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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-13

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
PLOT TO Aid
Prison Labor Exposed by
Iowa LabOrite

Des Moines, 1owa.-John C. Lewis,
president Iowa Federation of Labor,
refuses to join with the Board of Con-
troll of State Institutions in star
chamber meeting to whitewash prison
contract labor practices.
The trade union official has led or
ganized labor's attack against the
board because of violations of the
prison contract law The board noti-
fled Lewis to appear and give testi-
mony in the matter, but Lewis de-
clined after he was refused the priv
ilege of having a stenographer or an
attorney. The meeting was to be held
behind closed doors.
1--WE will be glad to present before
the proper tribunal" said Lewis, call
the evidence we have or may obtain
as to the making of said contract. We
do not propose to permit you, in star
chamber, extra-legally created by you,
to try yourselves, preside at your own
trial, sit as jury in your own behalf
with verdict written in advance of
the trial. That is not the way we
have been taught that public business
should be done in Iowa and in Amer
ica"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
Miners Do Their Share To
Stabilize Coal; Next Move
Up to Operators and Public

In some districts the operators have
shown a stiff-necked attitude and have
refused to meet the miners in joint
conferences. For the most part, how
ever, operators have shown some signs
of giving the union a decent break in
the settlements yet to come. just how
it will materialize remains to be seen.
In Indiana the operators have de-
cided to revive their defunct coal as
sociation so as to treat with the min
ers as a unit. The district union has
named a scale committee and will, in
due time, extend an invitation to the
operators to joint conference. This
conference in all probability, will not
be held until after the Illinois oper-
ators and miners settle their differ
ences. Homer Talley has been elected
Talley is now en- route home from Eu-
rope. w. H. Spears was chosen as sec
retary of the association, taking the
place of Philip Penna, who resigned
as secretary few weeks ago after
having served as that executive since
the founding of the association.
1t is expected that negotiations in
the various districts where the union
has jurisdiction will be under way OF
completed by August Is or perhaps
earlier
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
BY C. s. GARRISON

Indianapolis, Ind, Q. L. N. 81
While there have been no new agree
ments reached between union coal min
ers and operators on the basis of the
new policy of the United Mine Work
ers, in which the former Jacksonville
scale is to be ignored, it is generally
believed that new contracts will be
formulated on the basis of Sc day
or slightly more. Pending the final
wage settlement all mines, if they
operate, will work under the Jack
sonville agreement.
For a long time there has arisen a
cry from the coal operators and the
public that something be done to sta
bilize the coal industry of the country.
1t was declared that wage rates,
freight tariffs and selling prices, as
we'll as mining methods and tonnage
volume were out of tune with the gen
eral industrial scheme and that all
factors in the industry must take steps
to correct these things. Well, the min
ers have taken such action in the mod
ification of their wage policy and made
a gigantic contribution toward coal
stability. 1t is now up to the operators
and the public to meet the miners half
way in this procedure.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
BLANTON LOSES
SENATE FIGHT

Washington. - Congressman Blan
ton lost his fight for the United States
senate, and the fiery Texas anti-un-
ionist passes out of the legislative
picture for at least two years, with
the end of the present congress, in
March, next year.
Blanton has been in congress II
years. This year he elected to run for
the senate and was hopelessly beaten.
Blanton joined the anti-union move
ment that swept the country follow
ing the World War. Poindexter of
Washington and Myers of Montana
were daily urging their colleagues in
the senate to make strikes a criminal
offense, Governor Allen 70 Kansas was
touring the nation to popularize his
notorious anti-strike law, and news
papers and pubicists joined in the cry.
Organized labor fought off these
foes until the public realized the men
ace of Handwriting workers to their
employment.
Blanton capitalized this outcry and
his attacks on the trade union move
ment were both numerous and vicious.
In those days he was known as
"Bleating Blanton." Later, as public
sentiment shifted, he changed his pol
| icy but not his principles.
He is an able parliamentarian and
fought many single-handed fights in
the house. His best piece of construc-
tive work was when he drove from
public office commissioner of the
District of Columbia whom he exposed
as grating on helpless war veterans
who are confined in local hospital
for mental incompetents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10

cent better off in his living than he
was in 1913. In other words, his hour
ly wages would buy 1872 per cent
more of the necessities of life than i'm
1913.
Slight Rise After 1922
Cost of living dropped in 1921 and
in 1922, and rose comparatively little
up to 1926. In 1926 with wages per
hour 129 per cent higher than in 1913,
cost of living was only rs per cent
higher than in 1913. Thus in 1926 for
his hour of work the worker could buy
30.7 per cent more than he could in
the pre-War year, 1913.
Between 1926 and 1927 cost of liv-
ing dropped about L 1a per cent.
In general, the labor union member
Jared even better than the average
worker. The building, printing, stone
and other organized trades working on
time rates did not suffer wage cut
in 1920 and 1921, but did in 1922 when
the wage dropped from more than
twice the rates of 1913 to a trife under
twice the rate of 1913.
From 1922 union wage rates stead
| lily increased up to 1926 and again in
1927. In 1926 wages per hour of these
organized workers We're $50 per cent
higher than in 1913 and by 1927 they
were $50 per cent higher Cost of liv-
ing in 1927 was 72.7 per cent higher
than in 1913. Thus the organized
worker had a 43 per cent higher real
income in 1926 that in 1913, and d
80 per cent higher real income in 1927
than in 1913.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
FIRE FIGHTING
Firm Wars on Union Ma
chinistS

Elmira, n Y.-The Central Trades
and Labor Assembly protests against
the local Chamber of Commerce de-
fense of the American La France Fire
Engine Company in its war on the
Machinists' union. The company man
ufactures fire apparatus, and the un-
ionists request organized labor every
where to acquaint their city officials
with the union attack.
"The members OF the international
Association of Machinists," the union
lists state, were negotiating with this
company for nearly year in an eff
fort to avoid an open break, only to
be told by company officials that they
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
Buying Power Of Hourly Pay
Gains in Race With Living
Costs, Government Reports

Washington, d. C. CT. L. N. 81
The purchasing power of hourly wages
gained on the cost of living from 1922
to 1926, according to the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics of the United States
Department of Labor In recent
statement the Bureau reported that
wages per hour steadily increased
from 1922 until in 1926 they were 129
per cent higher than the pre-war year
of 1913, whereas the cost of living was
only rs per cent higher than in 1913
"Thus," says the bureau, "in 1926
for this hour Of work the worker could
buy 30.7 per cent more than he could
in 1913"
Wage at Peak in 1920
Wages were at their peak in the
United States in 1920. A combination
of all wage data available, exclusive
of agriculture, made by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics shows that in 1920
wages per hour were 134 per cent
higher than in 1913. The depression
of 1921 brought the average down and
it dropped still lower in 1922, but in
1922 wages were still more than twice
as high as in 1913.
Since 1922 there has been a steady
increase in wages per hour until in
1926 wages We're 129 per cent higher
than in the pre-war year, 1913.
While wages were high in 1926, 50
was cost of living In 1920 cost OF
living was 109 per cent higher than
in 1913, but because of the higher
wages the worker was still 1872 per
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
By JOSEPH A. WISE
international Labor News Service

Chicago "open shoppers" OF
Illinois have made disgraceful mud
die of their plans to continue the war
fare against organized labor carried
on by them for SO many years under
the leadership of John M. Glenn, sec
retary and chief lobbyist Of the Hi
nois Manufacturers Association, who
died last spring shortly following the
primary election.
Glenn was two-fsted fighter who
conducted his warfare in the open
Organized labor always knew whom
it had to contend with while he was
alive, and trade union officers respect
ed his candor and straightforward
ness even when the battle was raging
most violently.
Glenn Always Game
Glenn was game. Defeated at ses-
sion after session of the Illinois Leg
islature, he would always bob W
again, ready to take another licking.
The "open shoppers" put up the
money, sat tight and let Glenn carry
on the fight against the unions in his
own way and about as he pleased
When he died there was no one ready
to step into his shoes, as he apparently
was without an understudy.
In this dilemma the big corpora
tions and financial interests which haC
! furnished the sinews of war to Glenr
for so many years turned to theil
high-priced attorneys to work out aso
luton. These corporation lawyers arr
responsible for the objectionable blum
ders which have been made. The.
thought that they could obtain th'
results desired through stealth ant
trickery that Glenn had failed t.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10

will operate their plant on the anti
union basis. The company refused to
deal with the machinists' committee
or representatives.
THE shops are manned by strike
breakers living in the premises. VIII
your city get good fire protection from
apparatus built by this class of la
bor? Is your money as taxpayers to
be spent to fight your fellow unionists
in Elmira?"
The trade union1sts insist that Ell
mira business men ignore the long
peace campaign by citizens who see
their places filled by imported strike
breakers. Union sheet metal workers
and molders have also been discharg-
ed. p sAsA
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
DOUBTS IF PUBLIC
RESPECTS LAWYER

New York.-Federal Judge William
H. Atwell of Texas does not accept
the view that laymen revere lawyers.
At a luncheon of the Federal Bar
Association, the southern jurist said:
81 do not share the view that the
profession of law is honored or re-
vered by laymen, either now nor in
the past History shows that it has
been weighed and found wanting.
really think that the public disgust
at the administration of law is trace
able to the unethical conduct of law
yers."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
Illinois "Open Shop" Gang Makes Middle
OF Drive to Put Over" ConstabuIary

far have refrained from identifying
themselves with this latest maneuver
of the "open shoppers" are the mil
lionaire bootleggers. The latter gen
try seemingly believe that it would
call for too great sacrifice of THEN
self-respect to join the "open shop
band of virtue, purity, sweetness and
light.
The open shop" corporation law
yers would do we'll to try to peddle
their gold bricks in more promising
market The Illinois labor movement
has had too much experience Will
city slickers and their confidence
games.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
FAVOR POLICE PENSIONS

St. Louis Missouri trade unionists
are supporting a police pension bill,
which will be submitted to the refer
endum at the November election.
Citizens of this state favored con-
stitutional amendment authorizing
the law by a majority of 246,184 in
1923, but the state legislature failed
to act
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10
Deceitful Campaign of Big Interests Fails to Fool Organ
lied Labor, Which Sees Crime Investigation Willy
Scheme to Promote State Police Force.

achieve through square-toed fighting.
Trickery Fails to Score
These high-priced legal gentlemen
got together and built Trojan horse
which they attempted to wheel into
the labor citadel The labor sentries
on the watch towers have detected the
ruse in time, however, with the result
that confusion and disorder have been
thrown into the open shop" ranks.
The Trojan horse misnamed the
Illinois Association for Criminal JUS
tice-has turned out to be Frank
enstein
AS previously related in these col
umns, the first important announce
ment as to the future policy of the
! Illinois Association for Criminal JUS
tice was a declaration in favor of a
state constabulary system.
open Shoppers" Show Nerve
The insiders of the association, after
double-crosing trade union officers
who had lent hand in forming the
association, about two years ago, then
had the nerve to ask cooperation on
"other matters" after it had been
made plain that organized labor had
no intention of abandoning its opposi-
ton to the constabulary proposal in
any form for emanating from any
source whatsoever.
1t also was pointed out that ar
open shopper" disguised as an uplift-
er pretending to be an advocate fol
criminal justice looked just the same
as member of the Manufacturers
Association in his true guise as a bad
man from the Wicked Mountains. II
was a case of Tweededee and Tweedle.
dunn.
With honeyed words the corporation
lawyers engineering the Illinois Asso-
citation for Criminal Justice have beer
|trying to beguile organized labor into
forgetting all about the state con
Istabulary proposal and to go along or
Fifteen or twenty other things" as
stated by Rush c. Butler, president OF
the association, in an interview with
i International Labor News Service.
i Stand by Constabulary Proposal
i Asked whether it is the intention
of the association to stand by the state
constabulary proposal, Mr.. Butler an.
swered:
"Yes, that is pretty well settled"
Mr.. Butler did not explain how il
would be possible for organized labor
to straddle and stultify itself in the
: manner he suggested.
Other association leaders assume
: the same attitude.
The interlocking business and finan
cial interests backing the Illinois AS
: sociation for Criminal Justice in it:
stand for a state constabulary system
. represent hundreds of millions of dol
lars in capital. Included are big man
: ufacturing enterprises, railroads, bank
ing, insurance, coal, iron, steel, pack
ing, wholesale and retail traders, bro
kerage houses, the bar and universit!
leaders.
: Outstanding Lights in Gang
: Some of the outstanding leaders ar,
an internationally known Board o
Trade gambler, railroad attorne.
and former diplomat, the worlds mos
notorious "rat" employing printer an,
Chicago's most distinguished loal
shark, who has succeeded in widel,
advertising himself as ''philanthro
pist."
About the only men possessing i'm
portant money hereabouts who thu
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10

Nothing is easier than fault-fnding;
no talent, no self-denial, no brains,
no character are required to set up
in the grumbling business.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-10

A successful business agent wears
out the soles Of his shoes instead of
the seat of his trousers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS.

The National committees of the political par ties are saying less and less about the maximum limit of the 1928 campaign funds In the be- ginning Chairman Work set the limit the Re- publieans would need at $3.o00,O00 His latest statement the subject and that was some time ago. that they would want $4,OOO,- 900 fund. While the Democrats have not made any estimate of the total amount they would need they have been even more active than the Republicans in getting in the money With the appointment of Charles Hayden chairman of a committee to raise Republican money in New York we may expect contributions to be coming in faster for them in the future. This suggests that only once since 1892 has the election failed to go to the party with the largest campaign fund and that in 1916 when the Hughes fund next to the largest raised, $3,S29,0O0. If contributions that diverted to the New York and other State Republican organizations were taken into account the funds that were subscribed for Hughes would be much larger The Wilson fund that year was $1 95s, 900. The largest cam paign fund ever raised was that for Harding in 1920, $5,319,729
 recent compilation places the amounts expended in the National campaigns in each Presidential election beginning with 1896 and terminating with 1924 is follows:
 1s96-M Mckinley, Ss,5oo,oOo Bryan,
 $67 5000
 1soo-McKinIey $2,5oo, ,ooo; Bryan,
 s425,0OO.
 19O4-Roosevelt, $1,900,OOO; Parker,
 $70O,0O0
 19os-Taft s1s55,51S; Bryan,
 $900,0O0.
 1912-Wilson, s1,130,OOO; Taft, s1,-
 070,000; Roosevelt $670, ,00O.
 1916-Wilson, $1,95s,OOO; Hughes,
 $3,S29,O00.
 192O-Harding, S5,319,729 Cox, $1,-
 31S,374
 1924-Cooidge, $3,O63.952; Davis,
 $903, ,90S; La Toilette $221.977
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27
THE RIGHT TO AMERICA.

A prominent K. K. K. agtator, giving req son for suppressing the Catholics in the United States, declared that the country first settled by Protestants and therefore Professionalism should prevail in it. So! Who first settled in Mary land? In Florida. Mississippi and Alabama? In Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri? In Texas New Mexico, Arizona and California? How about Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas and the other States included in the Louisiana Purchase?
 Some of these States were settled in before the English arrived at Jamestown or the Puritans at Plymouth
 The fact is that all of our citizens have right to be here. The right was recognized by the Colonial Fathers and is protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and the best thing we can do is to try to get along together, recognizing one another's rights as citizens and being friendly and neighborly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27
Plain Talk from Georgia.
(New York Times.l


 Mr W. T. Anderson, editor of The Macon Telegraph, temperance man, not a prohibition ist speaks frankly and honestly to the ''crusad- ers, to whom a phantom prohibition is so sacred. He was talking the other day to three newspaper men in Mississippi. To his surprise he found them all sincere prohibitionists although they drink whiskey and SCOUT every community where they go to get whskey."
 Drys of this kind common everywhere Common enough is his experience. Before prohibition he never drank any whiskey. Since prohibition he has taken a great many drinks of it, because it is present and plentiful and It has become such social practice that one is somewhat out of step if it is declined"
 The juries that try moonshners buy moon- shine "The better class of citizens" violate the Volstead act at their pleasure. We all claim for public reasons that we prohibitionists and privately sneak around and violate the law ' By breaking the taboo and telling the truth about prohibition MT. Anderson must have com mitted a much more heinous cffense in the opinion of crusaders, than a mere violation of the law.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27
Vote Winning First.
(Kansas City Post l

We do wish political leaders wouldn't frankly discuss the matter of adopting policies calculated to win votes. Such conduct makes it appear that our leaders take political success into considera- ton instead of concerning themselves solely with high ideals.
 We have long thought the other marty wou,d stoop to this but have believed that our party was actuated solely by high motives and that it's leaders would give no thought to such thlng as securing votes. Now we wonder if it can De possible that both parties actually allow themselves to be influenced by what vnters in this or that section may think of certain issue.
 It really is beginning to look as if even our party thinks twice of victory to where it thinks once of exact justice, so we are half a notion to go through this campaign without faiing out with any of neighbors who are on the other side
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27
Bears Must Give Way to Livestock.
Seward Gateway.

Civilization is reaching eager hands toward the open spaces of Alaska and bear which furnish amusement for rich huntsmen must give way be- fore an advancing army of livestock raisers who are about to preempt the haunts of the wild denizens of hills and dells of Western Alaska islands. Especially is this true of Kodiak Island that is now practically taken up under homestead grazing lease applications and where 500 families should be established within the next few years
 When it comes to a question of bear or sheep taking up room on Kodiak, I'm for the sheep, said Jack McCord, who is helping to develop the livestock industry along the islands stretching towards Asia where thousands of miles are declared to be available for year-round graz ing Mir McCord brought the subject up at the last meeting of the Seward Chamber of Commerce in an effort to work out a plan of action in CO., operation with the Kodiak Livestock Association looking to the control of the bear menace as against the growing livestock interests taking hold in that vicinity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27

The importance of the pulp and paper busi- ness might be judged by the circumstance that the International Paper Company has developed and under process of development in Canada and the United States more than 100000 horse power, with a prospective capacity of 5000 900. Of the 5,000,000 potential horse power 2,600 900 is hydro-electric and hydraulic and the remainder comes from central steam plants.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27

The circumstance that the National Govern ment is about to erect a new million -dola r. tomb for him suggests that Sun Yat Sens sun set too soon. If he had been able t6 command the sun to stand still he might have participated in the glorifcation the triumph of the cause he served so long. Let us hope that his spirit is enjoying the tributes that are being said to 1t.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-27
STRATON SIMPLY AT OLD TRICKS.

The Rev. John Roach Stratons attack on th character of Gov. Smith is not the first time pr Straton has performed in that manner and it i not the first time when he has got the wors of a controversy with a public man. The fol lowing self-explanatory dispatch appeared in recent issue of the New York World under |, Norfolk, Va, date of August 8:
 The Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton who has attacked Gov Smith, made sim liar charges while he was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Norfolk against Judge o. L. Shackleford and muni- cipal officials, all of which he was forced to retract when he was sued for libel
 Dr. Straton preached sermon de- claring Norfolk was filled with houses of prostitution and other forms of vice and that authorities were being paid to protect them. He accused Judge Shackle- ford, then Commonwealth Attorney of being in league with police who were receiving protection money
 All this happened in February, 1919. and about the time A. G. Backus convicted of bootegging and sen- tenced to jail Backus was a friend of Dr. Straton and the preacher De- titioned Gov. Westmoreland Davis for a pardon. The Governor refused par- don unless it recommended by Shackleford. Tine attorney declined to make the recommendation and it was then that Straton printed circular accusing Shackleford of being in cahoots with the police. whom he charged with protecting operators of vice houses
 Dr. Straton also wrote book which