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Evening star., 1923-08-30
BASE BALL LEADERS
MAY HAVE ELEVENS

Two prominent athletic clubs with
formidable base ball teams may place
gridiron elevens on the sandlots this
season. Dominican Lyceum and Sill
Yer Spring are considering the pos
sibility of entering teams in the
1928 foot ball season.
If the Dominicans form an eleven
they will make their debut in the south
west, confronted by a pair OF tough
opponents-Mercury and Southern
Southwest Washington Citizens As
sociation, James l.. Butler, athletic
director. will discuss plans for the
organization of n Dominican Lyceum
foot ball team
Citizens of Silver Spring are in ia
vor of backing a foot ball outfit from
their section. Lem owens. hurting
ace of the Marylanders, is backing the
plan. The field at Georgia and Alas
ka avenues would be used, provided
Silver Spring completes its plans.
stanton Juniors will hold foot ball
practice this afternoon on the Plaza
diamond. These candidates are ex-
pected to report: Farrell. r. keegan.
Hanback,, Lerch. O'Grady. o. Mitchell,
j. Mitchell. n. keegan, Tripp, Greg
ory. Weldon. Fitzgerald. Burk, ODon-
nell. Lyons. Mohler and Wondrack
Triangle Athletic Club will hold a
foot ball meeting tonight. at 1880
o'clock. at the home of George Ell
liott. 1919 10th street.
Evening star., 1923-08-30
TIP FOR FISHERMEN.

HARPERS FERRY. w Va. August
3n.-The Potomac river was clear and
Shenandoah was slightly cloudy this
morning
Evening star., 1923-08-30
EXHIBITION GAMES.

At Worcester Mass R. H E.
Philadelphia Americans ............ s II l
Worcester (Eastern1 ...............
Batteries-Wolfe and Bruggy: Gardner and
Kennedy.
At Buffalo R. II. E.
New York Americans. ............... l3 II 2
Buffalo (Internat tiona) ............. Z 10 5
Batteries-Pipgrass aand Bengough; Fisher
ard Urban, Ampherson.
Evening star., 1923-08-30
SANDLOT SERIES
UNLIMITED DIVISION
(SECTION A.

Today's game-Petworth VS.. Printers (post.
poned).
No game yesterday.
STANDING.
Team. W. L. Pet. Team. W. L. Bet.
Legion. 1000 Jr.o.U.A.M. s $50
Petworth. 2 .750 Printers. o 900
Garfield. 5 .558 Mercury. 900
Roberts. SEQ
tSECTION b
Today's game-Mohawks Dominican Ly-
ceum. Union Park 6:l5 o'clock.
Shamrocks Boiling Field (wet grounds.
STANDING.
Team. W. L. Pet. Team. W. L. Pet
Mohawks:. 1857 Boil. Field. 200
Dom My m l 1893 Park View. 5 200
shamrocks. 2 400
tSECTION Co.
No game today.
No game yesterday.
STANDING
Team. W. L. Pct Team W. L. Pct
Miians.. $50 st. Joseph. $50
Comforters 4 s .57l
Evening star., 1923-08-30
WILLIE HUNTER

Member and captain British interna-
ttOnal golf team for several years;
the man who introduced golf into
British East and South Africa and
New South Wales.
Evening star., 1923-08-30
JUNIOR DIVISION.
MIDGET DIVISION.

MIDGET DIVISION.
tsECTION A.
No game today.
Yesterdays game-Corinthian S; Auro-
ras. 4.
STANDING.
Team W. L. Pet Team. W. !. Pct
Emblems 1893 Corinthian.. .571
Aurora w 3 .57l Park View. 6 900
(SECrION b.
No game today.
No game yesterday.
STANDING
Team. W. L. Pct Team W. L.Pct.
Southends.. 8 o 200 Aztecs. 8 400
Liaworth. 3 500 Peerless o s 900
Evening star., 1923-08-30
THREE MINOR LEAGUES
HAVE REAL FLAG RACES

Real battles for pennants are taking
place in three minor leagues. Here
Evening star., 1923-08-30

Today's game-Petworth VS.. Printers (post
ned).
Evening star., 1923-08-30
STATISTICS OF MAJORS

GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Wash. at New York. Wash. at New York.
Phila at Boston. Phila. at Boston.
Detroit at St. Louis.
Cleveland at Chicago.
RESULT OF YESTERDAYS GAME.
Detroit, 2: Washington,
Only game scheduled,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
"a - "a ca N
PUBLIC DIDN'T ENTHUSE

1t is settled that the administration
party will not have an anti-union
declaration in its party platform next
year.
Attorney General Daugherty was
quoted in the public press as favor
ing such declaration. So was Dawes,
Chicago money lender, and numer-
Gus "sound business men," names not
mentioned
These kites were sent up in the
hope that they would catch the popu-
lar breeze. The anti-union section of
the public press cautiously nursed
these "feelers" in the hope that the
great public would respond. About
that time President Gompers returned
to his office from a siege of sickness,
and his first utterance was to dare
the anti-unionists to go through with
their plan.
81 wonder who will be chosen as the
Mussolini of American reaction
said President Gompers, in discussing
the matter with newspaper men in his
office. Liberty loving people will
be glad to meet that issue. Probably
those behind this American Fascist
movement also have Mussolini's con-
ception of human rights and liberty
Mussolini was recently quoted as de-
claring that liberty is dead and that
his cohorts must ride roughshod over
the decomposed corpse of liberty"
This challenge to the anti-union
scheme, together with a refusal of
the public to respond, brought the
Daugherty- Dawes kite futtering to
the ground. There was not enough
wind behind it to keep it afoat and
the thing collapsed The public failed
to enthuse
Now the public is gravely assured
that the administration will have
nothing to do with the anti-union
nronoSal-Wouldn't even think of it
pre-posterous, the idea! It's a nasty
thing. So therel
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
FAla NHa WA Fsh
VIII ATS NEXT?

Now French airplane rises, flies
and lands without pilot. American
ships sail without crews. Some scien-
tist finds an entirely new kind of
water Men are prying after the
atomic power What is just over the
hill? No man can foretell. But there
are marvels to come-mavels that
will increase our store of power and
make infinitely greater our ability to
make power do more of the work that
muscles now perform. Make no mis-
take, the discoveries of science will
bring forth tremendous problems for
labor. None should watch more
closely the work of science than the
organized wage earners. 1t would
seem that we are fast approaching the
idea of Henry Ford that some day the
workers will perform not more than
one hour of actual labor per day. But
how SoOp--2
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
"a a 20 "a -
BRANDED FALSELY
Names on Goods These Days
Mean Nothing

New York.-How TO prevent mis-
leading names on commodities offered
for sale was discussed by committee
of the American Bar Association
Most of the line now claimed to
be manufactured in Belfast is made in
the United States, it was stated.
The use of the name Hudson seal"
for articles made of the skins of
muskrat, trimmed and dyed in perfect
imitation of the genuine article, was
declared to be one of the greatest
frauds ever perpetrated by the fur
industry. Rabbit skin is offered as
Baltic" and other varieties of seal.
1t was stated that mountain goat will
be offered as ermine unless misrepre-
sentation in this industry is halted
1t was declared that there is inten-
tional commercial deception in many
of the names selected for articles
which had first-class standing when
first marketed. Members of the com
mittee were agreed as to conditions
but no action was taken.
The committee also considered a
United States industrial court similar
to Aliens "can't-strike" law, but con-
cluded to postpone action.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
"AT ANY PRICE"
Establish Anti-Uni0nism In
Building Trades is Cleve-
land Program

Cleveland, Ohio.-The chamber of
commerce committee on labor recon-
mends building boycott to destroy
the building trade unions.
The committee says "the price is
not too high" to establish anti-union-
ism in this industry. Business men
are urged to develop pubic opinion
hostile to the unions.
The committees action recalls the
recent controversy between President
Gompers and Newton D. Baker, for
mer secretary ow ar and now presi-
dent of the chamber of commerce.
President Gompers defended the union
shop against the individual bargain
ing theory.
The question of costs arose in the
controversy, and President Gompers
made this comment on the charge
that organized labor is responsible
for high costs in building:
81 say to you, and / think you
know, that the building contractors of
Cleveland are Incapable of ascertain
ing, up on the basis Of present rec
ords, anything even roughly approx
mating any change in per man pro-
duction or in per man cost of opera
tions. | am sure that the building
contractors of Cleveland are, upon the
average, no more advanced in methods
than are employers throughout the
country After an exhaustive invest
cation the federal trade commission
finds that no more than 10 per cent
of the manufacturing and commercial
institutions of the country know what
are their costs of operation"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
LABOR TEMPLE DANCES

An article appearing in one of the
daily papers on Friday of last week
regarding six girls arrested and
charged with living improperly at a
South Fifth street hotel, among other
things stated that testimony showed
these girls had first met at one of
the Saturday night dances held at the
labor temple. While we don't say
that the newspaper intended it that
way, yet the article worded as it was
might reflect on the character of the
dances conducted at the labor temple.
True, the girls referred to may have
met first at one of these dances. They
also might attend church, a picture
show, county fair, or any other place
open to the public, but would that be
any reason for saying those places
are disorderly or disreputable or un-
fit places for decent people to go to
and should be closed? The manage
ment of the labor temple dances owe
no apology to any one for the manner
in which they conduct the dances at
the temple. Everything possible is
done for conducting them in clean
and respectable manner and for pro-
viding for the safeguarding of the
young ladies who attend. They en-
ploy policeman regularly and work
hand in hand with Policewoman
Fowles, who attends on every occa-
sion and watches carefully that every
thing is as it should be. In addition,
at the meeting of Trades Council held
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20

corporation is the biggest trust in
the country and E. H. Gary is its head.
Gary got Harding's ear the other day
and anyone who has followed Warren
G. Harding's career knows how sweet
he is on big trusts, big corporations
and big money men, and they know
without being told where Warren o..
stands on the immigration question
after being told that Gary and the
president conferred on the question.
Suffice to say that it is said the
president is convinced by the steel
magnate's plea that foreign workers
are needed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
WHY HIGH FREIGHT 7

New York.-To force railroads to
join with the city in developing a
unified terminal system port authori-
ties exposed some boasted efficiency
of railroads.
1t was shown how tank car filled
with linseed oil routed from Under
cliff, N. j., to Bayonne, N. j., dis
tance of 1872 miles, travelled 1872
miles and took four days to reach it's
destination. The car travelled through
several New Jersey cities, and also
Easton, Pa, before reaching Bayonne
In reply to the claim of railroad
attorneys that this case is exception
al, engineers said these instances
could be cited without number.
1t was also shown that a car ship
ped from Undercliff to Keansburg,
N. j., a distance of AZ miles, travelled
1877 miles. Still another example was
a car shipped from one part of Jer-
sey City to another part of the same
city "a distance of four miles. The
car was routed so that it travelled
81 miles and took four days for the
journey.
General George w. Goethals, con-
sulting engineer, testified that the
unification plan would be much less
expensive and much more efficient
1t developed that three railroads have
refused to give any information to
the authorities to aid them in the pro-
posed efficiency scheme.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
PROPERTY WINS
AGAIN
Says LabOr's Chief of Court
Action on Minimum Wage
Law

Washington. "The court again
ranges itself on the side of property"
is the comment by President Gompers
on the supreme courts invalidating
the District of Columbia minimum
wage law for women.
Presumably the court followed
what, in it's mind, is a certain phil
osophy of government and a certain
construction of the constitution" said
President Gompers. "It is notable,
however, that in practically every case
of Importance involving employment
relations and the protection of hu-
manity, the court ranges itself on the
side of property and against human
ity
"The women wage earners of the
District of Columbia are less favor
ably situated than women wage earn
ers elsewhere. Not only are they less
able to defend themselves on the
economic field, but they are absolutely
without means of defense on the polit-
ical field. This is situation peculiar
to this voteless oasis.
"The supreme court has declared
the child labor law unconstitutional,
and this new decision, taking proper
and needed protection from women, is
logical next step in perfecting the
doctrine that those who can not help
themselves shall not be helped"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
INDUSTRIAL SPIES

What Roger w. Babson thinks of
industrial spying, as disclosed by the
Balm testimony and the Michigan
communist trial, he tells to the en-
ployers of labor in his current special
bulletin to industrial leaders.
whether Bailn's testimony is true
we do not know" he remarks. prob
ably it is true, as reported, only part
ly true. The most important fact is
that the kind of thing Bailin tells
about is common in our industries.
There are a score or more of these
industrial spy agencies at work in the
country. They act under all kinds
of names which give no hint of their
real work. Immense sums are paid
to them by our employers.
'This is a serious blunder on the
part of the corporation leaders. 1t
stirs up trouble where none exists.
1t is the most potent broader Of rad
icalism we have. The boring from
within which radical leaders are
charged with, is drop in the bucket
to the boring that the industrial spy
does. for money which the employer
paws. These spy agencies set out to
find rottenness, and if they do not
actually find it, some make it or fake
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20

Tuesday night, a general invitation
was extended to all the county and
city officials to attend the dances on
all occasions, and to offer any advice
and suggestions they can to make the
affairs better and safer for young
girls. This we don't believe they can
do, for they will find there are no
public dances better, or more strictly
conducted, than are those at the labor
temple
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20

CARPENTERS TO VOTE

Union carpenters for years have
discussed the question of a national
home and the establishment of a pen
sion fund, and conventions have
authorized general officers to study
the proposals.
Pursuant to this comes the news
from national headquarters that the
general executive board of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Jointers has submitted the fol-
lowing propositions to the referen-
dunn:
"Shall the board of trustees be
authorized to purchase land to be used
for home for the aged and infirm
members of our organization, to be
owned and controlled by the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers of America
"Shall the percapita to the general
office be increased 10 cents per men,
Der per month, and be placed in a
special fund for the home and pen
sion purposes?"
1t is said sentiment is very favor
able to the propositions everywhere,
and it is believed they will carry big
in the referendum.
E~ wn xm ww mm
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20

written into a decision of our court
of last resort.
1t is noteworthy that Justice Taft
dissented. That Justice Taft does
not hesitate to express his opinions
was shown in the child labor decision,
but he finds this demeaning of wo-
men workers impossible. The whole
proceeding is shocking and / trust
that the coming congress will find
some way to extend effective protec-
ton to the women workers of the Dis
trict of Columbia and to all states
that may hereafter enact such pro-
tective legislation.
1t may not be amiss to point out
at this time that this decision har-
monies exactly with the logic which
supports the demand of an aristocratic
women's organization for blanket
amendment to remove all legislative
inequalities between men and women,
the effect of which would be to an
null all laws seeking to protect wo-
men from some of the evil results
of industry. The court takes advan-
tage of that proposal even before it
is presented formally in law This
decision is an amazing forecast of
what would follow such an enactment.
Samuel Gompers, President, Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
"a "a ga "a pa
GARY AND-HARDING

A big campaign to lower the bars
on immigration is being waged right
now by the cheap labor advocates,
headed by E. H. Gary, chairman of the
board of the United States steel cor
poration. Chairman Albert Johnson,
of the house immigration committee,
declares there should be no relaxation
in the restrictions of the act and as
cribed criticism of the statute by
large corporations to desire for
cheap labor. Secretary of Labor
James J. Davis says that despite the
present labor situation he believed
that throwing open the gates of i'm
migration and flooding the country
with workers and non workers at the
present time would serve to bring
prosperity to an end" He further
said that it is a short-sighted policy
to seek cheap labor through immigra-
ton; that today, because of the de-
mand for workers, there is percept-
ible movement of common labor of
low grade from a contiguous country.
But what good will that do. All
the opposition that Secretary Davis
and Chairman Albert Johnson or any
one else can summon will have no
effect so far as President Harding is
The United States steel
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
TAX EXEMPTION is
LEGAL

New York.-The tax exemption or
dwellings, passed at special session
of the state legislature in 1920, is
constitutional according to decision
by the appellate division of the su-
preme court. The law was passed be-
cause Of housing emergency. As
result millions of dollars were in
vested in buildings. Last March the
law was declared unconstitutional, but
this decision has been reversed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
NEE VS. En nw Rs
WOMEN'S LABOR CHEAPENEl


Five justices, bare majority of
one, have decided that the District
of Columbia minimum wage law and,
by indication, the minimum wage
laws of the states where such laws
exist are unconstitutional. They have
thus taken from the women and girl
wage earners the protection that
guaranteed them something approach
ing a fair wage and fair hours of
work
/ recall no recent decision which so
basely sets for the the reactionary
employer viewpoint of wage earners.
The court says that labor is to be
bought just as groceries are bought.
To buy the labor of woman in the
District is now like buying pigs feet
in a butcher shop, according to the
learned justice Sutherland, who
wrote the decision.
Has the justice never read the
Clayton act, which says "the labor of
a human being is not a commodity
or article of commerce?"
All progressive men and women
must resent the language used by the
court in this decision. It demeans
humanity Women and girl wage
earners are to be bought over the
counter. Thus does the court put hu-
man beings in the class of commodi-
ties to be the subject of highly or
ganized, powerful commercial traf
fc! 1t is appalling and almost be-
yond comprehension that such Ian
guage and such reasoning could be
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-20
HUGE KODAK PROFITS

New ork.-The Eastman Kodak
Company reports net profit last
year, after depreciation and taxes, of
S17,952,554. The previous years pro-
fits were $14,105,861.
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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-03-22
nine LOSE LIVESIN
ALMSROUSE FIRE
Aged, Bedridden inmates of New
York Almshouse Trapped
in Blaze.

Bulalo-Nine persons, seven o!
them women, lost their lives | MANN
them women, lost their lives in an
explosion and fire that swept through
the Allegany county almshouse a.
Angelica. The women were all aged
and helplessly bedridden.
One of the men VINO persisted was
Charles Sanborn. an attendant. A few
minutes before he lost his life, he had
succeeded in saving three inmates.
The explosion took place in he
boiler oom and the fire spread rap
idly through the institution.
When the explosion occurred at.
tendants rushed to tle sleeping quar-
ters and carried out many inmates,
but fast spreading flames soon cut
their entrance off. Sanborn, despite
constant warnings, made his way into
the sleeping quarters for a third time.
after bring out three women. That was
the last seen of him. His charred body
was found later.
The other man killed was ulidenti'
fed.
Authorities said it would be impos.
sible to get the names of the women
until a careful check of all the in
mates was made.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-03-22
NEVER ASKED TO lNTERcEDE
Secretary Says Nation VIII Hear Any
Proposal Made Without Advances
Commitment.

Washington Persistent reports
from abroad that the United States
government had been asked to medi-
ate between France and Germany in
the Rphr occupational ENHANCEMENT
were officially denied by the state
department.
The policy Of this government to-
ward reparation adjustment. II was
made clear. has not been altered in
any particular. The United States
stands ready to listen to any propos-
al that may be made without any
commitment in advance as to what
this government a do, but the fact
is that 1t has been asKer 70 do moth
ing since Secretary e. Hughes srg-
gssted in his New Haven speech the
ACCESSIBILITY Of a commission OF In.
ternational fiscal experts to work out
a settlement.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-03-22
PLOT TO KILL OFFICIALS
Women Posted in Officials
Homes to Check Movements,

London-A sensational story OF a
plot by an Irish republican ~organiza.
tion TO murder British cabinet min
listers and commit other outrages is
printed by the Daily Sketch.
The newspaper connects the alleged
scheme with the activities of Irishmen
recently arrested in Great Britain.
1t says that the persons marked for
assassination included Premier Bonar
Law. David Lloyd George and Sir Ha-
mar Greenwood.
A large number of women In the
organization. the newspaper asserted.
obtaired employment in the house
holds of the intended victims and thus
became able to supply an outside per-
son with details of the mems move
ments.
The c~onspirators' plans, according to
the newspaper. also provided for the
creation OF disturbances through the
rougher elements In the larger cities,