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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
STRIKER LYNCHED
BY ARKANSAS MOB

Misunderstanding employees of
the Missouri & North Arkansas rail-
road are victims of mobs that would
smash their strike. One striker has
been lynched because, the public press
states, he resisted citizens commit
tee" During the two years strike
many workers have been driven out
of the state.
The railroad is responsible for the
strike, which includes shop men,
transportation employees and other
workers. When the railroad labor
board raised wages under decision No.
2, this railroad, together with other
railroads; protested The board de-
cided against them. The railroad not
only refused to pay the new rate, but
reduced wages below the old standard
and declined to appear before the
board on the ground that it is in the
hands of federal receiver and the
board has no jurisdiction. Then the
employees suspended work. Later the
board legalzed the railroads wage
cut, and since then efforts have been
made to smash the strike.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
FORWARD MOVE
MENT
Says A. F. of L. Executive
Committee, Approving
Workers Education
Plan

Washington.-The executive coun-
Gil of the American Federation of La
Dor has approved the plan submitted
by the A. F. of L. committee on edu-
cation, under instructions from the
Cincinnati convention, whereby the
federation will be adequately and per-
manently represented in directing the
activities of the workers education
bureau, New York, n Y, with which
the federation has hitherto co-operated
under temporary agreement.
"Under the terms of this agree
ment," declares President Gompers,
in a letter addressed to national and
international unions, state fedora
tions and city central bodies, San ex-
ecutive committee of nine members
was created to direct the policies and
activity of the bureau. The chairman
of the federation committe on educa-
ton, Mr.. Matthew Woll, has been
elected chairman OF the executives
committee of the workers education
bureau, and two other members of our
committee, Mr. George w. Perkins
and Mr. John P. Frey, have been
elected members of the same execu-
tive committee.
''In accord with the convention in
structions," continues President Com
pers, Il wish to commend the work
of this bureau to you and your mem
bership for the purpose of furthering
adult workers education. [ earnestly
urge all affiliated organizations to
cooperate in this work through affil-
iation with the bureau"
President Gompers points out that
international and national labor
unions, state federations of labor city
central bodies and all labor organiza-
tions directly or indirectly affiliated
with the A. F. of L. are eligible for
membership in the bureau. Provision
is also made for individual member
ship.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
HUNGRY LANDLORDS
Nip Uncle Sam for Post
Office Buildings, Says
Department Head
Sees Big Savings if Govern
ment Owns Buildings

Washington.-Unc pro-
fiteering by landlords whose speciality
is renting buildings to the post office
department. has led Postmaster Cen
eral Work to insist that congress shall
establish the policy of government
ownership of buildings where postal
business is conducted and authorize
the immediate construction of post
offices to curb the appetites of the
more fragrant profteers.
1.-The demand for new buildings to
handle the enormous volume OF parcel
post business now flooding the postal
system comes from every section of
the nation" declares the department.
"Tt must be promptly met Under
the present arrangement the depart
ment can only meet it by making
contracts with landlords to construct
additional buildings providing more
space. These prospective landlords
finance the propositions by borrowing
money at or per cent, add taxes,
insurance and profits, and then the
government bears the entire burden
through big rental charges. At the
end of these contracts or leases the
government, although it has in some
instances practically paid the entire
cost of the buildings in rentals, is
obliged to renew the leases at enhanc-
ed rentals"
| In order to persuade the present
penny-pinching and reactionary con-
gress to authorize his government
ownership policy. Postmaster Gen
eral Work recommends that the
money to finance the building pro-
gram be borrowed at an interest rate
of from 31a to a per cent, thus "elimi-
mating the exorbitant rents paid to
landlords that is equivalent to from
IL to Is per cent on their invest.
ments." At the present time the de.
partment is paying annually $12,000,-
900 in rentals. Postmaster Genera,
Work claims that his government
ownership program will save at least
$6,000,000 of this amount.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

the babies crawl and the children who
are too young to work run about and
play. A two-year-old has had his
hand crushed, falling in the path of
the oyster cars, and others show cuts
received from falling among the
shells. There is no one back in the
camp to leave these toddlers with.
"The workers in the camps have
been brought here from the north for
the winter, and everyone in the COM
pany camp is expected to work Per
haps, however, the babies may be left
in care of children just little older
"The mother of girl of 9 tells
us that this child hasn't gone to work
because her little hands are too ten
der
"a big sister explains apologetical-
ly that her 7-year-old brother does
not work because he cannot reach uI
to the car to shuck.
"a child of IL looks at us Won
deringly, since visitors in this out.
of-the-way place are rare, and she
asks us, Don't you ever shuck ?"
"Child labor seems to be taken fol
granted. In some of the canneries 9
state Inspector may be seen at long
intervals, but his coming can usually
be detected and the children sent tt
hide"
If the constitutional amendment
now before the U. S. senate, sponsor
ed by the American Federation o.
Labor, is adopted and ratified this kint
of disgrace will come to an end.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
MANY LAWS
For LabOr's Betterment
Urged By New York's
Governor

Albany, N. "a long list of rene
dial laws were urged by Governor
Smith, in his inaugural message. A
demand was made that no labor in
junction be issued until a hearing be
held and the facts established. II
firmly believe that the state should
declare by law that the labor Of a
human being is not a commodity or
article of commerce." said Governor
Smith. Other recommendation were:
The workmen's compensation law be
operated for the benefit of the work
ers, and legislation along this line be
passed; eight-hour law for working
women and children; abolition of mo-
tion picture censorship; repeal of the
Lusk laws compelling loyalty tests
for teachers; minimum wage law for
working women and minors; restore
direct primaries for all state offices;
urges legislation permitting public
ownership of all public utilities by
cities; water power developed for pub.
lie, not private gain; reforms in state
prison management; extension Of
emergency housing laws and improv.
ed schools, especially in rural sec.
ton; aid for farmers through reor.
ganization of state department Of
farms and markets.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
new DAUCHERTY PROBE
URGED IN MINORITY REPORT OF INVESTIGAT-
ING CONMITTEE-CLAIM is MADE THAT
REAL FACTS WERE SUPPRESSED
Says Committees Efforts Were Only Directed to Embar-
Congressman Keller, Who Asked For
Attorney Generals Impeachment

Washington.-Th house judiciary
committee failed to make an impair
tial investigation of the Keller i'm
peachment charges against Attorney
General Daugherty, said Congressman
Thomas, of Kentucky, in a minority
report. 1t is recommended that the
speaker of the house appoint a COM
mittee ito make full and fair in
vestigation Of all the charges"
Mr.. Thomas said it seemed to him
that the committees efforts were di-
rected to heckling and embarrassing
Congressman Keller, who asked for
the attorney generals impeachment.
In public letter to Congressman
Volstead, chairman of the house ju-
dietary committee, R. Momand, of the
Pressure Lighting Company, New
York, charges the committee with sup
pressing facts and rescuing the attor-
ney general from conviction.
Mr.. Momand had presented evil
dence to the committee, and Mr.. Vol
stead replied that at the next meeting
of the committee, 81 shall be pleased
to present your communication to the
members for their consideration"
Mr.. Momand shows that this letter
to him was not mailed until after the
committee had closed it's hearings.
"The above" says Mr.. Momand,
"only adds to the abundant proof
already supplied by the committee
itself of its faithless acts in the I'M
peachment proceedings, which acts
the records show have been of the
most deceptive and fraudulent char
acter, and have for their purpose not
the upholding of the law and its due
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
GET THE CARCOES
And Ship Will Follow, Says
Commerce Reports

Washington.-"Co Reports" >"
weekly survey issued by the de-
partment of commerce, declares that
when cargoes are secured a merchant
marine follows.
The position of the department of
commerce is direct challenge to sub
sidy advocates and to American busi-
ness men, who are reminded that Eng
lish and German business men built
up merchant marine by first Sc
curing markets rather than depending
on subsidies.
Great Britain and Germany built
up their vast foreign commerce
through intensive and aggressive ac-
tivity on the part of their own trad
ers, who early established themselves
in every part of the world" says
Commerce Reports
"They erected huge warehouses and
'godowns' to facilitate their trade, en-
gaging in both importing and export
ing business. Having gained the
greater part Of the worlds commerce,
it was an easy matter to build up the
large merchant fleets that each ma
tion attained at the height of its
prosperity.
Success for our American mer-
chant marine will just as truly fol
low similar procedure on the part
| of our own exporters and importers .
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
RAIL INCOMES RISE

Washington. - Incomplete reports
filed with the interstate commerce
commission by 1877 class 1 railroads
give the net operating income of
those systems for November last as
$68, ,458,000, as compared witr $780,
10000 for the same carriers in No
vember year ago. These carriers
represent mileage Of 199,260 miles.
The roads show the effect of their
attempt to smash the shop mems
unions by their report that operating
revenue during November increased
IL per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
MOB BANISHES
ARKANSAS STRIKERS WHO
REFUSE LOYALTY"
Cu authorities ordered resign whle
deportatons, assaults and Lnquir,
Begins.

One of the worst mob outrages in
recent history has just taken place in
northern Arkansas along the line of
the Missouri and North Arkansas
railway.
AS this is written mob rule still
holds power in the M. & N. A. rail
road territory
This mob, calling itself commit
tee of 1,000," set out to "clean up"
the union railroad workers who have
refused to work on terms offered by
the road and who are on strike.
In Harrison, scene of principal mob
activities, E. C. Gregor, union man,
was hanged, though admittedly inno-
cent of any wrong. He refused to
allow the mob in his home; the mob
threatened to dynamite him and his
family; to save his wife and children
he surrendered, only to meet death.
In some communities the mob forced
municipal authorities to resign and
turn government over to the mob.
In other places the authorities did
mob bidding meekly.
Dozens of men have been whip
ped and beaten; some thrown into bull
pens.
The mob, ruled by group of a
dozen, was transported from place to
place on cars furnished by the rail
road.
The guiding group of dozen set
itself up as drum-head court, sum-
moning before it all union men and
sympathizers. A sympathetic farmer
was driven from his farm and Danish
ed
"Sign a pledge of loyalty to mob
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

Heber Springs and other places.
Members of committee of
twelve" directing mob activities are
named as follows:
N. w. Redwine, Leslie, Ark; M. L.
Black, Leslie; A. G. Killehew, Leslie;
J. V. Ferguson, Marshall; E. G. Find
ley, Leslie; D. T. Cotton, Little Rock;
John L. Clay, Leslie; John H. Barnett
Marshall; Than Rainbolt, Marshall;
Ranse Dowdy, Leslie; Dansey Treese
Marshall; Lewis Stills, Gilbert.
L. W. Lowry, A. F. of L., organizer
at Little Rock, telegraphed President
Samuel Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, saying:
''The Citizens Committee that as
sumed charge of Harrison did not con-
tain one citizen from Harrison nor
from Boone county! They were mer
from other places, brought in on a
special train.
Strikers were arrested by armed
men under instructions of this self
constituted committee and given theil
choice between renouncing their unior
affiliations or permanently leaving
the Missouri and North Arkansa:
(railroad) territory. If a striker
agreed to renounce his union he wa'
said to be 100 per cent American
and given a white ribbon, whcih wa!
the badge of members of the mob.
Lowry also reported:
carl Brown, clerk in office of gen
eral superintendent of the railway a
Harrison, escorted Mrs. Pete Ven
able out of town, she being one of thu
women ordered banished by order O
the citizens committee"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
PLEAD FOR
WORKERS

London, England.-In a manifesto
issued by the Trades Union congress
general council, the prime minister is
called upon to at once summon parlia-
ment to deal with unemployment as a
national emergency of vital impor-
tance. Protest is made against the
governments policy of declaring a
holiday for parliament until February
13.
"Chronic unemployment had reduced
thousands of working class homes in
the country to state of absolute des-
titution," the manifesto declares.
"The cottages Of the workers have
been stripped of domestic comforts,
and even the elementary requirements
of decent existence have been sold
in order to provide the necessary food
to stave off starvation. The burden
imposed on local authorities by the
great call for relief has been so great
as to establish state of local bank
ruptcy.
"Man.r local authorities are heavily
in debt on account of having to meet
a responsibility which should have
been borne by the nation without re-
gard to the good or bad fortune of a
particular area.
"Where unemployment is most Sc
we're cooperative societies and small
traders have been brought to state
perilously near bankruptcy, and the
long continued drain on social re-
sources has produced state almost
of social bankruptcy in certain areas
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
JOHN B. LENNON
DEAD
Was For Many Years Treas.
urer of American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor

.Washington.-The death of John b
Lennon, former treasurer OF the
American Federation of Labor, at his
home at Bloomington, ILL.,, profoundly
shocked the labor movement of the
United States.
President Samuel Gompers and Sec
retary Frank Morrison sent the fol-
lowing telegram to Mrs. Lennon:
"In behalf of the executive commit
tee of the American Federation OF
Labor and the entire labor movement
of our country, we extend to you the
sincerest sympathy in the loss OF
your dear husband, John B. Lennon.
"Mr. Lennon gave to the cause Of
labor, justice, freedom and humanity
the major part of his whole long life
"He was an efficient and construc-
tive member and secretary of the
Journeymen Tailors' Union of Amer.
ica. He served as treasurer Of the
American Federation of Labor faith
fully and well for twenty-seven years
t'In the councils of our movement
he gave heart and brain and the cause
of human progress has lost devoted
servant.
"His name will live long in the
memory Of man."
President Gompers and Secretar!
Morrison also requested the centra
labor body of Bloomington to appoint
a committee to act as representatives
of the American Federation of Labor
at the funeral.
John B. Lennon was born in Lafay
cite county, Wis, in October, 1851
He became journeyman tailor ant
served as general secretary of tn
Journeymen Tailors' Union of Amer
lea from 1885 to 1910. During tina
time he edited The Tailor, the officia
organ Of the Tailors' Union.
His service as treasurer OF th
American Federation of Labor extend
ed from 1889 to 1917-27 years.
Mr.. Lennon was member OF tn
United States commission on indus
trial relations, the social service com
mittee of the federal council of tn
churches of Christ in America, tn
American Academy of Political Sci
ence. and the American Peace Society
He also lectured extensively on labo
and social problems.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
PHONED TO ENGLAND

New York.-Officials of the Amer
lean Telegraph and Telephone Com
pany sent messages anc made
speeches by wireless telephone to
Southgate, England, where the Brit
ishers cabled back every few minutes
that the words, with few exceptions
were distinctly heard.
Scattered words and phrases have
been wirelessed over the ocean before,
but this is the first time that continu-
GUS conversation has been carried on
over the space of 3,400 miles.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
EXPLOIT CHILD LABOR
This Description Will Interest Those Who Like Oysters
Perhaps It Will Also Interest Supreme Court

Here is an extract from a descrip-
ton of child labor in the oyster
shucking business on the Gulf coast.
This description was broadcasted by
radio by the u. S. department of la
Dor. It ought to be read with interest
by members of the United States SUI
preme court:
"The boat, loaded with oysters,
comes in to the pier. 1t is only 4
o'clock in the morning, but oysters do
not keep, and in short time group
of women and babies and children Of
all ages appear from row of bar
racks and shacks behind the cannery
"These are the workers coming
from their camp. They break apart
and open the shells with knives and
begin to fill their cups with oyster
meat. They stand at their work
swaying back and forth with rhythm
which apparently enables them te
work long hours and still keep ur
speed. They bend farther and far
ther over to reach the oysters at the
bottom of the cars.
eff shrimp picking is going on, the
shrimp are iced instead Of steamed
to make their shells less difficult te
open, and spread on wire trays or
top of the empty oyster cars or or
tables. The workers break off the
heads with one hand and squeeze out
the flesh with the other.
"a strong odor arises, and we no
tice that children and women are
wearing gloves and dipping thel1
hands in a tub of alum water, ane
that even with this protection the
hands of some of them are bleeding
There is an acid in the head OF thu
shrimp and also a sharp thorn which
is likely to run into the hand ane
break off.
"The floor is wet and slippery ant
strewn with piles of shrimp head'
or oyster shells, and over this fiool
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

and railroad or get out" was the ul-
timatum. Some gave up their union
cards and swore to obey the mob; 9th
ers refused and with their wives and
children were driven out over the hills.
Every indication thus far is that the
railroad or it's friends organized the
mob and transported it from place
to place.
While dispatches have related most
ly to Harrison, mob activities were
not confined to that place The mob
operated in Leslie, Eureka Springs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
The Arkansas Mob
pledge"

Here is the pledge" which
union men were ordered by the
Arkansas mob to sign, on pain
of banishment:
II hereby decline to renounce
my strike benefits, but agree to
leave Heber Springs Cor other
place of residence) and any
county through which the M. &
N. A. railroad passes. | further
agree to remain out of the
above territory"
Upon refusal to sign this
pledge" many men were turned
over to armed guards and
beaten. Some so treated were
not union members, but were
union sympathizers.
A committee of the Arkansas
legislature has begun an inquiry
at Little Rock.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
COST OF GREEN" MEN

Washington.-The continuous en-
ployment of 'green" and illiterate
men in the coal industry caused the
death of 787 men during the past II
months. These men are placed in
mines and know nothing of it's dan
gers until hit by falling rock or coal.
The United States bureau of mines
says the only remedy for this situa-
ton under present industrial condi-
tions" is continuous campaign of
education among the miners and
rigid enforcement of safety measures
by mining companies and their fore
men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
KIND OF ALIENS EN-
TERING

Washington.-The kind of immi-
grants now coming to the United
States under the 3 per cent law is
indicated in statement issued by the
department of labor.
The annual quota for Armenia, Por-
tugal, Lithuania, Spain, Palestine,
Syria, Turkey, Africa, Greece, Italy,
and Belgium are exhausted while the
quotas for Albania, Bulgaria, Czocho-
slovakia, Hungary and Rumania are
almost exhausted.
More than half the countries OF
northwestern Europe, however, have
supplied less than half their quota.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
RISKY

Helen: IF he proposes, I shall sug-
gest that we postpone our wedding
until things get back to normal"
Her dear friend: II wouldn't do
that. The man might get back to nor
NAL himself" f."-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

and orderly processes, but suppress
ing the evidence against Attorney
General Daugherty and rescuing him
from the conviction which must inev-
itably attend proper hearing of the
charges against him."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
WIRE PROFITS INCREASE

New York.-W Western Union Tele-
graph Company profits for 1922 in
creased $1,6O0,318 over 1921. Last
years profits almost reached a mil
lion dollars a month, or $11, ,234,12
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
MINE AGENTS PROSPER

New York William C. Atwater &
Co., mine agents and exporters OF
coal, announce 1900 per cent stock
dividend. The capital stock will be
increased from 100000 to $1,4OO,-
600.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02
BUSINESS METHODS
Of Shady Character Hunted
Out By Federal Trade
Commission

Washington.-The District of Co
lumbia health department has de-
stroyed as unfit for human consump-
tion two tons of candy confscated
from the plant of local candy man
ufacturer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

Washington. - The federal trade
commission has found a Brooklyn hy-
drogen peroxide manufacturing con
Germ guilty of unfair competition"
by misrepresentation of a competi-
tors product" One of it's competi-
tors manufactures we'll known dis
infectant. The concern sent out a
chemical analysis of it's competitors
product which did not 'truthfully
describe the disinfectant," having
such a harmful effect on the sales
that it was removed from the coun-
ters of number of chain stores.
The commission orders the Brooklyn
concern to refrain from directly OF
indirectly publishing sbr circulating
any false, deceptive, or misleading
statements" concerning the competi-
tors product.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-02

New York.-A large New York
concern manufacturing mems shirts
has been cited to appear before the
federal trade commission at Washing
ton on the charge of misrepresenting
its product to the detriment of con-
sumers and the business injury of
competitors. The complaint charges
that the concern has it's shirts made
from cotton cloth manufactured in the
United States but labels, brands, ad-
vertises and sells them as English
broadcloth,' which has come to mean
an imported fabric of superior quality.