The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-05-26

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suance Of bonds. Doesn't that hap
pen in almost every wen regulated
city? Why should Hamilton have to
be picked out and advertised as hor-
rible example in every corner of the
globe; that's what it means, for Henry
Ford's paper goes everywhere
throughout the world. Why, you ask,
are we the goats? The Press will
tell you. 1t is because Hamilton is
the only place in the world that has
a city knock the size of Emerson
Robinson. He tells the world Hamil-
ton can't pay her debts without add
ing to them. Hamilton, in that phrase,
is you and |, we, us, him and her, in
fact all of US, and when he says that
he says more than WE, meaning all
of us, are going to stand for.
WE just want to say this: men
living in glass houses shouldn't throw
so many stones. A little incident hap
pened last week that just about fits
this case. One of our county judges
refused woman divorce, because,
as he said, she didn't come before him
with "clean hands," Ask Robinson, if
in his statement, he has gone before
| the world with "clean hands," We're
busy.
While the Press doesn't want to say
that this man should be placed in pri-
son (the inmates might revolt), the
| Press would, however, say that the
confines of this city (whose atmos-
| phere he intimates is too rotten to
! live in) should be made too small for
him to remain in. How long is the
chamber of Commerce, the Retail
Merchants Association, the Rotary
! Club, the Lions Club, the American
Legion, organized labor, the lodges
and the many other organizations
which are everlastingly doing all il
their power to boost the city and fur.
ther the interests and welfare of its
people; how long, we ask, are these
organizations going to stand for the
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STRIK COSTS
The Fred F. Field Service Co., ;
strikebreaking concern of Cleveland
has spilled the beans for the employ
ers who are benevolently seeking t,
reduce wages in order to lower price
for the dear public,
This strikebreaking concern ha
filed suit against the Telling Bell
Vernon Milk Company, of Cleveland
to collect $87,l61, at SIS day plu
!, travelling expenses, for the scabs EN-
ployed to break the strike Of tn
Cleveland milk drivers.
The Telling Belle Vernon Company
which could not possibly pay its mel
35c an hour, or reduce the exorbitan
price of its milk to consumers, agreet
to pay the Field Service Co. the fol
lowing generous scale of compensation
for the toughs and thugs imported t,
break the strike:
Strikebreakers' services, $685.
days at $12 per day, $104,538; over
time for work after eight hours
$8,970; living expenses at SO per day
S21 1,740; transportation and railroa
fare (including Pullmans), $6,058.72
maintaining Is automobiles for strike
breakers at $50 day, $29,70O; repair
on above automobiles, $1,307.35.
In addition the philanthropic open
shoppers agreed to provide free med
ical and hospital care, legal service
and bail for these gentlemen
strikebreakers, and further contract
ed that no deduction was to be mad
for time lost by strikebreakers VIII
were disabled, injured or arrested
The Telling Belle Vernon Co. pai
$50 900 on this generous contract, an
is now being compelled to disgorg
the balance.
In addition to the above strike
breaking bill, the Telling Belle Ver
non Co. has been compelled to cut tn
price of milk Sc quart because it
former drivers organized a compel
ing cooperative dairy. Incidental!
it no longer pays S12 day and ex
penses for imported scab wagon driy
ers.
va EA ma Pa Es
Beware of that member in you
union who knocks everything from tn
union proceedings to the officials an
back again.
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