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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-15
BIG BIZ AROUSES LABOR
BY SEEKING TO DICTATE
UNION BUSTING POLICIES

the banking interests, however, indi-
cate that they interpreted the move
ment for restriction as having a far
deeper meaning.
Labor Bank Aroused
The Federation Bank of New York,
the new labor bank supported by the
Central Trades and Labor Council, the
State Federation of Labor, and all
organized labor of New York, has ac-
cepted the declarations of the Mason
Builders Association and of the
Bankers and Trust Company officials
as a direct challenge to labor.
The Allied Printing Trades Council
adopted resolutions and sent them
broadcast throughout the labor move
ment of New York, commenting on
the statement of President Conover
of the Mason Builders Association.
1T was the fnanciers in San Fran
cisco and Chicago who spent millions
to force non-union conditions in build
ing trade unions in those Cities" the
circular said. Whether they can do
this in New York rests solely with the
members of organized labor" Other
organizations, including the Central
Trades and Labor Council, have
adopted resolutions calling upon all
labor organizations and members of
organized labor in New York to an
swer what they interpret as chal-
lenge by the employers and the bank
ers by accumulating their financial
reserves in their own institution.
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By International Labor News Service.
New York Whether big bank
ing interests and organized building
contractors are taking advantage of
the movement for limitation of build
ing operations to strike blow at
organized labor is a question that is
agitating the trade union movement
here.
At about the time agitation began
to curtail new building operations
wage movements were under way in
the building trades
The avowed object of the move
ment to curtail building not only in
New York but elsewhere has been to
give home building the right of way
over the building of monumental
structures. AS a reason for curtail-
ing building operations in this man
ner proponents of the movement have
cited shortage of building materials,
speculative rates Of interest, and last
but not least in the minds Of some,
the wages in the building trades.
Sees open Shop" Fight
Some of the exponents of restric-
tion have been most frank III giving
their reasons for restriction and in
setting forth the object that they
hope to achieve.
G. H. Kelsey, of the Title Guaranty
and Trust Company, was quoted by
the New York Times as having said:
Il do not think that this problem will
be solved until the open shop has been
established. Other bankers merely
announced that loans on great build
ing projects would be stopped
Joseph w. Phair, treasurer of the
Lawyers Mortgage Company was
quoted by the New York Herald as
saying; Loans on all projects have
been stopped generally"
On May % the bricllayers ceased
work, and on May % President Con-
over, Of the Mason Builders Associa-
tion, was quoted in the New York
Herald to the effect that "the build
ers" welcome a showdown" because
"the public and the banks are behind
US"
One phase of the situation is the
competition between the organized
building trades employers and inde-
pendent builders engaged in highly
speculative construction. Some of
these independent contractors, it is
said, have been paying any price
necessary to secure materials and
workers. The public statements of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-15
ORGANIZED RELIGION
CONDEMNS GARY FOR
INHUMAN l2-HOUR DAY

By International Labor News Service.
New York-Organized regligion
in America has condemned the steel
trusts 12-hour day and riddled Judge
Gary's most recent defense in broad
side attack issued jointly by the fol-
lowing:
Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America;
Social Action Department, National
Catholic Welfare Council;
Social Justice Commission, Central
Conference of American Rabbis.
These three great religious organ
izations make the following declara-
tion of Gary's 12-hour day and of his
excuse for that inhuman institution:
Public Demand is Set Aside as Whim
"The report of the committee on
proposed elimination of the 12-hour
day appointed by the American Iron
and Steel Institute skaters the public
confidence that was inspired by the
creation of the committee year ago
at the request of the president of the
United States. 1t is definite rejec-
ton of the proposal for the aboli-
ton of the long day. The public de-
mand in response to which the COM
mittee was appointed is set aside as
a Sentiment which was mot created
or indorsed by the workmen them
selves
Gary Ignores Engineers in I'm
supported Statements
"The testimony of competent in
vestigators, including eminent engi-
neering societies, is ignored, and the
conclusion is put forth without sup
porting data that the 12-hour day has
not of itself been an injury to the
employees, physically, mentally or
morally. This statement is made in
face of the fact that the committee
of stockholders of the United States
steel corporation, appointed in 1912
to investigate this matter, expressed
the opinion that 12-hour day of
labor, followed continuously by any
group of men for any considerable
number of years means decrease of
the efficiency and lessening of the
vigor and virility of such men,
12-Hour Day or Starve is Steel
Trust Condition
"Obiection to the long day because
of it's effect on the family life is dis
posed of with the complacent COM
ment that it is questionable whether
men who work shorter hours actually
spend their leisure time at home. This
is an unworthy and untenable argu-
ment which will be bitterly resented
by the millions of home-loving work
ing men of America.
''The Institutes committee contends
that the workmen themselves prefer
the long hours. Undoubtedly there
are those who will voluntarily work
long hours to their own hurt, but the
committees contention is chiefly sig
nificant as showing that workmen
whose only choice is between abnor-
mally long hours of labor and earn
ings that are insufficient to maintain
a family in health and decency natu-
rally adopt the more arduous alter
native.
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ton that there can possibly be for
this great outpouring of life-sustain-
ing product is within the confines of
our country in the homes of the great
masses of our people.
"Those who clamor for wage re-
ductions, for policies of feudalsm,
disruption and disorganization in in
dustry are in the fullest sense of the
word promoting national retrogres-
sion and finally destruction Their
attitude is the very antithesis of pa
triotism, and all thinking persons are
coming more and more to SO regard
it,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-15
PROFITS ARE DOUBLED

New York.-The Vacuum Oil Com
pany, Standard oil unit, reports a
clear profit last year of $4,000, ,463,
or more than double the net profits
of $6,158,566 reported in 1921. This
company recently declared a 300 per
cent stock dividend, which increased
its capitalization from $15,0OO,0OO to
$50 100000
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-15

Improvement IN productive pro-
cesses goes ON without interruption.
Improvement in employment rela-
tions, one of the most important fac
tors in the increasing of production,
goes on continually The elimination
of waste in industry is being achieved
with the help of labor and with the
help of scientific workers in the field
of management.
Productivity Keeps Growing
"These things mean that produc-
tivity per capita grows ever larger
and larger.
"Only some cataclysmic destruction
can rob US of the gains we have made.
Five years from now we shall
have made a gain at least equal to
the gain Of the last ten years. We
venture the prediction that we shall
have increased the volume produc-
tion of our industries so that there
will then be as much more per person
as we now produce over ten years
ago
"If wages increase so that this
tremendously augmented per capita
production can find distribution
among the masses of our people we
shall have gained magnifcently. If
such an increase in production should
come without a concurrent increase
in the ability of the masses to pro-
cure and consume we should be CON
fronted by tragedy of unthinkable
proportions
"The only road to industrial Sc
curity, with increased production, is
through a constant improvement in
the relations between wage-earners
and employers and in a constantly
growing ability of wage learners to
improve their standards of living,
through increased wages, improved
working conditions and shorter
worllday.
"Statistics have forever robbed
short-sighted and reactionary employ
ers of their excuse for wage reduc-
tions
Sound national policy demands
ever-increasing standards of living
for the masses of American people.
old Argument Smashed
'The facts cited in this editorial
completely refute the time-honored
excuses for refusing wage increases
and show that industries are able to
pay fair and constantly rising wages,
that products of high paid labor can
compete successfully with products
of low paid labor and that American
workers are the most efficient work
ers in the world Finally, they show
that unless there is a constantly ris-
ing scale of wages in American in
dustry, constantly rising standards,
and constant improvements in the gen.
eral conditions surrounding wage
earners, industry can not under any
circumstances maintain its rate of
gain in the volume of production; that
any road except the road onward and
upward is the road to ruin.
"The debt and the obligation which
American industry and commerce owe
to American organized labor are not
even now fully appreciated. The pro.
test and resistance of American or
ganized labor against the drive for
wage reductions have turned the tide
of industrial depression to the in
dustrial revival which Mr.. Hoover SO
clearly elucidates.
"The tremendous outpouring of
commodities from our great and COM
plex productive machines must have
a sure destination unless we are to be
confronted by inexcusable and ter,
rible calamities. The only destina
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
THE LOVE GAME. 4 CTTY ROMANCEI

, could not carry them all at once.
will go fetch them"
Yes. do. And tell Mrs. Bates
want her." Winifred ordered.
She might resent Mrs. Bates
inclination to direct her move
ments, yet she was enough Of a
child to desire to display her pur.
chases to someone.
Mrs. Bates was pleased at the
prospect Of seeing the pretty
feminine things even while she
shook her head in doubt as to the
wisdom of such extravaganza.
But when she attempted to put
this doubt into speech, Winifred
cut her short with:
II simply had to have the
things. 1t always costs a lot to
put on mourning. How could l
get on without black clothes?
You don't suppose that 1t was
any pleasure to me to buy them!'
mo, dear,-surely notr the
widow soothed the girl gently.
You must not think that I meant
to criticize yous-for I am not
doing that. It is only that I am
sorry you must spend so much
money without anyone to advise
you"
II have someone to advise me-"
the girl corrected. II talked the
matter over with Mr.. Muir and
he told me to get what I had to
have"
The older woman looked re-
lieved. "Oh, then, it is all right"
she said. Mr.. Muir knows what
is best.-and If he told you to buy
all these clothes, you were quite
right to get them"
"Of course I was" Winifred
said, more gently. AS she began
untying the boxes. she added
You forget, Mrs. Bates, that I
am now in my fathers place.
And as the head of his former
home, I must keep up appear
ances."
(AnOther Fine Installment on
Wednesday,
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was her explanation to Mrs. Bates.
Anyway, I am not hungry"
you must try to eat something,
dearie," the housekeeper urged.
"And take a rest this afternoon. I
suppose Mr.. Muir will be here
sometime today?"
NO." Winifred shook her head.
mot until tomorrow night"
"Oh. then you will be alone again
this EVENING""
"A friend is coming to CALL" the
girl said, with an effort to appear
Indifferent.
"I am glad" Mrs. Bates ap-
proved. THAT will keep you from
being lonely. You must not let
yourself be alone too much. There
Is nothing more comforting than a
good talk with q friend who I'm.
derstands. Perhaps this one is a
young lady who was at school with
your"
"No,"-with a still greater eff
fort at nonchalance,-'It is a Mr..
RankinI-a man whom / know"
NnIn 800 - NJ
Joined. Then she fingered as If
waiting for further information.
But Winifred seemed oblivious
o. her presence. Mrs. Bates
must learn at once that the ex.
preston of her ideas was not
quite the proper thing now that
Winifred was her own. mistress
and the head of the Scott estab-
lishment.
She did, however, follow Mrs.
Bates suggestion to the extent OF
resting that afternoon. She lay
down on the couch in her room,
read until she was drowsy, then
dozed until the maid knocked at
her door with the mornings pur-
chases.
The sight Of several huge boxes
banished any further thought of
sleep. Winifred sprang from her
couch with an exclamation of de.
light.
Put all those things right here
on the table, Katie" she directed
They are clothes 1 bought this
morning. l am glad they came
home SO promptly"
There are two more boxes
downstairs" the maid said. Il
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
By Virginia Terhune
Van de Water.
Author OF Nationwide Reputation
and Writer Of Popular Novels
and Short Stories.

CHAPTER XII.
<<0 EFT what you must have
today" Donald had
That is just what she would do.
She would ignore his first sug.
gestion that she wait to make
many purchases until he and she
had a talk tomorrow night.
When she had once bought
clothes, it would be too late for
him to vent his ideas of
economy on her.
She smiled as the saleswoman
approached her. II will take
that georgette frock with me-"
she said. And now 1 will look
at some other dresses that want
charged and sent. Let me see
something pretty and cool in
black and in white, please"
The ensuing hour was the
kind in which the feminine
soul rejoices. A desire to buy
was strong upon Winifred Scott.
This was her opportunity. Her
father was not here to question
the size of her bills. Donald Muir
might warn her to be economical,
but. after all, she was her own
mistress and her money was hers,
not his. The fact that he knew
about her fathers affairs did not
give him the right to dictate to
her.
She was not yet aware that Muir
was her guardian.
She selected several thin white
dresses, a lightweight suit, a sport
skirt and sundry dainty waists.
Then she ordered long black coat,
suitable for motoring or travelling
and two attractive hats.
II ought to have lots of other
things" she reflected as she drove
home, "but will wait to get those
until my talk with Donald. He will
probably understand my need of
shoes and gloves better than he
would my need of new frocks. A
man never knows how many diff
ferent kinds of dresses a woman
should have"
She was late to luncheon. "I
had numerous things to attend to-"
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: from Phil the next day. That
was. unexpected, too. No teIe.
phone calls.
For two days Marilyn did not
see him. Then at the Sinmonds
dinner dance she beheld him play
palling. That little black-haired
thing to take Phil right away!
Then she decided to go away on
q visit.
A car roared up to the curb
and a tall figure hurled itself out
and up the steps two at a time.
She looked up in amazement at
Phil Martin. He dropped down
on the topmost step, at her feet,
and literally put his arms around
her.
I've Just heard-that you're
going away-on q visit. Oh,
Marilyn. simply cannot stand II
for you to so away
Somehow she found herself
down on the step beside him, her
arms clinging as tightly as his.
as they pledged themselves to q
glorious. unbelievably happy fu.
ture! So dream all the lovers of
the world.
the devoted to Fay. And as IL by
magic, sweet, nondescript little
Fay became beauty and a belle.
1t was strangely new sensa-
ton for Marilyn to see another
girl, and not even a beautiful Rirl.
step into her own shoes and dance
right away, carrying half the eli.
gibles in her train. She spent
long hours in a darkened room.
trying to recall just what she had
said or done to cause Phil TO
swerve from pursuit Of her.
She had not seen Phil for a
week and then only at a distance.
She forced herself to be nice to
Fay Waggoner, but She hated her
with a primitiveness that was an.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
7HE HAND OF PERIL, By Arthur String
WAYS OF A HUSBAND, :
A SEQUEL TO "VHEN A GIRL MARRIESY

Jim's title Is clear to the on.
lands in which his friends had ,
invested and that with Ramon !
Cordova's money attacking, sue
cess lay ahead. we turned awavss
from all that was back OF US and,e
started life over. saa
We've tried to have anotherEs
honeymoon. We've known idyllic..
happiness. Now found myself
shivering with fear that it had j
been too good to last. When my /
terror was almost more than /
could bear. ! found myself on
my feet, starting automatically
toward the kitchen.
I started the coffee, mixed the
corn mullins, set out the spider
for the bacon that can't be crisp
enough for Jim. Then cut the
grapefruit. which he likes bests3
when it's done the last second
before being brought to the table.
When the coffee had been set
on the back of the stove to keep
hot. and the bacon put back tor
dry. and the mullins were takingess
on their final shade Of warnh
BROWNIES. opened the kitchenF z
door and went to the breakfast -
room to lay the table so
There 1t stood, already SET
sparkling with china ana glass.
And in the center Of the table,
was a marvellous bouquet or
sweetheart roses. sos
/ backed away from the table
with my hand on my heart. IesE
was aching again. but this time
with happiness. Then fingersss
were pressed against my eyes.
and Jim's voice asked mys.A
teriously:
Guess who?' fsa9
Some one I lover I criedkss
whirling around and burying mHas
face against his coat. Then I
looked up and whispered. "Some.s
one who's a darIingi Oh. Jin1mies1
boy. those are the loveliest fIowse-
ers! Like bridal bouquet. And
you set the table, too. You're sn1Z
SWEET
"Glad you like my surpriseF0E
The lavender ribbons are for mge
Lilac Princess; the lilies for hers
sweetness and the roses are fore
my sweetheart, bless her" e.tse
The depths of tenderness FRI
JiTn's voice made me glow. TT
nestled close for a second. Them
Jim inquired: 80
Go Be Continued TOmorrOw)
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~ sake, let me enjoy this
smoke without having to listen to
all that tommyrot about being in
love! Wake up! You're living in
the twentieth century. We've pro-
crossed beyond silly things like
incoming around and thinking
ourselves in love. You certainly
must have been brought UP in an
old-fashioned home"
Pretty. petite, spoiled Marilyn
Carter tossed her bobbed head,
and, leaning back on the side
of the chummy roadster, parked
without lights near the Country
Club entrance, blew smoke rings
into the starry April night.
$50 You don't believe in falling
in lover" demanded Phil, quietly.
Certainly not. Thrills don't
happen any more unless you skid
and see yourself being hurled
down an enbankment, Marilyn
laughed lightly. You're an aw-
fully amusing person, really! A
regular Rip Van Wrinkle, waking
up to find the world a changed
place"
"Well, you have a waking up
coming to you, pretty little
thing!'
II certainly have If Ted Moul-
don finds that I'm missing from
that jazz Jubilee in there, now
that it's his time to step on my
toes" Marilyn tossed a glowing
cigarette into the fragrant dark
ness.
Phil Martin from his height OF
six feet looked down at the little
figure in soft crepe beside him.
For weeks he had been trying
to tell her that he loved her and
she had always laughed at him
and attempted to have him be-
lieve that she thought herself su-
perior to such idle nonsense as
sentimentality. She paused in
the doorway and looked up at
him archly, evidently expecting
him to tell her, as he usually did,
that he would be waiting for her
when the dance was over.
But for once he failed to do the
expected. please introduce me
to that lovely girl in the flame
colored dress"
Marilyn blinked. That's Fay
Waggoner. She'll fall for your
line"
Phil proceeded to give Fay a
great rush. He did not approach
Marilyn until the strains of
Home, Sweet Home" stirred
young feet to their final fling for
the evening. He did not mention
Fay. Neither did Marilyn, until
they had reached her own door.
step.
She gave him her slim, cool lit
tie hand. Happy dreams of black
heads and red rags" she said, and
Phil, falling to kiss the hand as
he usually did. remarked quickly,
You couldn't wish me anything
kinder. Reds going to be my fav-
orite color from this time on"
No flowers, no books, no candy
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?

/. When did William Penn es-
tablish the colony at Philadel-
phia?
2. When did Hans Holbein,
the German historical painter,
die?
8. When was the time lock In
vented?
4. When were the Cataconbs Of
Rome rediscovered?
s.. When did the Battle Of Lake
Erie take place?
Answers to these queries will
be printed tomorrow
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By Ann LisIe,
Whose Present Serial Has Scored
q Big Popular Success.
1rouv-,.h. 1904 nv yctnr FEATURES
copyright, 1928. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl

copyright, 1923. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
~ I'M and belong to each other.
We have found happiness
q again-and together. The
days of separation and unhappi-
ness are gone and forgotten. It
doesn't seem as il they can have
any. power over the future.
Each day in the apartment of
Betty. winston loaned us for our
honeymoon has brought some new
Joy, some renewal Of old under
standing.
One morning I awoke at the
touch OF finger of light on my
eyeIids. / opened my eyes and
smiled at the tiny golden beam
that had managed TO find it's way
through the drawn curtains.
OF their own accord. my feet
carried me to the deep bay win
dow, and my hands lifted to draw
back the blue faille French pulley
curtains.
Sunlight flooded the room.
Beam after beam followed the ad.
venturous finger OF light which
had walked me. The brightness
revealed an empty room.
Jim was gone.
For q moment I was frightened.
Then, laughing at my own fears,
ran down the hall to the living
room fully persuaded that I'd find
Jim there putting his pipe and
reading the morning papers.
Nothing in all the world has
ever seemed more drearily empty
than that apartment. had
walked to a morning Of blue and
gold happiness. Now it was gray
and cold and drained OF all that
makes life worth. while. My
heart began to feel empty, too.
A New Honeymoon
For the first time since Jim
came back to me ] was alone.
Thoughts and questions came
crowding in on me. For the first
time since his return felt the
full realization OF all we've been
through. We've met some Of the
most critical experiences OF our
lives. But apart-not shoulder
to shoulder. We have not talked
Of much that we've been through.
When we found that Dick west
was dead and Dad Lee not my
father, whens we realized that
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A STORY OF A MAN AND A FLLRT

<[H ONT squeeze my hand,
Phil, and, for heavens
~ sake, let me enjoy this