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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
BOSTON POLICE
STRIKE
Is Again in Public Eye Be-
cause of Strikers Re-
inStatement

Boston.-A state legislative COM
mittee has voted to reinstate James F.
Clark, one of the Boston police strik-
ers of 1919, who, while member of
the force, was badly wounded by ban
dts. The committees action, it is
stated, is a step toward reopening the
eligibility for reinstatement of other
policemen.
A feature of the hearing was Rep
resentative John |. Fitzgerald's state
ment that the late Police Commission
er Curtis was misled by superior
officers and that he would review GER
tain phases of this situation but for
his sudden death.
The policemen and trade unionists
in general have insisted that the for
mer were goaded into striking by
glory-seeking politicians. For many
months the policemen attempted with
out success to improve their condi-
tions. One of the really minor COM
plants was that their sleeping quar-
ters in some of the older station
houses were overrun with rats. The
policemen finally affiliated with the
labor movement, but were ordered to
withdraw, and were even compelled to
disband their relief associations.
After months of futile effort, with
their more active associates discharg-
ed, they struck as last resort. The
strikebreakers were almost immedi-
ately given the conditions the police
men appealed for in vain. A large
percentage of the strikers were over
seas veterans, but this did not save
them from wicked and unpatriotic
charges.
After the strike started Governor
Coolidge was press agented SO effec-
lively that he landed in the vice presi-
dents chair At that time the public
press was about evenly divided be-
tween him and Governor Allen, of
Kansas. The latter had resurrected
anti-strike legislation passed by the
English parliament, 400 years ago,
and he palmed it off on the American
people as his original idea.
The joy of newspaper editors over
Aliens discovery" bordered on hys-
terra.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

ment that the company will imme-
diately proceed with the long-talked
of big improvements, such as a BIZ
product coke oven at cost of over a
million dollars, ETC., was more good
news. Then the announcement by the
Champion Coated Paper Company
and the Beckett Paper Company of
increases in wages was some more
good news. Despite the cold and wet
March weather, it has been pretty
bright week for Hamilton. With these
big improvements north of us we
are getting closer to Middletown all
the time, or is it Middletown is get
ting closer to us? And think of it.
when the big bridge is built Hamilton
and Middletown will be almost one
And that is as it should be. Wher
this situation comes where Middle
, town and Hamilton are working as
one, Butler county will be the garder
spot of the state. Let's go!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
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WERE WE RIGHT?

Haben wier's night gesacht ?-paus
auf! Meaning didn't we tell you so?
look out Last week the Press said
that things were beginning to stir
up. politically. Hardly had our article
appeared when along comes the
announcement in the Hamilton news
in the Cincinnati Enquirer that
Howard E. Kelly has once more cast
his hat in the ring for the mayorallty
nomination. Kelly, it will be remem-
bered, was the republican nominee for
the same office two years ago. The
republican hustlers are now summing
up in an endeavor to figure out
whether Kelly is "heavy" enough fol
the lob There are likely to be others
as it is well known there are severa
in the ranks who are willing to serve
the city in this instance. But this i:
lust the beginning. 1t is sure tx
start things. Well, it has been quie
for some time and a little diversion
won't hurt things. Watch the thing
unfi1rl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
JAP IMPORTATION
BY Railroad Changes Ari-
ZOna Town

Phoenix, Ariz.-The Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railroad is employ
ing Japanese in an effort to break the
shop mems strike. In Winslow, Nav
ajo county, this former American
community now has an Asiatic atmos-
phere. Other corporations, it is stat
ed, will take their cue from the Santa
Fe, unless the people awaken to this
menace.
"Along with the great and varied
racial problems facing the people of
this state, there has now arrived that
of the greater menace-the coolie
JAP" says the Arizona Labor Journal.
SIN industrial war the corporations
of Arizona may be expected to push
their advantage. Arizona is face to
face with the menace of the Jap in
industry. Next will come the menace
of the Jap in trade. And it will fol-
low swiftly and surely.
"The history of the Jap in Califor-
MIA is about to be repeated in Ari-
zona So far, it is largely a labor
problem, but it will soon be problem
for every man and woman of white
blood in Arizona to consider. The jap
quickly graduates from the labor
ranks"
That some land owners have joined
the Jap loving Santa Fe railroad is in.
dicated by bill introduced in the
state legislature by Representative
Orme to repeal the Arizona anti-alier
land law. Orme is one of the largest
land owners in Maricopa county. L
the land law is repealed he will have
much land to dispose of to Japs ant
other Orientals who can live under
standards that would destroy whit
men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

SAMUEL GOMPERS

The following article is from the
Fort Wayne, Friday evening, Post;
Under the caption, "If Gompers
Passes,' the Journal Gazette says the
serious illness of the labor leader is
a matter of some moment to Ameri-
cans who would like to see the labor
movement kept free from the domi-
nation of extremely radical elements.
"The real creator of the federation
has made history in his time," the
Journal Gazette says. HE has often
made mistakes, but never, as we
know, has his motive been seriously
questioned. We don't want in
dustrial war in this country, but that
industrial peace which can only come
through the reasonable adjudication
of differences"
1t is not often that local news
paper says anything complimentary
of organized labor or its leaders, but
the writer of the Journal-Gazette's
editorial ought to know whereof he
speaks. Claude Bowers lived in
Washington, D. c., long enough to
know what is going on there and,
being a personal acquaintance of
Sam Gompers, he is in a position to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
which befell the Granville line hangs

which befell the Granville line hangs
over the city system in Newark, and
the sooner our citizens realize this
the sooner will they awaken to the
fact that Newark will surely be rank
ed among the "dead ones" should she
be deprived of the great convenience
and safety of this mode of travel
which carries so many workers to and
from their place of employment. Let
us think it over and act accordingly"
There is some mighty good advice
in the foregoing article which it
seems to the Press it would be well
for many other cities to hearken to-
Right here in our own city, Mr.
George P. Sohngen, receiver for the
local street railway lines, has made
every endeavor within his power to
give Hamilton real car service-new
cars have been provided, tracks thor
oughly repaired and quicker SER
vice provided, until today little com
plant is heard of the car service
The efforts of Mr.. Sohngen should be
appreciated and shown. True, the
busses have proven good thing, ne
doubt about this, and perhaps they
had much to do with the rejuvenatine
of the car lines, but at the same time
| it must be remembered that a city
the size of Hamilton, with no stree
car service, can we'll be likened to {
graveyard So, as the Newarl
Leader says: 'Let us think it owe
and act accordingly"
Ha M M a 20
If good judgment and common
sense are applied in making pur
chases, an increase in the demand fo
the union label, card and button i
| sure to follow.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
CAR SERVICE is
FAULTY

Washington.-Th National Coal
Association, representing the coal
owners, has joined the grand anvil
chorus against the railroads because
of faulty car service. The coal own
ers declare that wherever coal short
ages exist the situation can be traced
to the railroads.
Organized shop men have been MAX
ing this statement for several months.
Only recently President Harding took
the same position, and now the coal
owners make it unanimous. The rail-
roads that are mainly responsible for
this situation in the anthracite re-
gion are the Pennsylvania, the Lehigh
Valley, and the Delaware & Hudson.
They are also leaders in the fight
against the shop men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
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SOUND ADVICE
Newark Leader says:

The Newark Leader says:
GAS Samson by his own act ended
his life and destroyed the temple, SO
Granville, while perhaps not destroy
ing that attractive village, undoubt-
edly destroyed the main factor in
keeping it on the map when, by deny
ing the patronage and support to
which it is entitled, it forced the first
electric interurban line in the United
States out of business, and compelled
the Columbus, Newark & GAINESVILLE
Traction Co. to start it's last and final
car from Newark's unappreciative
suburb at 1870 Saturday night.
"From present indications the fate
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
WOULD REVERT
TO JUNGLE
Labor Board Chairman
Wants Anti-Strike Law

Springfield, nl.-Ben. w. Hooper,
chairman of the United States railroad
labor board, would revert to the jun
gle by making it a crime for work
ers to quit their employment in what
he terms Essential industries" They
may quit, according to his reasoning,
whenever the public is not inconven-
fenced.
If conditions of these workers are
bad, Mr.. Hooper does not suggest
that the public insist justice be done,
but says it should be made crime
for these workers to strike.
This jungle reasoning by the rail-
road labor board head was delivered
at a speech in this city to insurance
agents. The speaker out Allenized
former Governor Allen in attacking
workers who are forced to strike. He
made no comment on the present pol
icy of railroads who are responsible
for the coal scarcity. His TRADE was
directed against workers who resort
! to the strike, which, he declared, sis
the systematic, organized use of force
in the settlement of industrial con-
troversies."
He did not label this system, which
consists of jailing workers and throw
ing the full power of government
against those who dare to quit their
employment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
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LOTS OF GOOD NEWS

The announcement the other day
that the Hamilton Furnace Company
at Coke Otto, after shutdown of two
years, will again resume operation
next week, was received with smiles
all around. 1t was good news to the
working people, to the merchant, the
real estate man and all other business
men-in fact it was good news to
everyone. And the further announce
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
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MORE WAGE DISPUTES IN 1928

The next six months will probably
be characterized by more rapidly
increasing cost of living and by
greater prevalence of industrial dis
putes.
The course of business activity has
reached the point where the increased
cost of raw materials will begin to be
factor in manufacturing costs and
in prices. Higher prices will make
requests for wage increases the logi-
cal thing. But the increasing costs
of the manufacturer will decrease his
willingness to grant wage increases
except under pressure.
The price situation can be summed
up briefly The figures of the federal
reserve board show prices of raw ma
terials % per cent higher in Deem
ber, 1922, than in the same month of
the previous year. During the same
period prices of producers goods ad-
vanced only 8 per cent, while whole
sale prices of consumers goods adj
vanced about per cent. The in
creased cost of raw materials will now
be reflected in finished goods. This
will mean that the cost of living will
increase during 1923 and will become
an incentive to labor to seek wage
increases.
The steady increase in production
which marked the last months of 1922
appears to be continuing. This will
mean full employment, which will
place labor in a good strategic posi-
ton
During the past six months this
rapid improvement in business has
made many employers willing to pay
additional wages in order to build up
the working forces which they needed
to meet the new period of activity.
The latest figures of the federal re-
serve board show that employment is
still per cent short of the full time
mark. And it must not be forgotten
that this country was able to raise
production to new high levels in
1918 in spite of the fact that sew
eral million fit young men had been
herded off into the army and quite
withdrawn from useful occupations.
AS the pressure for wage increases
again develops employers will organ
ize to prevent labor from using the
period of activity to improve living
standards. The experience of the war
period should at least prevent labor
from allowing itself to be disarmed
by conciliatory tactics.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

Increased demands for union labels,
cards and buttons are indications of
trade union education and progress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
RUGS CLEANED!

Elmer Berry cleans Rugs. New
and better way. Work guaranteed.
Phone 4102-L; 864 Forest Ave. (tf)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

Nothing can check our progress, if
the members of organized labor will
always demand the union label.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb.
20.-Ernest hamburger, re-
publican national committee
man and his party's candi-
date for United States sena-
tor in the November cleo
tions; J. C. Lynch, merchant,
mining man and republican
political leader, and Edgar
Newhouse, official of the
American Smelling and Re-
fining Company, were are
rested today cn charges of
violating the anti-cigarette
law by smoking in a public
place.-News dispatch.
The brand of cigarettes
the senatorial candidate
smokes should not interest
the workers and farmers so
much as the kind of company
he keeps. When aspiring
senators continue to h0bnOb
with mine owners, politicians
and officials of smelling and
refining companies, one can
just imagine how much such
senators represent the plain
people.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

The real incendiaries of
wooden railway bridges are
the burning cinders from the
defective engines.
How can we know where
the railroads stand? They
don't stop juggling their ac-
counts long enough to be
able to strike a balance.
1t is queer how soon EX-
senators become Experts on
foreign matters.
Some of the lame ducks
are going south rather late
in the season. Kellogg and
Poindexter, two lame ducks,
fly for South America.
1t is a sad case when the
Departure from Justice and
The Private Defective Agen-
cies become the propaganda
committees for the /. w.
W's.
The Big Interests will con-
tinue to shake us down until
the people awake and give
them a shaking up.
The Farm News says that
political indecisions are when
the politicians cannot think
of someone to pass the buck
TO.
Senator Walsh, Of Massa-
chusetts, shows that burma
BILE coal sells at $3.50 per
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

Senator Walsh, of Massa-
chusetts, shows that burma
BILE coal sells at $3.50 per
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

write, and intelligently too, of the
great leader and what he has done,
not only for organized labor, but for
the country. When the press refers
to Gompers as a socialist, a red, an
anarchist, etc., it does not know what
it is talking about. Organized labor
throughout the country hopes that
Gompers will recover, and that he
will be spared to fight the battles OF
the masses. Gompers is an old man
now, and at best he has only few
years more to live. But so long as
he does live, he will be the president
of the American Federation of Labor
When he passes out, organized labor
will find it difficult to replace him
Viva la Gompers!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
FRIDAY, MARCH %, 1923

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23
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BY ]. NJ. BAER, The Congressman Cartoonist
international Labor News Service
It's A Queer World

The real incendiaries of
wooden railway bridges are
the burning cinders from the
defective engines.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

ton in small packages. Coal
will soon be a burning ques-
tion in Old Mass.
Congress refused to ex-
punge from the COngression-
al Record the word "guts."
Now if they would get some
probably the legislative
branch of the government
would function again.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

1t is queer how soon EX-
senators become Experts on
foreign matters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-23

The Big Interests will con-
tinue to shake us down until
the people awake and give
them a shaking up.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-02
United States
Supplying Demand

Two years ago, when there were
millions of unemployed in the United
States, when business was depressed,
factories closed or on short time and
when hard times seemed to have
come over every industry in the land
President Harding assembled a con-
ference of prominent citizens to de-
wise ways of alternating immediate
distress and of avoiding future recur-
rences of depression. The conference
was pretty much of a joke at the time
for all it could do while hard times
community do what it could to find
work for its W unemployed and
that was already being done in so far
as it could be done.
Now, after nearly two years has
elapsed and industry has revived I'M
til the country can not find men
enough to do the work that is to be
done, the presidents committee pub
fishes a report as to how we are to
prevent recurrence Of the hard times
Of two years ago. In substance 1t
advises that individuals should be
conservative in boom times and not
expand their factories to fast or loaC
up with goods too strong and that
all governments, national, state anC
local, as we'll as public utilities, shoulC
lay off from building construction
until private works subside.
This advice is sound enough, bur
of what use is it going to be? Al
booms burst because they get to go
ing too strong. If they did not there
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-02
1 Am THE FARMERS, FRIEND.

If all l was intended for
Was Just to bale up hay and straw,
l guess I'd get along as well,
But then this tale I'd never tell.
/ once embraced a bale of hay,
And now the shaft of the one-horse
shay.
Or where the farmer through mise
chance
Has burst a button off his pants;
You'll find me there when duty calls
Where the buckle was on his overalls.
I'm often used to patch his fence,
So the old muley Gov cannot wander
hence.
The farmer has twisted me on his
door,
To keep it from sagging down to the
floor;
Then out upon the old plowshare
| replace the bolts no longer there;
You'll hardly find a rein or trace
That's old wherein / have no place.
I'm twisted in the young pigs Snout,
So he no longer loves to root;
I've braced up wobbly kitchen chairs,
And spread the feet of hares
The farmer skinned when short of
meat;
I've even laced the shoes on his feet
On the old washtub I'm a nifty
handle;
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-02
IN THE OLD NEW FIRST
READER.

"Class in first reader" 1t was in
the "deestrict school," back n Han
over or Podunk more years ago than
you care to confess. Then the class
struggled up into a wavy line on the
floor to toe a crack and conduct the
lesson. Maybe you remember San
ders' New First Reader and the pict-
ure and poem of my Little Brothers
Grave" Before a slab against a
foreground of "evergreens" stood a
youth in cap and long pants and a
tall feminine figure representing to
childish eyes the surviving family of
the dear departed; and this was part
of the verse set forth in the reading
lesson of those 7-year-olds:
What is that little grassy mound
where pretty roses bloom?" (query
by the boy in the cap and the long
p~ants). The mother replies, "Youl
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-02
Drink Water If
Kidneys Bother
Take a Tablespoonful of Salts if
Back Pains or Bladder is
lrritated

Flush your kidneys by drinking a quart
of water each day, also take salts occa-
Sionally, says a noted authority. who
tells us that too much rich food forms
acids which almost p~aralyze the kidneys
in their efforts to cXpel it from the
blood. They become sluggish and
weaken; then you may suffer with a
dull misery in the kidney region. sharp
pains in the back or sick headache, dizzi-
ness. your stomach sours. tongue is
coated, and when the weather is bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The urine
gets cloudy, full of sediment. the chan
nels often get sore and irritated, oblig-
ing YOU to seek relief two or three
times during the night.
To help neutralize these irritating
acids; to help cleanse the kidney and
flush off the body's %urinous waste. get
four ounces of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy here. Take a tablespoonful in a
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days. and your kidneys may then
act fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and has been used fol
years 10 help flush and stimulate slug
gish kidneys; also to neutralize the acid:
in the system so they no longer irritate
thus often relieving bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; can not in
jure and makes a delightful e~fferves
cent lithia- water drink. By all mean
have your physician examine your kid
neys at least twice a year.