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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-07

Gas Trust Wealth.
Can't Down BoIsheviks.
Better Than Birth Control,
lWhat Farm Women Want.
lLBy ARTHUR BRIsBANEJ
(copyrisht. Isss)
The Supreme Court decides
that an s0-cent gas law Is con-
fiscatory, therefore .unconstitu-
tional. It takes q corporations
property without due process
of law. The court Is probably
right, and it Is certainly honest.
And protection for capital
against confiscatory legislation
or other action Is necessary If
civilization, as we understand
It, is to 60 on.
But what a difference be-
tween capital, one form Of
wealth, and labor, another form
of wealth. II railroads, knit
ting mills, steel plants, coal
mines arbitrarily decide to
make wages lower, and If labor
says, 81 can't live," there is no
supreme court to call that con-
fiscatory. Labor is told to 60
hungry for awhile, then per-
haps it will find q way to get
along at the new rates.
This is not to question the
established fact that all is for
the<b in the best possible Of
worlds, but just to point out
that, if you have your choice,
It is better to be capital than
labor.
The public says to the gas
monopoly, "We won't pay more
than 80 cents" The Supreme
Court says, you've got to pay
more" That settles it.
The great Hope Textile Mills
at Providence told its workmen,
1--WE shall pay you only so
much," and yesterday after
noon Rhode Island cavalry,
coast artillery, deputy sheriffs,
and police were all out to help
the mills enforce their view Of
. fair price for labor. All
right, doubtless, but there is a
difference.
Anyhow, gas stock jumped up
ten points in Wall Street yester-
day and someone was happy.
Millions are starving in Rus
sia, industry is broken down,
the government even says it
will pay the Cars debts
which it never should pay-in
order to be let alone.
And now. in Moscow, earnest
Bolsheviki are planning "a new
.gigantic. internntionals to- organ
ize and control labor in all
countries"
You cannot discourage those
gentlemen. They remind you Of
the man in the debtors prison,
figuring out a simple way to
Day England's national debt.
Japan changes her mind and
says Mrs. Sanger may come and
lecture on birth control, II she
choose, and Mrs. Sanger chooses.
She says it is the solution Of the
economic problem in the Orient.
1t might help temporarily, but
there are better ways Of solving
the population problem.
First, improve agriculture, use
machinery, irrigate, use neglect
ed lands.
Second, and more important,
breed better human beings; high
er grade. They do not overpopu-
late. The higher the race, all
things considered, the lower the
rate Of increase. It had to be
so; otherwise the world would
end in wholesale cannibalism or
infanticide, a sad comment on
Divine Wisdom. Henry George
writes Interestingly on that in
his Progress and Poverty"
War, in some degree, be-
tween north and south Ireland
Is old. Now the fighting is be-
tween south. Of Ireland men.
Armed forces against and in
favor Of the new Irish Free
State threaten civil war--worse
A.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-07
mONcuRE BEFORE BAR.
OFFERS WEAK Defense
Senate Rejects Scent Fare
LAST MINUTE NEWS
MRS. oBENCHAIN PROVES ALIBI.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, March 7.-An "alibi" for
Mrs Madaynne Obenchain on trial for the murder Of
j. Bolton Kennedy on the day of the staying when she
is alleged to have been planning the crime with Arthur
g. Burch codsfendant in the case was established TO-
day by defense witnesses
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-07
MEASURE
M|SSESBY
SIX VOTES
Twenty-one Favor Legislation
Brought Up by Harrison
in Amendment.

The Senate today passed the
District appropriations bill, car
rying $23,933,s43. There was no
opposition. All Senate amend
ments were retained. including the
Jones rider providing the S1.75 tax
rate. q $1,50O.0O0 appropriation
for the water supply, and the APP
preparation Of $500, 900 for the pur.
chase Of the proposed additions to
the public park system. including
the Patterson tract, the Klingle
Ford Valley tract. and the Piney.
branch tract. -''-A-'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-07
By ARTHUR BRIsBANE-
(copyriSht. Isss)

so; otherwise the world would
end in wholesale cannibalism or
infanticide, q sad comment on
Divine Wisdom. Henry George
writes Interestingly on that in
his Progress and Poverty"
War, in some degree, be-
tween north and south Ireland
Is old. Now the fighting is be-
tween south. of Ireland men.
Armed forces against and in
favor of the new Irish Free
State threaten civil war--worse
than any other. England will
keep out of it, and let the Irish
fight it out to their hearts
content. It Is not the first
time in history that factions
failing to agree have played
the game for their enemies.
But Irish common ,.snse ought
not to allow England to say,
81 told you So" quite so soon.
Mrs. Radick, of Fulda, Mimi,
recently was in Washington to
tell the Government something
about women that live on
farms and what they want.
She represents six million farm
women. That would have
meant little ten years ago. But
now they VOTE, and every
body in Washington shook
hands with her warmly and
asked about all the folks.
With her husband, Mrs.
padick works a 320-acre farm.
NE takes care Of her children,
as one slight chore, husks and
cultivates corn, and wakes her
twelve-year-old boy early, that
he may work for two hours be-
fore he goes to school.
She says that such conditions,
which cause many children in
the West to be bent over and
worn out in childhood, are not
exactly right. That helps to
explain the Senate farm bloc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-07

Fair and colder tonight
and "wednesday. Tempera-
ture above freezing; fresh
10 strong west and north
west winds. Temperature
ct 8 .. m, IS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28

If you like your taxes as they are
Vote for Long If you want them
lower-Vote for Sam c. Landis (adv
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28
BLAME FOR STRIKE PLACED
A F. OF L. IN RINGING DEFENSE OF RAILROAD SHOP ENPL
ES CITES FACTS SHOWING MANAGERS DETERMINATION
TO CRUSH UNIONS is REAL CAUSE OF CONFLICT
Efforts Made Make Appear That Strike Against United
States Government Most Vigorously Denounced-Wan
Controls Situation

Washington.-Spe for and in
the name of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, the executive council
of the federation has adopted a pro-
clamation of facts in connection with
the railroad shop mems strike which
sets forth the important truths of
that nationwide movement.
The proclamation has been forward
ed to every affiliate of the A F. of
L., and says, in part:
"The workers engaged in the pres
ent struggle are in no sense engaged
in conflict against the government
of the United States, and we de-
nounce most vigorously the efforts
that have been made to make it ap-
pear as if the government is being
attacked
''The workers have ceased work be-
cause the railroad labor board has
made an award in response to a plea
by the railroads putting into effect
terms and conditions of employment
sought by the railroads and which
the workers are unable to accept.
"The stoppage of work can be ended
at any moment through joint nego-
tiation between the railroad man
agements and the workers and there
is nothing to prevent the railroads
from adopting this course at any time.
The transportation act specifically
provides that both parties to an in
dustrial dispute may come together
for the purpose of reaching an agree
ment without giving the slightest
consideration to the railroad labor
board or any of it's decisions affect,
ing conditions of work and wages for
service performed.
"The conduct of railroad manage
ments is the result of Wall street
control of the railroads. The great
majority of railroad executives would
long since have come to an amicable
agreement with the workers were it
not for the fact that the association
of railroad executives is absolutely
dominated by small minority rep
resenting the allied financial interests
of Wall street. 1t is fact that more
than 100 railroad directorships are
controlled by group of about 25
of the most powerful financial mag
mates in Wall street and that this
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28

joint agreement, and that they lead
only to disturbance of industry, re-
placing negotiation with litigation.
I'VE call upon the working people
everywhere and upon all Americans
who love justice to sustain the cause
of the railroad workers who have
ceased work as their only remaining
method of protest against an injus-
tice which must rank as one of the
most reprehensible which any Amer
lean industrial or political institution
has ever sought to impose.
mo workman, whether a member
of union or not, will, if he is pos
sessed of true American manhood,
engage in any work formerly done
by men now on strike.
'The cause for which the workers
are contending is worthy of every
just and proper effort that can be put
forth in its behalf.
Let there be no mistake. This is
q strike against the Wall street in
terests and their hirelings, the man
ayers who control the railroads of the
land, and not against the United
States government. The railroad la
Dor board is not judicial, executive
or legislative branch of the govern
ment. 1t is purely an advisory and
recommendatory body and the public
has had no choice in the selection of
the personnel, nor has the public any
control over any of it's findings"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28
COMPULSORY LABOR
AGENTS OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGE WOULD USE
GOVERNMENT TO CHAIN WORKERS TO
JOBS AGAINST THEIR WILL
See in Rail Strike Chance For Establishing Precedent
Which, if Accomplished, Would Jeopardize
Rights of Minorities

about the rights of the public will
result in jailing the more active
strikers"
While this philosophy is satisfact-
ory to industrial autocrats who want
trade unions impotent to improve.
conditinos, the public must realize
that the best way to hold men to their
jobs is to abandon force and assure
them conditions that their worth and
Importance to society justify.
The constitution says there must
not be involuntary servitude. That
statement is as clear as the English
language can make it, 1t has but
one meaning It declares in plain
terms that no worker can be held to
his task
1t applies to the slave holders
chain as it does to interpretations that
would be placed on a law by men
who are attempting to bluff" the
American people into ignoring one of
their most precious guarantees
These men show thir milk-and-
water concept of liberty when they
think their hue and cry will force
the men and women of labor to accept
their theory that a public board can
set wages and that this award can be
enforced by all the power OF govern
ment
America is yet America
And it will so remain
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28
MINERS REJECT PLAN
OF PRESIDENT HARDING'S SO-CALLED "ARBI-
TRATION' BECAUSE OF Joker" OF
DARK COLOR FOUND HIDDEN
WITHIN IT'S FOLDS
Under Proposed Plan Commission Could Set Aside TIL,
Check-off, Which Miners Are Determined
Must Stand

Washington. Miners rejected
President Harding's so-called "arbi-
tration" plan to end the strike be-
cause they did not want to sign a
blank check.
The plan proposed that both sides
would appoint three members of a
commission and the president would
appoint five. The commissions de-
cisions would be final and binding.
The Joker" in the proposal, how
ever, is found in the fact that there
is no limit to what the commission
could pass upon and the further fact
that the miners were called upon to
bind their entire membership to the
award, which would only apply to
those coal owners who were present
at conferences with the president and
some of his cabinet officials In their
reply to the president, the miners
declared that this was "manifestly
unfair"
Under the plan the commission
could set aside the check-off and the
miners would have to accept The
commission could wander off into any
path they saw fit and pass on work
ing conditions of the miners that have
been enforced for years.
The miners attempted to have the
limits of the commission defined, but
they failed
More than 10000 miners have
joined the union since April /, when
the strike started. These would not
be included in the commissions
award, because their employers were
not parties to the conference. About
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28

Despite declarations by high-placed
politicians and other spokesman for
privilege, the Cummins- -Esch law
makes no provision for compulsory
arbitration
While this act is fearfully and won
derfully made, and has always been
opposed by labor, only now has its
friends dared to claim that railroad
labor board wage awards can be en-
forced by government.
The men who make this claim show
their treachery to labor by attempt
ing to read into that law an intent
that they nor their kind had the cour-
age to hint at when the law was be-
ing considered.
1t is no answer for serf advocates
to talk of "the rights of the major
ity."
These rights are no more sacred
than the rights of minorities.
Neither numbers nor popular ella
NOR nor manufactured public opinion
can legalize defiance of the constitu-
ton.
While our government rests on ma
jority rule, there are some things
denied the majority. These are found
in the constitution, and include the
prohibition of involuntary servitude,
except as a punishment for crime.
This rejection of compulsory labor
is intended to protect minorities.
When it was placed in the constitution
its advocates did not say its en-
forcement was subject to the conve-
nience or whims of majorities, now
referred to by present-day autocrats
as "the rights of the public"
The combined forces of special
privilege-their jurists, their sophists
and their agents-cannot Justify the
use of government to hold workers
to their jobs against their will.
If government can enforce this con-
dition, slavery is fact, regardless of
the tinsel used to gloss this wrong
To say that workers will be permit
ted to quit as individuals means that
they can only quit as the handcuffers
dictate, and cannot quit in such mum
bers as to redress grievances.
They are given the shadow of liber-
ty, but not the substance.
Men are masters of themselves or
they are not. A middle ground on this
proposition is impossible
Liberty does not tolerate double
standards. Principle does not permit
of dilution or amendment, fact that
is ignored by politicians and barter
ers in the peoples rights.
Men can be held to their tasks or
they can not The constitution says
they can not, except as punishment
for crime
There are no other exceptions,
though editorial scribblers and press
agents, who pose as heaven-directed
oracles, advance this astounding the
ory in many attractive forms:
"The public can be blind to its
duties as citizens while workers are
forced to accept injustices, but if the
workers strike and the public is in
convenienced, loud enough howl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28
WITHOUT NOISE
Efficiency" Scheme isQuiet-
ly Sidetracked

Westinghouse is claimed that the
president has quietly sidetracked the
Brown efficiency" scheme and the up
heaval of government departments
has been postponed
1t is declared that the plan will
never pass congress. AS the tariff
and ship subsidy must be put
through, the bonus question adjust
ed satisfactorily to congress and the
banking interests that are opposing
the measure, and the sales tax also
a possibility, it appears as though the
administration has concluded not to
look for additional trouble.
The Brown efficiency" plan pro-
vided for stripping the department of
labor, and turning many of its func-
tions over to new department, to
be known as the welfare department.
This proposal was handled without
gloves by President Gompers, whose
views were given wide publicity by
the labor press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28
CHECK WAGE CUTS

Washington. - While the woman
member of the California industrial
welfare commission recently voted to
reduce wages of women workers in
that state, women on the District of
Columbia minimum wage board voted
solidly against wage reductions for
women workers.
Miss Ethel Smith, legislative secre-
tary of the National Women's Trade
Union League, and who is the work
ing women's representative on the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28

100000 other miners are similarly
affected
The proposition is so jug handled
that the bitterest foes of the miners
have maintained a discreet silence
over their refusal to accept it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28

minimum wage board, declares that
this decision is the first instance be-
fore public tribunal where the tide
of wage reductions during recent
months has been stopped.
The issue came before the wage
board on petition of the organized
employers for a reduction of the
$3.50 rate set by the board in 1919.
The three representatives of the pub
lie voted unanimously to sustain the
employees contention that the cost of
living has not diminished sufficiently
to justify reduction in wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28

same concentrated power extends in
like manner into practically every in
dustrial field in the country. Boards
of directors of various New York
banks control 27O directorships of 90
class l railroads.
"The decision at this time to reduce
the wages of the workers is an effort
to take from their pockets the enor-
nous sums hitherto provided by the
government to cover the cost of rail-
road waste, extravaganza and high
financing"
The proclamation says that 90 rail
roads in 104 cases have ignored
awards by the railroad labor board
and that "in none of these cases has
there been the slightest effort on the
part of the government to coerce
railroad managements into acceptance
of displeasing awards"
1t is also stated that the railroad
labor boards "attempt to sanctify
and purify strikebreakers and strike
breaking can be construed as nothing
less than an effort on the part of the
government to assist the railroads
and their Wall street owners"
"We construe the presidential
proclamation, issued on July II, as of
the same character and we call atten-
tion to the fact that the proclama-
ton, while citing a single phase of
railroad violation of the labor boards
awards, placing emphasis upon the
stoppage of work by the workers,
sought to create the impression that
the workers were acting unlawfully
and called for action everywhere to
curb this alleged unlawful conduct of
the workers, but called for no action
to alter the conduct of railroad man
agements.
eve call attention to the abject
failure of the railroad labor board
and to every other court or tribunal
either unlawful or impossible, and we
established by law to make strikes
call attention to the position which
labor has maintained from the out
set, to the effect that these courts
and tribunals are undemocratic, that
they destroy the peaceful and CON
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28
BORAH OPPOSES IT
Vicious Ship Subsidy At
tackled BY Senator

Washington - The ship subsidy
bill, which is being urged by the adj
ministration, will not stand discus
sion, declared Senator Borah in a
public announcement that he will not
support that proposal.
"If it We're thoroughly discussed,
and the details of the bill explain
ed" said the Idaho law maker, at
would result in leaving a large num-
Der of congressman who might vote
for it at home
1T has been carefully and wonder
fully advocated in general statements
and conclusions. But its details and
principles, or rather lack of princi-
pies, which a discussion of it would
reveal, would tell different story.
This is not a good time to give
a favored class an opportunity to
draw upon the treasury for millions
of dollars. 1t is not a good time
either to create a body of men who
are practically exempt from the con-
troll of the people, and who, together
with their friends particularly favor
ed with references to taxes and the
treasury, would become a body po-
tential for the very worst kind of
corruption in government.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-28

If you like your taxes as they are
Vote for Long. If you want them
lower-Vote for Sam C. Lands. (adv.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
Nab Two FugitiEes

Gerald Hahn, 1927 E. Broad St. and
Charles r Cox, 537 S. Twenty-Fifth
ST., both of Newcastle, are under ar
rest charged with being fugitives from
justice. The two men had an auto
mobile alleged to have been stolen
from NeWcaStle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07

Betty J. Clevenger, 18 months old,
is dead at the Robert Long Hospital
following an operation for the removal
OF a grain of corn from the lung. The
baby has been at the hospital since
July 4. Her father is a farmer living
near Eaton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
WREsTLED WITH BURGLAR
Johnson Turns Affair Into Footrace
Negro Getting Away.

H E. Johnson. 1922 Tecumseh St.,
won decision over a negro burglar
in a wrestling bout. Johnson found
the negro in his home. They went to
it, landing on the front porch The
negro wriggIed out of headhold and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
SEEK GIRLS ASSISTANTS
Cripple and 14-YearJId Girl AIIege
Attack oy Two Men.

Dete1szves today are investigating
se' attempted assault said to have
-oeen made on Helen Williamson. a
cripple, and Merel Eisenhower, IA
year-old girl, by two men who invited
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
HoLD.UPs TAKE TAXI
Machine Recovered by Police Later.
Driver Out S18.45.

Edward Gaffiey, taxi driver. was
robbed Of S1S.45 by two passengers
early today, who also took his auto
mobile. The taxi was found by the
police later at Calhoun and Shelby
SIS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
Corn Grain Kills Baby

turned the wrestling bout into foot
race, the negro winning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07

them to ride in an automobile yester-
day.