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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
SCHOOL FOR DISCON-
TENT

Fairhope, Ala.-'Men who express
fear about the growing disrespect for
constituted authority" should turn
toward Florida, says Editor CASTOR, of
the Fairhope Courier.
Their attention is directed to such
institutions for the manufacture of
discomfort and contempt for govern
ment as are now being exposed in
Florida, the system under which men
without money were arrested as va
grants, and for such charges as beat
ing their way on trains, fined 1926 or
90 days as poor Tabert was, and
turned over to a private concern to be
worked from daylight to dark, for all
that could be gotten out of them by
such brutality as makes the blood of a
sensitive man curdle.
''The policy is general, north and
south, of treating out-ofworks as
criminals and fining and imprisoning
them, if not contracting them out.
And this while men with money can
commit all sorts of crimes and get
away with it practically without pun
ishment.
"Can you expect men to respect, let
alone love, a government which per-
mits it's courts and officials to make
so great a difference between those
who have and those who need ?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
''OPEN SHOP"
NOW CLOSED UP
By international Labor News Service

BY international Labor News Service.
San Francisco = The so-called
American plan," under fire by the
government here, is deader than the
proverbial doornail throughout the
Pacific Northwest This is the re-
port of Joseph Clarke, president
Of the International Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang-
ers of America, who has returned
from an official tour through Wash
ington and Oregon
Union shop agreements with wage
increases have recently been nego-
tiated by practically all building
trades in Portland according to
Clarke These agreements were ne
gotiated directly by the Portland
Building Trades Council with the
Building Contractors Association of
that city
In Seattle, according to Clarke, the
Building Trades Council is back on
its feet all unions back in the coun-
ell, the so-called American plan" is
wiped off the map, and the council has
negotiated union shop agreements
providing for wage increases for prac-
tically every union in the council
The same satisfactory conditions
maintain in the building industry in
Tacoma and throughout the entire
Pacfic Northwest, says Clarke
In Salt Lake City the so-called
american plan" has gone by the
boards after a struggle of three years,
which resulted in a complete victory
for the unions, says Clarke
All union painters in San Francisco
are employed at union wages, Clarke
reports.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
BUILDING TRADE UNIONS
ROUT "OPEN SHOPPERS" BY
RUNNING SUPPLY BUSINESS

By international Labor News Service.
San Jose, Cal -" american plan"
proponents have been dealt knock
out blow by the Santa Clara County
Building Trades Council which in six
teen months has built up the largest
building material supply business in
the country. As a result at least 85
per cent of the building work in San
Jose is union and the "open shoppers"
are in full retreat.
The establishment of the supply
business was the answer of the union
men of Santa Clara county to the
threat of the material combine that
union buildings could not be put up in
the county because material for the
work could not be obtained.
The Building Trades Council called
the bluff of their opponents and es-
tablished the supply business, despite
doleful predictions of failure and the
putting in their path of every obstacle
that their enemies could plan In six
teen months the supply concern has
done $270,000 worth of business and
it is now an assured success. The
union men have their own warehouse
and recently received a forty-car ship
ment of cement, lime, hardwall, brick
and other supplies.
Stressng that it is equally impor-
tant that union men organize their
money as well as themselves, ]. F.
Cambiauo, secretary of the Building
Trades Council, said recently of the
councils supply business:
"The material business of the Santa
Clara County Building Trades Coun-
ell is growing, growing every day.
Just how large this business will ulti-
mately grow we have no idea but this
we do know, that it was the organiza-
ton of our money into this business
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
TYPO UNIONS
Aims and Objects Set Forth
Plan Label Education

indianapolis, Ind.-Plans for an
educational campaign to instruct
union members on the true relation
ship of communistic ideas with the
labor union movement and to equip
each member with arguments in favor
of encouraging unionism through use
of the union label have been formu-
lated by the Allied Printing Trades
Council, according to an announce
ment made at headquarters of the In
ternational Typographical Union
here.
Leaders of the printing unions be-
lieve that more general recognition of
the justice and soundness of the trade
union principle will go far toward pre-
venting spread of dangerous and
troublesome ideas of governmental re-
FORM said ]. w. Hays, secretary
treasurer of the Typographical Union.
"Sympathies of sensible men can be
drawn to revolutionary movements
only when no other avenue for escap-
ing economic hardships can be discov-
cred.
at is hoped that by arming each
craftsmen in the printing trades with
thorough understanding of union
aims and policies many thousands of
men and women, outside the ranks
of unionism, may be reached. Each
union man may be able to clear up
misconceptions in the minds of
friends and acquaintance"
Aims and objects of the Typograph-
ical Unions are given as follows:
''To establish and maintain an equi-
table scale of wages and protect our
selves from sudden and unreasonable
fluctuations in pay; to protect just
employers from unfair competition;
to defend our rights and interests as
working men; to create an authority
whose zeal shall constitute certifi-
cate of character, intelligence and
skill; to build up an organization in
which all worthy members of the
craft can participate in the discussion
of problems affecting their welfare;
to foster fellowship and brotherhood,
and shield from aggression the isolat-
ed toiler; to aid the destitute and un-
fortunate and provide for the decent
burial of deceased members; to de-
velop and stimulate by association
and social converse those kindly in
stincts of humanity that most highly
adorn true manhood; to encourage the
principle and practise of conciliation
in differences between capital and la
Dor; to incite honorable effort for
better conditions of labor and greater
enjoyment of the amenities of life, to
concomitants of culture and civiliza
ton; to defend the defenceless, be-
friend the friendless, and in all char
ity inculcate lessons of justice and
good will among men,"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22

that only p per cent of the prison
ers are employed in the manufacture
of workshirts and overalls for state
consumption. This is a fair proper
tion. The unfair proportion of SO
per cent under the public account and
contract systems is a staggering bur
den to industry-too much for the
industries directly concerned.
Trust Seeks to Extend Its Control
Conditions will be worse within the
next five or six weeks The Sterling
Reliance Company is negotiating with
five more states for the introduction
of garment manufacturing plants.
The reformatory at Pendleton, In
diana, may give the Reliance concern
the output of 400 prisoners. Nego-
tlatlons are under way with the
branch state prison at Marquette,
Mich, for the output of 600 men.
The contract for the state prison of
Utah was held up at the last moment
at the request of the National Com
mittee on prisons and prison labor
and others, but the trust may yet win
the fight Four hundred men are on
the verge of trust domination in the
state prison at Huntsville, Texas. In
Alabama an extraordinary movement
of reaction practically insures to the
prison labor trust the output of 900
men in shirt shops and 500 men in
the textile plant.
This is the situation on the fighting
line. Much undercover work is being
done in other states. Eli Brown, of
Kentucky, the agent of the prison la
Dor trust, is travelling throughoo
United States to extend the system
of private exploitation of prisoners.
Milton Goodman, president of the
Reliance Company, is backing him up
in every ticklish negotiation. Their
favorite argument with the states is
to say that the state use system has
failed and that practical admins
traitors must adopt system of prison
production that works. Profits of the
past certainly show that the system
works for the trust Stock dividends
have been necessary to distribute the
profits without making the income tax
too large for the comfort Of the trust
beneficiaries.
Here Are States Where Contractors
Are Entrenched
The following tabulation for the
garment industry shows the states
that have prison contracts are:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22

the public account system was the
subterfuge introduced to get around
the laws against contractors passed in
most of the states
AS far as competition is concerned
the public account system is as bad
as the contract system Of prison labor
because in both instances the goods
are thrown upon the open market.
The only way of keeping prison made
goods off the open market is to dis
tribute the production CO state and
municipal governments and institu-
tions for consumption. This requires
better business organization than eX-
lists at present, but the alternative Of
unfair competition is so serious both
to labor and industry that better
business organization in government
is being demanded SO insistently that
it cannot long be evaded
Concentrate in Shirt and Overall
Making
Further analysis Of the figures
compiled show that, although only ten
thousand out of 1000 prisoners are
employed under the public account
and contract systems, 5,749, or SO per
cent of the 10000, are employed in
the manufacture of workshirts and
overalls. This concentration is driv-
ing manufacturers in these lines out
of business. Such competition is pal
pably unfair
More serious to other manufacture
ers is the fact that the contracts held
by prison labor eXploiters permit
them to make a similar concentration
of prison labor in any industry they
| choose
The public does not generally ap-
preciate the significance of this fact
because it is not generally known that
there exists what is practically a
prison labor trust-the Sterling Re-
lance Company, of Chicago.
The concentration of prisoners on
workshirts and overalls in prisons to-
day is as follows:
Workshirts, Other Shop
Overalls Trades Tota
Public
account
system .....1 ,432 2,703 4,13E
Contract
system .....4,317 2,228 $500
State use
system 49,. 863 6,836 1895
The contrast with the state use
system is significant because it shows
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
HIGH WAGES BOOMING
NATIONS TRADE, SAYS
u. S. RESERVE BOARD

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, d. CO Chalk up
another big score for the economic
views of the American Federation of
Labor!
The strongest possible support of
the federation's contention that high
wages mean prosperity is given by
the U. S. federal reserve board,
which keeps in close touch with bust
ness conditions of the nation.
Says the reserve board in it's
monthly review of business and in
dustrial conditions:
Increased buying power of wage
earners arising from fuller employ
ment and wage advances has been
reflected in a greater demand for
consumers goods and expansion in re-
tail trade"
Endorsement of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor's views could hardly
be stronger. What makes the state
ment doubly significant is that it
comes from body whose relations are
almost wholly with bankers and which
reflects the opinions of the banking
fraternity, which has little sympathy
with organized labor.
But even stronger endorsement of
organized labor's views is given by
the reserve board, which goes on to
say:
Factories employing over 100000
workers and representing various
lines of industry in all parts of the
United States report increases during
the past year of 27 per cent in the
number of their employees, and, as
the result of fuller employment and
increased wages, of SO per cent in the
amount of their pay rolls.
Growth in consumers demand is
reflected in the sales of Sand 10-cent
stores and of department stores,
which during the first four months of
1923 were Is per cent larger than
during the corresponding period of
last year The slight decline in sales
during April was chiefly seasonal in
character.
"An element in the increased buy
ing power of consumers has been that
the cost of living has increased rela
lively little and the margin over
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22

necessary living expenses available
for other expenditures or for savings
has been larger Evidence of this
surplus is found in the steady growth
of savings deposits month by month,
the volume of savings accounts in
about 900 reporting banks distributed
throughout the II federal reserve
districts being 10 per cent larger on
May /, 1923, than a year earlier.
"In view of the present wage in
come there can be no doubt as to the,
buying power of industrial workers
and there has been little, if any, in
dication of slackening in the con-
sumers' demand for goods"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
PRISON LABOR TRUST SCOPE
REVEALED BY NATIONAL SURVEY GETS FACT
THAT SHOW EXTENT OF MENACE CONCENTRATION ON
GARMENT MANUFACTURE DRIVES SOME FIRMS
OUT OF BUSINESS
Wor and Overa Chief Product Effort Use
System Meets Enmty Of Greed and Shftless Management

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, d. C.-Unfair compe-
tition of prison labor with free in
dustry has reached alarming proper
tions in the last twelve months. Or
ganizations of labor and organizations
of manufacturers are both considering
immediate steps to combat the spread
of contract convict labor industries
and other forms of exploitation of
prisoners at the expense of free labor
and free industry.
Because of the extraordinary con
centration of prison labor in the man
ufacture of garments, it is natural
that the garment industry should be
the first to make it's objections heard
Manufacturers of workshirts and
overalls especially are being driven
out of business and wages in some
plants have been deprecated as a re-
suit. Complaints have been made
III SUCH luliiDeiS W CilS lSuSlal CIV
ernment that the department of labor
has started an investigation of prison
labor conditions.
Study Shows Extent of Unfair
Competition
In the meantime the natinoal
committee on prisons and prison la
Dor has completed preliminary study
of prison labor conditions, the re-
suits of which have been turned over
to the department of labor as the
basis for it's Investigations. These
figures show the following distribu-
ton of workable prisoners in prison
industries in state prisons and re-
formatories:
Contract system ....................".... 6,605
Public account system ......,........ Abs
Total unfair competition .....10,74
State use system ......................... 1858
Maintenance work ESTIMATED
at 40 per cent)..."..............."28,8O 300
Roadwork .................................12 ,294
Farms y, ,46T
Total fair employment. ,26(
Total of all employed. ,00(
(Southern prisoners not included)
The contract system of prison labor
has been universally condemned, bu
it offers SO many opportunities fol
profit and graft and it simplifies pris
on management problems so greatly
for shiftless administration that i
has maintained footing in many
states. 1t was driven out in the more
progressive states before the war, bu
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22

that made it possible for the Santa
Clara County Building Trades Coun-
ell to maintain the right to organize
and bargain collectively and defeat
every attempt of the would-be de-
stroyers of labor organizations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
TRAIL BEHIND

San Diego, Cal.-After organized
carpenters in this city took chances
and raised rates to 50 a day, anti
union carpenters are petitioning en-
ployers to raise their rates. They
are being paid Sc and 81 a day These
are strong advocates Of the
bargaining plan
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-06-22
Comfort Convenience
Beauty and Attractveness W Help in Making
Your Home Better Home

This prepared possible aid and
cordial invitation make facilities creating
Better Home This accord with a nationwide
endorsed by President Warren Harding looking home betermen
in America.
The northwestern bulletin., 1923-03-31
EMPTY BOTTLES

There proverba expression best known the elder
of that The empty bottle becomes the
noise makes We vvdy reminded of this hacneyed
axiom when notice of ounderng about what
have accomplished the past fifty and what of
group still achieving.
stride of the brief space time since emancipation
from bondage But must be thoroughly of the
that the food yesterday will suffice
We must provide for tomorrow else suffer the loss of
strength.
When asked what the Colored American given civi
zaon those empty bottles guge louder than that Booker
Washington the world its greatest industrial institution
for the that Frederick Douglass greatest
statesmen that Paul Lawrence Dunbar wrote
and then round out the by giving elaborate climax of
the aur by other of who have passed
the great beyond who still basng the sunshine of
their glory
The accomplishments great only inspirations
for greater things to be achieved by the modern The
of today what Washington Douglass and
others the world but what contributing the
advancement of economic civilization What daily
giving to help break down the barriers of preudce What
able to do enghen those who after that they
might find the world greater and blessed temple which
to dwell result of your contribution.
Mr. Empty Bottle have listened with patience your
box oratoy long enough fact long, We have permitted
but not vigilance We longer
will default of duty to those who swayed
by conception of and cannot think ntegen for
themselves We have weighed the balance and found
wanting And offer this alternative either produce ang
BILE results reduce your false theory of victory.
The must not be miSlead into thinking that fight
has only begun must present solid front than
before and be formidable contender for things
than have thus far been accomplished The rank and file must be
taught different athA faith that by ferverent de-
sire and absolute will for continued bettemen 1t Today
and not Yesterday that counts in this race of life
The northwestern bulletin., 1923-03-31
AN EASTER PRAYER

few weeks the Federal Council of the Church of Christ
America sent out lengthy releases urging the churches of the
country observe what to be known Race Relation
The idea of Christian people ntemngng met with national
Relations Sunday crownng Now
the body in accordance with spirit of Easter has issued
call effort to remind people that the
fitting prayer the betteen of world conditions and the
permanent establishment of peace and prosperity
Sunday which marks the close of the Lenten
period sacredness and sedena by members of
tain religious denominations and reminder of the successive
which led the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ
stands the special day when for the beement
of mankind should be made with unusual sincerity and humbeness
Through the have doubted the effectiveness of
sometimes with all sincerity but the value of has
serted itself to be at least of psychological effectiveness to
little of the material results have wrought result Of
the disposition of the mind with respect We con-
soed, certain extent when have uttered
Him for whatever be- There abiding faith
that accompanies every prayer.
With all it's significance there could be day approp
ate than Easter to heed the call for aid overcoming
the natural hated and bring greater security and the
world An Easter of this nature by and
would be most righteous deed
The northwestern bulletin., 1923-03-31
CONTEMPORARIES
THE USE AND ABUSE OF TIME

boy air rhe and sparrow. The sparrow is killed
fisherman hook and fish, and the fish killed butcher
knife and and the pig killed man. revolver and
other man, and the is killed. An army modern war
machinery and another and thousand killed field of
grain, ndoent and time is killed house.
hammer and loafng carpenter and time killed business
institution, caresess lazy Indifferent
poyer employee, and time is killed
Never again the target the fish and pig served
food The soldier left his brothers freedom and
tunites but the ndont the oag carpenter the
less and inefficient empoye left record time Some purpose
served through the passing of the battlefield hero but end
served in an idle moment.
Time comprehends all the possibilities of e Who kills time,
holds back keeps the seed from the soil wthhos
all people stunts growth and further DEVELOPMENT Using time
wrecked at The automobile added employment
good roads, great wealth and development
The of time comprehends sufficient
for recreation for reading for anything whatever may
better fitted for work. for work gives the opportunity giving the
fullest accounting to time Time has given the life all
generations but has given such golden opportunity
now. Exchange
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
For Sdle-AutOS
For Sule-MtScellnneOus

FOR SALE-Baby carriage cheap.
Call 436 Hamilton. 3t3
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
AMERICAN LEAGUE
PERSONALS

Mrs. +. r. Slocum has returned to
El Centre after a long stay on the
coast and plans TO remain here per
manently.
"Scotty' Russell has returned
to FL Centre following an extended
vacation on the coast and says he is
here for the winter. Mrs. Russell
plans to remain in Los Angeles,
coming down to the valley for Oc-
casiOnal visits.
According to reports this morn
ing, Mrs. A. Il. Worthy who has
been i'll for several days is getting
along well, but is not yet able to
be up.
Mrs. Will S. Fawcett has left the
city to join Miss Hazel Fawcett in
Pasadena.
Accepts Position Here-Mrs. Brad
ley, for two and half years con
nected with the executive work of
the woman s ready-towear depart
ment of the Broadway Department
store of Los Angeles, has arrived
in this city to accept position
with the b. Salomon Company. Mrs.
Bradley is an expert in her line and
will be of great assistance to wo-
men of the city interested in the
latest modes.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-04
Inquiries From
Far and Near i'm
Chambers Mail

" Gratifying news said Sccre-
tary Coyle at the Chamber of
Commerce as he opened his mail
this morning and read a letter from
Robert n. Forsyth of Oakland, who
asked for map of Ell Centre and
the city's population. He advised
that he has recently purchased two
lots here and plans to build on
them in the near future.
The public library at San Bernar-
dino is receiving so many inquiries
for information on FL Centre and
Imperial Valley, that the librarian
has requested literature which win
enable her to give out accurate sta
tistics to all who are Interested.
Miss Christine Ortega, teacher
in the Santa Barbara schools, also
requested information ON Imperial
Valley which she in turn will give
to her pupils who at the present
time are taking q special course In
the commercial activities of South,
ern California.
From Cuba came u request for
crop statistics and general informa-
ton ON Imperial Valley lands, sign.
cd by a. Rosenbaum. lie advised