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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
STATES WORKERS
Filched By Private Labor
Agencies

Sacramento, Cal = Attorneys for
private labor agencies are in this city
to aid the fight of these agencies
against state regulation. These bills
on this subject are pending in the
state Legislature. Some lawmakers
are surprised at the opposition the la
Dor agencies can mass against regula-
tion in any form, though it has been
shown that more than $1,000,000 is
annually. taken from the pockets of
workers who are least able to bear it.
The fees charged range from 10 per
cent to one-half of the first months
pay. Teacher agencies charge from
5 to z per cent of the first years
pay of the successful applicant.
Many agencies do an annual busi-
ness of from $4,000 to 100000. They
have woven an atmosphere of service
and humanitarianism around their
gouging of the workers that has even
fooled some members of the legisla-
ture-who, it is whispered, are very
easily imposed upon when it suits
their political purpose.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
ASSAULT CITIZENS
New York Cossacks Run
According to Form

Albany, N. Y.-Charges that the
state police carried out policies OF
intimidation, brutality, violence and
overriding the constitutional rights OF
citizens" while on strike duty at Cor
inth and Buffalo, are portions of a
report by State Federation of La
Dor investigating committee.
The report sustains every charge
made by organized labor that these
cossacks are menace to good order
and are vicious strikebreakers.
''In the years 1920 and 1921" the
report said, "a great many industrial
disputes arose throughout the state
The bureau of mediation and arbitra-
ton, created under the industrial com
mission, was not used to settle these
disputes, but the state police were
sent into the localities against the
wishes of elected officials of these 10.
calities. The activities of the state
police were unlawful, brutal, obscene
and outrageous and tended to bring
disgrace upon our state and destroy
the confidence of our people in con-
stituted authority. Their rowdyism
their brutality and their disregard
for law and order is borne out in de-
tail in voluminous affidavits of their
victims and witnesses.
''In July, 1921, the state troopers
rome into Corinth, over protests of the
president of that village, it's board OF
trustees, and it's justice of the peace
They drove their horses on the side
rode into Corinth, over protests of the
and riding down women and children
They entered private places of busi-
ness and abused citizens who were
lawfully and properly therein, drove
them into the streets and then drove
them from the sidewalks into high.
ways and excavations, and subjected
them to other insults and terrorisms
when the state troopers were
called to Buffalo over the objection Of
the mayor and other elected officials
their actions were repetition of what
transpired at Corinth."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
USE GUM SHOE
METHODS TO ESTAB-
LISH COSSACKS

st. Paul, Minn.-Organized labor
has raised warning cry against the
establishment of state cossacks.
The proposal is of the gum shoe or
der, and has been introduced in the
state legislature by Senator Putnam.
The bill has an innocent title, and is
alleged to be solely for "the better
prevention of crime" A bureau"
with no Identification, is to be created.
The director will be appointed by the
governor for a term of six years.
He will appoint a deputy, an assistant
deputy, an identification expert, a
statistician and such other assist
ants, clerks and employees as occasion
may require
The whole scheme, trade unionists
show, is the skeleton of a first-class
cossack system.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
NONE RESPONSIBLE
For Mine Disaster Where
Many Workers Lost
Lives

San Francisco.-A committee ap-
pointed by the governor reports that
it is impossible to place the respon-
sibility for the Argonaut mine disas-
ter on August 27, 1922, when AZ
workers lost their lives.
The committee is not sure of the
cause of the fire, but is inclined to one
of two ories-incendiarism or de-
fective electric wiring The mine
company officials are sure the fire was
the work of an unknown incendiary
The committee wants it understood
that it does not desire to "unduly CEN
sure" any one, while calling attention
to how the loss of life could be re-
duced. 1t is stated that new orders OF
regulations are not necessary, but that
enforcement of those now in force
should be made effective.
st would appear to the committee
that the conditions which led to the
fire resulting in the great loss of life
were not exactly in strict accord with
modern and up-to-date methods" says
the report. ''It would further appear
that attention to detail with regard te
the training of men and the provision
of safety devices to be utilized By
trained men, in case of disaster or ne.
cessity, was lacking. Also, while the
safety regulations according to Law
were perhaps, complied with, INSULT
cient attention was given to the pro
vision of fire-fghting appliances sucf
as could be used for the protection 0.
life and property.
"If the men directly in charge of thu
several shifts at the mine, viz, th'
shift bosses, level bosses, and others
had been trained in the use of fire
fighting appliances under conditions
which might overtake them at any
time, a better directed effort coulc
have been made with more satisfac.
tory result than is shown by the rec
ord"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
WAGE SCALE WILL
STAND

Washington.-The will be nc
change in the wage of commercial
shop printers employed by the union.
shop branch of the District of Colum.
bia Typothetae, according to ar
award made by Judge Fenton w
Booth, associate justice of the federal
court of claims.
In declining the employers request
for wage reduction, on the GROUND
that there has been a reduction il
the cost of living, the arbitrator said;
Granting that it has declined, il
is, nevertheless, apparent to the casual
observer that the decline is not OF
sufficient proportions to warrant q
reduction"
In opposing wage increase, Judge
Booth said the industry is sufficiently
"burdened" now.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
COURT UPHOLDS CON
TRACT

Dayton, Ohio.-The court of ap-
peals has ruled in favor of several
street car employees who were dis
charged by the City Railway Com
pany in violation of contract with
the Street Car Mems Union.
The court of appeals said the men
would be limited to nominal damages.
This means that the company will not
be called upon to pay damages other
than few cents, and that the work
ers must be satisfied with their moral
victory. The company will appeal the
case.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
Baerfacts
BY ]. M. BAER, The Congressman -Cartocnist
International Labor News Service
He'll ll-and-Maria and Harry.

Hell and Maria" Dawes
and 'Lay-off -the-profiteers"
Daugherty have decided that
the "Open-shop" will make
a fine issue for the G. O. p.
in 1924. 1t will make a
FINE issue, all right. If the
G. o. p. leaders are foolish
enough to follow the advice
of Dawes and Daugherty,
1924 will make the hottest
little campaign that was ever
held in the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
1t is the common belief
that neither Daugherty nor
Dawes know what the "open-
shop" is. But what of that
-? They do know that
the profiteers, the looters,
the industrial autocrats and
Wall Street want the So
called "Open" shop and that
is all they care to know.
They know that they could
raise large sums of money
for campaign slush funds
and that is the principal
thing they are interested in
right now.
Daugherty would like to
cover up his own misdeeds,
his failure to prosecute the
war grafters, the oil land
steal, the defiatiOn of the
farmers and numerous other
crimes committed by the ad-
ministration by bringing in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13


1t begins to look as if peonage
might be in for its death blow in
Florida.
If so, every unfortunate in the state
VIII have reason to observe in graft
tude the memory of Martin Tabert
and the state of North Dakota.
The story of peonage in Florida
is repulsive and terrible. 1t is the
product of greed and cupidity. Honor
to those who destroy this wretched
system. Step by step civilization
stamps out the traces of its british
mast
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

the "Open-shop" mummy
principle which has been
dead and entOmbed longer
than King Tut"
The "Open-shop" issue will
be a capital one. The Amer
lean people will welcome it
from the capitalists and their
tools. 1t involves collective
bargaining and the RIGHT
to ORGANIZE. Before the
campaign is actively started,
Dawes and Daugherty will
find that the farmers, stock
growers, cooperative asso-
Citations and all citizens who
believe in the RIGHT TO
ORGANIZE will be on the
side of labor.
Just so long, Messrs.
Dawes and Daugherty, as
the Big Interests can form y
bloc, keep closed shop, hold
executive sessions in Con-
gress, have secret star-cham-
Der sessions on house boats
and organize to rob the peO-
pie of this country-just so
long will the American peo-
pie retain the RIGHT TO
ORGANIZE for themselves,
also.
Come on McDuff, Come on
Hell-and-Maria Dawes and,
by all means, come on you
friend of the explOiters-
DAUGHERTY!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
THE SHAME OF FLORIDA
PEONAGE in Florida!

PEONAGE in Florida!
The newspapers discover it with
surprise. Labor papers knew about
it and howled about it years ago.
Peonage continued.
Now comes happening of note.
A boy, Martin Tabert, of North
Dakota, seeing the world" got
stranded in Florida, tipped freight,
got caught, put in jail and so into
lumber camp manned largely by
prisoners furnished on contract.
Parents and friends learned that
the boy was in Jail They offered to
pay his fine. They were informed he
couldn't be found" That is said to
be the usual answer in such cases.
Meanwhile the boy was stricken
with malaria. Thus, unable to work,
he was laid face down in the mud and
lashed with a heavy strap. He died
of this. SO his fellow prisoners tes-
tify.
]. R. Jones, sheriff Of Leon county,
admits returning the money offered
to pay the fine. The Putnam Lumber
Company admits the contract labor
practice. They write: BEG to ad-
wise that we have all able-bodied men
prisoners leased from Leon county
for term OF one year" Just thus,
stark and unashamed; calloused be-
yond perception of it's own hideous-
ness, perhaps.
After Martin Tabert died his home
town took up the case and the state
of North Dakota got busy The legis-
lature of North Dakota has protested
to Florida and asked punishment for
the person or persons responsible for
the boys death
The governor of Florida promises
to ask the Florida legislature to out
law peonage.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

corner, anu idpoi uiioho hesu oSe1SA
not hurry too much about laying off
their business agents.
N N ~ - -
HE'D BETTER WATCH GARY
Mussolini, boss of Italy, says de-
mocracy is bunk. He says Italy and
Russia are proving it. What he likes
is a big machine that does what he
wants it to do.
Mussolini came into power because
he found a way to organize enough
force to put himself there. He's
proud of his achievement One rea-
son why he could sweep into power
with force was because democracy in
Italy wasn't well enough organized
to function effectively on it's own ac-
count.
No dictator can grab power by
force where the masses know how to
operate democracy, and where they
are literate and understand issues up
to the minute.
Mussolini made his latest declara-
ton of faith in autocratic power at
an interesting time. He'd just been
talking to Gary; and the lnterna-
tional Chamber of Commerce was in
Rome. also. Maybe these things in
spired the boss of the black shirts.
Anyhow Gary is pleased with Mus
solini and the black shirts.
And now we are told that black
shirts are being organized in Amer
ica. But somebody ought to whisper
to Mussolini that Gary takes those
black-shirted Italians and eats 'em
alive in his steel mills. Gary loves
the Italians in the steel mills-until
they learn to speak English.
Gary-Lenine- ssolini-strange,
but perhaps natural combination.
j They resemble each other so much in
being unlike America and in hating
freedom, democracy and human pro-
gress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Chicago.-The wage reduction plan
of meat packers has failed to produce
results, and these employers have
concluded to become scientific" be-
fore they again apply the screws.
There will be no more wage cuts
until the subject of labor costs is
taken up "in really scientific way"
says the National Provisioner, mouth
piece for the packers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
"a "a "a - "a
FORBES SEEING THINGS

B. c.. Forbes, writing for Mr..
Hearst, who loves the workingman so
much at 2 cents per copy, ventures
the opinion that competition is be-
ing waged and will be waged in COM
ing years for the loyalty, the adher-
ence, the cooperation of the work
ers.
Mr.. Forbes, writing for Mr.. Hearst,
thinks that if the employers go far
enough in giving workers what they
want then the workers will draw
"away from the leadership of labor
officials who may talk bfg and prom
ise a lot but fail to deliver the
goods"
Now this is important if true
But Mr.. Forbes, who not only
writes for Mr. Hearst, but who runs
financial magazine under his own
name, forgets something. He forgets
that labor leaders are men chosen by
| wage earners to represent them.
| Labor leaders are men who are
elected from among themselves to get
for wage earners what wage Garner:
want. They are REPRESENTA-
TIVES of the workers They are no
some kind of separate breed of cats
When wage earners get all the,
want from highly intelligent EN-
i ploying class then the wage Garner
will tell their leaders that nothin,
more is wanted. The leaders will b
very glad that the state of affairs i
so satisfactory.
Labor leaders don't live lives @
ease and luxury. They have har
, ! work to do. Trying to reason wit
: unintelligent employers is no sof
snap 1t will be much nicer for a
. concerned if management will onl
, proceed to make Mr.. Forbes predic
tion come true.
, If employers can give fair treat
ment, fair wages and condition
faster than wage earners. throug
their leaders can demand them, tn
labor leaders will be glad to admi
that they have been outrun
y X
At this moment there is small in
dication of any such race being il
progress. For employers are tryinI
to see how fast they can run in try
ing to give wage earners what the
want.
AS for labor leaders who "fail t
deliver the goods" there ar
some employers so hard boiled tina
nobody ever could deliver any good
out of their shop, no matter hoN
moderate the demand might be. The.
learn only when they are compete
out of business by brighter men.
, Mr.. Forbes, writing for Nh
, Hearst, sees something like a mil
Ienium on the way He thinks tina
will be hard on labor leaders. Wei
, let him think that if it does him an
: good Let everybody think it. Labo
leaders will be glad to have the mil
, lenium come, and no matter wha
anybody thinks about why it came.
But whatever Mr.. Forbes think
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
HUGE ELECTRIC PROFITS

New York.-The General Electric
Company reports net profits last year
of $25 5,231,019. These profits are
clear and are after all charges and
taxes have been paid.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
STEEL WORKERS UNITE

Ashtabula, Ohio.-Employes of the
Ashtabula Steel Company have organ
lied and the chartered by the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

That kid Next-Door doesn't Really
look like This; he just Acts like it.
What he Doesn't Do isn't Worth
Thinking of, and what he Does Do
Sometimes makes him an Awful Pest
A Kid like this must have Inspired
that Famous Saying, Boys should be
Buried between the Ages of Four and
Fourteen
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Try to do something unusual to at
tract attention to your business
Don't be tied down to the beater
path.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Don't work where careless methods
of handling cash may put you in
position where you can be accused of
taking store funds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
From Retail Clerks Advocate
POINTERS
FO II
CLERKS

When a customer does not find what
he wants in your place, don't crowd
him into taking something he will not
be satisfied with
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

When you say "this is just as good
as" you practically admit that it is
not quite as good. You make the
other thing the standard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

When you are more anxious to
make a sale than to stick to facts,
you may make the sale but you will
have complaints to take care of later.
The admiration we express for a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

If you cannot speak the name of
the person with whom you are doing
business, you can at least avoid say
ing Lady" or mister"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

If you make mistakes you cannot
complain when you are corrected. If
you object to being corrected, don't
make the mistakes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Don't let mistake go uncorrected;
stand the loss of few dollars rather
than risk losing a customer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

mans cleverness in trickery is not
real, and it does not carry with it
any confidence in the man.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Supervise details, but don't allow
them to absorb you. Don't waste the
time of high-priced organizer on a
clerks job
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
MERCHANTS

Yes, to be sure, a flood of light in
store costs money, but a lack of
light costs more.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Everybody likes to make a good
bargain. Let him. Small profits on
an article will become big profits if
you sell enough of the articles.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

The trouble with some merchants
getting good help is that they them
selves are not the type of men good
help wants to work for.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

Don't be too economical in manag-
ing your store. Spend money for
trade literature, for new equipment,
for anything that is going to bring
return.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

If you want your store to be light
and bright and cheerful, study scien-
tifice lighting instead of wasting
money in too much light badly placed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13

the millennium is not just around the
corner, and labor unions had better
not hurry too much about laying off
their business agents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923

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Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
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Hamilton, Ohio.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-13
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Evening star., 1923-04-17
STATE AIMS LAW
AT HOUSE OF DAVID
House Passes Bill Designed to Al
low Appointment Of
Receiver.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich, April 17.-At be-
hest of state officials leading tho fight
against the Israelite House OF David
colony at Benton Harbor. the Mich
igan house Of representatives last
night passed a bill designed to permit
the state to seek a receivership Tor
the Berrien county cult The bill also
prohibits acquisition of property by
fraud and the encouragement OF
teaching of immortality by religious
organizations.
The bill was sent to the senate to-
day and Indications were 1t would be
rushed through to passage.
Gov. Groesbeck has announced he
was ready to sign the bill and thus
give 1t immediate effect.
State officials today were showing
interest in a report from Benton Har-
Dor to the effect that Frank Wyland
member Of the governing board OF
the House Of David. had announced
his opinion that Benjamin Purnell
leader of the colony. had left Michi-
gan.
Wyland made the statement to the
sheriff of Berrien county.
The sheriff announced he would
continue his search for Purnell In an
effort to serve upon him a civil war.
rant In connection with 100000
damage suit filed against him by two
girls, former colony members, Whc
charge Purnell mistreated them.