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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16
ORGANIZING SILK
WORKERS

New York.-An organizing cam
paign among silk workers has been
begun by the United Textile Work
ers of America. The movement is
being carried on by men and women
trained in the textile industry and ex-
perienced in organizing work. The
need of the workers in the silk tex
tile industry for the support OF the
organized labor guarantees the sue
cess of the efforts that will be put
forth to help them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16
UNEMPLOYMENT
GROWS

Cleveland-Figures issued by the
Cleveland Trust Company show an
employment shrinkage of 45 per cent
in 55 plants which year ago employ
ed 12,262 women workers and in
June, this year, employed GILT.
Regarding men workers the report
shows that in so plants employing
$4,000 workers year ago, on August
lst this year there were only 2O,950
employed. Last year the average
weekly earnings of unskilled workers
in these plants was $28; now it is re-
ported as $16.800, slash of 40 per
cent.
1t is interesting to note that the
same authority shows that out of
every thousand automobiles in the
world, 843 are owned in the United
States-but not, it may safely be as
sumed, by the workers who are sub
jects of the Cleveland Trust Com
pany report.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16
ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS

Tim Farley, GOT Hanover st.
Albert Brown, sol S. Monument Av.
Ernest R. Legg, 326 So. 7th st.
VIM. Kiley, Secretary. 635 Minor Ave.
SEVERN Amiot, 708 S. 9Th St.
Robert Mick, 500 So. Front st.
VIM. Elsie, Sec'y, 1116 E. Ludlow.
Grant King, $40 S. 5th st.
Geo. NJ Diegmann, 1O5 N. Kahn Ave.
Frank Venable, All N. Second st.
..... VIM. Biddinger, Secy., Post Office
S, Secy., 215 Chestnut; Phone 1222-R
Edgar Smith, Secy.. 638 Chestnut st.
Walter L. Furry, 9O3 North d st.
Harry Conrad, 423 So. 18th st,
Arthur McGuffin, 2460 Benninghofen
j. Edward Lehmkuhl, $40 No. 3rd st.
Geo. Branded, 1888 Mt Pleasant Pike
f. Durwin, 518 S. 7th; Phone 3014-X
Delbert Lenhoff, 180 Progress Ave.
Lester L. Long, Sec, 1929 Heaton Ave
Robert A. Fallert, 52l Prytania Ave
Carl Reister, 1882 Hensley Ave.
j. P. Kuenzel, R. R. No. 8.
Chas. Butts, r. r. No. 6.
William j. Welsh, care Nose Home.
Jack Scheaf, 529 Maple Ave.
}. Box 318; Phone 738-R.
Carl Windsor, r. r. 8.
Eta Streioick, Secy., 726 East Ave.
} B. Christman, 525 w. Central Ave-
West Carrolton, Ohio.
Clyde A. Reagle, Ill Charles st.
R. G. Fitzgerald.
Arthur Emmons, 108 E. Third st.
VIM Bunnell, 709 Vanderveer st.
E. 0. Otterbein, 210 So Harrison Ave.
Murray Johnson, West Middletown.
j. A. Price, 205 So. Harrison Ave.
Frank Jacobs, 1902 So. Main st.
J. Earl R. Price, Post Office.
Philip Fay, 631 Garfield ST.
R. C. Oglesby, care News-Signal.
/. Lytle, GIL Hill St., Middletown, Ohio
c. A. Reagle, Ill Charles St.
T. A. Scully, 306 Castell Bldg.
Frank Smith, 301 e. First st.
rket Street, Hamilton, Ohio
George Rempe, 1902 Yankee Rd
C. E. Long, 727 Grant st
Jos. g. Howells, Franklin, Ohio
Frank Boice, 726 Clarendon st.
Richard E. Gross. 920 Yankee Rd.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16
LEATHER WORKERS GAIN

Bethel, Vt.-A wage agreement CIV
ing gains to the workers has been
entered into between the local man.
ufacturers and the members of the To-
cal of the United Leather Workers
Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-16
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS

Trades Council Tues
Brew 53 h Friday T. c.
BARRIERS Mondays, Hall No
Brkayers End and 4h Tuesdays, T. c. Ha
Brotherhood Railway Temple
Cigar Makers Union No 1913 - End Mondays Temple
Bakers Union No 81 Saturday.
Carpenters Every Thurs, Labor Temple
CITY Fire Fighters No 20 .......-~ Tuesday, Hi
No Labor
Letter Carriers No. Tuesday, High Monument
We'd Labor Tenn, Homer Jones
Man Way and Bird Sundays L. T. Hal
Mod Union No 6S - Every Monday Labor lemple."""'
Auxiliary 4th Friday, Labor Tempe
Alternate Wed. T. c. No
Musicians High and Monument
Alternate Wed, T. c.
Plumbers Union No 1o8 1st 8rd Mon Temple
Pattern Makers c. Hall
Hangers No Every Thursday, Labor Temple
Retail Clerks Mondays, Labor Temple
Stove Mounters Union No Fri,
Stationary Engineers No 81 list and 3rd Mon J. g.
Stationary 4th Thurs 338 High St-
swchmens Union No. Monday, Hall,
Stage Emp No. 1876 Sunday, T. c. Hall
Typographical O
3rd Thurs, c.
4th Fri, Labor Temple
1st Fri Mamsburg Sd FRI Hamilton Harry
MIDDLETowN UNIONS
Trades 3rd T. c. Hall
Building Trades Council Every Thurs, Leibee Bldg
Brcklavers No. 81 -- -- First and Bird Mon -
Carpenters No. 1477 Every Mon
Iron Steel following
Letter Carriers No 1s8
Metal Polishers No 4S ....... End and 4h Thurs -
Musicians A.
Franklin Ohio.~Arthur E.
Paint Dec, Paper Hangers No 6431st and 3rd We'd
Plumbers No. $40 and nd'4 4h Tues
X Mayer
Workers No 143 ."2nd and 4th Mon
232 other Sat
Stationary Firemen 264~.~..2nd
Typographical Union No 487.-"..."Fi First Fri"" ~.""
DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS
Louis
BUSINESS
Bell Phone
ed
Perpngon, Sycamore Phone 30Y.
VIM /. fronts
umbe Dedrck' enal Ave; Phone 1065-Y.
Theatrical E. Geo. Schuler, Maple
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
The First Anniversary

On January 10 dedicate oureves the unfinished work
which has been thus far nobly carried
The benefits brought by Constitutional Prohi
bon during the first year have the light
be greatest for the promotion of
the general welfare adopted by any government
But the victory complete Appetite and greed combined
still support and promote the illegal but not feess liquor traffic
Consequently many children do not yet
enjoy the blessings OF liberty from the mse degradation and
death caused by drink.
To make America completely and permanently dry dry MAORI
ties be maintained Prohibition laws Congress and
legislature Straight and strong enforcement officials be
maintained and supported enforcement office Public
opinion be enlightened that the people OF America will
willingly accept and effectively support the Eighteenth Amend
Every the Republic from the highest official who
his oath of Office to the lowest liquor law breakers who
violate of this land be forced to surrender
Let then this the first anniversary of Constitutional Pro-
hon American citizens loyal the Constitution and the whole
resolve full share make Prohibition
pcey all OF America in order full blessings
be realized and in order that Prohibition endure
blessing generations Christian
ernment to all the nations OF the earth
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
A Dry Organization in the State Legislature
BY the State Superintendent

The election OF Dalbeg speaker is decisive victory
the 1t the fair of dry bills in the lower
house Dahberg of the original dry in the legislature. lie
has always been Pohbon For he active leader
official in Good Tempar He dry from
and merely political Before the nation
Dabergs Nevertheless
made his fight the Prohibition issue with the Endorsement of the
AnSaloon League his campaigns for nomination and election
the legislature In each succeeding campaign Dahbere stood
squaey dry PLATFORM and repeatedly nominated and
elected He is serving his fourth The speaker who
the choice of his party attorney by profession
and he has already shown that he the spirit and the ability
of successful presiding officer
John P. Devnc of Dixon elected minority
the house winning this important position the practically solid
opposition of the in his party Mr. Devine made what
generally considered the decisive speech favor OF the law
enforcement in the last With dry minority
leader the floor anquor legislation will be
able consideration in the house
The organization Of the bids fair
of the House The president w Jewell of Lewstow
Mr. Jewell introduced the dry law enforcement in the last
session and led the fight for its passage in the
In the organization the legislature the political factions
nzed the growing sentiment for the dry supported
than those chosen dry The League
that would oppose any candidate who conomed
absolutely this rule connection with the organization OF
Legislature Governor Small is entitled credit supporting
dry for the office of speaker of the house
The organization of the Illinois General Assembly with
temporary speaker dry speaker dry minority leader and dry
president pro OF the marks and better day
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
Impurities" In Wood Alcohol

Since the Prohibition OF the manufacture and sale of grain
alcohol hundreds the the have
their lives have been permanently blinded by drinking wood
alcohol.
determined effort being made charge these dis
tressing the impurities alleged be contained
alcohol freely made that the ingestor
of attended by such dire This
however sheer unsupported by scintla dependable
evidence
Investigations of Somann NolW estern University
wood alcohol be poisonous than alcohol
showed that the impurities wood alcohol have
comparatively small toxcty that the real poisonous the
alcohol itself
This is only determined attempt prove alibi for
wood alcohol nsdous propaganda to alay popular
apprehension dangers liquors containing wood alcohol
Thousands illicit booze been
city and openly in New Jersey Docs anybody
wholesaler has been punished of business
or his bond forfeited because of unlawful transactions!
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
Prohibition is here to stay.

Prohibition is here to stay.
The people, when they have done
a thing by the slow and considered
method OF constitutional amend
ment. do not take it back.
At least, they never have done such
thing. They can, OF course, and
may restore slavery and dsfranchise
women, but il is hardly likely.
The new Congress and Senate. I'M
fortunately for the argument of those
whose view of Prohibition is that the
fanatics slipped something over on us
when We were looking the other way,
arc dryer than the last. There is no
immediate hope of relieving the Sa-
hara of boozelessness legislativcly for
some time at least.
Your little children are going to
grow up without ever having had the
privilege OF seeing corner saloon.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general ceun-
sellor for the AntiSaloon League,
called attention Thanksgiving eve to
the growing aridity, pointing out that
the Supreme Court and all federal
and state courts had upheld the pres
ent law, notwithstanding the unpre-
ccdented attacks made upon it.
Even the able Mr. Elihu Root was
not able enough to dent it.
Thirty eight states have co-operated
with the national government i'll en-
acting Prohibition enforcement laws.
Arrests for drunkenness through
out former wet territory have de-
creased 90 per cent.
All arrests have gone down 40 per
cent.
The crimes OF delinquency, trnancy
and child desertion have materially
lessened.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14

lated by many new national anti-Pfo-
hibition organizations: The Associ-
alton Opposed to the National Prohi-
bition; The Constitutional Liberty
Association, The Association OPP
posed to the Prohibition Amendment;
The Retail Malt Beverage Dealers
Association; The National Order OF
Cancels The National Constitutional
Personal Liberty League; The Good
fellows of America.
an addition number of other or
CARNATIONS are at work to create
hostile public sentiment and make
the enforcement of the law more diff
cut. This must be offset by great
campaign in favor of law and ORDER
Wheeler.
;. As to Publication:
Besides the hundreds OF newspapers
which are willing to champion the
liquor cause, some of the trade jour
nails" still doing business for booze
are: The Brewery Workers Jour
nal (Cincinnati); The National Bey-
erage Review; Harper's Wine and
Spirit Gazette; Justice, the New Jer-
sey liquor organ; The Licensing
World and Trade Review (London);
The Bachc Review On. y.
4. As to Violation:
Every week the newspapers carry
reports OF large raids and seizures
uncovering rum rings whose trans
actions run into millions OF dollars.
Men in high postion-governme
and revenue officials and even Con
gressmen being involved. Law vic.
lation through the channel of fake
medical preparations are enormous,
as is indicated by the fact that For.
merry there were about 100000 gallons
per month OF liquors withdrawn for
non-beverage purposes; today ii has
reached the alarming amount of T..
100000 gallons per month. wheeler.
All OF the above facts should re-
move doubts and create certainty that
we have yet to break the will TO fight
to violate laws and defy all restraint
that always characterized John Bar.
leycorn.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
PROHIBITION PROSPECTS
(New Yofk american

Iails. alcoholic inebriate asylums
and warehouses; arc running low on
grist. and many of them arc going
outof business.
More homes had something to cat
last Thanksgiving than ever before.
women arc happier, children better fed
and clothed and everybody decenter.
The crazy notion that the finances
OF a nation are helped by booze
money has been at last punctured.
and the United States, by cutting out
the enormous item of the drink waste.
is best prepared financially OF all
countries to face the difficult prob
lens OF postwar reconstruction.
Newspapers are increasingly will
ing to tell the facts about Prohibition
and the officers who will not enforce
it.
The present crop of alcoholic adj
diets is rapidly dying out.
The complicated and infammablc
issues OF labor and capital are being
made infinitely easier by the fact that
their difficulties are not aggravated
BY alcohol-mad MODS.
Production is increasing. Thrift is
growing. Every wholesome influence
IN th,s land ic tl- r;,.;,<,
Smart boys still know where
they can get all they want fools are
occasionally taking chance on
blindness and death by nipping wood
alcohol connections and gentlemen
OF the old school arc wagging their
heads wisely, saying it will all blow
over and the good old days return.
They arc like the man in the story
who was dead, only he didn't know
enough to fall down.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14

When Billy Sunday placed the
twenty-foot casket before his pulpit
and pronounced the funeral Grafton
over John Barleycorn, nobody was in
the box. Nobody is dead-no brewer
or distiller, no constituencies lawyer
no corruptible politician, no avaricious
liquor merchant, no booze-champion-
ing editor.
The power we arc fighting is not i'll
bottles or barrels, but in men, and the
personnel OF the old liquor crowd is
still alive and full of fight.
The aggressive tactics for their re-
turn to business may be classified as
|. Declaration.
?. Organization.
3. Publication.
4. Violation.
|. As to their declarations, read the
following:
From the widely-known George T.
Carroll letter: ave arc going to
fight as we never fought before to
keep the hirelings Of the Anti-Saloor
League out OF Office; to elect Con-
gressmen who will vote TO
amend the Volstead Act so as to per-
nit the sale of light wine and beer"
Also this from the National Bever-
ages Review: 'The work OF the llli-
nois Liquor Dealers Protective Asso-
citation will continue as heretofore to
keep up an agitation to have the Vol
stead Act and the State Search and
Seizure laws amended by the election
OF liberal-minded men TO Congress
and the state Legislature and to rem
der material aid and comfort to any
member who may be unjustly prose-
cuted and to give legal advice and
counsel to all members in cases con-
nected with their business"
The same Review for November %
sounds as its slogan: at takes more
than Prohibition to make us quit"
?. As to Organization:
The various State and National
Liquor Dealers Associations are in
tact and doing aggressive work.
"The wet propaganda is being circu-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
WIRE YOUR CONGRESSMAN AT ONCE
Urge Appropriations for by Attorney General and Dry
Enforcement Officers

January House adopted amendment providing
appropriation of 100000 be used by the Attorney General IN the
employment enforce National Prohibition
enforcement department The department
has asked for 100000 for the coming The appropriation for
$56OOOO0 which proved be inadequate
as there is now deficit OF $1oOOO0O
appropriation requested by the department essential for
honest enforcement.
provide for the full requested
by the department
The the second appropriation bill will come next week
S quick action is
Prohibition is the Constitution OF nation 1t is
policy therefore, until the Eighteenth Amendment is
peed regular orderly form prescribed by the Constitution
Eighteenth Amendment repealed every loyal citizen
will obey its mandates part of the Constitution
The question therefore, law enforcement The code
enacted to Eighteenth Amendment effective adequate
but it is sef-enforcing
organized effort being made by selfish interests
The departments of which
enforcing the law have done vgant aggressive
necessary expense OF experimenting and
ing the liquor anarchists.
Deal fairly with them
Deal fairly with the Prohibition law!
the officers the equipment Strict enforcement is
the only the popularity of the National Prohibition policy
your representatives in Congress NOW urging
appropriation by department of law enforcement
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
A New Disaster Impends

few years the American people had drummed into their
the astounding
resorts well the hotel business The
purpose these stampede the drys
the liquor camp.
Prohibition The hotels tourist reported
Hotel popetos managers with single
unanimy Prohibition has brought patrons and
better class
Just disaster threatens The general of the
ruled sold anywhere under
jurisdiction of the United States This includes American ship
ping whether within without American
the croaing calamity bowler and the
ruling of shipping,
few passengers will paonize dry ships and that the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14

of hundreds of thousands of Federal
large extent supermen-an organiza
ton so big and so unwieldy and so
uncertain that it would become an
impossible Aurden and, like all over
develored policing organizations, it
would become enormously unpopular.
Public sentiment would rise against
it and, i'll getting rid of it, would over
throw Prohibition itself, aud all the
good that may have come from it.
But your community, small or large,
is so organized that with very little
effort its police officers and officials
higher up can give the Federal agents,
provided under existing Federal laws.
ali the aid necessary to drive out the
rumselling parasites or send them to
Jail Under the Eighteenth Amend
ment and the Nolstead Act the wo-
men of any town in the United States
can compe. their town to respect our
Federal Constitution and our Federal
statutes. Your fathers and husbands
and sens will hesitate before taking
the initiative, but they will follow
and support No decent man OF any
business or calling would care to be
placed i'll the position OF taking sides
with the bootleggers, the rum run
ners or the sordid scmi-crminal stripe
of politician who accepts graft from
them.
If you want TO help directly and
Immediately, hunt up the representa-
tives of the Anti-Saloon League and
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union i'll your community. Ask your
pastor to put you in touch with these
organizations; or, If he can not, write
to lis and we will put you in touch
with the headquarters nearest to you.
There must be no let-down in Pro-
hibition sentiment or in the active
support of these worthy organizations
that have borne most of the burden
of the fight in years past.
The vets, so-called, meaning chiefly
the beer and whisky interests, who
yearn Tor the golden days past when
they freely and legally dug drunkards'
graves with golden spade, as the
saying was, are still powerful and
wealthy. They number among their
friends and coadjutors thousands of
politicians. They are supported by
some great newspapers for reasons
of policy best known to their proprie-
tors. They make great sport of the
drys-be they men or women-as
cranks and fanatics. They juggle and
garble statistics, invert and distort
facts, overlooking always that great
and blessed essential to the well-being
OF the human race--a happy and con-
tented home for every member of the
family. There are twenty-five mil
lion such homes in our country, and
not one of them ever had happiness
or contentment come to it in the
shape of alcohol. This every woman
knows. And, knowing it, let every
woman keep in the fight to save Pro-
hibition to the only country in the
world that has had the moral cour-
age to write Pr .-iibition into its Con-
stitution.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
TO SAVE PROHIBITION :. IT'S YOUR Job
Editorial appeal to Women of America by the Ladies Home JounaD

The Ladies Home Journal believes
il can not start the new year i'll any
better way than by appealing TO every
one OF its vast family OF women read
ers to save Prohibition. The women
OF the United States, now that the
franchise is theirs, can do more than
! the men in behalf OF Prohibition.
They have the will to do more. The
benefits OF Prohibition come more
vitality home to them than to the
men. Women through the ages have
suffered most under the curse of drink.
They have seen gentle natures be-
come bestial under its poisonous in
Auence. They have watched day by
day the terrible slow processes by
which drink has broken the strong
and transformed homes which were
blessed with love and many comforts
into miserable shelters, where fear and
terror lurked by day and anguish was
each nights reward.
This is an old story that was oft
retold during the years the great tight
was on to break the power of w Risky
throttled politics and compel the
states to vote on the Eighteenth
Amendment, but it is a story we are
not done with yet. Prohibition by
Federal amendment we have. but
Prohibition that thoroughly prohibits
we have not. The Volstead Act is a
enough nor arc they sufficiently
sharp. \ great number of the vilest
sort OF parasites to be found in our
population are skillfully evading and
lodging and accommodating great
wealth under the Nolstead Act Rum
is being sold wholesale and retail
wherever money seeks it. In many
cities UNDERGRADUATES in con
cealed supplies OF liquor-solicit bust
ness openly on the highways. The
mayor of our greatest city is reported
to have attended without disapproval
an alcoholic orgy i'll restaurant that
for half century was widely known
for the volume of drink its patrons
consumed. Few, if any, women have
any contact with or knowledge of this
traffic until it is brought home to
them indirectly in the usual tragic way
that drunkenness invades woman's
life. But individually and collectively
they should know more of it and pre-
pare to exert all their combined
strength and force to combat it. The
women of America won Prohibition
as a Federal enactment riveted into
our Constitution, but the force and
effectiveness OF the enactment are be-
coming a mockery and a byword. Ii
it is the will of the women of America
to make Prohibition serve as the great
moral force it was intended TO be,
they must exert their will in manifold
ways.
To begin at the very bottom Of
things, the woman must start at home
in her own community, no matter
what its size. Our national govern
n1ent can not enforce Prohibition
without one hundred per cent coop
Grafton from the community. j
would be task requiring the service:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14

securing of the ship, always difficult will be
impossibity.
The wet prophet draws doeul picture OF dead forest OF
of idle ships American harbors. This
fellow who oesaw the ruin American hotels and His
latest prophecy will share the dismal fate his
selfespctng would if he could avoid it. take his wife and
family board with boozeoaked and boozoaked
He l seek for congena association and safer
than the ships afford
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-14
WHAT INDICATIONS ARE There THAT THE VETS
ARE AGGRESSIvELY FIGHTING PROHIBITION?

The Human Energy and the Human Will in the Worldwide
Liquor Traffic Remain Practically Unbroken by the
Eighteenth Amendment