The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-08-08

rupters.
1t is matter for favorable COM
ment, also, that there have been no
incidents of disorder in connection
with this strike. 1t has been clear
case of the proper and orderly appli-
cation of economic pressure
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SOUTHERN OPPOSITION
The Georgia state legislature de-
clined, by practically unanimous
vote, to ratify the proposed federal
amendment giving to congress the
power to regulate the conditions un-
der which children may be employed,
on the ground that this would "de-
stroy the home" and because Georgia
is fully able to take care of its own
children" That state may be capable
of performing this service to the weak
and immature, but she doesn't ap-
pear to have conscious that impels
| her to do SO, for in that state child
| of IA years is permitted to work as
| long as an adult, unlimited hours.
While 60-hour week is specified, ex-
ira time may be worked in event of
an accident" to machinery. If a
child is an orphan or aids in the
support of widowed mother, such
child may work at the age of IL,
under conditions above specified.
1t is conceded that substantially
every northern state will ratify the
child-labor amendment The danger
of its defeat lies in the South, not
on account of state rights, the ap-
peal to which is cheap subterfuge.
but because child labor is an impor-
tant factor of southern industry, and
the amendment clashes with the self
ish interests of that section.
| This is true not only in Georgia,
but in many other states of cotton
growing and cotton-spinning South,
and labor needs to get busy there and
use the utmost of it's influence in lin
ing up legislation ratifications. It
will be necessary to put the pressure
on pretty strong in the two Carolinas,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louis
lana and Texas.
This would be good time to have
the Huddlestons, the Heflins and the
Pat Harrisons, who make such loud
professions Of love for labor in their
congressional oratory, get busy in
some practical demonstration of their
sympathies.-The Chronicle.
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SOLVING FARMERS PROBLEMS
i Grain prices go higher and the
newspapers join in chorus proclaim
ing that the farmers problems are
solved and that this candidate or that
candidate hasn't a leg to stand on
and no longer has an excuse for run
ming for president.
| Unfortunately, the farmers prob
lens are not solved as easily as the
press would have the public believe,
Advancing prices of grain, live stock
and other farm products give welcome
and needed help to the distressed far
mer, but they don't put him perma-
nently on Easy street. Higher prices
only give temporary relief, enabling
the farmer to continue in business
and make up a fraction of the heavy
losses he sustained in recent years.
AS long as the present haphazard
system Of producing and marketing
farm products last, there will be re-
current periods of overproduction,
with consequent falling prices and
distress for the farming communities.
To make progress in solving his prob
lens on sound and enduring basis,
the farmer must take leaf from the
book OF organized labor and organize
to permanently protect his own inter-
ests in a systematic and intelligent