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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
UNITED STATES
BLAMED
By Foreign Newspaper For
Wage Reduction Stunt

Adelaide, South Australia-"Ther
are indications that the wage reduc-
ton stunt and other schemes asso-
ciated with it for making the work
ers bear the burdens thrown upon
the community by capitalism's failure
to meet the needs of the times have
their origin in the United States, F"
says the Daily Herald in referring to
the anti-union movement of American
employers.
"No such attack has been launched
in this country" continues the Her
aid, "but it may be expected in the
not very distant future unless the
organized workers are alert and act
i've in the protection of their rights.
"It is evident that a direct attack
is being directed against American
trade union organization, so that the
unity of the workers may be smashed
and the wage earners thus compelled
to accept whatever terms the employ
ers like to offer. Curiously enough
the capitalists do not happen to have
the argument all their own way, and
as showing how live and important
the issue is, it may be mentioned
that the churches are discussing il
with animation and from the point OF
view of the working man.
Cali this is of particular interest
to the Australian worker who may
unless he is very careful, be carried
along into the whirlpool of industrial
disunion and dissension so that he
may become an easy prey and victim
to the schemes of exploitation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
FORCE BECETS FORCE
At Last Being Realized in Italy That All Hands Must
Pay the Piper For Dance Revolution

Mussolini, ex-socialist editor of Milan,
who maintains a permanent staff.
This astonishing organization, almost
wholly developed in the last three
months, is the fruit of the Italian
genius for spontaneous organization.
The Fascist are composed chiefly of
students, former soldiers and shop
keepers, led by intellectuals and ideal
lists, but because of the violent nature
of their program they include many
rowdies and gunmen from the worst
strata in society.
'The program of action of the Fas-
cisti is intimidation of all organiza-
tions with revolutionary tendencies
and of their leaders and members.
In Tuscany, for instance, where the
revolutionary organizations have their
headquarters, the action squads of the
Fascist several times a week make
excursions to nearby towns and vii
lages and burn the local trade union
headquarters and beat their leaders.
1t is now virtually impossible in Italy
for communist, socialist or labor
union leaders to call or hold public
meetings.
THE Fascist are often supported
by government troops, who preserve
an appearance of neutrality, but ar
rest the communists who resist the
Fascist"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15

Asheville, N. C.-Textile mill own
ers and their newspapers are angry
because the A. F. of l.. convention
asked congress to probe southern tex
tile mills, at the request of the Tex
tile Workers Union. The mill owners
and their press have resorted to the
usual mudslinging tactics. They say
unionists want to start an industrial
war
Thomas F. Mcmahon, president of
the United Textile Workers. Union,
replies in the Asheville Advocate that
there is no desire on our part to
start an industrial war, and we only
took action when intolerable condi-
tions were forced upon US by the most
drastic wage reductions experienced
in the history of the industry
Can you imagine what these re-
ductions have meant to the workers ?"
he asks. 'The woman who was re-
ceiving $27 week, of 55 hours, less
than year ago, is now receiving
$1150 for 60 hours.
GO into the mills of CASTOR coun-
ty, and see for yourself, Mr.. Editor,
if what | am telling you is true or
false. Go to Albemarle and see the
same thing. Go to Concord and in
quire about the father and mother
whose babe died, and because the pa
rents stayed away from the mill to
lay the little cold form in its grave,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15

headed, the carpenter who built the
stand where the execution took place
received shilling a day, a 100 per
cent wage increase in so years. Sew
enty years later, when called on to
erect a beheading stand for Charles |,
the carpenter found his wage 2 shil-
lings a day.
In 1920 the average wage of the
British carpenter was % shillings
pence, or about $500, the highest
ever reached 1t has receded a bit
since then, but in the light of history
it is going back again.
Thus congress, studying the infor-
nation just placed before it by the
ways and means committee. finds that
after every war fought by English
speaking peoples wages went to a
new high level and then fell back,
only to reach and then surpass the
previous high level. In 1917, when
we entered the war, wages stood at
1913 per cent of the 1913 standard. In
1920, at the peak-they had advanced
about 80 per cent over the 1917 fig
ures.
Wages are now on the ebb, but just
as surely as the ebbing tide changes
in time and comes back again in
flood, SO surely do the figures show
that the workers are due some time
for another period of wages exceed
ing the banner year of 1920. History
has established a fashion of repeat
ing itself.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
MILL OWNERS ANGRY
THAT A. F. OF L. SHOULD ASK PROBE OF INDUS
TRY-CHARGE UNIONISTS WANT TO
START INDUSTRIAL WAR
Women Are Receiving Forty Per Cent in Wages What
They Got Year Ago

that father and mother lost their
bonus, amounting to about SAT in the
two weeks period.
"Go to Kannapolis and find out
about the little girl who went to a
dentist for 80 minutes and had an
aching tooth treated. Because of that
she lost her bonus, amounting to SO.
These things happened in the Cannon
mills, and we are accused of being
agitators when we refer to them.
"Go to some of the workers homes
in East Charlotte when it is raining
and watch the streams play through
leaky roofs into the rooms. Take a
look at toilets and sanitary (?) pro-
visions. Note the number of people
under one roof, living in four or five
rooms. Note the number of mothers
forced to work in the mills to help
support their families because the
pay of the father is so low that he
cannot make living for the family.
''Some of the employers are simply
mill barons, treating their employees
as chattel property. 1t must stop
and all the Clarks and despots COM
bined cannot stem the tide that has
started the old ship of justice toward
the port of human freedom.
"The A. f. of L. will use its every
power to induce congressional investi-
cation of the abonminable mill con-
ditions of the south, whether this par
ticular fight is won or lost"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
FARM OWNERS LEAD

Washington.-Mo than one-half
of all the farms in the United States
are operated by their owners, the fed
eral census bureau has announced in
classifying the 6,488.36G farms in the
United States in 1920. Farm tenantcy
increased during the last 10 years, the
1920 number being 2,454,746, compar-
ed with 2,354.6766 in 1910.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
HIGH WAGES WILL RETURN
WAGE FARMERS NEVER RELNQUZSH PROGRESS THEY WIN
DURING WARS--ALL THAT LABOR
GAINS 1T HOLDS
Following Cuts Come Increases in Pay Which Become
Permanent, Committee Discovers

In a search for information as to
wages paid throughout the world, the
ways and means committee of the
house of representatives has collected
mass of data that is being made
available for analysis and compari-
SON. In its search the committee sent
experts into almost every civilized
country and unearthed a mine of ma
terial.
One important conclusion is reach
ed in making this analysis that will
hearten the millions of American
workers who are just now undergoing
a wage deflation. 1t is that nowhere
in modern history have wages reced-
ed, except for a comparatively brief
time, after a great war. They always
went back to the wartime level and
then began to climb again.
All that labor ever gained is held.
1t will hold, inevitably, all that it won
during the world war.
Another discovery of the committee
is that no workman in the world gets
| the pay of the American, just as he
i tops the workers of all other nations
in efficiency and production.
Records of the average American
wage paid prior to and after the Civil
war are in existence. The committee
has gone back 80 years in our indus
trial life and finds that the average
wage paid in 1910 was 33 per cent of
that paid in 1913. When the Civil
war started the average was 40 per
cent of the 1913 standard In four
years the average wage increased al
most SO per cent, standing in 1865
at SO per cent of the 1913 standard
Three years later situation almost
parallel with that existing two years
after close of the world war, wages
had increased more than 60 per cent
over the 1861 standard. They con-
tinued to rise till 1873, when the in
crease was nearly 80 per cent. Then
came the lean years of 1878-1880, and
wages dropped back to the level of
1866. 1t took labor ten years to re-
gain it's lost ground, SO that wages
did not again equal the 1873 record
until 1890. From then on they climb
ed, principally by reason Of organized
labor, though a period of depression
in 1894 and 1895 checked their pro-
gress somewhat.
In it's world wide search the COM
mittee went back over 70 years
through the records of Westminster
abbey, the tower of London and Buck
ingham palace. It's first records start
with the year 1852 and cover wages
paid in the building trades in Eng
land. Carpenters, masons, bricklay-
ers and plumbers then received the
equivalent Of 6 cents day and board
ed themselves and their families or
it. Unskilled laborers were paid 9
penny and three farthings-3R cents
No doubt this was the root of "nOr-
malcy."
Then the climb began. In 1880
when Edward the Black Prince was
winning his victories in France, the
carpenters back home had advanced
their wages to 8 cents day. A cen
tury later, when Henry V fought the
battle of Agincourt, the carpenter al
home was getting IL cents. He re-
ceived no increase for century. But
when Mary, queen of Scots, was be-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
WHAT is "BEST CITI-
ZEN?"

Baltimore. States Attorney Leach
has notified the grand jury that 80
per cent of the retail coal dealers of
this city have entered into combi-
nation to fix retail prices, and that
this offense constitutes a criminal
conspiracy.
81 am not unmindful of the fact, y
says the official, "that among the re-
tail coal dealers are many of our best
citizens"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
MAY RENEW INSUR-
ANCE

Washington.-New rulings by the
bureau of war risk insurance are of
Importance to ex-service men, as they
liberalize regulations under which
lapsed or Cancelled war risk term in
surance may be reinstated or con-
verted.
The feature of most Importance is
the provision that term insurance
that has lapsed or has been Cancelled
may, regardless of how long the ap-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15

plicant has been discharged, be rein
stated or reinstated and converted to
government life insurance at any
time prior to the first of the year.
The new regulations supersede a
previous ruling that limited the time
for reinstatement to July l, 1921.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-07-15
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COOPERS RESIST CUT

Boston.-Coopers employed by the
American Stave and Cooperage Com
pany are striking against wage reduc-
tions. The shop is controlled by the
Lucas E. Moore stave company and
has large interests in southern states.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
TEACHERS INVITED
TO USE NEW BUREAU

In letter received by County
School Superintendent j. C. Marriott
school teachers and schoolmen in
Knox county are invited and urged to
make use freely of the services of the
Bureau OF Educational Research"
newly organized as department OF
the Ohio State University.
Teachers are requested to bring be-
fore the bureau for advice and sug-
gestion such problems as they may
have touching the better grading of pu-
pills. teacher rating. or the organiza-
ton of junior high school or the
testing of an administration system,
any Of the 1901 perplexing and knotty
problems constantly coming up. The
bureau does not promise solution in
all cases but it does promise the best
information available having at its
command large library OF soource
material as well as drawing upon the
knowledge and skill of the members
of the o. $. a. faculty.
The o. s. u. Is required to maintain
this bureau by recently enacted stat
ute,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
WILLIAM PICKERING
is CALLED BY DEATH


CENTRRBURG, Oct 15-wil,iam
A. Pickering, aged "a years, a life.
long resident of Five Corners died at
1880 o'clock this morning at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. f. C. Gilbert,
who resides two. miles east of this
place. Death was due to paralysis, af-
ter an illness of three years.
Besides his daughter, he leaves one
brother. Smith Pickering of Mansfield
and sister, Mrs. Mary Trott, of Mt.
Liberty.
Funeral services will occur at 1890
O'Clock Monday at the home, with Rev
j. A. Long Of Mt. Vernon officiating
Burial will be made in the Bird GENE.
terry.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18

Harmony club and Thursday club at
the home of Mrs. j. N. Gould Thurs
day afternoon.
Arthur Kirby. formerly of this place,
who went to Ontario to make his
home several years ago, has been in
town visiting friends and relatives
this week. Banner is good hearted
old soul and has lost none of sociabil-
ity by advanced years.
Mrs. Retta Bermont ana her sis
ter, Mrs. McClead, are in Columbus
visiting relatives.
Miss Rose Dawson Is in Toledo at
tending convention of the w. G. T.
IT,, in which she is member Of the
executive committee.
Mr. and Mrs Frank E. Bone visited
Utica relatives Tuesday.
George B. Mclaughlin, who has
been spending the summer at Utica
was our guest the first of the week EN-
route to Akron, where he will spend
the winter.
w. r. Herendeen was called to In
diana the first of the week by the i'll
ness of a sister.
The annual rabbit pie supper of the
Methodist Brotherhood has been
scheduled for Nov 1S. All rabbits and
afilnities are hereby given due notice.
The Community club will hold its
regular meeting Tuesday, Oct. 1S, at
3 o'clock in the rest room Of the high
school building. Let's become little
more public spirited. There are few
things about our village that could be
improved. Let's get busy and do our
part.
The Columbus Entertainers, to be
heard here in the high school audi
torium on Oct. 20, have toured some
Of the largest chautauqua lcrcuits in
America. For two seasons they were
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
FRY IS VICTIM Of
VICIOUS ASSAULT

Robert Fry, 20G Chester street, EN-
ployed In the mechanical department
of the Daily Banner, was the victim
of vicious assault Thursday night by
a person whose identity Is not known.
Fry was walking along the river
bank with his dog, near the "big dam"
north OF the city, when someone
stepped out of the dark shadows and
struck him heavy blow on the left
side of the head with sharp instru-
ment. Fry was rendered unconscious
for several minutes. He was brought
back to Mt, Vernon by number OF
companions. Fry was given surgical
attention, several stitches being re-
quired to close the wounds on his left
ear.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
DATENANT0NN

People from this place are certainly
enjoying the fine new pike extending
from Fredericktown to this place and
on towards Leverlng,9
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyril Pritchard had as
their guests Sunday, Cloyde Mckee
and family, Roy Simmons and family
and Archie Booze and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. X. X. Bateman were
Mt Vernon visitors on last Tuesday,
Mrs C. ]. Mann of Fredericktown
spent Wednesday with her daughter
Mrs. Ray Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert T. Rucker en-
tertained with an s o'clock dinner last
Saturday evening the following Mr.
and Mrs, Roy Simmons and children
Mr.. and Mrs Archie Booze and chill
dren, and Mr.. and Mrs. Cloyd Mckee
and children.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
SEATS NOW ON SALE
FOR -FOUR HORSEMEN'

There will be shown at the Vine
Thursday matinee. Oct. goth, and
twice daily thereafter, what is in all
portability the greatest achievement
ever accomplished for the silver
screen. 1t is the picture version Of
the famous novel by Vicente Blasco
Ibanez, "The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse"
No film since the inception of the ST.
lent drama has caused deeper i'm
preston, and certainly none has in
volved such collosal outlay of time,
PERSONNEL and cash. The cosmopoli-
tan appeal of the novel is unparallel-
ed in recent times, and the picturized
version is said by eminent critics to
reflect Ibanez's tremendous dramatic
feeling and profound psychological
analysis in manner as remarkable
as it is impressive. The picture has
proven to be nothing short of sen
sation in the great populace centers
of the United States. The most prom
inent dramatic critics have discussed
it by the column, and it has brought
forth emphatic demonstrations of APP
proval fro ma large number of emf
nent publcists and leading public
men.
The sale of seats for the entire en-.
gagement opened at the theatre box
office today Performances will be
given twice daily at 2:15 and S:15
Mail orders wnen accompanied by
check will receive the same attention
as If the purchasers applied in per
son at the box office. This will be a
convenience for out-of-town purchas
ers.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
MOVIE IVAN SHOOTS
AS STACK GOES Down
Big Crowd At Buckeye City
Witnesses IS Foot Brick
Stack Dismantled

Before crowdyof 500 spectators and
with Raymond Iden shooting" motion
pictures, a big S5-foot brick stack was
taken down at Buckeye City Thursday
afternoon by Samuel Clark and son,
Clarence's force of men of Mt. Yer.
non.
The brick stack was owned by the
Pennsylvania railroad and was erect
ed in the year 1874. A big crowd
gathered to see the work of dismant.
ling the stack, and Iden, the Mt Yer.
non moving picture man, obtained
some good scenes of the work of the
wreckers in tearing down the stack.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
FREDER|CKTOWN

Mrs. Charles A. Alderman enter
tanned ladies on Monday and Tuesday
at | O'Clock dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Hyatt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Tuttle ana daughter, Miss
Louise, were in Columbus this week
to see Way Down East"
Miss Libbie Foote has returned
from Magnetic Springs, where she
took treatment.
number of the members of Thrall
lodge, j.. & A. NJ, have opened a club
room over Wagner's clothing store A
billiard table card tables and other
amusements will be installed. The
club will be known as the Carey club.
William +. Edwards made a busi-
ness trip through Illinois the past
week in the interests of the Edwards
Sheet Metal works. He also visited
relatives at Bloomington.
The Danville high school football
eleven was scheduled for game here
with Fredericktown high, Friday.
Mrs. w. b. Johnson, Anna Castner
and Maud McKiernan entertained
with luncheon at the home of the for
mer Tuesday afternoon. Thirty or
more ladies were present.
Miss Edna Speaks has been elected
manager of the girls basketball team
and Evelyn Ilettnger captain. They
| will begin practice next week
Hundreds of chimney swallows have
been making their home in the chin.
ney at the high school building the
past summer. The other morning,
when the janitor started fire in the
furnace, there was an awful commo'
ton in the chimney, with noise sim
liar to an airplane and there arose
from the chimney the hundreds of
swallows that had made that their
home. They arose in the air to con
siderable height and for an hour or
more circled above the building, and
finally flew away to the southwest
and have not returned.
The West Side club entertained the
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
on THE:
WAY TO A|VkENYT0WN
Go To Secure First Hand In
formation Relatives To
Oilwell In Berlin Twp.

Reports Of big oil well drilled by
Burney e Stevens, in the neighbor-
hood of Ankenytown, in Berlin town
ship, have had the effect of exciting
great interest in that field, which long
had been regarded as worked out
Friday, numerous parties of investi-
gators and prospectors we're on their
way to Ankenytown with the avowed
purpose of securing first hand infor.
nation. If the well proves to be any.
thing nearly as good as 1t is reputed
there promises to develop a lively
scramble for leases and territory in
northern Knox county.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
DANV|llE

Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Sellers were CO.
lumbus visitors Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Staats spent
Friday at Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. T. Gaines were Co.
shocton visitors Thursday.
Mr. Dwight H. Hyatt was business
visitor at North Liberty, Thursday.
Mr.. John. Peterson and Mr.. William
Greer were Newark visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. Rice and children
spent the weekend with relatives at
Flushing,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles McClintock
and children spent Saturday and Sun
day with relatives at Bowerstown.
Mr., Harley Sapp attended the fair
at Coshocton.
Paul and Harry Loney were busi
ness visitors at Bladensburg Thurs
day.
Mr.. C. Wilson of New Castle was
calling on friends here Friday,
Mr. Clifford Newton of Canton spent
Sunday here with friends.
Roscoe Leonard was a Columbus
visitor Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Johnson OF
Newark are visiting relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orley Workman of
Pittsburgh are spending few days
here with Mr. Workmans mother
Lloyd Logsdon of Columbus spent
Sunday here with relatives.
w. b. Payne of Pomeroy was a
weekend visitor here.
ID. b. high school football team trav-
eled to Fredericktown Friday. They
were accompanied by large crowd
of rooters.
r. B. Lybarger went to Hendricks
burg Monday on business.
Rev w. ]. Duhadway is moving to
Nevada, o.
Mr.. and Mrs. ], r. Blubaugh were
visitors at the county seat Tuesday.
DR.. C. II. Sellers attended the dental
meeting at Newark Thursday.
Miss Joey Workman spent Wednes'
day at Mt. Vernon.
The East Ohio began drilling No. 2
on the Mavs farm Monday.
Fred Carver was Columbus visit
or Friday.
A crowd of football lovers attended
the Kenyon game at Gambler Satur
day.
Mr.. A. Hunter of Oklahoma is Wis
iting friends here,
Mr. C. Johnson of Cambridge was
Danville visitor Tuesday.
Mr.. Cassie Laymon of Gambler was
calling on friends here Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Sevits o
Loudonville spent Sunday here.
Mr.. Frank Edgar of Kentucky spen
Sunday here with his brother, WI
liam
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
BIRTHS

A son was born Friday evening to
Mr.. and Mrs. David Lit of Hunt Sta.
tion.
son was born Saturday morning
to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mcpherson
OF Monroe Mills
A son was born Thursday night TO
Mr.. and Mrs, Jules Biefnes.
o
A daughter was born Friday morn
ine ut the NJ. a. S. sanitarlum to Mr..
and Mrs, Florin Carr of Oak street.
80 .
A son was born Friday morning Ia
Mr.. and Mrs, Guy Elder. new Gambler
iroad.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-10-18
TWO VOTING PLACES
FOR PIKE TOWNSHIP
Precinct A To Be Located At
Amity And Precinct B
Az North Liberty

Two voting precincts were provided
for Pike township by the Knox county
board of elections at a meeting held
Friday evening
Precinct A will be located at Amity.
and Precinct B will be at North Lib
erty. Stores in the two villages will
be used for voting places.
The board of elections also granted
authority to the voters of Pike town.
ship to vote on three.mill levy for
five years, for school purposes.