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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-05-27
Bank Official
Suicide; Audit
Shows Shortage

Seattle. Wash. May 26.-Items
totalling approximately $4,000 in
alleged discrepancies in the -
counts of John F. Hemenway, as
sistant treasurer of the Trades
Union Savings and Loan associa-
ton, who committed suicide here
Monday, have been found after
an examination of Mr.. Hemen-
ways books. w. L. Nicely, state
inspector Of savings and loan as
sociations said today. Mr.. Nicely
said 1t would be several days be-
fore he could ascertain the exact
amount OF the alleged shortage.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-05-27
Blind Negro Says
He's 121 Years Old

Fulton, Mo-, May 26. - John
Johnson, negro. who claims he is
121 years old, is blind, but he sees
through the eyes of his son.
Johnson lives on his 160-acre
farm near Williamsburg, which was
given 10 him in Civil war days,
shortly after slavery was abolished
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-05-27

AS result OF the marine strike
and the dullness of the lumber
market, the mills at Westport,
Prescott and st. Helens closed
down this week for an indefinite
period.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
FRIDAY, APRIL i, 1921
THE BRIDGE

The county commissioners finally
concluded to make the appropriation
that will permit Country Engineer
Fred M. Hammerle to employ the dep
uties and assistants necessary to pre-
pare plans and specifications for the
new bridge near Coke Otto 1t took
much pressure to get the county dads
to act in this matter. 1t took a vote
of the people, the mandate of the two
common pleas judges, committee
from the chamber of commerce, the
urging of number of big politicians
and all the coaxing and cajoling that
could be brought to bear by the
friends of the project. For some rea-
son or other the commissioners don't
seem to like the idea of bridge on
North Third street,
Now, if it took all this boosting to
get them to vote $4,000 worth of the
improvement, how long is it going
to take to get them to vote $40O, 600
worth, the estimated cost of it all?
Wouldn't it be we'll for the chamber
of commerce to appoint a committee
to represent the business men and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
Steel Workers Long Day.

The late Andrew Carnegie In MS
autobiography said the three-shift day
In steel Is sure to come; that eight
hours will be the rule-eight hours
for work, eight for sleep, eight for
rest and recreation. Yet today 90 OF
every 100 men employed by the Car
negie Steel company still work twelve
hours day. 1t means, In normal
times. 10000 men In twelve-hour Jobs
In this one constituent company or the
United States corporation alone, writes
Arthur NJ. Evans In the Chicago
Tribune.
These facts are typical of report
made by the Cabot fund after an In
quiry into the long day in the iron and
steel industry, its prevalence, and It's
social and economic aspects. The sur
vey was made last summer by staff
of investigators directed by John A
Fitch, author of "The Steel Workers"
The findings are brought out In spe-
cial number of the Survey magazine
During the course of the study more
than 400 steel workers were inter
view ed, and Of these 1856 gave detailed
and dependable statements OF their
working hours. The twelve-hour day
was worked by 279 of them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
THE UNSKILLED WORKER"
M ma IN n N

1t is almost impossible to pick up
newspaper without being confronted
with an interview with some captain
of industry" who is sure prosperity
will not return until the wages of
common labor" have been materially
reduced
"There must be no coddling of the
unskilled workers." announces the
Wall Street Journal, which is proud
of it's brutal frankness" in discussing
industrial problems.
One would imagine from the way
some of these representatives of the
employing class talk that the ''un-
skilled worker" was a sort of vermi-
form appendix which could be remov
ed from society without i'll effect.
The fact that the so-called ''unskill-
ed worker" is the Atlas who supports
the whole world of industry. With
out him our engineers and executives
would be helpless. 1t is true they
plan and direct the work and the
skilled workman gives it definite
form, but after alb these have done
THEN. parts the task of the common
laborer" remains essential.
He does not ask to be 'coddled." "
But he demands living wage and an
eight-hour day and working condi-
lions worthy of an American. He
is entitled to all these. Without
them, he and his will always remain
"unskilled workers" With them, he
will at least be able to care for wife
and family, and if he does not enter
the ranks of the skilled ne will see
to it that his boys and girls have
their chance.
The skilled worker has vital inter
est in the well-being of his unskilled
brother The wage of the unskilled
in the long run fixes the compensation
of the skilled.
Employers know this. They are as
sailing the unskilled workers because
the latter are poorly organized and
therefore least capable of offering eff
fectiye resistance. If they can force
down their wages, they can then turn
their guns on the skilled workers with
greater hope of success.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

BAIT FOR LABOR
hard.

In the house of representatives on
Wednesday the Burns bill, the bin in
tended to undermine the workmen's
compensation and which had previous
w been tabled and thought dead, was
taken from the table and sent back
to the insurance committee. The re-
port is that it is TO be revamped.
Manufacturers and employers oppos-
ed to the bill say they were told that
the private liability insurance COM
panies backing the bill had prepared
a rich bait for the labor unions. The
proposition is said to be to increase
the injury benefits from the maxi
mum of SIS week to $40 or S25,
and to ask labor support on this ba-
sis. The manufacturers said that they
do not believe Ohio labor would sue
cumb to the temptation.
They are right. Ohio labor will not
fall for any game in which the liza
bility insurance companies are con-
cerned because Ohio labor knows that
every dollar of benefit to liability in
surance companies where workmen's
compensation is involved means so
many dollars lost to Ohio labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
MAKES BIG LABOR COMBINE
Five Organizations United to Oppose
Proposed Twenty-Five Per Gent
Reduction in Wages

Five labor organizations involved In
a wage controversy with the American
Steamship Owners association con-
solidated under the name of the Amer
lean Ocean Officers conference. The
organizations in the new body are the
Neptune association, the National Or
ganization of Masters, Mates and
Pilots, the Ocean Marine Engineers
Beneficial Association No. &c. the
Consolidated Marine Engineers Bene-
fetal Association No. 33 and the Ma
tional United Radio Telegraphers' as
ISOLATION.
The consolidation was viewed as
strategic move on the part of the
labor leaders In presenting united
front on the eve of the notice served
on the ocean tugboat owners that the
marine engineers would not accept
the proposed 25 per cent cut. This
meant, 1t was said, that If the own
ers attempted to put the reduced scale
into operation the engineers would re-
fuse to work.
OIllCldlS OI Tie lldIllc SuSihOCAo oao
fiIemen's organization said that gen.
eral wage reduction affecting 275,OOO
workers on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts had been proposed by the en-
ployers. These workers included all
seamen, marine firemen, engineers,
masters, mates and pilots, cooks and
stewards employed In the American
mercantile marine. Secretary Oscar
Olsen of the marine firemen was au-
thority for statement that the ma
rine workers opposed any wage cuts at
the present time.
Vice President Joseph Ryan OF the
International Longshoremen's associa-
ton, which has jurisdiction over 3,ooo
tidewater boatmen in the port OF New
York, said that his men on all barges
on which the owners had ordered
reduction In wages would strike.
The tidewater boatmen are now re-
ceiving S110 a month and the barge
owners have proposed $50 reduc-
ton. Conferences between the own
ers and employees have been held FOR
several weeks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
Canadian Strike Leaders Freed

Five leaders of the general strike
In Winnipeg, who have been In jail for
nearly a year, were given their free
dom.
They were sentenced to one year in
Jail for leadership In the general strike
that tied up industry In Winnipeg In
the summer of 1919. They are released
q few weeks before their sentence ex-
plres because OF good conduct
Three of them went from the jail
to the legislative chamber and took
their seats The legislators, the Rev.
William Ivens, John Queens and
George Armstrong were elected to
their posts while In Jail. The other
two released are w. A. Pritchard Of
Vancouver and r. j. Johns.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
Miners to Center Fight.

Plans are under way by the United
Mine Workers Of America to concen-
trate It's efforts on the fight In West
Virginia and to carry 1t to a finish,
John L. Lewis, president of the or
eanization, said at the conclusion Of
conferences with leaders of the various
district organizations. Proposed or
ganization work In the industry also
was discussed
Funds originally appropriated for
the relief of miners In the Alabama
strike, now ended, Mr.. Lewis said, will
be diverted to the relief of the West
Virginia strikers.
1t was said to be shown by can
vass of the mine leaders that unem-
ployment In the coal industry Is wide
spread and production below 60 per
cent of normal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

Trades Council to appoint one also to
represent the working people, these
two committees to work jointly in
keeping the commissioners on the job
until the work has been ordered?
- Pa "a m n
ALPS we'll that ends well. The
East End Improvement Association
at it's meeting Tuesday night voted
to approve the plan of Safety Director
Grevey for zoning the jitney busses.
It is proved, after careful considera-
ton, that Mr., Grevey's plan is the
best and only feasible one at the pres
ent time for handling new and rap
idly growing proposition.
go Ea Ea Ea sa
WHO WANTS THE BURNS BILL!
Bulletin of the League for Work
meme Compensation" is little publ
cation issued by and in the interest
of those hostile to the compensation
law and pushers of the Burns bill, the
bill intended to put a deep kink in
the workmen's compensation law as it
stands today. In a recent issue of
'The Bulletin" appears the following
article under the heading "Who Wants
the Burns Bill"
Twelve real estate boards, six
/ chambers of commerce, seven local
manufacturers associations and three
thousand one hundred employers are
asking that the Burns bill be enacted
into law"
1t will be noticed that the Molders
Union, nor the Machinists' Union, nol
the Carpenters Union nor any Other
workingman's organization appears OF
the list, nor does the list include the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
M M n
STATES FIGHT RAIL
LAW

Washington.-Th Cummins -Esch
railroad law is now being attacked
in the United States supreme court by
43 states, which claim that the law
infringes on the right of states to
regulate rates now controlled by the
commerce commission.
Should the states win, all the increas-
ed state rates put into effect would
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
DRESSMAKERS STRIKE

New York-More than 5000
children's dress and petticoat makers
suspended work to organize the trade
on the same basis as other trades in
the ladies' garment industry.
These workers are affiliated with the
international Ladies Garment Work
ers' Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
mn A M ~ ~
LABOR AND WAGES

The question of labor and wages is
as old as the world itself Through
out the centuries it has confronted
every age. Empires rise and fall,
other questions come and go, yet the
question of labor and wages is ever
paramount, ever before the public
1t always has been, no doubt it always
will be, for in any exchange of values
there is always a difference between
those who have to sell and those who
desire to buy. Labor is unlike any
other commodity that is for sale. It
is mans whole stock in trade AS
rule, the workingman has no money
in reserve and must, of necessity, sell
his labor at once. He has only his
own labor to sell, while the employer
engages hundreds or thousands Of
men and can easily do without the
service of any particular individuals.
The result is that even under -ordi-
nary conditions the individual laborer
is at an enormous disadvantage.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
pa - E EE IN
END LABOR COMMIT
TEE

Chicago.-The national association
of railway executives has abolished
its labor committee The organized
shop employees want national agree
ment and the managers insist that
each system negotiate with it's en-
ployes. The managers have been con-
Quoting their fight through a national
committee, and they have discovered
that this is inconsistent with their
claims. AS they have reached an un-
derstarding they can now conduct the
fight as individuals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
A IA N
RESTAURANTS
PROFITEER

Chicago, lll.,-Railroad station res
taurants in this city are the biggest
profteers in existence and their
gross profits range from 80 to 800
per cent, according to Russell ]. Poole,
chairman of the city council cost-of-
living committee. The lowest net
profit made by restaurants is SO per
cent. he said. Gross profits on other
items are:
Steak, 168 to 203 per cent; pie, 100
per cent; pork tenderloin, 500 per
cent; pork chops, AL per cent; coffee
500 per cent; cereals, average, 275
per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

-.Ja~
rent issue of American Pressmen
prints a long list of wage gains by
locals affiliated with the international
Printing Pressmen and Assistants
Union. Some of the gains include the
44-hour week and wage advances of
$40 a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

names of any injured workmen who
are in favor of the bill intended to
cripple the law which the workingmen
of Ohio worked for SO long and SO
ba,.I
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
S LABOR AT THE CROSS ROADS?

There is every portent, every sign,
of swiftly approaching crisis in the
affairs of organized labor in the
United States. That the impending
struggle will be sharp and severe, la
Dor is frank enough to admit. A per-
iod of unemployment, of lowered pro-
duction and of falling prices has been
seized upon by labor's foes as the
strategic time for a hand-to-mouth
test of strength. The "open shop
campaign is hardly academic propa-
ganda AS long as this condition OBJ
tains labor is bound to be at dis
advantage. 1t cannot utilize its full
strength nor progress as it should
progress.
Under existing conditions indus
trial peace can be kept in this coun-
try only by an approximate equilib-
rum of the contending forces or the
maintenance of the balance of
power" When one side grows weak
and condition of unstable equilibrium
is brought about, the encroachment of
the other forces status of war
That is what seems to be happening
just now. In the future industrial
peace will be based upon cooperation,
upon common interests between en-
ployer and employe.
The bare fundamentals of an in
dustrial code have not been accepted
by all employers in the United States
AS long as labor has to fight for the
principle of collective bargaining it
cannot be said that the horizon of a
new industrial era is discernable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
- Pa "a ~ -
THIRTEEN LUCKY FOR LABOR

Thirteen seems to be a lucky num-
Der for labor. That is, it is lucky
number for this one time at least.
Labor is lucky in this, that work
ingman who feels that he doesn't
want to work for wages that are less
than he can live on ard quits his
job, may walk down the street with
out fearing that states policeman
will ride up on the sidewalk and knock
him on the head, such as they have
been known to do in Pennsylvania.
And the reason for all this freedom
is the defeat of the Harding bill to
create state constabulary, by 13
votes, SO to as, in the house of repre-
sentatives Monday afternoon. And
we might add that the defeat of this
bill is due solely to the efforts and
activities of the representatives of or
ganized labor Nothing else could
have prevented it going through.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

where dya want that Coal?' asks
the Man, which is a Great Relief to
the Editor. who expected to hear,
.Whoinell put that Piece In the Pa
perY" Running a Newspaper Is a
Hazardous Occupation, for Folks get
peeved Awful Easy sometimes, but
everything considered, the Editor does
Pretty Well
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01

Ohio organized labor won the first
round in it's battle with the enemy
when the state constabulary bill was
defeated in the house of representa-
tives Tuesday. Now for the next big
round, the one with the Burns liza
bility insurance bill. Labor's repre-
sentatives are on the ground and Civ
ing the enemy about all they can
handle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
YET THAT is JUST ABOUT
WHAT OPEN SHOP MEANS.

II run an open shop. l make
employees sign a contract not TO
join a union" said an Indianapo-
lis manufacturer at the national
conference of State Manufac-
turers' associations at Chicago
recently. 1t might be interest
ing to know what this man
would regard as a closed shop.
1t is such as he In the ranks Of
both employers and employees
who are keeping the fires of in
dustrial strife burning.-Topeka
State Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
W Ks a ss n
THE "AERIE NEWS"

The "Aerie News" volume |, No. /,
issued by Butler Aerie No. 407, Fra
ternal Order Eagles, came to our desk
for the first time this week. 1t is the
first edition of little bulletin that
is promised US monthly. The initial
efforts of the publication committee
of "The Aerie News" are to be ap-
plauded. The little paper is replete
with bright, snappy news of special
interest to the members of the Eagles
lodge, and we bespeak for it doing
much good for the membership as
well as the lodge itself. Welcome
to the journalistic field, "The Aerie
News" and success be yours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-01
80 E ia ~ M

Has anyone heard that Governor
Harry L. Davis, that great friend of
the workingman, tore his shirt in his
efforts to prevent going through the
Harding bill to create a state constab-
ulary, or police?
The Washington herald., 1921-10-09
Stansbury Supreme Court Clerk.

II ORMALlTIES of convcning the October term
l. of the United States Supreme Court last Mon
day were brief Former President William Howard
Taft who took the constitutional oath as Chief JUS
tiee July II, administered supplementary oath
by Senior Associate Justice Joseph McKenna, and
the newly reorganized bench the following day ap-
pointed William r. Stansbury clerk to succeed James
d. Maher, who died last spring. Stansbury began his
service in the Supreme Court Offices junior clerk
thirty-eight years ago. When Clerk Maher died,
Chief Deputy H. c. McKenny temporarily ap-
pointed in his place McKenney died few weeks
later.
Tomorrow will be the. first decision day of the
term and several important ruling expected.
The court has under advisement the case involving
control of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Coro-
nado case, brought by the United Mine Workers of
America to determine liabilities OF organized labor
for losses in the Arkansas mine strike outbreak the
Wisconsin case. in which forty-one. other States
joined test the right of the Interstate Commerce
Commits sion to authorize interstate roads to raise
their within States the Western Union case in
which the United States seeks to prevent the landing
of gable at Miami. Fla, and other litigation. Sew
eral of minor importance written on
the dockets last week.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-09
WEEK IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE
Compromise May Hasten Senate Action on Tax Rouse Sumbe

HNLYtwo brief sessions were held by the House
~ Of Representatives last week, under gentle
mems agreement that legislation would be under
taken until the jam is out of the way IN the Senate.
Three bills introduced Monday, one by Rep
resentatve Johnson, of North Dakota authorizing the
gressiona Medal of Honor upon the unknown Italian
soldier dead Of the recent war. buried in Rome similar
to the honors conferred upon the British and French
unknown heroes another by Representative Snyder of
New York, extending the time for the filing of allot
ments in. the Crow Reservation in Montana, and
other by Representative Hill of Maryland, for the
erection of a postofice at Baltimore and the
change OF the present building and site with the city
for new
Representative Cable, of Ohio, introduced a bill
at the Tuesday session to amend the per cent inn
migration law and punish volators