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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
AS EXPECTED

We notice that at a meeting the
other day of the executive committee
of the Hamilton Community Hotel
Corporation the hotel attorney was in
structed to go after some of the sub
scribers for stock with sharp stick
to remind them they must meet their
obligation, and to sue them if neces-
sary. That's the proper stunt. That
some of the subscribers are "back-
sliding" is not unexpected. There
is bunch of these same fellows who
sign up big for every proposition and
drive that comes along, and then
chest out about it to some poor devil
who hasn't signed up, not because he
doesn't want to give but because he
is afraid he won't be able to meet
his payments as they become due.
He is honest about it. 1t will be a
mighty good thing if the hotel at
torney brings suit against some of
these fellows and makes known their
names to the public. That will teach
them lesson that will do them good
in the future. No doubt the same
do1ipuuopt,S po,ooc will bo found ~,
the rolls of all the drives in the city
for many years past delinquent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
GENERAL STRIKE
Threatened in Cloak Trade
AS Workers Reject
New Pact

BY international Labor News Service.
New York City.-The shop chair
men Of the cloak industry, the big
gest unit in the organized ladies' gar
ment industry, have unanimously re-
jected the basis for the new agree
ment laid down by the governors
mediation board. Unless there is di-
rect agreement between the union and
the three factors in the employers
ranks it is expected that automat-
ically all the shops will be called out
when the present agreement expires.
The unions contention is that al
though the limitation of subcontrac-
tors proposed as remedy for the
chaotic conditions in the industry that
have gradually destroyed union stand
ards will help it can not remedy the
evil unless there goes with it a
guaranteed period of work for the
year. The general assumption is that
the system of unemployment relief
through joint fund only mitigates
basic evil in the industry and a
cure must be sought elsewhere.
Reorganization" of the shops al
lowed the employers is also objected
to, the union holding to its ten-year
concession of keeping all workers in
the shop for the period of the season
after they have passed two weeks
trial period at the beginning.
A war to the bitter end would bring
$4,000 workers on the picket line in
New York's biggest industry and give
staggering blow to the huge gar
ment industry. A wave of strikes in
Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleve-
land and other cloak centers might
follow.
A million-dollar fund has been rails
ed by the union for defense.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
THE MENACE OF UNEM-

PLOYMENT
The United States bureau of labor
statistics states that unemployment
in manufacturing industries is rapidly
increasing. In the month of April,
the ranks of the jobless workers
were increased 32,565. Can it not be
safely said that unemployment Of the
worker, the producer, is not only the
hideous ogre constantly facing the
man solely dependent on his labor as
means of subsistence, but is the
greatest, and practically the only,
menace threatening business?
The remedy is obvious, though per-
haps a bit difficult to administer.
Work should be divided more equit-
ably so that all men may be gain,
fully employed. This must be accom-
plished, however, without reduction
in the standard of living, and it
should be accompanied by an increase
certainly not decrease-in pro-
duction. Reduction in the length Of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02

A few years ago the U. M. w. in
Nova Scotia was absolutely 100 per
cent strong. But during the recent
troubles the o. B. U. gained toe
hold in some places. They did not
affect the solidarity of the miners as
the strike last year showed. But they
make no secret of their desire to de-
story that solidarity, and the district
officials are taking msaeures to pre-
vent them producing in Nova Ccotia
the futile schisms and chaos their
tactics created in some of the mine
fields of Western Canada.
The response of the o. B. U. is an
angry whine that the U. M. WIS dec
laration of war threatens it's precious
activities on behalf of the workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02

the working day would be the proper
way to bring about wider distribu-
ton of jobs. By this means also the
nations spending power would be
brought nearer to stabilization. We
believe that a labor shortage is bet
ter for the country than a job short
age, but things can be arranged so
we will have neither. Government
employment exchanges would help
to maintain contact between men and
jobs, Employers certainly are not
entitled to have great flocks of un-
employed from whom to choose their
hands. consigning the remaining men
to the junk heap. Such prodigal
wastes of manpower and potential ma
tional wealth is idiotic on economic
grounds, criminal on social grounds
and not to be justified by any individ-
ual employers exigencies.
Every period of advancement in
civilization has been made by means
of increased leisure. National bene-
fits might safely be expected from
increased leisure for workers. Most
of the inventions of modern indus
tries have been made by craftsmen
and engineers professionally engaged
with the tools Of their trade. Give
the worker more leisure for education
and self-cultivation and he will cer-
tainly contribute more and more to
industrial improvements; his growing
intelligence and sense of security will
obliterate dilatory tactics in foctories,
and swell the riches of the nation
through better teamwork.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
zer and harbor bin s11, 900, 900 ap.

river and harbor bill q $11 ,000, 900 ap-
preparation to buy the Cape Cod
canal and operate it by the govern
ment.
The question arises, when are gov
ernment ownership and government
interference in business "safe and
sane?
The answer is found in the tabloid
history Of the canal.
1t was built by August Belmont
and a syndicate of bankers who
thought it would bring fabulous prof
its to private capital.
Belmont and his bankers blundered.
The canal is a commercial failure,
No dividends paid. Bond interest not
earned. Money for upkeep lacking.
So big business decided to get out
by selling it to the government.
Big business did not succeed in
jamming a special bill through con-
gress, but 10! the very people who
deplore the government in business
attached the canal scheme to the river
and harbor bill with a juicy $11 ,000,-
900 melon to be cut for the "farsee-
ing" inanciers who own the stock
and bonds.
Government ownership and govern
ment interference in business are
therefore "safe and sane" when big
business has a bankrupt concern
which it desires to dispose Of at top
notch price and which private inter
ests will not buy.
Cape Cod canal slipped through the
house, but it is said to be scheduled
for rough passage in the senate.
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and swell the riches of the nation
through better teamwork.
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH
If all mankind minus one were of
one opinion. and only one person
were of the contrary opinion, man.
kind would he more justified in silenc-
ing that one person than he, if he
had the power, would be justified in
silencing mankind. Stuart Mill.
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BANKER FAVORS HIGH WAGES
The New England Bankers Asso-
ciation, meeting at Eastern Point,
Conn, heard some convincing argu-
ments in favor of high wages made,
not by labor man, but by Lewis E.
Pierson, chairman of the board of the
Irving Bank Columbia Trust Com
pany and vice president and chair
man of the executive committee of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States.
Mr.. Persons remarks are we'll
worth quoting to advocates of low
wages as means of promoting ma
tional prosperity. He said, in part:
Through an evolution, witK which
we are all familiar, our country has
led the way in the development of
new industrial era. For half GEN.
tury we have been perfecting an in
dustrial machine which today pro-
duces more manufactured products
than are made by any other nation i'll
the world.
"In building up this machinery we
abandoned most of the industrial
philosophy and altered most Of the
methods or the older manufacturing
nations, and have developed along
lines which are peculiarly our own.
eve started with the premise that
the more any nation produces the more
there will be to divide among it's peo-
pie, and took for the base of our in
dustrial structure a program of high
production.
1--WE placed increasing horsepower
behind our machinery until today we
have an average of four horsepower
available for every industrial worker
in the United States.
Speeding up production in this
manner meant that the consuming
power of our people needed to be in
creased in proportion to their produc-
tive power. Fortunately for our in
dustrial philosophy, mass production
carries in it's train the possibility Of
greater consumption because industry
can pay higher wage when the in
dividual worker is able to produce
more in given time.
"High production, high wages and
high consumption, therefore, are the
cardinal principles of modern Amer
lean industry, and throughout the
world today American industry is
competing with the industries Of other
countries which are proceeding on the
theory of low production, low wages
and low consumption.
1--WE can not shut our eyes to this
opposition of conflicting national in
dustrial theories and we should have
more than our own individual impress
sions to guide us in determining
whether the American theory is cor
rect.
Certainly as we look about us to-
day, we can reach only one conclusion.
We see our own country prosperous,
our industries thriving and our people
employed.
eve look abroad and we find the
low production and low consumption
nations with thier factories idling and
a large proportion Of their people un-t
employed"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

If all mankind minus one were of
one opinion. and only one person
were of the contrary opinion, man.
kind would he more justified in silenc-
ing that one person than he, if he
had the power, would be justified in
silencing mankind. Stuart Mill.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
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WHEN SOCIALISM is SAFE
AND SANE

Less government in business and no
government ownership have been the
slogans of big business, it's economists
and politicians for many moons.
Even suggestion along this line
to the average congressman is usually
denounced as most dangerous form
of radicalism. And yet the house of
representatives has inserted in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
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KEEP EN- MOVIN', CHIEF

That was fine order, Chief Kolod
xix, to keep the departs, grease
topped sheiks and lounge lizards on
the move, so far as the uptown dis
trict is concerned. The order meets
with general approval on the part of
the public and with the ladies in par
ticular, who find it much pleasanter
to walk down High street these days.
Don't let down on the order, chief.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02

BATTLE OF DOLLARS

In "heart balm" case in the local
courts this week where the plaintiff
sought $4,000 the attorneys, in
their arguments referred to the case
as "battle for dollars" But for
whom, we would ask, the plaintiff, the
defendants or the lawyers?
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BLOCKING COAL LEGISLATION
Representative Jacobstein, of New
York, recently charged on the floor of
the house that powerful interests
interests have been effeticve in block
ing coal legislation, and that large
coal operators have contributed i'm
mense sums to this end.
Half a dozen attempts have been
made by the senate and house and spe-
cial committees to put laws on the
statute books" he said, "but in each
case these efforts were frustrated by
a powerful coordination of interests.
l have been informed that in past
years as much as $500,000 was spent
in single campaign to defeat legis-
lation."
Mr.. Jacobstein further charged
tIldt LIlC COdl COllSuulCT Is paying
something like SO to rs cents a ton
more than last year, although there
was no increase in wages resulting
from the strike.
"But, in addition to this" he said,
"the operators are adulterating their
hard coal so that the consumer is
paying higher prices for coal under
the old brand names, but getting an
inferior quality"
Representative Jacobstein's charges
should be sifted to the bottom. 1t is
intolerable that attempts to make the
coal industry behave should be block
ed by the lavish use of money, as he
charges. If his charges are true
those responsible for the blocking of
coal legislation should be made known
to the public. If they are not true,
Mr.. Jacobstein owes the coal opera
tors an apology. A thorough inves-
tigation is needed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
GLOSS OFF

Will remove the wearshine from
Ladies' and Gents garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
ing and Remodeling done at Kappel's,
1852 N. B street Phone 2617-L
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02

Issued Weekly at s26 Market Street
Telephone 1895 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02
UNITED mine
WORKERS
OF Nova Scotia Plan War
Against O. B. u.

By International Labor News Service.
Halifax, N. S.-The United Mine
Workers of Nova Scotia have decided
to start campaign to free the min
ing communities from the disruptive
influence of the O. B. u.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-07-02

THE COUNTY ROADS

No doubt the people of Hamilton
and Butler county will know more of
the condition of the county roads after
the holiday vacation and the Press
ventures to say that general opinion
will not be kindly of those respon-
sible for the roads condition. They
are fierce and that is all that can be
said for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-01
LENROOT FAvORS
WET REFERENDUM
Wisconsin Senator, CIassed
as Dry, Says Conditions
Justify Vote.
BY the Associated Press.


RIPON, Wis, July latter hav-
ing been classed as a dry" during
his official life, Senator Irvine l..
Lenroot last night asked a referendum
vote on modification Of the eighteenth
amendment in opening his campaign
for nomination for another term in
the Senate.
Senator Lenroot's opponent. Gov.
John j. Blaine, seeking nomination
as a Progressive, has indicated in
various utterances his disapproval of
sumptuary legislation.
II voted to submit the eighteenth
amendment" Senator Lenroot said
Il have voted for all legislation which
has been enacted for its enforcement
and shall continue to do so as long
as am member Of the Senate.
1--WE must all submit, however,
that conditions are not as good as we
expected when the amendment was
adopted l believe the Senators and
Representatives from Wisconsin would
welcome a definite expression through
an official referendum upon this ques-
ton, because this question affects the
personal habits of the people.
If the majority should be in favor
OF modification, | should support it
in the Senate. believing that it would
not violate the eighteenth amend
ment."
The modification referred to is con-
tanned in the referendum ordered by
the Wisconsin Legislature and would
permit beverages containing 2.75 per
cent alcohol, but not to be consumed
where sold.
The Senator asserted that as long
as he was a member of the Senate
he would mot vote for any legislation
that violates the eighteenth amend
ment.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-01

committee No. 76" composed of some
members of the association.
The witness said this committee col
none of it was used in the Pennsyl
vania primary.
What was done with it," asked
King
Recently the committee made an
appropriation of 200 for use In con-
nection with the work, looking TO
referendum in Montana and Nevada y
Wood replied
A statement showing receipts by
the PENNSYLVANIA committee of $4,000
from the national association for use
in the primary campaign was present
ed There was one check for $1,000
received in April and $1,000 in May.
Receipts of the Pennsylvania com
mittee in March totaled $4,000, mostly
from members, and in part 5transmit-
ted to Washington April receipts
We're $5,33S.S9, of which $1.648 was
sent to Washington.
"Our budget is S1.255.34 a month. y
Wood said, referring to expenses or
the Pennsylvania committee.
The witness said all receipts and eX-
penditures were included in the re-
turns made by the association to the
clerk Of the House of Representa-
tives under the corrupt practices act.
Woods reports showed total expend-
itures of $l3,756.16 from February /
to June 16. The monthly totals were:
February. $1,97S.77; March, $2.143S7:
April. s534.24; May, $5,S94.11; June l
TO &c, S3,o0517
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-01

newspaper man was at his home at
the time that Wilgarde was there.
Likewise he denied that any news
paper man used the telephone In his
house.
Il was not in the house long enough
for that" the witness said. II came
down the stairs, offered the news
paper man n cigar and went on out. F"
Denies He Told of Offer.
Reed then went TO the testimony Of
George Il. Beck, jr., another Public
Ledger reporter, that OConnor had
told him that the Ware organization
had offered him $4,000 to withdraw
from the race.
THAT is not true said O'Connor
Did you say anything about $500
having been paid to Ware watchers?
Il did not"
Il don't want you 10 stand on that
sum; was anything said about money
paid to Ware Watchers?
Il want 10 be fair to you and truth
full about this matter. O'Connor said.
Il did not say anything about that
Senator I want to set YOU right on
this. | was not at my headquarters
on election night. l did not leave
my division until the votes had been
counted"
We'll, I'll ask you if you ever had
any of these conversations with any
one anyw here at any tlme?' Reed said.
II did not
Did you talk to George Wharton
Pepper at his home prior to May 1872
George who?"
George Wharton Pepper" Senator
Pepper.
Il was there on one occasion. 1t
was before the primary election. /
don't remember the date. | believe
it was before the Pepper and Fisher
coalition"
What were you there to see Sena-
tor Pepper about
Senator O'Connor heSitated.
Il guess 1t was something IN rela-
ton to the fight. l don't know just
what it was"
Did YOU discuss Senator Pepper
candidacy"
Il believe we did-yes.'
Had you assured the Senator of
your support?
Il believe the Senator knew I
would support him"
O'Connor denied that he had told
Senator Pepper that Ware and Albert
y. Greenfield came to see him.
IF George Wharton Pepper says
you told him that he was not telling
the truth ?" asked Reed. as he ham,
mered his pencil on the table.
Il always listen to Senator Pepper,
and he always advised me to keep
away from those people" replied
O'Connor
Then If George Wharton Pepper
says you told him Ware and Green
field had visited YOU, that is untrue?"
THAT is untrue"
Then you did not tell Pepper you
had had conversation with Ware
and Greenfield?"
~ did not"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-01
Wood Takes Stand.

Coming directly to the question of
political activities by the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment.
the committee put Mr.. Wood on the
stand at the start of the morning SEES
sion.
Chairman Reed qualified the witness
and then turned him over to Senator
King. Democrat. Utah, as he did yes
terday in the case of William H. Stay
ton, national chairman of the asso-
citation.
Wood testified that his principal
duty now is to travel over the cOun-
try, seeking to strengthen the State
organizations.
"Do you collect money!"
ITO a certain extent in Pennsylva-
mia. Some comes into my office. and l
transmit that to Washington"
Wood said that in the recent Penn
sylvania primary a committee Of 25
was organized. with Fred w. Brill of
the Brill Car Works of Philadelphia
as chairman, to function for the wet
association.
In addition there was a voluntary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-01
NOTED CHINESE CATHOLIC
HONORED ON VISIT HERE
J. 10 Pa Hong, Known as the
Carnegie of China" Guest Of
Knights of Columbus.

]. Lo Pa Hong, the richest steel and
iron owner in China and referred to
as the Carnegie of China" was the
guest Of j. Leo Kolb. State secretary
of the local knights of Columbus. at
a reception at his home yesterday.
Mr.. Lo is also the most prominent
Catholic in China, having received
the Papal knighthood twice. He was
representative of the Chinese Catho-
lies at the Eucharistic Congress in
Chicago, and received the distinction
of being one Of the four Catholics in
the world chosen to carry the canopy
over the Eucharist during the recent
procession.
The guest of honor was also enter
tanned at luncheon at the Mayfiower
Hotel, after visiting Bishop Shahan
at the Catholic University. Those
who attended the luncheon were, Mr..
Kolb. the retiring State deputy Of the
Knights of Columbus. James A. Sulli-
van; State Deputy Charles w. Darr
and other prominent Knights of Col
umbuS.
Among the titles Mr.. 10 has are:
Delegate Of the Chinese Catholics to
the International Eucharistic Con
gress, Chicago; member of "Comite
Permanent DIES Congress Eucharis-
tiques InternationauX." commander
of the Order of st. Sylvester, knight
of the Order OF St. Gregory the
Great" recipient of Second Class Ma
tional Order of Chiaho with Brilliancy,
president Of the Chinese United Cath
Ole Association of Shanghai, director
of the Hospice st. Joseph and of the
Sacred Heart Hospital, preside 1t of
the Conference of ST Vincent de
Paul, Shanghai: director of ST. Jo-
seph's Industrial Institute, Shanghai:
Chinese counselor of the French
municipality, Shanghai, and counsel
or of the Chinese municipality, Nan
tao, Shanghai.
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D. c. ITEMS INTACT
|NDEF|C|ENCYB BILL
One Minor Amendment to Be
Offered Measure Re-
ported in Senate.

The second deficiency bill, as re-
ported to the Senate by Chairman
Warren OF the appropriations COM
mittee, carries an increase of approx.
mately $4,000, 900 above the amount
passed by the House, but makes no
changes in the total Of $1,22S,658 81
as approved by the House for various
activities Of the District Government
One minor amendment will be Of
fered on the floor of the Senate re.
lating to the District portion Of the
bill, but 1t is only for the purpose of
permitting an employee OF the public
school system to receive compensation
for extra services he performs as the
superintendent of District swimming
pools.
The bill as reported TO the Senate
calls for $51 .028.730.22 as agains. the
House total of $45.014,229. OF the
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total amount added by the Senate
committee, $5,4O0.0 900 is for Judgments
and claims against the Government.
The balance is for urgent items in
various departments of the Govern
ment, including 100000 for the con-
struction Of a rigid airship for the
Navy Department.
The Senate committee added $4,000
for repairs to the Capitol Building.
In addition to the amount for de-
f1ciencies in the District Government,
this bill also carries the first install
ment Of more than $4,000, 900 toward
the public building program in Wash
ington and the final amount of APP
proximately 81 1881 900 to complete the
purchase Of Union Station Plaza.
Senator Warren probably will call
up the deficiency bill in the Senate
today and it IS expected to pass with
out much delay.