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New Britain herald., 1926-06-07
BaCk-Fire of Ammonia Fumes From Purifying Tank at New
 Haven Gas Light Co.
OTHER VICTIM IS NOT
 EXPECTED TO RECOVER

Did But Little Damage-Petcock
 Accidentally Opened By Man
 Welding shovel.
 New Haven, June 1.-Two men were injured, one dying later and the other not expected to live. at the plant of the New Haven Gas Light company at East and Chapel street this morning following a sudden backfre of ammonia fumes from a purifying tank.
 Carmen Moletino, SS, of G6 Beach street is suffering from a fractured arm and severe burns. He is not ex- pected to recover.
 Francesca Acamporo, 35. of IA Franklin street, received a fractured skull when he fell from the top of the tank and died three hours later at the New Haven hospital.
 The men were employed in re- filling a tank with charcoal used to purify ammonia.
 The top of the purifying tank is 32 feet above the ground.
 Fumes Struck Man
 Acamporo was using a shovel to clean out the tank, and it is believed he accidentally struck and opened a petcock which released stream of ammonia under pressure. The am monia struck him in the face and in his pain, he stumbled backward and fell to the ground.
 Molctino made an attempt to reach his falling fellow workman and he also was struck by a fash of gas ignited by the ammonia. Hor- ribly burned he lost his balance and also fell to the ground,
 The explosion was minor one and did but little damage. A hurry call was sent to the New Haven hos pital and two ambulances were sent to the scene.
 Fall Onto Rocks
 The tank upon which the men were working is located on the east side of the plant. Below it are hard rock bottoms placed there for a foundation for the tanks. It was on these rocks that the men fell. Both men are married and have worked for the gas company for some time.
 Moletino has been a laborer in the yard for more than three years.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-07
COOLIDGE UPHELD
 ON DRY PROGRAM
Within Rights in Recommending
 Using State Officers
SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
Senate Judiciary Gets Opinion Which, However, Does Not DcIvc Into Wisdom of Policy Of Such Employment.

Washington. June LP} -- Pres ident Coolidge in issuing his order authorizing the employment of state officers as prohibition en- forcemant agents. was "entreIy within his rights and guilty Of no infraction of the Constitution or the law. either expressed or i'm piled" said the majority report of q judiciary subcommittee sub mittod today to the entire commit tee.
 Was Not an "Order"
 Studying the question the sub committee acted under q senate resolution of which Senator King. democrat, Utah, was author That senator as one Of the sub-commit- tee of five, submitted minority views holding that the order was unauthorized and improper. The subcommittee majority held that what the president issued was not an "order" but a mere expression Of policy. It stated in its report that the order really accomplishes nothing" since the attorney general and the internal revenue commits sion had authority to make such appointments before the order was issued.
 EefraininG from expressing any opinion as 10 the wisdom of the policy of so employing state off, COTS. the subcommittee majority said:
 Report of Committee
 Nothing said herein is to be con- strucd as an expression of either ap- proval or disapproVal of the policy evidenced by the notice of order of the president which has been the subject of discussion.
 The committee was deemed itself restricted in the inquiry by the reso- lution under which it has proceeded fo the sole question of whether the president acted in the premises with out authority or in violation of the in any of its provisions, express or implied"
 On the latter proposition supreme court decisions and executive orders of similar import to that issued by President Coolidge were cited 10 support the conclusion of the sub 
 President Roosevelt issued an or der in 1907 authorizing forestry of fcials to accept appointments in the forestry services Of the state and President Wilson issued two orders, one authorizing officers of the re- service to accept positions under state game war3ens and the other authorizing treasury officers to accept appointment to state, county or municipal councils of defense.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-07
THE WEATHER

Hartford, June 7-Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Unsettled and slightly war CT tonight; Tuesday general ly fair with slowly rising
 temperature
New Britain herald., 1926-06-07

Average Daily Circulation For ESst 1uae 5t5 hn'lns 13,275
New Britain herald., 1926-06-07

The French military authorities today informed Consul James keeIy ut Damascus that Clare has q right to counsel before the court martial and Mir. keely is arranging to secure an attorney to represent him. He himself will be present at the trial.
 Consul General Paul Knabenshue at Beirut is sending q complete re- port to the state department at Washington and will send a repre- sentative to the French war ministry when the court martial papers ar rive in Paris.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-07

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New Britain herald., 1926-06-07

Washington. June Cpl -- Am bassador Herricll at Paris was in structed by Secretary Kellogg to- day 10 intercede with the French government in behalf of Bennett J. Doty, also known as Gilbert Clare. private in the French foreign le- zion, who is facing death on charges of attempted desertion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
CARPENTERS
Preparing For Golden Ami
versary Celebration

Indianapolis editor of the
Carpenter, Frank Duffy, general sec
retary of the United Brotherhood OF
Carpenters and Joiners of America,
urges members to consider the fitting
observance of the brotherhood's gold
en- anniversary in 1881.
"While the date of the anniversary
is almost five years away, it is none
too soon to begin to plan for the
event." says the labor editor.
"At the present writing the broth
erhood is As years of age. Who can
remember when carpenters worked 10
and IL hours a day, six whole days a
week? In those days 25 cents an hour
was considered good wages. Many
men worked for less than that. The
first fight was for nine hour day.
An eight hour day at that time was
just dream. But it was finally real
ized as was also the Saturday half
holiday. Today some of our locals are
enjoying the five-day week. The
hourly wage scale has constantly in
creased"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

army of wage earners and those of
moderate means paid but part of
the actual cost. They numbered 1880.
In days service the hospital gross
ed the total of 43,275 at total oper-
ating expense of $122,091.37, with an
income of but Sill, ,789.36. Even with
cash donations, an audit shows that
the net operating deficit was $7527 .23,
which it is pointed out by hospital
authorities, shows exceedingly good
management, as no well conducted
hospital can operate at profit.
Mercy Hospital is recognized as a
Class "A" hospital both by the Amer
ican College of Surgeons and the
American Hospital Association. Its
needs, however, for additional build
ings are said to threaten the high
standards of service heretofore rem
dered the public. A committee of
Hamilton citizens, combining all
classes of society, civic, business and
professional interests has been formed
to secure funds for a Greater Mercy
Hospital. Organized labor is repre-
sented on this committee by Louis
Nau, Stanley Ogg, Herman Perpingon,
Ed Sims, John F. Mayer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
JACK SCHEAF
Extends Thanks For CO.
Operation While Presi-
dent Of Trades Council

Many expressions Of surprise and
wonder were heard when it was learn
ed that Jack Scheaf was no longer
head of the local labor movement and
that successor had been elected
president of Trades Council. 1t didn't
cause any surprise to those closely
connected with the movement for to
them it wa long known that because
of his duties in connection with the
theatres that Jack felt he ought to
give up the office of president of the
central body. And that was the sole
reason why Jack quit. He could have
gone on and on in the office for many
more terms, as it was with regret
that the delegates accepted his refusal
to accept further election. However,
Jack will always be in the lineup for
further advancement of the Hamilton
organized labor movement
At the meeting of Trades Council
last week, upon his retirement, Scheaf
fairly outdid himself in a speech to
the delegates in which he thanked all
members of organized labor, the
various unions, manufacturers, mer-
chants and everyone in general for
their hearty cooperation during his
three years leadership, and he asked
and pleaded for this same cooperation
with his successor in office-Ed Sims.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
GARMENT WORKERS
Take Limit in The Union La
Dor Life Insurance Co.

Affairs of The Union Labor Life
Insurance Company are progressing
rapidly and favorably. The latest ac-
QUESTION to the ranks of stockholders
is the garment workers who have pur-
chased the limit-$4O, 100000 worth.
The race between the plumbers and
the railway carmen continues close,
and interest has been added by the
spurts of several others-notably the
photo engravers, the street railway
men, the musicians.
So many local unions are now stock
holders that the little folders pre-
viously issued can no longer be used
to give the cities, and only the num-
ber of the local is given. With stock
holders in every state in the union,
every province in Canada, the Canal
Zone, Porto Rico, and Honolulu, with
applications for insurance for groups
of 10000 and fifty thousand individ-
uals just received, and scores of in
dividual applications, the future of the
company is assured. The largest COM
panies in the world are soliciting re-
insurance of the company, showing
the flatterng viewpoint of the out
siders toward this step for labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
II Believe IN Unions, !"
Haley Fiske Declares

By international Labor News Service.
Montreal. That modern trade
unions were an outgrowth of friendly
(insurance) societies, and that what
ever measure of justice workers en-
joy today was entirely due to their
unions and hard fighting, were state
ments made by Haley Fiske, octoge-
marian president of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, in an ad-
dress to his Canadian officers.
II believe in unions and Strikes" he
said. "No doubt they are sometimes
wrong. But it is fight, and when
you are in fight, the combatants are
not to be separated by saying some
are sheep and some are goats"
President Fiske recalled that prior
to the rise of manufacturing, wages
of agricultural workers in England
were eight shillings and six pence a
week. Manufacturing began largely
in the form of the putting out sys-
tem," but the conditions of labor
grew worse. The agricultural work
er's wage was reduced by as much
as wife and children could make in the
new manufactures. The law enforced
hard labor and thrift A family with
a child over six years who could not
knit, was not entitled to poor law re-
lief when the head Of the family was
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
ALMOST READY
Is Union Labor For Entry
Into Insurance, Marvel
Business of World

Washington, d. C.-The income of
American life insurance companies
could pay the national debt in five
years. 1t has gathered a momentum
which mark it as the business marvel
of the age. Into this tremendous field
of finance union labor is about ready
to step with the formal launching of
The Union Labor Life Insurance
Company, under the presidency of
Matthew Woll, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Woll believes the company will
begin writing insurance policies
shortly after the closing of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor convention,
which opens in Detroit on October a.
The life insurance companies of the
country hold in trust more than $11,-
100000 for over 35,000,000 policy
holders, it is pointed out. In addi-
ton to that, officers of the new COM
pany point to the fact that no policy
holder in a legal reserve life insur-
ance company has lost a dollar in
forty years, and this applies also to
holders of stock Life insurance is
regarded as the best conducted and
most systematic and best protected
financial undertaking of the present
day.
1t is the announced purpose of The
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
to bring to the labor movement the
tremendous strength of accumulated
funds and the dividend increment of a
business which now turns its strength
and profits in other directions.
Approximately 100000 worth of
stock remains to be sold before the
company begins operations, but a
large portion of this amount is al
ready pledged. When that amount
has been distributed, making total
stock subscription of half million
dollars, the books will be closed and
the company will begin writing poll
cies, it is announced officially.
1t is made clear at the headquar-
ters of the company that organiza-
tions and individuals wishing to Sc
cure stock ought to make application
at once. At least four conventions
are to act within the coming week
and each of these is expected to sub
scribe for substantial amount, If
not for the limit in each case.
The company has literature descrip-
tive of the undertaking and of this
it has distributed large quantities.
1t may be had upon request. Cen
trail bodies which have not yet formed
committees in connection with pro-
noting the insurance company are
urged by President Woll to do so
at once and to request literature
from the headquarters which are IN
the American Federation of Labor
building in Washington.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

fewer and fewer great corporations
should be recorded in the list of
profit-making producers of commodi-
ties.
The danger to democracy comes, not
from limited number of corpora
tions, but from the manner of their
control. If the mass of our citizenship
is shut out from voice in the making
of policies, if these few pyramidal
corporations are to be the instruments
unlimited autocracy, then there is
of something to shudder about.
Autocracy in industry may be just
as perilous and just as detrimental to
human progress and the development
of a free people as autocracy in
politics.
Undoubtedly the United States
Steel Corporation is numbered among
the relatively small group of corpora
tions making big profits. Here is
autocracy. Whoever has seen the
steel district has seen the fruits of
autocracy in industry.
The American Federation of Labor
has declared that there must be de-
veloped democracy in industry
personal franchise-compar to
that which we enjoy in politics.
Industrial evolution has brought us
the great corporation, which is a per-
son in the eyes of the law, created and
protected by the state and given a
cloak of limited liability 1t is here
to stay But that is no reason why
it should grow into a devouring
monster.
The labor movement is the only
force through which the growth of
democratic practice in industry can
be developed. This the labor move
ment has seen.
Nothing more fully emphasizes the
constructive character, the urgent
need and the evolutionary fittingness
of labor's program than the present
showing of the strength and profit
making mastery of tbe industrial field
by a constantly narrowing group of
tremendous corporations.
The corporation is the answer to
present needs, but it will become a
peril unless it is harnessed within the
machinery of democracy by which
Americans have learned measurably
to govern themselves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

i'll or out of work.
The common law imposed savage
penalties against combination of
labor. But the workers formed in
formal friendly societies, or box
clubs. At taverns where they con-
gregated they kept box, into which
they dropped pennies, to take care of
their sick. The ruling caste began to
encourage these sick insurance socie-
ties, but when they found out the
workers were beginning to talk about
their rights, or rather wrongs, "the
employers were clamorous for the SUBJ
Jugation of men who dared to talk
about bettering their condition."
In 1924 an investigating commits
sion found that these friendly soci-
ties, nominally for insurance, had be-
come trade unions. Whether because
the politicians feared their power or
because the conscience of the nation
was stirred by the revelation of the
deplorable conditions of the workers.
the laws against combinations were
repealed. About this time the master
class of England seems to have dis
covered that the human work animal
might be creature with "soul."
At any rate, the rise of modern
trades unions began in 1924, and they
are still fighting and need to fight,
said Mr.. Fiske.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
CONVICT MINE LABOR
SCORED BY UNIONISTS

Jefferson City, Mo.-The leasing of
convicts to the Western Coal and
Mining Company at Lexington, this
state, was denounced at mass meet
ing held under the auspices of organ
lied labor. The lease was signed by
officials of the state penal board and
the mining company.
The unionists will hold protest
meetings in other sections of the
state, and court action will also be
started
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
GARMENT STRIKERS
WANT LASTING PEACE

New York. Striking garment work
ers refuse to be tricked into accepting
"patched-up" peace. They again
insist that any settlement must IN
clude fundamental changes in this in
dustry.
Through a system of jobbers and
submanufacturers that has grown up
in the cloak trade, the sweatshop has
been re-established. The strikers in
sist that wages must be increased and
hours reduced, and that the hawkers
of contracts among small shops must
be checked.
This question can not be settled by
outside arbiters, who know nothing OF
the industry, the strikers say.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
of 10000, DR.. Woodbury. states, is
largely due to lack of surgical clean

of 10000, DR.. Woodbury. states, is
largely due to lack of surgical clean
liness.
"As with infant mortality also, pow
erty is found to be an important fac
tor in maternal death rates, these in
creasing as the husbands earnings
fall, probably because lack of proper
facilities and adequate care for the
poor mother.
Maternal mortality is higher in
the cities than in the rural districts.
These mortality rates, said DR.. Wood
bury, are among the highest in the
civilized world and are but slightly
lower than in the beginning Of the
present century.
Among the countries having rates
less than half that of the United
States are Denmark, Finland, Italy,
Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Swe-
den and Uruguay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
The Cherry
" Where with our
fPQ Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes Hippantl-.
sometimes recklessly. :.

Into the welter of news comes a
blaring story about the number of
corporations to which goes the bulk
of the profit of the years prosperity.
1t is pointed out that some 10000
individuals control about 1000 cor
porations which rake in half of the
$10,000,000,000 net profit of the years
business.
There is nothing particularly deca-
dent, criminal or reprehensble in the
showing made by these figures. The
trouble is that the figures are not
complete and the analysis of where
wealth goes stops just short of real
revelation.
The socialist agitators used to
say-and doubtless still say-that
nine-tenths of the wealth belongs to
one-tenth of the people, while the
nine-tenths of the population strug-
giles along with meager one-tenth
of the wealth.
That alarming charge is pretty
well shattered, if it ever was true.
The probability is that it never was
any more true than it is now
But what we ought to know to
supplement the present figures is the
extent of individual participation and
control in the huge proft-making in
dustries, the extent of public stock
ownership and the extent to which
voice is or may be had by the mass
of stockholders and employees.
With the rapid rise of combinations
in industry it is not strange that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24

Many Hamilton people have been
fitted to their satisfaction with this
new improved type of Hood truss,
which is comfortable to wear and
holds securely slight or bad ruptures
without leg straps or cumbersome
harness. 1t will not pinch or chafe
and can be worn by men, women and
children.
Ask J. P Dargue at Dargue's Cut
Rate Store to try this truss and see
for yourself how comfortably and
securely it holds.
Abdominal belts, elastic stockings,
knee caps and anklets, shoulder
braces and arch supports. Private
fitting room. Lady attendant.
Dargue's Cut Rate Store, PAP High
St, Hamilton, Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
CAR MEN AVERT STRIKE

New Orleans.-A few hours be-
fore strike order became effective,
organized street car men and the To-
cal traction company signed three
year agreement. The contract pro-
vides that "ah employees in the depart
ments concerned must become men,
bers of the union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
POOR PAINT TO PUBLIC

New York.-Leading paint jobbers
and dealers have united to check
losses to the public through inferior
paint. The substitution and subter-
fuge among paint contractors-who
profess much interest for the public
when their employees demand living
wage-is so extensive that the deal
ers will attempt to end the use of
adulterated paint.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
LEATHER WORKERS GAIN

Chicago Atlas Leather Goods
Company has signed a union-shop
agreement with Leather Workers
Union No. IL.
The leather workers, gain is sig
nificant, in that it is their first agree
ment since the lockout in this indus
try six years ago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
WINCHESTER
Products Declared Unfair
To Organized Labor

The products of the Winchester
Arms Co., such as shotguns, rifles,
shells, etc. have been declared unfair to
organized labor by the Metal Polish
ers' International Union and the
American Federation of Labor.
Taking up the fight locally, Metal
Polishers' Union No. 43 is asking all
union men and friends to take notice
of the action of the international
union and A. F. of L. and act accord
ingly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
MERCY HOSPITAL
Benefits Greatly Hamilton's
Working People, Re-
ports Show

Statistical reports issued this week
by Mercy Hospital of Hamilton, Ohio,
show that large portion of the work
done by that institution aids persons
of moderate means.
OF total of 1852 patients treated
at the institution during the year
1925, but 1902 were able to pay the
full worth of the service. A great
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-24
DEATH OF BABIES
Numbering 100000 Traced
To Low Wages

Washington.-Poverty is an impor-
tant factor in the annual deaths of
100000 infants in this country under
one year of age, said DR.. Robert
Morse Woodbury. in report issued by
the United States children's bureau.
The annual maternal mortality rate