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Evening star., 1927-04-20
SOCIETY
Luncheon Party at British Embassy
Today in Honor of England Former
Premier, an Embassy Guest

I,arner Gore and Miss Sallie Hews
Phillips, who entertained in the lat
ter's home The company, which
numbered So, Is remaining through
the afternoon to play bridge. The
guests are Mrs. Frederick A. Henney,
Miss Lydia Archbold, Miss Lila Tuck
erman, Miss Betty Ridsdale, Miss
Mary Page Julien, Miss Helen Clifford,
Miss Nancy Hamilton, Miss Georgiana
Joyes, Miss Inger Bryn, Miss Betty
Ives, Miss Helen Galley, Miss Eleanor
Hard, Miss Louise Fitzhugh, Miss
Dorothy HILL Miss Louise Randolph
Miss Martha Waldo, Miss Mary Earle
HoXton, Miss Virginia Richardson,
Miss Sallie Durand Lewis, Miss Alice
Cults, Miss Elizabeth Jobe, Miss Elz.
abeth Riley, Miss Cecil Lester Jones,
Miss Jessie Sellers of Philadelphia
house guest of Miss Gore; Miss Hester
Laning, Miss Louisa Turpin, Miss
Elizabeth Preston, Miss Mary Howard
Kerr, Miss Jane Dunbar, Miss Caro-.
lyn Chamberlain, Miss nlrbara Boss,
Miss Dorothea Richards, Miss Fran
ces Hopkins, Miss Florence Marlatt,
Miss Margaret Yard, Miss Mary Brad
ley and her house guest. Miss Emily
Ecker; Miss Eleanor Smith, Miss
Christie Jones, Miss Harriet Stearns
Whitford, Miss Juliette Carpenter,
Miss Helen Strauss. Miss Fannie Dial,
Miss Mabel Meade, Miss Francesca
Mckenney, the Misses Heilmann,
Miss Marguerite Orme and Miss Idan.
thea Moffatt.
Maj. and Mrs. Asa NJ. Lehman will
entertain at dinner at St. Marks
Club this evening. Later they will
take their guests to the April hop at
The naval attache of the French
embassy and Nine. Willm will enter
tain at dinner this evening.
The charge d'affaires of Egypt, DR..
Moussa. was host at dinner last eve-
ming, having as his guests the Minis.
ter of Persia, Mira Davoud Khan
Meftah; the first secretary of the Ger.
man embassy, Herr Emil Weihl, and
Mrs. w. Harry Brown.
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock will enter.
tain at luncheon in the garden res.
taurant at the Carlton Hotel tomor.
row following the last of the series
OF lectures by DR.. Louis X. Anspacher.
The lecture will commence at 11:30
o'clock.and will be preceded by half
hour concert by the Royal Rumanian
dL IL U
Mrs. Dimock viii have among her
guests at luncheon the Ambassador of
Brazil, Mr.. $. Gurgel do AmaroI; the
Minister Of Czechoslovakia. Mr..
Zdenek Fierlinger; the Minister OF
the Irish Free State and Mrs. Smiddy:
the second counselor of the Italian
embassy and Nine. Catalani; the naval
attache of the British embassy and
Mrs. knothe; the commercial coun.
selor OF the British embassy and Mrs.
John Joyce Broderick: the counselor
OF the Netherlands legation, Jonkheer
DR.. van Asch van Wyck; Nine. Alfaro,
wife of the Minister of Panama; the
counselor Of the Austrian legation
and Baroness Hauenschield: Senator
Thomas Walsh, DIR. David f. Mitchell,
former president OF Cumberland Uni.
versity; Mrs. Huntington Williams Of
Baltimore, Mrs. Edward T. Sanford,
wife of the Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court; Mrs. Hope Slater,
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hostess at luncheon today at the
Washington Club in compliment to
Mrs. William Cummings story, for
mer president general Of the ". s.
d. A, r.
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Brilliant Polo Ball
Enlists S0ciety's Attention.

President Coolidge, Vice President
Dawes and the Secretary of War, Mr..
Dwight F'illey Davis, headed the list
of patrons for the Army polo ball last
night, an annual Springtime event.
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Box Partles Of Interest.


Box parties added unusual interest,
all of those surrounding the large ball.
room being taken.
The Ambassador of Spain and Sonora
de Padilla occupied a box and had
with them their daughters, the Seno.
ritas Padilla.
The Ambassador of Cuba and Sonora
de Ferrara were hosts in their box to
the counselor of the embassy and
Sonora de Altunaga. the first secre-
tary and Sonora de Baron and Sonora
de la Tore, sister-in-law of the Am.
bassador.
The Minister of Persia, Mira
Davoud Khan Meftah, was among the
guests of Mrs. Charles Boughton
Wood, who also had with her Miss
Mary Morgan and Maj. Reginald Fos-
ter of New York.
The Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
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the ball showed its popularity as an
annual feature by receiving the most
important guests from each one at
some time before o'clock.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20

prevent a flood of cheap labor inun-
dating this country from less favored
lands. | regard the Johnson act, pro-
viding us with this protection, as one
of the greatest achievements of con-
gress in recent years.
eve should also realize the menace
to all our people in the present de-
pressed condition of agriculture.
Every effort should be made to remedy
this condition and to give to the farm
ers their fair chance for happiness and
prosperity in the world. We should
be prompted to take this stand not
only through feelings of justice and
humanity, but also because we should
realize that if the small farmer can
no longer support himself and fam
lily and is compelled to abandon the
field for the factory, that another in
fux of labor will come to the cities
which will unavoidably be brought in
competition with the working men and
have strong tendency to undermine
the present high standard of wages
and living enjoyed by the toilers."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
INJUNCTION JUDGE
IGNORES CONTRACT

Chicago.-Federal Judge Wilker-
sons injunction against locked-out
employees of the White Printing
House, and his disregard for a con-
tract that does not expire for two
years, again calls attention to The
shameless use of equity powers by
courts.
The White concern is a Delaware
corporation. The management ignor-
ed its contract, replaced the 44hour
week with the 48-hour week ana de-
clared for the anti-union shop When
employees protested against this flag
rant violation of written pledge,
they were enjoined by Judge Wilker-
son.
This court issued the nationwide
injunction against shop men in 1922
at the request of Attorney General
Daugherty.
There are several injunction judges
in Cook county, but unionists are of
opinion that these jurists believed it
unwise, in view of the judicial cleo
ton next month, to make the injunc-
tion plea of the White management a
state case. 1t would be necessary to
pay attention to the injunction limi-
tation act, recently passed by the Illi-
nois legislature, but which has been
disregarded by some of these jurists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
REMEDY FOR CRIME
SOUGHT IN VAIN

New York-No general panacea"
for crime has been discovered, but
several preventive and remedial agen-
cies were recommended by speakers
who addressed the annual New York
city conference of charities and cor
rection.
In urging living wage, Rev. Will
liam A. Courtney said: "Crime is the
price we must pay for living in tre-
mendously congested areas filled with
temptations"
Miss Jane Hoey, of the New York
state crime commission, said the COM
missions study Of two New York city
areas had disclosed that bad housing,
overcrowding, the forcing Of children
to play in the streets and of youth to
seek its recreation in poolrooms and
motion picture theatres contributed
to Juvenile delinquency. i.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
Communist Cloakmakers Stronghold Falls;
Union Soon to Regain New York Buildings
new YORK JUDGE
EnjOins Lockout of Union
Plumbers

BY International Labor News Service.
New York City.-Instead of grant
ing an injunction in favor of en-
ployers, the usual order in injunction
proceedings in labor disputes, Su-
preme Court Justice Churchill re-
versed the process and enjoined the
employing plumbers from locking out
members of Bronx Local 463 of the
Plumbers Union.
Justice Churchill said the strike of
plumbers in Brooklyn which precipi-
tated the lockout in the other bor-
oughs was legal as the agreement had
expired If the union men won that
strike, he said, it would benefit men
working in other boroughs as well.
He held the lockout in the Bronx to
be violation by the employers of an
agreement banning strikes and lock-
outs
''The Brooklyn strike was lawful, y
y uSJlCe 0HuIClllll Sdlu, llie dREe6IneHl
with the union in that borough hav-
ing expired, but the agreement in
Manhattan and Bronx was still in full
force and effect and the lockout was a
plain violation of that agreement, the
essential purpose of which was to
avoid both strikes and lockouts and to
require arbitration of disputes be-
tween the employees and their en-
ployers.
'The agreement promises wages
equal to any that may be paid else
where in the city. If the Brooklyn
strike for higher wages succeeds it
will therefore benefit the members of
the plaintiff union at the expense of
their employers. But that is a con-
sequence expressly contemplated by
the terms of the agreement. The
lockout is an unwarranted attempt to
nullify this provision of the agree
ment."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
Tells of Unions Policy

eve direct attention to this because
the public in general is not aware of
the fact that it is the policy and prac-
tice of the building trades organiza-
tions to admit to membership in the
unions only skilled, efficient mechan-
les. Skilled workmen will invariably
join the union of their craft, because
their membership means better wages
and working conditions for them, with
the result that practically all the nom
union men working at building con-
struction are in the class that can
not qualify for membership in the
unions because of lack of skill
"Skill and efficiency is not only es-
sential, but indispensable to economic
management of building construction.
In competent workmen at lower wages
are expensive as compared to compe-
tent workmen at higher wages. Skill
means efficiency and lower cost of
constructions Lack of skill means
higher COSG OI COIlSJIu anu OlJeH
unsatisfactory work. In the construc-
tion of your building the economy in
employing competent labor is clearly
demonstrated by saving of so large
sum of money.
Skilled WOrkmen Required
"Modern building construction re-
quires skilled workmen for successful
and economic operation, fact which
R. C. Wieboldt Company recognizes.
The company has learned this from
actual experience, when some years
ago it tried to operate with non-union
help and tried it long enough to be
convinced that its business could be
better and more profitably carried on
with union help.
"There is reason! 1t costs less to
operate with union labor and assures
delivery Of satisfactory job"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
University Head Pays High
Tribute to Work of Union
Mechanics on New Buildings

By international Labor News Service
Chicago.-An extraordinary exhibi-
ton of good business management
coupled with high quality of skilled
union workmanship, enabled the R. c.
Wieboldt Company, Chicago con-
tracing firm, to make such remark
able showing in the construction of
two additional buildings for North
western University that Walter Dill
Scott, president of the university, was
prompted to break forth into paens
of praise of union labor and of the
contracting firm, which had refunded
the sum of $153,872 after completion
of the job.
President Scott, on behalf of North
western University, and Secretary
Treasurer Charles H. Sand, on behalf
of the Carpenters District Council of
Chicago, exchanged some verbal bou-
quets through the medium of CORE
spondence. as a result of the incident.
Impressed BY Good Workmanship
President Scott said in letter adj
dressed to Secretary Treasurer Sand:
During the construction Of the
building on the McKinlock Campus /
became impressed with the high quail
ity of the workmanship that was ap-
oil I Il
impressed that | felt the university
should recognize it. Accordingly. !
posted upon the buildings typewriter
statements in which | expressed my
appreciation and my desire that each
workman on the buildings should
share in the benefits of the buildings
/ therefore had cards printed and
signed by me and delivered, SO far
as possible, to each workman on the
job. This card guaranteed to the
workmen preferential service during
the present year in all medical and
dental clinics that are housed in these
buildings.
"The type Of service rendered by
union labor on these buildings is the
greatest possible argument that can
be rendered in favor of unionism.
want to thank you, and through you,
the unions which have co-operated in
creating this great medical center in
the city of Chicago"
Sand Explains Union Efficiency
Secretary Treasurer Sands letter to
President Scott was an excellent brief
and argument for union labor. lie
said:
"When good general is successful,
he usually gets all the praise and
credit, and his army gets little or no
credit. You have been fair enough in
your statement to say that the actual
work was done so efficiently and care
fully that the contractors were able
to save this large sum of money.
That is a fair and fitting testimonial,
both to efficient management and eff
cient workmanship
'It is unusual that contractor re-
turns any money to the owners, and
equally as unusual that the owner, in
a public statement, acknowledges the
efficiency of the men who performed
the actual work which made the saw
ing of this large sum of money pos
sible We take keen interest in your
statement because this job, on which
this large sum of money was saved,
was done exclusively by union men,
and this is the first job done on the
campus exclusively by union labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
Fishwick Assails Unfair Rates

Peoria, Ill.-Freight rate discrimi-
nation that enables Kentucky and
West Virginia non-union operators to
carry their coal to the Chicago mar
ket and the West for less per ton
mile than from the unionized mines of
Illinois, is the cause for the decline
of the Illinois ana central competi-
tive field, was the charge made by
Harry Fishwick, president of District
II, United Mine Workers of America,
in delivering his keystone address at
the opening of the district convention
in this city.
President Fishwick charged that the
Interstate commerce commission
since the war had brought about the
present deplorable situation by
throwing to the winds it former pol
icy and has initiated series of in
creases and decreases on the rates for
the carrying of coal that has disturb
ed the differentials and the stabilized
condition of the industry.
Every single decrease of freight
rates on soft coal has been of advan-
tage to the non-union fields south and
east Of the Ohio river" he continued.
and every single increase of these
freight rates as ordered by the COM
mission has been directed against coal
produced in the so-called union fields"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20

By international Labor News Service
New York City-The Kremlin of
the communist cloakmakers has fallen,
a bit of paper signed by judge be-
ing the instrument of their dispos-
session. Foreclosure proceedings for
non-payment of taxes and mortgages
have begun against three properties,
the largest, the joint board building
which was the stronghold of the GUST
ed communist joint board. 1t is val
ued at nearly three-quarters of mil
lion dollars. While attempting to
win the revolution on the sidewalks
of New York, the communists failed
to meet 1925 payment on mort
gage.
They have not yet been routed by
the "minions of the law" and it is
expected there will be something of
a hullabaloo as the devotees of the
Third International are separated
from their fortress. Soon it is ex-
pected the international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union will regain pos
session of the properties by purchase
at foreclosure sales.
On two smaller buildings, the prop
erty of the reorganiZed Locals 2 and
9, foreclosure proceedings have been
filed by the Bowery Savings Bank and
the Mutual Life Insurance Company.
A receiver has been appointed to col
lect all rents for 9he joint board
building.
Communists Split Bosses
The Committee of one hundred
organized by communists to win Glib
erals" and wealthy radicals to their
aid has proven to be a fzzle. The
counter movement organ
lied by the committee for the preser-
vation of the trade unions has now
the satisfaction of having routed the
bolsheviki in all the needle trades
Will one CACcpLlOI lie OuSIeU JOlHl
board of fur workers has won vic
tory with the splitting of the employ
ers, and small group Of fur trim
ming manufacturers is now aoing
business with the communist joint
board. In these shops the gangsters
employed to terrorize union men
found refuge. Other considerations
also helped to win these employers
to an alliance with the ousted joint
board.
Comment is now general whether
the revival of trade unionism in the
New York needle trades can restore
the full vigor of these organizations.
The losses from communist leader
ship are nearly $3,OO0,OOO cash, the
destruction Of the unemployment in
surance fund in the cloak industry,
over $1,00O,00O; foreclosure proceed
ings against properties worth another
81 600, 900, two disastrous strikes, the
dilution Of trade union morale, a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
Rathbone and Miners Head
Attack Freight Rates Which
Favor Non-Union Coal Fields

By international Labor News Service
Chicago.-Every effort should be
made to convince the interstate COM
merce commission that it is seriously
in error in its policy as to freight
rates on coal, which are discrimina-
tory as between union and non-union
fields, is the opinion of Henry R. Rath-
bone, congressman-a t-large from Illi-
nois, who gave expression to his views
in an address delivered over Station
VIGIL, the radio broadcasting sta
tion owned by the Chicago Federation
of Labor, at the formal opening of
the stations new studios.
Congressman Rathbone's views are
especially worthy of consideration and
should carry weight by reason of the
fact that he was chairman of the sub
committee of the house of represen-
tatives during the last session of con-
gress which Investigated the prices
of coal during the recent anthracite
coal strike.
Assails Discrimination
"The fact was forcibly brought to
my attention that the union coal fields
of the Middle West, among which Hi
nois is included, are placed at very
serious disadvantage in competition
with the non-union coal fields of West
Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia in
the matter of freight rates." he said.
Il feel strongly that every effort
should be made to convince the inter
state commerce commission that this
discrimination, which is working SO
injuriously to the unionized coal fields,
should be done away with and that the
union miners, as well as their employ
ers, should be placed at least on
plane of equality with the non-union
coal industry"
Mr.. Rathbone also touched upon the
immigration question, the agricultural
situation and the almost forgotten at
ICIiiPG w QGllelIS IdDOl. Sll bllC9C
subjects he had the following to say:
eve hear no more at the present
time of 'defation of labor being
necessary. To attempt to lower the
standard of living of the toilers of
the nation would not only be unjust
and inhuman, but it simply would not
pay. Employer and employe alike
would suffer. The high standard of
American wages and living must be
maintained.
Praises Johnson Act
Experience also has shown that in
order to maintain the present level of
wages and living immigration must be
restricted and the barriers raised to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
Anti-Reds Making Progress
But Big Revival Of Genuine
Trade Unionism is Needed

weakening of union loyalty and faith
All of this is attributable to dropping
of the safeguards, particularly that of
labor journalism in New York only
five years ago.
Communist propaganda, mainly
through their press in an incredibly
brief time nearly destroyed the work
of a generation of constructive work
ers. No permanent barrier to their
temperance has yet been raised.
Reform May Be Transitory
Labor in New York when aroused by
the appeals of national trade union
leaders ousted the communists. 1t is
a matter of common knowledge that
this reform will be but transitory un-
less labor interest can be revived per-
manently. A labor journalism that
will reach the unions and weld them
into one is the only practical solution
that can safeguard the sprawling and
inherently powerful New York labor
movement.
"The Collapse of the Needle Trades"
is portrayed effectively in The Nation
by Benjamin Stolberg, discerning
critic. He attributes the communist
mania, first to the effort to place a
Russian revolutionary ideal in Ameri-
can industrial life, and campaign of
madness and "psychiatric mud-sling-
ing" against trade union leaders which
the rank and file believed. He reviews
the dismal failure on the part of the
communist leadership to appreciate
the unions advantage from the pro-
posals of the governors commission;
the calling of a strike "never more
incompetently, irresponsibly and
wastefully managed" by vacillating
leaders whose strategy was deter
mined in daily communist caucuses
and the final extinction of communist
dictators who refused to ''collaborate"
with the governors commission but
who ended by collaborating with a
non-union employer and a profes-
sional gambler to settle the disas-
trous 25 weeks strike.
Future Still Uncertain
Can the needle trades come back?
After the brutal communist expert
ment this is a difficult task. The
cloakmakers seem to be on the road
upward. The fur workers still have
bitter trials ahead. The future of la
Dor in New York is by no means cer-
tain unless there is genuine rever-
sal of trade union spirit from within
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
Why do lUe support
Community Chest !?

Because believe in building character feeding the hungry
clothing the Naked healing the SICK teaching the ignorant
supporting and educating the orphan strengthening the
weak, consolng the sorrowng lifting up the fallen
Because this is ob and if busy with other
affairs to attend to ourselves provide share of
the fund necessary to it's accomplishment
Because believe that brothers keeper and that
the strong must help to bear the burdens Of the weak Be-
cause it is through the agency of the Community Chest that
most systematically nteligently economically and
efficiently contribute to these purposes.
Because want to discharge least measure
obligation to the community in which live pay debt
to civilization and express gratitude to the Gver Of
every good and perfect gift.
Because will not be negligent in the unendng warfare
against ignorance, poverty, disease and crime.
For sake for the sake of business for the
of families for the sake of the community for the sake
of civilization and for the sake of God afford
to have part in the work Of the Community Chest
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20

New York.-Bruce McRae, one of
Americas best known actors, is dead
after six-months' illness. He was
vice president of the Actors Equity
Association, affiliated to the A. F. of
L. During the Equity strike, few
years ago, which involved all New
York theatres, he took prominent
part.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-05-20
Praises Johnson Act

Praises Johnson Act
Experience also has shown that in
order to maintain the present level of
wages and living immigration must be
restricted and the barriers raised to