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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
PROSPERITY DE-
PENDS ON WORK
ERS' PAYROLLS

Albany, N. Y.-Pay rolls in the
manufacturing industries of this state
during May were nearly 10 per cent
less than two months before, and
little more than 10 per cent below
May year ago. This March, it is
estimated, the purchasing power put
into the hands of these workers
amounted to $37,O00,OOO weekly. By
May the figure had been reduced to
$34 100000, or a loss of $3,5OO,O00,
according to a statement issued by
State Industrial Commissioner Shien-
tag.
ut is evident" said the commits
sioner, "that the trading activities of
the state may still depend upon large
sums of money to be put into circu-
lation as factory workers earnings.
Even at the low point of 1922, fac
tory pay rolls reached weekly total
Of about $27,5OOO00. However, $1O,-
100000 represents the difference be-
tween prosperity and depression"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
WILL REOPEN COAL
MINE; TO HAVE
ELECTRICITY

Wheeling, w. Va.-The Benwood
mine, the scene of an explosion which
cost the lives of 119 men a few
months ago, is ready to be reopened.
The anti-union Wheeling steel COR
poration owns this property.
The corporation officials state that
"every possible precaution" is being
made to have the mine safe. Electric
safety lamps are to be installed, and
ventilation is improved by new air
courses.
If these precautions had been taken
few months ago 119 workers would
probably be alive today.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
TONES DOWN
Dawes to Play Smooth
Part, Drops 'Helen Maria

Washingtons-General Dawes in
forms the world he must talk sense
now" He has dropped his "Helen
Maria" rip-roaring, play-acting part.
The defender Of the anti-union shop
and originator of the Minute Men OF
the Constitution" announced his
change in an interview with repre-
sentative of local newspaper.
The general let it be known that his
grandstanding days are over and he
will assume an owlish pose, as BELTS
his environment. Hereafter, when
asked question, he will say, II won
der" instead of blurbing "Helen
Maria" to the delight of newspaper
men looking for the sensational.
The general said he learned the "I
wonder" trick from the French who
use it to evade direct answers.
The "Helen Maria" term pictured
the general as blunt, open, two
fsted fighter, an enemy of red tape.
This pose was necessary when a COM
mittee of congress was asking him
about war expenditures. The trick
won. The public applauded Dawes
and drove the congressman into con-
fusion.
The term has served it's purpose and
is now Objectionable. The general
want to be pictured as he is. "Helen
Maria" talk may fool the populace,
but it is out of place among cold, cal
culating men.
II must talk sense now,"- the gen.
eral said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
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LABOR COMPELLED TO
ORGANIZE

Employers who are opposed to or
ganized labor are, as rule, in favor
of low wages and long workday.
They deny this, saying their opposi-
ton is based upon principle" They
would make more headway were they
to pay wages at least equal to the
union rate and limit their workday
to that of the union daylight hours
five days week and four hours on
Saturday, with extra pay for over
time. But this they will not do. Evi-
IDENTIFY, their opposition to unions is
not wholly matter of principle"
There would be reason for the ex-
istence of unions were all employers
as mindful of the interests of their
employees as they are of their owr
interests But they are not. For this
reason and this reason alone, wage.
earners are compelled to organize
They have learned from bitter expe
rience that nobody is interested il
them except themselves. Organized
they are protected to a certain extent
unorganized, they are a prey to ever.
unscrupulous money grabber in ex
istence.
| Employers who pay decent wage
are not opposed to unions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

President Edgerton, of the National
Manufacturers Association, asked the
democratic convention in New York
to incorporate plank to the effect
that the United States must not do
anything that would interfere with
private business. Summarized: He
would have the officials hand over all
the teapot domes, water resources,
forests, etc, to be exploited by the
men who are able to organize money.
The government must not, under any
circumstances, do anything for the
people with the peoples money, for
that would interfere with the vested
rights of capital And millions of
the workers believe that their owner
ship in natural resources should be
given away, and then they in turn
accumulate blisters on their hands
and callouses on their heads wonder
ing why the straw in their mattresses
and the food they shovel with their
knives and forks keeps on costing
more and the ticking keeps on get
ting thinner and thinner Yes, they
will vote for the same old bunkum
and same old hokum, just because at
some time in the remote past, man
in the family was dimmycrat or a
publican.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
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WAGES MEAN LIFE

Wages mean more than the price
of certain number of hours of work.
They mean life and a chance to enjoy
and advance the civilization of the
day.
If you think that it is all right to
pay woman So week, simply be-
cause you can get her to work for
SO week, then you think that it is
all right to take from that woman
not only the hours of work you have
bargained for, but also her health, her
comfort, her chances for pleasure and
education, and provision for her old
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. O.
RELIGION HINDERED BY
IMPERTINENT BIGOTRY


Is there hidden hand" in the
present tendency of some people to
invoke the aid of "blue laws" in sup
pressing innocent forms of recreation
on what is known as the Sabbath
There is every indication that the
sinister hand of the bigot is trying
it's utmost to create unrest among the
masses of toilers in this country, to
the end that religion" may go on
it's way to save the world for God,
when He Himself gave His only be-
gotten son to save the world.
Millions of workers who do not find
time on any other day of the week
than Sunday, would have their only
day of rest taken away from them
by some of the Jealous religious big
OTIS.
Ohio, Kentucky, New Jersey and
one or two other states have come
to the fore in an endeavor to en-
force the "blue laws"
During the war group of Clergy
men," God save the name, succeeded
in preventing game of baseball be-
tween soldiers about to embark upon
their last cruise. They wanted to
play the game once more before they
were made into food for the cannon
But the religious bigots insisted
upon the "blue laws" and those sol
diers died that those hypocrites
might escape the fendish hands Of
the Huns.
Another demonstration of Phari
seeism was given when the bigots
prevented the staging of a sham bat
tie by soldiers wherewith to raise
funds for the canteens. And thus we
might go on indefinitely.
There must be something ignobly
selfish about the so-called represen.
tatives of any profession who woulc
ask the entire world of liberty-loving
people to set aside one whole day fol
the transaction of business with them
But when they go out of their way
to invoke civil laws for the promo.
tion of their own theories, ideas and
interests, and by compulsion interfere
with the peaceful recreation and
wholesome exercise of others, they in
vite and deserve full measure of con-
demnation.
No weapon is more keenly two
edged than the arrogance of the en-
trenched religious bigot More than
any other agency, it has been the orr
gin and cause of the widening and
waxing distrust, suspicion and even
hostility with which so many people
have come to regard the churches.
Good citizens and good soldiers
have little faith in a theological
autocracy, a ministerial monopoly, a
close corporation of Christianity or a
commercial corner of the divinity
1--WE trust in God" is very well for an
American motto. But we don't want
to see Him capitalized into trust.
To the mind of a man who is free
from bias and bigotry, there comes
the thought that one may lead q
horse to water but no man can make
him drink.
Bigots and holier- -than-thous may
succeed for the time in stopping in
nocent forms Of recreation ane
amusement, but in the finality ths
breach between the great common
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
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WHO SAYS THEY DON'T
"TIE up?

One O. NJ Kile, writing in the
Hearst papers from Dallas, Texas,
solemnly declares that Texas farmers
simply won't "tie up" with labor.
Kile writes a nice little "piece,"
but it has one big flaw, i.e., the asser-
tion that Texas farmers and labor do
not cooperate. The only trouble with
this statement is that it is not true.
In common with the farmers and
city workers of other states, Texas
farmers and labor do not ''tie up"
in an independent political party,
which seems to be the point that the
Hearst correspondent is trying to
make. They have found that more
effective results are obtained by non
partisan political action, working
through the existing parties for the
election of men who will stand for
the interests of the producers. This
is the policy of the American Feder-
alton of Labor, and it is a policy
which has stood the test of time.
But Texas farmers and city work
ers do cooperate in the most effect
i've kind of political and economic
action. A glance through the bien-
nial report of the joint farmer-labor
legislative conference of Texas
proves this beyond doubt The con-
ference, which is composed of repre-
sentatives of the Farm Labor Union
| of America, the Railroad Brother
| hoods and the Texas State Federation
of Labor, worked harmoniously
throughout the recent session of the
/ Texas legislature, supporting legisla
ton favorable to the farm boz
| forces of Texas and fighting legisla
tion that was unfavorable.
/ Cooperation on legislative matters
is not the only 'tie up" between
Texas farmers and labor. They work
together to elect genuine progress
ives to office, they cooperate in va
rious economic matters. An example
was the splendid support given tn,
striking railroad shopmen of Texas
by the farmers, who supplied tn,
families of the strikers with food
giving aid that was largely instru
mental in enabling the workers t.
wage a winning fight.
In face of these facts, known to al
who are familiar with Texas condi
tions, what becomes of the Hears
mans assertion that "the farmer sim
ply does not like the idea of definit
tie-up with organized labor? Gu
guess is that his assertion is lef
without leg to stand on.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

age or sickness. You will take all
these things, because 50 week
wage can supply none of them.
You will also be taking from the
community healthy, happy, interest
ed citizen and leaving in her place
woman who will have neither time
nor energy to make contribution to
any social progress woman whose
standard of living must be too low
for safety; in fact, woman who is
a liability instead Of an asset in the
community life. This is too large a
contribution for any one person to
take from another, yet those who pay
less than a living wage are taking
such total from every person they
employ, and from every community
! in which these persons live.-From
"Radio Talks on Women in Industry
prepared and broadcasted by the
| Women's Bureau of the United States
| Department of Labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
METAL POLISHERS GAIN

Rack Island, Ill.-Metal polishers
have signed a 48-hour contract with
the Rock Island Stove Company.
Day work is IL cents an hour.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
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WELL TO EMULATE

Bricklayers and hosting engineers
who are refusing to work with incom
petent non-union iron workers in New
York citl are taking a wise precaution
against death or serious injury.
The bricklayers and engineers know
that as long as non-unionists are
working over them, there is an excel
lent chance of being hit by falling
iron and being taken to the hospital
or the morgue. SO they hvae declined
to continue at work on jobs where
their lives are endangered Presum-
edly they will not return to work until
the non-unionists are replaced by
union men who have proved their skill
and conmetency on many difficult
and dangerous job.
The course taken by the bricklay-
ers and engineers was the only one
open to men whose wealth is theil
labor power and whose families face
misery and starvation when they are
deprived of their labor power by acci.
dent or death. 1t is a course that
should be emulated by workers il
every trade whose lives are menacec
by incompetent non-unionists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
HARBOR WORKERS GAIN

Montreal.-The harbor commission
has increased wages Of 5000 employees
on a naverage of 10 per cent. Better
work conditions will be installed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

Several newspapers have COM
mented lightly upon the conviction of
Governor Warren T. McCray, repub-
lican, of Indiana, upon charges of
fraud and forgery In our opinion it
is a tragedy. Mr.. McCray had all
the advantages Of the so-called higher
business life, and it appears that the
one mistake he made was to the effect
that his friends would be able to bail
him out. There is no question in our
mind but what there are thousands
of other McCrays still out of Atlanta
federal prison.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

Youngstown, Ohio,-The Electrical
Workers union has signed a new a.
greement. Rates are $1.25 an hour.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

people and the self-annointed will
widen apace.
Ohio should not be the home of
bigotry and self-annointed self-seek-
ers.
1t should be the happiest state in
all this land of the free and brave
w. ]. r.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

Bascom Slemp, secretary to Presi-
dent Coolidge, AYERS that his job is
secure for four years more, simply
because Mr. Dawes and Calvin Cool
idge have been elected Tin his mind).
Let's see, we have heard bigger men
than Bascom say the same thing, and
then when the lid was pried off the
stencil rocked the whole nation.
Evidently Bascom has forgotten
about the veterans bureau scandal,
the Dome scandal, and too numerous
to mention scandals. He is not inter
ested in what Mr.. Daugherty did not
do, and what Mr. A Mitch Palmer
and others did not do. Yes, we have
plenty of thinking people today, but
they forget on election day.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

Several years since, one of our
large church bodies, officially, placed
upon the prescribed list dancing, the
atres and other amusements which ap-
pealed to the younger generation.
The restrictive measure almost went
so far as to read the transgressor out
of the church Now the befuddled
fogies that passed the disciplinary
law have discovered that you can lead
a horse to the watering trough but
you can not make him drink Some
day the same people will discover
that sumptuary legislation may be
passed but millions of people will re-
serve their inalienable right to live
according to the constitution of the
United States prior to the cluttering
of it with so-called Volstead laws.
To save their face, the "elders" re-
scinded the obnoxious law and now
members of the church shall be guild
ed by their conscience.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
CHILD LABOR
Loses in One State, Wins in
Another

Little Rock, Ark.-Both branches
of the state legislature have approved
the child labor amendment to the fed
eral constitution. Opponents of the
amendment insist it violates states
rights. This, however, failed to tuhn
sufficient number Of legislators, and
Arkansas has the honor of being the
first to favor the amendment.
Baton Rouge, La.-This state, the
first to pass on the child labor amend
ment to the federal constitution, has
rejected the proposal. The federal re-
lations committee of the lower house
favored the amendment, but after a
hectic debate of than two hours states
rights advocates in the house defeat
ed the resolution by vote of 26 to 81.
Atlantic City, N. 1.-THE Maryland
bar association declared against the
child labor amendment to the federal
constitution at their convention in
this city.
The chairman of the committee on
laws said the amendment would de-
| prive parents of the right to decide
whether children who were under Is
should work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
FRIDAY, JULY IL, 1924

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at S26 Market Street.
Hamilton, Ohio
Telephone 1895
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
A BLOOMER

The much talked-of farmer-labor
CD convention held recently at ST.
Paul, Minnesota, to found a new
political party proved to be a tenn
pest in teapot. AS talk-fest it is
without a rival. The new political
party it launched was killed at it's
birth.
This is what the Labor World, pub
lished in Duluth, thinks of the gath
ering that was captured by commun-
lists:
"The cards were all stacked in ad-
vance," says the Labor World, which
states that "the progressives went
into the convention like lambs to a
slaughter"
Foster and his followers bossed
the convention from the outside. They
didn't try to play clever game. They
came out boldly in the open. They
had little use for Mahoney after he
delivered his opening address. From
then on they lionized every speaker
who had become notorious in his time
as a rebel in the American labor
movement. An examination of the
personnel of the executive committee
would indicate that the communists
got about everything they wanted
"The plank on public ownership
says some things about industrial
democracy until industry comes
under the control of those who pro-
duce the wealth of the nation.
"Does the word until in the plank
imply that when those who produce
the wealth of the nation come into
control, industrial democracy shall
cease and we shall have in it's place
something else?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
MEMS SOC o.
SUSPENDERS DC

Mems heavy work suspenders known
as the Police and Firemen's kind.
Here's an unusual buy in wanted
article of dress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
AS TOLD BY
ROBERT T. FISHER,
IT~Ssuorcsfx

This story concerns quarter
backs brilliant execution OF
i decisive strategy i'll the crisis
of sensational gridiron battle; but
more than this, it is record OF ehe
logged determination of youth to
reach certain objective-and how
he made good.
Also il tells how another lad by
quick thinking and general aiertness
oyercame handicap which mlght
have daunted a less ambitious person.
made himself an asset to his team
and finally was able to take a leadlns
part in a play that was one OF the
thrillers of the season.
OFFER an Inspiration.
The accomplishments of these play
ers should be an inspiration 10 every
man who loves foot ball and should
point a moral for every boy VINO
aspires to play il. What they did
seems more important to me than the
above mentioned strategy, although
the latter will be remembered Ions
time by those who witnessed IT.
Although the Harvard Penn state
game in the stadium at Cambridge
October 90, 1922, lacked the historical
and sentimental Importance OF the
annual struggles with Yale and
Princeton, it was fully as thrilling a
battle as any ever waged between
these old-time rivals. In it's closing
stages it developed tensity that
was nerve-wrecking.
Picture the dusk of a late Autumn
day deepening into darkness which
the high rims of the stadium, shut
ting out the sunlight, thickened and
increased; fancy some $4,000 Crimson
followers plunged into "a mental and
spiritual gloom of even greater
density, when contrasted with the
joyous frenzy of a comparative hand
full of Penn State adherents: spread
over the curving sides of the amphi-
theater the flare of innumerable
burning newspapers, transformed into
torches SO that the maneuvers of the
athletes. might more clearly be seen;
conside-, that Penn led Harvard by
a score of 81 to II and the fourth
quarter was passing Guickly-do this
and you have the setting for a rally
which made foot ball history and
brought the high pitched throng to
it's feet in a frenzy of emotion.
We had anticipated that when Hugo
BeZdek brought MS eleven to cam
bridge we would have a fight on our
hands. The former Chicago fullback
had constructed a really strong ma
chine and in killinger and Lightner
he possessed two consistent ground
gamers. In four games, Penn State
had run up total of 14S points to
its opponents Z.
Although we had won all of our
previous five games. we had managed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
RALLY BY HARVARD
BEATS HOLY CROSS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 1S.-
Harvard's inexperienced eleven over
came a Holy Cross siX-point lead In
the stadium today, winning, IL to 6,
by scoring two touchdowns in the
second half, the first after a 40-yard
advance by rushing, the other by a
brilliant 62yard run by AL Miller.
Crimson sophomore back.
Holy Cross scored a touchdown
when Crowley picked up Millers
tumble and ran As yards for a score
Both teams missed the try for point
after touchdown.
Entering the second half facing the
Holy Cross advantage of to 0. Har-
ward started with a fierce rush, Ham
mond running back the opening kick
off 80 yards After a couple Of rushes.
Hammond punted outside at Holy
Cross 3-yard line. Holy Cross i'm
mediately kicked out of danger, but
Hammond tore % yards off left
tackle. On the next play Hammond
tossed pass over a short left end
TO McGlone. substituting for Stafford
at quarterback, who ran % yards to
the Holy Cross 2-yard line. Howe
crossed the goal line in two rushes
McGlone missed the try for point.
In the fourth period, Miller went
through left tackle lodged the sec
ondary defense and swept down the
1eld guarded by rapidly formed in
reference. for the last score of the
game. Zarakov missed the try for
point.
More than $4,000 watched the game.