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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
BY GEORGE F. MILTON, JR.

Consolidated Press Correspondent.
Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.l
Chattanooga, Tenn, June IL
The sale of liquor on any American
vessel is a violation of the prohibl-
ton act, in the view of W. l.. Fri
erson of this city, who, as actihg
attorney general of the Unlted
States during the Wilson admlnls-
tration rendered the official opln-
ion that the dry laws applied to
vessels on the high seas. Not only
is this so, Mr. Frierson said today,
but all of the opinions of the courts
up to and including the supreme
court, uphold this view.
"The right of the United States
government TO punish oHehses
committed on the high seas always
has been recognized" declared Mr..
Frierson. ANY act of congress
which has a general application IS
as much in force on a vessel hylng
the American flag as it would be on
American soil. Congress has sx-
actly the same power to leglslate
and make particular acts crimes
when done on American vessels on
the high seas that it has to make
such acts crimes in the district or
Columbia where it has pienary
powers of legislation.
Congress Has Power.
"Since the high seas are not with
in the territorial jurisdiction of any
federal court congress has the pow
ers to designate the particular fed
eral court which shall have jurls-
diction of such offenses and this
it has done in the past. The con-
tention that the prohibition laws
have no force on the high seas is
based on the fact that congress has.
by statute. enumerated certain
crimes, such as murder, rape, rob-
berry. theft, etc, which when COM
mitted on an American vessel shall
| be punishable in the federal courts.
| THE argument is that such an
enumeration shows an intent that
other offenses shall not be punish
able"
! The answer to this is that the
offenses enumerated are such as
are subject to state rather than
! federal legislation. They are Of
| fenses as to which congress has no
power to enact legislation which
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
.AJORIT
REPLIES TO
CRITICISM
Charges Labor Members
With Inciting Men
to Strike.

Chicago, June 17.zlBy the Asso-
ciated Press.)- Majority members
of the United States railroad labor
board who yesterday ordered an
other slash from wages of the ma
tfon's railway workers, todays retail
lated to criticisms of minority mem
bers OF the board with the charge
that the dissenting members pre-
sented 'incendiary arguments in a
strained and exaggerated effort to
infiame the employees to strike
against the decisions OF the board.
The minority. constituting two OF
these labor members, were accused
of Sowing some of the tiny seeds
that have germinated and bios
somed into industrial anarchy IN
Russia
Cut Is s27,OOO,OOO.
Yesterdays decision, which
Topped nearly S27, 100000 from the
wages of 325, 5,0G0 railway clerks,
signalmen and stationary tiremen,
brought total reductions effective
July /, under the boards orders, up
to $135, ,000,000
approximately 100000 railway
employees are affected by the
orders.
Accompanying yesterday order
carrying reductions ranging from
to 6 cents an hour was long sup
porting opinion from the members
representing the railroads and the
public, and the dissenting opinion
| by the labor members coRdssa nin6
the order.
In their prompt rejoinder today
the majority members said:
GImpassiOned Advocacy"
at is not incumbent upon the six
members of the board concurrtnE IN
this decision to follow the minority
into a partisan controversy which
partakes more of the characteristics
of impassioned advocacy than OF
calm adjudication
I'VE prefer to believe that these
improprieties crept into that part OF
the document which was drafted Dy
The employees in the headquarters OF
1.-The railway department OF the
American Federation OF Labor, ana
THAT they were overlooked by the
ldissenting members.
There is one feature o. tE> dis
senting argument, however, UnIch
is so unusual that it SHOULD not be
PASSED over without notice, and
that is the portion wherein the two
dissenting members advise tAS sIn-
lployes to strike against the decls-
ion of the board.
zone Of the passages referred tt
is as follows:
Quotes "Strike- Advice.
1.-THE transportation act aimes
IN substitute for the strike suci
lust and reasonable wages
would render resort to stTik
unnecessary. If this trl0una
IContinued on Page TnEteen.l
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
II. F. MCCORMICK
HAS OPERATION;
GETTING BETTER

Chicago. June 17.@Harold F.
Mccormick. former head OF the
International Harvester com
pany, was reported to be getting
along very nicely" at Wesley
Memorial hospital today follew-
ing a minor operation there
Thursday. He will be able to go
home within q few days, at
taches of the hospital said.
Mr.. Mccormick, who is 81
years old, recently declined re-
election to the presidency of the
Harvester company, but was
elected chairman of a newly
created executive committee. No
mention of i'll health was made
at the time of his resignation as
head of the company
DR.. Victor D. Lespinasse was
, salL to have performed the
operation.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
union TO TEST
COURT RULING
Printers Council Sues Company for
Misuse of Label; Parallels
Coronado Case.

Cincinnati, Ohio, June IA suit
which is expected to put to the test
the recent decision of the United
States supreme court in the Coro-
nado mine case, which held that
trade unions may sue and be sued,
has been filed in the superior court
here.
The action is by Edwin !.
Hutchins, individually and as pres
ident of the Allied Printing Trades
council of Cincinnati. and on be-
half of the union and its members
against the United States Printing
and Lithographing company and
demands $4,000 for alleged wrong
full use by that company of the
union label.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
STORM KILLS 6
IN WISCONSIN
Scores Are Injured. Property DAM
aged Thousands of Dollars in
Thursdays Blow.

Glenwood City, Wis, June II
Rapid progress was being made to-
day in clearing away evidences of
the tornado that swept through SEC
tions of four counties in western
Wisconsin Thursday night, causing
six deaths, injury to scores OF per
sons and did hundreds of thousands
monetary loss.
Additional reports early today
did not change the total fatalities,
although there still remained few
isolated districts that had not re-
ported previously. The death list
NAV be swelled, however, as sever
al of the injured are in a criti-
cal condition.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
TARIFF TO STAY
BEFORE SENATE
Republican Leaders Assure Hard
ing Measure VIII Hold First
Place Until Passed.

Washington. June 17.-PFesldent
Harding was assured by senate Re
publican leaders who called today
at the White house that the tarih
hill would be held before the sen
ate until passed,
senator Watson, Republican oi
Indiana, said he told Mr. Harding
that it had been determined that
the Republican senate conference
called for Monday, would vote 70
continue the tariff bill and again5-
LAYING aside the measure to take
I'D bonus legislation
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
SMALEPUTSO.K.
ON ROAD PLANS
IN is COUNTIES
Letting of Bids to
Bring Total to
no Miles.

Waukegan, Ill, June 17.-(By the
Associated Press.) - Governor
Small today approved plans and
specifications for standard 1S-
foot hard surfaced roads in 16
counties in Illinois. Bids will be
advertised for at once, and opened
the first week in July.
With the letting of these con-
tracts a total of TO miles will have
been contracted for construction
this year, leaving 230 miles of the
years program to be approved.
The governor also announced to-
day that he would receive bids on
1884 miles of heavy grading and
eight new bridges for improve
ments to be let later.
The announcement followed sew
eral days conference with Col. c..
r. Miller, director of the depart
ment of public works and build
ings, and Frank T. Sheet, superin-
tendent of highways.
Mileage Locations.
The locations of the new mile
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
5 ARE KILLED IN
ULSTER VILLAGE
Four Men. One Woman, Shot Dead,
Two Men Wounded; Three LOy-
alistS' Houses Burned.

Belfast, Ireland, June 17.-(By
the Associated Press. -Four men
and one woman were shot dead and
two men were wounded today in
the vicinity of Bess Brook. known
as County Armagh's model village
The houses of three loyalists were
burned.
The affair is thought to have been
in reprisal for the shooting of two
men on Wednesday. one Of whom
lived in Bess Brook.
London, June 1.-THE campaign
of incendiarism in Belfast has be-
come SO alarming, says the Morn
ing Posts correspondent. that when
the Ulster parliament reassembles
on Tuesday the northern govern
ment is likely to introduce legisla-
ton imposing the death penalty on
persons convicted of setting fires.
The writer ascribes the burning
to a plot to strangle the industrial
life of Belfast by destroying manu-
featuring and business premises
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
z ARMY FLYERS
BURN TO DEATH

Louisville, KY, June IA lieu
tenant from the army aerial serv-
ice and a sergeant from the photo
graphic section were burned to
death when their airplane fell near
a crowd of spectators at benefit
air circus exhibition here this aft
ernOOn.
The f1iers killed were Lieutenant
Robert o. Hanley of the 7th photo
graphic section, SSth squadron, and
Sergeant Heyme of the same or
ganization, both stationed at Camp
Henry Knox, Kentucky.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
BUSCH LAUDED
BY DR.. CRAFTS
Noted Reformer Praises Brewer for
Stand on Dry Enforcement on
c. s. Ships.

St Louis, Mo, June 17.-(By the
Associated Press) - Adolphus
Busch III, local brewer, was prais-
ed for his stand regarding enforce
ment of prohibition on shipping
board vessels. and Chairman Las
ker Of the shipping board was de-
nounced for allowing the sale of
intoxicants on the ships outside the
three-mile zone, in a statement to
the Associated Press today by DR..
Wilbur F. Crafts of Washington, D.
g., superintendent of the InterIa-
donal Reform bureau
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
BANDITS HOLD
UP, ROB TRAIN

Pittsburgh, Pa, June 1.-THE
Paramount express on the Pitts
burgh & Lake Erie railroad, was
held up near Webster, Pa, about
25 miles from here, at 10:40 o'clock
this morning by two masked men
who robbed the baggage car and
escaped.
At the offices of the American
Railway Express company it was
stated that the cOmpany's loss
would not exceed 500.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
DR.. RICHARDS,
JOLIET, DIES
Physician Injured in Street Car Ac-
cident SuccumbS in St Luke'S
Hospital, Chicago.

Chicago. July 17.-Dr. William
Richards Of Joliet, IIb. who was in
iured in a street car accident last
night, died at 1:10 p. m. today ct
ST. Luke's hospital. Relatives have
asked the coroner's office for per-
mission to ship the body TO Joliet,
and this probably will be done as
soon as the usual formalit.es OF a
coroner's verdict can be carried
out.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
MORRIS 'CHIRO'
UNDER ARREST
DR.. william Mutera, Marked by Ku
kluX Khan, Is Taken on
Statutory Charge.

Morris. ILL.,. June 17.-Dr. Will
liam A. Mutera was arrested today
by Sheriff James Mack, charged
with a statutory offense on COM
plant sworn out by Joseph Mag
nor of this city. Three men, pur-
ported to be members of the Ku
Klux Klan, came TO Morris recent
ly for the announced purpose of
f1ogging DR.. Mutera because of his
alleged attentions to a girl here.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
DISCOVER KEG OF
'GUNPOWDER' is
FULL OF HOOCH

Philadelphia. Pa, June IT,
ferched on a keg labeled gun
powder" Patrick Kane smoked
peaceful pipe as he ferried
across the Delaware from Cam
den.
But when his pipe went out
and he nonchalantly scratched
Ia match on the "gunpowder"
ssisn, prohibition sleuths eau
.iously tapped the KEEP. They
found ten gallons of ."hootch."
Kane and two alleged part
uers are under arrest today.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
T.. s. NOT AT HAGUE.

Washington June II. 1t was
stated that the United States will
have no unofficial observer at The
Hague conference on Russian af-
fairs
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17

The stretch of 6.85 miles in Cook
county makes a new entrance to
Chicago which will shorten the
Dixie highway into the business
district.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
GERMANY PAYS Up.

Paris, June 17.-Germany paid
her regular monthly installment Of
so 900 900 gold marks for reDara-
ton.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17

Washington, June 17-Confidence
that steps could be taken to meet
the requisites of President Hard
ing for prompt house consideration
of the ship subsidy bill, which has
been threatened with indefinite de-
lay, was expressed by Chairman
Campbell of the hOues rules COM
mittee, after a visit today to the
White house.
Chairman Campbell, who was
sent to the White houe by the house
rules and steering committee meet
ing in joint session, said he ex-
planned to Mr.. Harding "the diff
cuIties which are being encounter,
ed" but after hearing the prcsi'
dents views had expressed the
hope that with some delay tn;
matter can be Strengthened out sat
isfactorily."
He declined to say whether th'
delay would be material.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
COAL MINE AT
HE K RIM, ILL.,,
IS ARMED CAMP
Imported Miners Are
Guarded by Ma
chine Guns.

Herrin, ILL.,, June 17.-(By the
Associated Press.) - Several thou
sand striking coal miners of Will
Hanson county were expected to
decide today on a policy to be
adopted toward the mining of coal
at the strip mine of Lester G.
Sherwood, near here, which started
yesterday.
Imported miners, who say they
are members of the Steam Shovel
Mems union, are working the mine.
Other members of the organization
stand guard with rifles around the
mine, which seems like an armed
camp, with machine guns placed in
advantageous positions.
Local officials of the Illinois
miners union declare that such an
organization as the Steam Shovel
Mems union, does not exist, and
say that the matter in all proba-
bility will be placed before the
American Federation of Labor con-
vention at Cincinnati for a decis-
ion
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
Everything Quiet.

Everything has been quiet in the
district since the mine was re-
opened. Miners officials have eau
toned the striking miners against
violence, insisting they will try to
prevent the reopening of more
strip mines in the district by peace
full methods and argument.
The strip miners were not in
clUded in the call of April l, but
most of them left the surface pits
in sympathy with the deep mine
workers.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
SUBSIDY TO Get
PROMPT ACTION
Chairman Campbell Is Confident
House Members VIII Meet De-
mands of President.
BULLETIN.

Washington, June 1.-THE
administration ship subsidy
bill is not likely TO be taken up
by the house until the house is
ready to send the tariff bill now
before the senate, to CONFER
ence, Chairman Campbell of
the rules committee informed
Republican leaders today, after
q talk with President Harding.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17

CONTINUED on Page TnTteen.l
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
Issued Weekly at S26 Market Street
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1896
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
LABOR LAWS THAT BITE

The following article by George W.
Perkins, president Cigarmakers'
Union, appeared in the current num-
Der of the Cigarmakers' Journal:
"The next congress will no doubt
attempt to pass compulsory arbi-
tration law Such law in some form
is evidently desired by the present
anti-union forces. The railroad work
ers have apparently been picked as
the goat, perhaps with the hope that
they can be placed in the public SER
vice class and thus greater pressure
can be brought to bear against them
1t is proposed to "put teeth" in the
Esch-Cummins law. This means that
railroad employees will then have to
submit their wage demands and ad-
justments to hand-picked United
States labor board or commission
that will be empowered to COMPEL
the workers under penalties of fines
or Imprisonment to accept any de-
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from being landed on our shores. We
prohibit free trade.
The American plan is to interpret
international law most favorably to
ourselves. Note the Panama canal
tolls, the alien property law, the anti
conscription treaties, the seizure of
Dutch ships, the poison gas treaty.
The American plan results in an
industrial autocracy in which 100000
600 workers are controlled by $4,000
business men-according to Roger
Babson. 1t permits most of the neces-
stiles of life to be manipulated for
the profits of few individuals.
Let us strive to overcome these con-
tradictions and make the American
plan recognized throughout the world
as the standard of good government,
honorable dealing, altruism and civil
ization.
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wa VA ~ va 10
THE AMERICAN PLAN

This title indicates that you pay
hotel fixed sum for room and three
meals a day.
The American plan is also suppos-
ed to furnish every honest workman
a home and three meals day.
It also indicates a method by which
employers can combine for their pro-
lection, but ignore combinations of
EMPLOYEES. The American Institute
of Architects recently passed a reso-
luton in Chicago in favor of the open
shop, or american plan"
The American plan internationally
applied gives us the right to prevent
European or Asiatic nations from ac-
curing territory near US, while per-
mitting us to buy or conquer islands
near Asia.
The American plan is to hold aloof
from foreign entanglements, confer
ences or leagues. We retain the priv
ilege of preventing people or products
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cision the board may see fit to award.
Such a proposition in any form is
wholly impracticable and highly dan
gerous. American workmen in any
line are not going to submit to be-
ing forced to work for wages arbi-
trarily set, nor are they going to
tamely accept any punishment for
their refusal PriceAfxing by the
government in industries in which it
is not directly and actively engaged
has proven the greatest failure of our
present economic life. Wages is the
price of railroad labor, and price-fix-
ing along this line will meet with
abject failure at least SO long as the
government does not own and control
the industry. The principle is not
new. 1t has been tried and found a
failure from the time of the French
revolution down to the recent fizzle
of the Australian law. Labor hating
congressman had better forget such
reactionary legislation. Such law
with teeth in it," if passed, is la
BILE to be up against whale of a
dentists bill.
IA ~ IA IA ~
Announcement has been made that
the Cuckoos are coming next week.
If we are not mistaken the "Cuckoos"
were here last week.
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MACHINISTS HUSTLING

Machinists' Local Union No. 241 is
stirring things up in lively manner
these days through it's big member
ship campaign. The local organiza-
ton is looking ahead and keeping one
step ahead of the times. It's members
realize that it is only through organi-
cation that it will be able to face the
struggle ahead, that of holding and
keeping the present conditions of to-
day, and they are doing everything
possible to strengthen their forces.
But it isn't only the duty of the union
machinists to prepare for what is to
come, it is also the duty of the nom
union machinist to do his share. He
should join his union and help to get
every member of the craft to join
not leave it all to the other fellow
W uOs IuOIS e1C doleC q iCW iileiSiiAAi
lists in Hamilton today who have en-
joyed splendid conditions as the result
of the efforts of the Machinists'
Union, who have never done a thing
for its advancement and who for the
same reason ought to be ashamed of
themselves. But it is never too late
to do good-come on in, Mr.. Non
Union Machinist, and do yours. You
will soon realize that our advice is
well meant and good.
- "a "a "a Pa
RED CROSS ROLL CALL
The annual roll call of the Red
Cross is before US. Let US all get
behind the campaign and roll up such
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WHERE THE BLAME LIES

WHERE THE BLAME LIES
"If the lake seamen's strike should
interfere with the shipment of coal
to the northwest, whose fault will it
be? asks the National Labor Journal
Continuing, the Journal says:
"These men have been working
twelve hours a day Their wages
have been reduced to the minimum
The sole method whereby they can
get modicum of justice at present
is by striking. If they were to strike
when there is nothing being shipped,
they would certainly be defeated. BY
striking when there is need of ship
ments, they have some show of win
ming.
"Men and newspapers are CRITICS.
ing them and saying that-by strik-
ing-they are making war upon So
ciety in it's time of need.
'Allow US to suggest that the crit
icisms be directed against the en-
ployers who are responsible for the
excruciatingly long hours of labor
and the short pay of these men.
Bring pressure upon the employers
to grant the very reasonable demands
of the men-and there will be no in
reference with the shipment of coal
or anything else"
"a pa "a Ea IA
A bunch of the dry birds the other
day in one of their visits, raided
well-known horse shoeing shop, Some
body must have tipped it off that the
place contained something with
"kick" in it. 1t did. They found an
old mule
IA IA M Ia "a
When big business decided to start
it's war on organized labor, it opened
hostilities on the Typographical
Union. A hornets nest was stirred
up which has the opposition in full
retreat. 1t will not be long now until
the armistice is signed and the victor
ious printers dictate the peace terms.
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NED OhOSO null CALL
The annual roll call of the Red
Cross is before US. Let US all get
behind the campaign and roll up such
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UNITY AND UNIONISM


The International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union gave striking miners
100000, and in answer to one pro-
test from tens of thousands of these
workers in New York city, Justice,
the official magazine of the garment
workers, says:
GAS long as organizations will act
in this generous and liberal manner,
it will endure and keep on growing
spiritually and materially. 1t is be-
cause we are generous and liberal
that we are strong. We give, not be-
cause we are charitable, but because
we are actuated by the spirit of work
ing-class solidarity. This spirit
grows stronger every time we go
deeper into our pockets to aid our
fellow workers. 1t makes for a
stronger sense of unity; it creates
frmer bond Of solidarity; it makes
US even invincible against all danger
and attack.
Giving freely, literally, gener-
ously is not an index of weakness,
but sign of strength, health and an
augury for an even greater and more
promising future"
"a ~ M N IA
They say that Hamilton is the wild
est open city in the state. Right
they are and the password is "Wel-
come"