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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29

A funny thing happened upon the
Dixie Highway one day while it was
raining. Quite number Of automo-
biles had formed procession, and
were driving along at rate of about
thirty miles an hour. In the process
sion was a 'soap box on spools. "
1t stalled suddenly A big Winton
car, Immediately behind, threw on it's
brakes, skidded across the road, and
almost as quick as "Jack Robinson" !"
nine autos were trying to pass over
the same spot at one and the same
time. And then auoists and the popu-
lace wonder why there are SO many
accidents and deaths chargeable to
the auto. No, not chargeable to the
auto, but chargeable to some of the
damphools who have the price of a
soap box and big car.
o
Secretary of Labor Davis in re-
cent speech is credited with having
stated that the greatest criminal in
the world is the laborer who steals
time from his employer. Secretary
of Labor Davis was in mid-western
city making speech before an or
ganiZation of foremen at the time
Let's see. Mr.. Davis works for
Uncle Sam, and Uncle Sam is made
up of you and me- He was away
from his job saving the caker. He
was not stealing time from you and
ms-he was simply demonstrating
that he was a good speaker, and that
he would like to hold his job for a
while longer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29

r. G. Soderstrom, organized labor's
able and aggressive floor leader in the
Illinois house of representatives He
fathered the Soderstrom injunction
limitation bill, which was twice voted
down in the house He is now leading
the fight in the house for modified
injunction limit bill, which has been
also introduced in the senate. Repre-
sentative Soderstrom is a member of
the International Typographical
Union and is serving his third term
in the Illinois legislature. He works
as linotype operator in printing
office at Streator, ILL.,, between ses-
sions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29

several of the ladies who are now
working on the Reorganization plans.
Stanley Ogg informed the council
that memorial will be held for John
Voll, the late president of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor, in Zanes-
vile, Ohio, Decoration Day. Several
speakers will be there from the labor
movement. The memorial will be held
in the cemetery.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29
EMPLOYMENT DROPS

Albany, N. Y.-Between 10000 and
$4,000 employees were dropped from
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29
GUNMAN GETS STAY

Charleston, w. Va.-Don Chain,
gunman, bootlegger and former sher-
iff of Logan county, has secured q
30-day stay Of sentence to permit an
appeal to the United States supreme
court.
Chain was sentenced by Federal
Judge McClinitc to two years impris-
onment and fined $4,000 for violat-
ing the federal prohibition act.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29
ship SUBSIDY
In New Form Opposed BY
A. f. of l.. Executive
Council

Washington.-Th A. F. of L. ex-
ecutive council has declared its oppo-
sition to subsidizing ship owners by
the government paying part of the
wages of seamen This action is in
line with declarations by A. F. of l..
conventions.
"The reason advanced for the wage
subsidy" said President Green, SIS
the differential between the wages of
foreign and American seamen The
cause for such ditferential is not far
to seek. If the seamen's act were
enforced there would be no differ
entail The proposed wage subsidy is
to cover up the failure to enforce
that act
apparently the idea of the spon-
sors of the subsidy is that in propos-
ing that it be in wages it will elimi-
nate opposition from labor. But this
is not true. Labor stands where it
did in 1899, when the convention of
the A. F. of l.. declared: "A subsidy
in the very nature of things, is the
granting of special privilege en-
powering some men to fill their pock-
cts at the expense of others, through
the forms of law
"This principle was followed in sue
cessfully opposing ship subsidies in
1899, 1906 and 1922. By hiding il
behind wage proposition does not
minimize the fact that it is a shir
subsidy for the benefit of private
ship owners who have maliciously VIC
lated the Seamen,s act
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29

factory payrolls in this state from
the middle of March to the middle of
April, according to the state depart
ment of labor. This reduction amounts
to nearly per cent. The automobile
industry was the one conspicuous M
provement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29

A. J. Berries, secretary of the Metal
Trades department of the American
Federation of Labor, who represented
the federation at the recent confer
ence in Washington on the tetra- ethyl
gasoline peril. AS result of the con-
ference, a committee of seven scien-
lists will make thorough investiga-
ton of the effects of ethyl gasoline on
human beings
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29

In dire need of money with which
to purchase "moon," man in Cincin-
natl induced woman friend to per-
nit him to take her home in his car.
He was under the impression that she
carried money with her, being engag-
ed (very quietly) in dispensing con-
traband, SO it was said. Two or three
days later her body was found, and
detectives, by good work, located the
fiend Charge this up to the hypo-
critics.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-29

This old purveyor Of facts has taken
to task quite number of publishers
of so-called lurid magazines. In fact,
he took up the matter with so-called
"staid" publications, to the end that
the filth printed under the guise of
"hot stuff" from confession stories,
might be properly placed in the sew
age receptacles. Nothing doing. 1t
was simply another case of flooding
the homes with all the filth possible
from putrid minds for paltry dollars
Now there is to be a concerted move
ment made to suppress some twenty
five of the so-called confessional mag
azines. Laws for their non-publica-
ton have been upon the statutes for
years. The holier than thou officials
have taken no action until the home
was afre. Sometimes it appears that
the devil has his best lieutenants in
the church.
, 1925-10-07
Mail superintendent Found
Guilty OF EmbeZZIement

After debating from 6 o'clock until 10
o'clock Wednesday night a Federal Court
jury found LUIS Garcia Neander, former
superintendent of mails in the San Juan
pos}ofice. GU Ity of embezzling $l,395,44
from customs duties on foreign merchan-
disc. Judge Wells allowed Garcia five
days in which to file an appeal. If the
accused takes no action, he will be sent
to the Federal pe%netentiary III Atlanta
, 1925-10-07
NEWS ITEM.

An inquiry has been received in the Of
flee of the Despatching Secretary for the
names of persons who might be interest
cd in raising cocoanuts for shipment to
Baltimore, Md.
, 1925-10-07
Il. S. NAVAL RADIO STATION.
CHRISTIANSTED, ST. CROIX,
5TH OCTOBER 1925.
Courtesy of The Associated Press,)

courtesy " fN6 Ao0OCCWt6W I60"'J
Annapolis, Indianapolis football
team defeated William and Marys col
Iege here by a score Of twenty five to
zero.
Bellefont, Pa "A thousand persons
and eleven airplanes are continuing
search for Charles H. Ames missing air
mail pilot believed lost in the Alleg-
hany mountains.
Cincinnati king Nadi won Latonia
championship purse of 10, 900 doIIals with
Old slip second aad BroWsy third.
Washington, IT Commissioner Frederick
|. Thompson resigned as a member OF
Shipping Board in protest against appa-
rent efforts to abolish sectional represPn-
tation on that body his resignation was
accepted by the President.
New York, John A. Heydler Presi-
dent of the National League believes
that Pittsburgh team has a little better
chance to win the world series than
Washington Dut said that the two con
tenders are exceptionally evenly matched
Block IslaDd-Ihe body of Paul d..
Berk of New Londonw as recovered by
the rescue crew today after which it was
necessary to suspend operations due to
rough sea the body was removed from
IlC CISllC OOA Jill q
operations became very dangerous and
Daver with Wilson who worked with
diver M. Lika in getting out Berks body
became i'll but by quickly coming to the
surface he quickly recovered with medl-
cal attention.
Atlanta, Ga.-The board investigating
the head on crash last week of the Dixie
express held three members of the train
crew RESPONSIBLE for the collision with
the Dixie flyer south Of Chattanooga one
was killed and 80 injured.
Washington. The successful! bidder
for the mail contracts as provided By the
Kelly law will be am ounced by postmas-
ter general New early this week.
Washington. The Navy Dept. was
advised that the Peary McMiIIans Arctic
ship reached Sydney and expects to leave
for Maine today.
No Baseball Scores.
, 1925-10-07
o. A.

The following passengers sailed yester-
day by the S. $. 'Mayaro": For St.
Thomas Ellen Hodge and Mathilda Au-
gustine. For New York-Mrs. Eugenia
|. Williams, Miss Ethel M. James, Eman-
uel Davis, Wilhelm Barnes, Christiana
, 1925-10-07

Simon, AdelIa Lewis, Joseph E. James,
Miss Helen c. Williams, Mary Jane Reid,
john Frederik James, Mary M. Henry,
Eugenie Marcus, James Andrew, Carl
Aug. Edwards and Henry Moorehead.
The u. S. S. "Grebe" arrived here at
moor yesterday from St. Thomas with
the following passengers:-1st Lieuten.
ant and Mrs. l.. A. Brown and child,
Mrs. B. H, Wilson, Mr.. Jones, Sgt d.
Kellen, Pvt E. B, Petersen, Pvt. w. l..
Shelter and Phm. Wiley 6. Bryan. The
ship sailed on the return trip at 3 p. m.
Passengers:-Louis Ford and released
prisoners Jeremiah DaImido and Emily
Dawson.
An alteration between sailors from
the S. S. Mama resulted in a fight the
night before last in one Of them being
badly cut up. He was rushed to the hos
pital where he is now laid up and out Of
immediate danger, ii is understood.
The 5. Manta loaded 4,117 bags sugar
Yesterday. At this rate She will! proba-
bly, be through early on Friday,
AS regards what appeared in this pa
per of Monday last relative to the tele-
phone, we had no thought whatever of
refuting what was tated in the Tribune.
The criticism in that paper prompted US
to offer some suggestions to those who
misuse the phone and thus impair the
measure Of service unnecessarily. If
the phone is bad and the subscriber uses
it unintelIigently it follows that the SER
vice must be worse. He can only gain
by doing his own part. AS for the right
Of the newspaper to c%riticise public ser
vice with the view to improving the same,
that,s unite In order in our OpiniOn.
, 1925-10-07
Notice OtFOrced Auction.

DY virtue Of writ of execution dated
August the 26th, 1925, issued out of
the District Court of Christiansted,
st. Croix, Virgin Islands of the u. S A..
in Case wherein The NEW ST. CROX
SAVINGS BANK, was Plaintiff, and R
PETERSEN, defendant: The Sheriff for
the Municipality of St. Croix, in the
Vendue Office, Christiansted Police Court
House, will
AT 9 O'CLOCK P. N.
Friday November the 9Th, 925,
sell at Public Auction, to the highest
bidder, the following real Estate:
"UniOn & Mt. Washington
situated Christiansted Jurisdiction,
East End-Quarter A. No. II, 80,
& "a, consisting of 1862 1I2 acres
of land, one cOmmodious dwelling
house with three living rooms, and
Cellar; constructed of mason and
woodwork, one building of mason
ry for Carriage-house and Stable,
SO head of Cattle, 3 Donkeys, l
Horse (Mare), l PhaetOn and har-
ness, l Cart and harness, l Fan-Mill
with attached piping and l Oven.
The conditions and terms Of the Sale
will be produced and read at The time of
the sale.
C|hristiansted Vendue Office. St. Croix.
October 5th 1925.
A. E. S~TAKEMANN,
Vendue Director.
Fee Frs. 10
Say Ten Francs
A. E. S.
Closing Oh Mails
TOMORROW
S. S. Maraval--5.00 p. m.
, 1925-10-07

The $ s. Mania loaded 4,1I7 bags sugar
yesterday. At this rate She will! proba-
bly, be through esrly on Friday,
Evening star., 1925-08-20
JOSEPH SCHIFFMAN DIES.
Washington Man Expires in Hos
pital in New York.

Joseph Schiffman, IA years old
owner of the Winton Apartments, 3145
Mount Pleasant street, and for many
years a resident Of this city, died in
the Montefiore Hospital, New York,
yesterday. He went from here to
New York for his health about three
months ago, and soon afterward en-.
tered the hospital there.
Mr.. Schiffman was a member OF the
Capital City Chess Club and the Osiris
Lodge, No. 26, F. A. A. NJ.
He is survived by four daughters,
Mrs. Belle Schiffmap Loeb, Miss Dora
Schiffman, Miss Rita Schiffman and
Miss Henriette Schiffman, and three
grandchildren.
The body will arrive in Washington
today and funeral services will be
conducted at the residence in the Win.
ton Apartments tomorrow morning al
10 o'clock. Interment will be in the
Washington Hebrew Congregation
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1925-08-20

increase equaled by only few other
cities.
The rise in retail food prices here
was paralleled by increases in prices
in 40 other cities, only one of the
large cities of the country showing a
dercease on July Is over the prices in
effect June Is. Prices in Boston and
Providence rose 7 per cent, other in
creases ranging down to the less than
half Of l per cent rise registered in
Seattle In Salt Lake City there was
a decrease of per cent.
An increase Of Ills per cent in all
food articles combined was reported
for the year ended July Is, as COM
pared with the preceding year
The following increases were shown:
Boston and Providence, per cent;
Milwaukee, 6; Bridgeport, Fall River,
Manchester and Rochester, 5; Buffalo.
Columbus, Detroit. Indianapolis, Jack
sonville, Minneapolis, Mobile, New
Evening star., 1925-08-20
New Zealand Hears Macmillan.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, August
20 P).-A resident of this city has
heard radio communications between
the Macmillan Arctic expedition and
an amateur on the U. S. S. Seattle.
now at Wellington. The MESA ages
were distinct, and included greetings
from Admiral Coontz. They were
palmer than those heard from the
Seattle, although Wellington is only
400 miles from here.
Evening star., 1925-08-20

Haven. Peoria, Portland, Me-; ST.
Paul and Springfield, ILL.,, 4; Atlanta,
Baltimore, Butte, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Little Rock, Memphis,
Newark, New Orleans. New York,
Norfolk Omaha, Philadelphia, St
Louis, Savannah and Washington, D.
c., 3; Birmingham, Charleston, s. c.:
Kansas City. Pittsburgh, Richmond
and Scranton, 2; Dallas, Denver, Hous-
ton and Louisville, /, and Los Ange-
les, Portland, Greg; San Francisco
and Seattle, less than five-tenths of
l per cent
Evening star., 1925-08-20
RETAIL EGGD PRICES
STILL TEND TO SOAR
Local Increase Of 3 Per Cent Last
Month Reported-0ne City
Shows Decrease.

Retail food prices in Washington
increased per cent in the month be-
tween June Is and July Is and regis.
tered a rise of IL per cent in the year
ended July Is. the Department of La
Dor announced today. AT the same
time food prices here on July Is were
68 per cent over the 1913 prices, an
Evening star., 1925-08-20

the famous North End Hotel, at
damage of approximately 5000 900.
The flames ragged through the south
wing and main building. leaving only
shell when brought under control.
All of the $50 guests, including a
number of aged women and invalids,
escaped in safety.
Evening star., 1925-08-20
F|NDC0UNTERFE|T
CHECK FLOOD IN us.
Two Firms Victims of Most
Dangerous Imitators, Sure
ty Head Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, August 20.-Two in
stances of concerns whose bank checks
have been counterfeited and are being
circulated by organized check coun-
terfeiters were disclosed here yester-
day by William II. Goodwin, district
supervisor of the forgery department
of the National Surety Co. The checks
are for small sums, he said, but they
are passed in wholesale quantities,
totaling thousands of dollars.
The. counterfeit checks are those Of
the Art Metal Construction Co.,
branch of a national concern, with
headquarters at jamestown. N. Y,
and the Comar Oil Co., subsidiary Of
the Roxana Petroleum Corporation.
The most dangerous counterfeiters
we have to deal with" explained
Goodwin, sis not the counterfeiter of
United States money, but rather the
counterfeiter of bank checks of well
known business concerns.
Loss Is 5000 900, 900.
THE loss from passing of worthless
checks has reached a staggering
amount. While in 1919 the total loss
for the country did not exceed S10,-
900, last year it was more than
S200, 900 900.
Many OF the most SklIl1ul counter
feiters in the country have turned
their attention to the newer game
because there is quicker and easier
money in checks and less chance of
serving long sentences.
I'm addition to the current cases
here, there have been cases of forgers
using the checks of the National Fruit
Flavor Co. of New Orleans, the Sun
Maid Raisin Co. of California and the
10 3y-A ~ Tr- -
Ohio
THE forger is particularly danger
Gus because he times his operation
and has about 80 days to make a get
away. 1t usually takes that long for
the victim to discover his loss"
Evening star., 1925-08-20
$4,000 FIRE AT HOTEL.

OCEAN GROVE, N. j., August 20
P).-A fire of undetermined origin,
starting in the hot bath room on the
first floor of the south wing, ravaged
Evening star., 1925-08-20

Trade conditions in England have
affected lawyers fees, many leaders
now receiving only one fourth the
sum they would have accepted IS
months ago
Evening star., 1925-08-20

Messages sent by wireless to Eastern
United States from the West Indies
cost 36 cents q word
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01

NOV, Johnston proceeds to fur
IN Their desperate measures. He
tries to demoralize and break up
the opposition by expelling its lead
ina figures from the union. He
seeks to create a "red" scare In or
der to cover up his election frauds
and to turn the workers attention
away from the pressing needs,
which he constantly betrays. I'm
der cover of a red batting campaign
in the best Strikebreaker Daugherty
style, IL is significant that the first
act of Johnston is the suspension
Of Anderson non-communist who
defea ted him with rank and file sup
port in the last election.
But, his is a vain hope and fu-
tile policy. Sigman tried similar
program and with disastrous results
to his clique. Beginning two years
ago, he expelled large number Of
mIitants all over the country, but
he was compelled to readmit them.
And his present attempt to remove
II members Of the Executive Boards
Of Locals 2, 9, and %, have resulted
In at least half of the whole Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union revolving against him. The
masses have risen to condemn him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01

constant betrayals and business ad-
ventures, announces that he pro-
poses to expeI wholesale the pro-
gressives and members of the
Workers Party and the Trade
Union Educational League, and be-
gins with the arbitrary suspension
Of his election opponent, Anderson,
Johnston and Sigman are worthy
followers of the treacherous Am
sterdam international, and proper
liokspittles of Green, the reaction
airy now at the head of the A. F. of
l., who is giving them his active
support in their attacks upon the
constructive forces in their unions.
T IKE the needle trades labor trail
- tors, Johnston was once social
list. He was boosted into power rs
years ago by the left wing in his
union. His whole policy ever since
has been one Of betrayal. He has
Ignored and violated every plank of
the platform he was elected on.
Tho the membership of the union
had demanded amaIgamation repeat
eddy, he has blocked every effort to
consolidate the metal trades. He
was one Of those who helped wreck
the great shipments strike Of 1922
by the notorious Baltimore and Ohio
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01
Resist the Expulsion Policy of William H. Johnston!
Fight for Unity in the international Machnist Union!

and his policies and to support the
fighting program of the left wing.
Johnston is going straight to a sim
liar experience if he tries to enforce
the expulsion program, which has
been hailed so eagerly by all the
enemies of the working class.
Johnston's expulsion policy has
for its purpose the elimination from
the union of all those who want to
make the union fighting organ of
the metal workers instead Of an ad-
junct to the banking and real estate
schemes of the Johnston gang. The
Communists and all militant and
progressive workers who fight with
them in the union, will not fall into
this trap. They will stay in the
union to expose the treaeherous pol
ieies of Johnston. They will stay in
the union to organize the workers
for rank and file control. They will
stay in the union to overthrow the
bankers and real estate dealers who
now run the union In the interests
Of the bosses. They will stay in the
union to put militant workers at its
head who will lead II in a fight
against the open shop schemes OF
the bosses. They will stay In the
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01

agreement, and he was the outstand-
ing leader in foistIng upon railroad
workers the notorious "B. G. o.
Plan" which grew out Of the strike
settlement. He betrayed the labor
party movement into the swamps Of
LaFoIletteism. Under his misIead-
ership, the membership Of the Ma
chinists' Union has dropped from
$4,000 in 1920 to $4,000 at the pres
ent time.
The result Of such treason was in
evitabIe-a growing revolt in the
ranks. The membership demand
protection in the shops, and this can
come only from armilltant policy of
organization and struggle, which the
Johnston machine refuses to adopt.
Three years ago the rising tide Of
revolt foretold the present flood.
The left wing ticket in the union
elections polled full third Of the
votes. In the elections just past the
only way the Johnston machine
could prevent Itself from being sub
merged and swept away was by the
wholesale use of trickery, arbitrary
power, and election frauds. Could
a correct count Of the votes be had
II would show the opposition ticket
elected by substantial majority.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01
MANY SIGNS OF
CHANGE IN |. ", ".
SHOW PROGRESS
NJ. T. w. Co-operates in
Fight on Bosses
BY HARRISON GEORGE

1t is encouraging, and the first sign
of making things better in the l. w.
W., to recognize that something is
wrong. Because if sincere endeavor
is made to rectify the situation, the
old mistakes may be labelled for what
they are, the past wrong policies reso
lutely put out and real new course
followed which gets results. There
fore. the writer gladly points to signs
of change and of healthy internal cri-
ticism in the l. W. W., which, while
it doesn't go far enough and is timUi
Gus Of being in violation of the man,
religious taboos, is the sort OF stock
taking that precedes change for the
better.
In the General Office Bulletin FOL
June one sees an article entitled,
What is the Matter With Us?" by a
pseudonym Jean Marat." The inter.
rogation as given is certainly felt by
all members of the |. w. w and 1t is
another sign of the times that the
general headquarters officials have
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