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Death
IS CHARGED TO
SAHlTARlUM

CHICAGO. May so.-rhe report of
fths death of a third patient after
aehving a sanitarium conducted at
Lombard. Ill. by DR.. George Z. Bof-
renmeyer. was before Dupage county
authorities today as they continues
an investigation into charges that,
" women died as a result Of "star.
walton cures given them at tho In
stitution.
Mrs. Hattie shelhamer of Chicago
told John W. Follmer. an inspector
for h state department of registra-
ton and education. that her son,
Herbert. died last February 20. soon
after being discharged from the
s~nnitarium. During his three months
treatment there. she said, the boy
lost so pounds. :
, 1923-05-30

I'VE captives," wrote Major Pinser.
have learned the personality of the
bandits by now. and so we no longer
dream about the terrors OF the first
and second nights.
"I am wondering what prepara-
lions are being made in the Philip
pines and Hawaii in the event mill
tary force ultimately IS applied. How
about public opinion in America. and
what is the Japanese attitude?
1.-THE whole affair is a beautiful
mess in which we-little he-goats
with whiskers and all-are h most
comfortable considering the circum-
stances. The cots which were sent
up are downy beds Of ease compared
TO temple doors.
"I believe 1t will be a long druwn
out aTair-especially so far as Allen,
Solomon and myself are concerned.
Nfaior Robert A. Allen. U. s. A, and
Lee Solomon of a Francisco and
Shanghai.) The bandits know that
Allen and myself are field officers.
and that Solomon Is a boss OF
civilians and quite n man in Shang-
hal. And the bandits have segre-
gated the Sap Club. which we call
ourselves. I + say we Will Dc
held as hostages until the last de-
mand is satisfied.
Looking at things tmpersonally. 1
favor armed Intervention. Civilize
them with Krags. is my motto. and
l don't believe many will have to be
so civilized to make good little laun-
drymen of the rest.
The hands OF some OF tho n d
are most soft. They don't work while
automatics and cartridges give free
board and lodgings.
Public opinion will demand our
safety first and then whatever else
is necessary. But 1 am afraid that
once we are loose. interest will wane,
resulting in a repetition of the af-
fair, or worse.
, 1923-05-30
1. ". ". Attorney
May Lose Right
To Practice LdU

OLYMPIA, Wash. May So-Dls-
barment proceedings were filed in the
supreme court against Elmer s.
Smith. Centralin attorney who was
n of the few defendants acquitted
in the trials growing put of the Arm
istice day shooting at Centralia IN
1918. The complaint was signed by 2s
members of the Lewis county bar
and approved by the state bar exam
liners. 1t is based almost entirely upon
Smiths connection and record with
the /. w. w.
, 1923-05-30
and Professional Directory
CONTRACTOR N
BUILDER

AND
BUILDER
w. w. SPROUL
Contractor and Builder
al w. Tenth Phone 376yy
DOCTORS
DIR. II. j. RIaCH
fhysician and Surgeon
inohe lsi9- Residence 21Is.
THE CASPER PRIVATE
HOSPITAL
9S8 South Durbin-Phone az
Nomen's and ChiIdren's Hospit,I
o4Z South Durbin-Phone i06
STAFF
SURGERY. GYNECOLOGY Ann
OBSTETRICS
fionsT II. Lathrop. NJ. d., r. A. @. q
victor r. Daclten, Il. Sc. NJ. n.
EhE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT
harmon L. Stanton, NJ. s., M. n.
onS AND N,HAY TREATMENT
DISEASES
R0ENrGENOLOGIST
Hal e NJ. Ellis
PATH0LOGIST
j.. 4. O'DOnnelL. NJ n
PHARMACIST
X. S. Lothian, PHI. q.
DENTIST
-. Il. Duncan, ID. ID. 3.
oiiiT T IN k~ohrbaugh Building
lI5 East Second Street
Telephone 81 and IS
DIR. w. w. YATES "
frActico Limited to Eve. Ear No..
and Throat
ana n Fitting of Glasses
$3.50 liz Il. Second
DRs. MYERS AND BRYANT
Physicians and Surgeons
200 0-S Bldg. Office Pm, 500 Res 7as
DIR. p. f. SHORTT
Specialist
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Ihohe Ell suite 800 O-S Bldg.
MARSHALL G. KEITH. NJ n
HERBERT l.. HARVEY. M. n
Oiiice 208 South Center-Phone IN
Private Hospital, GLE South Durbir
uenerA Practice Surgery Obstretrlcs
LAWYER
AMBROSE HEMINGWAY
Lawyer
NOON Ell Midwest Building
NICHOLS Il sTIRRETT
Lawyers
3O9-10-11 Oil Exchange Bldg.
JAMES p. KEN
4Ob Consolidated Royalty Bldg.
HAGENS 4 MUKANE
Lawyers
206-207 Oil Exchange BuiIdlnv
WILLIAM o. WILSON
Attorney-at-Law
suite 1866 Townsend Bldg.
VINCENT MULvANEY
Attorney-at-Law
427 Midwest Building
OGILBEE & ADAMS
21o O-S Building Phone ,s11
DIR. CAROLINE G. DAVIS
OsteOpathlc Physician
Suite G, Tribune Apartments, PHI. gsg
DIR. c. A. SANFORD
0steopathic Physician
Midwest Bldg. Phone 1885
SHOE REPAIRING
NORTH CASPER SHOE SHOP
All Work Guaranteed.
Ben Suyemntsu 235 East II
TAILORS
TROY TAILoRS AND CLEANFRS
| ifB E. Midwest Phone a6ayy
, 1923-05-30
LATE SPORTS

HAVANA, May 2O-By Tho As
scented Press>-Luis Firpo has
received an offer of $3.50, 900 from
Buenos Aires promoters for n bout
in that city with Erminio SpalIa Of
Italy, heavyweight champion Of
of Europe. Tho proposed fight
would take place after Firpo's meet
ing with Jess Willard.
DIES MONIES. Ia, May 3d.
Stanlslaus Zbyszlto, Polish wrestler.
forfeited the match and n purse Of
So 800 here last night when he
failed TO throw, Jake BrissIer, OF
Linden. Iowa, in a seventy-five min
ute handicap match.
@. q. Warren is here on business
for n few days from Torrington.
f. L. Brown is here for a short
time from Fremont, Neb.
, 1923-05-30
METAL strike
IN RURR ENDS

ESSEN. May so.-By Tho Asso-
ciated Press.SThe strike OF metal
workers throughout the Ruhr. which
involved more than soc, 900 men, was
ended today. the men resuming work.
They were granted the fifth per cent
Increase in wage for which they
went on strike but were refused their
additional demand OF n bonus of
10000 marks each. e.
, 1923-05-30

F. L.. Brown is here for a short
time from Fremont, Neb.
, 1923-05-30
500 MEN FIGHT
FOREST FIRES
IN MINNESOTA

ST. PAUL. Mimi. May 3o.-More
tina 500 men, including forest rang
ers. were battling with forest and
brush fires in northern Minnesota
with rain. the only medium Of
completely distinguishing the blazes.
promised for late today or tomorrow.
Reports to w. T. Cox. state forest
er. were that The situation is becom-
ing serious. with scores of fires
burning in n district north OF AIine
extending westward from Duluth to
.eech Lake. Most of the fires are
on cut owe lands.
In the Iron Range district there
are between 15 and 20 fires burning.
ALAMoGORDo. N. M, May 3d.
More than 100 men today were engag-
ed In fighting a forest fire 20 miles
of here and more were being mobfl-
lied in an effort to prevent d~estruc-
ton OF valuable timber sections.
Forest rangers from southern New
Mexico were called and employees of
, 1923-05-30
AUDITORS

@. ii. REIMERTH
Certified Public Accountant
Income Tax Service. -
Io1 0-S Blns. Phone Io1
, 1923-05-30

the Southwest Lumber company were
rounded up to fight the flames. The
fire last night left the cutover Hection
of the forest and today was sweeping
through the uncut area
Originating in the Penasco canyon,
h flames had destroyed 1000 acres
of timber today. Fire fighters were
Handicapped by a ack of water.
, 1923-05-30
BANDIT CAPTAIN
. ACTION
BY BIC POWERS
Armed Intervention Is All That WWWipe
Out Banditry, Major Pinger De-
cIares in Communication

TIENTSIN, May 30 By The Associated Press( :
Armed Intervention by the foreign powers to put down BAN
ditry in China is favored by Major Roland w. Pinger, U. S.
A. one of the fourteen foreigners held by outlaws on Paot-
zuku mountain. He expressed this opinion in a letter to The
Associated Press received here today.
, 1923-05-30
TWO EXECUTED
BY FREE State

DUBLIN. May sO.-CBy The Asso.
eiated Pross)-Miehael Murphy and
Joseph o'Rourke were executed TO.
day by the Free State authorities ut
Tuam. county Galway. They were
convicted of participating in n bank
robbery at Athenry last week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
High Wages in America
Maintained Prosperity,
Says English Labor Man

By international Labor News Service.
Washington, d. C.-Declaring that
the standard of living for American
workers was the highest in the world,
Frand Hodges, secretary of the Coal
Miners Federation of Great Britain,
paid glowing tribute to American
trade unionism for its success in main
tanning the purchasing power of the
workers. Speaking before the Amer
lean Federation of Labor convention
in Portland, Ore, Mr.. Hedges said:
you have taught the world in
America how to maintain the pur-
chasing power Of the workers, and
therefore you have maintained
standard of living in America for the
workers higher than the standard of
living in any civilized country
Although you earn considerable
amount of dollars in wages, it is not
the amount of dollars that convinces
me that your standard is higher than
the standard of living in our country
have seen, | have witnessed, I have
definitely adjudged that, apart from
the monetary expression of the dollar,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
STRANDED
IMMIGRANT
Policy of Canadian Govern
ment Condemned By
Labor

Ottawa, Can.-One of the outstand-
ing features of the 1928 Canadian
Trades mad Labor Congress was its
straight-out denunciation of the heart
less immigration policy of the Canad-
dian government.
1T has authoritatively stated that
approximately $4,000 men have been
induced to come to Canada for work
in the western harvest fields, many
of whom have been found physically
unfit for such laborious work." de-
clares the congress. Numbers of
these, being unable to secure employ
ment under promised conditions, are
already drifting into the western cit
les with the likelihood of their becom-
ing public charges on these municipal
tiles.
The Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada, in convention assembled, pro-
tests against wholesale migration of
this nature, undertaken without any
preparation to ensure reasonable op-
portunity of employment during the
coming winter months, and demands
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
PRICE FIXING
OF Government Opposed By
Farm Bureau

Chicago, H. - Government price
fixing of wheat holds no hope for the
farmers, according to statement on
price fixing isued by officials of the
American Farm Bureau Federation in
controverting propaganda from GER
price based on cost of production plus
profit
1t would be impossible to fix price
that would be just to both high cost
and low cost producers, says the
statement. Moreover, a government
guaranteed price for wheat would in
evitably lead to government price fix
ing of other commodities. The end
would be government price making
commission in charge of production
and distribution, which would be in
effect a "kind of socialism"
Farm bureau officials prefer tn ESQ
called law of supply and demand as a
price influence for farm commodities
with the law effectively controlled by
farm organizations assisted by gov
ernment warehouses and government
loans at low interest rates to enable
the farmers to hold their products for
reasonable prices and feed them out in
an orderly manner" to meet the re-
auirements of the public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02

your standard of living is higher than
any standard of living | have ever
come across for the working clas.
movement
"Now that is due, it seems to me,
entirely to the fact that you have in
the initial stages of your organiza-
ton, and in the latter stages, concen-
trated upon keeping wages at the
peak all the time. Wages to you must
always be at the maximum, and the
very fact that you have been able to
keep wages at the maximum has made
it possible for you within the con-
fines of your own country to elimi-
nate unemployment to very great
extinct, because your people have been
able, by the fact that they have the
spending power in their pockets, to
keep industries going at their maxi
mum capacity; while in England and
in Europe generally, because wages
have fallen and we have permitted
them to fall, unemployment has in
creased, industries have languished
and business has come to a stand
still"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
WORKERS
UNION PUTS UP
STIFF FIGHT

Chicago, Ill.-The Bakery and Con-
fectionery Workers International
Union Of America has waged 153
strikes during the past three years to
protect bakery workers wages and
hours from the assaults on organized
labor standards made by un-American
employers.
The strikes affected 392 shops, 2,742
union members and cost the interna-
tional union $89,S44 in strike benefits.
Since 1909 the union has paid out
$926,662 in sick and death benefits
at an average monthly cost of slightly
over ~ cents per member
In 1893 the union had 5000 mem
bers, 1920 in 1908, $4,000 in 1918,
and 1869 in 1923.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
Truth Is That Company Empoye Representation Square
For Labor-- Fundamentally Hostile To Trade Unionism
And Rights Of Workers

ployes essential rights as laboring
men"
The transportation act itself pro-
vides that each class of railroad en-
ployes shall enjoy the right of select
ing the representative of of such
class. Despite this, counsel for the
Pennsylvania railroad made this
statement in one of the hearings be-
fore the railroad labor board:
I'VE claimed the right to deal with
our employees either through q ma
jority vote or minority representa-
ton"
Majority representation is fhnda-
mental throughout the United States
constitution and runs through the
laws and institutions of our country
But the management of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad arrogates to itself the
privilege of treating majority repre-
sentation with contempt.
The sophistry of the position taken
by the Pennsylvania management is
significant. 1t did not question the
right of the shop crafts and the
clerks brotherhood to choose THEN
own representatives, but it prevented
the exercise of this right Although
processing loyalty to the principle of
employe representation, it devised and
applied system which throttled the
majority and established the repre-
/ sentation of small minority, subser-
Went to the Pennsylvania manage
ment
That the Pennsylvania management
resorted to coercion to make the rail
road workers accept the minority en-
ploye representation can not be dis
puted.
1t is maintained that the Pennsyl
vania management recalled furlough-
ed men and gave them the option of
discharge.
1t is authoritatively stated that a
number of furloughed officials of Sys-
TEN Federation No. 90, American Fed
Grafton of Labor, doing work for the
federation while on furlough, were re-
called by Pennsylvania officials and
discharged when they refused to cease
their union activities.
Indisputable testimony affrms that
Pennsylvania employees who insisted
upon the right of majority representa-
tion were harassed by Pennsylvania
officials and "coerced into an attitude
of silent submission or discharged
from the service"
On September 81, 1921, in an ad-
dress explaining the same plan OF
Pennsylvania employe representation
to the annual convention of the Della
ware Bankers Association, Elisha
!. Lee, vice president of the Pennsyl-
! vania railroad, declared:
"It is no secret that in the past
the Pennsylvania railroad
; always refused to have any officia
relations with organizations embraced
in the American Federation of Labor
The fight which we on tht
Pennsylvania railroad are carrying OF
, today is largely fight against domi
: nation and virtual management of ou
: employe relationships by the Ameri
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
Short Work Week for Women
Found More Effective Than
Long Week, English Report

By International Labor News Service.
London. = English industry has
found that short work week for
women is more effective than longer
week, and without resorting to legis-
lation the hours of work for women
have been generally reduced to a to-
tai not exceeding 4S week.
This is disclosed in the annual re
port of the chief inspector of fac
tories and workshops in England,
which stresses the change which has
taken place in hours of employment
in the last ten years. Before the war
a 60-hour week and 10 or 101a hour
day were customary, and in some in
dustries these hours were extended
by 80 to 60 nights overtime during
the year.
Violations of the factory act were
common and it was a frequent oc-
currence for illegal overtime to be
worked. Work was taken home by
employees to be done after hours and
statutory mealtimes We're curtailed,
the report says.
During the war, previous legisla-
tion as to hours was largely dead
letter, with the result that there was
at first an effort to establish long
hours and night and Sunday work
without regard to the rest periods
that had formerly been considered
necessary.
This soon proved to be uneconomic,
as regards production and an investi-
cation was made to find out what
hours were most effective and how
these could be effectually arranged.
Experiments were tried as to differ
ent schedules of hours and the value
of rest periods at different times of
day and for different periods. These
experiments, the report says, have re-
suited in general reduction of hours
of work.
The reports from inspectors show
that without resorting to legislation
the hours of work have been gener-
ally reduced, varying from "A to as
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02

can eueratlOn OF LABOR.
Moreover, the anti-union policy of
the Pennsylvania management was
frankly admitted in one of the labor
board hearings dealing with discrimi-
nation against members of the clerks
brotherhood. A vice president of the
Pennsylvania was asked this ques-
ton:
Simply drawing this distinction,
that, if they will agree to deal with
you as individuals, you win deal with
them; but, if they deal with you as
officials representing employees or
ganizations, you will not deal with
them?
The vice president answered: You
have stated it correctly"
The Pennsylvania management,
however, does not hesitate to deal with
the representatives of company
unions organized by the management
to oppose bona fide trade unions.
The management refused to dea!
with the representatives of the main
tenance of way brotherhood the same
as it refused to deal with the clerks
But it fostered an opposition organ
ization called the Pennsylvania Sys-
TEN Fraternity and made an agree
ment with the fraternity which is
executed for the fraternity by its gen
eral chairman, officially and not in
dividually.
This demonstrates again the pur-
pose of the Pennsylvania management
to destroy those unions which give
evidence of being the chosen represen-
tatives of majority of the employees,
even though the management turns
right around and deals with its COM
pany- sponsored organization in iden-
tically the same manner in which ii
refused to deal with the bona fide
union.
The Pennsylvania railroad plan of
employe representation was admitted
ly conceived to bring about the de-
struction of bona fde trade unionism
throughout the Pennsylvania system
AS it was in the beginning, SO il
is today.
1t is undemocratic. 1t is un-Ameri.
can. 1t strikes at the vitals of those
fundamental free institutions which
the United States of America estab
hshed as the light of the world anc
the guaranty of liberty under law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02

The publicity bureau of the anti
union Pennsylvania railroad system
continues to belch forth reams of ma
terial praising the democracy" and
the "Americanism" of that employer
conceived and notorously autocratic
form of company unionism known as
the pennsylvania plan of employe
representation.
The editorial and feature writer's of
the anti-union press dish up with far
ing and suggestive heads the Pennsyl-
vania's dope, label the plan with eye
catchers such as "a square deal for
labor, :" industrial peace" democratic
representation, industrial democ-
lacy," and feed the stuff out for the
misinformation of the public.
None of these labels can truthfully
be applied to the anti-union Pennsyl-
vania railroads anti-union employe
representation.
4 Pennsylvania railroad employe rep
resentation is not a square deal for
labor. 1t is not industrial peace. 1t
is not democratic. 1t is the reverse of
every one of these principles. More
over, it is essentially and fundamen-
tally hostile to trade unionism and
the rights of the workers and opposed
to our fundamental institutions of
freedom.
When the management of the Penn
its employe representation plan in
1921 the Federated Shop Crafts and
the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers,
Express and Station Employees asked
that the name of their organizations
be placed on the ballots for the cleo
tion of employe representatives
The Pennsylvania management re-
fused to do this, and issued its own
ballots. The Federated Shop Crafts
likewise issued its ballot. The
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks did not issue ballot, but
the members wrote the name of the
organization on the official company
ballots.
An overwhelming majority of the
eligible employees voted for The shop
crafts and the clerks brotherhood
The Pennsylvania management declar-
ed these ballots invalid and recognized
as employe representatives the men
who were elected by minority proven
originally to amount to about 10 pei
cent of the classes of employees con.
cerned
Honest and democratic employe rep.
resentation carries with it the right
of organized employees through major.
ity action to select their own repre-
sentatves to negotiate with railroad
arrangements agreements covering
wages and working conditions. Thi:
right is so plain, simple and indisput
able, so thoroughly expressive of dem
ocratic institutions, that it requires
no argument.
Even the employer and public mem
bers Of the United States railroad la
Dor board, joined with the labor mem
| bers in unanimous decision charging
the Pennsylvania railroad manage
] ment with denying to its shop em
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
ELECTROTYPERS
WIN NINE WAGE
RAISE CONTRACTS

Omaha, Neb.-Offcials of the In
ternational Electrotypers and Stereo-
typers' Union announce new wage
scale contracts in nine Jurisdictions
carrying wage increases up to So.
The successful unions are Cincin-
natl, New Orleans, Denver, Spring
field, H.; Elmira and Niagara Falls,
N. Y; Worcester, Mass; Memphis
Tenn, and San Antonio, Tex.
The new rates for journeymen run
from Sc to 81 day and from $40
to S44.50 per week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02

that the federal government accept
the responsibility of returning these
unemployed workers to their homes
or provides them with means of sus-
tenance until employment can be Sc
cured by them"
Organized labor contends that i'm
migration officials are importing in
dustrial workers under the guise of
farm laborers for the benefit of man
ufacturers in their attempts to beat
down the wages and hours standards
of Canadian trade unionism
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02

hours per week, and that overtime is
rare, and five-day week and one
break day are common. Few work
ers, the report says, would now be
willing to work longer hours and some
employers say that output in the
reduced period is almost, if not quite,
up to that of the longer period
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02
DEMOCRACY" AND "AMERICANISM'

OF ITS COMPANY UNIONISM PRAISED AND GLORIFIED TO
PUBLIC IN REAMS OF MATERIAL BY PUBLICITY BUREAU
OF THE ANTLUNION PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-02

ssentia rights laborng can Federation of Labor"
The Glenwood post., 1923-09-27
Utilizing Shade Trees.

Europe has realized and utilized the
beauty Of shade trees to an extent un-
dreamed of in the Omitted States. While
most Of the streets, laid out in the
Middle ages. are too narrow to per-
nit planting them, the beautiful boule-
wards may have two, four and some
times six rows along the entire length.
Country roads are invariably lined
with archinS shade trees, which add
greatly to comfort and scenery for the
pedestrian or autoist. Looking across
garden-like fields one sees parallel
rows Of trees and knows that they
mark another road, or possibly Il canal.
In Il few places dense evergreeus are
used SO darkening the road as to make
it necessary to use automobile lights
even at noon on Il bright day.