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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20

official magazine of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers union, who
calls attention to a similar resolution
introduced in the New York legisla-
ture, but which died a peaceful death.
"That piffle about hotbeds of Sc
victism,' cutting down of production,
etc, may sound well enough on paper,
says Editor Danish. "Should it come
to real investigation, however, the
gentlemen in the employing end of the
clothing industry know quite we'll that
the union may have something very
instructive and interesting to offer to
the general public that would cast
a lurid light upon their sinister ac-
tivities and price gouging for the last
five or six years. That testimony
would not look quite SO prettily on
paper.
$50 it might, after all, be found
best to drop the whole matter, as
was done by the New York assembly" +"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
"a Ea mz
Na 90 Mz
SURE, PERFECTLY
Understood By Rail Owners
And-Satisfactory

Washington, One result of the SEN
ate's Investigation of the railroad
question may result in ousting the
representatives of labor and the rail
roads from the railway labor board
and appointing all representatives of
the public. The plan is to appoint
some" railroad managers, but not as
railroad men just ordinary, plain,
everyday Americans who have no
interest except that justice be served.
This explanation is thoroughly under
stood by railroad owners.
The Washington correspondent for
the Philadelphia North American says
the change is being backed by rail
road corporations because the men
who are behind it in the senate are
known to be friendly to railroad in
terests and this circumstance has been
made the basis for the assertion what
is desired most is to get rid of the
representatives of labor on the board.
AS now constituted the board con-
sists of nine members, divided equally
between representative of the pub
lie. railroad workers and railroad
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
CONTROL FARMERS
Southern Bankers TellThem
What They May Grow

st. Louis, MG.,-The federal re-
serve bank is giving circulation to a
warning by Mississippi bankers that
farmers must plant less cotton and
that no money will be loaned to buy
food stuffs, which must be raised by
the farmers.
with an average crop of cotton
next fall, the price will be ruinous, y
say the bankers, who give notice that
I'VE will make no loans to any per
son after July ] next where any part
Of she proceeds is to be used in
buying food stuffs. In other words,
if you expect to buy your feed next
year, instead of growing it yourself,
then it will be necessary for you to
borrow your money from some one
else besides us"
The bankers Justify their position
by the statement that last year they
loaned more than $1,000,000 to pur-
chase food for families and cattle
and at the same time had to carry big
lines of frozen credits" in cotton.
The federal reserve bank at At
lanta has appealed to farmers in that
section to plant less cotton, as it is
feared that bumper crop will bring
fl1ipouS prippS
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
FORTY-FOUR
HOUR BULLETIN
Number 4

We continue to receive encourag-
ing reports on introduction of forty
four hour week
Representative Stoney wires: "Set-
tied strike in Victoria today. Men re-
turn to work; forty-four- hour week
with forty-seven hours pay"
Des Moines, Iowa, signed up in full.
Representative Ryan reports Regi-
ma, Sask., signed up in complete vic
tory.
Various unions report signing of
individual offices.
The open-shoppers who expected to
defeat the |. T. u and establish fifty
hour week in printing industry are
meeting defeat.
Watch for further bulletins from
this office.
By order Executive Council Inter
national Typographical Union.
j. w. HAYS,
Secretary Treasurer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
RICE GROWERS
STARVE
While Middlemen Rea d
Enormous Profits

While rice is retail
ing in the nations capital for 10 cents
a pound, Arkansas rice growers are
paid 25 cents bushel and less for
this product, according to letters to
Senator Robinson from several rice
growing farmers of that state The
writer's make bitter complaint against
the Southern Rice Growers associa-
tion and mills, which handle the rice.
Senator Robinson has introduced a
resolution to investigate this industry
and the plan is supported by farmers
who show that they are in debt as
result of their efforts last year.
T. T. Hasty, of Almyra, Ark,
writes: 81 have 1000 bushels of rice,
milled, and it netted me $54750,
about 25 cents bushel / averaged
about 80 bushels to the acre and when
the crop was all disposed of it left
me SO 900 behind on the actual RUM
ing expenses, and | can't obtain one
dollar to make this crop. The banks
will not help us to even pay our
taxes"
VIM Penrose, of Hunter, Ark,
writes; "ro my ceftain knowledge
the neighborhood has received just
$3.50 under the contracts with the
Southern Rice Growers association
From Lonoke, Ark, comes this in
formations "The producer can not
get report on his rice. 1t looks
very much to US like the head of the
association is owned and controlled
| by the mill Letters are written daily
to the head officers of the association
but no replies are received therefrom.
The by-products at THIS time will
pay the milling expenses, as they are
selling them high.
j. NJ Henderson, Jr., of De Witt,
says neighbor turned in his rice
to the mills last fall and few days
ago received a draft amounting to
two cents a bushel" Another receiv-
ed II cents on 5000 bushels of good
rice. Il heard of another" says the
writer, who got $18 for car of
rice Children are in rags and with
out sufficient food. Honest men can
not pay interest on their debts, can
not borrow dollar, or get credit for
supplies"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
when FORCED OUT into THE OPEN
HHHHHH
RAIL WAY MANAGERS CONFESS THAT THE WELFARE OF
WORKERS WOULD GET NO C0NSIDERAT ton FROM Them
to openly take this stand.

to openly take this stand.
The witness assured the board that
the railroads are not ignoring human
ltarian considerations, but there must
be a lust and reasonable wage" for
just and reasonable service.
To inject the living wage into this
question would upset all preconceiv-
ed notions of running a railroad and
dealing with employees, he said.
Mr.. Walber seemed astounded at
the thought that a railroad worker
should be guaranteed living wage,
although he made no protest against
the Cummins-E -Esch law, which guar
antees interest on railroad stock. He
referred to a living wage as "emolu-
ments."
Suppose minimum wage is es-
tablished for railroad workers." he
said, This class, then, is to receive
emoluments simply because they are
railroad workers and have the eco
nomic power to enforce their will on
the rest of the country How long
are workers in other industries go
ing to permit such a one-sided state
of affairs Most serious evils would
result of this country if any attempt
were made to apply the so-called prin-
ciple without having worked out in
most comprehensive manner the meth
DDS of it's aDDlica+ion +"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
By Charles M. Kelley

Those who are engaged in the
shameless business of beating labor
to its knees" are being forced to re-
veal the thought that is back in their
minds. The fine phrases that they
employed when they launched their
variously disguised campaigns are be-
ing abandoned as the struggle stiff
fens and their spokesmen, with cal
lous contempt for the sensibilities of
their fellow-citizens, are saying blunt
ly and frankly just what they are
planning to do.
The proceedings before the railroad
labor board, at Chicago, where two
million workers are defending them
selves against unjust attacks, have
brought out some things that throw
light on hitherto unrevealed phases of
the concerted assault upon producers.
1t must be clear to those who have
followed this hearing that neither
justice nor decency has any part in
the plans of the defators of labor.
Autocracy, made by an access of
power gained while the world was
fighting for its very life, seeks to
impress it's will on those who for the
time being are at serious disadvan-
tage because of disturbed economic
conditions. They are trying to make
might right.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
Living Wage for American Work.
ers Is But A "SoCialistiC Theory"
Declares Big Interests Attorney

and passenger rates sufficiently high
to guarantee return of not less than
5R per cent on the "book value" of
American railroads.
If anything were needed to cause
American labor to close ranks and
present an unbroken front to the COM
mon enemy, it would be supplied by
this extraordinary declaration Only
men drunk with power could be in
discreet enough to give utterances to
such sentiments.
If a guaranteed wage for capital
is to be guaranteed to capital, and a
living wage for labor is to be regard
ed as un-American and Utopian, the
corollary is that workers are to be re-
duced to state of objectness and
misery lacking during periods of chat
tel slavery.
1t is a complete reversal of the in
CIOii llOC W IlldLLlC CllC OA llldI
tramps down the grain" Are Ameri-
can workers to be regarded as entitled
to less consideration than the brute :?
Are men who produce all wealth to be
denied sufficient to maintain them
selves in health and comfort? Is
every national interest to be subor-
dinated to the extortionate demands
of greed? The railroads have answr-
ed these questions affirmatively.
If the worker does not now realize
just what is in store for him, his
situation is hopless. Whether he ex-
lists or not is no concern to the
employer A living wage is a dream
that finds no place in the hardheaded
practically of American industry
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
HUNGRY WORKERS
Receive Aid From Trade
UniOnists

Birmingham, Ala.-Officers of the
State Federation of Labor have sup
plemented their donation of $500 to
aid hungry workers of this state with
a financial appeal to Alabama trade
unionists.
"The unemployment conditions of
Alabama" it is stated, "are worse
now than they have ever been in the
history of the state and the general
situation has become serious. Thou
sands of men have been out of en-
ployment for several months through
out the state
"This, Of course, was in itself a
serious situation, and then came the
governors decision in the miners
strike in which he (the governor)
stated that the operators were under
no obligation to re-employ the men
who had struck, and that he did not
think the operators were morally
bound to help relieve the situation
The mines in Alabama are practically
closed down or running on part time
and the miners are without employ
! ment or anything to eat.
eve are reliably informed that
there are approximately 10000 men,
women and children in the mining
districts of the state and they are
practically destitute, without food OF
any kind Several thousand of them
are living in tents furnished by the
United Mine Workers Of America"
SCubcr~shc <n~ T1, D-oc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
LIVING WAGE
THEORY
Is Rejected By Railroads

Chicago, The theory of a living
wage was declared an attempt to ere
ate super privileged class" by John
G. Walber before the railway labor
board, in presenting the railroads
opposition to wage demands of en-
ployes.
Mr.. Walber is secretary of pub
licity and information bureau main
tanned by eastern railroads. While
unknown, he is a convenient spokes-
man for those who lack the courage
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
Pa ~ n
DEPRESSION WORLD
WIDE

Washington.-Wo Worldwide business
depression is indicated by monthly
reports from commercial attaches and
trade commissioners in foreign coun-
tries, according to the government'st
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce
The reports deal especially with
conditions in England, France, Bel
gium, Germany and Austria.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
Ia pa EA
USUAL FINISH
Expected in Probe of Gar.
ment Industry

New York, United States Senator
Moses plan to subject the garment
industry to a searching probe will "a
mount to nothing hints Max D. Dan
ish, managing editor of the Justice,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
BARRIERS JOIN UNION

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the Jour
neymen BARRIERS International Union
report the issuance of these recent
charters: Slick and Hugo, Okla; !;
Staten Island, NJ Y; The Dalles, Ore. /;
Mckinney and Bay City, Texas; DAN
vile, Clifton Forge and Charlottes-
vile, Va.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20
"MOLDlNC PUBLIC OPINION"
How Newspapers Jump When Big Business Speaks Is
Shown in Two Chapters Below

result, it is said here, certainly would
have been trouble in the mills Wages
is what the workers want, according
to local steel men, and not abridged
hours of labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20

Below is shown how newspapers
print the facts" on the labor ques-
ton.
One editor writes before the steel
trust cut wages and before he knew
that the steel trusts claim that it
would abolish the 12-hour day is not
true This editor lauds Garyism for
strengthening the weakest point in its
armor by disarming the "agitator"
who works among the ''excitable and
un-Americanized immigrant employees
Of the steel trust.
The other editor writes his story
after the steel trust reduced wages.
He finds that the i2-hour day will be
continued and hastens to the defense
of the steel trust by explaining that
the workers demanded the 12-hour
day.
The two stories show how alleged
public opinion molders" jump when
big business speaks.
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Tissue May 81
Judge Gary's announcement that
the United States steel corporation
has done away with the 12-hour day
in some departments, and that he eX-
poets is will be completely eliminated
within the next year, should be well
come news to the country
The 12-hour day is the weakest
point in the steel corporations armor
when it is called upon to deal with
labor difficulty. 1t is the most
valuable asset that the l. w. w. agi-
tator has when he goes to work a
mong the excitable and un-Amerlcan-
lied immigrant employees of the steel
mills.
PITTSBURGH POST.
Tissue May 81
The wage policy OF the United
States steel corporation, retaining the
l2-hour day, as announced by Judge
Gary, dispelled many rumors regard
ing the three-shift day by executive
order.
The real reason the 12-hour day re-
mains on the company's rolls is be-
cause the workers themselves would
not stand for it's abolition.
Had the experiment been tried the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20

May lG. 1921.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-20

war SAYINGS STAMPS
ieeuEp BY 1rHn
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19
V|v|A|NI, Leaving,
SATISFIED WITH
HIS MISSION HERE:

WASHINGTON, April 16.-"I am
content with my mission to Amer
ica," declared Rene Viviani, special
envoy Of France, to the United Press
today.
Nh. Viviani, who made a farewell
call on President Harding yesterday,
leaves today for New York to sail
for France.
He reiterated that he came to pay
the respects of the French people to
the president Of the United States and
stated that he was taking with him
President Harding's expressions of
esteem and concord wards France.
In a broad way he came here to
gain the moral support OF the United
States for France. This he dlsclos-
ed in conversations with senators.
Specifically Q sought to prevent
passage of the Knox resolution at
least without some expression of
friendliness for France. sound out
the sentiment of the Harding ad-
ministration toward the League Of
Nations and obtain American COOP
Grafton in settling German rep
arations.
President Harding's message set
tied the first two questions.
AS to the reparations, President
Harding indicated this country
would take part in some of the pro-
visions of the treaty of Versailles
1t was made known Immediately aft
erWard that the reparations Dues
ton is one Of those of most interest
to this country.
It is doubtful, however, whether
the United States will give complete
support to the French reparations
demands.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19
Abel Melon Meeting
May Be Attended by
Commerce Officials
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TTLLER

WASHINGTON, D. c.. April 16.--
Following the visit on Friday of the
Georgia delegation in congress to
the interstate commerce commission,
when the marketing of the Georgia
watermelon crop was discussed, Sem
ator Harris today requested Chair
man Clark, Of the commission. to
send representatives to Abel where
meeting of the melon growers of
Florida and Georgia will be held
April %.
Senator Harris suggested, both to
Chairman Clark and Vice President
Green of the Southern railway. that
the Abel meeting would afford the
best opportunity for discussion OF
the melon situation between repre-
sentatives of the commission and the
railroads and the melon producers.
At the recent conference the COM
merce commission agreed to investi-
gate the freight rate situation in
cooperation with railroad men who
would go to Georgia for a personal
inspection. Both the commission
and the railroads said today they
would make an effort to have their
representatives at Abel on April %,
where the convention of growers
will assent BILE.
The question at issue is a prompt
reduction Of freight rates to eastern
and middle western markets SO the
melon crop may be marketed. Geor-
gia members of congress have told
Chairman Clark that the existing
rates are eNorbitant and will cripple
the melon industry and result in
radically curtailed shipments this
summer
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19
COTTON GROWERS
ASSOCIATION OPENS
OFFICES IN ATLANTA

The Georgia Cotton Growers CO.
Operative association, launched last
Tuesday at the statewide mass meet
ing held in the state capitol, has
opened offices at 500 Walton building,
and will inaugurate at once a cam
paign to sign up Georgia cotton
growers on the California plan con-
tract of cooperative marketing cot
ton, as adopted at the Tuesday mass
meeting.
The plan is to have a preliminary
sign-up campaign through growers
and business men who attended the
mass meeting, and to follow that up
with a highly organized, intensive
campaign which will be conducted
throughout the state, with great driv-
ing power put into it. The prelim-
mary sign-up campaign will be
handled by Mrs. j. W. Swift, H. u.
Wallace and other Ebert county
growers; W. J. Walker, Sylvania; T.
s. Johnson. Jefferson; DR.; Q. \, Har-
and other members of the executive
committee of the organizing associa-
ton.
In the meanwhile, o. E. Tate,
president of the Elbert county asso-
citation, and Victor Victor, of the At
1duld 1SOI IdI, nave SOAS edS oO1C-
gates from the Georgia association
to the south-wide meeting to be held
next Monday in Oklahoma City. The
growers of Oklahoma have already
signed up 100000 bales on the Cali
fornia plan contract, and are driving
now towards 100000 bales.
J. j. Brown, commissioner of agri-
culture, issued statement Friday
that the state department of agricul-
ture would. put it's full strength in
the campaign to get 100000 bales of
Georgia cotton signed up The state
ment said:
THE cotton growers of Georgia and
the south have suffered more than
their marketing plan can not be put
into effect too quickly We already
have assurances of cooperation
through similar organizations in 9TH
err cotton-growing states, and I feel
that the whole south is going to put
itself in readiness to take care Of the
marketing of the entire 1921 crop.
1.-THE Atlanta meeting was a we'll
attended and most enthusiastic one.
/ cannot too strongly express my ap-
probation of the splendid attendance
and the fine spirit that was shown.
Mr. Sapiro set his plan very clearly
before the meeting and it was cor
daily approved by all present. Many
meeting, and there appeared to be no
doubt that the 100000 bales minimum
would be signed up even before
July 1.
There is no doubt in my mind
that we are moving in the right d.
rection, and that the cotton growers
are going to win out"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19
Petticoat Detectives
May Be Employed
By Scotland Yard

LONDON, England. Beautiful
women in evening dress and wearing
costly diamonds and pearls will be
sought for by Scotland Yard to act
as detectives at fashionable func-
tons and hotels.
When he was head of the metro
polltan police, Sir Neville Macready,
now commander of the English
forces in Ireland, testified before a
House of Commons committee urg-
ing the appointment of these stylish
women detectives.
Sir Neville's definition of the best
type of female policewoman or de-
tectlVe IS: One who is not neurotic
Or eXcltable, but a woman who has
the human element very largely de-
veloped and who is not a faddist."
Mrs. Stanley, superintendent Of
metropolitan women's police patrols,
told the parliamentary committee
that much of the work of members
of her force was in saving light
family from drifting on to the
street in search of a gay life.
"One night L lost two girls under
suspicious circumstances. / came
across a woman who changed her
dress three times in the same night
and the color of her hair. | had
seen her at the railroad station, and
I caught her trying to take the two
girls from me. The cooperation of
women police in putting down the
white slave traffic is absolutely nee
eSSary''
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19
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Weakens the Heart
Use Flagwort Discs
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