The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-30

ton, some association for improving
something or other, some civic feder
alton, Rockefeller, Carnegie or Sage
foundation had added nine years to
the lives of $4,000 people, establish
ed home for the sick and aged, rails
ed wages, shortened hours, insisted
on sanitary conditions in work rooms,
fought against child labor, paid out
million for old age pensions and
maintained great system of educa-
ton, how the plaudits of such an
achievement would ring through the
press! Yet all these things the Ty-
geographical Union has done.
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THE WAY TO WIN
That the workers might name men
who will truly represent them, Labor
points the way in the following ar
ticle;
As the primary elections are held
in the various states it becomes more
and more evident that the producers
can name candidates who will truly
represent them, if they will only
take the trouble to organize.
1t is just as clear, however, that
if they fail to organize the machine
politicians, who always serve special
privilege, will control the situations.
The primary contests in Iowa and
Maine furnish excellent illustrations.
In Iowa the farmers and industrial
workers met in conference and sue
ceeded in easily finding common
ground. They secured the right kind
Of leader in Col Smith W. Brook
hart, and he made his fight on a plat
form that appealed to the Judgment
of the masses of the voters.
The result was a great triumph,
won without the expenditure of
money and without recourse to the
usual tricks of politics.
In Maine the producers failed to
organize for political action. Here
and there band of devoted progress
sives endeavored to make headway
against the machine, but there was
not a concerted, statewide move
ment.
The result was in no sense a sur
prise. Senator Hale, reactionary of
mediocre talent, who has shamed his
native state by voting to seat New
berry, was renominated by a large
majority
We cannot feel that there is any
great difference between the voters
Of Maine and the voters of Iowa.
All are Americans, and the average
of intelligence and political moral
ity in both states is about the same
A campaign, supported by cam
paign of intelligence, won in Iowa.
| The same kind Of campaign would
have been successful in Maine, and
will be successful in any state or con-
gressional district where the progress
| sives will take the time and trouble
to follow the splendid example set
| by the supporters of Co. Brookhart.
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PLEA TO DOCK CONGRESSMAN
Every wage-earner knows that
whenever he does not "show up" on
his job his next pay envelope is short
just the sum representing the time
lost.
Absenteesm has grown to such an
evil in the United States senate and
house that Representative Kissel be-
lieves it needs a remedy like that
applied in the case of the wage-earner.
OF the SO members of the senate,
the record shows that rarely more
than 70 answer to roll call each day,
and usually it is many less. There
are 435 members Of the house, but
the average attendance at the ses-
sions is not many more than half
that number.
Mr.. Kissel has introduced bill
providing that members of each
house shall be docked days pay for
each day they are absent. However,