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The broad ax., 1923-01-13

Miss Elizabeth P. Neely, 34O8 Yer
non avenue, niece Of DR.. "A. Wilber-
force Williams, received the degree
of bachelor Of philosophy at the 18th
convocation at the University Of Chi
cago. Miss Neely completed her
course two quarters ahead of her class
June, 1928. She majored in English.
Miss NeeIy is now taking music at
the Chicago University Of Music.
The broad ax., 1923-01-13

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL
ORED PEOPLE RECENTLY EX-
PENDED MORE THAN TEN THOU
SAND DOLLARS INPLACING ANTI
LYNCFIING ADVERTISEMENTS IN
THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS, BUT
NOT ONE DOLLAR WAS EXPEND-
ED AMONG THE NEWSPAPERS
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF
THE COLORED RACE.
The broad ax., 1923-01-13

Mrs. Geo. r. Irven. of Columbus,
Ohio, has for the past two weeks
been visiting at the home Of her
friend, Mrs. Brooks. 6633 St. Law
renee avenue.
The broad ax., 1923-01-13

THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY
NFIONOR OF THE OCCASION WAS
BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED WITH
AMERICAN FLAGS AND OTHER
APPROPRIATE DECORATIONS.
THE FAMOUS EIGHTH REGIMENT
BAND UNDER THE LEADERSHIP
OF PROF. j. B. TUCKER, AND THE
CLARENCE JONES SUPERB OR
CE4ESTRA DISCOURSED PATRl-
OTTO AIRS AND LIVELY DANCING
MUSIC THROUGHOUT THE EVE
MING FOLLOWING THE BANQUET
AND RECEPTION
FIVE AUTOMOBILES WERE AWARD
EDTO THOSE WHO HAD WRITTEN
THE MOST LIFE INSURANCE AND
EVEN THOSE WHO LOST RE-
CEIVED PRIZES. DISTRICT NO. 8
UNDER. THE LEADERSHIP OF
MANAGER WILLIAM H. MONT
GOMERY WON THE FIRST OR THE
CAPITAL PRIZE.
THE NEW BUILDING BEING ERECTED
BY THE PUBLIC LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY, CORNER OF WASH
NCTON BOULEVARD AND SHELL
DON PLACE, WILL BE ONE OF THE
MOST MODERN AND UP-TO-DATE
BUILDINGS OF IT'S KIND IN THE
UNITED STATES.
The broad ax., 1923-01-13

quarters at goth and State streets; Mr..
"a. L. Williams, associate counsel Of
the Public Life Insurance Company,
and one of its directors, and by Mr.
Alfred Clover, general manager Of the
Public Life Insurance Company. At
torney Williams, in his short talk,
paid a glowing tribute to Mr.. Clover,
contending that under his wise leader
ship or management that the Public
Life Insurance Company was fast be-
coming one Of the best and strongest
life insurance companies in this coun-
try; that at the present time it had
more than 1000 stockholders; that
no other life insurance company in
the world can boast of such a large
number Of stockholders; that Mr.
Clover has, in the past and continues
to, accomplish wonderful things for
the colored people in the way Of max
ing it possible for bright and intelli-
gent colored men and women to get a
firm foothold in the life insurance
business and that Mr.. Clover is one
Of the best and most practical friends
OF the colored race in this country.
The following menu was served in
the most lavish manner:
Menu
Fruit cocktail
Cream Of celery soup
Celery and olives
Lettuce salad
Roast Chicken, peas
Mashed potatoes Cranberry sauce
Ice cream squares and cake
Black coffee
Many beautiful gowns were dis
played. Among the most conspicuous
was worn by Mrs. Harriet Fleming,
one Of the lady superintendent. Her
gown was black tulle with wine-col-
ored Sequin beads, pearl necklace,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
THROW OUT "FEELERS"
ANTIUNIONISTS WOULD INFLAME BUSINESS
MEN AND FARMERS IN DESPERATE PLAN
AGAINST ORGANIZED WAGE WORKERS
President Being Urged to Favor Declaration For Open
Shop in Party's Platform in Next Election

The president is being urged to
favor an anti-union shop declaration
in the next administration party's
platform next year. The plan is a
flank attack on the unions by declar-
ing for individual bargaining.
The proposal, of course, is kite
or ''feeler." It's purpose is to ascer-
tain if it is possible to infame busi-
ness men, middle classes and farmers
against organized wage earners.
This wild suggestion, so fraught
with menace and national discord, in
dicates the terror and desperation
that has seized the labor injunction,
union-hating element in the admins
tration.
1t shows the spiritual bankruptcy,
the barrenness, the lack of idealism
of these dominant and hard boiled
forces.
The suggestion that labor be COM
PEELED to bargain individually is as old
as history.
At one time this plan was not clut-
tered with cheap, tawdry verbiage. It
was known as slavery, and it was call
ed slavery. 1t was openly defended
It was replaced by feudalism, and
this was followed by groupings of
workers who were as stoutly resisted
as they are today.
The present generation recalls the
utterance of that Chicago car builder:
II have nothing to arbitrate." And
then George F. Baer, coal owner,
made this frank statement during the
anthracite strike of 1902:
"The rights and interests of the
laboring man will be protected and
cared for-not by the labor agitators,
but by the Christian men to whom
God in His infinite wisdom has given
control of the property interests of
the country"
Behind these utterances is the slav-
cry ideal. Pullman was absolute.
Baer believed he was commissioned
from on high. So did the kaiser. All
autocrats believe they are of superior
clay.
Today's puny imitators of autocra-
cy lack the courage of their forbears.
The anti-union capitalist and his
political agents indulge in maudlin
and befuddled talk of "iberty" and
freedom" and the right to work" In
practice they deny workers every
right they profess.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
HEALTHFUL WORKERS
BY REASON OF HIGH WAGE PAY BEST RETURNS
TO EMPLOYERS, SAYS NATIONAL
HEALTH COUNCIL OFFICIAL
Low Wages, Long Hours and Poor Working Conditions
Causes of Discomfort and High Turnover Costs

Boston.-There is no economic ad-
vantage in cheap labor, long hours
and poor working conditions that ir-
ritate and anger employees, said DIR.
Donald B. Armstrong, of the national
health council, in an address to bust
ness men of this city.
He told of the heavy illness losses
amounting to 10 per cent-in the
south, compared with only 2 per cent
i'll in New England, and said it was
better to pay the higher wages re-
quired than to employ the lower paid,
less efficient workers of the south.
The speaker is considered an au-
thority on the subject of health in
industrial establishments.
"Of particular Importance to New
England" said Dr. Armstrong, ''is
the fact that the time is coming when
we shall select a community for in
dustrial development, not only be-
cause of its railroad facilities and la
Dor market and availability of raw
materials; we shall take into consider
alton health conditions, death rates
and illness prevalence.
up to the present time most of
US think of health work in industry in
terms of duty, of brotherliness, of
justice, of advertising, or of being
up-to-date. We have deceived our
selves about our underlying motives,
but we have failed to deceive our
workmen. This is big cause of trou-
BILE. We have kept no detailed records
of cost; we expended our health ap-
preparations with not specific antici-
patton of profit. We have frequently
tried something in health or welfare
work that had got some one else a
lot of publicity Or, we were con-
scious of certain unrest among our
men and used certain health work
as a patent medicine"
DIR. Armstrong explained that this
attitude not only failed to demon
strate the value of health work from
an economic point of view, but Gre
ated wrong attitude among the
workers. THAT is why welfare
work" he said, "has come to be
known in some circles as hell fare
work
There are many groups of condi~
tions hampering health which do not
result in a mans stopping work en-
tirely, but which do constantly and
progressively curtail his production.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
WARNS AMERICAN FASCIST
GOMPERS, AT WORK AGAIN. TELLS UNION HATERS IN POL
TICS OR INDUSTRY, THEY WILL FIND LABOR PRE-
PARED AND MILITANT
Aged Fighting Chief Says Organized Labor VIII Those
Hostile To The Workers Today Gone And Forgotten

ness and cutting off the purchasing
and using power of the working peo-
pie.
"The strikes of the miners, of the
shopmen and of several other trades
against wage reductions and the
marked success which was obtained
in some of them, all of them checked
this downward pressure and with the
coming of unemployment the wages
which no longer went down was the
handspring for the revival of the in
dustries of our country. Looking
over the whole field of industry, com
merce and financial activities, | can
find no reason, no ground for this
returned era of the industrial revival
other than the checking of this move
ment to cut wages. That this re-
sistance displeased the bankers, big
business and the railroad executives,
etc, is not astonishing. They assum-
ed to be masters of all they surveyed
and they were checked by the resist
ance of the working people of Amer
lea.
The newspaper accounts of these
suggestions state substantially that
those who advised the president to
make his campaign upon that issue
of the antagonism of labor did not
expect that this was to be put into
operation by legislation. If a policy
or an issue is made in the presiden-
tial campaign of 1924 of hostility and
antagonism of labor, then why the
declaration that it is not to be done
by legislation? Why then make it
a political issue if it is not to be done
by legislation? Now whether it is
done by legislation or whether it is
proposed to be done by legislation
or by the concentrated efforts of
economic, concentrated power of
bankers, big business and the rail-
road executives; whether it is done
by legislation, political or economic
power, let the issue come if it is to
come and American labor will meet
the issue upon any field of activity
no matter what it may be.
Interests Plan to Go Outside of
Law in Fight
"The logical deduction from these
declarations by these interests is that
the antagonism to labor is not to be
predicated upon legislation but is to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Would you play your best game of
golf in New Orleans in the summer?
How about golf if you were covered
with hives? Consider the time a man
loses in scratching when infected by
some of the industrial skin diseases.
Will it pay to save him that time?
Does man in an ugly temper produce
as much as a comfortable man? Is
it worth while to help him stop
scratching? Yes, to save yourself
money.
"There is the obvious money loss
due to sickness, absenteeism and
turnover, but there is the less easily
computable loss due to the inhibition
of production following lowered at
tention
Fatigue, inattention, lack of con-
centration cost money. Mental irri-
tation may cost more than any of
these. Men are irritated, even though
unconsciously, by unpleasant working
conditions. In many cases unpleasant
conditions are unhealthful conditions.
"a healthy man likes to work, and
the man who likes his job does a good
job. The discontented man is the
cause of high turnover costs. 1t is
cheaper to keep a good man, to keep
trained man, on his job than to
save money on light and air. Think
of the things we kick about in our
own offices-the ventilation, an elec-
trio fan, reading light, comfort
able, adjustable desk chair, drinking
water, even the view-all these things
contribute to our efficiency"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
NAIL PRICES JUMP

New York.-The price of wire nails
has been kited by the American steel
and wire company, one of the steel
trusts units.
Far-sighted bankers and other bus
mess men are issuing warnings that
the orgy of price raising now on will
result in disaster, but no attention is
paid to these cautions.
In their reports of last years bust
ness, corporations are announcing as
tonishing profits. The issue of stock
dividends has aided in reducing the
apparent profits by spreading them
over larger amount of stock, but
the actual amount of profits has in
creased, though the public does not
notice the trick.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Garyism is the modern application
of the enslavement ideal. In both
cases the employer is absolute. The
company union" is another phase of
the same theory.
Garyism is the bludgeoh that would
smash trade unionism. The company
union" is the stiletto. Both have
the same purpose Both use the same
confusing terms, as do the men who
want to outlaw collective bargaining.
Like the feudal baron they oppose
workers acting for themselves. The
former used government to hold labor
to the land. The latter would hold
labor to industry by the injunction
process, anti-strike laws and smash
ing trade unions by outlawing col
lective bargaining.
But the modern feudalist lacks the
courage to put his cards on the
table He is cunning and stealthy,
tricky and evasive. He says one thing
while meaning another. He poses as
defender of democracy and with
nimble tongue repeats every thread
bare hypocrisy and cant.
The methods of the feudal baron
and the anti-union capitalist differ,
but their purposes are Identical.
The present plan to have great
political party declare against col
lective bargaining is the old struggle
of the few to control the many.
Let no worker be alarmed at these
imitators of slave owners and the
feudal age.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
BY international News Service.

Washington, D. C.-President Com
pers, of the American Federation of
Labor, took advantage of his first
day at work after an illness of a
month, to utter q warning to the
American Fascist and to declare that
if the so-called open shop were to be
made an issue of the 1924 political
campaign labor would be ready for
the fight
Gompers came back to his desk
fully recovered, vigorous and eager
to say a word to check the forces of
reaction reported recently to have
been laying plans for a national polit-
ical fight on the trade union move
ment.
Expressing himself to about forty
representatives of press associations
and newspapers, the leader of Ameri-
can labor set forth the determination
of the masses of the American people
to defend liberty at all costs.
Labor's Foes viii Use All Power
in Struggle
The newspapers publish state
ments and comments" Mr.. Gompers
said, relative to conferences which
have been held in Florida during the
visit of President Harding and that
suggestions or propositions have been
made to him so that the republican
party might make it's issue of 1924
what | shall be pleased to name the
so-called open shop and to conduct
campaign upon the clear-cut issue
of antagonism to organized labor.
The elements opposed to organized
labor will throw all their power and
influence into the conquest. This is
the first suggestion of making an
tagonism to organized labor a polit-
ical issue. Reports said their posi-
ton should be emphatic, the declara-
tion inescapable and there should be
no middle ground Those who have
been accredited with being the spon-
sors for that suggestion and for that
movement are the bankers, big bust
ness and railroad executives.
They have condemned the strikes
of labor during the last summer.
Even though incurring the displeas-
ure of some who think or pretend to
know, I unhesitatingly say, confident
that | am right, that no incidents
since the close of the war have been
so fortunate for American life, Amer
lean business and American prosper
ity as the strikes of the working
people during the last summer. Only
those who ignorantly or grabbingly
believe in their avarice that business
can prosper with wage reductions,
have yet to learn the lesson of in
dustrial life and progress.
"There were less than two years
ago approximately between four and
one-half and five million of American
workers unemployed, due no doubt
largely to the policy of wage reduc
tions. When workers wages are re-
duced they must necessarily use less,
consume less, because of their re-
duced purchasing power, resultant
from wage cuts.
Strikes Stopped Reductions; Proved
National Blessing
Looking back, am convinced be-
yond any question of doubt, that the
change from that industrial depres-
sion which existed and in which so
many of our people We're unemployed,
was due to the policy of niggardli-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

be effected by the assumption of
power outside of the law and outside
Of legislation. | think that it bears
comparison to the Fascist in italy.
and l wonder who they are going to
choose as the Mussolini of the Amer
lean reaction. If that is to be the
political or the economic issue. I re-
peat that American labor and in nv
| Judgment the American liberty-loving
people, will be glad to meet it. Prob
ably they too have the Mussolini con
cept of human rights and human
liberty. Quite recently that new die
tatorship has declared that the con-
cept of liberty as it has been under
stood and practiced is dead and that
Mussolini and his cohorts are riding
rough-shod over the decomposed fig
ure of liberty.
in this year of grace 1923, the
spirit and the fact of liberty in the
United States lives, and there are
enough liberty freedom-loving men
and women in our country who will
not hesitate to meet whatever event
uality may arise by reason of this
new Fascist in the form of the bank
ers and big business and railroad
executives. | have an abiding faith
in the people of our republic that
they are not ready to bend the knee
to any such group as tried to prevail
upon the president to make antago-
nism to labor the issue of his cam
paign.
american trade unionism as rep
resented by the American Federation
of Labor is a constructive movement,
rational and natural movement of
the working people for better life,
participation in some of the things
worth while in the work, in the home,
in the play, in leisure, in culture, and
to make each day better day than
the day that is past; normal, evolu-
tionary, rather than revolutionary
American organized labor will live
long after those who are prodding the
president with this new tangled no
ton of hostility to labor will have
gone by the boards and been forgot
ten
No Telling What Politicians May
Try
During the war, before the war
and since the war there has been no
greater organized movement for
American progress and American
peace and American patriotism than
the much misunderstood and misrep-
resented organized labor movement.
We are proud of our record, proud
of our achievement and proud of the
contributions we made in any and
all of the hours of need of our coun-
try.
"Do you really think, Mr.. Com
pers," some one asked, ''that any po-
litical party will write in an open
shop platform 2"
81 don't know" he replied "There
are some people for whose conduct,
for whose thinking, no account can
be given. The people who have
broached this subject to the president
and so much is made of it-evi-
IDENTIFY believe that either the party
or the president should make it an
issue.
'The administration came pretty
close to declaring in favor of the
open shop last summer" was inter-
jected.
"Well," Mr.. Gompers continued,
Continued on page 81
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
BOAST OF LAWLESS-
NESS

Little Rock, Ark-Defance of law
by business men and other leading
citizens marked the legislative COM
mittee's investigation of the rioting
along the Missouri & North Arkansas
railroad. The committee was frankly
told that the strike interfered with
their business, and that law would
not deter them from smashing the
strike. This sentiment was behind
the lynching of E. j. Gregor, and sus-
tains every other mob demonstration.
State officials are silent in the face
of this anarchy.
To say that history repeats itself
is but to say that the same old cussed-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-09-20
SIMPLE METHOD OF PUMPING
California Inventor Has Utilized old
Principle With Results That Are
EminentIy Satisfactory.

1t is said that a California inventor
has utilized the principle Of the old
river ferryboat in a plant for pump
ing water from stream. The con-
trivance consists of two parallel
sweeps, IA feet in length, attached
to reciprocating beam firmly
anchored to the ground. The down
stream ends of the sweeps connect
with is vertical paddles arranged in
two parallel rows in a suitable frame
work. The paddles are pivoted and
have an angular movement of about
45 degrees. The pressure of the
current against the paddle swings
the sweeps across the river, where
the angle of the paddles is automat-
ically reversed. Thus the sweeps
move back and forth with the regu-
larity of a pendulum. Attached to a
pumping unit on shore, the apparatus
delivers SO gallons of water minute.
Washington Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-09-20
WOMEN BUY MEMS APPAREL
Purchase Eighty Per Cent of Haber-
dashery-NecI<tie Joke Used
to Hide True Facts.

Men are popularity supposed to be
very independent creatures when it
comes to selecting their own wearing
apparel. Mothers, wives and sisters,
indeed, are held to have such poor
taste In the matter that the Christmas
necktie joke has come to be one of
Civilizations most honored and ancient
bits of humor. But there is another
side to the story.
The inevitable statistician tells US
that 80 per cent Of the trading done In
the country's haberdasheries is done
by women. So now the secret is out.
It may be that the necktie joke has
been perpetuated as a sort Of smoke
screen to hide the true facts. If 80
per cent of the haberdasher's trade
comes from women, 1t Is easy to be-
lieve that fully as much or more of the
mems furnishing purchases in regular
department stores are also made by
women.
Friend wife may not know mans
necktie when she sees one, but she
seems to be a pretty good buyer of
shirts, socks, pajamas, union suits and
all the rest.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-09-20

ers will come in place of the dirty
ones.
II suppose Mother Mute thinks it is
as well not to dress up the little ones
too much.
little ones are not apt to take such
good care of their finery. And then
she knows they will be beautifully
dressed later on.
"Ah, yes, she is wise with her chill
dren.
'And she likes to have them here
with her in the zoo.''
Trumpeter made a few more loud
sounds and then he went on talking
shocking housekeepers are the Cou-
sin Mutes. They build such careless
nests on the ground near the water
and the nests are so badly looked af-
ter as far as neatness and beauty is
concerned.
"But still, what does it matter if
ones home is not beautiful when one
is so beautiful ones self?
ST am sure that is the way the Cou-
sin Mutes think about it. Of course,
others may feel differently upon this
subject"
ssNow, I'm not bad-looking swan
said the Black Swan. IF you're talk
ing about looks you should both look
at me and mention me.
az am from Southern Australia"
cor ,snued Black Swan, "and have a
cousin from Tasmania, which happens
to be near Australia, too. You thought
for moment perhaps that it was in
another part Of the world, eh, Trump
eter? Wasn't that what you thoughtg
mo-" said Trumpeter, II hadn't
thought that because never do think
a great deal of geography anyway.
st don't like geography much.
don't like to try to think whether one
place is nearer to another than the
next place.
.sThat is queerly worded, but you
see the minute / talk about anything
that has any suggestion of geography
about it I don't speak well, nor do !
feel at ease.
"But you asked me to admire your
looks. And that I will gladly do. For
you are very large and very magnif1-
cent and your shiny black feathers are
gorgeous and look so differently from
those of other swans.
stOf course, I think it is nice most
swans prefer white, but you're fine to
have by way of contrast-opposite
from the rest of US, I mean.
'And you're always much admired.
Eyes, Black Swan, must say you
have many friends and every one likes
to see you and gaze upon you. So
will give you both attention and men,
ton on account of your looks for you
deserve both, most assuredly you do
And Black Swan was very grateful
as Trumpter gave long call Of con-
gratulationS.