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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
CANADIAN LABOR
Declares War on COmmun-
ist Groups

By international Lebar News Service.
Montreal.-The ninth annual con-
vention of the Quebec section of the
Canadian Labor Party declared itself
entirely opposed to the admission of
all Communist organizations, and in
structed the recall of charters TO such
organizations in it's jurisdiction. The
Nova Scotia Labor Party has taken
similar action.
This brings the two provinces in
conflict with the national organization
of the Labor Party, which at con-
vention in Toronto year or so ago
admitted Communists.
The Quebec Labor Party objects to
the Communists because experience
has shown "that we of the labor
movement have had to suffer from
the destructive propaganda of the
Communist Party" and because lit is
known fact that the Communist
Party is trying by all means to direct
the Canadian labor movement toward
the Revolutionary international at
Moscow"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
New York Building Trades
In Plan For 5-Day Week Set
Pace For Nations Toilers

Bl international Labor News Service.
New York City-The Building
Trades Council, on behalf of 10000
workmen, representing 81 trades in
the metropolitan district, has pre-
sented a new wage scale to the en-
ployers, which if granted, will ad-
vance wages from so cents day for
some crafts to 50 day for others.
The Building Trades Employers
Association rejected the demands and
instead offered to extend the present
wage scale through 1926.
Mediation in Prospect.
Mediation or arbitration is in pros
pect on the various demands, many
of the present agreements providing
for this adjustment of differences.
More important than any of the
wage demands, which would lift wage
levels to new standard for the build
ing industry, is the demand for the
five-day week.
The building crafts were the pi-
oneers in the eight-hour movement,
the carpenters being among the first
to win it. Then came the 44-hour
week, with the Saturday half-holiday.
The present four hours work on Sat
urday is regarded as uneconomic in
view of the fact that the workers
have to travel nearly two hours that
day from far distant places where
they live to do four hours work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
CRIME COMMISSION
Proposes Helpful and Con.
structive Investigation,
Says Frayne

By international Labor News Service.
New York City This is not a
man-hunting expedition" said Hugh
Frayne, labor member of the National
Crime Commission, to International
Labor News Service.
1T is searching investigation of
the causes of the crime wave with the
view of making finding and a recon-
mendation that will be national in
scope to remedy the situation
"The executive committee at it's first
session drew up a program of re-
search. The labor view that eco
nomic causes have an important bear
ing on crime has been put forward
and will be considered as among the
most important factors in grave
problem.
Anything that will advance the
economic and social standards, and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
SHOES AND CLOTHES
Needed for Riddles and
Women in Fight For
Justice

Washington.-Pre Green re-
quests A. F. of L. organizers to ac-
quaint trade unionists with conditions
in families of striking miners in
northern West Virginia. Shoes and
clothing are needed for the women
and children.
This, said President Green, will
supplement the relief work of the
United Mine Workers which is spend
ing thousands of dollars each month
for food, fuel and shelter. Another
large expense is contesting injunc-
tions issued by former corporation
lawyers who are now in judicial posi-
tions.
All packages should be forwarded
to the international representative of
the United Mine Workers, Van A.
Bittner, Odd Fellows building, Fair
mont, West Virginia.
The miners suspended work when
the operators scrapped three-year
agreement signed at Jacksonville,
last year. These operators have dou-
bled the price of their coal since the
anthracite strike and are now using
every power of the state and federal
judiciary to smash the Miners
Union.
The strikers and their families are
housed in barracks erected by the
union.
In urging organizers to impress the
situation upon trade unionists, Presi-
dent Green says:
"There are many wives and chill
dren of striking miners in northern
West Virginia who are suffering for
lack of shoes and clothing. know of
no place in America where the need
is greater or the call for assistance
is more justifable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
ROCK DUST
Is Menace To Miners
Health

Washington.-Th menace of lung
diseases contracted by miners as the
result of breathing extremely fine
dust particles is again emphasized by
the United States Bureau of Mines.
The most important of these diseases
is silicosis, also known as miners
phthisis, or miners consumption which
is caused by the breathing of rock
dust, especially fine silica.
Investigation by the Bureau of
Mines reveals that silicosis is pres
ent in many mining districts. In one
district 433 miners out of 720 exam
ined had silicosis. In another district
432 out of 1,018 examined were af-
flicted. Men having silicosis are more
susceptible to tuberculosis than nor
NAL men.
The bureau says this disease can be
eliminated if coal operators improve
working conditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04

The five directors elected to serve
with the officers are members of the
executive committee are: Martin F.
Ryan, President of the Railway Car
Men of America; James Lynch, Pres
ident of the international Typograph-
ical Union; Thomas E. Burke, Secre-
tary-Treasurer of the United Asso-
citation of Plumbers and Steam Fit
ters; Luther c. Steward, President of
the Federation of Federal Employees,
and Thomas Flaherty, Secretary
Treasurer of the National Federation
of Postoffice Clerks.
Home Offices at Capital.
The home offices of the new COM
pany, which is incorporated under the
laws of Maryland, will be in Wash
ington, d. C.
Stock will be sold at $50 per share,
S25 of which will be applied to capital
stock and $25 of which will be sur
plus.
At the meeting here the bylaws of
the new company were approved. 1t
is provided that the membership of
the Board of Directors shall not ex-
ceed 25, of which number three
fourths must be trade unionists be-
longing to organizations affiliated to
the American Federation of Labor.
To Have Advisory Board
1t is also provided that there shall
be an advisory board, to be composed
of SO members who are either gen
eral officers or prominent members
of national or international unions or
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
WANT MORE KILL
INGS IN ANTHRA-
CITE MINES

New York AT the annual meeting
of the anti-union National Founders
Association the Pennsylvania miners
license law was condemned. Members
of the association residing in that
state were urged to work for its re-
peal.
The law antedates the organization
of anthracite miners, and was passed
by the Pennsylvania Legislature to
reduce the killing of workers in an
thracite mines. As these mines are
gaseous, skill is necessary to operate
them. A miner must know how to
detect gas and to protect life.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
Executive Committee Named
10 Direct Selling Of Stock
and Begin Actual Business

By international Labor News Service
Washington, ID. C.-At the first
meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Union Labor Life Insurance Com
pany, held in the American Fedora
ton of Labor Building here, Matthew
Woll was elected President and Geo.
w. Perkins Of Cricago was elected
Secretary and Treasurer
Mr.. Woll is Vice President of the
American Federation of Labor, and
President of the Photo Engravers' In
ternational Union. Mr.. Perkins is
President of the Cigar Makers Inter
national Union, one of the veteran
figures in the labor movement, and
for years an intimate and personal
friend of the late Samuel Gompers.
Executive Committee Chosen.
An executive committee also was
elected. Officers will hold office until
the second Monday in March, 1926,
when the first meeting of stockhold
.ers will be held. President Woll, Sec
Treasurer Perkins, and five
members of the Board of Directors
were elected to constitute an execu-
tive committee for the purpose of car
rying on the campaign for the sale
of stock and to arrange for the be-
ginning of actual business in the
writing of insurance. They are in
structed to get the affairs of the
company in shape to do business as
soon as 100000 worth of the capi-
tai stock has been subscribed for and
the money paid.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
Two Trades Set Pace.

The bricklayers and stone masons
again are setting the pace, they being
the first to demand the five-day
week. The carpenters and several
other crafts have also asked for the
shorter work week. This if carried
out will be one of the greatest ad-
vances in generation for the build
ing unions.
In general the demand is for SIP
a day for mechanics, and SO day
for helpers, although bricklayers la
borers now receiving So a day are
asking for $40. AS a general thing
the mechanics wage at present is
$1,000 day and the laborers between
81 and So. Among the lowest in
creases asked is by the elevator con-
structor laborers, who want SO cents
q day more. Other requests for in
creases are for 81, $50, So, $3.50
and 81 Cay.
The bricklayers' demand of 81
day more would bring their wage to
S16 day.
To Get Collective Reply.
The various trade groups will ne
gotiate separately but the employers
will have collective reply to all
through their association.
The building industry has enjoyed
great prosperity in the metropolitan
district ever since the war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
THEATER WORKERS ENJOINED

Pawtuckett, R. Efforts to Sc
cure the reinstatement of discharged
theater worker employed by the e.
M. Loew theatre has affected dozen
Massachusetts cities. Superior Court
Judge Qua enioined motion picture
operators, stage employees and musi-
clans from interfering" with the
business of the Loew concern.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04

improve the moral outlook is of bene-
fit to labor. We can not lose when
we cooperate in the work of the
crime commission.
among it's first Investigations is
the practice of the criminal courts, the
matter of easy bail, lack of co-ordina-
tion of authorities, and failure to mete
out justice to convicted persons.
when criminals go unpunished the
workers as much as anyone, are the
losers. We hope to remedy this evil
and tighten our judicial machinery as
well as to recommend a general pro-
gram to diminish the motives that
promote crime"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
WOMEN'S CONFER
ENCE CALLED BY
u. S. BUREAU

Washngton.-Miss Mary Anderson,
head of the United States Women's
bureau, has issued call for wom-
ems industrial conference to be held
here January 18 to 21. The bureau
is unit of the department Of labor.
The call states that no fewer than
8,500,0O0 women are occupied in
"gainful work in this country" ac-
cording to government statistics, and
this number is increasing every year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04

BY international Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Tension in the
coal trade situation has grown more
taut, following the letter john L.
Lewis, President of the miners, sent
to President Coolidge regarding the
Savage reputation" of the Jackson
vile wage agreement by certain CO.
terie of bituminous operators.
The Rev. J. j. Curran, pastor of st.
Mary's Church, Wilkes Barre, Pa,
who has acted as mediator in labor
disputes between miners and opera
tors for many years, and who was
a mediator in the hard coal strike in
1900, and co-operated with President
Roosevelt in the strike settlement
when Roosevelt was President, has
held conferences with Gov. Pinchot of
Pennsylvania. Samuel D. Warriner,
head of the optrators and President
Lewis of the miners seeking way out
Of the difficulty.
Justifies Wage Demands.
Father Curran flatly says the min
ers should have an increase in wages.
eff there are no increases in wages
in industry" he said, 'and profits
continue to pile up we will soon have
in this country two classes, the very
rich and the very poor; one class liv-
ing off of the sweat of the other"
The venerable priest said that. if,
as Charles M. Schwab has said, the
country is prosperous and industrial
life is growing, if coal companies
make more money than ever this
year, why not divide little of the
profit with the men who are instru-
mental in making the profit for the
operators?
Bares Operators Tactics.
President Lewis, in respect to the
general situation in the coal industry,
told President Coolidge that substan-
tial coal-producing interests, sigma
tories to the Jacksonville wage agree
ment, have violated and repudiated
their word of honor and impaired the
wage structure Of the miners through
out the bituminous industry. He asks
if the mine workers would be justi-
fled in using their own efforts to pro-
tect meritorious wage agreement,
provided the Federal Government did
not see its way clear to take hand
in the settlement. 8.
1t is pointed out that the Govern
ment had a very important part in
bringing about the Jacksonville wage
pact, Government officials going so
far, at the time, to assure the miners
and operators that joint conference
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
Noted Priest Upholds Miners
As Lewis States Workers
Case in Letter to President

would not be regarded as a "conspir-
acy" by the Government in the effort
to bring peace and stabilization to
the industry.
Miners Rest Case.
On these grounds the miners are
content to rest their case. Officials
of the union have refused to add any
thing to the statement given out by
Lewis, as included in the communica-
tion to President Coolidge
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-12-04
McCLlNTlC DECISION
Not Surprising In View of
His Record

(By Frank Morrison, Secretary, Amer
lean Federation Of Labor.)
The recent decision by Federal
Judge McClintic, West Virginia Dis
trict, that the miners union is vio-
Glation Of the antitrust law, and which
, 1925-11-11
LOWER SAGE

f = = =. :. i. :. X !. + j y :. !. ;.
Those shipping cattle this week
from Lower Sage creek are Enrol
Ross, Mike Dillon. Homer Milstead,
Ed Hempstone, o. L. White and
Mrs. H. +. Bates.
Mrs. ". f. Rotter spent the week
end in Cody
Mrs. Floyd Noble visited with
Mrs. w. A. Siddle Sunday afternoon.
Milford Knight took supper at
the H. f. Bates home on Monday
of last week.
Enrol Ross and J.. E. Horner
made a trip to Powell Monday.
Geo. Chase, ]. N. McMillin and
Geo. Horner returned from a hunt
ing trip on Friday with a nice elk
to show for their trip.
Mrs. Walter Phelps was in Cody
having some dental work done the
latter part of the week.
Donald Siggins spent the week
end with Gene Siddle.
Carl Forgey and Floyd Noble are
busy putting up a house on the
, 1925-11-11

load of lumber and fence posts
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. White spent
Saturday evening at the c. E.
Hempston home
Clarence Black and Archie King
left the first of the week for a
game hunt in the Crandall creek
section.
Callers at the H. F. Bates home
, 1925-11-11

Mrs. Van Arsdall and children
arrived home Monday evening after
an extended visit with Mrs. Van
Arsdall's parents at Long Pine.
Nebraska. Mr.. Van Arsdall met
the family at Casper.
, 1925-11-11

Hill. Mrs. Noble is staying with
Mrs. Forgey, meanwhile.
The ranchers were busy the lat
ter part of the week putting their
Thanksgiving turkeys on the mark
ct.
Mrs. H. f. Bates visited with
Mrs. Joe Black one day last week.
The farm bureau received a car
, 1925-11-11

the past week were Mrs. d. D.
Stall, Mrs. Carl Forgey and son
and Mrs. Floyd Noble.
, 1925-11-11

What do you know about your
child's school? How is your child's
home cooperating with it? Does
your child have trained parents as
well as trained teachers?
If the home can W these
three questions it will be taking its
, 1925-11-11

due part in Education week which
has been proclaimed the width. and
breadth of the land by President
Coolidge for the week of Nov. 18th
to 25th.
We can have neither interest in
nor a fair opinion of that of which
, 1925-11-11
PUBLIC SCHOOL A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
PATRONS AND TAXPAYERS THE STOCKHOLDERS

Should Know Details of h Business by Practical ExpeIience-ShouldI
See tn Plant tin Operation and Demand Results Commensurate
With Expenditune-Merely to Invite Public to
School Building Not Enough
, 1925-11-11

SUGAR
Great Western table granulateed sugar per hundred weight 1888
10 lbs. for rs cents and rs lbs. for S1S5.
This copy was given to the printer Monday, November 9TH III
is lower between this time and the time you get the paper you will have
the advantage of it, also if it is higher W e would have to advance.
, 1925-11-11

COFFEE
Fancy Santas A Peaberry lib. for 5Oc-1O lib. lots 4c per lib. Mont
Butternut, Schiings, harrington Hall, NIB, the usual soc and Csc coffee
in 10 lib. lots at 55c per pound.
, 1925-11-11

Just think Of it, wonderful Delicious at S295 per box. Usually you
pay $3.50 to $3.50. If you don't want a full box get less at 10 cents
per pound. There may. be cheaper apples o. the market 1--WE haven't
heard of them) but you will be more than satisfied with our perfect
fruit.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

toi, made the formal test of electric
communication between Washington
and Baltimore. It. was in the Fall of
1914 that a telegraph Office was opened
in small Government building on the
west side of Seventh street between f
and F, adjoining the. city post Office
and in 1S45 Congress appropriated
more money for the expense or operat.
ing the line and put it under direction
Of the, Postmasten General. The cleo
trio telegraph set Washington agog
The rest Of the country heard about it
but great numbers OF persons thought
there was exaggeration or downright
misrepresentation in the reports.
Washington has also. played its part
in telephone history The identiica.
tion OF Alexander Graham Bell. in.
ventor Of the practical telephone, with
Washington is known to all our peo
pie, though at the time he invented
the telephone. 1874. he wes a teacher
in Boston University. Bells first tele
phone patent was granted March 7,
1876, and many OF us remember the
strange and uncanny device which
was one OF the exhibits at the centen.
NAL exposition in 1876. Indications are
that picture transmission by electric
current has come to play its part in
the world.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
The Farmers Good Prospects.

The country Is always glad to hear
favorable news about the farmer
Solicitude is always felt and expressed
over his material condition and pros
poets.
According to, reports OF his present
and prophesied future status as COM
piled by the National Industrial Con.
ference Board of New York, at nc
time since 1920 has the farmer been
in as favorable a position as in the
early part of this year" The state.
ment sets out that while both farm
product prices and wholesale prices OF
non-agricultural commodities have
risen during the past few months, the
prices of farm products have risen in
sufficiently greater percentage to re.
duce the spread between farm product
prices and wholesale commodity prices
notably since last December.
The conference board points out
that the farmer buys at retail and not
prices do not fiuctuate to the same ex.
tent as do wholesale prices, yet the
comparison is believed sufficient to in.
dicate the trend of the purchasing
power OF the dollar in the long run.
The farmer, whatever has allied agri.
culture, is now said to be looking
ahead to a period of renewed vigor-
Gus activity, for he is buying agricul-
tural instruments, the tools of his in
dustry, in increasing measure.
The board says this is reflected in
increased employment, increased work
ing hours and increased weekly earn.
ings in that industry. Another hope.
full sign in agricultural activity is the
unusual demand for farm labor, ex.
ceeding that Of the corresponding sea
son for the past several years as re.
ported by the United States Bureau OF
Labor employment division. BY in.
vesting money in business the farmer
indicates that he at any rate has con.
fidence in the future.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Telephone Pictures.

The local telephone company plans
to open a telephone picture transmits.
sion service to be part of the pro
posed Nationwide commercial system
for the electrical transmission Of pic.
lures. one link of which is now oper.
ated between San Francisco, Chicago
and New York by the American Tele.
graph and Telephone Co. Explana.
tion and description Of this system
have been published, but there are
many persons. very many. who do not
understand the explanation. They will
have to accept the telephone picture
as a fact.
We have become so used to mechan.
ico-scientific wonders that pictorial
electricity does not distract us as much
as the demonstration of word-electric
transmission perplexed our grand
fathers in 1874. 1t was on the oath OF
May in that year that Samuel F. B
Morse, in the presence of a group in
the Supreme Court room at the 4Capi
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Britain's Baronet Bootlegger.

1t is gratifying. sign of reviving
respect for the law that no sympathy
is felt, here or in England, for the
losses of the bootlegging baronet and
his syndicate associates, who have
just come to grief through the seizure
OF $4,000 cases of their liquor by the
American enforcement fleet This
brazen attempt, with full publicity. 10
break the laws of the United States,
followed by its costly failure has. il
would seem, shocked British public
opinion, while in this country the
f1agrancy of the undertaking has
brought many people heretofore indif.
ferent to the effectiveness of the pro
hibition law to a realization that their
attitude has been a factor in inviting
and promoting law defiance
Undoubtedly large fortunes have
been made since prohibition was enact.
ed in the smuggling of liquor into this
country and in its sale in large and
small quantities. Hartwell's syndicate o
made six successful trips through the
lines. The seventh venture. which
failed, wiped out a large part of the
profits of the earlier ones. Just so a
good many American bootleggers aft
er reaping a rich harvest for a time
have come to grief, losing heavily, and
in some instances losing their freedom.
But the lawless game goes on despite
these losses and risks. This is because
certain percentage-it Is not be-
lieved to be a close approach to a
majority-of people on this side of
the Atlantic are lawbreakers in this
respect.
TO call man a bootlegger should
be a deep reproach. The bootleggerss :
pat is just as lawless as he from
whom ne gets his supply. II II were
not FOR the patron there would be no
bootleSger. The British baronet was
investing his money and that of his as
socIates in American lawlessness
That he has failed in this particular
effort to fiaunt the Constitution and
the statutes Of the United States does
not In itself signify that there is less
lawlessness here. perhaps, but it does
indicate that it is becoming more diff
f1cuit to break the law by wholesale.