern timber and this,
not wages, is responsible for high
prices and the paralysis of this in
dustry, says Harry w. Call, secre-
tary-treasurer of the international
Union of Timber Workers, in that
unions official bulletin
Reductions in wages have not sold
any more lumber" said Call. They
have not started any more mills and
camps. They have not reduced
freight rates, and they have not in
duced the public to buy.
"They are right back at the end
of the vicious circle which they start
ed 10 months ago, being ably assisted
by their company union, known as
the loyal legion of loggers and lum-
bermen.
Many logging camps in the Puget
sound section, and in British Colum-
bia are closed, the reason being given
that there is a surplus of fir in the
water. Prices for cedar logs are so
high that many mills are forced to
suspend operations. Others are oper-
ating with a reduction in wages of
from 10 to 25 per cent; again the
workers are compelled to help pay for
the increase in the price of cedar.
"In Seattle, common labor for the
saw mills is down to $3.50 per day
and in some cases lower. In some
cases employment offices do not state
the wages to be paid
''It is not and has not been the
wage rate paid at any stage of the
game that has been responsible fol
the present stagnation in the timber
industry This condition has beer
charged to three reasons: High
wages, high freight rates, and the
refusal of the people to buy lumber
THE truth of the matter is tha
not to exceed 35 men, or corporations
have virtual monopoly on this raw
material.
They do not have to sell logs eX
cept at their own price.
''The big cost in lumber production
today is not labor; it is not freigh
rates; it is the cost of raw material
"The public can we'll believe tina
the lumber operators did not run full
page advertisements in the newspa
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
RETAIL CLERKS
Held Fine Meeting Monday
Night

Retail Clerks Union No. 119 held
one of the best and most enthusiastic
meetings on last Monday night in the
labor temple that it has held in many
months. The attendance was much
larger than usual. One new member,
Max Vogel, of the Strauss Clothing
and Shoe Company, was added to the
membership roll.
The buttons, which all union mem
bers of the craft will wear in the fu-
ture, were distributed for the first
time A different colored button will
be issued each month. The one for
September is of dark blue color, with
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
Ea ia "a
q I'd "a
ALL OF IT !?
Is big Five" After Control
of All Food?

New York.-The efforts of the CAL
ifornia Fruit Growers Association
to obtain modification of the consent
decree of the department of justice
so that the "big five" packers can
enter the grocery business has called
forth blast from the treasurer of
the National Grocers' Wholesale As
sociation. In effect, the treasurer de-
clares that the appeal of the fruit
growers is inspired by the packers,
with the object of abolishing the con-
sent decree, which prohibits the pack
ers from engaging in the handling of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23
SCOUT REMEMBERS BROTHER.

Among the many Memorial day OBJ
servances in loving memory Of those
young men who gave their lives In
the great war, perhaps none was more
touching than that of the boy scout
who saved his pennies faithfully for
a long time until he had enough to
buy fine wreath to place on the
grave of a neighbor, lad who had
played role of a big brother to
the younger boy before he went to his
death overseas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-23

pers for fun. They did it because
they hoped to mold public opinion in
their direction. They wanted to place
the blame anywhere but where it be-
longed-upon their own shoulders"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-01-29
ALBANY AND NEARBY
TROLLEYS GO ON STRIKE
Men Quit at Reduction Due to
LoUer Car Fare.

ALBANY, Jan. 30 (Saturday) A strike
on the lines of the United Traction Com
pany. which furnishes street car service
In Albany. Troy. Rensselaer,. Cohoes.
Watervliet. Green Island and Waterford,
began at midnight. As crews finished
their days work the cars were taken
to tho barns and Il was expected that by
s O'Clock not street car would be op-
Grating Tho employees struck because
OF reduction from so 10 i5 cents an
hour. which was 10 go into effect to-day
The United Traction Company some time
ago applied for 10 cent fare on all it's
lines. but tho Public Service Commission
only allowed an cent fare In Albany.
where no franchise agreement regarding
fares exists I'm Rensselaer, tho fare was
reduced to cents and In Troy 20 s
cents. Both OF these cities had franchise
fare agreements. The new fares were TO
be effective to-day.
The traction officials have not indi-
Gated whether an attempt will be made
to operate the cars with other than the
regular men. Municipal officials nave
intimated that court action may be
taken TO compel the company to give
service In case no effort Us made TO op-
crate.
An eleventh hour effort 70 settle the
trouble failed tonight after John n.
Reardon of Detroit, international vice
president OF the Amalgamated Associa :
ton Of street and Electric Railway
Employees. and company officials had
conferred unsuccessfully.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-01-29
CHEMICAL NATIONAL BANK
BUYS CHAMBERS ST. CORNER

made yesterday that the Chemical National
Bank had thirteen building
Bank branch Of the Metropolitan Bank negotiated
through Joseph Day and the signed by Henry
Oesheme president of the Shoe and Leather
S. Schenk vce-president Of the Chemical National
The property incosed sides present building
the Chemical National Bank has
This gives
feet feet Chambers
the Chemical National said yesterday that they had
property
purchase Chemical
space merger Citizens
The Broadway old
home the Citizens National
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-01-29

Special Despatch TO THE NEw YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany, Jan. IS.
Franchise agreements held by thirty
three upstate cities are threatening
Gov. Miller's transit programme. The
belief that these fare restrictions will
be brushed aside by the Governors
recommendations has resulted in un-
expected opposition in the home towns
of some of the most prominent Repub-
lican leaders in the Legislature.
The State Conference of Mayors Is
now looking into the question, and its
secretary, William G. Capes. said to-
day that that organization would join
in the opposition if it is found that
the proposals of the Executive inter-
fere in any way with existing con-
tracts with street railway companies
He said that no definite announcement
would be made by the Mayors Confer
ence until after the introduction Of the
bills.
But il can be stated" Mr.. Capes de-
clared, that the conference Will oppose
any legislation seeking TO abrogate iran
chises based upon rate guarantees en-
tered into between municipalities and
public service corporations"
Tho State conference of Mayors COM
prises city officials of the entire State
The thirty-three cities which nave
franchise fare restrictions are Amster-
dam, Auburn. Buffalo. Binghamton. Can
andaigua, Corning. Cortland. Dunkirk.
Fulton, Glens Falls. Glen Cove, King
ston, Little Falls. Mount Vernon, New
burg, New Rochelle, Niagara Fails.
North Tonawanda, Oneida, Oswego.
Plattsburg, Rochester. Salamanca, Sche-
nectady. Syracuse. Saratoga, Tonawan-
da, Troy. Utica, Watertown, Watervhet.
White Plains and Yonkers
In many of these cities higher fares
have been put into effect because tue
franchise rights we're waived, some OF
them for a certain period of time. II
was felt that the companies should get
more revenue during the war and I'M
mediately following because OF the high
wages and cost OF materials, but II Is
now feared that IL Gov. Miller's recon-
mendations are put into law return TO
the cent fare will be forestalled.
The three most powerful leaders In
the Legislature come from cities which
have franchise fare restrictions They
are Clayton r. Lusk, majority leader OF
the Senate and Gov. Miller's mouthpiece
In the Legislature, who comes from
Cortland: Speaker Machold OF Water
town and Simon Adler. majority leader
of the Assembly. whose home is Roches-
ter. Gov. Miller comes from Syracuse.
where the trolley companies are trying
10 get a 10 cent fare. Their application
is now before the Second District pub
lie Service Commission. and several
hearings have been held