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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
J. Because THEY are

trouble makers. Because THEY are
the men who lead their fellows to ac-
complish things and in the end US
ually catch all the h that goes with
it. And of such are the leaders in
the Third Street Business Boosters,
and whom everyone knows without
mentioning their names. Again, this
shows the benefit of organization,
whether in business or in trade
unions. Got your lesson, brother?
And Third street lighting up is
showing the way. The Press is told
that the property owners on Second
street, from Dayton street to Central
avenue have already signed up more
than enough front footage to assure
the lights on that street. Come on,
you Court street and Main street,
get in the procession!
And say, didn't Third street look
nice last Saturday night, all lit up p?
Well say she did.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

A Denver laundry proprietor openly
fiaunts the law and has declared:
81 have a dozen big business men
behind me-" The state industrial
commission refused to act, and the
district attorney takes the same posi-
tion
Under the law it is illegal for a
woman to work overtime. This places
her between two fires-she is dis
charged by the boss if she refuses to
work overtime, and she is fined if she
does.
This brilliant piece of statesman
ship is taken advantage of by lon
hour employers, who tell women en-
ployes that they will be fined if they
admit that they work more than eight
hours
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
METAL POLISHERS'
DANCE

At a recent meeting of Metal
Polishers' Union, Local No. 40, that
organization appointed a committee to
make all necessary arrangements for
a dance to be given in the labor tenn
pie auditorium The committee is now
down to work getting out the tickets,
and advertising, and also selecting
the orchestra for the occasion. Be-
sides the dance other amusements will
be prepared for the occasion. The
object of this dance is to create q
fund for the labor temple, and the
polishers should be encouraged and
assisted in their undertaking The
date selected for the dance is Satur-
day, October 10th. Trades umonists
and their friends should, if possible,
be at this dance and help make it a
success.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
STRIKE ENDS
Anthracite Miners Win Big
Victory in Struggle For
Improved Conditions
Gain Wage Increase, Eight
$ hour Day, Union Shop and
Other Announcements

Harrisburg, Pa-Backed by a 100
per cent solidarity, President Lewis
and associate officers of the United
Mine Workers have negotiated set
tlement of the anthracite coal strike.
The settlement is based on Governor
Pinchot's suggestion that wages be
hour day be installed where the long
work day is yet the rule. The mine
workers secured the union shop, and
the agreement includes other high
grade conditions the miners consider
ed impossible few years ago. No
reference was made by Governor Pin
chot to the miners check-o off and the
workers have postponed this demand
The miners first objected to the 10
per cent increase because it gives con-
tract miners larger advance than to
day workers, who constitute 65 per
cent of the industry. The miners
urged that the day workers be given
fiat increase
Simultaneous with the adjustment
the United States bureau of labor sta
tistics issued figures on food costs the
past year in which it is shown that
retail prices in Scranton, the heart of
the anthracite industry, advanced z
per cent
When Governor Pinchot first sug-
gested his compromise, he said the
industry could absorb the increase.
Since then the governor has written
to President Coolidge that the inter
state commerce commission recon-
slider freight charges on anthracite
coal. The legitimate increase in the
price of coal, the governor said, would
be 90 cents a ton. None of this, in
fairness, should ever reach the con
sumner, said the governor, who declar-
ed that many of the coal owners
themselves ''could absorb the whole of
the 60 cents increase and still make
abundant profits"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
EMPLOYMENT DROPS

Washington.-In July there was an
employment decrease, as compared
with June, of 1.8 per cent, says the
United States bureau of labor statis-
tics. There was a decrease of At
per cent in total amount paid in wages
and decrease of 90 per cent in aver
age weekly earnings.
The bureaus reason for this small
decrease in employment is because the
period reporting is a seasonal one.
1t is significant that while steel
barons were crying Tabor shortage"
during this period, the bureau reports
that this industry employed per cent
less workers in July than in June, and
that its pay roll was 13 per cent less.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

BRINGS THEM TOGETHER

All over Ohio local manufacturers
associations and trade unions will
work together, side by side, shoulder
to shoulder, until after the election
in November at least, in an effort to
bring about the approval of con-
stitutional amendment for the elimi-
nation of the "open liability" of the
workmen's compensation law.
The committees are to be composed
jointly of employers and employees,
and each organization naming local
chairman who will name his own COM
mitteemen. The Ohio Manufacturers
Association and the State Federation
of Labor are cooperating in the task
The "open liability" clause, as con-
strued by the supreme court, permits
an employe to sue in case of even a
minor accident. That, it is acclaimed,
jeopardizes the entire compensation
law, as ambulance-chasing lawyers
will try to carry every case into the
courts rather than allow the indus
trial commission to make an award.
The amendment, if adopted, will cure
this defect
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

NO PRINCIPLE HERE

The United States coal commission
refers to the union-smashing policy
of certain coal owners as a principle .
The commission takes this position
when it says these coal owners want
the Miners Union destroyed, and the
miners want "all the mines unionized." "
Each is quite satisfied that peace
can only come by killing the other
fellows principle" says the commits
sion.
This statement is most important.
1t indicates the mental attitude of a
government board that discusses re-
lations between employer and en-
ployed.
The commission has made many
startling statements, but possibly
none can equal the claim that union
smashing is principle"
How can principle be involved in the
smashing of a trade union?
What fundamental truth, what ele-
mentary proposition, what rule of
right conduct is involved?
All piffe aside, the purpose of these
employers is to control workers and
secure cheap labor.
This is ignored by the commission,
which places the employers policy on
the same plane with efforts of the
workers to unite, to harmonize, to fra
terniZe
Behind every effort of wage earners
to organize loom the elements of
morality and ethics.
What morality in involved in the
coal owners chaos, turmoil, anarchy,
and discord?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
CHILDREN NOT
GUARDED

Washington.- eight states have
improved their child labor laws since
the federal child labor law was annull-
ed by the United States supreme
court, says the children's bureau in a
Labor Day review OF the situation.
In the meantime, "A state legisla
lures have met, the statement said,
adding that in none of the 30 of these
states which have child labor laws
have their standards been brought
up to those of the federal law in every
particular"
Failure of state legislation to check
child labor" officials declared, make
it evident that this is national prob
lem, national in its effects and ma
tional in its Importance"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
Friday and Saturday ''The La
Moment"

Friday and Saturday - "The Last
Moment"
The stars of three Broadway stage
successes appear for the first time in
one motion picture in "The Last Mo
ment," ]. Parker Read, Jr., pho
duction, to be presented by Goldwyn
at the Rialto theatre on Friday and
Saturday.
"The Last Moment" is declared in
advance notices to be one of the most
thrilling pictures ever screened. Ger
tainly, there is plenty of genuine
thrill in the theme-that of the cul-
tured and wealthy youth who sud
denly is snatched from his surround
ings and wakes up to find himself at
sea on schooner with murderous
captain.
Besides "The Finn" as portrayed by
Wolheim, the young hero and heroine
have an even more formidable foe. II
is best to desiribe him as ''The Thing
and he rertainly is enoogh to inspire
terror in the stoutest heart. 'The
Last Moment" according to press re.
ports, is thriller with an excellent
cast.
Added attraction, Hallroom Com.
edy, Imperial Orchestra evening per
formances, Rialto News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
HAMILTON'S NEW WHITE WAY
AND ORGANIZATION

The flashing on of the new lights
last week on Third street, now known
to every one as Hamilton's "New
White Way"-the result of long,
hard uphill struggle, and the wonder
full celebration of the occasion, but
calls to our mind that both the final
securing of the lights and the cele-
bration were splendid examples of
what organization can and will do.
Hadn't it been than that live bunch
of merchants and business men, al
most 100 per cent of those doing bust
ness on Third street, had gotten to-
gether, pulled together, with "now
then, altogether" how long would
Third street have been getting the
boulevard lighting? Right you are,
we can't figure it, either. A few
individuals might have made it some
time, but collectively the Third Street
Boosters "did it now"
And believe the Press when it says
that that Third Street Business Boos-
ter's' organization is some live organ
ization. But every organization has
to have leadership to make it success
full And that is where that Third
street organization shines. In fact
it has SO many leaders, real live ones,
that the Press is afraid to enumerate
them for fear, without naming the
complete membership, we will over
look someone and have him or her
sore at US.
But at that, there are few lead
ers in the Third Street Boosters who,
if they were members of labor unions
and were as active in them as in their
Boosters organization, would be
picked out by the anti-unionists and
long -hour-day and cheap wage advo-
Gates and referred to as agitators and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

with great promise of their ability to
carry on.
Consider the 14-year-old fiapper-
cite, as portrayed by Miss Lucille
Rickson in Marshall Neilan's first pro-
duction in association with Goldwyn-
"The Strangers Banquet" which
comes to the Rialto theatre on Tues
day for three days. Miss, Rickson
already rolls her socks-not stockings
-bobs her hair, and wields wicked
lip stick. How defenceless you would
be against her wiles after four years
of specialized training in the general
ship of that "come hither" look and
-you-chase-me" attitude.
The added attraction, Dan Mason,
in "The Grass Widow" Movie Chats
and The American Orchestra each
evening.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
AT THE RIALTO
Sunday Monday, Can a
Woman Love twice."
By BERYL KEENE

At last we have a positive answer
to the age-old, yet ever new problem
Can woman love twice? or, Should
woman re-marry?" | must say that
1T takes deal of courage for anyone
to come out with a fat-footed affir-
nation or denial that a woman can
love twice-or thrice, for that matter
or that she can re-marry just as often
as she likes-or can
Personally, | disagree with one or
two of the ideas so dramatically pre-
sented in "Can Woman Love
twice." But it is a difference of
opinion that makes horse-racing and
about everything else in the world
possible, and | am sure that | should
be censured by some of my readers
if | voiced my puny objections. How
ever, | want to say unqualifedly that
l believe the photoplay to be one of
the strongest and most entertaining
ever seen on local screens, and every
one who has ever married or thought
of marrying (and who hasn't?) should
pay visit to the Rialto theatre, where
it is playing Sunday and Monday.
Some of my fapper friends might
be especially pleased to know that
handsome Malcolm McGregor plays
opposite to Miss Clayton, and is an
admirable working companion for
this talented star.
Added-Larry Semon in ''The Barn
yard; Willer's Peerless Orchestra
Sunday and Monday evening and Sun
day matinee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
PINCHOT USED SENSE

Governor Pinchot seems to be a
unique public official. He knows that
it takes miners to mine coal, fact
that other public officials have ap-
parently never grasped.
In taking steps leading to a settle
ment of the anthracite coal strike,
Governor Pinchot fully recognized
that coal stays in the ground unless
it is removed by miners. He didn't
propose to get coal by talking it out
of the mines, as so many governors,
presidents, mayors and other public
officials have tried to do in the past.
He took the stand that there would
be no coal produced until the miners
worked-a fact that is hardly open to
dispute.
Governor Pinchot might have paved
the air and filled the welkin with
threats of injunctions and armed
force, the while he declaimed that
"coal must be mined" and that "the
full influence of the government will
be exerted for the production of coal" :"
But he didn't. He knew that coal is
stubborn mineral, which can't be
extracted from the ground without
skilled labor. So he proposed a plan
of settlement that recognized the alb
solute necessity of miners in coal pro-
duction and which provided for full
recognition of the union of collect
| i've bargaining.
1t has been favorite indoor and
outdoor sport of public officials and
reactionary newspapers to mine coal
by the power of the mouth and the
| typewriter. Words, words, words
millions and billions of 'em-have
been spoken and written on coal, but
they haven't budged the coal. 1t has
perversely stayed right in the mines
until the miners went down and beard
ed it in its den.
1t is to be hoped that Governor
Pinchot's common-sense stand will
make public officials and reactionary
editorial writers realize that while it
is possible to mine coal without oper-
ators, it cannot be mined without
miners. They should realize that in
| functions, soldiers, congressman, cabi-
net officers, attorneys general and
editorial writer's make poor miners
Likewise editorial writer's should real
ize that there is vast difference be-
tween picking coal and picking a
typewriter, and that it takes fully as
much intellect to mine coal as it does
to write some editorials.
Perhaps, though, it is too much to
expect public officials and reactionary
editorial writer's to see what Governor
Pinchot so thoroughly sensed. 1t
takes brains to see things as Pinchot
saw them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
Baerfacts
By j. NJ BAER The Congressman Cartoonist
International Labor News Service
Support the Labor Press!
International Labor News Service

Yes, we admit, that the
newspapers generally had a
few kind words for the
working man on one day in
the year-Labor Day.
But what about the other
364 days? The reactionary
subsidized press devotes very
little space to the economic
problems which confront the
laboring man.
Columns upon columns are
devoted to politics, society,
fashions, financial news,
comics, foreign affairs, crime
scandal, divorce and trivial
matters. But very few inches
of space are devoted to
the man who does the
worlds work and makes
everything else possible.
A writer for Golfers
Weekly recently took the
pains to measure space given
to labor news in the big
dailies, compared to other
current events. The average
in inches of space given to
various news by four typical
daily newspapers was found
to figure thus:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
STRIKEBREAKERS
STEAL

Trenton, Mo- Strikebreakers EN-.
ployed by the Rock Island railroad
at this place have become so proficient
in picking up other peoples property
that officers have posted this notice
in all shops:
"All Shop Employees There has
been much complaint on the part of
our employees in regard to tools and
clothing being stolen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

What element of right is in their
demand for servile employees who will
accept what they offer? !?
What ethics would these employers
uphold in denying unity that is one
of mans most primitive instincts
To call the coal owners policy a
principle" is to corrupt the term.
Such usage savors of the citizens
alliance, injunction judges, or other
Incorporate institutions.
Union smashing will remain union
smashing. 1t may be legalized, but
that will not permit it to wear the
garb of righteousness.
Union smashing can never be asso-
ciated with morality and ethics.
"a "a "a "a "a
AS a member of your organization
you should ask yourself the question,
"Am / doing my full duty to my
family and my fellows, by remaining
away from the meetings, by taking
no interest in the affairs of the or
ganization, and being satisfied to let
things drift along?"
~ m ma M E
The meeting room of the union is
where business is transacted that is
of vital interest to every member
and none should miss the meetings of
the organization.
~. - -
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday-"The
Strangers BANQUET

Flap, flap, flap, the fapperette is
coming. Cheer up, comrades, and may
you never grow old For the army Of
fapperettes is being modified with
surprising rapidity. Recruits are now
dropping in at the age of fourteen
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
RENoUNCE ANTI-UNION SHOP

Raleigh, N. C.-The printing plant
of the H. S. Storr Company is again
on the union-shop basis. This concern
has renounced the anti-union plan it
adopted on May, 1921, to defeat the
printers 44-hour movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
- Pa - "a IA

EVADE ENGHT-HOUR LAW
Those workers who believe all that
is necessary to secure the eight-hour
day is to pass law are being dis
illusioned.
There is an eight-hour law for
women in Colorado, but it is ignored.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

anyone caught breaking in the
lockers or taking any othe employees
clothing will be dismissed from the
service"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

Thus less than a column a
day was given to labor mat
ters, while one hundred
times as much was given to
other news items.
With the big ewspapers
of the country owned and
controlled by the same in
terests that are trying to
crush organized labor, it
surely beh0Oves every work
ing man to support the labor
newspapers.
Through organization the
power of labor will be felt
and through the labor press
its influence will be spread.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
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Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street
Hamilton. Ohio.
Telephone 1896
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-27
Anna Iannucci
H0nored on Birthday

d. Iannucci, Of tombstone street
entertained a number of friends al
his home Saturday night, in honor OF
the birthday of his daughter, Anna,
The house was attractively decorated
in the national colorS. Singing and
dancing were enjoyed. Refresh
ments were served.
The guests included: Misses Elvera
and Cecilia Iannucci, Anna Smitko,
Katherine Sabo, Jean Kuran, Their
esa. Poster, Vernice Bazaar, Violet
Bertha, Rose and Marie Ffmiani,
Rose Hospidor, Anna Jnosky, Their
esa Belko, Elizabeth, and Emma
Gochal, Anna Ignats, Sophie Jensky,
Anna Galik, of Carteret. Mary Mar
tina, OF Port Reading, Josephine
Cavallaro, of Brooklyn, Messrs. Ed
ward Anderson, Soren Fedderson,
Thomas Kelly. Willard Rankin, Fritz
Gerald, Anthony Fimiani. Edward
Langan of this city; Louis and Do
nlinick VavalIa, Joseph Leonard,
John Hanson, Charles Dempsey, OF
Elizabeth, Carmine Zolo, Richard
Normandy, Thomas Nenzavio, OF
Fort Reading; Mr. and Mrs. William
Meicon, Mrs. Rlcci and Mr.. and Mrs.
Eannucci, of this city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-27
Party Given
Miss Beulah Laubach

A birthday party was given Miss
Beulah Laubach, at her home in
Madison avenue, Saturday night, IN
honor Of her sixteenth birthday.
Music and games dwere enjoye
throughout the evening. Miss Eliz-
abeth Soltt and Carl Laubach gaze
several piano selections. Refresh
ments were served.
The guesta included Misses Alice
Anderson, Elsie Anderson, Helen
Bunten, Grace Bunten, Mamie
Johnson, Agnes Jensen, Lillian Jen-
sen. Margaret Lund. Gladys Lud-
wigsen, Maybelle Meyers, Charlotte
Meyers, Margaret Rudders, Eliza
beth Solt. Elizabeth Stocked, Mil
dred Williamson, Marie Frey, Ella
Thompson. Beatrice Taylor. Adele
Warter, Lorraine Warter. Mrs. F.
W. warter. Miss Blanche Warter
and Charles Anness of Woodbridge,
John Weith, Clayton Malcolm,
Beu,ah. Edwin. Earl and Mr.. and
Mrs. A. r. Laubach.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-27
Fords Social
And Personal Mention

The Daisy Troop No. l, Fords Girl
Scouts will hold their regular meet
Ing on Thursday in the local school
house when plans for the p~resenta-
ton Of a play will be made,
Mrs. Julius Gloff is an out-of-toWn
visitor today.
Miss Rose Nash, district nurse will
be in charge at the school tomorrow,
Wednesday being Babies Day"
Mrs. Albert Andersen will enter
tain the ladies of the Fords Card
Club at her home tomorrow after
noon.
Mrs. Otto Securing is visiting out
of-town friends today.
Harry Berkowitz visited friends in
Perth Amboy last night.
Thorvald Andersen ana John
Schmidt were among the visitors in
Perth Amboy last night.
The Industrious Girls Sewing Club
met Saturday afternoon, In the par
ty were The Misses Emily Ceiling,
Christel Ceiling. Edna Hansen, Eli
nor Loser. Eleanor Fessel. Gertrude
Topley. Erna Ferdinansen, Ruth
Amos, Anna Dudick, Josephine Rod
her, Henrietta Dunback and Mary
Saiaki.
The Young Mems Athletic Club
meets tonight at the home of Rhein-
holdt Petersen, of Second street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Gibson ell
tertained a large number OF friends
in honor OF the christening OF their
son Sydney Thomas.