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The Republican journal., 1922-05-04
SEARSPORT

Mrs j. H. FAIRY and son, Glen, return
ed recently from visit with relatives in
Brownville.
Rev. N. F. Atwood went last week to
Machias, to attend the annual East Maine
Conference.
Mrs. N F. Atwood left recently for
Clark's Mills, where she was the guest of
relatives for week.
Mrs. Harold Coombs of Belfast is the
guest for Jew weeks of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred B. Smith.
Miss Lillian Runnells, principal of the
high school, is confined to her home in
Mount Ephriam street by illness. Miss
Frances Abbott of Belfast is substituting.
Mrs. Lena Field and daughter, Miss
Mary Field, of Cambridge, Mass, have
arrived in Searsport, and will occupy the
Boalivant apartment in Church street,
during the summer.
w. T. Anderson returned April Gath
from Boston, where he underwent surgi
cial treatment at the Corey Hill, hospital
in Brookline. Mr. Anderson is much i'm
proved, and is making good recovery.
Lincoln Colcord arrived April 2lst
from New York Mrs. Colcord, who ac-
companied her husband to that city. has
been the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. D.
Carver, and returned to Searsport last
week.
A large delegation from Sears Lodge,
/. o. o. F., and KDyvetta Rebekah Lodge,
attended the Methodist church on Sum-
day, April 23. in body. Members of
both lodges wore their regalia, and a
special sermon was preached by Rev N.
F. Atwood. Z
The baseball club minstrel show which
was presented with such success in Union
Hall last week, will be repeated in Den
slow Hall, Stockton Springs, on Friday
evening, May 5th. Many Searsport peo-
pie will be glad of the opportunity to see
the show again and an added attraction
will be the dance after the show, with
music by McKeen of Belfast.
Six girl friends OF Mrs. Bertha Worces-
ter Moulton went to her home Tuesday
evening to celebrate her 9th birthday an
niversary. They took with them hand
some birthday cake with q candles and
cake, coffee and candies. Those who at.
tended were the Misses Frances Ireland
Frances Bailey, Virginia and Flora Nick
erson, Valma Powell and Katherine Cum
ningham.
The Boy Scout band, under the leader
ship of Rev. Harold LIE May is becoming
quite active. and much interest is being
shown. On Thursday evening supper
was enjoyed in the upper rooms in the
engine hall. Friday evening Eagle Patrol
was in charge of very successful socia-
BILE held in the Methodist church vestry-
There were games and stunts and no.
chocolate and cake were served. 1t is ex-
pected that a large delegation of boyt
from this town will atte nd the Boys Cons
ference in Belfast.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles E. Moore of Lo
Angeles, Calf, arrived April 22rd an
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during MIR. Moore's stay, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Duncan in Church
street. Mr. Moore, who is on business
trip east, left, April 23rd, for New York,
Mrs. Moore is the guest of her mother.
Mrs. Z. II. Lincoln, and her aunt, Mrs.
Fred Ellis, for week, and will Join her
husband in Chicago, Mrs. Moore, who was
Miss Anne Whittier of this town, was mar
rled in San Bernardino in December, 1920,
and her numerous friends are giving her
cordial welcome back to her home town.
The Republican journal., 1922-05-04
LIBERTY.

Harlan Young was a guest of Harry
Crockett over Sunday.
Rev. Il W. Abbott is passing few days
with his son Charles at his farm in Paler-
mo.
County Attorney Ralph l. Morse passed
the week end in town with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Morse.
Walter Murry of Berwick was in town
last week, called by the serious illness of
his sister. Mrs. j. P. Sanford.
Mrs. j. P. Sanford passed away Sunday
morning, after lingering illness of sever
al months. Funeral services will be an.
nounced later.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred Norton of Palermo
were visitors in town at tie home of Mr..
and Mrs. George Sprague one day last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Beck and daughter
Marion of Augusta were in town Satur-
day and Sunday for visit with their son,
who is principal of the High school. They
was guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Sprsgue.
The comedy given in Sanford's Hall
Saturday evening by the pupils of the
High school was literally patronized
Music was furnished by Overlock's Or
chestra. At the close of the exercises,
the young people enjoyed an hour in
dancing with sale of home made candy
and pop corn.
The Republican journal., 1922-05-04
MARRIED.

MoRsE-VosE. In Morrill,, April %,
by Ernest E. Bowen, Esq, John W..
Morse of Belmont and Cora E. Vose of
Knox.
YOUNG BLOOD. In Morrill,, April 16,
by Ernest E. Bowen, Esq, Ivory Herbert
Young of Waldo and Hilda Mae Blood of
Morrill,
BLOOD.GURNEY. In Belfast, May 1,
by Rev C. w. Martin, Avon E. Blood of
Morrill, and Stella A. Gurney of Waldo.
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DIED.

GODDARD. In Belfast, April 81, Mer-
vim L. Goddard, aged year, months.
SHUTE In Hartford, Conn, April 18,
Marjorie Jean, infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Alonzo A. Shute, aged 2 weeks.
The Republican journal., 1922-05-04
Notice

The annual meeting of the incorpora-
tors of the Waldo County General iospi-
tai will be held at the Municipal Court
Room, City Building, Belfast, MONDAY
evening May Is, at 73O O'Clock p m,
for the election of Directors and acting
IN anv other business that may legally
come before said meeting.
FL. WILSON, Secretary
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FOR SALE

Deposit account in the Belfast Sa!'
ings Bank Amount of principal, Slo2O. "a.
Who will give me fifteen hundred for it1
ADRIAN F. JONES,
3wl8 State Farm, Mass.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
EDITOR BACKS
TRADE UNIONS

New Haven, Conn-The trade
union movement sis great combina-
tion of races, creeds and COLOR" says
the Journal Courier.
"If it be argued that there is. lack
of discipline and control in the aver
age labor gathering apart from
some groups whose daily tasks and
training equip them for judicial de-
liberation with the best in any call
ing-it may be retorted that at least
the subtlety and indirection of the
able and cunning are absent.
There is a great deal of ignor-
ance among the schooled and protect
ed classes as to the nature of labor
union
''The confusion and grim realities
that attend situations where great
numbers of men are excited who
work with their hant Il and have
their daily bread to consider are such
that intelligent and fair minded lead
ership is the concern of all. Ameri-
cans have not yet got to the bottom
of the so-called labor question, though
now and then there is CLEAN in the
east"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
FEDERAL PERSONNEL
BOARD

Washington. President Harding
has created semi-offcial commission
to be known as the federal personnel
board, which is intended to improve
the service and economy of employing
methods in government departments.
The members of the board will be of
ficials of the various bureaus and
heads of independent establishments
and will function under direction of
the civil service commission.
The board, the executive order said,
will be expected to formulate policies
and plans for interchanging employees
between one bureau and another when
emergency work requires enlarged
forces, for maintaining special force
of employees on part-time assignments
in different departments, for training
individuals to special fitness for GER
tain service and for facilitating pro-
motions to higher grades for properly
qualified persons.
1t will also be expected to develop
systems of personnel records and to
consider all questions relating to
hours of service, retirements, leaves
of absence and similar detail
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
THE UNION LABEL

The union label symbolizing as it
does the conditions which the union
itself is established to- secure and
maintain is proof that these condi-
tions obtain in the making of the ar
ticle upon which it appears. Firm
names, brands, trademarks, and other
devices by which products are adver-
tised may lose their original signifi-
canoe through changes in the fortunes
Of those who own them. The union
label, being owned by the union and
subject exclusively to its control, rep
resents the same thing always, name
ly, fair wages and hours, clean work
shops and good workmanship.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03

longer worry about the street car SER
vice on these lines when the new
cars get to running. They are to
have just as good service as the rid
ers on the other lines in the city, or
as near so as is possible to give.
This assurance is given the Press by
Mr.. George P. Sohngen, receiver for
the traction company, in an interview
on Wednesday of this week. At the
Chamber of Commerce forum dinner
at the "Y" last week it was given
out that with the new cars running
there was to be general rerouting,
that the B street cars would alternate
over North Third and East High
streets, which would mean that the
present l5-minute service would con-
tinue over these lines.
There was an immediate rumble of
dissatisfaction and disapproval heard
emanating from the riders on these
two lines. They deemed it unfair and
not right, having been promised and
assured, as they claim, that when
the new cars were adopted they would
also have a quicker service as was
promised the riders on the other
routes in the city. However, when the
Press representative called Mr.. Sohn-
gems attention to the seeming unfair
ness to the Third and High street
riders he Immediately stated that the
whole thing was mistake and that
the Third and High street riders could
rest assured that they were to have
right from the start 10-minute or
better service. He stated starting
with 10-minute service he hoped that
just as soon as the riding public
learned to get on and off the cars
quickly and the operator got the hang
of things so that it would be possible
to do so, to give the people on these
two lines an 8-minute service.
Mr.. Sohngen further said that with
the cooperation and support of the
Hamilton people generally, which he
hoped to receive, he expected shortly
to give the riding public even a quick
er service.
The efforts of Mr.. Sohngen TO give
the people of Hamilton an up-to-date
street car service should be appreciat-
ed and the people ought to cooperate
with him and lend him every support
possible
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03

WHY UNIONIsM THRIvEs

AS an individual the working man
is just as helpless as sapling in a
tempest. Me may say that he intends
to work for whom he pleases and for
as many hours as he pleases, and he
may feel that he has the moral right
to do so, but he has not.
And then, again, he should know
as he will, sooner or later, perhaps
when it is too late, that he must ask
his employer for leave to work for
what he chooses to pay, and for as
many hours as he desires.
Organized labor has been able
through united action and collective
bargaining, to shorten the work day,
raise wages, and in many ways i'm
prove the conditions of the worker;
it has prevented reduction in their
pay; it has made homes better; it has
secured better clothes, better food,
more comforts, and has made the shop,
factory and mine better place in
which to work.
Organized labor has been the fight
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
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EMPLOYERS OPPOSE
MINIMUM WAGE LAW

San Francisco Sixteen dollars a
week is the minimum wage establish
ed by law for women workers of Cali
fornia. Some employers of the state
are now carrying on strenuous cam
paign to reduce the minimum, despite
the fact that public hearings under
the auspices Of the industrial welfare
commission show that the present
wage is barely sufficient to maintain
a standard of proper living. All the
labor organizations of the state op-
pose any reduction of the present min
imum standard of women's wages.
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STILL OPPOSE THEM


Although the workers won big
victory two weeks ago in suit to
enjoin the members of the Cloak, Suit
and Skirt Manufacturers Protect
i've Association, they still are opposed
to the system of injunctions. Re-
garding this, Labor says:
"a New York judge has issued an
Injunction restraining the members of
the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufact-
urers' Protective Association from
Combining or conspiring in any way
to violate the contract which they
entered into with the members of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union and which will not expire
until June /, 1922.
"This is the first time in history of
American industry that an injunction
has been issued to protect labor.
"The fact should not-and of course
will not-change the workers atti-
tude toward this peculiarly un-Ameri-
can symbol of judicial usurpation.
so long as courts are permitted to
issue injunctions in industrial dis
putes labor may be forgiven for turn
ing the weapon against those who
originated it.
"It is like using poison gas in war.
If the other side uses the damnable
stuff, then we must use it in self
defense.
"But labor would forbid the use OF
the injunction by either side in an in
dustrial controversy, just as it would
outlaw the use of poison gas by either
side in military operations.
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A TORTURE INSTRUMENT

Iniunctions are used in the United
States while they have been discarded
by the rest of the world They are,
in reality, a relic of the European
imperialistic, autocratic world of a
bye-gone age, as Mr.. Baer, the famous
cartoonist, so we'll shows. American
Jurisprudence has gone, scavenger-
like, through the archaic junk heap of
European Imperialism, picking up
here shackle, there a club, to weave
into the fabric of the American writ
of injunction.
The injunction is, in principle, the
same as the ancient army of the ba-
ron. 1t is a revival of the "go thou"
and do thou" and of the thou shalt
not" and the "verboten" of ignomin-
ious recent memory
How many Americans know that in
the recent British coal strike, lasting
three months, there was not an in
junction and not even an arrest? 1t
is a fact.
The injunction as used in our indus
trial disputes is autocratic, despotic,
ancient and out of harmony with mod
ern thought and most modern prac-
tees.
Such thing may persist for time
in free America, but its doom is GER
tain. No judge whose mind lives the
life of today will issue an injunction
in a labor dispute where no such in
junction would lie where such labor
dispute did not exist. No judge who is
capable of understanding the theory
of modern society and modern democ-
racy will issue such an injunction.
The day is coming when no Judge, un-
less he is a crooked judge, will issue
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
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BACK TO NORMALCY'

Washington-In his report to A. F.
of L. headquarters, Henry F. Hilfers,
general organizer of the A. F. of L.,
cites this condition in one New Jer-
sey town:
"A shirt factory was opened in
Bloomfield by firm that moved here
from Long Island. The price that is
paid for one dozen shirts is SO cents.
The highest that an experienced oper-
ator can get is IL cents an hour.
Zone girl, who is an experienced
operator, took a job and worked for
1917 hours and earned $1.42; another
81 cents and another, an inexperienced
operator, earned 38 cents for IL hours
work"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
ALERT UNIONISTS WIN

Raleigh, N C.-Alert trade union
lists in this state checked the passage
of several anti-social proposals by the
state legislature.
One of these laws would permit cas-
ier election of employees from houses
owned by employers.
The bill was introduced by an at
torney for cotton mill company.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1922
Endorsed by the Trades aad Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Laber Council of MiddIeto~n. o.
THEIR DUTY is PLAIN

About four hundred citizens from
Middletown and farmers of Butler
county appeared before the county
commissioners on last Friday and pro-
tested against the construction of the
bridge at Coke Otto. We say four
hundred, but what's the difference if
there were four thousand-there were
$4,000 people who voted against the
proposition last November year ago,
but at the same time it must be re-
membered that 1892 voted for it.
Doesn't the majority rule?
So then, will the county commits
sioners regard the protest of four
hundred greater mandate than that
of the nearly fifteen thousand citizens
of the county who voted for the i'm
provement?
There seems to be many peculiar
angles in the deal. Can it be that
there is another "steel," not steal
but s-t-e-e-l, hitched up with it? Who
paid the expense of flooding the whole
county, including Hamilton, with
copies of the Middletown News Signal
which contained nothing except
knocks against the bridge on Thurs
day of last week, the day prior to
the protest meeting before the county
commissioners And who paid for
the fowery speeches delivered by the
attorneys, especially the one from
Hamilton and the only person from
Hamilton to speak against the propos;-
ton?
There has been much said of steal
in connection with the Coke Otto
bridge proposition, and it is rumored
that there is whole lot of steel,
not steal, mixed up with it too, and
that it isn't the much talked of Coke
Otto steel either Can this be true?
The people of the county voted for
this improvement, and by substan-
tial majority too The duty of the
county commissioners is plain (that is,
if they want to be fair with ALL the
people,, and they ought to perform
it,
R N ~ M ~
BETTER CAR SERVICE FOR ALL
The East High street and North
Third street riding public need no
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
1fIE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

ing force in state legislatures and in
congress not only for labor, but for
all men; it has compelled the passage
of laws to protect the health of the
workers; to take children fApm the
mill and factory, and place them in
school; to limit the hours of labor for
women and fix the wages above a liv-
ing wage; to prevent the loss of lives
and limbs; and to compel payment
for injuries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
URGE OLD Age PENSIONS

Columbus, Ohio.-On January 10
and IL statewide conference will be
held in this city under the auspices
of the State Federation of Labor to
discuss old-age pensions and take
suitable action thereon. Fraternal
organizations are invited Several of
these bodies have declared for old-age
pensions.
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MORE POWER TO THEM

The League of Women Voters is
being attacked by the politicians and
the wives of the politicians.
The leaders of the league have
shown a disposition to place princi-
pie above party-a dastardly crime in
the opinion of those who spend their
years pursuing patronage. The
league does not advocate anything so
silly as woman's party. On the con-
trary, it urges its members to affiliate
with the existing parties, but it gives
them sound advice as to what to do
after they get in.
They are urged to fight for real
primary system, for such legislation
as the maternity bill, and for control
of the packing trust and other vicious
combines, and to oppose militarism.
And they have been doing it. That's
what alarms the politicians.
If the women had been content to
talk about these things there would
have been no criticism. But they have
organized lobbies and have invaded
state legislatures and the national
capitol. They have deluged the law
makers with letters and kilograms
urging them to support this bill and
to defeat that. And always they have
clung to principle and permitted party
considerations to go hang.
BY these tactics they passed the
maternity bill and emphasized the de-
mand for limitation of armaments.
No wonder the politicians and the
politicians wives do not like them.
But those of us who are neither poll
ticians nor the wives Of politicians
can well afford to wish them godspeed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
END GRADE CROSSINGS

Washington.The grade crossing
is doomed, according to the depart
ment of agriculture, which declares
that this menace to life must go and
will be eliminated wherever possible
on. the roads Of the federal aid high
way act"
During the three years ending 1920,
according to the best records available
to the department, 1885 lives were
lost at grade crossings and 1854
persons were injured
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american Federationist"
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ONLY UNLAWFUL ACTS FOR
BIDDEN
Unless the decision of the United
States circuit court Of appeals shall
be set aside by a higher authority,
the United Mine Workers of America
have achieved signal victory at law.
BY the decision handed down last
week in Chicago, the injunction issued
against the union by Judge Anderson
at Indianapolis will be so modified that
it becomes Of no practical effect in
important particulars. For example,
while cognizance is taken "of gi-
gantic conspiracy to eliminate COM
petition" by organizing the West Vir-
ginia miners, the appeal judges hold
that the injunction should lie only
| against unlawful methods of carry
| ing it out. In this connection pro-
| hibition of the check-off system by
Judge Anderson is annulled, apparent
| ly because this method of collecting
union members dues is not in itself
unlawful. and because existent con-
| tracts between operators and unions
which cover it are legitimate. The
principle applied is that legal con-
tract shall not be interfered with,
though improper acts which may de-
pend in measure for their carrying
out on enforcement of the contract
should be enjoined. Thus the Ander-
son injunction should run only against
the unions sending of money into
West Virginia in furtherance of acts
of violence; it should not prohibit
unionization efforts that do not ex-
tend to interference with operation of
mines.
The right of organization is dis
tinctly upheld by the decision, but it
is clearly stated that unionization can
be sought by peaceful means only. The
methods which have obtained in West
Virginia are condemned and the in
junction, so far as it applies to them,
remains in force. This should not be
unsatisfactory to the unions, the re-
sponsible officers of which have de-
clared their devotion to legal re-
sources and their adherence Of vio-
lence. The issue here should
strengthen their resolve, for it is de-
monstrated that definition and protec-
ton of their rights may be safely left
to the courts 1t should exert an in
fuence for good on the miners OF
Kansas who have resorted to the strike
and violence in resistance of the law
of the state. The international offic-
ers of the mine workers have asserted
their preference for legal action to
test the validity of the Kansa indus
trial court law. Their victory in the
West Virginia injunction case shows
they have the right idea.-National
Labor Journal.
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co-oPs HAVE GOOD YEAR.

st. Paul, Mimi, Savings or pro-
fits made by cooperative farm asso-
Citations in 43 counties Of this state
during the year amount to S2,045, ,745.
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FAIR PROFITS ARE MADE"

Washington.--In a wrangle in the
house over the American valuation
plan that some tariff advocates favor,
Congressman Fordney, who is sup
porting the plan, scored importers for
profiteering. He said one Chicago de-
apartment store charged S. for knife
which can be bought in Germany for
9.6 cents.
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BETTER CAR SERVICE FOR ALL
The East High street and North
Third street riding public need no