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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
A YEAR In JAIL
Fails to Break Spirit Of
Striking Machinists

Hoboken, N. Flight machinists
who served years Imprisonment for
violating an injunction, have been re-
leased and are more strongly opposed
to the injunction writ than when they
entered Jail
The workers are Samuel Peterson,
William Murray, Patrick E. Music,
Abraham Ebert, Vincent Grammona,
George Miller, Albert Thorry, and
Stephen Rethman
When strike was called by the
Machinists' Union against the BLUR
Motor Appliance Company, the work
ers were enjoined from picketing by
Vice Chancellor Buchanan. The
strikers refused to desist, telling
their story to employees and were
Jailed by the chancellor, who now
finds that his un-American order cre-
ates no terror among workers.
Before leaving jail the unionists
signed a letter of appreciation to dis
trict No. Is, International Association
of Machinists, for making common
cause in the fight and for aiding their
families while they were in Jail
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
STATE COSSACKS
Deny Freedom of Speech To
Trade UniOnists in Key
stone State

Ashland, Pa.-State cossacks ar
rested Con Foley, former organizer
of the International Journeymen Bar
bers' Union, while making a speech
at this place, and the incident has
awakened citizens to the menace Of
this thug outfit.
Foley is a candidate for sheriff of
this county on non-partisan ticket
He secured permit from the author
tiles to make an address on the streets
of Ashland and discussed national and
state affairs, paying his respects to
local politicians. Two state cossacks
broke through the crowd, seized the
speaker and threw him into an auto
mobile. The crowd surged around
the machine, threatening to overturn
it if the lawless cossacks did not re-
lease their prisoner who was finally
dragged from the car and placed back
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11

claim by some delegates among the
employers that the union is financially
embarrassed because of efforts to en-
force a 44-hour agreement, made two
years ago
1t is shown that the unions gen
eral fund has increased $287 ,222.5O
since April 20, 1921 The balance in
all funds on September 20, 1921, was
$2,755, ,96882.
"All the union demands is the full
fillment of the contract made in good
faith with employers" says the ad-
vertisement
The International Typographical
Union has always believed that con-
tract is not a scrap of paper
1T had contract with employing
printers for the eight-hour day with
Saturday half holiday.
If there is any odium connected
with the unemployment conditions in
the printing industry at this time, it
is with the employer and not with the
Typographical Union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
PLUTOCRACY SPEAKS
SNARLS WARNING TO THE GOVERNMENT THE
PRESIDENT AND THE SENATE IT WILL
BROOK NO INTERFERENCE
IN IT'S AFFAIRS
Gauntlet Thrown Down By Garysm in West Virginia
Coal Fields Remain Untouched By
Bubble Offc ials to Date

Washington Speaking for his
anti-trade union employers before the
senate committee on education and
labor, Judge z. T. Vinson, chief coun-
sci for West Virginia coal owners,
defed the government, the president
and the senate. He gave this notice
that his employers would continue
their warlike course, and would ignore
every overture for peace:
''We will not have anything what
ever to do under any circumstances
with the United Mine Workers of
America, or their representatives.
see no reason why we should recOg-
nize their union, and under no cir
cumstances will we do so, either
through this honorable committee,
through the president of the United
States, or any other tribunal
This spokesman for plutocracy mis-
stated the miners position. He knows,
and the senate committee knows, that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
PICAYUNlSH POLICY
OF CONGRESS IN DEALING WITH DEPARTMENT
OF LABOR CONDE MNED BY UNION
REPRESE ENTATIVES
Is 1t Intended to Wreck This Department and Then
Force Arbitration? ?-Wefare of Workers
At Stake

Washington.-Opposition to any
attempt to weaken, destroy, subordi-
nate or amalgamate the department
of labor was unanimously voted at a
meeting of two score of labor legisla-
tive representatives of national and
international unions, held in A. F. of
l.. headquarters.
Several representatives stated that
the committee appointed by President
Harding to reorganiZe the government
departments was under consideration
the formation of a department of
public welfare, with education public
health and labor to be the three ma
jor divisions.
Sixty per cent of the present func-
tions of the department of labor
would be placed in other divisions of
the new department. The labor di-
vision of the new department would
be composed of the bureau of labor
statistics and the Cancellation and en-
ployment services, with an additional
bureau to be known as bureau of
compulsory investigation of labor dis
putes for public information" The
fact that this bureau is to be created
uncovers the conspiracy which has
been in progress since during the
war, according to the labor represen-
tatives
Employers who favor autocracy in
industry have demanded the destruc-
ton of the department of labor and
the adoption of laws that will compel
employees to work against their will,
they say.
Labor representatives show this is
in line with the declaration by Attor-
ney General Daugherty, in Cincinnati,
last August, in which he favored COM
pulsory investigation of labor dis
putes, SO that in time laws can be
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11

q deceptive patriotism is established
in' the peoples minds, where men be-
lieve that there is nobility of spirit
and heroism in dying for the glory Of
dynasty or the maintenance of insti-
tutions which are inimical to human
progress and democracy. Militarism
is the application of arbitrary and
irresponsible forces as opposed to rea-
son and justice. Resistance to in
justice and tyranny is that virile quail
ity which has given purpose and eff
feet to ennobling causes in all coun-
tries and at all times. The free in
stitutions of our country and the lib
critics won by its founders would have
been impossible had they been un-
willing to take arms and if necessary
die in the defense of their liberties.
Only as people willing to maintain
their rights and defend their liberties
are guaranteed free institutions
Conditions foreign to the institu-
tions of our country have prevented
the entire abolition of organized bod
les of men trained to carry arms. A
voluntary citizen soldiery supplies
what would otherwise take its place,
large standing army To the latter
we are unalterably opposed as tending
to establish the evils of militarism.
Large standing armies threaten the
existence of civil liberty. The history
of every nation demonstrates that as
standing armies are enlarged the rule
of democracy is lessened or extin-
guished"
And at its last convention in June,
1921, at Denver, Colorado, it urged
the United States government to take
the initiative or to cooperate with
any other nation or nations for the
purpose of general agreement for
disarmament both of the army and
naval affairs of the world, and called
upon the workers in particular and
the people in general to aid in every
way within their power to put this
recommendation into effect
If disarmament by the nations of
the world becomes reality then some
good at least will result from the late
war.
November 11th is Armistice Day
and will be a memorable one in Amer
ica.
First-On account of the interna-
tional disarmament conference that
goes into session on that day in Wash
ington, D. C.
Second-On account of the nation
wide demonstrations that will be held
in every city, town, village and ham
let in favor of disarmament
The members of organized labor
will take an active part in these dem
onstrations and it is only right that
they should, for none suffer more
from the results Of war than do the
workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11

the miners have not asked for union
recognition.
But the straw man that Vinson
erected served its purpose 1t was
Mammon's snarl that the government
must not interfere with its West Vir-
ginia property Mingo, Logan and
Mcdowell counties, and inhabitants
therein.
Vinson's def was less crude than
the methods of the Baldwin -Felts
thug, but its intent was as sharp and
clean cut as the bullets zip as it
speeds from the thugs rifle into the
tented colony of striking miners.
No one accepted Wilson's challenge
No public official has picked up this
gauntlet that Garyism filings in the
face of government.
When workers would strike against
wage cuts, they are warned not to de-
fly government. But when autocracy
shows its teeth, these lecturers are
silent
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
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REINSTATE PIECE
WORK

Chicago.-The United States rail-
road labor board has reinstated piece
work on railroads, to the great joy
of managers and anti-union manufact-
urers.
The prohibition against piece work
was contained in the national agree
ment against which the rail managers
have waged such strong opposition.
The boards ruling has intensified
the feeling between employees and
managers. The latter secured 1212
per cent wage reduction last July
They now ask that an additional wage
cut be made, which they will pass on
to the public in the form of lower
freight rates.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
EYES CAUSE GREATEST
LOSS

Philadelphia. - Workmen in this
state have lost $50 eyes in accidents
since the first Of the year, said Harry
A. Mackey, chairman of the work
mems compensation board, in speech
in this s city. Since January, 1916,
when the compensation board was Gre
ated, 1884 eyes have been lost in in
dustrial accidents, entailing compen-
sation of over $4,O00,O0O.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11

on the soap box.
The Ashland Daily News made this
comment on the incident:
''Foley's address was lawful in
every respect. Not one reasonable
utterance did he make. The chief bur-
CESS permitted him to make a public
address and the chief burgess was
the proper officer to interfere-if in
reference was necessary.
"The Ashland Daily News does not
believe in many of the doctrines ad-
vocated by Con Foley, but the Ash
land Daily News believes in law en-
forcement and in the protection of
citizens in the rights guaranteed them
under the constitution and the law.
"If the Pennsylvania state constab-
ulary has become part of any polit
ical machine; if it is in any part dom
mated or controlled by any coterie
of politicians; if its members violate
the laws instead of enforcing them
without fear or favor; if its members
use their high authority to shield or
protect law breakers, then it were
better for the commonwealth that the
organization be disbanded"
"a ga Ea
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11

enacted making such controversies
impossible"
President Gompers presided at the
meeting of labor representatives and
he was directed to bring the matter
to the attention of the organized wage
earners throughout the country, as
well as all the people
After years of agitation by organ
lied labor, bill creating the depart
ment of labor was passed in 1918, in
the closing hours of the sixty-second
congress. President Wilson appointed
William B. Wilson, former congress
man and secretary of the United Mine
Workers, as the first secretary of la
Dor. The new cabinet official fund
himself handicapped because congress
failed to appropriate money for the
new department, and special urgency
bill was passed at the special session
of the new congress, on May /, 1913,
to pay the actual running expenses
of the department
In urging congress to make suitable
appropriations for the new depart
ment, the A. f. of l.. executive coun-
Gil made this report to the A. F. of
L. convention in 1913:
The department of labor is the
only department of government which
deals exclusively with problems of hu-
man progress and the relations of
man to man, including that of en-
ployer and employe. To have it thus
handicapped in its initial work re-
tards the progress of the great hu-
manitarian purpose for which it was
brought into existence
'We can not too strongly condemn
the niggardly, picayunish policy of
congress in dealing with the only de-
partment entrusted with promoting
the welfare of the wage workers."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
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FAT BANK ROLL
Shows Typos Can Carry On
Strike Indefinitely

Toronto, Ontario.-In a page adver-
tisement printed in local papers for
the benefit of delegates to the conven-
tion of the United Typotheae of Amer
lea, the International Typographical
Union presents statistics to refute the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
WAR IS HELL"-SHERMAN
CIVIL WAR HERO KNEW WHEREOF HE SPOKE DECLARES SEC
RETARY OF CARPENTERS CALLING ATTENTION TO
TREMENDOUS WASTE OF WORLD WAR
National Debt Increased Enormous
Government Income Goes For War Purposes

proposition in every respect, no mat
ter which way we look at it.
The loss of life from 1914 to 1918
is given as follows
Killed in battle ....................19, ,658, ,00O
Deaths by disease, famine,
etc. ..................."......... ,470 ,0Ol
Total loss of man power. so, l28, ,00C
The loss in property is estimated al
over $l69, ,000, 100000 and the cost in
money at over $186,000, 100000
Comparing the national debts we
find the following:
1913 1920
United
States 81 ,O28, 900, 900 $24 ,974 900, 900
Great
Britain 3,485, 100000 39,314,0oO 900
France 6,346,000,000 46,025, 600, 900
The army and navy appropriations
show the following:
United
States. $244, ,177,OO 1,422, 1852 900
Great
Britain :. 351 ,044,000 1,l21,3l8,0O0
Japan ..... 93,576,oO0 82,357 900
The enormous cost of war to the
United States in 1919 and 1920 is es-
timated at 81 per cent of the entire
income of the United States govern
ment, leaving only per cent for
other purposes.
Is it any wonder then that the re-
cent great war aroused the peoples of
all nations to the fact that war must
cease, that it must be thing of the
past, that it must never be resorted
to again in the settlement of disputes
between nations?
The American Federation of La
Dor, the mouthpiece of the organized
wage workers of our country, believes
that through just dealing and unself
ish service the peoples of all nations
can achieve true welfare and great
ness. 1t believes in warless world.
1t believes in sweeping reduction
of ornaments. 1t took a decided
stand on these questions at the Seattle
convention in 1913 when it urged the
labor movements of other countries to
prevail upon their respective govern
ments to use every means at their
command to bring about international
disarmament as preventative of fu-
ture wars.
At it's annual convention in 1914 it
pledged itself ito support any plan
which has for its purpose the bring
ing about of the disarmament of all
nations to the furthest extent con-
sistent for the preservation of law
and order throughout the world"
At its convention in 1919 it de-
clared that:
''The trade union movement is un-
alterably and emphatically opposed to
militarism or large standing army.
Militarism is system fostered and
developed by tyrants in the hope of
supporting their arbitrary authority.
1t is utilized by those whose selfish
ambitions for power and worldly glory
lead them to invade and subdue other
peoples and nations, to destroy their
liberties, to acquire their wealth and
to fasten the yoke of bondage upon
them. The trade union movement Is
convinced by the experience Of man.
kind that militarism brutalizes those
influenced by the spirit of the insti-
tuition. The finer elements of human
ity are strangled. Under militarism
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-11-11
BY Frank Duffy
Secretary, United Brotherhood of

Secretary, United brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners
General Sherman said, "War is
He'll" Evidently he knew what he
was talking about. We all know it
is IA ruthless destroyer of life, Of
property, of faith in mankind, and of
hope in the future We also know
that it leaves in it's wake sorrow, de-
spair, hatred, discomfort, dissatisfac-
ton, suspicion, and desire for re-
venge at the first opportunity.
The recent world war was u costly
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amend the State constitution, making
the old document live up to present
day needs in matters of taxation, and
SO forth. North Carolina's constitu-
ton in it's present form is said by ad-
vocates of the Stubbs bill to be anti
quated and badly out of date. They
would write anew the organic law
of the State.
Opponents of the measure, and
there is greater proportion of MEM
bers in the House opposed to the bill
than in the Senate, do not like the
idea of tampering with what they de-
clare is the only thing left in the
State that has not been "done-over.
They are eternally opposed to con-
stitutional convention either this
year, 1928 or at any other time.
The House committee on education
has sent the Matthews bill provid ing
for a maximum levy of 80 cents for
schools in the State back to their
body with a favorable report. 1t is
unlikely that any determined fight
will be made to defeat this bill.
The committee on propositions and
grievances reported unfavorably the
bill fathered by the North Carolina
Board of Accountancy which would
force the State auditor and other
State departments to employ men,
bers of the State board, or account
~ Mt M on al ~,
all county audits and audits of State
departm
Major Baxter Durham, State audi
tor, went before the committee and
out that its passage would make it
difficult to obtain the work that his
department was charged with doing
Governor Morrison had but few
the opening day of December par
don week."
Four applications were declined in
the following order, there being no
cases in which the governor thought
it advisable to interfere:
Bessie Logan, Guilford, serving
years for the larceny OF an automo-
bile: Charlie: Hanna, Wake county,
serving five years for highway rob-
berry; Grover Hanes, Guilford coun-
ty, serving three years for the larceny
of an automobile; Ferebee Blake,
Wake county. serving five years for
forgery
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HOUSE CONSIDERS
MATTER OF REPEAL
OF PRIMARY LAW

Continued From Page One.)
the bill are that it will either be
KILLED" in the committee or defeated
when it reaches the floor of the
House But the prophets may be
wrong: the bill might pass by a bare
majority Obtaining approval of the
committee is the first obstacle that
must be overcome before the ques-
tion of passage in the House is con-
sidered.
There is a preponderance of senti-
ment for repeal of the primary law,
said Representative Neal, and it is
because of this that have again in
troduced my pet measure: Selection
of county officials may still be made
in the primary, this meeting one OBJ
lection which was made when the
first bill was introduced.
Defeat of, the Stubbs bill providing
for a constitutional convention in this
State is freely predicted in the Tower
house even if the Senate does pass
the measure as it did at the regular
session of 1921.
The bill proposes the calling of a
convention to rewrite. revise and
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SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION

Mr.. John F. Kelly of the Expert
menter Publishing Company proprie-
tors Of Science and Invention was in
the city today, and the Times made
arrangements with him to furnish us
each month from its pages illustra-
tions OF the latest inventions and dis
coveries The publication is one of
the best in this field in the world
and we feel that we have made a
good deal in thus being able to give
our readers first hand information in
an attractive form Of the develop
ment Of the wonderful field of scien-
tific exploit.
The daily times., 1921-12-13

LEFT BUNCH OF KEYS IN T.. q.
Box S14- Please return to above
box number. II II It'd
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MIR. LEONARD
COMING TO WILSON

Mr.. J. Paul Leonard, executive sec
retary Of the North Carolina Mer-
chants association, left today for
Greensboro, where he will have con-
ference this afternoon with directors
Of the Greensboro Merchants Asso.
ciation. Tomorrow Mr.. Leonard will
go to Raleigh to look in on the spe-
cial session of the Legislature From
Raleigh he will go to Wilson and
probably other eastern Carolina
towns. returning to Statesville the
latter part of the week.-The States
vile Daily.
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RETURNED FROM HUNTING TRIF

Messrs. H. r. Marshall. Allie Cor
ed from a hunting trip on Mattamus-
keet Lake and succeeded in baggins
yesterday .13 geese and ten duck.
They report the hunting as very. fine.
sDr. c. E. Moore and Ernest Deans
are still there.
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BONDS

BONDS
3 1-2's $3.50.
1st 4 las 1896.
End 4 las 97.OO.
3rd 4 las 1884.
4th 4 las 97.34.
Victory 3 3-4's 99.98:
Victory 4 3-4's 100.
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AMERICAS BIRTH RATE
ON THE INCREASE.

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE Amer
lean birth rate advanced IA per l.
600 in 1920, as compared with 1919,
the Census Bureau announced today.
population last year, as compared
with 1913 in 1919. according to the
bureaus figures. The rate last year,
however, was 13 below the rate of
The daily times., 1921-12-13

What are you going to give her for
Christmas? Can you think of any
thing that would be more appreciated
than Ford Coupe or Sedan? We
have them in stock for immediate de-
livery. H. w. Abbitt, Wilson, N. C.
~ 13t II
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PORT RECEIPTS

New York, Dec. 13.-Ports re-
ceipts of cotton today are estimated
at 10000 bales compared with So
$50 last week, 46,552, last year and
41,62S in 1919.
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SPECIAL SALE on DRESSES.

One rack of Jerseys, canton crepes,
satins, tricotines and point twills, all
all this seasons models. priced $17-
SO to $3.50. Equels Style Shop. Plan
sters Bank Building. II II It'd
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WEATHER.: For North Carolina,
fair tonight and Wednesday, some
what colder tonight, fresh northwest
winds.
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1916, which the bureau declared may
be looked upon as more normal
year. as it preceded the influenza
epidemic and the entrance of the
United States into the war.
The daily times., 1921-12-13

The highest birth rate for the
white population last year was re.
ported for North Carolina, with 81
and the lowest for Calfiiifornia wi,t
1873.
The daily times., 1921-12-13

Xmas boxes at Fulghums.
IL 13 2td
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Get the boy a pair OF rubber boots
fro Xmas at Fulghums 1913 2td
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THREE PLANES BOUND

NOhIhW tAfSD.
Three big planes passed high over
Wilson on their northward flight at
noon today.
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See Fulghums Xmas handkerchiefs
12 13 2td