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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
MAY BROADCAST ADVANTAGES

Advantages of Albany-Decatur to the hone seeker and the manufac- turer may soon be broadcast from the Birmingham plant of the Ala bama Power company, just as Shelf fields claims were set forth through the same agency, Rev. Herman L. Turner, vice president of the Shef- field Chamber of Commerce., stated here Saturday, after a conversation with J. w. Clopton, president of the Albany-Decatur Chamber of Com merce. Rev. Turner were here on his way to his home In Sheffield, after telling of the advantages of that city through the broadcasting station of the power company in Bir
 minghma Friday evening. MT. Clop- ton was told that the power compa
 ny proposed to give all the cities of Alabama an opportunity to use the Birmingham broadcasting station.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
COMMITTEE VISITS SCHOOLS

100 women and girls will be employed in the plant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
PAVING AWAITS DECISION

dub house Is not contemplated fol
 the present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
SILKS.

from Burgers Silk Shop will prove very satisfactory and attractive in looks and price. These specials tomorrow:
 Fine Flat Crepe, $2.95 A very superior quality, extra heavy. with beautiful bright finish. A most stylish and up-to-date silk, at price that no manufacturer could produce at today's cost of silk.
 Colored Honan Pongee, $1 .49 The ideal tub silk for summer wear. Heavy ruff effect, absolutely all silk, in all the good shades that will wash. Spe- cial tomorrow, $1.49 yard.
 Silk La Jerz, $1.19 For the woman who wants beautiful and serviceabe undergarments at a most economical price-36 inches wide-in flesh, white and pink.
 Egyptian Printed Crepes, $2.98 The one great silk craze of the world A large and attractive variety, on good, heavy quality crepes.
 Burgers Annex-First Floor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
Electric Curling Irons
 Special $1.29

Another big shipment of those wonder full curlers-and again we are selling them for $1.29. Will curl the hair as good as any curler sold for three times the price. On sale tomorrow only, $1.29.
 (Burssr's First Floor)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
GUNS SUPPLIED
Utah Mine Owners By Sher-
iff

Salt Lake City, Utah.-The ease
with which big business in this state
can use the machinery of government
to smash strikes is shown in the trial
of three miners in cases growing out
of shooting last year between mine
strikers and coal owners gunner.
Former Sheriff Kelter, of Carbon
county, acknowledged on the witness
stand that when he was sheriff he
gave the superintendent of the Stan
dardville mine several rifles and am
munition the day before the shooting
at New Helper, in that county In
a previous trial the superintendent
testified that he had made up his
mind he would not permit picketing
of any sort by the strikers The de-
Tense is connecting this statement
with the donating of guns by a sheriff
who is now employed by one of the
mine companies.
The former sheriff said he knew the
mine official was not deputy sheriff
when he received these guns, and that
he knew the feeling between the mine
officials and the strikers was strong.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
MILLVILLE'S ANNUAL
HOME COMING A
BIG SUCCESS

Millville celebrated its annual home
coming on last Saturday, and like all
past events of the kind by the village
was a huge success The committee
in charge, headed by Jerome Blair,
sage of the village, had schemed and
planned for months a splendid pro-
gram that was delightfully."- carried
out in every detail There was plenty
of good things to eat and drink, lots
of music by the Mick Quartet and
Joe's Jazz Band, of Hamilton; all
kinds of games and contests for
amusement and entertainment, dan
cling, fiery orations, pretty booths and
decorations, and through courtesy of
the Delco Company the grounds were
brilliantly Illuminated, giving them
metropolitan air, and well-every-
thing was there that could be thought
of to make it a big affair People
for miles around gathered. Millville
has always been noted the world over
for her pretty girls. They were all
there. 1t hasn't been given out be-
fore but this is the real reason for the
exodus of Hamilton's Beau Brummels
on last Saturday night. All in all,
Millville's 1923 Homecoming was a
bowling success.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
COUNTRY STORE IS
OK D BY c. c. BOARD

The Labor Day country store is
growing more in approval and popu-
lartity as the days roll along. After
investigation and due consideration
the sanction board of the Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce concludes it is
worthy and deserving of support, and
so grants it sanction to solicit articles
for prizes from the merchants. The
prize treasury is growing each day
and Chairman Ray Wunderlich prom
ises the swellest thing in the way of
a country store on Labor Day ever
seen on the fairgrounds. Ray asks
that every union man and woman in
the city contribute some sort of prize
no matter how large or small. Think
what it would mean if every local
unionist contributed but 10 cent
prize; why it would mean more than
5000 prizes. Come on, brother and
sister, do yours-do it now.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
FARMERS PLIGHT is
BAD

New York-'It is hard for people
in New York, where 100000 persons
pay So to SIS to see prize fight,
to understand the desperate condition
of the farmers in the northwest who
are so short of money they can not
afford to see a 15-cent movie show,
said Charles Edward Russell, writer
on political and economic topics.
For all his labor and output of
capital the American farmer today
does not get 10 per cent of the profit
that is made by the middlemen on the
farmers products"
Mr.. Russell is sailing for England
to study the regional method of oper-
ating the railroads in that country.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
MAIL CARRIERS
Gain By Uniting With A. F.
of L., Declares Gainor

Washington.-In his report to the
Forthcoming convention of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers,
at Providence, R. l., President Ed
ward j. Gainor declares that afflia-
ton with the American Federation of
Labor was a wise move"
''Time has disclosed little merit in
the many objections originally urged
against affliation,' says President
Gainor "None of the predicted dan
gers have materialized and none will
because they exist in imagination on
ly Contrariwise, the National Asso-
citation of Letter Carriers, through
affiliation, has enjoyed new opportun-
tiles which it has utilized to good ad-
vantage; it has registered its opinion
on major issue affecting the service
and the welfare of all workers
"The A. F. of L. provides a great
national forum where the views of
more than 100000 workers find ex-
preston on varied problems, many of
which affect the postal service This
large sentiment points the way to
needed reforms and aids in protecting
the rights of workers.
Fully appraising the obligation
our employment imposes and main
tanning our course free from extremes,
we should likewise esteem it a priv
ilege to join efforts with our fellow
workers of other crafts for meritor-
ious ends. The A. F. of L. provides
the means, and the army of more than
100000 workers that constitute
its membership gives testimony of its
usefulness and enduring purpose.
Il, therefore, recommend that this
convention reaffirm its confidence in
the A. F, of L. and that we pledge
our cooperation to promote its in
creased usefulness.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
LABOR DAY PICNIC
Planned For at Committee
Meeting Tuesday Night

The Labor Day picnic committee
met at the labor temple Tuesday
night. There was close to a 100 per
cent attendance and enthusiasm for
the big annual affair ran rampant.
Chairman Peter Schmitt presided.
The various subcommittee in their
reports showed that all are taking
active interest and performing the
duties assigned them, which means a
big, successful picnic and celebration.
Everything that can be done to make
labor's day in Hamilton big one will
be done by the local trade unionists.
Of course there will be all the regular
old features for entertaining the big
crowd expected, but in addition to
these the committee this year is 60
ing to add some new ones. Of course
the big evening attraction will be
fireworks, and a real display at that.
The amusement committee wasn't
ready to report at Tuesday nights
meeting just what it has lined up, it
is little early for the finishing
touches, but this committee promises
that when it is ready to say Lets
CO." there is going to be something
doing.
Another big thing for this year is
to be real country stcce Not one
of those little general stores, but a
real big country department store. y
That is what Ray Wunderlich, who
has charge of this end of the big
doings, promises we will have Ray
is so full Of country store that it
fairly oozes out of him. Ray says
she is to be a humdinger. All that
is needed to make it huge success
is for every unionist in the city to
send in some small contribution
then look out" says Ray.
Let's go, let's help him make il
the biggest ever.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
VIM. ATCHISON,
A. D. HOWARD,
c. S. BOWERS,
Committee on Resolutions
RIALTO NEXT WEEK
Look Your Best" Tells a
Human Interest Story of
an Italian-American Dan
Ger that Women Will Like.

Rupert Hughes, Goldwyn author
director, in his new photoplay, Look
Your Best" which comes to the
Rialto theatre Sunday and Monday
has reverted from Middle Western
towns to New York City, mainly, for
the locale of his new picture 1t is
not story of the Irish either, as was
his Hold Your Horses" From the
Ground Up" and "Come On Over
The principal characters are all Ital-
ian-Americans. The story is a COM
edy-drama of small time vaudeville
life. 1t begins in New York, shifts
to the small towns covered by the
vaudeville tour and comes back to
the Metropolitan opera house in New
York
The added attraction will be Charles
Murray in so This is Hamlet" and
Rialto News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
Double Show Friday and Saturday
Hungry Hearts"

Montague Glass, creator of Potash
and Perlmutter," who put the finish
ing touches on the titles of Hungry
Hearts" special production of An
zia Yezierska's story of New York
life, which will be at the Rialto the
atre for Friday and Saturday, wrote
the following letter to the Goldwyn
Company Immediately after he first
saw the picture in pre-view:
Hungry Hearts is picture which
entirely disarms criticism. One
might just as we'll try to criticize the
technique of mother nursing child,
or a bird singing, or any simple, ma
tural, beautiful thing. 1t was not
like seeing a moving picture to me.
1t was like caves dropping. | felt as
though | had nc business to be there,
intruding myself upon the troubles
of those d-hearted, unfortunate
Jehudins. / loved them all. | had
sympathy for the hard-boiled land
lord too. He sweated so profusely
AS for Sopkin, the butcher-there are
hundreds of him, only not quite 50
natural-on every block in the Eighth
assembly district.
"In short, Hungry Hearts is far
and away the most human moving
picture | have ever seen. Gawdl How
| like it! Can say more than that p
The co-feature is a thrilling Fight.
ing Blood story.
Leach Cross, one-time idol of the
prize ring and one of the cleverest
boxers who ever wore gloves, suffered
severe knockout recently at the
hands of an unknown. The battle
however, was staged for the sole bene-
fit of the motion picture camera anc
the scene is only one of the many
thrilling moments in the Fighting
Blood" stories, one rourd of which
will be shown as co-feature witt
Hungry Hearts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
TYPOS CONVENTION
Annual Session This Month
at Atlanta Important
One

Atlanta, Ga.-Preparations for the
convention of the International Typo
graphical Union, to be held here the
week of August 13, have been com
pleted and the local union committee
is anticipating a gathering of more
than 1000 persons, including many
printers who are not delegates.
Among the chief topics for discus
sion at the business sessions of the
convention will be the 44-hour- week
strike in commercial printing shops
in the United States and Canada. The
strike has been in progress for more
than two years, and more than $15,-
100000 in strike benefits has been
collected and disbursed. The strike
is continuing in few important jur-
isdictions.
The city, county and the three
newspapers of Atlanta have contrib
uted generously to the convention
fund, and an elaborate program of
entertainment has been provided
Sessions will be held in the Municipal
Auditorium. In sub-hall of the
building manufacturers of printing
machinery and material will hold an
exposition.
Included in the entertainment pro
gram are automobile trips to many
points of interest, barbecues, water
melon fiestas, dancing and theatre
parties. Saturday night before the
convention a roof garden party will be
given for the early arrivals. Members
of the local committee promise al
"etaoin shrdlu" of a time for the
printers on that occasion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
FOOD PRICES GO UP

Washington. - The United States
bureau of labor statistics reports that
during the month from May IS to
June Is last, food costs in 18 cities
increased as follows: Newark and
Washington, D. G., 3 per cent; Cleve-
land, Detroit and Norfolk, 2 per cent;
Atlanta, Bridgeport, Butte, Denver,
Los Angeles, New Haven, New York,
Richmond and Portland, Ore, / per
cent; Birmingham, Charleston, Man
chester and Scranton, less than one
half of / per cent.
Five cities decreased as follows
Boston, st. Louis, ST. Paul and Port
land, Me-, per cent, and Philadelphia,
less than one-half of l per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
TRANSFERS RAISE WAGES

Cleveland drivers have Sc
cured one-year agreement which
raises wages So to So week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Seven Notable Players Form
Powerful Cast

Seldom in one picture can so many
favorite players be found as will ap-
pear in "The Marriage Chance" the
Hampton Del Ruth production fhich
comes to the Rialto theatre Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday Alta Al
len, Milton Sills, Henry B. Wathall,
Tully Marshall, Irene Rich, Mitchell
Lewis-all on the same screen! Each
one is we'll known, each is capable of
strengthening any cast, and together
they create powerful ensemble.
Miss Allen, tall, slender, girlishly
lovely, is making her reappearance
after an absence from the screen. She
last appeared with Max Linder in
"Seven Years Hard Luck" and "Be
My Wife," and has been waiting for
the right role, which, of course, she
finds in the new picture.
Added, Snub Pollard in where Am
l." a rib-tickling comedy, and Movie
Chats.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
REJECT PEACE PLAN

Providence, r. 1.-The New England
Telephone Company has rejected
peace overtures from the mayors of
seven cities affected by the strike,
and has let it be known that the
Telephone Operators Union must be
smashed. The girls struck to enforce
higher wages and shorter hours.
Mayor Gaine, of this city, presided
at the MAYORS meeting. The tele-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
MINERS ACQUITTED

Salt Lake City.-After Is months
Imprisonment, four miners have been
declared not guilty of shooting dur
ing mine guard battle in Carbon
county, June IA, 1922 Mine officials
attempted to stop picketing and had
armed their guards with rifles and
side arms previous to the shooting.
A feature of the trial was the
silence of Salt Lake City newspapers
on the testimony developed by the
defense. While these newspapers
play up" murder trials, for days no
mention would be made of this trial.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
BUILDING COSTS UP

Washington.-The cost of building
continued to rise in June, according
to statistics made public by the de-
partment of commerce. The index
cost number of building materials for
brick house, based on 1913 as 100,
rose to 215 in June, as against 214 in
May. Costs for a frame house were
practically stationary at 212.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
in MEMORIAM
Brother Bert McIniery

Whereas, The Almighty God in His
divine wisdom on July 18th called to
His heavenly home our esteemed
brother, Bert McIniery, while in the
prime of life, full of promise and a
glorious manhood, devoted to good
and moral principles and earnest
ness in furthering the welfare of his
beloved wife and children; and
Whereas, We deeply regret the sad
occasion that deprives us of the COM
panionship and assistance of SO kind
and faitheful a brother, though we
question, not the Divine calling, we
mourn the loss of one so dear as a
friend and brother; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the membership of
Local Union No. 648 extend their
heartfelt sympathy to his dear family
in this, their hour of bereavement,
commencing them to the Supreme Ar
chitect of the Universe for consolation.
truly believing that death is but the
transition of life eternal; therefore.
be it further
Resolved, That copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the bereaved family,
one published in the official journal,
and copy be sent to the daily press
and spread upon the records of this
local union
VIM. ATCHISON,
A. D. HOWARD,
c. S. BOWERS,
Cop, M i++aa IN paeo1ut;onc
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03

phone girls were asked for their min
imum proposal, and replied that they
would return to work if the company
would arbitrate. The representatives
of the telephone company would not
accept the offer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-03
MAKE CLEAN SWEEP

Memphis, Tenn. = The BARRIERS
Union of this city has made a clean
sweep by securing union shop agree
ments with every local employing bar
Der The only exception is one small
shop.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-08
ABSENTEE VOTERS
BILL

Harrisburg, Pa.-Governor Pinchot
has signed the absentee voters bill,
which provides system whereby per-
sons absent from their regular poll
ing places may cast their vote on cleo
tion day.
Special envelopes for the return of
the marked ballot and affidavit of the
absent voter are provided Ballots
must be returned to the proper auth
tiles on or before the day of election
by registered mail. The envelopes
cannot be opened prior to the meet
ing of the return board to canvass the
vote.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-08
THE new NEGRO
Coming Out of the South Is
Insisting on Justice

Charlotte, N. C.-The negro born
IN the new south, schooled in the
white mans language, mathematics
reasoning and equations, is RESPONSE
Die for the negro migration to the
north because he refuses to labor all
year and then be told he is indebted
TO the plantation owner.
The above summarizes views of w
t. Evans, influential negro, writing in
the Charlotte Observer on a move
ment that is being discussed through
out the south.
The writer says the negro loves the
south and he belongs there, but con
plantation after plantation" the negro
tenant farmer, together with his wife
and all the family, work from Janu-
ary to Christmas on the promise that
he is to receive a third of the cotton
crop for his labor.
Around Christmas eve the poor Ia
borer stands outside the commissary
awaiting for his portion of the crop
with which to buy his wife a new
dress and his children shoes and
clothes. His boss man says to him:
Well, Sandy, you did a little better
this year, you've paid all of your back
debt and don't owe but $119 on this
years debt
The negro is not shown by an item
lied statement what this years debt
is for.
HE returns to his shanty, crestfal-
len and discouraged, to greet the an
xious hearts of his naked and bare
foot children around Christmas time.
"They must show the new negro, by
itemized statements, what makes this
years debt; in too many, many cases
the landlord being unused to this new
demand, deems it impudence on the
part of the new negro; resistance sets
up, and the negro, conscious of his
weak standing, falls back on the pow
er of least resistance and the next
year that farm is vacant and the negro
is in the iron works of Pennsylvania. !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-08
ENGINEERS CONDEMN GARY
Continued from page one)


agement prevailed and the co-opera-
tion of labor was secured.
"2.-In general no economic loss
inherently obtains because of such a
change, provided management uses
discretion, carefully plans and COM
petently administers productive pro-
cedure and further provided that labor
sincerely and fully does it's part.
"3-ln general the tendency has
been to increase the rate per hour
under the shorter shift, so that the
daily earnings of the workers are the
same as they were before the change.
In some instances compromise was
made whereby the workers received
an increase in hourly rate sufficient
to compensate them for one-half the
number of hours by which the length
of the shift was shortened.
"4-The evidence shows that there
are no technical processes that pro-
hibit shorter shift and Furthermore
the extra time for leisure has in gen
eral been used to advantage by the
workers"
The conclusion is inevitable that
greed and inefficient management in
the steel industry are responsible for
the continuance of the twelve-hou
day and for the economic wastes that
tend to keep wages down.
Here's How Engineers Condemn Steel
Bosses
The famous report of the engineers
that led to the appointment by Judge
Gary of his star chamber committee
of bosses says:
"The principle of the twelve-hour
shift is a survival of the time when
| it was a custom to work men long
hours, and when the mechanical side
of the iron and steel industry was
Jess perfectly developed, so that pe-
riods of enforced idleness of the mill
and the men occurred much more fre-
quently than at present But now
practically all the heavy labor at the
blast furnace is handled by machinery
| What reasons remain why the
| steel industry does not divide the "a
| hours into three shifts instead of
two? Executives hesitate to
take the step because they do not
know what the result will be. =
| The American iron and steel industry
is at a disadvantage because it never
| has had a well developed research
| department. Most of the import
ant technical advances of great magni-
tude, even though invented in Amer
lea, had had to be tested and ex-
lploited in foreign countries before
they were generally adopted in Amer
lean industry"
There is the crux of the situation.
| Management in part of the steel in
dustry (Judge Gary's part) is not on
| it's toe but prefers to stick to outworn
conditions, and to outworn greeds and
prejudices. And the report of the
engineers concludes significantly
''If it is not possible Ito make the
change) and if profits at present can
not stand the extra production cost,
then the twelve-hour shift must be
continued until change occurs"
1t does not say what will bring
about change. 1t is significant,
however, that changes Of this kind
have in most instances been brought
about by the organization of the
workmen. Organized labor will have
more influence in the long run than
any number of fearful appeals from
President Harding or from welfare
workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-08
KANSAS COURT HAS
FAILED

Topeka, Kan.-The 'can't-strike"
law and the industrial court of this
state have failed, declared Governor
Davis in an address to church men
in this city.
"The industrial court can not func-
tion as a court and it is too expensive
as board of Investigation" the gov
ernor said. "It has created friction
and has been made football of poll
tics.n