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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-06-10

for Roscoe Arbuckle Now one of
the most highest salaried come
dams appearing before the public
in Metro screen comedies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
RAIL WORKERS TO
CONFER

Cleveland.-A call has been issued
by the executives of the five transpor-
tation railroad organizations for a
meeting of 600 general chairmen to
attend joint conference at Chicago
on Friday, July 1, to consider the
wage award made by the United
States railroad labor board, effective
on that date.
The interested unions are the loco
motive engineers, firemen, conductors
trainmen and switchmen.
"For the information of all con-
cerned," it is stated, "this meeting
has been called as result of reso-
luton adopted by the United States
railroad labor board, as reported in
the public press"
The boards announcement said the
amount of the wage decrease, effect
i've July l, will be made public June 1.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
ADVISES COAL OWNERS

New York.-In an address to the
National Coal Association, former
Governor Cornwell, Of West Virginia,
urged these business men to compel
the outlaw operators who gouge the
public, to play the game on the
square"
The speaker declared that if the
railroads had been square and rea-
sonable in their early history they
would not have been regulated to
DEATH" and coal owners should have
this in mind if they would avoid gov
ernment regulation.
The speaker was until recently gov
ernor of West Virginia. His conduct
during that time was most satisfact-
ory to coal owners in their war
against the United Mine Workers.
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TO CRUSH LABOR
Southern Coal OwnerWOuld
Starve Miners

Birmingham, Ala.-It is estimated
that 10000 men, women and children
in the coal district of Alabama are
without food. They are housed in
tents furnished by the United Mine
Workers of America. To relieve this
situation, trade unionists are contrib
uting funds and the State Federation
of Labor has forwarded $500. The
coal owners deny that starvation ex-
lists, while they force miners to make
oath that they are not, and never will
be, members of the United Mine
Workers.
A statewide blacklist is being con-
Quoted against the union miners with
the approval of Governor Kilby. The
state executive acted as arbitrator in
the recent mine strike and supported
the coal owners in every point.
Governor Kilby also ruled that the
coal owners are under no obligation
to re-employ these miners. The gov
ernor has been called upon to relieve
the distress that his decision created,
but refuses to act, and has publicly
declared that he "sympathizes with
the miners" This statement has
brought withering reply from Van
A. Bittner, representative of the
United Mine Workers, who tells the
official that "such hypocrisy makes
men wonder" The trade unionist
refers to a public statement by the
governor when the strike was on,
wherein the people of Alabama were
called upon to "run the agitators out
of our state"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

grasp, says the department of agri-
culture.
Denudation, wherever practiced, it
is stated, leaves naked soil; floods and
erosion follow, and when the soil is
gone men must also go-and the pro-
cess does not take long.
Forests, says the department, not
only play an important part in the
distribution of mankind over the
earth's surface, but also deeply af-
feet his spiritual, physical and eco
nomic life. A country that reckless
ly wastes it's natural resources faces
ultimate poverty and, decadence. His
tory is full of such examples, says
the department.
1t is shown that the famine dis
| trict is denuded of forests. GAS re-
suit, the water rushes off the naked
slopes in veritable floods, gullying
away the mountain sides, causing the
rivers to run muddy with yellow soil
and carrying enormous masses of fer
tile earth to the sea. The tree-cover-
ed mountains formerly absorbed a
considerable portion of the annual
rain fall and let it escape by slow,
regular seepage during the dry sea-
son. Now that there are no trees,
shrubs or even grass to restrain the
rain fall, the streams that were for
merly narrow and deep and supplied
an abundance of water the year
around, have become broad and shall
low, with slender currents of muddy
water, which, when it rains, swell to
roaring torrents that bring disaster
and destruction everywhere"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1921
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddletOwn. o
THE OPEN SHOP

1t is refreshing during these hate
engendered days to get refreshing
breath of pure air from a source that
has long been neutral on issues grow
ing out of the labor problem. In the
issue last week of "Our Sunday Wis
itor" there appeared the following
strong and convincing editorial from
the pen of Rev. Bernard X. O'Reilly
of st. Louis:
'The campaign for what is termed
the open shop has assumed tremen-
dous and threatening Importance
Many of the leading metropolitan
dailies have been subsidized to the
cause and the country is being cover
ed by speakers and flooded with lit
erature. The open shop is heralded
by capital as the American way, the
way of justice and fair play, and an
emphatic refusal to close the door
of opportunity to a man simply be-
cause he does not see fit to join the
ranks Of organized labor.
'It may be quite true that organ
lied labor may not in every circum-
stance demand that none but union
labor shall be employed, but there
are conditions under which a union
workman has the right to demand
that none but member Of the union
work with him. There is no doubt
that the present fair conditions under
which labor is working are due to the
resistance and aggressiveness of or
ganization.
"The man who does not belong to
the union receives benefit from the
union. 1t is only fair that he should
help to bear the expense 1t is also
to be noted that the presence of non-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
WOULD "READJUST"
RATES

Washington.-Albert H. Smith,
president of the New York Central
railroad, told the senate interstate
commerce committee that he favored
scientific" readjustment of rail
road rates. This is the first railroad
official who has intimated that rail
road rates are too high, although
they are unit in condemning high
wages. All other railroad officials
have declared that rates are not high.
Mr.. Smith let it be understood that
rate reductions must not be arbitrary,
but must only be made after expert
ments on what charges will increase
traffic.
In the case of wages, however, a
sledge hammer is permissible to ac-
complish their reduction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

THOSE HIGH WAGES
Of the high wages credited to the
building crafts, Arthur Brisbane, the
well known editorial writer, says:
"You have heard of high wages for
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union workmen prevents peace and
discipline in the workshop. It pro-
vokes constant friction between the
two classes of workmen. 1t is a
well known fact that under the prin-
ciple of the open shop the average
employer will gradually eliminate
union labor or reduce their wages to
lower level. 1t may be truthfully
said that the open shop makes for
the destruction of organized labor.
eff organization is necessary that
labor may receive its just dues it
has the right to defend its existence
by demanding the union or closed
shop. If it can be shown that the
closed shop is necessary as means
to secure or continue fair conditions
of labor there is no injustice in or
ganized labor demanding the neces-
sary means to preserve its own exist
ence.
| at is urged that the closed shop
violates the principle of individual lib
erty. 1t not infrequently happens
that the liberty of the individual must
be sacrificed for the common good.
The individual laborer should not find
it an unreasonable interference with
his liberty when he is asked to COM
ply with conditions which are neces-
sary that justice be done the mass OF
the workers. The individual should
be willing to sacrifice his personal
freedom when insistence upon ii
would mean injustice to his fellow
workmen.
Advocates of the open shop argue
that the closed shop policy deprives
the non-unionist of his natural right
to work. We do not deny to an,
man the fundamental right to carr
his living.
"The right to work is sacred, bu
the question involved at present Ii
the conditions under which he ma.
: exercise his right to work. Th'
right of the non-union man to worl
!. is not an unconditional right. He ha'
no right to work under unreasonabl,
conditions, or if in the exercise of th'
right he Injuries the mass of th
workers.
"If the closed shop is necessar.
that workers obtain just wages ant
/ proper working conditions it does no
. violate the right of the man who doe
not belong to union even though i
would prevent him from obtaining
employment. Every right must b.
!. exercised within reasonable limits.
the open shop may be invoked as ;
fundamental right under any condi
tions it would mean that the laborel
may be forced to work under condi
tions that are unreasonable.
"The whole argument rests on the
question whether or not the CLOSED
shop is necessary that workmen may
work under fair conditions. In the
light of the history of labor's fight
for justice it would not be so Difficult,
to give good arguments in favor Of
the closed shop.
"The present general fight for the
open shop is not, at least in the ma
jority of cases, an effort to obtair
justice for the individual worker The
closed shop was enforced for centuries
by the guilds. In many places it was
recognized because it was a necessity
for the existence of organized labor
] "The open shop gospel refuses tx
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
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GUN TOTERS AND SPEED
DEMONS

Judge Kautz is deserving of much
credit for the manner in which he is
handing it out to the automobile
speed demons and gun toters brought
before him. His honor's method of
giving the offenders the limit is the
only one for breaking up these dam
gerous fast growing customs. We've
got lot of wild-eyed galoots running
about the city who seem to think they
are not dressed up unless they have
"4S" hanging at their side, and who
want to use it every time the fire
bells ring. Then there is the speed
maniac who seems to think there is
nothing in the whole world but him
and his automobile or motorcycle,
and that every time he wants to pay
his gas bill or make a call he has to
go across the city at flying pace to
the danger of life and limb of all the
men, women and children in our town.
Why, it is all ones life is worth for
one to cross an alley or street without
first sticking ones head around the
corner to see if one of these auto
"nuts" isn't coming a block away at
| the rate of a mile minute right
through the heart of the city. Judge
Kautz is right in throwing the keys
away on these offenders who are q
menace to the citizens at large; it is
the only way the habit can be check
ed More power to you, Judge; make
it little stronger next time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
HOW TO DO 1T

A writer in The Carpenter says:
"Quite frequently am asked by
my fellow-workmen this question
What do you think is a good and
effective weapon to use against the
open shop?' so-called American plan
of employment, which is nothing else
but closed shop to the trades union
man or woman. My answer is this
The most effective weapon is to hit
them in the pocketbook, and the best
way to hit them in the pocketbook is
to buy absolutely nothing that does
not bear the union label, no matter
what it is, be it tobacco, cigars or
cigarettes, shoes or gloves, hats or a
broom; in fact, anything you buy, de-
mand the union label upon it. If or
ganized labor would only spend their
union earned money as union men and
women should spend, these labor-hat-
ers would be on the run in a short
time. So / appeal to you, brothers,
refuse to buy non-union made goods,
and you will be surprised how much
it will help organized labor to fight
it's battles"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

mechanics building the houses, much
needed. You have heard that wages
must be reduced to a reasonable
level Did you ever hear what has
really made the building of houses so
expensive? Investigation in New
York reveals the facts. Gentlemen
builders, by gentlemen's agreement,
when they paid workman dollar
an hour, charged the owner of the
building three dollars an hour, some
times more. This made the building
expensive, made the gentlemen very
prosperous, and it made it easy to
point to mechanics as the cause of all
the trouble. Add the gentlemen's
agreement to rob the public on build
ing material prices and you learn that
mechanics had little to do with it."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

by buying only the best Shoes The "FIT-RITE" offers
you the largest and best selection at prices which
will appeal to all thrifty people who want only
good shoes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
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WEDNESDAY HALF-HOLIDAY


Wednesday afternoon of this week
most all stores in the city were closed
for the first half-holiday for the en-
ployes for the summer months. These
holidays started four years ago and
are the direct result of the efforts and
on request of the local Retail Clerks
Union We wonder how many of the
store employees and clerks who are not
members of the clerks apprecite the
fact that they enjoy these half -holi-
days because of the efforts of local
organized labor. We wonder how
many do!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03
CAUSE OF FAMINE
In China Is Destruction OF
Her Forests

Washington.-Th ruthless de-
struction of their forests by Chinese
is one reason why famine and plague
hold that nation in their sinister
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-03

recognize the right of labor to organ
ize in the sense that it can demand a
hearing through its chosen represen-
tatives, or, as it is commonly called
collective bargaining" In propa-
eating this gospel the capitalists have
organized most thoroughly and effect
lively and are speaking through chos-
en- representatives. Capital is using
the precise principles and methods
which it would deny to labor"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-06-01
Caruso Heard in a Sacred
Number

Asa reminder that Enric, caruso,
The peer'ess opera tenor is also one OF
The greatest historical interpreters of
the music OF Christian devotioa. his
new Victor Record fer June Is irozi
Ros.ini's "Messe Solenellc." The
-Dcmine deuss has a steady, vigorous,
yet graceful tread. All technical con
siderations die away as the glorious
vcice is uplifted 10 acknowledge the
goodness Of Gcd. Few have heard this
music srng as Csruso sings it--few
indeed have heard his great voice soar
ing and swelling as here. BUT all rzay
hear il now, for its echoes safely caught
by the Nictrola, will never die.
A gospel hymn OF truly American
Tyre Sometime Wen Understand" is
sung by Madame Schumann- Heink in
response 10 great popular demand.
Only one who has faced Lie az rrsny
points could sing this air With such
completeness Of sympathy. The orches-
trail setting Is touched by an occasional
bcil-tone, as perhaps the visionary
si-zru of Divine light might touch and
Elumine some quiet soul pursuing
steadily its upward way. Nocally the
recoTd is beyond praise
The Last Rose Of Summer" Celtic
10 origin. is certainly now the Common
property of the human race. surrounded
as II is by poetic legend and musical
history. Mischa Elnan plays II in
double stops, two strings in Equ;i.
singing harmony. His violin grows
mysterious. confemplative, alrnos, zys-
teal in beauty, returning before the
eiose to q sweet and simple tenderness
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-06-01
The New Fox Trots Are the
Best Ever

Joseph c. Smith and His Orchestrs
in the new Victor Record for lane "L
Lest Ny Heart to You ard Broken
Moon--Without You" medley fox
tru;s. make the time work overtime.
To play a fox trot that viii do for the
goose toddle and all the rest OF th.
popular menagerie down TO the tango,
rust make an orchestra leader feel like
the man in the fable who had to cross
the river with the fox, the goose aud
the corn But Joseph c. Smith knows
the answer. Here he has the perfect
dance tenpo--the time that suits them
all
There seems to 1. no limit to th.
things. Paul Whitemsn can do With
modern orchestra. He can take ir-
accepted laws OF things ought 70 sound
like musical roo az feeding time, can
make a fox trot Of them. and set .
whole continent dancing TO the result
Underneath Hawaiian Skies Is on.
of the most dsringly beautiful things
he has done, while Sip Sip Sippy
Shore'-Medley One Step. is dashinz.
srappy, vigorous dance, with too many
effects TO be crowded into a desenp-
ticn-
AN for Ycu-Hsppiness," aiso h-
Pail Whiteman and His Orchestra, is
twelve whole inches OF dclirious fox
tros, sometimes soft and dreamy, With
floating, seductive melodies, and again
thrilled with the masculine strength Of
the horns. The All Star Trio and
] heir Orchestra play "Moonbe ans
Pinirs Medley Fox Trot, in which
the brssses seem fairly to root for Joy,
while the xylophonc trickIcs like .
silver brook il the tonsI landscape.
The All Star Trio. specialists in joy,
have taken 70 writing their own records.
Teach Me"---Fox Trct ia hy Gcorre
Hamilton Gr-en, the xylophcnist, aud
Nieto- Arden, the pianist. wrote Round
the Town Wadsworth's big saxc-
phone boots ENCOURAGEMENT like 4 big
brother alorg the side lines.
"El Relicario' is probably the most
porl,ar song in Latin America todsv.
Though not exactly a dance az tie
Blue and White Marirba Band plavs
il, It's swift tie makes YOU feel ~.
dancing II is the story Of a fallen
iorreador played in thriilir-. irv
trerolo. Ferera ard Frarchiri whes
YOU turn the record over, CIV. ~.
something easily danced ffawaiisu
v afz.. saavcly beautiful, quivering IN
through with the Island Wall
II these records interes, vou and
there are few people indeed wh, cs,-
rot h-d pleasure IN sorse part Of .h;s
fsscinating musical array. sny y,c-or
dealer. viii be only too Glad 10 nisv
them for you without ohli sion on yr.,-
part. even though you are not the for
tlnate pcssesso.- 5f Victroia.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-06-01
ROTARY CLUB STARTS NEW
YEAR VITA pRpOMISE
fcc-,:anen nm Page u

fCc..aued from Page ~
He said the Mulhsll test well was be-
low 1900 feet and that ~oil IS cer-
tain" And Guthrie will profit huse-
! " when the sand is hii.- he said
Mrs Zaek Mulhail. ~whe stayed when
'alI he Mulhalls wen, out into the
world pleasantly acknowledged the
Rotary salute.
Or Hin ANNOUNCED thA, Miss Mild
red Days win leave for Davenport.
Ia. Thursday to conies, in the piano
rodec and asked telegraphio action
Of the club a: the time OF the con-
test
Presiden, Gahl introduced the new
officers O, the club and bespoke good
things FOX Rotary the coming year.
Secretary Louis bronson read the
clnb report for April, which showed
al attendance OF SIS IL per cent He
also read letters from Gov Everett
Hill praising the local Rote bunch
Film OF the conference work at
Wichita meeting will be here next
week and will be exhibited at he
theatre
=. W Lin,z ,nade a plea for the
county fair and told OF preparations
to be made FOR the big show this year
covering fair activities
we're passed among :he members
Desire has been expressed that the
lair this year "be made different
and ,ha, polo contests instead o.
horse racing be carded
The past year was highly sue
,essful one for Rotary: under the
guidance Of Presiden, Gahl the com
ng year is full OF srea. promise The |
-eader will prin; the committees for
ne year tomorrow.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-06-01

the world TO get through thar mob
into the negro district,
We have five liaes protecting the
warehouses on he Katy railroad and
! think we have them saved II the
wind should change the white resi-
dence section east os the negro dis
;rict would be men nsced
The fire has swept Greenwood
street, where the nesro business sec
ton vas located and is sweeping
around the hill to the north. So far
the white residence section on the
north has not been touched
Chief Alder indicated tha. he was
prepared 20 call for outside assis-
ance in case II became necessary.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-06-01
Searching For 4
Lost Gold Nine

edmonton. Alta. June i-Searcn
TO- lest rivera river of GOLD vii.
te undertaken this year by several
piospectors. including old timers
from the Yukon and Alaska. who 40
NV here outfitting for the long Jour
'ney into the north country. Tbs
lost river bed. where the Peace River
once flowed. is somewhere in the big
eeId of the Peace. bisected by a line
drawn from Fort St John to the
mouth of the Battle River.
Some years ago Indians brouga.
into Fort St John Q fair sized god
nugget which. according to the taIs
told BY old timers OF the north. he
discovered in a stream in the couu-
iiy to the northeast OF the post.
Soon satter this an old trapper.
white man. who made Fort 81. JohE
his headquarters. came into the Fo-t
with a quantity Of coarse gold which
ne had washed from some stream In
a similar direction to that fro:1
which the Indian hailed
He never visited his trap lines af
Yer this. living on the fat Of the lau.l
IA carefree idleness at the post. He
often disappeared. when ever his
supplies Of uecessaries ran low. and
would be away for a few days. a.
ways returning with a fresh supply
O. god.
This aged trapper lived in this
manner for number Of years. He
died as many trapers and north
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-06-01
WHITE GIRL KILLED
5y BLACK SNipE

-
A white girl was reported killed
oa North Peoria in the vicinity OF 4
refinery. The repor, could not be
verified at 10 O'clock.
The firing came from a spo; whe e
'hroughou, the early morning hours
rye hundred white men ana a thou
sand negroes faced each other across
railroad tracks. frs; reports TO
police headquarters said that tha
bodies ot six TO ten negroes could
be seen lying in a space desricbea
as NO Mans Land The police ais,
Lad a report that three 81. Louis =
San Francisco railway swi,chmen
ard brakeman had bcen shot to
death.
At 10 O'Clock it vas reported two
carloads Of negroes from Nuskoges
had passed kendal College. located in
the. eastern part OF the city.