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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
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WOULD OUTLAW BLOCS

Washington.-Th success Of the
farm bloc in the national lawmaking
body has aroused the wrath of Con-
gressman Ansorge, who shoulders to
think what will happen to our repre-
sentative form of democracy" if this
thing continues.
Mr.. Ansorge has introduced bill
which would fine any lawmaker who
affiliates with any sort of bloc The
bill is intended to reach those who
openly profess their purposes, but it
will not affect the quiet understands
ings that men agree to in the privacy
of exclusive clubs and select social
cirles.
Mr.Ansorge is serving his first
term in congress. He is lawyer with
Offices in Wall street. In his biogra-
ply printed in the Congressional Rec
ord (which members themselves
write) it is stated that Mr.. Ansorge
won a prize for oratory and was act
i've in football during his college
years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
COMPANY UNIONS"
Fast Heading For the Scrap
Pile
Justice and Democracy and
Societies" of Labor
Won't Team

Washing ngton.-Reports from various
sections of the country indicate that
those loose jointed Societies" Of la
bor which meet at the call Of the en-
ployer president and graeed by him
with the title of mutual benefit as
sociations in industry" but commonly
known as company unions," which
were originally designed to put work"
into the workers, are rapidly falling
apart. With full steam ahead, they
are plunging into that dark and nau-
seous reservation of uselessness called
oblivion.
They are headed for the scrap pile
because they have no steering gear;
their rusted rudder chains have part
ed; their workers are taking to the
life. boats. There are no equitable
principles to guide them. Only the
employers interests are served He
is the constitution and the bylaws,
the final arbiter of all questions, from
making the sale of wages to employ
ment and discharge. The workers in
the company union" simply serve the
purpose Of scenery, merely a back
ground for the employers acting.
The company union" thus is neither
mutually beneficial" nor even agree
able to the workers They realize the
money collected from them as dues is
being used to increase their burdens
instead of to lift them.
They have no defense funds; they
fee; they are reported on by their
"brothers" to the company's agents
at the executive committee meetings
when both workers and employers
sit at the same table as equals" they
are constantly being sought to sign
petitions for wage reductions and
"fair treatment for the company" to
their own detriment
In short, they know they are be-
ing pushed down the hill of life, with
the company union" operating the
pusher.
The planners of the company
union" overlook two vita lines in their
blue print designs-justice and de-
mocracy
Workers understand both, ard they
refuse to be fed the shadow for the
substance.
Prosperous industry must rest upon
these principles. To insure their per-
petuity the legitimate trade union
must be accepted as the expression of
the workers ideals and the spokesman
of labor in the industrial forum.
This is fundamental truth because
the legitimate trade union is the heart,
the mind and the soul of the worker
himself, and the worker will not be
enslaved
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
NOT A POLICE COURT
TO BE USED. AS SOME EMPLOYERS WOULD HAVE
IT, FOR SUBDUING WORKERS, is A COURT
OF EQUITY, DECLARES JUSTICE
Sustains Right of Workers to Picket Struck Plant and
Vacates Temporary Injunction Granted
Embroidery Firm

New York.-Justice Robert F Wag-
ner, of the state supreme court, who
recently held the breaking of trade
agreement by manufacturers asso-
spiracy, has vacated a temporary in
junction granted to an embroidery
firm few weeks ago and has refused
to enjoin the members of trade
union from picketing the factory of
the company, which also violated its
trade agreement with the union In
view of the apparent eagerness with
which judges usually issue drastic
writs of injunction in labor disputes,
Justice Wagner's setting aside Of the
stock judicial reasoning is striking
His decision, in part, follows:
Justice Holds that Equity Courts Are
For Purpose of Equity Only
"The plaintiff employers do not
come into court with clean hands,
since they preached the collective bar
gaining contract to which they with
others and the defendant union were
parties when they tried to force
wage reduction in October. The pre-
cedent set in the Hitchman Coal &
Coke Company against the United
Mine Workers of America, in the
United States supreme court, had no
application, for the reason that in the
Hitchman case there were valid exist
ing contracts which the defendants
were attempting to induce the work
ers to abandon
Giving his views on the legal right
Of the workers to picket Justice Wag-
ner said:
q am also asked to restrain the
picketing which some of the defend
ants are concededly doing in the vicin-
ity of the plaintiffs place Of business.
] know OF no sound principle of law
which prohibits orderly picketing or
that which does not transgress on the
rights of others Indeed, great body
of law affrmatively establishes the
opposite proposition
Picket Right Guaranteed
THE right to picket is founded
on constitutional principles; and, al
though it might appear that some re
cop+ adi,td;catiooc in rertaiu iurieCic
tions encroach upon this right, the
constitutional guarantee still survives
and must be respected and upheld
''Nor is it material whether one or
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
CLUMSY SCHEME TO
SHACKLE LABOR

In the proposal providing for
the establishment of the national
labor court which is said to be
ready for introducing in congress,
in bill form, neither mediation
nor conciliation will be sought.
Proponents of the plan want to
remove the proposed court as far
as possible from arbitration or
anything which might suggest ar
bitration. They purpose to create
a court in which neither laborers
nor employers will be represented
as such, whose decisions will be
made upon such evidence as may
be submitted.
All threatened strikes or labor
controversies involving interstate
commerce in which strikes may
result will be subject to its judg-
ment. The court will have the
power to summon witnesses and
administer oaths.
While cases are on trial "public
opinion will be called on to pre-
vent strikes, and the same force
viii beurgcd to support the deci-.
sions rendered.
These, in brief, are the features
of the plan designed to chain
labor to its job by manufac-
tured public opinion
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03

several pickets be maintained. Right
CT wrong is not determined by mere
numerical considerations. The act of
single man, if right, is not made
wrong because it is performed by sew
eral men.
Free Speech Upheld
'The right to freedom of speech
and freedom of action belongs not
only to the individual but to indi-
viduals combined for a lawful pur-
pose. That several insist on exercis-
ing their rights simultaneously does
not of itself transmute their act to
wrong or illegality.
''of course, if the employees ap-
preached are unwilling to listen to
argument or inducement brought for
ward by defendants, they should not
be disturbed, for it is the constitutions
al right of every person to refuse to
hold conversation with others, even if
such arguments be fortified with wis
dom or benefit to the person whose
audience is sought
The plaintiffs also assert that their
legal rights are being violated, be-
cause the pickets are attempting to
induce plaintiffs employees to abandon
plaintiffs employ and join the union
nviolation of their agreements of en-
ployment We're plaintiffs cause not
impaired by their own breach of con
tract their ground for relief would
be persuasive"
He asserts that amy transgressiona
Of the law should be dealt with in the
ordinary way
The most drastic, severe and per-
manent of all injunctions against
violence is the penal law" the court
held "A court of equity is not a
police station"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
DIVISIONS ON TARIFF
LAW RECALL
HANCOCK'S VIEWS

Washington.-In 1880 General Han
cock, presidential candidate, was
ridiculed because he said: "The tar
if is a local issue" He refused to
consider it as national issue.
The American valuation commission
composed of business men, now says:
I'm the past the tariff has been a
party issue, and with an administra-
ton and congress of the same politi-
cal faith it would be ordinarily fairly
easy to forecast the approximate
character of Forthcoming tariff legis-
lation For the first time in history
there is sharp division in the lead
ing parties on the tariff issue. Due
to conditions growing out of the war,
the pending tariff legislation is an
issue on which party lines are almost
entirely ignored, thus introducing an
element Of uncertainty at time
when normally the result would be
foregone conclusion"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
TO BEFUDDLE THE PEOPLE
FORCES OF PRIVILEGE PUT ON NEW FALSE FACE
NATIONAL LABOR COURT OF PUBLIC
OPINION is LATEST
Corporation Press Agents Preparing Material For On
saught on C0ngress-Mass Attack Upon
Workers Indicated

spending millions to bring about such
a national law To herd all the coun-
try's workers in single corral, in
one gorgeous roundup, fetter them,
gag them, shackle them and slaughter
them, offers such possibilities of glee-
ful diversion to sated privilege as to
jutify planning terrific rush upon
congress to force it to join in the CORY
sport.
AS matter of fact, the line of
march already has been mapped out.
The question is: Will that great part
Of the real public which does the ma,
tons work permit the parade to pass :?
But
A new congress will be elected in
the fall.
That's a sign post along the route
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03

Washington Events seem to be
shaping up to attempt legislative
slaughter of labor. The press bu-
reaus of privilege are humping the
newspaper ukulele in mass chorus
and bowling hymn for "the public
interest"
"The public interest demands free
dom from group control. Industrial
courts must be established by the
national government which shall be
devoted solely to the public interest
Neither capital nor labor shall be
represented as such in the makeup of
these courts" That's an old song,
though set to new and alluring music
Hamstringing of labor by state
legislatures and local "can't-strike"
laws is a slow process. What is now
needed is action-quick action; har-
monious pounding of the same note
by both "press and public" at the same
time, with the press" guiding the
leaders baton, to induce "the public"
to start it's raucous bawling of it's
ready-made opinions.
Editorial Clamor Coming
Presently the country will ring
with editorial clamor for more courts
and judges who will be servants of
the public" with power to. proclaim
their Judgment on labor questions,
fix wages and hours of labor, with
public opinion" as the arbiter.
Public opinion" in these days of
mass movement of privilege means,
purely and simply, the views of hired
press agents and editorial writer's who
plan their work and write what they
are, told to write by those who pay
their salaries.
Public opinion" has few other
forms of expression than the press
of the country, and the press of the
country largely is controlled either
by corporations which require con-
troll in order to shape public opinion
to their corporate interests or by
those who are engaged in publiea-
ton as business enterprise for
money making purposes.
Behind the mask the purpose clear
ly is to endeavor to blindfold labor
and lead it into the bogs of confusion.
But labor cannot be fooled by any
such game of blindman buff
But Labor Won't Be Slaughtered
It's fine prospect--this govern
ment of labor by the press agents of
privilege. The forces of privilege and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03

Washington. President Gompers
has issued forceful argument against
the United States sending delegates
TO the Genoa economic conference if
Lenine and Trotzky or delegates from
Soviet Russia are to be admitted.
Declaring that the British conces-
sion hunters in the British-Soviet
trade agreement of a year ago failed
in their hidden purpose of getting
their grip on the resources of Russia,
Mr.. Gompers says they have made
their new plan the "chief order of busi-
ness of Lloyd Georges Genoa con-
ference. -, The new plan is: Let all
governments and financiers unite to
furnish the required capital and to
legalize Lenine's title to everything in
Russia by official" recognition "In
a word" he says, ''the Soviet Plunder-
bund is to sell Russia, including her
future, to the proposed central inter
national corporation,' or at least such
parts of Russia as the financiers want
and the Bolshevists feel they do not
need for their purposes.
Aspire to U. S. Recognition
'Lenine and Tretzky," he continues,
already have the quasi recognition
of Lloyd George. That to which the
soviet regime aspires is the recogni-
ton of the United States and that
recognition would be given if the
United States were to accept the invi-
tation to the German conference
an some circles it has been init
mated that the United States gov
ernment ought to accept the invita-
tion to send delegates to Genoa and
at the conference denounce and re-
pudiate the whole scheme of things
| No worse blunder could be made,
Would Prolong Dictatorship
ITO accept the invitation and go
to Genoa would be a pronouncement
| that would go out throughout the
world that Lenine and Trotzky are to
be recognized, and any statement
made to dissent from or to repudiatae
sovietism at Genoa would receive but
little attention from the great masses
of the world. At this time the Rus
sian people have stopped cropping and
are now intelligently manifesting
their dissent and opposition to the un-
warranted dictatorship and cruelty Of
the Lenine and Trotzky regime. The
Bolsheviki regime in Russia is dis
integrating faster than is generally
known. It's life can be prolonged only
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
THE GENOA CONFERENCE

At the recent meeting of the
allied supreme council of the
Laegue of Nations, held at Can
mes, France, Lloyd George, Brit
ish premier, proposed that
world economic. conference be
held.
The council called the confer
ence for Genoa, Italy, in March
Among the nations which have
been invited to attend are the
United States, Germany and Rus
sia.
The ostensible purpose is to dis
cuss world economic conditions
and to seek a remedy for them.
The real purpose is exposed in
President Gompers' article, con-
densed because of the limits Of
space.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
OPPOSE PRESS CENSOR

Washington. - Postmaster General
Hays has announced his opposition to
bin which would prohibit newspa-
pers from making any reference to
betting odds on horse racing or any
athletic or sporting event
The postal official stated that while
there are worthy sections of the bill,
the proposal should be defeated to
check the tendency of press control.
Il am reminded" he said, "of Vol
taire's statement: 4 wholly disap-
prove what you say and | will defend
with my life your right to say it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
"SOVIET PLUNDER-BUND"
TO SELL RUSSIA INCLUDING HER FUTURE IF PLANS OF 30
ST1EVISTS NOW MATURING CARRY, DECLARES
PRESIDENT SAMUEL COMPERS
Says No Worse Bunder Could Be Made Than For This Nation
Delegates to Conference

by the political, economic and moral
support of the United States.
Recognition now would give tenn
porarily an added strength to regime
that must fall before there can be a
final solution Of Russia's domestic
difficulties and her foreign relations,
without contributing anything mater
ial to immediate relief of her people
The bolshevist dictatorship, will pass,
whereupon those who now seek to
save it in defiance of all principles of
democracy, right and justice, will have
to admit their error and retrace their
steps in order to establish relations
with the democracy that is certain
to come andw hich the present policy
of the United States so evidently
foresees.
The Genoa conference openly COM
bines the ideas of Lloyd George,
SHINES and Lenine 1t prepares the
way for new triple alliance of un-
repentant Germany, Sovietized Rus
sia, and certain British politicians.
Sinister Politics Behind II
"In order to secure the attendance
of America, Lloyd George at first
called the Genoa conference purely
economic There is also a sinister
political object behind tan object
he later admitted in an interview in
which he said the first point on the
agenda would be not economic ques-
tions but peace'-a political treaty,
that is, with Lenine The Soviets, the
most impoverished of European gov
ernments,' supports, at the expense
of its starving agricultural serfs, and
industrial slaves, the largest army in
the world, 100000 men, and they
have just decided to maintain this
army and to use it to trade for recog
milton and credits at Genoa.
"The reactionaries and revolution
aries of the world are joining hands
permanently to enthrall the masses
and enslave labor IN Russia This is
not the first example of the support
of revolutionary organizations for re-
dictionary purposes. But it is the
first such effort on a world scale.
Americans for Russian Freedom
1.-The American workers, the Ameri
can people, the writer of this article,
have had and now have a deep admira-
ton and affection for the Russian peo
pie Because of this they are firm
in the stand they have taken against
the brutalities of the tyranny which
today holds Russia in its grip. For
more than forty years the president
of the American Federation of La
Dor has been engaged in efforts to
bring about the freedom of the Rus
sian people and the American labor
movement has been committed from
its earliest days to that cause. There
will be no turning back on the road,
no abandonment of principle, no act
Of seeming expediency. The Russian
people can not be free while they are
subject to dictatorship. There is
no counterfeit for freedom, and
though there may be some who can
be deceived as to when freedom exists,
the American labor movement is not
among them"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
Play a Culbransen

easy for you to own Gulbransen. Come
in and talk il over - no obligation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
COOPERS ARE STICkERS

New York-Organized coopers en-
ployed on the docks in this city have
been on strike since last July, and are
still sticking.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
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CAR MEN HOLD LINES

Atlanta, Ga.-Organized street car
men nave signed last years agree
ment with the local traction COM
pany.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
TYPOS HOLD WAGE SCALE

Pittsburgh, Pa-Newspaper print
ers and newspaper employers in this
city have renewed their wage agree
mont for one year.
, 1922-02-13

a campaign Of organised relief
among the poor OF this city AID coun-
~ will be conducted during M next
three weeks. Its object Is the rehah-
litation Of the destitute families who
through adverse circumstances are
unable to help themselves
II Is n thing Of merit: an act OF
mercy; a deed OF noble purpose; II Is
char1ty's ideal. II IS for the men.
women and children among Us who
facing the bitterness of empty
days. who have known hunger and the
feelings that follow from IT.
Even looked ut from a strictly utili-
tartan standpoint. and Il has one, this
campaign is a matter of necessity. 1t
is a veritable fact borne out by ex-
peTsence that the helplessiy poor in
any community are a blight upon IL
What they contribute to civic better
and progress is more in the
nature OF harm than OF good. Victims
Of circumstances. fortuitous or other
, 1922-02-13
BLOW FROM A E

IL woodrow Wilson ever had a devoted and consist
oht admlrer, David Lawrence is the person. In dis
eussing the agricultural conference in a recent, letter
10 ms paper Mr.. Lawrence said: Behind the dis
content of the farmer that he has to borrow money on
snort time paper is the knowledge now, too, that the
FEDERAL reserve system can hurt him UNNECESSARILY by
passing the word along to the banks not to lend any
more money"
This is an admission one would scarcely expect n
measure enacted during the eight years of wisconsin
to which tn Democrats now point as an achievement,
and 1t must be admitted that so far as it followed lines
marked out by n Republican currency commission, it
has much merit. But, as Mr.. Lawrence intimates, it
Is In the administration of the act that the farmers
md a grievance. Assuming that Mr.. Lawrence is cor
rect in saying that the farmers "have the knowledge
now" as to the damage the Federal Reserve system
can do, they must have acquired that knowledge dur
ing the Democratic administration, for it was then that
the farmers sustained their great loss.
Far be it from us to assert that the Federal Reserve
board would deliberately hurt the farmer. We are
confident they would not, under the present manage
nent, for the whole Harding administration is striv-
ing in every way possible to get the Rgriculturists on
their feet again But such eminent Democrats as
John Shelton Williams and Senator Owen have made
the accusation, and now we have an almost direct cor
and cleverest supporters of wisconsin among the syn
dictate writers.
II the farmers "have knowledge now" that the Fed
eral Reserve board can hurt them, they must have
gained that knowledge by experience. II they gained
that knowledge by experience, they must have gained
IL during the Wilson regime. If they gained IL then,
there is no foundation for the statement Of Mr.. Bryan
that the farmers hold the present administration re-
sponsible for their financial troubles.
, 1922-02-13
Mondell's First Big lob
by w. Z. Chaplin.

Mondell's first term In congress be-
gan In 1895. At tho Casper convention
in 1894 he was backed by many friends
for h position of governor. but II
was finally decided to send him TO con.
gress and to put w. A. Richards in
tho governors chair. The lean years
of 1885 and 1895 caused much discon-
tent throughout tho west and there
were thousands who believed that Bry-
ans free silver panacea was the thing
that would lift us out of all our mis-
cries. There was DUST enough of
this sentiment in Wyoming to elect
John 4. Osborne a member of con-
gresa Major Mckinley was chosen
president. however. and he appointed
Frank Mondell to the position OF as
sistant commissioner OF tho general
land office Mondell had already Civ.
en- much attention TO land matters and
It was easy for him worker that he
was. to grasp the detail of that won
derful complex branch of the govern
ment. He served in the position for
o W years n was elected in
1888 to return to his seat in congress.
HIS n term had given him
anco among n members and his serv-
ice in the general land office had made
him familiar with tho workings Of the
departments. He was ripo for big