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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
THE FIRST UNION; THE FIRST
OPEN SHOP

In the beginning God the earth days. the
seventh day He When the
His
live alone, and He
Right there first Union organized
God recognizing this Union the employ
in Edens beautiful garden
On lovely sunshiy amcabe relation
ships the only things between God
Shopper
statements gift begued Mother
advantages of the Shop
ton Then the inveigled Adam them
The Creator believing in the principles of these
facts became Him.
them
One of the first proofs that the Master Fair employer
evidenced when He divided the "a hours the three
parts with only eight hours aborwith full
seventh day
Time rolled while shining
the lay n manger
This child Savior, who up Carpenter
Preacher all His prove He
and God said, This My Beloved well
So friends, teachings Immortas, very
fundamental principles Organized Labor
BY G. w. Franklin, n Carpenter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
TENT SMASHING JUDGE
CHECKED AND HIS I'M JUNCTION MACHINE is
SCRAPPED BY HIGHER COURT = COAL
OWNERS AID is REBUFFED
McClntc Besmrches Judi ciary By Order to Drive
Striking Miners and Families From Their
Tented Homes

his present position as reward for
subserviency to coal owners while he
was a member of the West Virginia
state senate.
McClintic is recognized as the author
of the West Virginia jury law which
permits the prosecution to take man
charged with crime out of his own
county into another county for trial.
Under this law, which is now in
effect, the trial of striking miner
can be transferred to a county like
Logan, which is under the complete
domination of Baldwin -Feltz gunner.
When McClintic was appointed last
year the A. F. of L. made strong OBJ
lection because of his bias in favor
of coal owners, The latest exhibi-
tion of this bias was shown by his
issuance of an injunction that would
oust hundreds of miners and their
families from the only homes they
have and which are located on land
leased by the union
The trade unionists made no pro
gress in blocking McClintic's indorse-
ment by the senate because he was
supported by the two West Virginia
senators-Messrs. Sutherland and Ell
kins.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28

There can be no greater mockery'
than to call this forced pledge a "con-
tract" Miners contemptuously refer
to it as yellow dog" 1t violates
the first element of contract making
that both parties to a contract must
be free agents; that there must be
an absence of force or intimidation,
and that the signing of contract
must be voluntary act by both par
ties.
1t is idle to say that the elements
of contract-making apply to miners
in the mountains of West Virginia
who, with their families, are far re
moved from industrial centrs.
The miner cannot offer his services
as does the worker in populated cen
ters. His choice is limited to mining
that is controlled by small group of
men who act together
Who will say that under these con
ditions contract making is equal and
the miner is free agent when he is
told that he will not be given work
unless he signs a contract not to join
a trade union while 50 employed?
Who viii say that the coal owner is
free from intimidation when he knows
that if the miner does not sign his
wife and children will suffer?
Nothing shows the property bias
Of the judiciary more clearly than the
Hitchman decision, which overturns
former contract decisions.
In the enforcement of contracts
courts have consistently held that both
parties must have free will; that there
must be no element of force, coercion
or undue advantage.
In the Hitchman case the United
States supreme court ignored these
fundamentals that it so often declar-
ed for AS a result the Hitehman
coal and coke company, and its kind,
can now hold employees in serfdom
with the aid of the federal judiciary
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
MEANINGLESS
Are Many of the welfare
Terms Used BY En-
pIOyers

Manchester, England-"It is curl
GUS to see at times how some slogan or
other of very vague and indefnable
character exerts an influence out Of
all proportion to its real Importance,
says the Cotton Factory Times
THE one which prompts these re
marks now seems to prevent good
view of the real issues in the engi-
neering industry; it goes under the
name of managerial functions Under
such a vapory, unsubstantial banner,
which is in danger of being blown
to shreds by every little gust of wind,
the engineering employees appear to be
situated Managerial functions may
mean anything, and can be construed
into almost almighty power inside the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
SPEAKERS
Developed Under Trade
Union Plan

Buffalo, N, Y.-Under direction of
A f. of l.. Organizer Collins the
central labor council has inaugurated
an organizing campaign that includes
the education of workers in trade
union subjects and the development
of speakers.
The first call is made on all trade
unionists to attend their meetings.
Each local appoints five members to
serve on a general committee. The
unions are notified that these commit
tee men must be workers who will
enter into the spirit of the work. Men
who can stand up and address meet
ings on trade union matters will be
good material, although the education
al meetings that will be held weekly
will develop their own speakers from
the committees" it is stated.
"The trade unions of this country
are being subjected to merciless fire
of destructive propaganda. Men are
thrown out of employment so that the
necessities of their wives and children
will compel them to seek re-employ-
ment at the starvation scales advo-
Gated by the anti-union employer. We
cannot combat this situation without
full attendance at the meetings where
our people will learn to defend their
union affiliation. The greatest draw
back that union labor suffers from is
the ignorance of its own member
ship"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28

There IS neither morality, ethics,
justice or elemental law in the yellow
dog" 1t is based on the hunger of
babies and the needs of women. 1t
bemeans men by forcing them to agree
not to do thing that they have a
lawful right to do, and which every
impulse calls upon them to do.
1t is jug handled, one sided and
unfair. 1t can only be sustained by
men stepped in property ideals.
This is the contract that is general
in West Virginia, and which injunc-
tion judges are rushing to support
As these judges are backed by every
power of government how can it be
said that the government is neutral
in the miners struggle for a living
wage and sustaining employment?
What can be the thoughts of these
miners who listened but a few years
ago to ship agents tale of land
across the ocean where all men are
free?
Now these miners see the govern
ment of that free land upholding a
greedy coal owner who took adyan-
tage of the needs of babes and forced
their father to sign a pledge that he
would not join the Miners Union.
They see that government warning
trade unionists that they will be fined
and jailed if they talk organization to
miners who surrendered their lawful
rightand accepted yellow dog" be-
cause they were forced to do so.
Courts may talk about the sacred
ness" of these contracts" Lawmak-
ers may remain silent before the in
justice of the yellow dog" and the
inequiry of injunction judges, but the
men who risk their lives, while held
in this serfdom, will ask each other
if the ship agent told all he knew.
What progress can genuine Ameri-
canism make among these workers
when they ask that question
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
NOT SLICK ENOUGH
Plan of Bosses Turn
ed Against Them

New ork,-Offcers of the Anal
gamated Lithographers of America
have trapped employers who were in
quiring of striking employees "why
you can not prevail upon your officers
to meet US in conference? ?"
This policy was extensive, and
while the union officials realized that
the bosses were attempting to break
the strikers morale, this telegram
was forwarded to each employer and
their association:
Would the national association of
employing photographers be interested
in bringing about a settlement of the
present controversy by meeting in
conference with Amalgamated Lith-
ographers of America ?"
1t was three days before the union
lists were informed that your sug-
gestion does not meet with favorable
abandoned their insinuation that union
consideration The bosses have
abandoned their insinuation that union
officials are blocking a strike settle
ment.
The strike is caused by an attempt
to reduce wages 121a per cent and to
secure individual contracts. The lat
ter plan to destroy the Lithographers'
Union is being vigorously contested by
the strikers, whose solidarity is mag
nificent The same applies to the wo-
men folk, who have been urged by
managers and superintendent to I'M
duce their husbands, fathers and sons
to sign these yellow dogs
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
GIVE SHIPS AWAY
And Save Money Congress
Is Told

Washington Millions of dollars
would be saved the American people
if congress defeated the proposed ship
subsidy and handed private ship own
ers $200,000,000 worth of government
shipping without cost.
Ship owners will buy the vessels
from the government at an approx
mated cost of s200,o00,0O0, the pay
ment of which will be extended over
a long term of years.
The government, in turn, will give
the ship owners, as direct subsidy,
$30,000,000 year for 10 years.
This means that the government
will pay So for every So received.
1t would be cheaper for the govern
ment to give the ships away and close
up the shipping board rather than at
tempt to sell the ships under the pro-
posed subsidy BILL
As matters now stand, the ship
owners will not only get the ships
for nothing, but they WILL in addition,
be handed $100,000,000
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28

workshop; in fact, the construction
that can be placed upon the term is
only limited by the powers Of imagi-
nation of any particular management.
THE extent of managerial func-
tions may be construed as including
such power over the conditions of
work Of the employe as to be intoler-
able, and such that no self-respecting
workman would stand We often won
der where are the fine professions of
future conduct which were made by
many employers during the war, when
we were assured that master and man
had found themselves on the battle
fields of Europe, and that henceforth,
in industry as in war, they would
work together for the common good y
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
GOVERNMENT IS NOT NEUTRAL
COAL OWNERS GREATLY AIDED BY FEDERAL INJ,NCTIONs
IN WEST VIRGINIA ISSUED TO ENFORCE OPERATORS
WORLD FAMOUS YELLOW DOG" CONTRACT
Would Force Fathers To Keep Pledge And Signed
Because Babies And Wives Were Hungry

The power of government is be-
hind injunctions that now plaster the
mining sections of West Virginia.
Most of these injunctions are in sup
port of the individual contract, which
anti-union coal owners make their
employees sign before they give them
work
In this contract the worker agrees
not to join union while so employ
ed This contract was upheld by the
United States supreme court in De-
cember, 1917, in the case of Hitchman
VS.. miners. Since then West Virginia
coal owners, especially, have used
this method to enlist the government
in their war on the Miners Union un-
der the guise of maintaining the right
of contract"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
STIFFEN LIABILITY
LAW

Albany, ~ Y.-Governor Miller has
approved an amendment to the state
workmen's compensation law, which
stiffens the provisions of that act.
Loopholes in the old law which al
lowed insurance carriers and employ
ers to evade compensation insurance
are plugged up and thousands of en-
ployes are brought within its pro
visions. Hereafter the employer must
furnish medical care for as long a
time as is necessary. The list of
occupational diseases has been en-
larged Failure to insure the COM
pensation of employees is made pun
ishable by a fine of $500 or by inn
prisonment for one year.
The trade unions failed to limit
insurance to the state fund, but the
amended law, it is stated, makes in
surance in the state fund more at
tractive to employers than insurance
in private companies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
365 BANKS FAILED IN
1921

Washington.-Al Although the federal
reserve act is advertised as a panacea
for bank failures, the controller of
currency reports that 81 national
bank failures in 1921 has been ex-
ceeded in only two years since the ma
tional banking system was formed in
1868.
The total number of private, state
and national bank failures was $685.
or one for every day in 1921.
Since 1863 less than 5 per cent of
the chartered national banks have
failed The records show that cred
itors of all insolvent banks in the
system received on an average 80. 10
per cent of the banks liabilities to
them
STAGE MEN ORGANIZE
Middletown, N. Y.-Theatrical en-
ployes have organized and are affil-
lated with the trade union movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
FLAYED
Rail Labor Board Severely
Scored By Gompers

Chicago The railroad labor board
was raked fore and aft by President
Gompers in his address to the con
vention of the A. f. of L. railway EN-
ployes department.
The board was denounced for its
policies that have established it as
railroad managers sideshow.
The most recent decision to arouse
the ire of the trade union executive
was made in the Missouri & North
Arkansas case wherein the board or
dered an addition % per cent wage
decrease for all employees on the
ground that IF this request is not
granted the carrier contends that it is
inevitable that the road must be
scrapped"
No government board ever made
such backward-looking decision
Financiers have looted the Missouri
< North Arkansas, which has been in
the hands Of a receiver for the past
10 years
The boards decision is a notice to
finaneiers and stock iugglers that
when they wreck a railroad they can
come to the railroad labor board and
secure wage reductions 10 permit them
to regain their losses, if they tell the
board that the road must be scrapped
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28

Richmond, Va-Federal Judge Nc
Clintic's injunction to smash the Min
go tent colony has been ordered held
up by Hon Martin A Knapp, Judge
of the federal court of appeals, fourth
circuit
Judge Knapp's decision stays this
order until it can be heard by the
court of appeals. McClintic is also
ordered to scrap his injunction ma
chine until the court of appeals re-
views his acts
Several years ago this federal court
of appeals set aside the notorious
yellow dog" decision by Federal
Judge Dayton, since deceased. This
decision legalized the Individual con-
tract whereby each worker accepting
employment agreed not to join trade
union. The reasoning of the court
of appeals was rejected by the United
States supreme court, which upheld
the yellow dog"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28

in private companies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
FAST FLYING

New York.-Speeding through fog
and rain at an average of 130 miles
an hour, seaplane flew from Palm
Beach, Fla, to this city, distance
of 1,21O miles, in 9 hours and Sc
minutes actual flying time. The rail-
road time is so hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28

Charleston, W. Vain holding up
Federal Judge McClintic's injunction
to destroy the Mingo tent colony and
stop union organizing, the federal
court of appeals at Richmond has tenn
porarily clipped the wings of a Judge
who is openly charged with receiving
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-04-28
RENEW AGREEMENT

Batavia, n. Y.-Carpenters' Union
No "A has renewed its agreement
with the New York wood working
Evening star., 1922-05-16

progress of the national budget sys-
tenn, and r. G. Rhett, former presi-
dent of the chamber, spoke on Re
funding of the United States War
Debt"
"It would seem that before new
credit machinery is created the
fullest possible use of existing ma
chinery should be developed and that
any new machinery created should be
fully co-orGinate with the existing
machinery" Mr.. Anderson said.
THE foundation of the present
banking machinery of the United
States consists of some $4,000 ma
tional banks, state banks, trust and
savings banks. OF these banks, ap-
proximately 9.700 are members Of the
federal reserve system. The nom
member banks. representing 81 per
cent of the total number and 33 per
cent in banking power of the banks
of the United States, do not have d.
rect access to the reservoir repre-
sented by the federal reserve banks
in times of credit stringency.
''The first step which should be
taken to more fully meet the normal
and extraordinary requirements OF
farmers is to make eligible to the
federal reserve system the large
number of state banks now ineligible
and to induce these banks as well as
the state banks now eligible to be-
come members of the federal reserve
system"
Evening star., 1922-05-16
Unions PROTEST MOVE
TO CUT WOMEN'S WAGES
Central Labor Organization Adopts
Resolution Pointing Out Costs
of Living.

Vigorous protest against the action
Of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association in requesting a CONFER
ence of the minimum wage board 10
consider reduction Of the present min
imum scale for women employed IN
Substantially the same resolution
ed by Central Labor Union at a meet
ing last night, when resolution 10
this effect was adopted.
The resolution points out that the
cost of living as compsred with the
cost at the time when the present
rate was fixed does not justify any
reduction.
The resolution urges the wage con-
ference not to reduce the wages ano
standards of livins OF wage-earnins
women in the District.
Copies were sent to the Merchants
and Manufacturers' Association and
to the minimum wage board or the
District.
Substantially the same resolutions
was adopted at the monthly meet
ing of the Women's Binoerery Union
last night. The latter resolution set
forth that business authorities are
ness boom in the Immediate future, -
and that the present minimum wage
was hxed in July, 1919. and wage
earning women know by their own
experience that the cost of living
fs not appre",ably less now than 1t
was at that time"
The resolution concluded with a
protest against any reductions: In the
minimum wage of women in the
mercantile industry and instructs
its officers to make this. protest
known to the Merchants and Manu-
fscturers Association and to the min
imum wage board"
Evening star., 1922-05-16
Prevention of Fires
Discussed at Meeting
of Insurance Groun

Insurance problems, including fra
prevention. were discussed this after
noon at the meeting Of the Insurance
group IN the Crystal room Of the Eb-
W. H. Merrill of Chicago spoke on
Getting the Most Out Of Conserya-
tion Work" citing property loss OF
$500,000.000 from fire during the past
year Efforts of the underwriters
laboratories to diminish fire and ac.
ctdent loss were described.
Thomas B. Donaldson, ins,.rance
commissioner of Pennsyivania. fold
the group that the American public
as q whole has no cordial or fntellj-
gent viewpoint toward Insurance.. So
Tar as insurance and the public are
concerned. he said, the public viii be
impressed when insurance men think
broadly and act like big people. He
urged advertiSing be used to more ad-
vantage.
Educa tion and service as an indi-
vidual investment, paying dividends
was advocated before the members
by j. u. Kavanagh Of New YORK.
J. r. MacCol1 of Pawtucket. r r
spoke on: What May the American
Business Man Expect From Insur-
ance?'
Following the addresses there was
general discussion by the rroup
members. James s. Kemper of Chit
cago presided. The group will meet
again tomorrow afternoon at 1850
o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-05-16
Retail Prices to Drop
for Next Four Years,
Business Men Are Told

Prediction that. the average retail
price Of all goods. wares and mer-
chandise will be lower every day for
four years than 1t was on the first
day Of this year" was made by Frank
lyn Hobbs Of Chicago before the do
mestic distribution group at the
Raleigh Hotel this afternoon.
You will not accept the forecast
and govern your business according
ly." Mr., Hobbs declared. Nor do
blame you for refusing to accept the
fiat statement without full evidence
Of its correctness. have stated it as
fact, a forecasting of conditions,
and in four years you will know it to
be correct.
You are distributors OF merchan-
disc and most Of you feel that retail
prices in your line are already too
low. Possibly they are. but they will
be lower on the average, which means
they will be lower on the majority of
things.
The two years Just ahead of US
will try the mettle OF every man
within the range of my voice. The
two years following that will provide
some slight reward for the earnest
and patient ones. The four years,
taken as a whole, might not be con-
sidered lean years. AS compared with
Evening star., 1922-05-16
]. THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. TUESDAY MAY m 1922

gather momentum and turn into q
period of full-fiedged prosperity.
While he said that the government
could aid In preventation Of business
losses by collecting and publishing
statistics about current stocks, orders.
shipments. prices, employment and the
like. he added that they are Of little
avail unless they are used by business
men. An inquiry now Is being made
for the business cycle committee Of the
Presidents conference on unen,ploy-
ment. he said, and this report will be
ready by autumn and should be of great
interest to all business men. He pointed
out, however, that as each business has
Its different problems, 1t should study
the conditions peculiar to its particular
industry.
Homer L. Ferguson. president Of the
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Company, presided at this meet
ing, Of which e. w. Mccullough, man.
ager Of the fabricated production de-
partment Of the chamber, was secre-
tary.
Other Topics Touched Upon.
William Butterworth, president of
Deere & Co., Moline, ILL.,, spoke on 1.-THE
General Situation as part Of the
main subject being considered by this
group. Lowering Costs and Stabilizing
Production: w. A. Durgin. division
Of simplified practices. Department of
Commerce, spoke on simplifying Va
riety and Standardization" and Arthur
Lazarus. chief accounting division.
fabricated production department. on
''Uniform Cost Methods as Production
Aids to Industry"
Evening star., 1922-05-16
Merchant Ship Men
Talk Uniform Rules
for Bills of Lading

Charles s. Haight discussed The
Hague rules Of uniform bills Of lading
at the opening session of the mer-
chant marine group OF the Chamber
of Commerce at the City Club this
afternoon. N. Sumner Myrick Of the
marine bureau presided. Other
speakers were F Il Price of New
York. Charles E. sHerrick of Chicago
and c. B. Heinemann Of Chicago.
Mr.. Hafght declared that no one
can deny that for the past thirty or
forty years the conditions with ref
erence to ocean bills Of lading have
been wholly unsatisfactory. Outlin-
ing the proposed rules, Mr.. Haight
said that a friendly spirit between
shippers and carriers and between
the nations as well can be created
through them, "if the interested par
ties in the United States will declare
themselves. definitely. and emphat-
ically, in favor of international CO.
operation and the adoption of The
Hague rules"
The question is, he said, are we in
the United States going to join with
the rest Of the world and, in cooper
alton with them, seek to better ship
ping conditions everywhere, or are
we to stand, aloof?
There is no 'entangIing alliance
about this question, and no one can
escape on that excuse" the speaker
declared. This movement has been
so directed that no government is in
volved."~