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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
Operators Seek to Unload
Cost Of Industry's Huge
Waste on Miners Shoulders

By international Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.-The coal indus
try is again in the pains of summer
overp production, excess mine capacity,
destructive trade practices and inter-
nal dissension. 1t is engaged in the
usual summer battle for existence un-
der uneconomic trade practices, efforts
to jockey freight rates, and to unload
the costs of the burden on to the mine
wage earners.
AS the situation becomes more COM
pleX there is to be seen strong indica-
ton that a new assault on far-reach-
ing lines on the wage scales of the
Miners Union is being devised by
the operating interests, and that the
coming winter will not be an easy one
for this union. Perhaps the greatest
attack of all time is approaching.
Coal is Worst Managed Industry
Coal is the worst mismanaged in
dustry on the continent It's waste
exceeds that of any other industry.
1t is and always has been gripped in
a relentless struggle for survival of
the fittest. Consuming interests have
sought always to buy coal at the low
est possible figure. This pressure on
their part has created a competitive
condition among operators that has
divided them into bitter factional
camps and "blocs." The industry to-
day is merely system of "blocs."
For many years before the war the
brunt of this factionalism fell on
the wage earners. With each defeat
of one bloc by another, wages were
cut to cover the loss, and prepara-
tions made for another battle. In
this tug O. war each bloc sought to
whipsaw the Miners Union into
position of lending aid to it against
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
BY CHESTER M. WRIGHT

Indications are that America faces
the hottest pro-bolshevik campaign
yet unfolded. 1t will be for recogni-
ton Of the soviet autocracy and it
will be backed by, Americans who have
not been outstanding in previous
efforts.
The soviets have been at great
pains this summer to lure American
investigators to the prepared seen
cry Of Moscow.
Sherwood Eddy, member of the in
ternational committee of the Y. M.
C. A., heads committee now in Rus
sia seeing the sights.
Eddy gurgles forth, in a Moscow
meeting, this fulsome blurb for the
edification of his soviet hosts:
81 am glad to see nation which
stands as challenge to the rest of
the world, to nations ruled by swollen,
selfish capitalism. We hope
our group will be the forerunner of
an official group and recognition of
the present government of Russia"
The present government of Rus
sia" is no different from the govern
o-called-which has existed
since Nicolai Lenin rolled out of Ger
many in an imperial special train to
crush the budding democracy which
had overthrown the czar and write the
bolshevik peace of Brest-Litovsk.
1t is the blood descendant of the au-
tocracy founded by Lenin, headed by
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
UPHOLD GAS AS
WAR WEAPON

Williamstown, Mass.-At the IN
stitute of Politics, Prof. Norris, of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, said that chemical warfare is
most powerful defensive weapon.
and that if this mode of warfare dis
appeared it would not be by interna-
tlonal agreement, but only because it
was inefficient
Predicting that the next war will
start where the World War left off,
and that mustard gas will be used
from the beginning, Prof. Norris ask
ed if the United States should stand
by and let other nations have sur
prise ready. He agreed with Sir
James c. Irvine, of Scotland, that so
long as chemical factories exist they
can easily be converted to make poison
gas, and in that sense the scrapping
of ships and reduction of armies
would not really mean disarmament.
Sentiment and not knowledge was
the driving force behind the women's
clubs and associations which attacked
chemical warfare prior to the Wash
ington disarmament conference, called
by President Harding, according to
Prof. Norris. Under the present
structure of society, he said, war is
inevitable and preparation for war
necessary. Both he and Sir James C.
Irvine indicated little faith in inter-
national treaties that would regulate
the use of poison gas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10

ters of the United Mine Workers here,
Frank harrington, president of the
Illinois miners, will tender his resig-
nation on his return from Europe the
latter part of this month. This
means, his friends say, that he will
not be candidate for reelection al
though having announced himself for
reelection some time ago.
Cable dispatches from London quote
President Harrington as saying that
ne had entered into contract with the
Peabody Coal Corporation of Chicago
at salary of $4,000 year as a
labor advisor to the corporation.
When the fact became known that
Harrington had made such contract
the executive board of the Illinois
miners sent him cable asking his re-
turn to Springfield, ILL.,, to "stand
trial" or else his immediate resigna-
tion. The decision to do this was
reached at session of the Illinois
board in Indianapolis a week ago.
In answer to the cable harrington
denied the right Of the Illinois board
to dictate his employment" and said
he would not return until the latter
part of September, at which time he
would state his position.
harrington has been active in the
miners movement for 20 years or
more, and has been president Of the
Illinois miners for II years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
CARPENTERS
Union Enters Trade To
Combat Employers

Oakland, Cal.-Organized carpen-
ters have formed a company in this
city to supply material to contractors
who decline to be dictated to by the
anti-union Industrial Association and
its allies.
The carpenters move is frontal
attack on business men who believe
they can compel contractors to do
their bidding by refusing to sell them
material unless they adopt the So
called american" plan of individual
bargaining. The new company has
installed a fleet Of motor trucks and
moving cranes. Other yards are
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
Coal Interests Work to Bring Return
OF Cut-throat Competitive Methods

warfare, said it couldn't be had.
Then it was that the outside indus
tries turned to the non-union fields
and promoted there the old condition
of inflated mine capacity that had
practically ruined the industry in the
unionized fields before the war.
Low Rates Initiate Capacity of Mines
These low rates have produced a
condition of imitation in mine capacity
in the non-union fields, and the oper-
ators' blocs there are unwilling to un-
dergo the repressive measures that
were found necessary in similar cir
cumstances in the unionized fields.
In some instances blocs of unionized
operators have broken away from the
union scales and started operation on
a basis Of wages akin to those in the
non-union fields. That is true in the
Pittsburgh field and to some extent
in the Fairmont region, and an effort
is being made in that direction in
Ohio.
Operators Can't Solve Own Troubles
Coal operators have shown them
selves helpless to straighten out their
internal troubles or end their internal
fighting. With each new outburst of
indignation from tried and disgust
ed public, they try to pass the buck
to the Miners Union, and charge it
with responsibility for their self-de-
stroying internal fighting
The Jacksonville agreement is ap-
preaching its end. Every indication
points to these blocs seizing upon the
wage conference to try to break down
the wage scales that have been main
tanned by sheer force and fighting
strength, and again throwing the
costs of unending competitive battles
onto the shoulders of the wage earn
ers.
Winter to Test Unions Metal
The coming winter will not be an
easy one for the Miners Union. If a
crack in its ranks can be seen, oper-
ators will pounce upon it in the hope
of driving in the wedge that will
break it to pieces, and relieve them
of the weight of the inflated condi-
ton of too many coal mines.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10

the other embattled bloc, with the
result that chaos thrived, and wage
earners paid the "war" costs.
Too Many Mines, Basis of Trouble
The whole trouble was that the
country had too many mines. Any
person could open coal mine if he
had money enough to run until he got
some of his bills paid. That condition
exists today.
The years of the World War Great
ed a condition in which the country
needed every ton of coal that could be
mined. Instead of economic pressure
of production, there was stress
of production. In this condi-
tion the wages of mine workers
climbed for the first time to a level
commensurate with their skill, hazard
of work, and their economic necessi-
ties, and they began to enjoy what
might be described as the American
level of home comforts.
With the armistice, however, the
old condition of huge production
was suddenly thrust upon the indus
try, and operators turned to grasp
their old expedients of wage cutting
and keeping their own skins intact.
Miners Win Desperate Fight
The Miners Union saw the attack
coming, and braced itself for the i'm
pact. Taking the aggressive, and
fighting the issue to finish with
closed and unbroken ranks, it came
out victor. And with rugged deter
mination and unyielding resistance, it
has held the fruits of that victory
ever since. 1t has maintained it's
wage scales unimpaired.
Outside industry after the war
again demanded cheap coal. Opera
tors, unwilling to lay aside internal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
FRANK HARRINGTON
To Join Peabody Coal Co.
On Return From Tour

Chicago.-Frank Harrington, presi-
dent Of District IL, United Mine
Workers Of America, comprising the
100000 union coal miners of Illinois,
has signed a contract to work for
the Peabody Coal Company at a sal
ary of $4,000 year, according to
a statement issued by harrington at
Paris, France. The contract is said
to have been signed at New York,
July End, the day before Harrington
sailed for Europe, and il to become
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
Greatest Campaign Of All For
Soviet Recognition About to
Be Turned Loose on America

| Stain, who is feminist to the core,
builded upon the lines laid down by
Lenin, tyrannical over-lordship upon
structure wholly subservient to the
pinnacle of the complicated arrange
ment.
Economically Russia has thrown a
tremendous bluff. This cannot last
forever. 1t is now recognition or
ruin, and the gamblers of Moscow,
circling madly in the same bloody
trail trod by Lenin and kept freshly
soaked by the sneaking, bludgeoning,
numbering che-ka, are planning to
bend every effort to win on this throw
Of the dice.
With prisons filled with political
prisoners, with Stain fanatically de-
voted to the idea of world revolution,
with internal industry creaking on
swift downward path, the propaganda
mill is running headlong under forced
pressure.
That the campaign of this fall and
winter will outdo anything that has
been previously hurled at the Amer
lean people is clearly seen by those
who watch most closely the bolshevik
temperature and respiration. That
American labor will be compelled to
withstand the brunt of the con-
f1ict, as in the past, is equally GER
tain. But to know what is coming is
to have won half the struggle the
struggle for the dominance of Amer
lean principles of democracy and hu-
man freedom.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

Forty-six miners perish in gas ex-
plosion in mine at Clymer (Pa.) No. l
mine of Clearfeld Bituminous Coal
Corporation.
"Ma" Ferguson is showed under by
red-haired Dan Moody, member of the
Electrical Workers Union, in the
run-off Texas primary for the demo-
cratic nomination for governor. This
assures Moody's election.
Nicaragua's tyrannical government
protests to the League of Nations that
Mexico has been helping Nicaraguan
revolutionists, seeking thus to secure
league approval of the Chamorro re-
gime, which came into office by a
coup d'etat of most subtle character.
Dry officers close 21O wine shops in
New York city.
Dispute between blacksmiths and
tunnel and subway workers over tool
dressers has been settled by agree
ment.
Reports of forty railroads show a
80 per cent gain in income for July.
Their total aggregate net is $76,952,-
62O, compared to $59,620,046 reported
in July last year. Gross revenue of
these roads for July was $366,881 1922.
Cost of living reported by Uncle
Sam to be running little higher than
at the same period last year.
Commander John Rodgers, hero of
the San Hawaii fight, is
killed by fall in land plane at Phila-
delphia.
A. F. of L. executive council ends
quarterly meeting in Montreal and re-
turns to United States with report
prepared for Detroit convention open
ing October 4th.
Six hundred members of New York
Times chapel of Typographical Union
No. present Adolph S. Ochs with
silver composing stick, suitably en-
graved and bearing pictures Of three
buildings the newspaper has occupied
the occasion being thirtieth anniver-
sary of ownership of the Times by
Mr.. Ochs.
Ernst Vierkoetter, German, swims
English channel in IL hours 43 min
utes, beating all records on day OF
Gertrude Ederle's arrival in New
York. Trudie says she's not jealous
United States marines land in Mic
aragua where partisans of the consti-
tutional president, DR.. Juan Bautista
Sacasa, are in rebellion against the
dictator, Chamorro.
Textile workers in territory center
ing at Pawtucket, R. l., on strike;
strikebreakers reported being import
ed at Woonsocket.
Newton D. Baker says he is for call
ing home the war debts for delayed
obsequies.
B. & o. railroad, unable longer to
use the Pennsylvania roads tunnel in
New York city, adopts bus system
operating from its Jersey City ter.
minal to downtown New York points
New regulations allow total tips OF
60 cents a day for travelling repre-
sentatives of federal government
Fifty cents a day is allowed for bath
where rooms contain none. Subsis.
tence amount is raised to Sc, former
amount having been 81. Funds also
may be drawn in advance for travel
under new rules.
Autoist crosses from San Francisco
to New York in 83 hours, beating
train time by ten hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
LAND SHARKS INDICTED

Jacksonville, Fla.-An echo of Flor
ida's frenzied land boom is the indict-
ment by federal grand jury of two
score men who were engaged in a
development scheme in the southern
part of this state. 1t is charged that
an investment of $1OO in a land op-
tion rose to total sales of $4,000, 900.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
Labor Queries

Questions and Answers on La
Dor: What 1t Has Done; Where
1t Stands on Problems of the
Day; Its Aim and Program;
Who's Who in the Ranks of
the Organized Toilers, ETC., etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
Capital co-operates; why not labor

Every union label idea dropped into
an ear will bear fruit some time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10

Q.-When was labor's bill of griev-
ances drafted and what for?
A.-This was document setting
forth labor's political demands iA 1906
1t was presented by 1T representa-
tives of national and international
unions to the president pro tempore of
the senate and the speaker of the
house.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10

A.-This board was created by the
building trades unions, architects and
contractors, to adjudicate jurisdiction
al disputes in the building trades.
William j. Tracy is secretary, with
offices in the A. F. of L. building,
Washington, D. C.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
harrington Active in Union
Twenty Years

BY international Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind.-According to
information received at the headqnar-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10
Q.-Can delegates to the A. f. of L

Q.-Can delegates to the A. +. of l..
be bound by instructions?
An 1901 it was ruled that each
delegate controls his own vote and the
A. F. of L. conventions must allow
him to cast his votes as he sees fit,
even though he may vote contrary to
his instructions. Whether a delegate
may be disciplined by his own organi-
zation for voting against instructions
may be another matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10

Q.-Was Leo Tolstoi regarded as a
friend by American labor?
A.-Indeed, and when the great
Russian died the A. F. of l.. conven-
tion in 1910 adopted resolutions de-
ploring his passing. The delegates
stood with bowed heads in agreement
with the resolution.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-10

Q.-What is the National Board
for Jurisdictional Awards?
Evening star., 1926-04-28
EPISCOPAL Church
PROPOSES CRUSADE
Bishops, Priests and Laymen
Enlisted in Nationwide
EvangeIiStic Campaign.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Ga. April 2S.-Thc
services of 100 bishops. priests and
outstanding laymen of the Episcopal
Church throughout the country VII
be enlisted in a nationwide eVangohS
tic crusade to be conducted along lines
similar to prediction campaigns OF
political parties.
The campaign, plans for which are
revealed here yesterday, will he
launched in Atlanta today at a con
ference between the Right Rev. Henry
j. Mikell. ID. D.. Bishop of Atlanta,
and the Right Rev. Thomas G. Darst,
Bishop of East Carolina, with mem
bers of the Atlanta diocesan commits
sion on evangelism participating.
Bishop DarSt, originator of the plan
FOR the "biShopSS" crusade and chair
man of the recently appointed ma
tional commission on evangelism. al
ter the Atlanta conference. will leave
on a tranScontinental tour, holding
similar conferences along the way.
Initial plans will he made at these
conferences for the drive, which Will
be started in January of 1921
Bishop Darst will visit a dozen
strategic points on his tour. holding
conferences in New Orleans. Los An
eeles, San Francisco. Portland, Spo-
kane, Seattle and cities in the North
and Middle West.
He will seek the appointment of
commissioners in the various dloCeSeS
To promote the crusade, will enlist
the services of speakers and confer
with eccleSaStic authorities To plan
the actual campaign.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
ROYALTY TO TOUR.
Three Kings and Two Queens Will
Visit England.

LONDON, April % up. = Three
kings and two queens will visit Eng
land this Summer.
King Fuad of Egypt. who will he
guest ot%king George and Queen Mary
at Buckingham Palace. will probably
attract more attention from both Eng
Jishmen and tourists than the other
royal visitors.
King Alfonso and Queen Ena 0f
Spain will pay a long visit to London.
1t is reported she will make an effort
to acquaint English women with
many of the fashions of Spain. spon-
soring an exhibition in London of
Spanish mantillas. shawls and char
acteristic finery of Spain.
The King and Queen OF Belgium are
coming to London for a brief Summer
visit.
During her visit Queen Ena will
present her eldest daughter, the In
fanta BeatriX, to English society.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
INDIAN SLAYER HANGED
BY POSSE OF CITIZENS
Example of Old-Fashioned Frontier
Justice for Murderer of Govern
ment Cattle Inspector.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE \. NJ. April rs
Old-fashioned frontier justice was dis
pensed near the Crown Point Indian
Agency Monday, when Santiago Pla-
tero, Navajo Indian. charged win
the Staying of j. y. Kimmel, Govern
ment cattle inspector, was hanged by
citizens who took him from a sheriff s
posse.
Meager advices received here yester-
day said a group of ranchrs met the
sheriff's posse late Sunday night and
seized Platero as he was being taken
to the Crown Point Jail for safekeep
ing.
A coroner's jury found that the In
dian met death by hanging at the
hands of parties unknown" Supt,
Stacher of the Crown Point Agency
and his deputies are conducting an
investigation.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
KLAN CANDIDATE WINS.
Man Who Refused to Repudiate
Order Is Elected Mayor.

COLUMBIA, :. G.. April % .(4). -
Or. l.. +. owens, defeated William a.
Coleman. incumbent. for mayor in
the primary here YESTERDAY The
vote was: owens, @,3t5: Coleman.
a.07S.
The ku KluX klan was made an
issue in the campaign after the first
primary. week ago, when four other
candidates were eliminated.
Mayor Coleman charged that DR..
owens was he klan candidate. and
this. DR.. owens denied but the latter
did not rcpudiate the I<lan when called
upon by Coleman to do so. r. August
Hoefer and w. i. EleaZer were elected
cOunCilmcn.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
DUKE TRUSTEES LIST
$21O,255 FOR CHARITY
SO Hospitals and 80 orphanages in
North Carolina and South Caro-
lima to Share Fund.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE. N. c., April 2s.--
Immediate distribution of $210,255
among SO hospitals and 80 orphanages
in North Carolina and South Carolina
was authorized by the trustees Of the
Duke Endowment at their monthly
meeting here yesterday. the fund hav-
ing been derived as income from GER
tain portions of the endowment fund
created by the late James b. Duke
and from certain funds set aside in
his will.
No Information was disclosed as to
the amount any institution will re-
ceive from this distribution. though
a list of the beneficiary hospitals and
orphanages was made public.
1t was explained by members of the
board that today's distribution of
funds represents 80 per cent of the
Evening star., 1926-04-28

group which soon will come into
possession of the United States
through an exchange arranged with
the territorial authorities will be
utilized for air station purposes
Funds for construction already are
available.
The fields to be established will be
situated near Wailau on Kauai
Island near Lanai City on Lanai
Island; at Upolu Point and at South
Cape on Hawaii Island and near
Hanapepe and Kauai Island The
staff studies which led to the finding
that airways We're required were
based on data obtained from the Joint
Army-NaVy maneuvers last May,
which convinced the Army and Navy
umpires that the islands at present
were inadequately protected.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
INTEREST BILLS ARGUED.
Measure to Pay in Property Seiz-
ures Before Committee,

A Senate judiciary subcommittee
heard arguments yesterday on three
bills to pay approximately $4,000,000
interest On property of Americans or
citizens of allied or neutral nations
seized by the alien property custodian
during the war.
The property, sequestered because
the owners were in Germany or
another of the central powers, has
been returned, but it was contended
owners should be paid interest at
per cent for the time it was held
OF the total, S2,490,0OO would go to
Americans
Evening star., 1926-04-28

ADVISORY COUNCIL OF
THE BRANCHES
CHARLES C. GLOVER, JR.
ROBERT V. FLEMING
AVON M. NEVIUS
GEORGE O. VASS
DWIGHT CLARK
CHARLES III. TOMPKINS
WILLIAM H. DONOVAN
ARTHUR CARR
CHARLES II. CI4AGETT
JOHN OLIVER LA GORGE
CHESTER III. WARRINGTON
PERE A. WILMER.
JOHN ID. RHODES
BERTRAND III. ROBERTS
HERBERT J.. DAVIS
LOUIS E. JEFFRIES
HILLEARY G. HOSkINSON
NELSON B. O'NEAL
GREGG G. BIRDSALL
JAMES Nj. BEALL
WILLIAM G. MILLER
FRANK p. MORSE
Evening star., 1926-04-28
Brothers i'm Frat
Resign Posts to
Fight for Nesbitt

TROY, Ohio. April 2S.-When
Jacob Nesbitt, confessed slayer of
his wife, Frances Drake NeShitt.
goes on trial mere next month he
will be defended by three members
of an Ohio State university fra
ternity of which Nesbitt was presi.
dent prior to his graduation three
years ago.
Not ony will Nesbitt's three
"bruthers" serve without Compen-
sation. but they all are resiGning
good positions to defend him, Ro-
land w. Baggott. resicning as iu
Vcnilc and domestic relations judges
of Montgomery County, Don K.
Thomas as one Of Gov. Donahey's
secretaries. and George Nye as Pike
County prosecutor.