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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01

During the strike of railroad shop
men a barber in Clifton Forge, Va,
posted a sign in the window of his
own shop, reading: "No Scabs Want
ed Here" The language was not so
mild as that posted on the office win
dow of the Emporia Gazette by Viii
liam Allen White, but the same spirit
was expressed.
The Clifton Forge, Va, barber SYM
pathized with the striking shop men
and stuck out his sign saying so.
William Allen White believed in
maintaining ordinary human rights
during that strike and he stuck out
a sign expressing his Indignation of
Governor Aliens attempt to deny
them
When Attorney General Daugherty
won from the court his drastic IN
junction against the shopmen forbid
ding them to do anything but pray
for success, each by himself and not
together, the Clifton Forge, Va, bar
Der kept his 'No Scabs Wanted Here"
sign flying, and he was promptly ar
rested for contempt of court and
found guilty by the court. The de-
cision of the U. S. district court has
recently been upheld by the court of
appeals which held that the sign con-
stituted Intimidation by insult" The
tender strikebreaker might
throw down his tools when he learned
that he could not get shave in that
particular barber shop.
William Allen White and Governor
Allen fixed up their little differences.
No court was offended and the whats
the Matter With Kansas" editor came
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
PEOPLE HOUSED IN
SHACKS

New York.--A report by the state
commission on housing presents in
shocking detail the conditions under
which thousands Of people in this
city are compelled to live.
The report is the result of a survey
of nine typical blocks. Some of the
important findings are as follows:
Rents have increased from 40 per
cent to 93 per cent in four years.
Though rents have risen, factory
wages have decreased in the same
period
Families with an income of $4,000
pay 21.3 per cent for rent, as against
14.4 per cent in 1919.
New tenants pay from 80 per cent
to SO per cent more rent than old
tenants
Houses are sold frequently and each
change in ownership brings an in
crease in rents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
HARD-BOILED COAL
OWNERS

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.-Coal
owners in this province have shown
their greed by asking the government
to reduce compensation to widows
whose husbands have been killed in
coal mines or other industry. The
present compensation is $35 month,
and the coal owners demand that this
pittance be cut to $2750. The act
provides for the payment of $3.50 per
month for each child until the maxi
mum of $65 for the family is reached.
The coal owners would cut the chill
dren's allowance to $6.25 per month.
Editor Roper, of the Alberta Labor
News, reminds the government that if
the coal owners plan is accepted it
means that the government and mu-
inequalities, through the mothers al
lowance act, will be called upon to
look after widows and children who
already receive too little from the
compensation board.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
INCOMPETENT
BOSSES DEFEND
CHEAP LABOR

New York.-The demand for cheap
labor comes from "unprogressive" en-
ployers who fail to adopt methods and
machines now available" said w. r.
Bassett, a member of Secretary of
Commerce Hoover's committee which
is investigating waste in various in
dustries.
"Some selfish manufacturers want
a big labor reserve to draw one, just
as they need a stock of spare parts, .
said Mr.. Bassett.
Fright now we have plenty of work
ers in this country to take care of the
legitimate need for unskilled work
ers. Cheap labor is needed only by
those who are not skilled enough to
manufacture at low cost and still pay
high wages.
with the help of labor-saving
equipment, skillful manufacturers
turn out more product per man en-
ployed than they did before the war
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
SEN ATOR SAYS A LOT

Senator Smoot "said mouthful''
the other day in the senate when he
remarked that differentiating be-
tween what is important and what
is unimportant is a hard thing to do
between senators. Judging from the
time wasted in the present session
of congress on the discussion of COM
paratively unimportant subjects,
Senator Smoot might have gone even
further and declared that it is impos-
sible for senators to distinguish be-
tween the important and unimpor-
tant
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
DEFECTIVE ENGINES
USED BY PENNSY r. r,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. trains on
the Pennsylvania railroad were delay
ed in this city from two hours to in
definite periods when inspectors of
the interstate commerce commission
ordered out of service defective loco
motives hauling the trains.
Some of the detectives were used on
extra-fare trains.
The railroads poor equipment is be-
cause of the shop mems strike and the
attempt of this corporation to destroy
the unions Of these workers through
a hand-picked company union" that
the railroad management fayors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
Issued Weekly at S26 Market Street
Hamilton. Ohio.
Telephone 1895
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
THE GARBAGE QUESTION

1t is certainly to be hoped that the
service department will find some way
for solving the city's garbage problem.
Not for a long time, if ever, were our
streets and alleys in the condition
they are in today. Everywhere one
looks are to be seen barrels and
boxes overfowing with ashes, tin cans,
slops-garbage of all kinds. Strang-
ers coming into the city certainly get
fine impression of us.
1t may be that there isn't enough
money in the city's treasury to make
the proper collection of the barbage,
that is neither here nor there-it is
up to the service department to solve
the problem; that is what the people
pays it's servants for, and that is
what they expect. The Press be-
lieves the officials made mistake
when they decided to cut down gar
bage collections one-half, or once each
week instead of twice. If the city
isn't able financially to make the
proper collection of garbage the Off
cials should so notify the citizens that
they must dispose of their garbage
themselves, as they did for a time
last year
There shouldn't be any halfway
measure in this matter. AS it is the
people are told that the garbage will
= be collected once a week and they
depend upon it. But this isn't
enough to keep the city clean look
ing. Another thing, the garbage
men, so it is claimed, say with the
present number of men and teams on
they can't make it regularly each
week What's the consequence? Peo-
pie who formerly set their garbage
out only on the day the garbage men
called now, for fear of missing the
men on their rounds, have the gar
bage receptacles setting on the curb
and in the alley at all times.
If there is only half enough funds
on hand to make proper collection of
garbage during the next six months
the Press would make this suggestion:
The service department put on the
same number of men and teams as
was formerly used in this work, for
three months, or until the funds run
out, then notify the citizens that they
must bear the cost direct for remov-
ing garbage until money is again
placed in the treasury for this pur-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
WANT STATE TO AID
CONVICTS' FAMILIES

Columbia, S. C.-Greenville county
legislators announce that they will
ask the state legislature to provide
for the families of state criminals.
A system of compensation for rela-
tives of convicted men to prevent
them from becoming wards of the
state or objects of charity will be ad-
vanced.
Advocates of the plan point out that
in many cases children of convicted
man become lawbreakers after max
ing a grim fight for existence under
their handicaps.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
EVERYBODY OWES $2Sa

Washington.-The public debt of
the entire country aggregates $32,-
1856, ,,715,000, or more than three
quarters times what it was in 1912.
If the debt was divided equally, it
would mean that every man, woman
and child owes $2S3.
Annual interest charges on this
huge sum amounts to $1,311, ,468, 600,
or $1206 year for every man, wom-
and and child
Because of the war, the nations in
debtedness has increased 672 per cent
in 10 years
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
VIOLATE EIGHT-HOUR
LAW

Mansfield, Ohio.--The Republic As
phalt Company, of Dayton, Ohio, has
been fined $1OO and costs for violat-
ing the eight-hour law After several
postponements, organized labor de-
manded that the matter come to trial.
The company plead guilty. In Akron
SO indictments are pending in the
courts against different contractors
for violation of this law
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01

pose. In this way the people will
know where they are at and what is
expected of them. And the Press is
of the firm opinion that the people
will respond in the right manner.
However, it is up to the service de-
partment to solve this problem col
lectively, and not to the people in
dividually. But let's have no half
way measures; it is too important
matter for that-either the serv-
ice department collect the garbage or
the citizens themselves do it.
E "a "a "a -
MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE
International Labor News Service.
last week told how union workers in
many section Of the country had won
higher wages and better working con-
ditions.
This news will carry no thrill to
the well-to-do or wealthy person
Those with money may even read it
with an undisguised feeling of hos
tility. But to the wage Garner it is
"a horse of another color"
For the wage Garner knows that
the difference between good wages
and poor wages is the difference be-
tween heaven and hell. With good
wages, the worker can educate his
family, can get for them and himself
some of the good things of life. With
good wages and good management on
his part, he can perhaps own his
home and free himself from the
thralldom of the landlord. He can
get an automobile and enjoy that
broadening experience that travel by
motor has brought to millions. In
his home, he can have books, musical
Instruments, radio.
If the worker receives poor wages,
his life is one continuous round of
grinding toll, filled with worry and
anxiety. He has little opportunity to
advance himself and he steadily de-
teriorates mentally, physically and
spiritually. He and his family are
old before their time and hope almost
vanishes from their lives.
Improvement in the conditions of
the workers means that they are
given the opportunity to enter into
a fuller, richer life, with all that this
means for the betterment of the race
in this day and in the generations
that are to come. For this reason,
news of wage increases and improve
ment of working conditions is truly
thrilling news, for those who can real
ize its real significance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
WOULD END COST-PLUS

Washington The house committee
on military affairs has reported a bin
to abolish the cost-plus contract sys-
tenn for government supplies in time
of war. It is proposed that the presi-
dent fix the price of services and COM
modities, and where bids are neces-
sary they shall be received by tele-
graph or telephone.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
HERE is SARCASM

Washington.-The senate was dis
cussing the action of the American
Bar Association and the United States
Chamber of Commerce in travelling
abroad in foreign-owned ship, when
Senator Caraway, Of Arkansas, said:
"Mr. President, may ask ques-
ton? would like to find out how
long it will be after they get back be-
fore they pass resolution for ship
subsidy to keep the American mer-
chant marine from perishing off the
face of the seas ?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
TOO MANY ALIENS

London, Ontario.-The immigration
policy Of the Dominion government is
criticised by trade unionists, who de-
clare the government is too anxious
to pump in" these aliens when there
is barely enough work for perma-
nent residents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
OCCUPATIONAL d.
SEASES NOT UNDER
THE LIABILITY LAW

Columbus, Ohio.-The Ohio state
supreme court has ruled that occupa-
tional diseases are not compensate
under the state compensation law.
The court held that tuberculosis al
legged to have been contracted as a
result of inhalation firon particles
is not an injury" in the sense used
in the original law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
REACTION is BEHIND
REVOLT IN MEXICO

San Antonio, Texas. Trade union
lists along the Rio Grande river who
are acquainted with Mexican condi-
tions agree that reaction is behind
Huerta and his revolt. The large land
owners and other reactionaries would
re-establish the old regime, when the
agragian law favored them rather
than the people. Another object is to
abolish all democratic forms, set up a
military dictator and abolish the office
of president and the national con-
gress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
ALIEN LAW AIDS COUN.
TRY

New York Immigration laws are
no longer designed to benefit the i'm
migrant, but the first thought, in their
making is America first" said>W. w.
Husband, commissioner general of i'm
migration, in speech at the Lawyers
Club.
Without legal restriction the tre-
mendous influx of immigrants would
only be limited to the inability Of the
transportation lines to carry them
and the inability of relatives already
here to send them money, the COM
missioner said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
COMPENSATION
Law UPHELD
BY HIGH COURT

Columbus, Ohio.The state su-
preme court has upheld that portion
of the state compensation act which
imposes penalty Of so per cent upon
an employer subject to the law who
has not paid his premium to the state
insurance fund when one of his en,-
ployes is injured and he fails to pay
the award fixed by the Ohio industrial
commission within 10 days.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
REJECT CENSOR PLAN

Duluth. Trade unionists rejected
the offer of public school authorities
to present list Of speakers and their
subjects as condition to secure the
use of a public school. The central
labor body protests to the school
board against its censorial attitude.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
- " - - Va
WILL MASSACHUSETTS GO
BACK?

Hard to believe is the news from
Massachusetts, that bills repeating the
49-hour law for women and children
in industry have been introduced in
the legislature. 1t is to be hoped
that the Massachusetts legislators
will waste no time on such reactionary
proposals, but will promptly reject
them. If Massachusetts should re-
peal the 48-hour law, it would be a
step backwards, unworthy of civil
lied state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
OPPOSE CONVICT LA
BOR

Baltimore.-Organized iron molders
are up in arms against the proposal
to spend $4,000 on the Maryland pen
itentiary foundry. The molders de-
clare that this will continue 'the
present vicious contract system, which
exploits the convicts and wrongs the
free molder by flooding the market
with prison-made castings, thereby
causing unemployment and distress" !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
OIL MARKET SHAT
TERED BUT COM
PANY PAYS BONUS

Long Beach, Cal.-The Jameson Oil
Company, the first union-shop oil
company, paid 5 per cent Christmas
bonus to it's employees.
This firm is prosperous, and despite
present market conditions in the oil
industry that has wrecked numerous
concerns, it can afford bonus while
other oil firms are reducing wages
of their unorganized employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
MOVE FREIGHT BY
MOTOR

Washington. Delegates to the ma
tional transportation conference, in
session here, estimated that more
than $1,000, 100000 can be saved to
the nation in the next five years,
through the transference of freight
terminals from congested to surbur-
ban districts together with the use
Of motor trucks.
1t was stated that the Pennsylvania
railroad is using motors on short
hauls and has found the project pro-
fitable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
CONFERENCES ARE HELPFUL

Boston.-Conferences between Pres
ident Sigman, of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union and
local dress manufacturers has paved
the way for an agreement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01

out of the fracas with the glory of a
hero. The obscure Virginia barber
isn't so fortunate. His constitutional
rights have been denied; no jury pass
ed on his guilt; the judge who SEN
fenced him was lawmaker, prosecutor
and executor. He must languish in
Jail. 1t is just another proof of what
lawyers can do to ordinary mems
rights when they get started.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
BUTLER AND UNIONS

Brigadier General Smedley D. But
Ter, who announced he was going to
'clean up" Philadelphia in 4S hours,
seems to have made lot of noise get
ting started. Among other foolish
things he is said to have said was that
policemen's and fremen's unions
must go" Evidently the general is
strong of talk, however time will
prove as to his abilities as a vice
crusader
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
OPPOSE STATE COssACKs

Detroit, Mich.-Use of the state
constabulary in this county was con-
demned at the last meeting Of the
Federation of Labor. The governor
was asked to withdraw the cossacks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
MILK DRIVERS GAIN

Oakland, Cal organized milk driv-
ers have secured substantial wage
increase, following long negotiations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-01
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A BARBER GOES TO JAIL

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-11-26
Important TO All Women
Readers of This Paper
Swamp Root a Fine Medicine

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
II the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, irritable
aad may be respondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring health
to the kidneys, proved to be Just che
remedy needed to overcome such co1tdi-
tons.
Many send for sample bottle to see
what Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver
and bladder medicine will do for them.
By enclosing ten cents to DR.. Kilmer &
Co., Binghamton, N. Y, you may receive
sample size bottle by parcel post. You
can purchase medium and large size bottles
at all drug observation-disclosures.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-11-26
Valuable Cactus

What is said to be a desirable immi-
grant from southern Europe has ar
rived at the United States bureau of
foreign seed and plant introduction
from Nice, on the Mediterranean shore
of France. 1t is a member of the cac-
tus family, Cereus validus by name,
and produces edible fruits of an excel
lent quality. The fruits are the size
of & goose egg, in color magenta red,
and entirely without spines or prickles
This plant is really a returning Amer
lean emigrant, for all cacti were orig
inally American, and were not known
in Europe until after the voyage of
Columbus.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-11-26
Ring Oddly Restored

At Sullivan, Mo-, C. G. Rose found
gold ring on the small end of a po-
tato growing in his garden. The rings
story became known through its
markings. More than fifty years ago
Mrs. J. A. Dotter was visiting where
Rose now lives. The ring was too
large for her, and while helping to
wash the dishes the ring came off
The dishwater was thrown out into
the yard, and although a diligent
search was made, the ring could not
be found
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-11-26
[hirtyRunningSOreS

Remember, I stand back of every box.
Every druggist guarantees to refund the
purchase price (35 cents If Petersons
Ointment doesn't do all claim.
/ guarantee it for eczema, old sores,
running sores, salt rheum, ulcers, sore
skin diseases, blind, bleeding and Itch
ing piles, as we'll as for chafng, burns,
scalds, cuts, bruises and sunburn.
Il had so running sores on my leg
for II years, was in three different
hospitals Amputation was advised
Skin grating was tried. I was cured
by using Peterson's Ointment."-Mrs.
F. E. Root, 2S7 Michigan Street, Buff
falo, N Y. Mail orders filled by Peter
son Ointment Co. Buffalo, N. Y.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-11-26
"Black Ships" From America

In a word, Japan was as rich
clover field already pollenized from
the Occident Like a steady line Of
bees, the Dutch ships had been bring
ing the vitalizing influences for more
than two centuries. Yet to the jap
anese, the modern revelations, on a
large scale, were the "black ships" Of
the American whalers that gathered
in their waters. What the islanders
learned both from honestly ship
wrecked sailors and from the vol
untary waits (chiefy mutineers) quick
ened the national temperament.
President Fillmore's fleet, which was
ordered to sail for the East in 1852,
on the same day that Japan's greatest
emperor, Mutsuhito, was born, con-
sisted largely of store ships, which
were loaded with American inventions
and products.
After Commodore Perry had COM
pleted his treaty-making, there was
held in 1854 on the strand at Yoko-
hama, Japan's first Industrial exposi-
ton. In 1872 the more ornamental
presents were in a storehouse at
Shizuoka, the place Of the last sho-
guns Punishment The things of use,
in agriculture and the arts, had al
ready been widely distributed and
copied, especially in that new part Of
the empire called the Hokkaido
(Yezo). which throughout bears a
very American aspect; and the reason
Of this is clear. A commission Of
scientific and practical men, sent out
from Washington, was active in the
island between 1870 and 1880.
Even more impressive to the student
of Japan's evolution were the personnel
and equipment of at least five of the
first American missionaries. Three,
besides being mature IN experience,
had been long before in China, or
were men of science and technical
ability. DR.. ]. G. Hepburn opened a
hospital and dispensary and trained
the first surgeons and physicians, and
he and S. r. Brown built the bridges
Epanning the gulf between the two Ian