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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
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SENIORITY, A RED HERRING


The injection of the seniority ques-
tion as an issue in the shopmen's
strike is clever ruse on the part of
the railroad executives. To many
readers the strike means a fight for
seniority. 1t is nothing of the kind.
1t is red herring introduced for the
purpose of obscuring the real issues.
Railroad officials seek to make it
appear that the seniority rights are
favors which the men should forfeit
as a penalty for exercising their ad-
mitted right to refuse to work under
non-acceptable conditions. The fact
is that seniority rights are essential
to the efficient operation of transpor-
tation service.
For their own good the roads wish
to retain their senior, more efficient
employees, after the strike. They talk
loudly now of protecting" the new
men for the purpose of diverting at
tention from the main issues.
They also hope to wipe out the
principle of seniority so that when it
suits their purpose they can weed out
those workers most active in the pro-
lection of rights of their fellow en-
ployes. This would punish the more
independent, forceful workers and in
timidate others.
These are but the high spots in the
fight for decent conditions in the
transportation industry. They are
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
HOW TARIFFS ARE
MADE

Washington.- Conferees represent
ing the house and senate are now en-
deavoring to reach compromise on
the tariff bill that was approved by
the house and amended by the SEN
ate. There are 2,436 amendments to
the bill. The conferees are holding
secret sessions. There will be no rec
ord of the proceedings, and their re-
port to the house and senate will be
the amended tariff law This report
can not be amended on the floor of
the house or senate, and must be
either rejected or accepted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
NON-UNION MINERS KILL

Olympic, Wash-A record loss of
life has resulted in attempts to oper-
ate coal mines in this state on a
non-union basis since April l. The
cost of life in proportion to the
amount of coal mined has shown an
enormous increase, and the cost of
mining this coal in dollars and cents
has also risen in almost exact ratio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
AMEND COMPENSA-
TION LAW

Atlanta, Ga.--The state legislature
has strengthened the workmen's
compensation law. The death benefit
has been increased from $4,000 to
$4,000; maximum benefit from $12 to
$15 weekly and the waiting period
shortened from Ia days to seven
days. The full disability benefit has
been increased from $4,000 to $4,000
The legislature refused to pass an
anti-picketing bill, and took the same
position toward the repeal of the bar
bers' license law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
NON-UNIONISTS
BENEFIT

Logan, W. Va.-This thug ridden,
rporation-controlled county has felt
the effects of the fight organized min
ers have waged the past five months,
and Logan non-union miners will
benefit as have the unorganized steel
workers. The Logan County Coal
Operators Association announce
wage increases. These advances
would not be granted if the union
miners We're defeated.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
BIG PROFITS IN PAPER

Philadelphia. profits of the
Scott Paper Company is at the rate
of nearly half a million a year. For
the first six months of the present
year the profits totaled $209, ,285,
after all charges were met and good,
wholesale salaries paid officials.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08

the accumulation of several years bit
ter assault on the rights of work
ers in the hope of disrupting their
organizations. The employees know
that only by standing together car
they withstand these attacks. They
are united as never before, and vic
tory is certain.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O..
vERBOTEN

Until next Monday the real friends
of labor and of unionism can best
serve by practising the utmost pa
tience.
This in order that on Monday the
railway shopmen may take public
sympathy with them when they GO
into federal court in Chicago and ask
for the dismissal or sweeping modi-
fication of the Daugherty temporary
restraining order granted last Fri
day
That that order, phrased in Ian
guage suggested by the attorney gen.
eral, tries patience cannot be denied.
1t goes far beyond the law. 1t
applies to American citizens the per-
feet flower of the former kaiser's
philosophy of government-"ve "verbo-
ten"-the doctrine that an all-highest
authority may, irrespective of natural
or legal rights, impose its will upon
all others by simply prescribing acts
of conduct as "verboten"- forbidden.
The railroad shopmen will be for
tunate if they can face the court
next Monday in spirit of respect
full rebuke rather than one of con-
tempt By that time the public will
have learned the breadth and depth
of the verboten restraining order. II
will have learned that since last Fri
day it has been:
"Verboten" for men on strike tc
receive back, as strike benefits, money
lawfully paid into the union treasures
by them for that purpose.
''Verboten" for the chosen leaders
of those men to have communication
with them or to guide them in the way
of peace and order.
"Verboten" many other things in.
cluding offenses against person anc
property that already were forbidden
in plain English by perfectly gooc
American law.
Thus far the publication of dis
senting newspaper articles and edi
torials about the strike, the Daugher.
fact that railroad service gets worse
while winter of distress approaches
is not yet "verboten," but issuing
such an injunction would only be 60
ing a little further.
If the restraining order stands anc
is made permanent, the attorney gen
eral will have earned the order of the
Iron Cross, even though no German
junker government exists to award
it.
Harassed by railroad executives or
one side, irresponsible reds and ZOO
friends" on the other and faced BY
Daugherty's "verboten" as they seel
the way back to peace, liberty ant
pursuit of happiness, the shopmei
have a few days of supreme test. tx
go through. gh.-Cincinnat Post.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08

HENRY GOES ON STRIKE

Henry Ford has gone on strike
against the steel trust and the coal
profteers. He has announced that all
of his shops would shut down on
September 16. 1t is said that this
will throw out of employment, direct
ly and indirectly, more than two mil
lion workmen.
Last Saturday the steel trust boost
ed the price of steel bars to Mr.. Ford
from $1.40 to $160, and notified him
that later the price would go to 50.
As to coal, he says he was offered
10000 tons by profiteering mine own
ers at Sc, when $3.50 is good price.
Ford boldly charges the steel man
| ufacturers with placing an unwar-
| ranted and excessive price on steel,
and the coal mine operators with plain
grating, both of which charges we
have no doubt can be substantiated.
However, Mr.. Ford also says that
he believes both the railway strike
and the coal strike are conspiracies
between Wall street and the labor
unions to fleece the public, or at least
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ing in close cooperation with the
railway and mine operators-which
is charge that is absurd in view of
the evident facts.
During the progress of both strikes
every honorable effort has been made
by the union leaders to effect a settle
ment and save the public from further
inconvenience, and at the same time
preserve the common human rights of
the men who must work for living.
On the other hand, it is admitted by
the railway executives and the coal
mine operators that their purpose in
making and continuing their war on
the employees is to destroy the unions.
This does not look much like "close
cooperation"
AS to conspiracies between labor
leaders and Wall street, we fear that
Henry has been having bad dreams
because Brother Gary and the Wall
street spectators tried to hold him
up on the price of steel and coal, a
little game in which labor leaders are
certainly not permitted to take part.
Union officials have as little esteem
| for the Wall street wolves as has
Mr.. Ford.
1t is not at all surprising that
| Henry Ford should be "sore" at the
| Wall street gang and their manufac-
turers' association accomplices. Mr.
| Ford's we'll known liberal industrial
policies stand in the way of the plans
of the money trust and the trade
| profiteers, and they would like te
"break" him even as they would like
| to break" the labor unions. Also
Mr.. Ford's Muscle Shoals proposition
stands in the way of their piratica
schemes concerning that valuable
government property, so they are US.
| ing all their powers to financially EN-.
barrass and discredit him, in order
that the Muscle Shoals plant may
later be quietly turned over to their
friends and fellow conspirators, the
Du Points.
| The war is on. Whether Mr.. Forc
will be able to overcome the powerful
and unscrupulous interests which
seek to destroy him remains to bs
| seen. In spite of his unkind remarks
about union labor leaders, as between
Ford and the interests which ar,
I fighting him, we believe the sympa
| thies of labor folks will be for Ford
Dayton Labor Review.
Read the Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
HUGE COPPER PROFITS

New York-Proits of $323,293 for
the second quarter of the year are
reported by Utah Copper Company
During the same period last year a
deficit of $589,805 was reported.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
CALLED" A LA .JIM" cox


CALLED" A LA Jim" COX
Some years back certain big man
ufacturer in Dayton, Ohio, had the
habit, every time some one left his
garbage can uncovered or some other
little thing didn't suit him or that
city officials didn't jump when he
whistled, of threatening to move his
big plant to some other city and scar
ing the wits out of Dayton citizens
for fear that he really would do as
he threatened However, there was a
little newspaper man by the name of,
or at least so-called, "Jim" Cox, who
seemed to tire of these periodical
threats, and there appeared in his
newspaper an article wherein he told
Mr.. Manufacturer in plain language
that while Dayton would regret very
much to lose the big factory and that
it meant much to Dayton's industrial
life, yet if he (the manufacurer) felt
so disposed that Dayton would try to
get along without him and his big
factory, but that Dayton was tired,
good and plenty, of hearing his
threats to move Mr.. Manufacturer
never forgave the newspaper man, but
he learned his lesson, which he never
forgot, and he didn't move his plant
nor did Dayton ever have to listen to
repetition of his threat to move his
plant from that city.
And so it happened the other day
in little town way out in Nebraska
! called Havelock, where the town au-
thorities called the bluff of the Bur-
lington railroad officials who said
they would remove their shops from
Havelock because of "lack of protec-
tion., The general manager of the
railroad was thus informed:
"When called to your premises the
police department has always re-
spondsd Thus far they have uncover
cred Nothing more serious than crap
game among your guards.
Continuously, since July II, your
company has thrown bright lights
into the faces and homes of Havelock
citizens. We are so far determined
to abate this intolerable and indefen-
sible nuisance that unless we secure
your successful cooperation, or the
assistance of a court decree, we shall
decline to be responsible for the
maintenance of law and order in this
community.
"Your threat to remove the shops
from Havelock is no longer impress
sive. Too frequent usage has depict
ed its original force. In plain Ian
guage, it is 'old stuff just 'old stuff,
that's all.
"You know and we know that when
you do pull stakes here and move
elsewhere, you will take with you all
your labor troubles; you will employ
hundreds of men; you will deal with
them in more or less perfect organiza-
tions, and you will try to get out OF
them the greatest possible service for
the least possible return.
Wherever you go, you will fine
that exploitation and encroachment
are everywhere equally unpopular"
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08

WELL, WHAT DOES 1T MEAN?
The railroad labor board has ruled
that the Cummins- -Esch law only per-
mits it to establish wages that are
"just and reasonable" and that this
does not mean a living wage.
The decision was made in the case
of the maintenance-of-wa workers,
who asked the board to increase their
minimum rate of % cents an hour.
The board has notified these work.
ers that if they can demonstrate to
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1922
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08
VIOLATE FULL-CREW LAW

Phoenix, Ariz.-County Attorney
Shepherd has filed 100 civil actions
against the Arizona Eastern railroad
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-08

for violations of the state full-crew
law. The prosecuting official states
that every train operating between
certain stations for the past several
weeks has been in defiance of law.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
MEDIA WILL ATTEMPT TO
BREAK 1:5014 TROT MARK

Cleveland, Sept. 2.-Nedda, which
trotted a mile in 1:59A at Toledo
during the recent Grand Circuit race
meeting, will be sent against this
mark at North Randall, September
30, it was announced today. Media
is the only mare with a trotting re-
cord of two minutes or better OBJ
tanned without pace-maker.
Others which will be sent against
tb,air previous records are Peter Man
ming 1:57&; Arion Guy, 1881 /;
Margaret Dillon, 900, and Prince
Loree, champion double-gaited horse
of the world.
1.-THE record" meeting will be held
in connection with the Gentlemen's
Driving Club matinee.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
PRACTICAL POINTERS

You may safely reduce the number
of eggs in a cake by substituting half
a teaspoonful of good baking pow
der for each egg white left out.
To dye grass rugs successfully
sweep clean. scrub well with soap
suds and then rinse and dry thor
oughly. Use the dye as directed by
the manufacturer.
If water spilled on a shellacked
hardwood floor causes white spots or
II excessive moisture in the air causes
white spots or If excessive moisture
in the air causes a gray, cloudy ap-
pearanc5 wipc ,.ghtly with a soft
cloth moistened with denatured al
cohol. Don't use too much alcohol
and don't resort TO this treatment too
often. Work fast or the finish will
be injured.
Old muslin curtains are good for
dish cloths. They will not hold the
grease and will wash out better. They
are also good for general house-cean-
ing.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
NO-ONE CAN LIFT HER

A sensation of European music
halls is "Resista," young woman
who successfully defies anyone to
life her. OF course. "Resista" isn't
her real name; 1t is only stage APP
pellation that bespeaks the girls
strange power. Not only does she
resist all attempts to raise her up
but she seems able to alter her
weight at will. "Resista" is just
slip OF a girl 20 years old. just
over five feet high. Normally she
tips the scales at 9S pounds. Those
attempting to lift her are astonish-
ed to find that she can exert resist
ing force that battles all efforts. She
will even allow herself to be lifted
a few inches from the floor and then,
seemingly to the lifters, she gradual
ly becomes heavier and heavier un-
til they are forced to lower her. A
favorite trick Of hers is to be elevat-
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
STIMULATING GOOD WILL

The situation in which the Illinois
Central Railroad finds itself with re-
ference to its mechanical depart
ment is splendid object lesson to
other railroads and to corporate en-
ployers generally, on the value Of
goodwill publicity
This railroad has always done
much to stimulate goodwill. Dur
ing the past year, President Markham
has written a series OF letters to all
employees, stimulating co-operatidn
and has advertised literally to the
public that the Illinois Central work
err is loyal and courteous unit in
the organization and a servant Of
the public. This has put every en-
ploye directly on his honor, and the
majority OF them have endeavored to
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
AIR TRANSPORT NEXT
GREAT DEVELOPMENT
Improvements Almost Anticipated Be
fore They are Tried.

Washington. Sept. THAT trans
portation is to be rsvolutionized thru
the use of the air is the belief of
many OF the savants of the nations
capital, who are following with the
most intense interests the start
ling developments of the last few
months in aviation.
The Scientific American draws at
tention to the probability of a con-
tinuous upper air current blowing
from west to east at a velocity ap-
preaching 800 miles per hour, and
suggests the possibility of travelling
from San Francisco to New York in
eight hours by taking advantage of
the high gale and the airplane speed.
From London comes word that the
British Air Ministry is experimenting
with aerial transport for soldiers,
with a view to moving a large body
of troops in a short time from place
to place, a feat which il accomplish
ed, would revolutionize all existing
ideas of war. 1t is there pointed out
that a thousand machines, capable Of
carrying rs men and equipment each,
could put an army on the continent
in two days.
Transcontinental airplanes are to
be charted across the United States
by the CO Army blimp. which will
start on her voyage as early this
month as weather permits.
The London Daily Mail has offered
a $1,000 prize for the longest flight
in a motorless plane, the competition
to take place this month. 1t is posi-
Bile some American airmen VIII COM
pete.
French, British and Belgian avia-
tors are credited with much amaze
ment and no little worry about the
German motorless plane successes one
of which has established a record of
three hours in the air, and caused
talk Of a transocanic flight without
q motor.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
VISUALIZE, If YOU WILL

For untold years the streams ran
wild down the towering mountains,
when across a valley men flung a
great dam, setting huge turbines at
its base. And a miracle happened.
The wasted water became power.
Lathes and planes and heavy ham
mers leaped into motion at its touch.
Trains moved over the mountains;
and the labor of thousands of men
and women was lightene1 by the iron
muscles of machines.
What does this mean to me?"
you ask.
You are a participant in that
whole vast enterprise and in similar
enterprises all over the land. The
dam which transformed those idle
streams into power and light are fl
nanced by bonds in which is invest
ed a part of your savings.
The lights that shine in those
cities and towns, the wheels that turn
in those factories or mines are all
of them daily reminders that the
money you have saved is not only safe
but at work.
Besides the tremendous amount of
money invested by insurance compa-
MES in public utility securities, ap-
proximately $1,70O,OOO is invested at
the present time, by the banks of the
United States. in these securities.
Taken all in all, there are some a.
5000 depositors in the banks of
the country. Whoever, therefore
has a hundred dollars in the bank,
has a financial interest there alone
of at least $63 in the public utilities
of the country. That means that
there are millions of people in the
United States who are part owners
of the electric light and power com
panies, and the street railway com
panies.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
Rheumatism And
Dyspepsia Are
Soon Ended

Victims OF stomach trouble and
rh' umatism often find that when
their stomach is set in order, the
rheumatism disappears. Thousands
Of people everywhere have testified
that Tanlac has freed them of both
troubles simultaneously. Mrs. Mary
Barnhardt, 537 Jervis st. Toledo, o.,
says:
For ten vars had suffered from
stomach trouble and rheumatism.
For the past year l could barely get
around. started taking Tanlac and
today ! am a well woman. Every
thing ] eat agrees with me perfect
ly and the rheumatism has left me
entirely"
Badly digested food fills the
whole systsm with poisons. Rheuma-
tism and many other complaints not
generally recognized as having their
origin in the stomach quickly respond
to the right treatment. Get a bot
TIE of Tanlac today at any good drug
st.-Advertisement
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
THE REPUBLICAN

live up to the reputation their en-
ployer was building for them.
The result of this was that when
the shopmen struck less than one
half of those workers on the payroll
of the Illinois Central went out at
the order of national leaders. Since
that time many of the old employees
returned to work in time to save
their seniority and pension rights,
and many others have reappeared on
the payroll even after those rights
were forfeited.
The Illinois Central In its mechani-
cal department today has 1858 en-
ployes as compared to 13,507 on June
80, the day before the strike. In
other words, there are but S54 few
err employees in the department than
what might be called normal.
President Markham and his board
OF directors believe in the principle
of organization and stand ready to
work hand in hand with those or
CARNATIONS which will cooperate in
serving the public. The most friend
~ relations exist between the manage
ment and all of its employees. From
the beginning of the controversy
the management knew that its work
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-09-08
HOW INSECTS WALK ON WATER

We have all seen that narrow
bodied long-legged bug that seems
to skate over the surface of the
water. 1t is interesting to know how
ii walks. When moving it slides on
its front and hind legs. pushing with
the middle pair. Only the middle
and hind legs touch the water when
the insect is at rest. The feet dent
but do not break the surface which
acts as an elastic film. Dry and not
easily wet objects will bend this film
quite bit before breaking it. The
water bug we speak of has feet which
are covered with a velvety pile not
easily wet. The insects weight is
so little in proportion to the surface
covered that he does not break thru.
This feat may be likened to an
interesting experiment. Take a
small needle, oiled by rubbing it on
your hair, and very carefully (by
loops of thread or otherwise) lay it
in a horizontal position on the sur
face of water in a tumbler or other
small receptacle. 1t will be not
ed that the metal bears down on the
surface of the water without break
ing it. A needle that is not oily will
not float.