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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28

BY international Labor News Service
Washington, D. C.-Political cir
cles are much stirred over the con-
troversy as to how Gov. Pinchot, of
Pennsylvania, came into the coal sit
uation.
Some say he came in at the invita-
tion of President Coolidge. Others
say he came in on his own hook.
international Labor News Service
is in position to state the facts. Gov.
Pinchot came in to the coal situation
of his own volition and not in any
sense as the agent Of the White
House
The governor acted when it became
clear that the White House had no
plan to offer and when the Atlantic
City conference between miners and
mine owners broke up
He had refrained from acting
openly and earlier, it may be said so
as not to embarrass the national ad-
ministration in any effort it might
have been contemplating.
The governors first act was to write
a letter to the president When the
Atlantic City conference broke up the
governor telephoned to the White
House asking for an interview. The
interview was arranged and Gov
Pinchot hurried to Washington. His
object was to learn whether the ad-
ministration at Washington had fur
ther plans and to ascertain whether
intervention on his own part would
disarrange federal plans if there were
any.
Found Coolidge Had No Plan
At the White House Gov. Pinchot
learned that the president had no
plans and that the field was clear.
The governor came into the situation
on his own initiative and there is
every indication that the president
was exceedingly glad to have the
problem thus taken off his hands.
Gov. Pinchot had been preparing
for action for some time before he
visited the White House He had
been gathering statistics and formu-
lating a plan for bringing miners
and mine owners together. He had
discussed the question with many
persons and he had informed repre-
sentatives of both sides of his proba-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
MILK DRIVERS GAIN

St Louis, Mo.-More than 600 or
ganized milk drivers have secured a
10 per cent wage increase. The $3.50
weekly rate of retail drivers is ad-
vanced to $95.75, and the $42.5O rate
of route foremen is increased TO
$46.75. These workers are affiliated
with the Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
FURNITURE WORKERS WIN

New York.-More than 1000 furni-
ture workers, affiliated with the
Brotherhood of Carpenters, have won
their demand for an hourly rate of
$1.25. Settlements have not been
made with several hundred of these
workers who are on strike.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28

BY international Labor News Service
Washington, D. C.-The contract
convict labor trust" has surrendered
The expose of the prison contract
graft by the international Labor News
Service, and the pressure on our state
governments by the national commit
tee on prisons and prison labor, and
officers of the American Federation of
Labor for the introduction of a better
system of prison labor has combined
to bring about this result.
The Reliance Manufacturing Com
pany, of Chicago, which holds prison
contracts in at least seven states, has
announced in full page advertisements
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
MORE RAIL EMPLOYEES

Washington.-The interstate COM
merce commission states that in June
this year there were 1888, ,929 en-
ployes on the class l railroads of this
country This exceeds the number re-
ported for any month since Novem-
Der. 1920.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
RAILROADS SHOW GAIN

of 18 railroads from all sections of
New York-Net operating incomes
the country for July totaled $36,148,-
955, compared with $28,075,261 for
the same month last year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
LABOR WINS BIG VICTORY
EXPOSE OF PRISON CONTRACT GRAFT BY LABOR NEWS SER
VICE AND A F. OF L. TOO MUCH FOR TRUST WHICH
SURRENDERS TO PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Reliance Company To Take No
Free Manufacturers In Plan To End Exploitation

in the Daily News Record and the
Journal of Commerce that it "has
agreed not to accept any further con-
tracts from governments
This victory in the fight against the
exploitation of prisoners by private
manufacturers, is in a sense greater
than the victories thus far scored in
the arena of state legislatures, be-
cause the Reliance Company has
joined forces with the free manufac-
turers, who in this case are employers
of union labor, and with the Asso-
ciates for Government Service, Inc,
in a constructive prison labor pro-
gram.
To Assist in Campaign
1t will assist the emergency drive
committee of the Interna tional AS
sociation of Garment Manufacturers
in its campaign to assist state and
city governments in creating indus
tries to produce commodities for the
states own needs instead of for sale
upon the open market The Reliance
Company has agreed not to accept
any further contracts from govern
ments during the working out of this
plan.
after years of hard work directed
against the evils of the prison labor
system" says Dr. E. Stagg Within,
executive director of the national
committee on prisons and prison la
Dor, 1--WE decided we were not justi-
fed in attacking an admittedly vicious
system unless we were prepared to
substitute something better
"The better system has been evolv-
ed in cooperation with the govern
ment service agency and is based on
the principle that prisons should pro-
duce commodities exclusively for the
needs of government and not for COM
petitive markets. The Reliance Manu-
featuring Company has investigated
the plan and is willing to surrender
its hold on the prison contract field
for the good of the state governments
involved
Agency Giving Cooperation
"The government service agency
is cooperating with all governments
and practically all the big organiza-
tions of business in the whole field of
the purchose and distribution of COM
modities used by the federal, state,
county, and municipal governments,
it's major planks being centralized
purchase and standardization of COM
modities. 1t has a fundamental in
terest in the solution of the prison
labor problem of the various states.
The government service agency is
non-profit making organization, in
corporated in New York state"
The cooperation of representatives
of organized labor, especially that of
Organizer Hugh Frayne, of New
York, formerly chairman of the war
labor section of the war industries
board, has been decided factor in
the victory scored against the con-
tract prison labor system.
In a letter made public today,
Maurice Shulze, vice-president of the
Reliance Manufacturing Company
said:
"We believe that the plan of the
Associates for Government Service,
Inc, offers practical means for re-
| placing the contract system, and we
again pledge our fullest cooperation
towards the working out of per-
manent method whereby the state,
itself, may employ its prisoners, and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-28
CARPENTERS RAISE WAGES

New Haven, Conn.-Carpenters in
this city have raised wages from 80
cents an hour to 81.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
IIIIIIlNNlNIlIIII

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bottles oft and thought it didnot he lpm me
as much as it should, so l gave itup to try
something else. Nothing took helped
me much, so finally decided to give the
Vegetable Compound another trial and
to take enough of it to make sure
it would help me. have taken it over
a year now and it has brought wonder
full results. / have gained from SO to
ITO pounds and am keeping house now.
My friends all notice the change in my
health. I will be glad to answer all
letters that women write to me about
the Vegetable Compound. Mrs. w.
G. MoNSoN, 1916 Park Ave-, Beloit, Wis.
Mrs. Monson is willing to write to any
woman suffering from such troubles.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

CURPASSING all other domestic
- news of the week, in interest if
not in Importance, was the decisive
victory of Magnus Johnson, Farmer
Labor candidate for United States SEN
ator from Minnesota, over Governor
Preus, nominee of the Republicans.
The vote for Carley was negligible for
most of the Democrats, disregarding
the advice Of their leaders, cast their
ballots for Johnson. Minnesota now
has two Farmer-Labor senator's, both
Of whom may be counted on to support
Senator LaFollette, and the Wiscon-
sin mans little bloc thus is so strength
ened that it can, in many cases, control
the balance of power in the upper
house. Johnson! who is 'self-made
man." frankly says that on many is
sues he makes up his mind to accord
with that of LaFollette. He declares,
however, that already he is opposed
to the world court, the League of Ma
tfons and foreign entanglements and
in favor Of a soldier bonus to be paid
for out of excess profits taxes.
Republican chieftains, from the Pres
ident down, were rather dismayed by
the result in Minnesota. Of course
Mr.. Harding had nothing to say of it.
Chairman Adams of the national COM
mite said:
I'm general way, the result was
protest against conditions temporarily
affecting the farming interests adverse
ly. Conditions in Minnesota and else
where in agricultural sections of the
country are bound to improve, and
with their Improvement public opinion
in those sections will right ITSELF"
Chairman Hull of the Democratic
national committee, interpreted the re-
suit as "the most significant and hu-
initiating defeat and reputation the
Harding administration has suffered
since the nationwide Reputation In
1922"
''The election was the first reaction
to President Harding's transconti-
mental political tour with its boast of
prosperity, it's characteristic evasions
and reversals and facing both ways"
he said.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

ID EVERTING to Senator Brookhart,
IN the Iowan believes he learned a
lot while abroad He says he talked
to "the living leaders of the common
people in nearly all the countries of
Europe" and his conclusion is t'that
economic cooperation upon the simple
principles Of the weavers of Rochdale,
is the only constructive idea that has
survived the war. 1t is the only plan
that will end the criminal trusts and
combinations in America and give to
the producers and consumers the just
rewards of their labors. 1t will take
immediate action of congress along the
line of the Norris bill to enable the
farmers to get the cost of production
out of their present crop. The Presi-
dent should call an extra session i'm
mediately.
Another of his assertions is that the
Russian soviet government is second
in stability only to that of the United
States, and that Russia will soon be
making inroads on the grain markets
Of America. He ignores the fact that
Russian stability is based wholly on
armed force exerted by small group
Of men who admit they are leaders Of
minority Of the people.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

condition, and it is rumored that the
United States has consented to par
ticipate in the capacity of a friendly
adviser. Public opinion in Belgium is
turning to support of the British view
in the controversy, and in two of the
most influential newspapers is pub
lished this paragraph:
ANY policy inspired Systematically
from Quai d'Orsay would be in the
year 1923 as much an alteration on
our part as during the French revolu-
ton, for we cannot forget that Eng
land is the only power whose inter-
ests oblige her to consider the neces-
sity for our freedom and indepen-
dence."
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

d ESULTS of Johnson's victory may
N be more important than it's causes.
LaFollette, Senator Brookhart of Iowa
and others gloatingly predicted that it
means the defeat Of Mr.. Harding for
denomination next year, and it was
said some of the party leaders might
renew their efforts to induce him to
decline a second term-effOrts that
they exerted first after the Republican
reverses in the election of 1922. Brook
hart, who had just returned from Eu-
rope, launched in New York a boom
for the nomination of Judge Kenyon,
former senator from Iowa, and LaFol-
lette also spoke Of him as a possibility
though it is generally believed the
Wisconsin senator will again have his
own name presented to the Republican
convention. Kenyon cannot well be
clAssed with either the radicals or the
extreme conservatives, but he may be
found not distasteful to either wing
OF the party.
Our other Senator Johnson-Hiram
of California-also is to be brought
forward by his admirers as a presiden-
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

tial nomination candidate, and his
chances are admittedly better than
they have been in the past. He is on
his way back from long tour of Eu-
rope and rousing welcome and big
banquet have been prepared for him in
New York.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

CREAT BRITAIN'S draft of the re-
~ ply to the German reparations
note has been submitted to the allies
and the United States, but it's terms
have not, at this writing, been given
to the public. They were kept secret
to give the various governments time
for their consideration. Marquis Cur
zon had hard job in framing the re-
ply, and it is not at all likely that it
will be acceptable to the others just
as it stands, but there is an increasing
belief that France will make conces-
sions that will result in final accord
in the note as sent to Berlin and thus
avert a rupture of the entente. This
despite the defiant speech made by
Premier Poincare at Senlis at exercises
in memory of those killed during the
German occupation after the Franco
PruSSian war. In effect he warned
England that he preferred abrogation
of the entente to further sacrifice Of
Frances claims. However, Poincare
and Baldwin may find common ground
if the British tell the Germans that
passive resistance in the Ruhr must
cease, and in Germany it is said now
that such an admonition from London
is all that is necessary to put an end
to that resistance
Italy already, according to London
correspondents, has agreed with
Great Britain on plan for calling an
international conference in Rome to
discuss reparations and Germany's
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

IN stores and had to
do heavier work than
my strength could
stand, and had to be
on my feet most of
the time. Finally l
had to give up this
work entirely and
stay at home. Doc
tors medicine didnot
give me much relief,
and my 10 h er
wanted me to take
lydia r.. Pinkham's
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
BY EDWARD w. PICKARD

CAN you explain why the Cap
~ per-Tincher grain exchange
bill and the other legislation
put through by the farm bloc
have failed to keep the price OF
wheat from falling below the
dollar mark? If you can, tell
the editor.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

DRESIDENT HARDING, now on his
way south from Alaska after pre-
sumably learning what is the matter
with the economic development of that
territory, has had put up to him serious
trouble in another of our possessions.
For months the native leaders in the
Philippines have been in conflict with
Governor General Wood and the row
has eliminated in the resignation Of
the cabinet, the council Of state, Man
uel QueZon, president Of the senate,
and Speaker Roxas Of the house Of
representatives. The crisis was brought
on by General Woods reinstatement Of
a secret service man who had been
discharged, but this was merely an in
cident The officials, in rendering their
designations, said to the governor gen
eral:
"We have observed for some time
that it is your policy and desire as
governor general to intervene and
control, even to the smallest details,
our government, both insular and
local, in utter disregard of the au-
thority and responsibility of the de-
partment heads and other officials con-
cerned."
General Wood, accepting the resig
nations promptly, said:
"In my opinion your action is
wholly uncalled for. 1 beg to state
most definitely and emphatically that
each and every declaration made in
your statement which charges neg
lect of the prerogatives and rights of
the secretaries or disregard for the
organic law is without the slightest
foundation in fact.
"Your plans have been deliberately
made and your action is in the nature
of q challenge and threat which I can
not ignore"
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Johnson's Election in Minnesota
Causes Excitement in Po-
IitiCal Circles.
ADDS TO LAFOLLETTE BLOC
v Y

Kenyon's Boom for Presidential Nom
ination Launched by Brookhart-
Governor General Woods Row
With Filipino Cabinet-France
May Yield Enough to Pre-
serve Entente.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
FOREIGN

The present outlook in Europe is
enough to induce despair in the stout
est hearts" declared eX-Premier David
Lloyd George in speech ,at Bristol,
England, recently.
Offocial announcement was made by
the Seine tribunal in Paris that a di-
vorce was granted to Irene Castle,
American actress, from her husband,
Robert fireman, on July II.
A subpoena for former President
Wilson, whose testimony may be
sought in the Morse trial. was pre-
pared in the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court at the request of counsel
for the defense.
President De Alvear of Argentine
sent to the Senate for secret consider
alton measure requesting authoriza-
ton to spend 155,0OO,OOO gold pesos to
modernize the Argentine army, ac-
cording to La Razon.
During communist disturbances in
Frankfort, says a Central News dis
patch received in London from Berlin.
the attorney general was knocked
down in the street and killed. His res
idence was then plundered and demol-
ished.
Ger. Francisco Villa, one-time noted
bandit leader and his chief of staff,
Col. Miguel L. Trillo, and three men,
bers of Villas escort were assassi-
mated in an ambuscade on the out
skirts of Parral, in the state of Chi
huahua, Mexico.
In Statement to newspaper men in
Manila, Manuel Quezon, who recently
resigned as president of the Philippine
Senate, reiterated his assertion that
the recent action of the native govern
ment officials in resigning was not in
tended as personal reflection on Gov.
Gen. Leonard Wood
The savants of the British Medical
Association forgot their professional
dignity and cheered heartily again and
again for the young Canadian, DR.. f.
q. Banting, when he was introduced at
Portsmouth to tell the scientists about
his discovery of insulin for the treat
ment of diabetes.
The Lausanne peace treaty formally
establishing peace between the Europ-
can powers and Turkey has been
signed. By the treaty Turkey regains
eastern Thrace and becomes the bridge
between the east and the west. She
joins the League of Nations on the
footing of equality.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
GENERAL

GENERAL
H. N. Cook, president of the Fairfax
National Bank at Fairfax, Okla, was
seriously wounded by bandits who es-
capped with loot approximately $4,000.
1.-THE American farmer has lost mil
lions of dollars this year as direct re-
suit of the activities of his so called
leaders," George S. Bridges of the Chi
cago Board of Trade declared in an
address before the National Hay AssO-
citation at West Baden, Ind.
Twelve Goose Creek men appeared
before Criminal District Judge G. N.
Robinson at Houston, Tex, and en-
tered pleas of guilty to seventeen
charges growing out of masked flog-
gings which have occurred in the oil
field district in the last two years.
The fifth world championship bat
tie of 1923 was the magnet that at
tracted a thrOng of nearly 10000 when
Benny Leonard successfully defended
his lightweight title in a fifteen-round
match with Lew Tender of Philadel
phia at the Yankee stadium in New
York City.
A plan to withdraw 200000,000
bushels of wheat from the market and
store it on farms until prices advance
was announced in Chicago few days
ago by G. e. Bradfute, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. The farm bureau plan provides
for financing the project under the
new intermediate credit act, by which
Mr.. Bradfute estimated $66O,0O0,O00
could be made available to lend to
farmers for storing their surpluses.
President Bradfute estimated that
S15O,OOO,OOO would be ample to store
2OOOOO,OOO bushels of wheat and
thereby remove it from the below a
dollar market.
The automobile industry was first
among eight industries surveyed in pre-
vention of accidents, according to a
statement made public in Chicago by
the national safety council. Accidents
averaged one a day for $500 automo-
bile employees, or a total of 1892 dur
ing a total of 203,000,000 hours worked
by S5,145 employees.
Within less than fOrty-eight hours
after his arrest in Montreal on charges
of forgery and embeZzlement, Michael
NJ. Dugan, former private secretary to
James COrrigan, millionaire steel man,
was sentenced at Cincinnati to from
two to twenty years in the Ohio prison,
following his plea of guilty to embez-
element of more than $10,0O0," from
his former employer.
Funeral services Of Rear Admiral
Sigsbee, commander of the Inflated
battleship Maine, were held in New
York City in the Cathedral of Saint
John the Divine, conducted by the
of the cathedral, the Rev. II.
P. Veasie. Honorary pallbearers were
Rear Admiral Charles z. Plunkett, |
Mai. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, Mel |
Vile E. Stone, Col. Henry L. Swords |
and Maj. Philips Tilden.
The American Train Dispatchers' AS |
sociation has filed submissions with |
the United States Railroad Board at |
Chicago, asking increases in wages for
train dispatchers on the Denver 4 Rio
Grande Western, Rio Grand Southern
and Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail
roads.
Herr st. Hamer, German ambassa-
dor to England, has received renewed
from Berlin that the Ger
man people cannot accept military oc-
nnnatinn of German territory as q |
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

TSNTET PASHA was authorized by
the Angora government to sign the
peace treaty formulated at Lausanne,
and the act Of signing was set for July
"A. The treaty represents a triumph
for Turkey and for the United States
the latter because on the demand of
Minister Grew validatfon of prewar
concessions is omitted and the open
door policy prevails. The Turks gain
practically everything for which they
contended, and even their concessions
were modified so that the treaty
would not be rejected at Angora. For
instance, they objected to a provision
that each allied nation should keep
two warships in the Dardanelles until
the final ratification of the treaty, so
the pact as finally drawn says each
allied nation shall keep one warship
there Eat the invitation Of the Turkish
government" The Turkish delegates
and Mr.. Grew we're hurriedly complet-
ing the separate peace treaty with the
United States so it could be s-gned
Immediately after that with the al
lies. In both cases various questions
are left for diplomatic settlement.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
DREMIER MUssoLINI has clinched

DREMIER MUSSOLINI has clinched
his complete control of the gov
ernment Of Italy by persuading the
law which permits the redistricting
and gerrymandering Of election dis
tricts. The liberals opposed the
measure but Mussolini told the parlia-
ment he would get rid Of it altogether
unless it obeyed him. He is admitted
ly doing great things for the restora-
ton Of his country, but his dictatorial
methods are looked at askance by
many Italians.
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03
FRIENDS NOTICED
IMPROVEMENT
Wonderful ResultsfromLyd
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound

Beloit, Wis.-'My female trouble was
brought on by overwork. had worked
The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

EOR the first time during the pro-
L ceedings of the mixed claims COM
mission, a demand has been made that
the German government produce its
official records showing the activities
Of its spies in the United States during
the war. An elevator of the Kentucky
Elevator company was burned in Feb
ruary, 1917, and the company claims
S1OOO,OOO damages. 1t is contended
that the destruction of this and other
elevators was part Of the plot Of
German agents to buy up all the grain,
or, failing in that, to destroy the
available wheat supply in America.
The demand for the spy records is
justified by an article in the treaty Of
Versailles.