The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-01-25

By International Habor News Service.
| Washington, D. C.-Here's labor
news that means something mot the
kind that would thrill the -brows,
but the kind that carries kick for
the rank and file, where the weekly
pay envelope means joy or despair.
Organizer Thomas Hammonds re-
ports that Mason, H., is a 100 per
cent union town!
From West Frankfort, Ill.,, Organ
izer Frank j. Raubach reports new
contract with retail stores raising
pay. He reports also that after five
years of effort-that's sticking to it
the Woolworth five and tens have
been signed up. Three new local
unions organized in a.. month Who
says that isn't news?
Joseph A. Bauer, GAINESVILLE o.,
organizer, says, mo company unions
in this vicinity News? Absolutely
and good.
Up in British Columbia Organizer
Percy R. Bengough reports that the
shipping federation tried to plant a
Company union" and didn't get away
with it.
Florence, Alabama, street car men,
Organizer r. J. Bailey reports, have
signed up for 20 per cent raise.
That wouldn't mean thing to Green
|wich Village.
At Lander, Wyo., Organizer Will
liam J. Mcmahon reports, "all men
employed" which is the best news in
| the world for Lander.
| William J. Kromelbein, Wilkes
Barre, Pa, organizer, reports tobacco
workers pulling* down 10 per cent
| raise and araise for brewery workers.
And that makes hit in one town,
be sure.
Organizer Everett j. Stewart, at
Sullivan, Ind, has a stack of news
Hours for so-called common labor
have been cut from nine to eight
4 and there's no better news than that
even though it can't compete for first
page position when murder breaks
But listen: In this town, says Stew.
: art, telephone girls are in the four
teenth week of strike which they
/; hope to win. That's heroism, make ne
, mistake!
Santa Monica, Cal, out where the
old Pacific rolls up against the play
ground of nation, Organizer W. II
J Bestor reports two new unions or,
4 ganized. And that's one for the
, book, too.
II Here's human interest story, A
No. /. Grade A: Each day 5000 mer
and 500 women apply for work at the
Los Angeles city employment bureau
!, Do they get the jobs? What do they
do when they don't get the jobs? Or.
ganizer George E. Bevan doesn't say
except that "few can be supplied
But what human library i. is that
goes through those doors each day!
i Hotel and restaurant employees or.
i ganized and a union label league
formed in Springfield, H., Organizer
John F. Gaffgan reports. Tell that
to the "open shoppers"
R. E. Woodmansee, also Spring
field ILL.,, reports Catering Service
Employees Local No. 139 organized
with eighteen eating houses signed up
And union label league formed. Or
top of that the movie operators win.
ming out against lockout that has
been on since September l. That's
trench fighting!
II l. o. Stephie, Elkhart, Ind, reports
new union of bakers, and Charles
E. Roaney, Bellingham, Wash, tells
of new union of plasterers.
In Jackson, Tenn, a ten-story bank
building is being run up by union la
bor, "a monument to our city," Or
/ ganizer W. L. Diffee reports.
So there's labor news-news OF
growth and improvement, of better
wages and shorter work days, of bet
ter conditions of work and of great
| er voice for the workers in determin-
| ing things about their work. The
growth of freedom, the advancement
of the race, the working out of prob
lens. is found more in these doings
/ 1. Al I;,,o &bo,, -, tho fhaorv fac