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WALSH-To Mr and Mrs. Charles II.
Walsh, 9Oi North Harrison street, AZ
the Homeopathic Hospital, on June
n. a son.
WITITTINGTON-To MT and Mrs. Clay
ton C. Whittington, 20i North Broome
street, at the Homeopathic Hospital
one June Is, a daughter.
sMITH-To Mr. and Mrs. william S
Smith. 40i W. Twenty fourth street. al
the Homeopathic Hospital, on June IS
a daughter.
Evening journal., 1921-06-22

Want Ads always secure the best
domestic help in the briefest time
Evening journal., 1921-06-22

Tired Of your own cootdna7 co 70
the restaurant az Shellpot Park and en-
Joy an excellent meal.--Adv.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
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CRIED POOL"
When They Should Have
Clinched Wages

London, England-It is limited that
the attack of Frank Hodges, secretary
of the Miners Federation, against
extremists is the forerunner for the
resignation of that official. Through
out the recent strike, which ended 50
disastrously to the miners, Hodges
was subjected to much criticism from
within the miners ranks. During the
strike he offered to resign, but it was
not accepted 1t is stated that Hodges
will quit rather than be in continual
turmoil over impossible proposals.
He has declared that if the miners
officials were permitted to use their
judgment they would be in better
shape than now.
Parrot like, we were crying pool,
when we should have grasped wages
with both hands," he said.
The proposed pool" provided that
each ton of coal mined would be as
sessed and the fund placed in charge
of joint committee that would use
it to equalize wages between high
cost and low cost mines.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
CO0LIE MENACE
Being Closely Watched By
Trade UniOnists

observation-disclosures to A. F. of
L. headquarters show that trade
unionists in every section of the
country are alert to the menace of
coolie labor, and to the designs of
those who would permit Hawaiian
sugar planters importing this labor
under bond for five years. Trade
unionists realize the effect of this pc
onage on Hawaiian workers and they
also realize that with this principle
established it would be but a short
time before it would be applied to the
United States on the ground that it
is unfair to ask sugar planters in this
country to compete with coolie labor
The next step would be in the fruit
industry of the Pacific coast, followed
by railroad managers and captains of
industry for this cheapest labor in
the world
The views of these employers is
shown when ship owners recently de-
MED the request of seamen and ma
rine engineers to agree to give Amer
lean citizens first preference in en-
ployment. The United States ship
ping board sustained the ship owners
in their position.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
DON'T LIKE FORD
HENRY WOULD RAISE WAGES AND REDUCE
RATES ON HIS RAILROAD TO DISLIKE
OF WRECKERS
Who Have Been Claiming They Are Operating at Loss
and Begging Government Aid For
Their Roads

A little more than year ago Henry
Ford bought the Detroit, Toledo and
Ironton railroad, about $50 miles long
and running through Ohio and Michi-
gan. At the time he bought the road
it was, according to the books kept
by the management, losing less bus
mess that it was handling the year
before.
That is one thing that the railroad
mixers who are wrecking other roads
have laid up against Ford. Another
mean thing he did which is considered
an outrage and personal affront by
the aforesaid mixers, was to an
nounce in June that on and after July
/, 1921, the lowest wages to be paid
any employe on the D. T. & |. would
be six dollars for eight hours. The
road is now paying that wage and still
making profits.
The fact that Ford announced the
raise in wages at the same time the
railroad labor board announced that
wages of all railroad workers were to
be cut II per cent, which cut was
made at the request of the managers
of other than Ford's road and based
upon their assertions that they could
not pay wage of 1922 to unskilled
labor and make profit, is what hurts.
On July /, when Ford raised the
lowest wages paid on the D. I. & L, to
$500 for day of eight hours, the
other roads lowered wages to the point
fixed by the railroad labor board from
1922 per day to 1924 per day.
On July 1st and several times since
the railroad managers announced the
fact that there could be no lowering
of freight rates because of the cut in
wages, to the ''fact" that the cut was
not deep enough to allow for a reduc-
ton in rates.
Now comes the d. T. & |. and asks
that the freight rates charged by it on
its main line and on all its branches
be cut 20 per cent, beginning August
goth. When the general freight agent
filed the request to be allowed to re-
duce 20 per cent with the public util-
tiles commission at Columbus, Ohio,
the only comment he made in answer
to questions was: "Mr Ford thought
reduction should be made"
Can you imagine what the railroad
wreckers who control the rest of the
roads are thinking about Henry !?
They have been claiming that they are
operating at loss and demanding
that the government give them $780,
100000 or they'd have to go into bank
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
IA "a IA
FATHERLY POSE
Affected By Court in This
Case

Newark, N. J.-In injunction pro-
ceedings instituted by the Cyrus Cur
rier & Sons corporation, Vice Chan
cellor Backes gave stern warning to
capital" (meaning capitalists that
it must not tread on "labor's toes
with intent to injure."
The court made it clear where he
stood in this matter-and then issued
an injunction against organized iron
,, molders.
The company insists that every
employe agree not to join the union
while so employed 1t was discover
ed that union iron molders secured
employment on the claim that they
did not belong to the union and will
not join. The company claimed this
was a plot to unionize their plant,
and rushed to the vice chancellor for
aid. The court granted the request,
while camoufaging his order with
cheap heroics on the need for "capi-
tai" to be careful.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05

, ruptcy; that wages were so high and
labor so inefficient there was no hope
for reduction in rates unless wages
were cut to the bone. Yet here
comes Ford, takes a road that was
losing money while owned and man
aged by railroad brains" makes il
pay a profit, raises wages to nearly
three times what other roads pay and
cuts freight rates 20 per cent.
Don't get the idea that the Ford
road is toy road that runs a few
miles through the backwoods. It's a
real road and in better shape than
ever before, and the fact that Ford
has made the road a success from a
failure, raised wages and reduced
prices charged for service, is not be-
cause ne is superman, but is solely
because he either doesn't know how to
soak the public and labor, or because
he doesn't care for that kind of a
game.
The railroad managers have been
claiming for over three years that
they are the only ones possessing the
brains and ability necessary in run
ming the railroads of the country; that
they must have the right to charge
high rates and lower wages if the
transportation system of the land was
to be maintained, only to go ever
deeper in debt and nearer bankruptcy.
How can they account, after all the
propaganda they've spread, for all that
Ford has done? They will not admit
they didn't know what they were talk
ing about or that they lied and do
still lie, but what do you think about
it as you continue to pay excessive
freight charges; see the purchasing
power of railroad workers cut down
and crops rotting on the ground be-
cause it costs too much to ship them?
Think it over.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
KING DISCUSSES LABOR

Rome.-In his speech at the opening
session of the chamber of deputies
the king of Italy urged that the law
makers strengthen the various CO.
operative institutions with a view to
promoting other forms of labor asso-
Citations; that the working classes be
given an opportunity to learn self
government in relation to their eco
nomic life; that all social welfare in
stitutions be supported, and the var
ious insurance societies and funds
strengthened; that representatives of
all classes be called upon to express
an opinion on the serious labor pro-
blem, and that, in carrying out these
recommendations, the strictest impair
tiality be preserved in regard to all
shades of opinion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
OPPOSE COOLIE LABOR
HONOLULU LABOR HEAD TRAVELS MANY MILES TO TEL
IMMIGRATION COMMITTEE OF PLANTATION LABOR
SITUATION IN HIS COUNTRY
Says There No Excuse For Cheap
Hawai-A. F. of L. to Fight Bill

ciple of collective bargaining and sig
representatives of your employees in
conference which we will arrange
and to which we, as representative of
the Central Labor Council will be pres
ent as the third party acting as me-
diators. We will guarantee that if
this is done in the right spirit of CO.
operation on your part it will be met
in the same spirit by your employees
and an agreement reached whereby
you will gain the friendship of your
men and increase their efficiency to
normal. AS one of the chief matters
to be considered at such conference
we suggest the establishment of a
new wage scale based upon the cost
of living, details as to fexibility and
determining factors to be worked out
later
''If this increased efficiency does
not then relieve your shortage, and
the return of workers drawn back to
plantation life by incentives offered
still falls short Of your requirements,
we believe that plenty of new labor
can be recruited in the Philippines,
with the cooperation of the Filipino
labor commission.
"As an added source of supply we
point out that a large number of men
will be discharged from federal con-
struction work upon the signing Of
the rehabilitation bill, or shortly
thereafter, who will be forced back on
the plantations where they belong,
provided you make it a point to en-
ploy citizen labor in the skilled and
semi-skilled industries which your
influence dominates. There is no
question in our minds but that you
will thus be able to fill your short
age of labor and maintain your in
dustry at a normal pace without the
importation of any other Oriental Ia
bor."
Chairman Albert Johnson, conduct
ing the hearing, made what labor rep
resentatives declared to be a studied
effort to entangle President Wright
and to discredit his testimony, but to
no avail At the conclusion of the
days testimony, Chairman Johnson
was obliged to compliment the labor
man upon the fairness of his testi-
mony.
Under the terms of the coolie i'm
portation bill, the subject of the hear
ing. it would be possible to import
approximately $4,000 Chinest coolies
to Hawaii upon proclamation that an
emergency exists requiring such la
Dor. The coolies would be brought to
the islands in bond and would remain
in state of peonage in the islands.
1t is announced that the American
Federation of Labor and affiliated
bodies will continue vigorous fight
on the bill, officially known as H. j.
Resolution III, and that number of
labor representatives will testify be-
fore the committee, objecting at every
step to peonage legislation, letting
down the bars to coolie importation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
TO DESTROY UNION
AND ENABLE SHIP OWNERS TO EMPLOY CHEAP
FOREIGN LABOR, ANTI-UNIONISTS FORCED
RECENT MARINE STRIKE
Senator LaFOlette Declares Enemies of American Mer
chant Marine Are i'm Control

Washington.-In a speech in the
senate favoring an investigation of
the recent marine strike, Mr.. La Fol-
lette said:'
81 lay down this proposition that
American seamen are essential to the
American merchant marine.
81 start this discussion with the
proposition, which will not be contro-
verted by anyone at all familiar with
the subject, that we can never have
an American merchant marine unless
we can attract to the marine service
and retain in it genuine American
seamen and officers to man and oper-
ate the ships. | am not going to take
the time to elaborate that PROPOSE
ton. Not only does the history of
every maritime power in the world
prove it's truth, but the manifest pur-
pose of every country in the world
today except the United States, with
any maritime pretensions, to man it's
merchant ships with its own citizens
shows how universally the truth of
the proposition | have just stated is
recognized by the maritime nations of
the world.
For a hundred years we have had
the money; we have had the bust
ness; we could easily have had the
ships. The reason we did not have
a merchant marine was because we
had not attracted American seamen
to the service"
The speaker proved that the strike
was not over wages, but over working
conditions Admiral Benson, then
head of the shipping board, who stood
with the ship owners, is quoted be-
fore senate committee on May 9
last:
81 think that the question of wages
is always little exaggerated because
under any system it is not much
over 10 per cent of the total cost of
operation"
This means, said Senator La Fol-
lette, that out of every $1,000 for
ship operation, 500 went to labor,
and the reduction which The shipping
board demanded and agreed to by the
men, is SIS.
The speaker said that the mistakes
of an unskilled or inefficient crew
would more than offset this so-called
wage saving in a single voyage.
''It is not question of wages at
all. 1t is a question of destroying the
mems organizations and of subjecting
them to working conditions which
they will not stand, and ultimately of
driving the American seamen and the
American merchant marine from the
sea, enabling the ship owners to en-
ploy cheaper foreign labor and make
still larger profits.
"These men, when they could get
no consideration and arrive at no un-
derstanding with either the shipping
board or the owners, took this con-
troversy to the president and said:
You decide it and we will continue
at work upon whatever conditions you
fix But the forces, whatever they
were, that were determined to bring
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
Especial to Press)

(Speclal TO 1TeSS
Washington, d. C.-Coolie impor-
tation for peonage on Hawaiian sugar
plantations was given a severe blow
| here today when Hawaiian labor rep
resentatives, accompanied by Presi-
dent Gompers, of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, and fully dozen
other labor representatives appeared
before the house committee on. i'm
migration.
President George w. Wright, of the
Honolulu Central Labor Union, gave
the committee complete account of
the plantation labor situation and
made it clear that, entirely aside from
the principle of Oriental exclusion,
there is no economic excuse for the
importation of coolies
AS important as any statement
made by the labor representative was
a statement of Congressman Raker, of
California, member of the committee
on immigration.
"The proposed joint resolution, if
adopted" said Congressman Raker,
would make of Hawaii an island of
criminals. 1t would let down the bars
to every criminal class everywhere in
the world. And once on American
soil they could go anywhere on Amer
lean soil without passports"
President Wright described planta-
ton conditions and told how planta-
tion workers had gone into govern
ment works because of better pay.
He made it clear that with the es-
tablishment of suitable wage condi-
tions the labor supply necessary to
the handling of the sugar crop would
be available. He added that if there
then should be any shortage the Phil
| ippine island would furnish the re-
quired number of workers. Methods
of plantation operation were severely
criticised from the standpoint of in
efficiency.
The Honolulu Central Labor Union,
it was testified, submitted to the su-
gar planters proposal, or program,
for the relief and remedying of the
labor situation in the islands. This
program contained diagnosis of the
situation and remedy therefor as
follows:
DIAGNOSIS: We find that the
plight in which the sugar industry
finds itself today is due primarily to
the lack of proper understanding
and cooperation between employer
and employees. This results in the
encouragement and antagonism of the
workers which lowers their efficiency
approximately so per cent of the nor
NAL, and causes dissatisfaction and
the consequent drifting away from the
plantations of the laborers whose SER
vices are required to take off the crop.
Extremely low wages and the lmpos-
sibility of earning living except at
the lowest possible standard of sub
sistence prevents those living outside
the plantations from taking plantation
jobs, though there are probably enough
unemployed and temporarily employ
ed who would be willing to fill the
/ jobs if the conditions were such that
there was any inducement offered.
"REMEDY: Follow the approved
industrial methods and endeavor to
increase the efficiency of your en-
| ployes by effecting right understand
ing with them. Recognize the prin-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
"a pa Pa
COURT ENDS" STRIKE

New York Striking bookbinders
employed by the T. F. Tapley Com
pany at Long Island City, were sur
prised to learn that their 44-hour
week strike is over. Supreme Court
Justice Cannon made the announce
ment, and issued an injunction against
picketing. The company made the
usual claim to Justice Cannon that its
plant is running at top speed. The
court, thereupon, ended the strike and
affirmed that picketing is unlawful.
The only difficulty with the decree
is that the bookbinders reject the
honorable courts discovery.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
FIGHT 'BARGAIN" DAYS

Washington.-Th theory of "less
government in business" is favored
by retailers, but these business men
believe Uncle Sam should aid them
in abolishing bargain days" They
have attempted to enlist the depart
ment of commerce in a campaign to
persuade merchants to abandon the
practice and maintain a general level
of prices which, they say, should be
stabilized"
1t is estimated that the department
of commerce will take no part in this
movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05

SUGAR PLANTERS ADVISED

Chicago.-If labor is scarce in Ha-
waii, there are plenty of unemployed
in the United States without import
ing Chinese coolies, said Victor Olan-
der, secretary treasurer of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor, in a pro-
test to congressman and senators
against the proposal of Hawaiian su-
oar planterS
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05

on a crucial contest between the men
and the ship owners of this country,
were too strong to be resisted The
lockout was put into effect and we
find our sea labor today disorganized,
dissatisfied and rebellious. The con-
ditions exist which every enemy of
the American merchant marine must
desire to have exist"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-08-05
PRESSMEN MAKE GAINS

Pressmen's Home, Tenn.-The cur
rent issue of American Pressmal
prints reports from score of local
tiles where affiliates of the Interna
tional Printing Pressmen and Assist
ants Union secured betterments.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-04-21
THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS.

SOMEONE has said that money is
only the measure of Success.
We do not believe this. Happiness,
true, simon pure Happiness, bathed in
a wealth of content is greater than
wealth and to the wise nan signifies
a Success money cannot denote.
The burglar may have money but
he cannot steal ever a bit of real hap
piness.
The Millionaire wealth may in a
sense be an indication of a certain
success, but if he has failed to achieve
health, and health brings happiness,
he has fallen short in his goal.
Money of course, is worth having,
but it is far from everything, and we
have always felt it has been a poor
goal to set as that of real Success.
For Success is a finer thing than
money, in fact it is beyond the pur-
chase of money, and money as a tape
line to measure Success is like &C.
cepting a red barn os a criterion to
Judge a rubescent sunset.
Money is no more a mark Of true
Success than rouge, wen artistically
applied, is an indication of beauty.
1t is very well to set your goal fol
money but don't make it mean every
thing in your definition of Success.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-04-21
FARM LAND VALUES.

THEsfull assessment Of farm lands,
in view Of recent statistical surveys
by experts showing the price of farm
lands is due for a further decrease in
value brings up a question that will
interest the farmers at this time in
Missouri. Farm land is judged by its
utility, by the amount and value of
Che crops which it will bear. The
value Of farm lands decrease as the
farm crops they will bear decrease in
market value, according to experts.
On the basis Of present prices for
farm crops, which have declined far
faster than most other articles, there
viii arise the question to the land
owner whether or not he is being as
sessed at too high a price for his
property This is q matter worthy
of full consideration and we offer it to
those who are Interested along this
line.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-04-21

THERE isn't any more inspiring
sight than to see seventy business
and professional me and farmers
seated in good fellowship at a lunch
con table, becoming better acquainted
and listening to worthwhile addresses
of a constructive and spiritual nature.
That is what occurred Thursday at
the Chamber Of Commerce luncheon.
It was a delightful hour and every
present felt more than repaid
for having attended the session. The
citizen who II overlooking these
splendid meetings ~ missing sonne-
thing worthwhile, and at the same
time failing to take the part in CONF
naunity life his civic duty entails.
|ME EENE rZ| -fI LEM H8H
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-04-21
TRUSTEES SALE"

WHEREAS, W. G. Vaughn by his
certain deed Of trust dated the 18th
day of January 1921, and recorded in
the office Of the Recorder Of deeds In
and for Audrain County, Missouri, in
Book 40, at Page 41s conveyed to the
undersigned Trustee, the following
described real estate situated in the
County of Audrain in the state Of
Missouri to- witt
All that part of the North East
Quarter (A) Of Section Twenty-Five
(25) in Township Fifty-one (51),
Range Nine (9) West Of the Fifth
(5th) P. NJ, lying North and West
of the Center of the Mexico and
Louisiana dirt road; containing forty
seven and one-half (47h) acres, more
or less.
In trust to secure the payment Of
certain notes in said deed specified
and WHEREAS a portion Of the in
debtedness secured by said deed Of
trust is now due and remains un-
paid and the legal holder Of said
Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-04-21


min p. Richie, deceased and John
w. MCGEE, deceased. Defendants.
State Of Missouri to the above
named, or described defendants,
Greetings:
April 9th, 1921, you are hereby no.
tilted that an action has been COM
menced against you and each of you
in the Circuit Court of the County of
Audrain in the State of Missouri, af-
fecting the title to the following des-
cribed lands and tenements to-wit:
The West half of the Southeast
quarter ofthe Northwest quarter Of
section 33, and the East half Of the
Southwest quarter of the North
west quarter Of Section 33, all in
Township So, Range IL West, and
containing in all forty acres, more or
less.
Which said action is returnable on
the first day ofthe next term Of said
Court, to be held at the Court House
in the City of Mexico, in the County
and State aforesaid on the 9Th, day of
June 1921, when and where you may
appear and answer, or otherwise de-
fend such action otherwise plaintiffs
petition will be taken as confessed
and judgment rendered accordingly.
Witness my hand and official seal,
done at office in Mexico, this 9th, day
of April, 1921.
(SEAL) E. F. ELLIOTT,
Clerk of the Audrain County Cir
cult Court.
A true copy of the record.
Attest: e. F. Elliott,
Sat Clerk.