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New Britain herald., 1925-01-23
Rescue S1,573 From Under
 Feet of Subway ThrOng

New York, Jan. 23.-A muddy and tattered bank roll of $1,573 in large bills was returned to Mrs. Celia Weisbaum yesterday by a subway special officer who retrieved 1t on a subway platform from under the trampling feet of a rush hour crowd. Mrs. Weisbaum was transferring her account from one bank to another yesterday and to safeguard her money against the activities of pick pockets she tucked the roll down
New Britain herald., 1925-01-23

Try one and see - Herald classi- fled ad dept.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
CONSUMPTION
OF Workers, But Not Prof
its, Favored By Con-
greSSmen

Washington.-Wh the public is
led to believe that congress is con-
sidering the conscription Of labor and
capital in the next war, the lawmak-
ers, as rule, are considering moth
ing of the kind What they favor is
the conscription of labor and merely
the reduction of profits for the busi-
ness man.
The youth of the land will be con-
scripted and paid $50 a month, but
capital will not be conscripted. In
stead, the government will say to the
owners of these industrial plants:
"You must be moderate in your profit
demands"
Most of the lawmakers who talk
of the need for Everybody making
sacrifices" seem to be under the i'm
preston that young man who risks
his life in the front line trenches
is making no greater sacrifice than
the business man whose profit is linn
tied to 3 per cent. The business man
will be permitted, of course, to make
substantial allowance for new equip
ment he may install, for depreciation.
for interest and for other charges
These are all outside of his profit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
SETTLES

San Francisco.-As result of a
strike declaration by 96 per cent of
its engineers, the Southern Pacific
railroad has raised wages of these
workers $500,000 a year, dating back
to September /. When the vote was
being taken, the chairman of the rail-
roads executive committee carelessly
waived it aside with the statement
that the brotherhood "leaders" were
compelling the men to vote, that they
might have club to force the How
ell-Barkley bill through congress
When the strike vote was announced,
railroad officials began to talk sense.
Simultaneous with the wage in
crease announcement, the Southern
Pacific stated that in the last ten
months all records have been smashed
for train operation. Train loads
were cut down and the locomotive
load raised.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
INCREASED PAY
For Ohio Prisoners Likely
Favored By DOnahey

Columbus, Ohio-Increased pay for
prisoners at the penitentiary, long
cherished hope of Governor Vic Dona-
hey, seems to be near realization
John E. Harper, director of public
welfare, has in his budget for the
next two years requested 100000
with which to meet the increased
compensation of these prisoners. This
cost during the past year has been
about 100000. The pay for these
prisoners now is from 1 to cents
per hour, but Director Harper has
asked that the maximum be increased
to Is cent per hour The money
earned by prisoners is seldom paid to
them, but is sent each month to the
wife, mother or children who have
lost their only means Of support when
the husband, father or son has been
taken from them to serve the state
for violation of some law. These de-
pendents, in the opinion of Governor
providing for increased compensation
will help many families to remain to-
gether instead of being compelled to
separate for lack of sufficient funds
to buy the actual necessities of life
Governor Donahey for many years
has urged this increased compensation
for prisoners, declaring it one of the
most humane questions before the
general assembly, and it is expected
that in his annual message to the leg
islators he will personally urge that
the 100000 asked by Director Har-
per be made available so that depend
ents of prisoners may receive a
larger check each month from the
state because of the work of the
fathers, husbands and sons behind the
gray prison walls.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
BANKERS COMMISSION
TOTALS $1,000,00O

Washington.-A bankers commits
sion of nearly $1,000,000 in a deal
that involved the merging of south
western roads was condemned by the
interstate commerce commission.
Then the commission voted to allow
the claim.
The huge fee was divided between
three New York financial houses. A
minority of the commission opposed
the fee. Mr.. Campbell declared that
he could not sanction "a transaction
which is to be consummated by vast
ing hundreds of thousands of dollars
belonging to security holders, which,
if it is to be recovered at all, will
have to be recovered at the expense
Of the shipping public"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
GAIN MADE
By U. S. Employees After
They Organized

Washington. - Federal employees
should contrast working conditions
now and before the National FEEDER
alton of Federal Employees was form
ed, said President Steward, of that
organization, in referring to gains
this union has secured for all federal
employees.
Before these workers united there
was not one benefit of general appli-
cation in more than 60 years Work
ing hours were increased, but COM
pensation was not changed. Every
effort to secure retirement law was
defeated and sick leaves were reduced.
After organization, these employees
won their first victory by defeating
the Barland bill which would lengthen
the work day.
Three salary bonuses, reaching $24O
annually, were secured. Under the
reclassifcation bill this was added to
the basic salary. Efforts to reduce
this bonus have been defeated, and
$275, 100000 additional has been Sc
cured for federal employees within the
District of Columbia and for the field
service.
The retirement law, with maxi
mum annuity of $50 month, replaces
the policy of dropping employees with
no provision for them, regardless Of
their service.
The Sterling-Lehlbach act provides
| for classification of civil service.
Amendment to the United States
compensation act permitting compen-
sation for those suffering on account
of disease contracted, as we'll as in.
juries sustained while in the perform
ance of duty.
Contrast these gains in less than
| 10 years, with conditions under the
unorganized SYSTEM" said President
Steward. He declared that the organ.
lied federal employees abe march.
ing on" The union has just chartered
| it's three hundred and first local.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
COMPERS EULOCIzED
On Floor of u. S. Senate By
Noted Lawmakers

Washington. = The late Samuel
Gompers was eulogized last week on
the floor of the senate by Senators
Dill, Norris, Stanley and Heflin.
Senator Dill said that Mr.. Gompers
wrought such profound changes in
the economic and industrial life Of
this country that the American peo-
pie had come to consider him almost
as an institution"
"He stood always for the weak and
the poor who were forced to live
lives of toll, but he compelled the
respect of those to whom he was OPP
posed"
Senator Dill said that unorganized
labor profited as much, "and often
more," than union men as result
of the fights Mr.. Gompers made.
'He always maintained" said Sen
ator Dill, "that he was fighting the
battles of all who toll, whether they
belonged to unions or not, and today
the better working conditions of nom
union labor, as well as union labor,
are directly traceable to the work
done by Mr. Gompers in the past 40
years.
"The greatest service to those who
toll was his successful struggle to Sc
cure acceptance by the general pub
lie of his contention that labor is not
a commodity, but human thing.
Labor can not be separated from
those who perform it.
another reason why it is fitting
that some words be spoken of him in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
LABOR OFFICE
WILL MEET in
GENEVA in MAY

BY international Labor News Service.
Geneva, Switzerland.-At the re-
cent meeting of the governing body
of the international labor office, held
in Geneva, Switzerland, it was decided
to convene the 1925 session of the
international Labor Conference in
Geneva, May 10th. 1t had been pre-
viously decided to confine the program
of this session to the discussion of
various problems of social insurance.
The governing body also proceeded
with the preliminary discussion of the
program for the 1926 session of the
conference and decided in principle
in favor of the inclusion of an item
concerning maritime labor The sea-
mems organizations of various coun-
tries, but particularly of Japan, have
been requesting the further consider
alton of maritime questions ever since
the so-called maritime conference
which was held in Geneva in 1920.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
Gompers Last Words to A. F. Of L.

grateful? Let me sum up, then, just
in this:
81 know of no other and no better
way to show my appreciation and
gratitude than by giving you and the
cause of labor and all of that for
which the movement stands, the best
service that l can WITHOUT SPAR
ING MYSELF, NO MATTER WHAT
THE COST OF THE RESULT.
81 want to live for one thing alone
to leave a better labor movement in
America and in the world, if | can,
than | found in it when | entered as
a boy on the field of the industrial
and humane struggle for the right" :"
1t was Gompers' zeal for right
eousness, for humanity, that won for
him the great tribute that was paid
him on his death. His end was has
tened by his devotion to the cause
of fraternity between the two great
republics of the north-the United
States and Mexico.
John j. Leary, Jr., labor editor of
the New York World, in a remarkable
tribute to Mr.. Gompers on the day
of his death writes that he knew what
the consequences of his trip to Mexico
City to see the inaugural of President
Gales might be.
'I've got to go, even though it
kills me-" he said to friends who tried
to demonstrate with him.
Gompers gave his life in the cause
of the workers he had closest at
heart, the workers of North America.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
MANY IDLE IN MON
TREAL

Montreal, Quebec.-Out of MEM
bership of 44,435 workers in 81
unions in this city, there are $500
workers unemployed and 20,463 on
short time, according to the central
body's special committee on unem-
ployment Of the unions reporting,
only three announce normal condi-
tions.
"We believe" the committee said,
"that the responsibility for coping
with the unemployment situation rests
with the federal government and the
problem is a more serious one than
war or pestilence. When we were
affected by war the federal govern
ment Immediately assumed the COM
manding position"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
EDUCATE CHILDREN
If Illiteracy is to Be Stopped,
Advises Labor Editor

Atlanta, Ga.-Teaching adults to
read and write will not wipe out IL
literacy in this state, declares Jerome
Jones, editor of the Journal of Labor.
The Georgia illiteracy commission
reports that there are more than &c.
900 native white persons over 10 years
of age in this state who are unable
to read or write, while the colored il
literates number more than 100000.
The commission proposes that illit-
eracy be removed by teaching reading
and writing. This is good as far as it
goes, but it is not solution, said
Editor Jones. He shows that Georgia
is turning out illiterates at the rate
of $4,000 year
I'm other words, we fill the hopper
about as fast as we empty it. Why
wait until person is 21 to teach him
to read and write? He who would
drain his fountain of muddy water
should first stop the muddy water
from running into the fountain"
Figures issued by the state super
ntendent of education indicate that
100000 children of school age were
not enrolled in any school in 1922,
and of those enrolled less than 250,000
could attend school more than six
months in the year
Educate the present school gener-
alton and illiteracy will be eradicated
in one generation" the labor editor
said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
By International Labor News Service.

Washington, d. C.-When present
ed with a marble bust of himself at
the Ell Paso convention of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, President
Samuel Gompers made heartfelt re-
sponse that was practically his swan
song, last words as clear, as strong,
as eloquent of his great love for his
fellowmen as Gompers ever uttered.
The bust, done by Moses Dykaar,
like Gompers, an immigrant boy, was
presented by Morris Sigman, presi-
dent of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, in recognition
of what "the Grand Old Chief" as he
called him, had done in 1910 to bring
about the historic general strike,
which freed the garment workers
from the sweatshop.
A great tribute to President Com
pers had been paid earlier in the con-
vention, but he had not been able to
respond, for his worn heart was fail
ing him, although his will was firm
and his mind clear. But with the
presentation, as graceful and timely
gift as has ever been presented at a
labor convention, he summoned his
waning strength to say:
81 don't know what to say in ex-
preston of my appreciation. No
word can convey to you what | feel
in regard to this fellowship which you
have instituted. What can | say
other than that l am profoundly
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02

this chamber is that he has been a
tremendous influence in the political
life of the country. For more than
quarter of century he helped to
elect and defeat more members of
both house and senate than any other
individual in the nation. These
fights were not personal fights. They
were labor fights"
Senator Norris referred to the
death of Mr. Gompers as "the pass
ing of one of the great characters of
our age"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
RAILROADS WANT TIME

Washington.-The Lehigh Valley
railroad has asked the interstate
commerce commission for an exten-
sion of time to install automatic
train control. 1t is stated that other
roads will make similar request.
The commission has set January l as
the date for the equipment. The
roads have resisted the order on the
ground that this development is yet
in it's infancy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
FAKE PATENT LAW
YERS"

Washington.-In his annual report
Commissioner of Patents Robertson
called attention to fake patent 'law-
yers" in this city who advertise in
magazines and who fleece investors
of thousands of dollars every year.
Because they are not registered these
Lawyers" are not under the super
vision of the patent office. A bill,
pending in congress, would penalize
non-registered lawyers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
OVERHEAD COSTS
MUST BE LOWERED

New York.-High overhead costs
must be lowered and the number of
useless officials must be reduced,
says the Annalist, financial paper,
published in this city.
Cost sheets must be relieved of the
unproductive charges of excessive
plant, equipment and personnel, this
paper says.
"The problem is now fairly in the
consciousness of business. But the
old puzzle of who will bell the cat 2
is as difficult to answer as ever.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
81 GAS LAW OUTLAWED

New York.-A chancery court has
outlawed the dollar-gas law, passed
by the state legislature. The decision
benefits the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and its five subsidiaries, which
have gas monopoly in this city.
The court held that the company is
entitled to 8 per cent on its invest
ment
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS COSTLY

Washington Traffic accidents in
this country mean an annual economic
loss of 100000, said Secretary of
Commerce Hoover in opening the ma
tional conference on street and high
way safety. Last years traffic toll
was 22,600 deaths and 678,0O0 serious
personal injuries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
TAMPA OvERCROWDED

Tampa, Fla.-The united charities
announce that this city is overcrowd-
ed with employment seekers. A
widely advertised real estate boom is
responsible for this situation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
By l. C. McCUMBER

For ages we have had the Seven
Wonders of the world Now there has
been added the eighth wonder. A
Judge has decided that mans home
is his castle, and, thus, ipso facto,
the constitution of the United States
is brought down to date, and applies.
Wayne B. Wheeler and the others who
have Westerville, Ohio, on the map,
will begin to lay plans to have that
judge placed in the realm of oblivion
Referring back to the days when
an education included the three RS,
it may be permissible to state that
those days have gone and will not
return. The three RS consisted of
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.
Phonetically, those words carried the
"R" Today, education, so far as our
high schools and colleges go, consists
of the three RS" but they apply to
rah, rah, rah!
Workingmen! Industrial Clubs !!
Business Clubs What world of
difference in their aims and objects.
The workingman asks for a living
wage. The industrial clubs and busi-
ness clubs ask for reduction in
taxes. When a governmental depart
ment is forced to cut off an army of
taX-eating employees, the service will
be impaired and the government is
asked to keep the leeches on the pay
roll Yes, some of our business men
the other fellow to pay the restaurant
check. Brains! Yes, we have seen
the chimpanzee use his. Have you?
Secretary Mellon has been predict
ing more prosperity. The secretary
is right. Every time the steel, alum
mum, wool and other trusts have Sc
cured a government strangle hold on
the workers, they aver that an extra
dividend will accrue to the stockhold-
ers of certain date. Prosperity, under
any other name, would mean the same.
Wayne B. Wheeler, who has an
nexed the keys to all the homes in
these United States, states that there
are only three million drinkers in the
country, and he expects to decrease
that number rapidly. 1t is hard to
call man aprevaricator, and yet the
exigencies demand that we state
Wayne B. Wheeler would not be hap
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02

There is one thing that working
men have never been accused of They
have never caused Lexow committee
or committee for the publication of
the home. 1t remains for dollars and
church folks, with society as an added
attraction, to force the manager of
the show to accede to an extra rails
ing of the curtain. They pray loudly,
adore sensuously and love vulgarly.
A rear admiral, who gained his title
by graduating from naval college,
handling ships that did not sink, even
though maneuvered with rahs, rahs,
rahs, AYERS that the human race is
becoming "effeminate" Just because
we, as men, refuse to murder each
other, this admiral thinks that we are
cavorting in the neighborhood of our
mothers and wives, and thus are
learning to love them The admiral
should ask for a job which calls for
pick and shovel, and then he would
learn what it is to get up an appetite
for peace and rest.
A funny picture! We all enjoy
them! 1t simply remains: what is
considered funny? Some years ago
we were aware of the fact that fed
eral officers should have several mil
lion quarts of good liquor in their
possession, taken away from others
under our prohibition banditry. When
other federal officers came to remove
it, nothing but broken glass, jugs and
burlap sacks were to be found. The
stuff, it seems, was SO powerful, that
initiating Houdini, nothing could hold
him. 1t is human to be a hypocrite
Say your prayers and then get into
the stick-up game. Political con-
sciences can easily be produced to
order if you place your money in the
proper envelopes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-01-02

py unless he can have his nose in the
homes of every American citizen, to
say nothing of those who are trying
to become one.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-28
NJ A Y ABOLISH
DOWNTOWN
PARKING
Col. MoIIer Willing If All Mer-
chants Are Shown to
Favor Plan

Differences of opinion as to the
fairness of the regulation governing
parking in the congested area have
aroused Colonel I. c. Moller, assist
ant director of traffic, who said
today that he would not oppose
adjustment of all downtown park
ing provided the merchants in the
congested area would show that
they were all Gin favor of such Il
plan.
Commissioner Frederick A. Fen
ming has received a letter from the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation requesting him to get a
report from Director of Traffic M.
o. Eldridge, on the possibility Of re-
vising the present parking regula-
tions so that the final clause of the
parking regulation which provides
that the automobiles and trucks
may park more than six inches from
the curb while loading or unloading
merchandise so that they do not
block traffic" be stricken out.
Commissioner Fenning said that
he would confer with Director
Eldridge with the idea of revising
the regulation. Colonel MOller to-
day proposed a regulation provi5-
ing thirty feet on each block equi-
distant from the corners, for the
parking of commercial vehicles.
Such an allotment of space
would allow truck drivers to stop
in close proximity to their destina-
tons while they are loading or un-
loading mercha ndiSe, he said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-28
SMALL INTEREST CASE
RULING AGAIN DELAYED

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. Oct. Is
No decision in the famous interest
suits" against Governor Len Small
will be reached at least until the
December term of the supreme
court.
That was apparent today when
the court adjourned the October
term without action on SMALL
appeal from the decision of the
Sapgamon county circuit court
holding him liable for an account
ing of approximately $1,000,000 in
terest alleged to have been received
on State funds Small was charged
with loaning TO the Grant Park
Bank during the war. which in
turn was said 10 have been loaned
20 big meat packers at a high rate
" interest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-28
BY international News Service


LONDON, Oct. 28.-War has
again broken out along the Greco
Bulgarian frontier, according to
advices received here today.
While evacuation of the Greek
troops from Bulgaria was under
way, in accordance with the
League of Nations council ulti-
matum, a new clash occurred and
indications are that fighting may
be general.
A Salonika dispatch states that
the Bulgarians attacked the
Greeks who were evacuating. An
immediate halt was called to the
evacuation.
Sofia Blames Greeks
A Sofia dispatch states that the
Greeks opened fire upon Bull
Earians.
Thus dispatches from both coun-
tries seem to confirm that fighting
is again in progress, with each side
placing responsibility on the other.