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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
TRADE UNION FOE
CHUMMY WITH REDS

New York-Trade unionism and
communism were put in the same
class by William Fl. Barr, of Buffalo,
president of the National Founders
Association, at the annual conven-
tion of that organization. Mr.. Barr
repeated the stock phrases of anti
unionists.
Between trade unionism and COM
munism, however, he favored the lat
ter.
Mr.. Barr's friendship for commun-
ism was indicated in "letter No. 443, y
issued from his office on October 1O
last when he called on business men
not to be alarmed over "this com
munist thing" lest organized labor
harm the so-called "open" shop.
According to Mr.. Barr, communism
is less dangerous than the establish.
ment of collective bargaining. Tc
maintain control of his employees he
would have the same autocracy il
government. This theory of the anti
unionist is accepted by other reac
tionaries who line up at every tesr
with revolutionists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
Big Consumers Greedy Policy
Forces Down Wages Of Miners
Leading Railroads, General Motors and Other Great
Capitastic Interests Seek Cheap Fuel Regardless
of Disastrous Effect on Workers Welfare Whose De-
feat Will Mean Era of Virtual Serfdom at Mines.

not go to the consumers. 1t goes into
the dividends of the corporations. It
is wrung from the miners and paid
into dividend checks
The powerful mine owners, like the
Mellon interests, fall in with this
business, because it suits their union
hating purposes, but many of the in
dependents, desirous of having union
efficiency, believing in decent wages
and decent relations between workers
and employers, are prevented from
agreeing to employ union men-pre-
vented, as President Lewis pointed out
by the very fact that those to whom
they must sell their coal demand that
they continue operations on strike
breaking, non-union basis and that
they sell their coal at prices that will
not permit payment of the Jackson
vile scale. Under that scale the max
imum earnings of skilled miners could
be no more than $1,000 per year.
That makes clear what the Mellon in
terests and the great railroad and in
dustrial consumers of coal are trying
to do to the coal miners.
1t is clear here that unless the mine
strike is won an era of absolute serf-
dom must follow, with a vicious, bru-
tai veritable chattel slavery in the
mines.
The character of the strikebreakers
now at work, coupled with the wage
scale, or starvation scale, that must
be paid if coal is to be sold at the low
prices set by the railroads and indus
trial barons, presage an era of social
disturbance and crime that will dwarf
the already staggering crime record
among the strikebreakers-a record
of 85 murders and countless lesser
crimes in 18 months.
This strike is ruthless, terrible
drive by tremendous corporations tc
crush labor for the sheer sake of prof
its out of servitude. Every fact II
the situation makes that conclusion
inevitable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
CAR men CHARGE
Peoples Money Is Used To
Pay For Spy Plot

New York-An appeal to the tran
sit commission to investigate "large
expenditures of money for vast sys-
tenn of espionage by the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company which, in
effect, puts the city in the spying
business as an investor in subways,"
is asked by officers of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees
The company wants an injunction
against the entire labor movement to
protect its company union" and yell
low dog
I'VE have the spectacle of private
corporation using city money to carry
on a despicable practice" said James
H. Coleman, an Amalgamated repre-
sentative
1T can easily be established that
the Interborough goes to such lengths
in its battle on unionism solely be-
cause it would retain is company
union to use in a campaign fer in
creased fare. With complete control
of $4,000 employees the Interborough
would feel strongly entrenched
In President Hedley's sworn state
ment it is admitted that his company
union is an employers creature. He
said 1t was deemed advisable at the
end of the 1916 strike by deponent
and other managing officers of the
! plaintiff and also by the plaintiffs
employees as a body that some method
of settling disputes should be devils
ed and Mr.. Hedley continues to de-
scribe the birth of the company-con-
trolled union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
ITALIANS LOSE
EVERY LIBERTY

New York.-In five years of con-
troll, the Fascist movement has strip
ped the Italian people of every liberty,
says II Nuovo Mundo (The New
World), an Italian newspaper pub
lished in this city.
The Fascist regime has brought
these results:
Abolition of the right to vote; sup
preston of press, free speech and as
semblage; abolition of the right of
petition; institution of obligatory
syndicalism government trade union
ism and wages by law; abolition of
parliamentary immunity; mainte-
nance of armed corps for service of
the party in power; abolition of the
right of expatriation and citizenship;
institution of the death penalty, and
suppression of liberty of conscience
in the courts of justice.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
Young Trade Unionists Show
Fighting Spirit in Strike
To Maintain 48-Hour Week

By International Labor News Service.
Philadelphia, Pa-"Along with 9TH
er trade unionists who have been in
the movement for number of years,
| have sometimes wondered whether
the young people coming into our
ranks today would struggle as vigor-
ously and courageously for trade
union principles as the men and wom-
en- of the older generation; today
know the old-time fighting spirit is
just as much alive as ever it was"
President Gustave Geiges, of the
American Federation of Full Fash
ioned Hosiery Workers made this
statement in reporting to the Phila-
; delphia branch on the progress of a
strike at the Federal full fashioned
mills here
"The persons involved in this strike
are all young people, almost none of
whom have been through any such
experience before" Geiges said. "The
strike is not for wages but simply to
maintain the 48-hour work week. The
workers would have made more
money temporarily by not striking.
Thought of personal gain has been put
aside and all the people in this shop
are fighting unitedly for the standard
work week.
Let any of the old-timers look over
our picket line and see whether it
could be improved In all my years
l can honestly say that | have never
seen a better spirit among a group of
strikers
THE police are arresting our pick
cts repeatedly But rhe boys 60 right
back on the line after getting out Of
the police court. No convictions have
been secured out Of some 20 arrests,
Some of our girls have refused
strike pay, urging that the money be
given to married men with young
children. There is a wonderful spirit
of solidarity among this group despite
the fact that they have really hac
very little active part in the affairs
Of our organization up till now. This
convinces me that trade unionism car
still be made real factor in the lives
Of the younger industrial workers"
"The strike at the Federal is a small
affair in itself, but it is evidently ;
test on the part Of a group Of Phila
delphia manufacturers to see whethe.
we could be beaten on the 48-hou
work week issue We have provel
that the 48-hour week is profitable
| for the employer wherever a mill i
efficiently operated. We will bring
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.-Employment in
manufacturing industries decreased
one-half of one per cent in October as
compared with September, but at the
same time there was an increase of
1.2 per cent in payroll totals, accord
ing to preliminary report of the bu-
reau of labor statistics of the United
States department of labor.
The level of employment in Octo-
Der, 1927, was 5.3 per cent below the
level of employment in October, 1926,
and payroll totals were 7.5 per cent
lower in October, 1927, than in Octo-
Der, 1926.
The report for October is based
on returns from 1882 establishments
in fifty-four of the principal manu-
featuring industries. These estab-
lishments in October had 3,002, ,549 en-
ployes.
twenty-five OF the ffty-four sepa-
rate industries had more employees in
October than in September, and the
same industries, with one exception
(cigars), together with nine additional
industries reported increased payroll
totals.
The outstanding increases in en-
ployment, all between 3.4 and 5 pei
cent, were in the women's clothing
confectionery, agricultural implement
chewing tobacco, and paper box in
dustries; the outstanding increases II
payroll totals, ranging from 3.4 tx
9.8 per cent, were in the five indus
tries mentioned and, in addition, in the
thirteen following industries: Flour
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
Textile, Tobacco Trades
Make Gains Over Year Ago;
Iron, Steel, Vehicles, Lose

shirts, hosiery, stoves, furniture, chem
icals, pottery, glass, stamped ware,
automobiles (3.8), electric appliances,
pianos and shipbuilding. Both the cot
ton and wooden goods industries made
small gains in both items.
The most pronounced downward
trends in employment and payroll
totals in October appeared in the ice
cream, millinery, cast-iron pipe, boot
and shoe, fertilizer, petroleum refin-
ing, cement, brick, and automobile tire
industries. The iron and steel, struc-
tural iron, hardware, automobile,
steam car and shipbuilding indus tries
all fell off in employment but at the
same time showed increased payroll
totals.
Comparing conditions in October,
1927, with October, 1926, two groups
of ndustries-textiles and tobacco
show increased employment over the
twelve-month period, but the textile
1
roll total. The outstanding decreases
were in the iron and steel and vehicle
groups.
The pronounced increases in sepe-
rate industries over this twelve-month
period were in cotton goods, women's
clothing, rubber boots and shoes, and
sugar refining, while the most notice
the eight industries comprising the
iron and steel group; in sawmills and
millwork; in petroleum refining and
fertilizers; in brick, pottery and glass;
in stamped ware; in automobiles, car
riages and steam cars; and in pianos
and automobile tires.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
BY Staff Correspondent, international
Labor News Service

Pittsburgh, Pa.-When President
John L. Lewis, of the United Mine
Workers, declared to the American
Federation of Labor mine strike con-
ference here that some of the great
Class A railroads were forcing mine
owners to sell them coal at SLIGO and
less while charging freight rates fix
ed on the basis of coal cost of 1920
a ton, he said something that gets to
the roots of things here in the strike
zone and which ought to stir the peo-
pie of the country, who are the freight
payers, always.
President Lewis said the railroads
were in conspiracy to smash the
miners union He charged them cate
gorically with demanding coal at from
SLIGO down to $1.25 per ton, prices
which cannot be quoted in this dis
trict unless the mines are run by un-
derpaid non-union labor.
1t is learned that the railroads and
other great consumers, such as Gen
eral Motors, are literally shopping
around" like bargain hunters, trying
to save nickle here and nickle
there on the price of coal
Human welfare has been thrown
lcompletalv overheard hV these mower
full corporations, among which are
some of the leaders in anti-unionism
When they save money on coal in this
cut-throat manner, the saving does
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
FIVE-DAY WORK
WEEK
Inevitable, President Green
Tells Church Men

New York.-"Organized labor is
convinced the five-day week is eco
nomically sound and socially neces-
sary," said William Green, president
A. f. of L., in an address before the
national convention of the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations.
"It is significant that labor has not
pressed it's claim for the recognition
of this economic change until industry
was prepared to accept and establish
it." said Mr.. Green. "The extension
of the fve-day work week during 1926
and 1927 shows that labor sensed it's
practicability.
"From an economic standpoint ma
chinery and power are doing much to
hasten the acceptance of the fiveday
week. With the aid of machinery and
power the worker has raised his
standard of efficiency and increased
productivity until he now produces
more in shorter number OF working
hours and working days. We are not
able to state definitely the percentage
of increase. 1t ranges from 25 pei
cent to more than 100 per cent. Pro,
ductivity per man hour has increased
in the iron and steel industry, auto
mobile manufacturing, rubber manu-
featuring and miscellaneous trades
from SO per cent to 800 per cent. The
amount of primary horsepower pei
person, since 1919, has increased 49,;
per cent.
"The whole tendency in industria
development is toward reduction IL
working hours. Through a period O
years one section of industry afte
another changed from the 10 and l:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02

Standards lead all SC cigars.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02

hour work day to the eight-hour day,
until it became almost universally es-
tablished
"This gradual reduction in the
hours of labor was not followed by
an increase in the cost of manufact-
ured articles, but, on the contrary,
costs were reduced The productivity
of workers has increased while the
number of hours worked per day has
decreased.
"We have now reached the point
where we are Systematically passing
from the five and one-half and six
day week to the five-day week"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
CARPENTERS WIN STRIKE

Toronto, Canada Organized car
penters have won their fve-weeks'
strike. The union shop is established,
all legal proceedings are dropped and
wages are increased 10 cents an hour,
starting the first of the year. More
than 1900 carpenters were involved,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02
Large, Rich Corporations Demand
Bargain Coal to Fatten Dividends
$4,000 SPOT CASH!
BY international

BY international
Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.-Right on
the heels of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor's appeal for
funds to aid the striking min
ers, the Bricklayers, Masons
and Plasterers' international
Union, with headquarters here,
sent check for $4,000 to Pres
ident John L. Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers and issu-
ed an appeal to all of its local
unions for money, food, clothes,
shoes and blankets.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02

the whole power of our organization
to bear in this situation if need be, in
order to win this important fight"
The Federal mill strike has been in
progress for three weeks.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-02

Don't cry unionism and then call for
a non-Iabel cigar. Smoke Standard
SC cigar.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-03
THREATS OF DEATH
 MADE MRS. CHAPLIN
NOTE RECEIVED THOUGHT SENT BY CRANK; CHAPLIN IN NEW
 YORK

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3. P- Threats of death unless she drops divorce action against Charles Chap lin the film comedian were received by Mrs. Chaplin it became known here yesterday. The note was laid to a crank Police protection however has been requested. Chaplin in New York has hinted that he will remain east to finish work on the Circus his latest picture and will then come to Los Angeles to fight the divorce charges.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-03
FACES ON SHOE HEELS

Strange things happen in the fash ion world of the Royal Borough of Kensington. Latest of these is the new heel mode of the evening shoe. It is a painted face of woman with striking headdress, executed in emer- aids and brilliants and which tones with the decoration of the slipper and evening gown.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-03
WILL WORK PLACER MINE
 CACHE CREEK DISTRICT.


 The outlook was never better in | the Cache Creek district than it is this year in the opinion of Charles Cooper, who with his brother R. H. Cooper and N. D. Baker, controls thirteen placer claims on Willow creek, a tributary to Peters creek.
 With representatives of dredging in- terests drilling Peters creek to deter mine the extent of the pay and sev- eral small outfits this year equipped with hydraulic machinery, activities ! in the famous placer district promise i to outstrip those for several seasons.
 MT. Cooper and associates installed a No. 1 giant last year, after com pleting a mile of ditch and putting in 1900 feet of pipe running from 20 down to inches. The equipment was purchased from the Ramsdike Mining company, which operated on Rams dike creek in the same district.
 MT. Cooper and associates operated only 30 days last season owing to late ness of installing equipment and the scarcity of water late in the season, but made sufficient test to convince them that they have something good. The poorest ground, says MT. Cooper, averaged s1.3O per yard, which in it. self is good pay.
 There will be four men on the job during the coming season and the op- orators hope to take out good clean up.
 As yet nothing definite has been learned with respect to the operation of the cache creek dredge, which was operated last season by Englehorn and associates until the breaking of spudder caused a shutdown, but it is rumored that the same outfit will have the dredge next season.
 Jim Murray is we'll set up with hy- draulic and tailing stacker on Cache creek, near the dredge headquarters camp and should have good run next season.
 Talkeetna promises to be a busy place about March 1 when the Cache creek, Peters creek and Fairview district operators and prospectors be- gin outftting for the summers opera tions. With improved road conditions i provided by the Alaska Road Commis- sion, 'freighting costs will be materi ally reduced and greater convenience be given to operators who have pio- ! neered the region and proved it one of the best in AlAaska.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-03

system of bureaucracy than it did prior to the adoption of the experiment. point to any section of the United States that has Jagged far behind, are willing to drop the subject and follow the suggestion of the Times that scrap the fundamentals of Amercanism and throw ourselves upon the mercy of the State the cient serfs threw themselves upon the mercy of their lords and masters.
 And in passing why educate children if the op- portnity awaiting them is confined to accepting days pay job from the government the big corporation that IS beneficiary of the governments bounty?
Evening star., 1927-05-28
Red i'm the Current Fashions
BY MARY MARSHALL.

-frocks that you may wear at the
seashore, at the mountains, at the
country club. There are impertinent,
informal little frocks of red chiffon or
georgette for dancing that seem some
how guaranteed to bring dance part
ners to the shyest girl
After all, we may be wrong in feel
ing that red is all wrong for Summer.
Poppies bloom in the warmest wealth.
er and hold their heads up gayly in
heat that would wither the lightly
tinted blossoms of Spring.
One thing you should remember in
connection with these red things for
Summer. They may be worn with
really good effect in the country-at
the shore or other resorts-but they
really are out of place and a little
painful in the city. The American
who visits Paris is warm weather con-
cludes that the Frenchwoman usually
wears black or subdued tones in SUM-
mer-later she may visit Deauville or
other popular resorts and conclude
that no women like eolors better than
the French.
Red is, or ought to be, considered
color of youth. There comes a day
in the life Of every woman after which
she ought bravely to stif1e any banker
ing she may have to wear this fiery
color. After that time a red frock or
a red hat will make her look much
older, faded, foolish. But the age va.
ries with the individual. Some women
ought not to wear red after they are
2O-some can wear it to their grand.
children's weddings.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-05-28
SUB ROSA
By MIMI.
By MIMI.
Loves Three Rs.

There are schools for almost every
thing. so WHY shouldn't there be a
school for love? I'm sure the men
need some instruction along this line,
for while they are willing enough, they
don't know just how to make love.
Probably such love instruction would
be a correspondence school, letters
and all that.
The little old red schoolhouse didn't
have all the up-to-date courses, but
it was strong on the three RS. After
the boys and girls were duly instruct
ed in those important branches, they
were ready for the crossword puzzles
and all that sort of thing.
Well, there are three RS to love,
and the man or girl who is going to
learn love will have to take the little
red schoolhouse as his model. I know
we are terribly sophisticated in these
days, but no amount of psychology
can take the place of elementary heart
instruction, and the human heart
doesn't always work the way the book
on psychology tells us.
The first love r is respect. I know
that sounds old-fashioned, but so is
love, and SOS your old man. We may
think that modern love means snappy
conversation and q great depth of So
in it, such love will end in nothing or
something worse.
In the case of the girl, the r of re-
spect is specially important, for we
girls are living at such pace and
dressing in such a way that men find
1t hard to respect us, and then they
never try very hard, anyhow. But un-
less we can gain mans respect and
have a Romeo who is a gentleman, we
aren't going to inspire any more love
than there is flame at the hot end of
cigarette. Love without respect will
be an awful smudge.
The next r of love is reciprocity,
or the $3.50 spirit. 1 know we are in
the habit of thinking of ''1over" as a
term of the masculine gender, but it
takes two to make that greatest of all
bargains-love; that is. there must be
love on both sides. There's lot of
underdone love in the world now.
Love means lovers, in the plural,
and not in one heart alone. Man may
talk about his feelings, for mans nat
urally q brOadcaster and auctiOneer,
but girl can and should have set
Of feelig to match. Heart to heart
and throb for throb-that's my idea
Of love which reciprocates.
Rapture is your third r. Unless
there is enough of glow to light up
the porch or parlor, love is futile.
When people respect each other and
reciprocate their respective feelings,
rapture Is all right. Love would be
all wrong without it.
Rapture means romance. It's the
thing that wrote the love poems in the
days of chivalry and the love stories
which were bought and read before
these atrocious love magazines began
to pile up on the newsstands.
Romantic love is not as popular as
it used to be, but there is no. reason
why we shouldn't keep it up. Why
not start the Ancient Order Of Romeo
and Juliet? The three RS could be
the open sesame to the gate of loves
court.
If you lack any one of the RS, try
to dig it up out of your heart. If you
are shy on all of them, better give up
the love game and take up golf.
Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries
directed to this paper provided a stamped.
addressed envelope is inclosed.
Copyright. 1927