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The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-07-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Noa Thompson of Los
Angeles, Cal, formerly of Chicago,
are in the city spending few days
with the family. Mr.. DeKoven
Thompson, Mrs. Hazel Thompson
and Mrs. Harry Brown and other
members. Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson
are enroute to New York from whence
they sail for France to look condi-
tons over there. Mr.. Thompson is
on the staff of one of the largest
dailies in Los Angeles and Mrs.
Thompson is a writer of drama.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-07-30
Small Boy Jumps From Car, Hurt
Greenlee Returns

DIR. Ncllo B. Grcenlec. who is en-
ploycd BY the government, is in the
city after an extensive tour through
Canada His headquarters are in In
dianapolis. Ind.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-07-30
DR.. Layton Here From New York

Mr.. Thomas Layton OF New York
has arrived in the city and will make
the old town his home He is stopping
at the Wabash Y. NJ. c. A.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
SHALL CHAOS PREVAIL
IN THE PRINTING INDUSTRY?-A. F. OF l.. EX-
ECUTIVE COUNCIL URGES ORGANIZED LABOR
TO ACT AGAINST CONTRACT-BREAKING
EMPLOYERS
Publicity Will Aid Printing Trades i'm the Fight Make
Men Keep Their Pledged Word

publicity as possible should be given
the campaign.
at should be pointed out that if
the breaking employers are
successful it will place a premium on
contract breaking. The trade union
movement believes in the maintenance
of contracts. 1t has no patience with
those who break them. The union
label will therefore be the most eff
fective weapon that can be used
against those who have paralyzed the
printing industry for purposes of
greed and to establish autocratic
methods of treating the workers.
This is q matter of great moment
Every union man in America should
aid the printers. Victory for the
printers will establish the fact that
contract breaking is a disreputable
act and should receive the odium it
deserves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
WANT PROMISE
KEPT
|.

San Francisco.-The convention of
the California state federation of la
Dor has called upon District Attorney
Brady of this city to Immediately
carry out his publicly made promise
to assemble all of the new facts re-
vealed in the Mooney and Billings
cases and submit same to the gov
ernor.
The convention declared. "The po-
sition taken by the federation has
been more than confirmed by events
of the past year; namely, the con.
fession of perjury by John Mcdonald
the confessions of Draper Hand, de.
tective of the notorious bomb bu.
reau'; the testimony of Hatcher OF
Woodland as to the perjuries of f. C
Oxman, and the admissions of James
Brennan, former assistant district at
torney, as to the insufficiency of evi
dence.
These men have now been impris
oned for five years for crime which
they are palpably guiltless, and upol
evidence which is now demonstrated
to have constituted deliberate frame
up"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

The bosses being organized and the
workers being unorganized, disorgan-
lied really, the bosses fix the work
ers' pay as they will and tell them
how many hours they must put in for
it. 1t is a take it or leave it" atti-
tude, with all the advantage on the
side of the boss.
In the old days, before men organ
lied, the condition of the workers was
little better than that of serfs. The
12-hour and 14-hour workday were
common and the wage paid was only
enough to keep body and soul to-
gether Only by organization has la
Dor brought about its present stand
ards.
In this fight against the open shop,
a big responsibility is laid upon the
unions and particularly upon the
union leaders. Violence, intimidation,
high handed methods these, deplored
and condemned by the great mass of
union men, never have helped the
cause of labor and never can. Sober,
intelligent leadership, honesty and
Continued on page two)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

The Cincinnati Post in it's issue of
Friday December 2nd, contained a
first page article on the Open Shop
that has attracted widespread atten-
ton of all classes. Accompanying the
article was cartoon by Stanlay
showing the world upheld and sup
ported on the shoulders of Labor. The
cartoon furthef~-shows the dark hand
of the Open Shop reaching out with
sharp pointed claws to pull down from
under the world its main support
Labor. The cartoon would picture the
world sinking into the dark depths of
despair should the deep plot and big
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

Washington.-Let organized labor
everywhere tell the story of contract
breaking by employing printers, who
have forced nationwide strike of
employees in this industry, recon-
mends the A. F. of l.. executive coun-
Gil in statement signed by President
Gompers and Secretary Morrison.
Trade unionists are urged to form
committees to acquaint the public
with the treachery of these business
men who would establish chaos and
broken promises for the pledged word
between men. The statement is as
follows:
"To All Organized Labor:
"The printing trades unions have
been forced intu struggle not of
their own making. After the en-
ploying printers of the country had
the 44-hour week on May |, 1921, they
began an insidious campaign to break
it. They demanded reduction in
wages, the establishment of the So
called open shop, and used every
other method to force the printing
trades in the book and job offices to
cease work before May /, 1921 This
was part of the hostile campaign of
various interests to destroy all the
printing trades unions. When May
arrived the employers absolutely re-
fused to grant the 44-hour week and
the members of the printing trades
unions were compelled to cease work
They were locked out by the contract
breakers.
Every state and city central body
and all local unions, should come to
the support of the printing trades in
a practical way. They should resent
in most emphatic manner the vic.
lation by the employing printers OF
the contract to establish the 44-houl
week. This can be done by urging al
Aympathizers of labor, and those who
are opposed to the action of the EN-.
ploying printers in breaking THEN
contract, to require the allied printing
trades label upon all matter printed
for them.
Committees should be appointed tt
wait upon the fair-minded busines:
men and acquaint them with the in
justice done the printers. AS mucl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
"CAN'T-STRIKE" LAWS
OF AUSTRALIA NO LONGER PRAISED BY THE BIG
INTERESTS AS IDEAI-"NOT EVEN GOOD
FOR U.s. THEY SAY
Labor Newspapers of the Country Voice the Workers
Belief That Employers Want Free Hand
i'm Wage Reductions

Melbourne, Australia.-The tinsel
of Australian "can't-strike" laws is
exposed as employers discover that
this scheme does not make workers
"contented."
No longer is compulsory arbitration
praised. No longer is this country
referred to as "the land without
strikes"
Instead, employers are openly an
tagonistic to the plan, and this senti-
ment is being voiced by reactions
agents in the lawmaking bodies.
Premier Bardwell, of New South
Wales, has declared in favor of wip-
ing out the entire federal and state
compulsory arbitration system.
Under the wage-fixing powers of
the federal arbitration court, Justice
Higgins endeavored to carry out the
wage intent of the law, but he has
been driven from office.
Recently the federal government
appointed a basic wage commission,
and Premier Hughes agreed to abide
by it's decision. The government has
since rejected the award, and Justice
Powers, of the arbitration board, de-
clares that the industries of Australia
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09


indeed there are today in Ohio fac
tories in which union and nonunion
men work side by side at wage rate
and under conditions compatible with
the union standards But the en-
ployer hasn't always the full say. He
is subject to circumstances and the
conditions of competition. Standing
together, workers can resist unfair
ness. Fighting single -handedly,
which is the only kind of fighting they
can do under the open shop, they can
accomplish nothing. For instance, un-
der the open shop there is nothing to
prevent an employer from taking ad-
vantage of the present widespread
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

unemployment, driving bargains with
hungry men-individually not collec-
lively, playing off one man against
another, whipping them one at time.
Let only one employer in an industry
adopt this policy and all other en-
ployers in that industry would be
compelled to follow suit They would
have to or competition would put them
out of business.
1t is an undeniable fact that under
the open shop an employer CAN re-
duce wages and upset working condi-
tions and however fair-minded and
humane, he WILL do this rather than
be put out of business by competition.
Little of the effect of the open shop
can be seen at this stage of the war in
Ohio. 1t will be years before the full
crop of the open shop sowing will be
ripe, but the harvest is certain and
the fruit will be bitter.
Collective bargaining goes by the
board under the open shop Without
collective bargaining down go wages
and up go hours; back to the dark
ages of industrialism for the worker
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09

cannot afford to meet these rates. 1t
has now developed that he arrived at
this conclusion through figures that
the trade unions were not permitted
to see. Labor members in the federal
parliament demanded that the figures
be made public, but the government
replied: "It is a confidential COM
munication"
The Australian Worker declares
that this lis a scandalous reversion of
all principles of equity that courts
decision should be influenced by secret
testimony"
Other Australian labor newspapers
voice the workers belief that en-
ployers want a free hand in wage re-
ductions, and will smash the very
thing that they praised but few
years ago.
The Daily Herald, of Adelaide,
South Australia, says: "If the arbi-
tration courts are to go it will not
very much matter to the rank and
file of the workers so long as they
determine to stick together In fact,
the attitude of the capitalists, as per-
sonified by Premier Bardwell, may be,
indeed, blessing in Disguise"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-09
WAR FOR THE "OPEN SHOP
TO BE WAGED VIGOROUSLY BY ANTLUNIONISTS WITH OHIO
AS MAIN BATTLE-GROUND, DECLARES CINCINNATI
POST IN STRONG ARTICLE
Newspaper Calls Attention Big Responsibility Laid Upon
Particularly Upon Union Leader This Time

fight of the anti-unionists to estab-
lish the Open Shop throughout the
country be successful
The article as It appeared in the
Post follows:
Ohio has become main battle
ground of the open shop war, now be-
ing waged in various Industries by
employers associations throughout
the land
Fifty thousand Ohio workers have
been involved this year in struggles
in which the open shop has been an
issue.
Open shop strikes or lockouts now
in progress in Ohio affect the follow
ing crafts: Job printing trades in
every large city in the state, the milk
drivers and pattern makers in Cleve-
land, the electrical workers in Toledo,
building trades in Toledo, building
trades in Youngstown and Elyria,
molders in Alliance and Massillon,
street railway workers in Dayton,
Erie Railroad shop workers in Ma
rion, enginemen in Nelsonville brick
plants. Attempts earlier in the year
were made to force the open shop,
with partial success, in various crafts
in Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Spring
field
A man or woman, not a member of
a labor union, is likely to say, "Well,
what about it? What do | care about
the unions 1t won't make any diff
! ference to me if the unions are
smashed"
But it will make difference to you.
1t will make difference to all of us.
If the open shop triumphs generally,
| followed as eventually it must be by
reductions in wages and increases in
working hours, the prosperity of the
entire community will be affected.
The merchant will suffer because
low wages can't buy as often or as
much as high wages.
The money shortage will operate all
along the line until it hits the pro
fessional man, none harder than the
doctor, the dentist, the lawyer
The unorganized worker, whether
in shop or office, suffers because it
is impossible to injure one part of the
economic body without affecting the
body as whole.
We are of two groups, we Ameri-
cans-those who can live without
working and those who can't. All OF
the latter group will be affected by
the success or failure of the open shop
movement and good many of the
former group, whether they realize il
now or not.
Hence the open shop movement be-
comes something more than dispute
between corporations and unions. i
is a matter of vast public concern
meriting the sober, analytical atten
tion of every believer in fair play anc
the maintenance of American stand
ards.
The open shop almost always means
the closed shop-closed to all mer
who believe that in union there il
strength and that only by organizing
! as their employers are organized, car
! they obtain and maintain recognition
! of their rights,
! There are employers who say the.
want the open shop merely because
, they dislike to deal with the unions
They say they are for high wages ant
good working conditions DOUBTLESS
many of these men are sincere, AM
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-16

and referred to the Committee on
Streets;
WHEREAS, the City Council has
heretofore authorized the purchase of
approximately 1000 barrels of cement,
and
WHEREAS, a reduction of ten
cents IOc) per barrel on the price was
agreed upon, if bills were paid within
ten lO) days;
THEREFORE Belt RESOLVED BY
THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUN-
en- OF THE CITY OF MANITO-
voc, that the Mayor and City Clerk
are hereby instructed and authorized
to issue necessary orders in payment
for the said cement upon the presenta-
ton of invoice and filing of the report
aud 20. H." of the Street Commits
sioftr.
Resolution that boat belonging for
merly to the South Side Bathing Beach
be returned by the Police Department,
was referred to the Sanitation Com
millcc,
Committee to whom was referred
communication from John j. Kelley
President, recommending that Utility
Funds be used to pay off Land Con-
tracts on parks and gravel pit, re-
turned same with the following recon-
mcndation:
"Your Committee of Finance recon-
mcnds that the balance due on pur-
chase price of Lincoln Park, West Side
Fairgrounds and Gravel Pit, amount
ing to the principal sum of $l6,42s.56,
together with interest thereon to June
10, 1921, be paid out of Public UtiI-
tie, Funds as recommended by Utili-
lies Commissions"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-16

Balance May 81, 1921. S269, S3+.30
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed)
WILLIAM c. HERMANN,
City Treasurer,
Mayor filed the following veto on
Band Resolution adopted at the special
session of the Common Council, held
May 81, 1921;
TO THE COMMON COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF MANITOWOC,
Gentlemen:
AT special meeting of this Board,
held May 81, 1921 you passed a resolu-
ton, providing that there be taken
from available funds in the City Treas
urer the sum of $3,500.00, to be used
for the purpose of paying for ten band
concerts to be held in our City parks
during the summer months. | here
with beg to inform you that | can not
approve of said action for the follow
ing reasons:
l. Because all expenditures of City
funds should be made with regard to
budget provisions.
q There was only 100000 provided
for band concerts In the annual tax
budget.
g. Moneys collected in taxes for
other purposes would have to be taken,
thereby making II necessary to curtail
activities in other departments, detri-
mental to those departments,
T. Because it would increase mate
rally the large deficit now existing in
our general City Treasury.
5. Taxes are high and are a burden
on the people, and this would result in
still higher taxes, which the taxpayer
at this time, of very little or no EN-
ployment, would hardly be able to
meet. without depriving themselves and
families things of absolute necessity.
q. For the further reason that 1t is
absolutely necessary, for this Council!
to curtail the expenditures of City
moneys where they can possibly do so,
so that needed and necessary improve
ments, such as new School and
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-16

order To Hear Petition For Final Settlement
IN PROBATE-MANITOWoC COUNTY COURT
In the matter OF the Estate of Carl
Reimer, Deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Emma
Grams eXeCutriX of the Estate of
said deceased for the adjustment and allow
ance of bis administration account land the
assignment of the residue Of said Estate to such
other persons rs are by law entitled to the
same):
1t is ordered, that said account be examined,
adjusted and allowed at Il regular term Of said
Court to be held at the Office of the County
Judge in the city of Manitowoc, in said County,
on Tuesday, the 9TH day Of July, A.
d. 1921
1t Is further ordered, that upon the adjust.
ment and allowance of such account 10y this
Court as aforesaid the residue of said Estate
be- by the further order and judgment OF this
Court assigned to such persons as are by law
entitled to the same
1t il further ordered that notice of the time
and place of examination and allowance of
such account, and of the assignment of the
residue of said Estate, be given to all persons
Interested by publication Of this order for
three successive weeks before said day in the
Manitowoc Pilot, weekly newspaper printed
and published at the City of Mantowoc and
State of Wisconsin
DaUed june, Bird 1921
by the Court,
JOHN CHLOUPEK,
County Jud
Kelley Wyseman Attorneys.
Pub. June 3, ID, %,
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NOT ICE 70 PROVE WILL AND
Kelley a Wyseman Attorneys.
Pub. June 9, 10, %,


STATE Of " lsCoNsIN, COUNTY Court, MA"rro-
woe COUNTY IN PROBATE
In Re Estate OF William BOettcker Deceas cd
NOTICE lSHEREBY GIVEN, That at the special
Term of said Court to be held on the first
Tuesday being the 9TH day. of July A.
d. 1921, ut the Court House in the Cit y Of Man
itowoc County Of ManitCwoc and State OF Wis
consin, there will be heard and considered
the application Of Emele Boettcher to admit TO
probate the last Win and Testament OF William
Boettcher, late OF the Village of Reedsville, in
said County, deceased and for the appoint
ment of an administrator with Will annexed;
Notice Is Hereby Further Given That ut
the general Term of said Court to be held at
said Court House, on the LIST Tuesday,
(heing the 4th day of October, A. D., 1871
there will be heard, considered and adjusted
all claims against said William Boettcher de-
ceased
And NOTICE Is HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN. That
all such claims for examination and allowance
must be- presented 10 said County Court at the
Court House in the City of Nanitowoc in said
County and stare on or before the 9th day of
September, A. ID 1921 or be barred.
Dated May q, 1871
BY the Court
JOHN CHLOUPEK.
County Judge.
Hougeu Brady & Meyer, Attorneys
Pub June g. TO- g.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-16

In the District Court OF the United States for
the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
In the matter of John Gesell, Bankrupt,-ln
Bankruptcy.
To the creditors of John Gesell Of Two
Rivers, in the county of Manitowoc, and dis
trict aforesaid a bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the Sth day Of
june a ID. 1921 the said John Gesell was
duly adjudcated bankrupt and that the first
meeting of his creditors will be held at the
office of the undersigned referee, in the Muel-
Ter Block in the city of Sheboygan, in said dis
trict, on the 9th day of June A d. 1921, at
o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the
said creditors may attend prove their claims
appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt and
transact such other business as may properly
come before said meeting.
A. q. PRESCOTT,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
ub June lG-lt
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lies Commission
(Signed)
OTTO A. NOGEL.
WALTER A. KAZDA
FRANK DRUMM
Upon motion on roll call, Commit
tees report was accepted and unani-
mou,Iy adopted Ayes l3-Nays, none.
After being given permission Mr.. c.
G.. West addressed the Council in re-
gard to dredging the Mantowoc River,
Motion made that the City Clerk be
instructed and authorized to advertise
for bids for dredging Mantowoc River,
all members voting Aye except Klus-
meyer, Drumm and Staalson Ayes 10
Nays, 3.
Committee to whom was referred
the following Cemetery Perpetual Care
Tenders, returned sarue recommending
acceptance.
Jacob A. Williams, 10000 Liberty
Bond, Lot ,, Block ll8, Section "E1a".
Mrs. Henry Flick, 10000, Lot /,
Block +, Section a.,
Upon motion on roll call, Commit
tee, report was accepted and the
money placed into the City Treasury.
Ayes l3 Nays, none.
Committee to whom was referred
resolution that carctaker Of Isolation
Hospital grounds be directed to take
care Of such grounds under the super
vision of the Sexton Of Evergreen
Cemetery, returned same recommend
ug adoption Upon motion on roll
cali. Committees report was accepted
and the resolution unanimously adopt
ed. Ayes l3 Nays, none.
After being given permission Mr..
John Plumb addressed the Council in
regard to Lincoln Park,
Motion made that communication of
Benjamin Franklin Bureau in regard to
Irish Republic be placed on file, all
members voting Aye except Revoinsky,
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Z, And for the further reason that,
100000 has been provided for in the
regular budget for band concerts and
can be increased to the necessary
amount required by general subscrip-
ton, donations or numerous other
means can be used to raise the neces-
sary fund to insure the holding of
band concerts in our parks, which we
all enjoy.
For the above stated reasons deem
1t my duty to,disapprove of and here
by do disapprove of and veto the said
resolution. (Signed)
NJ
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Balance May 81, l92l... 1868, S34.30
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed)
WILLIAM c. HERMANN,