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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10
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THE HEART OF THE OPEN
SHOP ISSUE"

(An editorial from the Christian
Science Monitor which is a challenge
to the organized union haters.)
Underlying the momentous protest
of the coal miners and railway en-
ploves of the United States against
proposed wage reductinos, that II
temporarily ended by a compromise
still leaves the question in dispute to
be raised again in the near future,
there is the deeper and wider issue OF
the continued existence of the labor
unions. During the past four or five
wears there has been concerted
movement on the part of many great
American industrial corporations
looking to the elimination of what is
known as ''the closed shop" in which
such organizations as the National
Founders Association, the National
Association of Manufacturers, and the
National Erectors Association have
taken a leading part. The disadvan-
tages of what is said to be labor
control of industry; the regulation OF
working hours, fixed wage rates for
all labor of a certain class without
regard to unit efficiency, and limita-
tion on the number of apprentices
that are allowed to learn trade,
have been widely submitted to the
press and public through the United
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10
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OUR DYNAMIC MOVEMENT

The trade union movement is con-
scious effort to realize human aspira-
ton for opportunities for better Nv
ing. 1t is something more than eco
nomic standards which it endeavors
to establish. Economic benefits
higher wages, shorter workday, bet
ter working conditions-are simply
the agencies to reach the goal of
higher, better living. To understand
the trade union movement one must
know it has its springs in the spirit
ual energy of human beings, that it
ramifes all their relations in life.
Many mistake the tools of the labor
movement for the thing itself. Its
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10
ALLEN STOLE
Credit For Anti-Strike Law
Declares Kansas
Attorney

Topeka, Kan. Governor Allen
stole the credit for the scan't-strike"
law of this state, according to pam
phlet written by E. D. McKeever, an
attorney of this city. The author is
not surprised at this action by the
governor, who, says Mr.. McKeever,
"is apt to make black appear white
in his public addresses"
Judge Higgins, present presiding
judge of the court, seems to be the
first one to suggest the law, says the
author.
when the law was passed Mr.
Allen appointed Judge Huggins to his
present position, and ever since he
and Mr. Huggins have been enter
tanning the public by kicking each
other in the face over it; so that at
one time the judge declared it fail
ure. 1t appears that Mr.. William
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1922
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1896
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
A. P. DEFINES
"STRIK EBREAK ERS"

The Associated Press has discover
ed something new about strikebreak-
ers. 1t has discovered that "men who
act individually in accepting posi-
tions" are not strikebreakers. How
the Associated Press made this dis
covery is not known.
The Commercial Telegraphers'
Journal quotes the following from the
Associated Press service orders, the
orders to men who write and handle
A. P. copy:
Look out for the word strike
breaker 1t is associated in the pub
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10

goal is not the trade agreement, but
higher and better life.
In all of its conscious activity it
is seeking order that there may be a
better adjustment of human and ma
terial relations in life. Order is pri-
marily sequence-not a formula, not
static crystallized convention to
warp the human staff of life.
What the labor movement is seek
ing in industrial production is an IN
dustrial order that will establish op-
portunity for the workman to know
the JOY of creating commodity that
is the product of the skill of hand and
mind-an order so flexible that if it
adjusts itself to scientific laws of
production and the needs of changes
that come in production needs, and
vet ever guides itself by that funda-
mental principle which is it's lodestone
the distinguishing characteristic OF
the human is his ability to make use
of past experience and knowledge.
The labor movement is primarily
dynamic-it must function, it must
secure action, or it dies. We cannot
reduce this life stuff to code. But
we can recognize the fundamental
principles of sequence which Will
bring into action an industrial order
and give that order chance to func-
ton. No need to superimpose an IN
dustrial code, with courts, lawyers,
| Judges which will try to crowd life
into predetermined conventions and
to amputate whatever does not con-
form.
Codes, laws, and the political, are
born of metaphysics-spe speculation. An
| industrial order must be based upon
| natural law and science, squaring each
| SEPARATE decision upon achievement
| as the standard, and service of bet
terment of human life as the goal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10

Allen White carried Mr. Higgins
scheme to the Kansas City Star, and
that Mr.. White and the Star adopted
it to Mr.. Allen, and Mr.. Allen has
cherished and idolized it ever since
as his own child
"Mr Allen, who is apt to make
black appear white in his public ad-
dresses, gives many attractive rea-
sons why the law is or ought to be a
success, except a truthful account of
how it actually works In the first
place it has been the most expensive
court to the taxpayers of the state
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10


bitter hostility of organized labor, and
but little sympathy from the general
public.
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After all things are said and all
things are done, great lesson comes
out of the results of Tuesdays cleo
tion-that is, great lesson to the
| local democrats. There is an old say
| ing: One lives to learn and one
learns to live, and so it is with the
democrats of Butler county. They
lived to learn on last Tuesday that
the nomination on their party ticket
does no longer necessarily mean
election. Or that the nomination is
equivalent to election While the
democratic nominees were resting on
their arms their republican enemies
were out linin' 'em up, and when the
day of battle came around the repub-
| lican forces were the strongest at
several points, as the results show.
The republicans sure taught lesson
that the demmies aren't likely to for
get in long time, and may stand
them in good stead in the future.
And so it is, one learns to live.
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EDITORIAL ............ ............. p2 .
Well, the election is over and the
country is saved once more.
"a IA pa IA "a
The way they scratched the ticket
last Tuesday would make it appear
that the eagle and the rooster no
longer stand for very much.
"a Pa pa pa ~
The republicans elected an assessor
in Hooppole county, which is in the
upper part of the state, and Harding
is vindicated.
"a IA IA pa IA
Oh, no, the people don't know how
to scratch. That's mistake.
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Well, if they don't want beer and
light wine, don't give it to 'em
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That fellow Boil hasn't got them
long legs for nothing. He surely
made use of them Tuesday. The way
he ran away from him would lead one
to think that his opponent was tied
to stake. They say that the votes
are still coming in for Pete.
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Now that the political personnel of
the court house is to be changed and
mixed, we shall see what we shall
see.
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Wonder if the members of Presi-
dent Harding's cabinet are to be
"docked" for the time they lost off
the job in coming to Ohio last week
in their wind-jamming attempt to
save the nation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10

lie mind with the bully or thug sup
piled by professional strikebreaking
agencies, and should not be used to
describe men who act individually in
accepting positions"
So, it is discovered that those who
are not professionals" are not to be
known as strikebreakers.
This is very kind of the Associated
Press, and doubtless Mr.. Atterbury
and Mr.. Loree will be appreciative.
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OLD WAGE LEVELS GONE
People may as well abandon the
idea of ever returning to old wage
levels, says the American Contractor.
This publication denies that pro-
duction is not increasing. Social
productivity" it is stated, lis on the
increase in spite of pessimistic state
ments seldom backed up by extensive
research. Labor and time-saving de-
vices are constantly being introduced.
every factor bearing on the regu-
lation of wages and prices point to a
readiustment of economic levels to a
new high level.
"Instead of lowering rents, wages
and prices to the old level, these fea-
lures of our system will probably
adjust themselves in proper proper
ton at an entirely new hig level.
what this level may reach is
purely guess work as yet, but that
it will exceed a so per cent increase
over all pre-war standards is prob
able"
After two years of ultra ardent
effort to smash the unions to pieces,
open shoppers are farther from VIC
tory than when they started their
nationwide campaign for the Amer
lean plan"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10

States Chamber Of Commerce and
other agencies.
The challenge thrown down by the
employers has been met by the
trades union leaders with an unquali-
fed defiance. They insist that the
warfare against the closed shop is,
in reality, waged against trade union
ism in any form, and that the open
shop means the destruction of all
unions and return to the long hours
and other unfair conditions that so
often prevailed before labor learned to
organize. With the charges and
counter charges of union despotism
and employers greed for large profits
the impartial onlooker may not be
greatly con neerned. What is of great
Importance is the admission by both
sides of the existence, even in the
most prosperous periods, of large
numbers of idle workers who are
forced by their necessities to take
the places of men who are 'slocked
out" or ION strike" Many of these
unemployed are "non-union" because
for some reason they are not permit
ted to join their trade organization.
They are men and women with equal
rights to live and to work for a liv-
ing. But the remedy proposed by
the employers, the open shop, will not
in any way mend matters. If idle
non-union workers take the place of
union labor, the displaced workers
will then be idle, and there has been
no net gain in reducing unemploy-
ment.
The urgent duty of both employers
and labor unions is to take a wider
view of what is persistently misterm-
ed the conflict between labor and cap
ital, for the purpose of finding the
causes of involuntary idleness, and
applying the remedy. There are no
indications that the proponents Of the
"open shop" system have any sugges-
tion to offer for finding work for idle
union labor that is replaced by other
workers. Until they can devise some
practical system under which all will
ing workers will be given an oppor-
tunity to work, they may expect the
bitter hostility of organized labor, and
but little sympathy from the general
public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-10

Of Kansas, and supports at Topeka
an army of judges, clerks, marshals,
inspectors, deputy inspectors, report
ers, accountants, a rate clerk and
janitors, all of them continually
marching up the hill and then march
ing down again. The few cases that
have been tried before it have been
so expensive as to place it beyond
the reach of anybody but the
wealthy"
What investment pays the biggest
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RAIL EXECUTIVES TO GO ON

New York.-Chairman Cayler, of
the association of railway executives,
denies that the rail managers will
divide into groups, although some Of
the activities Of the association will
be divided.
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What investment pays the biggest
dividends? $500 Auto Club dues.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11

member, and Deputy Sheriff James
Gibson. When they came to Mr.
Watts seat in the car, Mr.. Buckley
said pleasantly, Good evening, Mr..
Watts" and the deputy sheriff, who
did not know Mr. Watts, promptly
served the papers in the case, the
petition having been filed previously
with Circuit Clerk Webb, of the
Bourbon circuit court.
The suit, the first of the kind filed
since the organization of the hurley
association, is most important to that
organization, for it's success or fail
ure will show either it has or has
not the power to enforce it's contracts
by the punishment of those who may
violate them.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11

Mary is big girl now. Cute little
Mary (Pickford), also known as
Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks. got a cute
little income of s1.123,625 in two
years, it was brought out in court
testimony. An unskilled laborer
working for 20 cents an hour would
have to labor daily for 2.265 years to
accumulate that amount. but then
some people are just as happy when
they don't have so much money.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
RELIGIOUS

Methodist Church-Sunday School
at $3.50 a. m. Come and make your
self at home among us. You will
find a class to suit you. Morning
worship at 10:45. Theme, Method
ism, An Embodiment of Christian
ity,"' Epworth League at GAS. All
are invited. Evening worship, union
service, with preaching by Rev. Clyde
Darsie, who has been identified with
our community and city life for
years, and, we regret. will soon be
leaving us. Come and hear his mes
sage and let US worship the Lord to-
gether, and if you have not done so,
accept Jesus Christ as your personal
Savior. Mid-week worship Wednes-
day at z p. m. Note the change in
time.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
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KNOXVILLE

The ladies of the Eastern Star will
give an ice cream supper at the
school house at Schoolville Friday
night, July l. Everybody welcome.
Aunt" Mary Davis is improving
slowly from her recent illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Beckham Catron
spent Sunday with w. C. Catron and
family.
Miss Pearl Pieratt is spending the
week in Mt. Sterling.
Several persons from here spent
Sunday at High Bridge and Boones.
boro
Sunday services were held at El
Bethel church at IL and 2:30 o'clock
Quite a large crowd attended and
the dinner which was served on the
church lawn was enjoyed by all
5 Mrs. Stanley Clay is attending the
Chautauqua in Winchester this week.
A number Of persons from Tennes-
see are camping at Hollywood Springs
this week.
A protracted meeting will begin on
July 80 at the Kiddville Baptist
church.
Several from here attended the ice
cream supper at the Levee Saturday
night.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11

has been named William Arnold
Sanders.
Mrs. Dave Griggs had as guests
Sunday her daughter-in-law, Mrs
Clifford Griggs, and children.
Misses Myrtle and Annie Sanders
and Robert Bolts and Charles Lanter
spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs.
Berry Elan.
Miss Tannie Lanter has returned
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
, <&ss& ssssss .
> FLOWERS FOR THE LIVING .
By Ada B. Greene .

| don't always mean flowers when.
ever ] say
Give flowers to the living; there's
another way.
Sometimes we are careless and do
not think
or our friends as we should until it's
too late.
Don't ever forget to give them a
smile,
For 1t helps like everything once in
while.
Flowers can't cheer them after they
are dead;
Give flowers to the living, as ! have
said;
Give flowers of sympathey, flowers of
cheer,
Let them enjoy them while they are
here.
They scoff and knock and kick him
about
Till after he is dead-then he's a
good scout.
Now, take notice of what / have said
He is always a good fellow after he
is dead;
Whatever his rank of life has been
They are sure to say that he did not
sin.
Give flowers to all and you'll not re-
gret;
am sure that none will ever resent
it.
Have a good word for each and all,
That will mean flowers, SO let them
fall;
So give flowers in every way
1t will help lot some other day.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11

from a weeks visit to her uncle, Mr..
BOwles, at Carlisle.
Cecil Sanders spent the past week
with his brother, G. T. Sanders.
Frank Sanders spent Saturday and
Sunday with Robert Boots at Millers-
burg.
Miss Annie Sanders and Cecil San
ders spent Wednesday evening with
Miss Lucy Howard.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
eIlaQUKzRa

Miss Sue Bascom, of Millersburg,
is the attractive guest of her aunt,
Mrs. r. G. Owings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Wright and
baby son, of Sharpsburg, are guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben T. Wright.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Brown, Grand
Junction, Colorado, have been the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Fogg.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
FAYETTE COUNTY GROWER
is SUED BY BURLEY POOL

is SUED BY BURLEY POOL
The Burley Tobacco Growers Co
operative Association late Saturday
afternoon took the first step to en-
force its marketing agreement and
contract with its members when it
served papers in a suit against Gar
rett Watts, wealthy Fayette county
farmers, alleging that he violated his
contract.
1t is charged that he failed to de-
liver to it under that contract more
than 10000 pounds of tobacco and
that he delivered only $3.50 pounds
to the association. Damages in the
sum of $500 and attorneys fees of
$1,000 additional are asked, both
damages and fees being provided for
by the contract itself.
Mr.. Watts had been to the races
at Latonia Saturday and was on his
way home when a deputy sheriff
boarded the train at Paris and serv-
ed the papers in the suit, which was
field Saturday in the Bourbon circuit
court, the associations attorneys be-
ing Franklin, Talbot and Chapman,
of Lexington and Paris, and Worth
ington, Browning and Reed, of Mays
vile. Just why the papers were serv-
ed In Bourbon county or why the suit
is filed in that county was not made
clear Saturday night.
The petition recites the details of
the organization of the hurley associ-
alton, the provision in the contract
that growers who may violate it shall
pay five cents pounds as liquidated
damages, as well as all costs and at
torney fees, and then goes on to say
that Mr.. Watts pledged $4,000 pounds
Of tobacco, the products of rs acres
Of land owned by him; that he deliv-
cred to the association only $500
pounds; that the association went to
The expense of acquiring warehouses
20 receive the crop of Mt. Watts and |
he other members of the association |
and employed graders and inspectors
% standardize the grades of hurley
obaccO, and provided for the hand
ing, curing and shipping of all to-
)acco entrusted to the plaintiff as
ociation by its members.
The petition further states that
lue notice of the formation of the
association was given Mr.. Watts and
IL other members of the association
nd that Mr.. Watts, though able to
% so. failed and refused TO deliver
o the plaintiff association or to the
rder Of the plaintiff association or
0 any warehouse or plant controlled
y the association, or at all, any of
he tobacco embraced in defendants
greement and application for mem.
ership"
The plaintiff states that by reason
the defendants breach of said
ontract and failure TO deliver to
laintiff not less than 10000 pounds
tobacco embraced in said agree
tent and application for member
lip, the defendant becomes indebt-
to plaintiff in the agreed and stip-
ated sum Of five cents per pound
iereon, aggregating $500. no part
which has been paid; plaintiff I
ates that $1,000 is a reasonable at.
rneys fee for plaintiffs attorneys .
r the prosecution Of this action and
at by the terms of said agreement
'fendant understood and agreed TO a
~ the same, no part of which has \
zen paid"
When the train on which Mr.. Watts e
as coming from Latonia arrived in
iris II was boarded by Assistant II
'unsel Virgil Chapman, OF the bur. b
y association; Clyde E. Buckley. q a
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
Miss Peters Here

Miss Matte Peters. formerly of
this city, arrived yesterday for Wis
1t TO her cousin, Mrs. Thomas John
son. Miss Peters for number of
years has been in Mexico doing mis-
sionary work among the Navajo In
dians and is now on a lecture tour
in the interest of the mission.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
MARKETS

Bond offerings show slight gilt
edge.
Top hogs are on the advance.
Cotton affected by unfavorable f.
nancial and political German news.
Reports of damages by boil weevil,
however, make a turn upward again.
The German troubles hit the grain
market and wheat is OFF from 1 1-2
to 2 3-4 cents.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
At The Oaks

Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Snyder and
George Snyder, Jr., will leave tomor-
row for Olympian Springs, where
they will open their cottage, The
Oaks" for the summer. They will
have as their guests Mrs. Elizabeth
Snyder, Mrs. John Wakefield, Miss
Margaret Wakefield and Miss Eliza
beth Wakefield, Of Louisville, and
Mrs. Dan Chenault, of this city.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-07-11
Picnic

Mrs. S. d. Hall was hostess at a
picnic party Thursday afternoon at
Xalapa Farm, complimentary to Mrs.
H. B. VanEvera. Mrs. Hall and her
guests motored over and late in the
afternoon a most delightful lunch
was served, picnic fashion. Her
party included Mrs. vanEvera, Mrs
Alice Denton, Mrs. ]. H. Henry and
Miss Ada Henry.