davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02
TWELVE-HOUR DAY
SIGNALLY HONORED BY USE OF WHITE HOUSE
AS ROSTRUM FOR ITS DEFENSE BY
STEEL TRUSTS HEAD
Smooth Sayings of Judge Gary Only Mean That Long Day
Will Be Abolished When Trust Gets
Good and Ready

Washington - "Sheer deception"
and the colossal affrontery of big
business" said President Gompers in
a statement following an announce
ment by Judge Gary at the white
house after dinner given by the
president to leading employers in the
steel industry
Judge Gary says that all favored
the abolition of the 12-hour day, if
and when practicable, statement
which means absolutely nothing" said
President Gompers.
"If the white house conference was
called to discuss the 12-hour day | am
unable to see where any progress was
made. We may take the conference
as being something of an Indication
of the public condemnation of steel
trust practices, but it is difficult to
see any sincerity in the if and when
practicable formula.
t'The excuse that foreign-born work
men oppose the eight-hour day be-
cause it reduces their earnings is not
an alibi for the steel industry It is
unfounded, but even if true would be
additional condemnation of the prac-
tices in that industry. The produc-
tion of steel can and must be placed
on a basis where it affords an Amer
lean standard of living with an Amer
can work day of eight hours. The
steel trust has a reserve fund of
$50o,000,O00 in undivided surplus,
which indicates its proft-making
powers.
"The meaning of Judge Gary's
statement is that the steel industry
intends to abolish the inhuman 12-hour
work day when it gets ready and not
before
The naming Of an Investigating
committee to inquire into the question
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02
VERY PRETTY
Judge Gary's Talks on Il
Hour Day Are Sweet

Washington The 12-hour day in
the steel industry was discussed by
nearly half hundred steel company
executives, who We're President Har-
ding's guests at the white house
The steel men authorized Judge
Gary to appoint a committee Of five to
investigate and report their conclu-
sions to the industry After the
meeting Judge Gary announced that
every one present favored abolition
of the l2-hour day if and when MAX
ing public"
In announcing the result Of the
presidents conference with the steel
men, George B. Christian, his secre-
tary, said that the president explain
ed to the steel executives that he had
discussed the matter with individual
heads and found much favorable sen
timent, but there is a conviction that
the abolition is impracticable without
substantially unanimous action by all
the employing forces in the iron and
steel industries, hence the dinner and
the attending opportunity to discuss
the proposal amid free and frank eX-
preston en- a question of such import
ance to industrial America.
In his report to the steel trust
stockholders, on April II last, Judge
Gary referred to report, several
years ago, by a committee Of five
stockholders who stated that they
would like to see the 12-hour day done
away with, but they realized it would
not be practicable or possible for any
one employer or any number of en-
ployers to inaugurate a shorter hour
system unless a similar policy should
be adopted by all employers in the
same industry"
Despite Judge Gary's reference to
this report, that the thing could not
be done," he told the stockholders
that between October, 1920, and
March, 1922, I'VE reduced the 12-hour
men from 81 per cent of the work
men to IA per cent"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02
MAMMON BEFORE CHILDREN
RECENT DECISION OF UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT INDI
GATES TRIBUNALS DISREGARD FOR HUMAN
WELFARE AS AGAINST PROFITS
Ruling of Court Indictment of Self While Same Time
Organized Labors Opposition to It's Veto Policy

Chief Justice Taft approves this
decision, but outlaws a child labor law
that can be defended under the gen.
eral welfare" cause of the constitution
to provide for sound manhood and wo-
manhood
In the yellow oleomargarine tax the
supreme court upheld congress when
it raised the tax from cents a pound
to 10 cents pound. The purpose of
the oleo tax is as clear as the child
labor tax of 10 per cent of the en-
ployer's profits when children under
IA are employed.
If child labor comes under the states
rights clause of the constitution, who
will say that this does not also apply
to the manufacture of oleomargarine :?
To layman it would appear
strange that if congress can tax a
state product known as oleo out of
existence, why the states rights doc
trine should be applied to the child
labor law. This thin ice is passed
over rapidly by the supreme court,
which almost fippantly claims that
neither the state bank nor the oleo tax
showed on their face "the detailed
specifications of a regulation of a
state commerce"
The court, unfortunately, failed to
state that the enforcement of state
bank tax and an oleo tax does not call
for "the detailed specifications" that
are necessary to circumvent exploit
ers of child labor
These detailed specification" SO
Objectionable to the court, have found
in the narcotic drug act, which is a
marvel of red tape In upholding this
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02

One feature of the United States
supreme courts recent annullment of
the federal child labor law is its fail
ure to make a single reference to Sec
8, Art /, of the federal constitution,
which empowers congress to provide
for the general welfare of the United
States" The title of the child labor
law is to provide revenue "and for
other purposes"
The court, however, was alarmed
lest the so-called states rights (tenth)
amendment to the constitution would
be violated
If the courts conclusions were given
minute study and wide circulation by
the workers, other propaganda would
hardly be necessary to Indicate the
courts disregard for human welfare
as against profits.
The court found fault with congress
for penalizing, rather than taxing, en-
ployers of child labor, though acknow-
Judgement is made that it SIS some
times difficult to define the difference" !"
Objection is also made to what APP
pears to be the clear intention of con-
gress to tax child labor products out
of existence.
Cautious reference is made to sew
eral decisions which are in direct oppo-
sition to the courts present reasoning
The state bank law, which levies
a 10 per cent tax on these banks, was
upheld by the supreme court. Con-
gress, the court ruled, can tax these
banks out of existence to secure "a
sound and uniform currency"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02

law the supreme court declared that
even if the purpose of the act was
other than taxation, and did not show
on the face of the act, the law is
legal
Or, in other words, if congress
wants to tax an evil out of existence,
without saying SO, it has the approval
of the court
In the child labor act the supreme
court expounds at length on the
workings of the act. 1t seems to sud
denly discover that congress wanted
to penalize child labor The court
then thunders:
In che light of these features of
the act, a court must be blind not to
see that the so-called tax is imposed
to stop the employment of children
within the age limits prescribed All
others can see and understand this.
How can we properly shut our minds
to it,"
According to this reasoning the
present supreme court would annul
the attempt to outlaw narcotics be-
cause that purpose was concealed in
the drug tax.
This child labor decision is almost
oozy in its weakness and palpable de-
termination to protect profits from
child labor
Its other features are contradictions,
apology, absence of con-
viction, and hurried desire to get
out of awkward places
The decision is both an Indictment
of the court and defense of organic
ed labor's opposition to the courts
veto policy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02

main, and great moneyed interests
will strenuously urge their choice of
according to recent polit-
ical history, when over $1,000,000 was
for the candidacy of one
man for president Repudiated be-
cause of excessive expenditures ex-
posed in senate hearings these power
full influences then transferred support
to other candidates and made the en-
actment of general sales tax ten
tative promise by both great political
parties.
"Only one course is now open to
give the new power full sway, to-wit:
Repeal of the primary and taking
from the people the direct right they
now possess of protecting their own
interests against private interests
that never sleep. Railways formerly
controlled legislatures, but today a
few powerful combinations of capital
control practically all the railways,
the shipping, the great banking inter
ests, and are of immeasurably greater
influence than all other interests COM
bined. That power is not limited to
state boundary lines.
"a repeal of the primary may seem
improbable, but those advocating the
old caucus and convention system. long
ago learned that constant reiteration
of hypocritical professions and propo-
sitions, like vice, is first rejected, then
pitied, then embraced"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02
HINDU SEAMEN
DESERT SHIP

Washington Continuous protests
by organized seamen against the en-
ployment of Orientals on American
ships is recalled by cable reports of
the disaster to the British steamer
Egypt, off the coast of France This
was ample time for skilled seamen to
swing the lifeboats free from the
sinking ship and rescue the passen-
gers, but the Hindu crew rushed for
the lifeboats to save themselves.
About 100 men, women and children
were drowned.
Representative of organized sea-
men are calling the attention of mem
bers of congress to this situation, and
are asking them what kind of Amer
icanism permits the employment of
Hindus and other Orientals on yes
sells owned by the United States ship
ping board.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02
PRIMARY LAWS
In Great Danger, Says Con-
gressman Frear
Agitation For Their Repeal
Strongly Backed By
Special Privilege

Washington.-Centralized power in
the hands of few men have replaced
the railroads, which controlled poll
tics 40 years ago, said Congressman
Frear, of Wisconsin, in a speech on
attempts to repeal primary laws.
Evolution in business methods has
centralized power since the advent of
the primary until today handful of
men control the wealth and large
business of the country" said the
Wisconsin lawmaker.
CAS- the railways of the land first
Joined hands in common cause 40
years or more ago when scrutinizing
candidates in municipal, state and ma
tional legislative bodies, including
safe executives, SO today these mod
ern, vast moneyed interests of the
country that control the magazines
and great metropolitan journals would
reach out to seize the same political
control once exercised by the railways
before the enactment of the primary.
"Tax reduction or tax shifting, cam
collation. of foreign debts, thereby en-
hancing private holdings aggregating
billions of dollars, appropriations for
railways, for shipping and countless
other special privileges and projects
cannot be so easily manipulated when
the record is carried back to the peo-
pie under the primary" said the
speaker.
|! Money is now in politics to re-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02

of the work day under the auspices
Of the iron and steel institute is ad-
ditional deception.
1T is typical of the present day
colossal affrontery of big business that
it should use the white house itself
as a rostrum from which to give to
the country the latest example of Gym
ical deception, more emphatically and
perhaps more fifty described as what
the American people are accumstomed
to call bunk. !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02

Union members agreeing together, for
even less drastic objects, have been en-
joined and punished in damages by
the same courts.
"The courts have frequently. driven
through acts of parliament to help
the employer and to find a way to
give judgment against the men.
'The courts have granted injunc-
tions SO wide in their terms as to
leave it questionable whether the men
could breathe without violating the
injunction.
at is the beneficiaries of the above
system who urge unions to place their
confidence in the law"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02
RAIL PROFITS GO UP.

New York-The March, 1922, re-
port of the New York Central rail
road to the interstate commerce COM
mission SHOWS net railroad operat-
ing income of $4,555,930, after taxes
and rents. This is an increase of
81, 1884, compared with March,
1921. =
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-02
MILL MEN WANT MORE

Everett, Wash Employers at the
Ferry Baker mill suspended work to
enforce a wage increase of ST day.
The basic rate is now So, which makes
a decent living out of the question,
these workers declare.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23

tive board of the federation here on
March 20. The recommendations
urge the organization of county wool
producers associations in all wool
producing counties, and the strength
ening of all existing county wool as
sociations.
Any selling agency selected to
market Minnesota wool, the commit
tee recommended, must be required to
provide bonded warehouses, operate
on a cooperative commission basis,
arrange for substantial cash advances
on wool as soon as it enters the pool,
and furnish the individual grower
complete information as to grade,
quantity, and condition as soon as
his wool is graded, and then keep
him in touch with the activities of
the pool. Organization of permanent
statewide wool growers association in
the fall of 1922, and eventual estab-
lishment of one big national pool al
so was recommended.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23
Mrs. 0. B. Fuller Passes
Away at Detroit, Michigan
Deceased Was Resident of Sank Cen
tire for Many Years-Brother and
Sister Reside Here

The sad news has reached Sank
Centre of the death of Mrs. May
Fuller, wife of o. B. Fuller, who
died at her home in Detroit, Mich,
March IA, 1922 at the age of &c years.
Mrs. Fuller leaves to mourn her
loss, besides her husband, two daugh-
tiers and one son. All have families.
there are 10 grand children. She
also leaves two sisters and one
brother: Mrs. w. Stewart of Boston,
Mrs. H. N. Carpenter and Geo. Weed
er of Sank Centre, and host of
friends where ever she was known.
Those who knew Mrs. Fuller best
have tn comfort of knowing sh was
a splendid Christian woman, an af-
fectionate wife, and loving mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fuller had not re-
covered from the shock of the sudden
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23

loss Of their son -in-law, Chas. M.
Hill, by acute pneumonia, when Mrs.
Fuller took pneumonia and Mr.. Full
Ter the flu. Both were under the
care of doctors and two trained nurs-
es for many weeks. Mr.. Fuller had
not recovered when Mrs. Fuller
passed away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fuller will be re-
membered by many of the Sank Gen.
tire citizens. He was one of the
first mail clerks on the Northern Pa
cific branch running from Morris to
Little Falls and served in this capac-
ity for more than 0 years.
After resigning in 1899, he enter
ed into the grocery business in COM
pany with Ray Carpenter on Third
street, Sank Centre. Later went in
to business in Detroit, Mich.-Con-
tributed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23
Minnesota Wool Pool For
1922 Planned by Bureau
Marketing Committee Urges Perm
aneht Organization To Make Cash
Advances on Clips

St. Paul, March 2o.-Minnesota
wool men should market their 1922
clip through a state pool to get the
best prices, in the opinion Of com
mitteemen who met here at the call
of the Minnesota Farm Bureau feder
alton to work out. plans for state
wool growers association, The COM
mittee was organized following a
conference of wool producers early
this month,
County wool growers associations
should select the agency which they
desire to market their wool, the com
mittee declared in formal recommen-
dations, to be presented to the execu
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23
NAMING A MINNESOTA COUNTY

The rise and fall in popularity of
national leaders between 1858 and
1868 is reflected in the successive
names given to one county in Mime
sofa. Within this period of ten years,
which included the Civil War, the
present county of Wilkin had three
names.
When this county was established
in 1858 it was named Toombs County
in honor of Robert Toombs of Geor-
gia, a prominent United States sena-
tor at that time. The Honorable
Mr.. Toombs became a leading disloy-
alist, later acting as Secretary of
State for the Confederate States.
Naturally his popularity in the North
went to zero and in 1862 the Mime
sofa legislature received petition
asking an immediate change in the
name of Toombs County.
The legislature rose to the occas-
ton, and relieved the embarrassing
situation by the substitution of the
name of Andy johnson, thus honoring
the loyal native of Tennessee who had
become nationally famous at this
time. But once again a popular idol
fell, for the political action of An
drew Johnson upon succeeding Lin
coin as president placed him in great
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23
Good Bread Wheat Has Best Market Val

Fortunately, whenever the wheat is good,
the yield is also good. We cannst control the
weather but we can do our part to safeguard the
quality of OUT good bread wheat and in spite of
the rust the Ultimate control of which we can
confidently say il assured, we can grow the best
milling wheat in the world and cell it for more
money than any other wheat.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23

RESERVE DISTRICT
Fsn ss % asso Of %
~. 49,, . ~ REsogRoEs
r"s$ e. ,sss sS ] S'is ssss
g. g. vsIa GoVernm ms Securities owned: "
a,., nSss sto.t: ..r;;:: 81: s wsssss
Banking House So ooo 90; Furniture and 7soo %
sS;; sssss; 81. ;;: s.ss bank:
Checks on other ,.o.o
'''|0
Checks o0 banks N located
s5{ ns; a5,sss , 1sfs3S
Total " ............. ........... .s7O1o5ss
ss sss 'ss:::::
oaa's'a a 11ss5SssSs
sSssS 81 sss Ssss .s.nin: ,5s
Thar. deposits. subject to
to cheek a: iss; 1o+2124
than for money borrowed) s4ss42
state c0u adse or Of ssse, of this bank
bank deposits> "
5payss after 50 p ssxs
sv sas'S:s to 80 days or more n0ues ana
Of dep4t tOther than for money borrowed?
o'h Total of Tae deposits subject
"a
Liabilities o! ohe R9os
STATE o 81 ,s.
the M msk
'''fS;' : sS s%%eeHHsgEHss
se.S @"s sworn pSt''e YcToa
NY commission expires August L. 1884
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23
Profit In Wheat

SFRuec WHEAT CROP nPROVE10lT ASSOCIATION
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23

disfavor with the people of Mime
sofa. One again the legislature was
called upon to rid the map of the
state of an unpopular name.
In 1868 the law was once more
amend and the name of the county
was changed from Andy Johnson to
Wilkin. This name commentaries
Alexander Wilkin, colonel of the
Ninth Minnesota regiment, who was
killed in the battle of Tupelo, Miss
issippi, on July IA, 1864.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23
$500, Saved to Dairy
men In Rail Rate Case
Farm Bureau and Creameries As
ISOLATION Win Fight to Block
Freight Increase on Butter

Prompt action by organized farm
ers has saved the cooperative cream
cries of the state more than $780,
900 this yeah, by forestalling an In
crease in freight rates on dairy pro-
ducts.
Railroads serving this territory
proposed to make shippers of perish
able products pay the cost of icing,
when shipments are in less than car
load lots, according to information
from the state farm bureau office. 1t
is estimated that this extra expense
would have increased the cost of
marketing the states dairy products
by about IL per cent.
Minnesota produces 139,000,00o
pounds of butter every year. 1t is
estimated that 80 per cent of the
butter produced in the state is mark
eted on the big terminal markets OF
the east, and that the average freight
rate is 2 1-2 cents a pound on less
than car lots. On this basis, the CO.
operative creameries of Minnesota
pay the railroads $1,70O,S92 every
year for transporting butter in less
than carload lots An increase of
IL per cent would have meant adding
S204,O00 year to the expenses of
the cooperative creameries. A hear
ing was held in Chicago before a
group of rail road executives early
this month. Representatives of two
of the biggest farm organizations in
Minnesota were on hand to defend the
interests of the dairy farmers. H.
B. Nickerson, president of the Min
nesota Cooperative Creameries as
ISOLATION, Inc, spoke on behalf of
the 800 cooperative creameries which
have organized the new state market
ing agency, and E. B. Heaton, direct
or of dairy marketing, and o. w.
Sandberg traffic expert, of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau federation, repre-
sented the farm bureau. They bitter
ly opposed any increase in transpor-
tation costs, declaring that an in
crease now is absolutely unjust and
unwarranted.
Throwing the cost of refrigeration
charges on the shippers, they said,
would force the CO operative cream
cries of Minnesota to pay $204,OOO a
year more to ship their butter to
market.
The practical value of farm organ
izations was demonstrated this week
when the Minnesota Farm Bureau
federation received a telegram from
its national organization, stating that
the RAILROADS committee had decided
to abandon the proposed increase, at
least for the present.
"Even if this proposed increase is
revived and put into effect in 1925,
the fact that it has been blocked at
the present time means 100000 to
Minnesota dairy farmers this year"
A. j. Mcclure, manager of the
creameries association, said "That
one case saved more money for the
farmers of the state than the total
cost of operating both the creameries
association and the farm bureau the
entire year."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-23
Prefers Salt

Prefers Salt.
my wife is enthusiastic about her
novels, but they're too glad for me-"
Eyes, they make you feel as If some
one had put sugar on your steak and
potatoes."-Liss.