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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
CITY COURTS FAIL

Albany, N. Y-The municipal court
system Of New York city is failure,
according to commission appointed
by Governor Smith. There are 48
judges who preside in the 25 munich
pal court districts. The report says:
''The judicial business is not con-
Quoted throughout the city with
promptness and dignity. There is a
substantial lack of confidence in the
capacity and courtesy of the court and
to some degree in it's inpartiality.
The failure of this court to fulfill the
minimum requirements for salts
factory administration of justice is
directly traceable in large part to
failure to adjust the structure of the
court to modern conditions"
The report states that municipal
court districts are gerrymandered so
as to follow very closely political lines,
until 1--WE might say that in some dis
tricts we have democratic court OF
republican court, rather than court
of justice"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
CHILD LABOR
Favored By Textile BarOns'
Aide

Washington.--David Clark, editor
of the Southern Textile Bulletin,
Charlotte, N. c., made a savage at
tack on the United States children's
bureau and the theory of federal reg
ulation of child labor laws before the
house judiciary committee.
Mr.. Clark assured the committee
that he opposes child labor-if the
state prohibits it, but he does not ia
vor federal intervention. He could
not cite a single instance, however,
where he even advocated state control
of child labor, or improvement of
their working conditions.
The witness was handled roughly
by the committee. Congressman Fos-
ter, of Ohio, quoted from an editorial
published in Clark's paper after the
first federal law was set aside by the
United States supreme court.
Congressman Foster asked Clark
whether he was spokesman for the
children working in textile mills, and
why he did not call on these children
to join with him in celebrating the
courts decision that they were privi-
legged to work II hours day.
Clark has been a leader in oppo-
sition to federal child labor laws, and
loudly insists that this is a mat
ter for the various states. He was
forced to acknowledge he has done
nothing to correct the child labor evil
though the supreme court indorses his
states rights position.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
JAPANESE PACT
Never Given to Public, Says
Ohio Lawmaker

Washington.-Th famous gentle
mans agreement" with Japan was
not made through treaty or law, but
by diplomatic negotiations, and the
correspondence was never published,
said Congressman Cable, of Ohio, in
speech in the house.
This agreement was made during
President Roosevelt's term of office.
Japan promised to issue no passports
to it's nationals who are laborers seek
ing to come to the United States.
However, their laborers do come to
Mexico and are smuggled into our
country over the border" said Con-
gressman Cable. president Taft al
tered its terms by treaty SO that
japanese merchants and their families
are permitted to enter"
Mr.. Cable said no nation except
Japan is permitted to regulate immi
grafton of her nationals to the United
States. The supreme court of the
United States recently decided that a
Japanese, being a member ofsthe yell
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
BANKRUPTCY RINGS
SCORED BY JUDGES

New York Federal Judge Rogers
has made public the contents, hith-
erto held confidential, of report of
federal judges on evils that are per-
petrated under the bankruptcy laws.
1t is charged that bankruptcy rings
exist in certain districts These
rings are said to exact exorbitant and
unwarranted fees, to control estates
secretly in the interest of the bank
rupts themselves, to encourage and
control unfair settlements. to file pc
titoins on fictitious assigned claims
and generally to defeat the underly-
ing purposes of the federal bank
ruptcy act.
Judge Rogers says that many of
these evils can be corrected by the
federal judiciary. He presents several
recommendations
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
DONNELLY A VISITOR

Thos. J. Donnelly, secretary of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor, drop
ped into Hamilton, Tuesday afternoon,
and called on many of his friends.
In the evening he visited the meeting
of the Trades and Labor Council, and
while there was called on for few
words. His talk was mostly on the
workman's compensation and the con-
ditions of labor throughout the state.
He also urged the locals to write to
Thos. Kerns, chief factory inspector,
for copies of codes on industrial acci-
dents. Donnelly informed the council
delegates that the next convention of
the federation would be held in
Springfield, Ohio, the second week in
September. He invited all locals to
send delegates to Springfield.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
Dw race, is not eligible to citizen

low race, is not eligible to citizen
ship.
Secretary Of State Hughes has
suggested placing Japan on quota
basis of the census of 1890 and thus
admit annually but 246 Japanese la
borers. Such an act would constitute
surrender of our policy that Japan
ese laborers shall not be admitted" !"
said Mr.. Cable.
"To recognize their right to enter
is the first step toward amending our
naturalization laws to permit those of
the yellow race to become citizens.
america has no room for those
who can not become citizens, who can
not and will not adopt our institutions
and ideals. We have no place, for
those whose loyalty and allegiance is
to another. Uncle Sam has right to
limit his household, both in numbers
and in nationality
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
By /. C. McCUMBER

There is hope for those who are,
being embalmed in oil these days.
Word comes from the tomb of Tu-
tankahamen's that a flea which was
embalmed in oil some three thousand
years ago, has found a resting place
in museum at Cairo, Egypt. If
flea can secure this honor after three
thousand years, not man mixed up
in the oil muddle at Washington has
any reason to worry. If the explorers
at Washington are not sidetracked,
they should be given restful places
in the national museum of political
obscurity.
Swiss watchmakers can take an
ordinary human hair and split it into
five hundred strips and measure the
thickness, so exact are their tools.
Let's see, who in the Sam Hill was
it said number of years ago that
the reason some of the big law violat-
ors did not go to prison was because
they had enough money to cause the
judges to split hairs, and then there
was nobody and nothing to measure
the decisions? Anyway, some damn
phool said it, and worse luck, he has
gone to an unheralded and unmarked
grave.
About sixty years ago the Interna-
tional Typographical Union discovered
that many of it's members were go
ing to an untimely death. They asked
for better conditions, and if they were
not granted there was a strike. They
struck and struck thousand times
to the end that men should not be
murdered in trying to earn an honest
! living. The death average was around
the % year mark. Today the aver
age runs close to So, and steadily get.
ting better. And yet some of the
uplifters who are trying hard to get
next to some of the easy money Of
charity, try and tell you that they car
see nothing in unionism. Of course
they can't. Unions do not carry thai
breed Of an animal on their working
cards. ethics" prevent them from
taking easy public money.
II understand you have installed
rather expensive set of radio a
your home," suggested prospective
purchaser. "How do you like it as fal
as you have gone with it?"
"Fine. 1t is doing all and more
than l expected, but | don't get any
encouragement from my wife"
"What appears to be the trouble 2
''She finds fault with it on the
ground that when she listens in she
does not get the local end of current
gossip. She says that she gets bet
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
COAL PROFITS TREBLED

New York.-The 1923 profits of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company was three
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
PROFITS IN MOVIES

New York.-The rich returns that
are possible in the movie industry
is indicated by the 1923 returns of
the Famous Players Lasky corpora
ton. The profits were $4,245, ,783 .93
after all charges and taxes were met.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21

times more than in 1922, Last years
profits totaled $7,309, 1852, or sl6.15 a
share. This was after all charges,
depreciation and interest were met.
In 1922 the net profits were $5.02 a
share.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21

that in 1875 the railroad went into
the hands Of receivers, and that these
court officials sold s38,852 acres Of
land to railroad officials in New York
city, contrary to law.
The Northern Pacific was recently
charged by the forest service with
holding more than 100000 acres of
land that belongs to the national pub
lie park system.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
LAND GRANT VIOLATED

Washington. Further charges Of
improper sales by the Northern Pa
cific railroad were made before a
house committee by D. F. MCGOWAN,
forest service land inspector. He said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21

ter results in listening in on the tele-
phone
Il was gypped by the fellow who
sold me the last lot of liquor / got
from him" said the law-abiding citi-
zen.
"How come"
"Well, when we had that last cold
snap was out of alcohol, and rather
than drain the radiator and put the
car out of commission, | put in some
Of the liquor"
s'And didn't it work -
eyes, it worked all right. When
/ went to the garage to take out the
car / found that it had eaten up the
radiator"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21

of 15U trade unionists, called by the
State Federation Of Labor, it was
voted to. start a labor bank in this
state. The question has been con-
sidered by the state convention, and
it will be submitted to the referendum,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
LIVING COSTS GO UP

Misunderstanding costs increas-
ed from February Is, 1923, to Febru-
airy Is, 1924, in the 81 cities report
ing to the bureau of labor statistics.
Peoria led with an 8 per cent in
crease. Other cities gained as fol-
lows: Newark, per cent; Atlanta,
Buffalo, Detroit, Kansas City, Louis
vile, Pittsburgh and st. Louis, per
cent; Baltimore, Minneapolis, New
Haven, New York, Philadelphia,
Rochester, and Salt Lake City, 8 per
cent; Boston, Richmond, St. Paul,
Washington and Portland, Me-, 2 per
cent.
COAL PROFITS TREBLED
New York.-The 1923 profits of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company was three
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-03-21
CIGAR MAKERS LOCKED OUT

Peoria, Ill. Organized cigar max
ers employed at the Sprenger plant
have been locked out because they
refuse to accept wage reduction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03
HAS
NIGHTMARE IN
KANSAS CITY
Rushed in Bewhiskered
Freak to Stop Red

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 2. -
Frantic with fear Of the persuasive
power of Bolshevik Browder, the g.
20. P. national committee rushed
Hughes, the hairy hyena, to this town
and blazoned across every sewer
sheet the news that this missing link
would erupt on the day and hour OF
the Browder meeting.
The local G. o. P. committee would
not hear Of debate between the
present secretary Of state and the
future commissar of foreign affairs.
They expressed rather shaky hope
that their gladiator would carry Kan.
sas City for HOLINESS and Kanniness.
Good Meeting.
Comrade Browder had a good turn.
out and splendidIy discussed the role
Of almost-reds-Ebert in Germany,
Macdonald in England and LaFollette
in the United States, 1t is their Job
ITO fool the FESTIVE workers and be
the catspaw to pull the hot chestnuts
out for their owner Their reward
Why, the publicity. burnt paw-and
a kicked seat when their usefulness
is over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03
I'M ANY LISTEN
EAGERLY TO HOW
WORK ERS MANAGE
Carlson Gives Picture Of
Workers Rule in Russia

MUSHROOM, Mich, Nov 2.-That
the Muskegon local Workers Party is
livening up at great speed was clear
ly demonstrated at an enthusiastic
meeting held under its auspices here,
and addressed by Oliver Carlson
whom over two hundred working men
and women came to hear, many Of
them remembering him by his youth
full and very effective activities in con
nection with the former movement Of
this town.
What is workers" Government
This meeting. coming close upon
the meeting Of vice-presidential can
didate, Comrade Gitlow, has a great
significance inasmuch as the clearly
depicted analysis of Labor Govern
ment VS.. Workers Government" that
being the particular theme of the
speaker, is being brought home more
convincingly and more forcibly to the
workers and farmers who were well
represented at this gathering, many
attending having come from as far
south as Spring Lake.
The meeting was presided over by
Comrade Eugene Bechtold, who also
briefly outlined the policies Of the
Workers Party as portrayed daily in
its official organ, the DAILY WORK
Err.
Eager TO Hear About Russia.
Comrade Carlson, in concise, even
blunt manner, asked the audience Of
their choice: do you want a labor
government as is the administration
Of Macdonald of Great Britain, now
being aspired to by LaFollette, the
new Moses of this country, represent
ing the hopeless middle class? Do
you want in power such a government
whose sole achievement is the appoint
ment Of commission to investigate
the housing problem, which is an
acute and vital question in England
today or do you want a government
Of the workers-one functioning ex-
clusively in the interests Of the work
ing masses?" M
The toilers of this town being con.
fronted with ever-increasing dificuI
ties in their endeavors to obtain a
livelihood however meager, due to the
acute unemployment situation here
eagerly listened to Comrade Carlson's
depletion of the great contrast be-
tween their own precarious existence,
and the standard of living enjoyed by
the working class Of Soviet Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03

down to protest and were told Of the
situation, whereupon they insisted
that they could secure sufficient sig
natures to place at least assembly
candidates on the ballot.
Petitions were ordered printed, and
within a short time these comrades
turned in 1900 signatures placing a
Workers Party candidate on the ballot
for the assembly in the 14th district.
There lis a considerable Czecho-
Slovak population in the, 14th as
sembly district and our comrades are
making fine progress among these
people. The Czecho-Slovak Central
Federated Union is heavily influenced
by our comrades, and it has been en-.
listed in our cause. 1t has endorsed
our party and candidates, and made
a contribution Of $1,000 to the cam.
paign fund. The Czecho-SIovak Bak-
ers' Union, Local 20. contributed $25.
A number Of fraternal organizations
have also made contributions. and
because Of the fact that the campaign
was started very late many Czecho.
Slovak organizations are still to be
heard from.
The field covered by the 18th as
sembly district is a thorogoing work.
ing class section, and the experience
OF this campaign shows that with a
little work future years will show this
to be Communist stronghold. The
work OF this small Czecho-sIovak
branch has resulted in showing the
party in New York that we can go
into districts formerly untouched by
radical influence, and bring out a
huge revolutionary working class
sentiment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03

Another hall was hired but as soon
as the police found that out they fore.
ed the hall keeper to close the Work.
ers Party meeting out. With the 125
workers who struck to the end we sue.
ceeded to finally hold meeting at the
hungarian Workers Hall about two
miles from the place in an isolated
part of the town. Tom Myerscough
the militant miner who was expelled
from the Mine Workers Union by the
reactionary Lewis machine, was chair.
man.
Gitlow in his speech raped hell out
OF Charles Schwab and the democracy
that prevails in Bethlehem. He told
the workers that some day in the
near future the Workers Party would
reorganize the Bethlehem steel mills
OF Charley Schwab along entirely diff
ferent lines. When that times comes.
the workers will be in a position to
take any hall and if the chief of police
interviewed, the workers, thru a shut.
down in the mills, would teach him
how the workers, thru organized DOW.
er can gain democracy for themselves
whether Schwab and the steel barons
like it or not.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03

and a Communist banner on the op-
posite corner. 1t was a spontaneous
rank and file action. We had no reg
uiar speakers; it was preposterous to
oppose this perfect" socialist orator
with our rank and file comrades. Yet
our small group did this with perfect
self-confidence. The spirit of it
caught the mass of workers. They
Immediately sensed where the force
and the tremendous will to action in
the Communist comes from. Here were
rank and file workers. Communists
with no political schooling except that
Of the daily class struggle, going so
fearlessly into action to oppose this
educated socialist intellectual"
Cross Street and Crowd Follows.
One Of our comrades opened the
meeting at the top of his voice so as
to be heard across the street, announc-
ing the purpose of the meeting and
calling upon the workers to join the
rank and file Of the Brownsville Com
uAunAoto CD q pAOlC5b dSdluol llC lglus
food of debauched socialist oratory
The workers responded with enthusi-
asm. A great landslide Of workers
from yellow socialism to militant Com.
munism took place. In very short
time the socialist meeting was bereft
Of its audience, all the workers join.
ing en- masse. One need but to get a
blocks distance away to compare the
two meetings. There was great
dark mass about the Communist plat
form, and as for the socialist meeting
well, one had to come much closer
to even notice there was one.
His honor, the golf stocking social
list attacker of Communism, Mr.. Cor
nell, soon deserted his own yellow
platform and joined our meeting. To
all the questions of this socialist and
a few of his ilk, our rank and filers
who took the platform one after the
other. answered in such fashion as
to draw the hearty and enthusiastic
applause of the large crowd of work
ers. The meeting was great success
and an inspiration for further &C
tivity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03

corner LOT lOuF hours DeIOTe lne
opening of their meeting.
The fear on the part Of the social
lists in bringing out their platform so
early as to to occupy the most favor
able corner was very amusing. The
comrades know by past experience
that il we can put up an opposition
platform on the least favorable corne
at the intersection of Stone and Pitkin
avenues, it would soon cease to be an
opposition meeting, for the socialist
audience would dwindle very quickly
to insignificance. The events Of the
meeting proved this.
Stop to Listen to Socialist.
About nine o'clock a certain rene
gade socialist in Knockers, Jean Cor
nell by name, assembled the yellow
platform. There was no Workers
Party meeting scheduled for the eve
ming due to a Communist affair. II
was on the way to the affair that a
group Of our comrades stopped to
listen just as this experienced social
list orator was dishing out to large
working class audience most stupid
TRADE on the Communists in most
clever fashion flor, after all, only a
social renegade is capable Of cleverly
saying stupid things). One Of our
comrades shot question at him re
garding the refusal Of the socialist
candidate, Rev. Norman Thomas, to
debate the Communist candidate for
governor, James P. Cannon. Our per
feet socialist orator informed the au
dience that the Communists were toe
insignificant to bother with-yet this
bombast specialist devoted most Of his
worthless time in exclusively attack
ing the Communist movement. Imme
diately he launched into fresh TRADE
against Soviet Russia and force and
violence.
Demand Platform to Reply.
Our comrades demanded the plat
form to answer the speakers charges
put up to us in a fashion Of depart
ment of justice agent. He refused
This aroused the ire of our comrades
and within five minutes in a thorc
Communist fashion we had platform
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03

si~H StFtNC 10 OF4dNtZes
NEW YORK, Oct. 2S. - Grocery
and Dairy Clerks Union. Local 1899
of the Retail Clerks International
Protective Association, have given the
executive board authority to call
strikes whenever the employers re.
fuse to grant shorter hours and min.
imum living wage. Conditions in the
shops are not good now and general
strike to organize completely is ex-
peoted soon.
forum who kept driving away work
ers who approached the building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03
ATTACK MADE ON
CANADIAN RAIL
WORKERS WAGES
United Railway Unions
Plan to Fight Back
BY JOHN ROBUR.
Federated Press stan Correspondent


OTTAWA, Can, Nov. "A
direct attack upon the wages of
railway workers in Canada is
made in an application now be-
fore the Canadian railway COM
mission.
The application, made by the
Tudhope Anderson Co., Ltd, Of
Winnipeg and Orillia, Ont, is
founded upon a claim that "the
wages paid to railway employees
are unreasonably high, unfair,
extravagant and discriminatory
in comparison with wages of
other industrial workers thru
out Canada"
Wages Not Much Advanced
An answer to this statement, filed
with the railway commission by the
united railway unions Of the domin-
ion, calls attention to "the cold his
tortcal facts" that the wages of rail
waymen have not advanced as much
as those of some other classes of la
Dor since the outbreak Of the great
war.
Were the 1890 rates of pay and
working rules still in FORCE" the rail-
way unions point out, 'the payrolls
OF Canadian railways for 1924 would
be increased between forty and fifty
million dollars"
The unions deny that the Canadian
rates were increased by the McAdoo
award and affirm that adjustments
were made by that award ito the Diet,
riment of the employees who were at
that time expecting better results
more in keeping with the existing
high living costs"
Less Than In U. s.
Rates paid various classes Of rail-
way employees in Canada" it is stated
~are less than those prevailing in the
United States, while some are quite
equal to the United States standard.
Canadian climate conditions are much
more severe than generally prevail to
the south, the cost both to the employ
ers and the employees is greater by
comparison and would justify higher
levels Of both railway rates and
wages in this country"
The protest of the railway unions
doses with table of comparative
Increases in wages since 1918 among
various trades. These indicate that
while wages in building trades have
risen by two-thirds, in the metal
trades still more, yet in the steam rail.
way trades they have risen by less
Ihan so per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03

NEW YORK, Nov. 2-What Price
Glory continues to question the where
for and cost Of war to packed houses
at the Plymouth Theatre, New York
Arthur Hopkins presentation of tho
play by Maxwell Anderson and Law
renee Sailing is challenge to the
propaganda which swept the I'm.
tied States from 1916 to 1918 in an
effort to disguise the price OF glory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03
RANK AND FILE WORKERS QUESTION
SOCIALIST ORATOR AND TURN MEET
INTO COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN RALLY

BROWNSVILLE Brooklyn, Nov "A delegation representing
dwndle Of the mighty Oetc
cended
Saturday with PLATFORM eHges
ddates, the republican LaFoette
Knowing that
ship devised this historical
Communism