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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
RUBBER WORKERS
Strike FOils Slash in Wages

Montreal. U. L. N. S.)-Celebrat-
ing much advertised year of prog
ress and prosperity" the Dominion
Rubber Company attempted to slash
wages in it's factory here. The first
slash caused 100 girls to strike; in two
days they were joined by another 1000
factory workers.
The upshot was that the company
took back its employees at the old
rates, the workers agreeing to wait on
the decision of a government arbitra-
tion board.
Minimum wages for girls in the
rubber factory are $13 per week;
those on piece work are able some
times to make $18 or $40.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
PRESIDENT NAMES
RAIL DISPUTE BOARD

Washington. - Acting under the
railway labor law, the president has
created a board to investigate and re-
port to him within 80 days regarding
the labor dispute on the Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient railroad.
This is the first time since the law
went into effect, more than a year ago,
that it was necessary to invoke the
provision for the creation of an
emergency board, which acts when a
dispute cannot be settled by media
ton or arbitration.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
CAN'T COLLECT DAM
AGES

Grand Rapids, Mich.-Circuit Judge
M L. Dunham rejected $4,000 dam
age claim by non-union restaurant
owner against the Painters Union
and the local Federation of Labor.
The defendants distributed cards in
which the plaintiff concern was class
ed as unfriendly to organized labor.
"This is not an unlawful interfer-
ence with business" said Judge Dun
ham,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25

employees in the longshoremen's and
harbor workers compensation act.
Employees engaged in agriculture, do
mestic employment and casual work
are exempt.
The amendment, proposed by Sen
ator Blaine, is compromise in a
long fight for the Fitzgerald bill,
urged by organized labor, which pro-
vided for state compensation, and the
Underwood bill, which favored private
compensation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
CITY INSPECTORS
ORGANIZE UNION

New York City. Q. L. n. S.)-City
inspectors have organized a union, the
Allied Department Inspectors of New
York, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. William C.
O'Donnell, president of the organiza-
ton, has issued a statement telling
the public of the financial "predica-
ment" of the inspectors. The aver
age salary, he said, is $1,998 a year,
compared with $2,760 in Chicago and
ZOO in Newark
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
BUILDING COST SOUGHT

Washington.-An investigation to
determine how much labor and ma
terial enters into buildings of all
classes is sought by the United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The in
quiry has started in Washington and
will be extended to other cities. Gin
cinnati and Decatur have already been
selected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
WILL URGE LABOR LAWS

Portland, Ore.-Labor injunction
relief, free textbooks and reintroduc-
tion of the federal child labor consti-
tutional amendment will be urged by
unionists when the state assembly
convenes. Candidates are being ques-
toned on their attitude toward these
issues.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
UNIONISTS WARNED THEY
CAN'T SPLIT INTERESTS

B Boston.-Trade unionists who firt
with Communists will find themselves
outside organized labor, said William
Green, president A. F. of L., in an
address to the convention Of the In
ternatioal Ladies' Garment Workers
Union. The speaker was cheered by
unionists who recently ousted these
"reds"
IF in the struggle between trade
reaches the point where the latter
unionists and this destructive force it
gains control, then the last step will
be taken. The charter of the union
will be revoked" said President Green.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
LOW WAGES IN SOUTH

Washington.-An average wage of
1884 for work week of Az hours
in the seasonal cotton-ginning indus
try is reported by the United States
bureau of labor statistics.
Cotton gins separate cotton seed
from the lint
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25

Oil and power have been showing
the country what could be done by
gentlemen who had appetite enough
and cunning enough and force enough
Oil, through Doheny and Sinclair, ran
away with loot that would have
staggered the old time pirate princes.
They are still getting away with the
long end of things in their contests
with the courts.
Power has been showing how it
could WELD and mould and twist pub
lie opinion by feeding the sources of
news. That it has been able to put
its propaganda into the public schools
in text book form is surely nothing
less than amazing. 1t is astounding
for its boldness and brazenness.
America has got to do something
about its great corporate powers
There can be no question about that.
Corporate power, left to it's own sweet
devices, soon turns to the use of pow
er for the sake of extending domain
just like any power, be it corporate,
military or what-not.
The more quick-shooting among us
will revert to the battle cry of the
nineties and howl for trust-bust.
ing, corporation-sma compete
tion restoring program.
But that is the bunk. 1t is foolish
to go out and smash a serviceable
machine pust for the sake of restoring
pre-machine conditions. It's like go
ing back to the sickle and fail, i
there be any who remember wha
those primitive implements were like
| Corporations are useful. That ha.
been proved. Modern industry an,
commerce cannot function without or
ganization. Corporations are organ
lizations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
WOMEN'S LAW VIOLATED

Globe, Ariz.-The manager of the
Woolworth 5 and 10 cent store was
fined $25 for working girls overtime,
in violation of the state women's
eight-law law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
BARRIERS WANT MORE

Hamilton, Ontario. o.-Organized bar
bers in this city demand wage in
creases. The present scale is nine
wears old
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25
EXTEND COMPENSA-
TION

Washington.-Th senate has in
cluded District of Columbia civilian
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25

They match our spinet
desks perfectly-they are
the correct chair for so
many odd and empty spots
and corners in the home.
They are $3.50 values, only
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-05-25

In mahogany and walnut, SP
also acquer finishes,
Some in this assortment u
have wrought iron bases I'D
and decOra ted tops.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26

pubicans who doesn't like the farm relief record Of
the republican party and its candidate. He was chair
man of the North Dakota delegation to the republican
national convention and there took an active part IN
the futile effort of the farm bloc 10 prevent Mr.. Hoo
ver's nomination. But unlike some other farm belt
republicans who fought Hoover before he was nominal
ed and then discovered that he was the Moses VINO
could lead the farmers out Of their economic wilder
ness, Governor Maddox holds to the same opinion he
had when he went to the Kansas City convention.
HENCE he Is for Smith and rightly considers that for
the time being this places him in the democratic camp.
He declines to be placed in the anomalous position OF
running for governor Of North Dakota as a Smith re-
publican"
Such a literal nindedness might be considered
strange in states where political labels are handed
down from father to son, but ii is not particularly
strange in North Dakota. In that state Of adventurous
politics men openly and unhesitatingly follow the party
which comes closest to fitting their views on the issues
of the hour-or they strip off all party labels If none
is to their liking. This is not a condition which makes
for strong party organizations, but neither does it pro-
duce such incongruities as we are witnessing here in
Texas, where politicians are fighting with all their
strength to help the republican ticket but protest in
~dignantly against being classified as republicans.
One may safely assume that in turning dmeocrat
Governor Maddox isn't deliberately sacrificing his
chances Of reelection. No doubt he anticipates that A
majority Of the voters. though the state is normally re-
publican. will feel no forbidding repugnance to scratch
ing the republican ticket. North Dakota has only five
electoral votes and hence cuts very little ice in the
national election. But IL Governor Maddock's desertion
Of the G. o. P. is a reliable symptom Of political feel
ing in the farm belt, the incident has an undeniably
important bearing on the outlook for November.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
changing Conditions in Mexico

. a result Of the goodwill visits in which the
s'"ooi children Of Matamoros and Brownsville recently
paeeo' many residents of Brownsville learned
= = ilrst time that in Matamoros the public school
has adopted a system very similar to that of the Amer
i" schools and that educational progress in recent
years has been remarkable.
'aatamoros Is merely one of the mary cities in Mex
leo where similar educational activities are apparent.
throughout the states Of TamauIipas, Nuevo Leon,
vera Cruz Pueblo and the federal district the Ameri-
-" system OF education is being adopted. A large part
I the state and federal revenues are now devoted to
the erection and equipment OF school buildings and
providing SALARIES for efficient faculties.
Less than a decade ago many Of the Mexican cities
hsu no public schools. and such public schools as were
Ia existene were Of the most mediocre type. Scores
OF cites now boast public schools. established and
maintained upon the American plan, which have
reached a very high degree of efficiency.
Portes Gil, provisional president-elect Of Mexico.
recently stated in a public address that Education IS
liberty" In that cryptic sentence he expressed the
fundamental cause Of political discomfort and lack Of
individual and national progress. In those three words
he expressed more than all the orations Of would-De
political leaders who strive TO incite to revolution by
appealing to ignorance and prejudice.
Education is the only avenue to liberty and indie
%pendenee; and recognition of this fact by those leaders
who hold the destiny Of the nation in their hands and
who. apparently, are sincere in their efforts TO inn
prove the conditions of the masses, indicates that n
the not far distant future Mexico will take her place
among those progressive nations where education
stands as the guard Of liberty and justice.
No nation in the world today is making more rapid
progress in the building of an educational system than
Mexico. The influence Of the schools is very apparent,
especially in the larger centers of population, and in
all parts Of the southern republic development Of in
dustries and natural resources and sterilization of the
government is bringing to the Mexican people an era
Of peace and plenty such as never was experienced dur
ing the years when that country was torn by revolu-
tion and internal strife.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
The World and All
OF I

A girl came into my workshop this morning with
skirts Of the customary shortness-you wouldn't ex-
actly call it length, would you? Anyway, they were
just a tiny triflc above the knees. Above the entire
knees, | mean. And the stockings weren't nearly as
thick as consomme.
Both knees were artistically and modernistically
decorated with intriguing splashes of that bright red
substitute for iodine that has come into general use
for wounds and scratches.
The way that red splash talked was. I admit, dis
concerting. The young woman was trying to tell me
about a Turkish lady who lectures about several inter
esting things, but ] could hardly hear her.
At length I made bold to ask whether my caller had
been in a very bad accident, and how many were killed.
She probably felt sorry for my ignorance, so she told
me she had been struck by a bicycle while crossing
Broadway.
But ! am wondering whether we are in for a season
Of mercurochromed knees to add to the colorful aspect
Of our streets and subways this winter.
in a Fifth avenue department store | served a half
hour among those disconsolatc men who wait near the
front doors. each one so apologize in appearance.
Which reminds me that department stores should de-
wise some way to amuse the men near the doors while
the women do their own shopping. Post the scores Of
the games, the race results, or the stock quotations, or
get them to examining neckties. A little lecture on
shaving and the relative merits Of various razors would
take the embarrassment away.
I saw in a showcase some smokers supplies, and
thought here might be some finds for Christmas. I
asked to see a little rose-quartz figure of an elephant.
The elephant seemed to be sitting up and holding a
shallow container for your ashes. The whole figure
was not more than six or eight inches high. and was
all in one piece. The price quoted me was 1926. Two
hundred and nine.y-five dollars. in case you don't get
Il from the figures the first time.
Looking about, I found a hundred or more Of these
rose-quart. ash receivers, in various forms. A very
small one with a dragon figure was fifty dollars, and
the simplest little saucer, no bigger than an individual
butter dish. was ten dollars.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
Curb Fire Menace

There is no greater menace to our national progress
and prosperity than fire. Each year in America this
DESTROYER takes ten times the amount It takes IN
Europe.
II i estimated that the loss by fire IN 1926 averaged
abou, 1900, 600 daily, reaching a total for the year OF
s5sO 600 600. The rapidity Of increase Is shown by the
f.c, that ten years before in 1916, the loss was about
sa5s s77. s52. less than half of what i Is at present.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy Of this waste Is that
:, IS practically entirely preventable. European coun-
tic. have demonstrated this with strict building codeS'
;ns,ections and laws holding the owner OF properly
which has sustained a preventable fire guilty for any
a.w.re done 10 his neighbours property. as well a. ms
ow, without allowing him insurance indemnity.
I, may be questioned whether European preventative
u..,hods would be either practical or acceptable IN this
country. This, however. is a minor issue Inc point
!. hat fire Is Observation-Disclosures state that aS
- - sn cent Of fires are unnecessary-and the
--oa,rs, waste must be blamed entirely on ourselves
fire prevention week is just past. various PUBIC
-. rr;vate organizations. throughout the nation nave
- Iaudable efforts to educate the public on aDoi-
IL fire risks, and have taught practical prevention.
i Ell advantage was taken of the opportunity and tne
.-..hircs ARE carried out during the coming months
:. ill mark another milestone in our progress.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
By CHARLES r. STEWART

BY CHARLES r. STEWART
Corollary: A consequence; obvious
dcduction.-Funk & Wagnalls Die
toaary.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 26.-we may
az we'll get acquainted with the
"corollaries" now as later-the Mon
roe Doctrine "corollaries."
The senate is sure to be batting
them around most Of next winter.
As soon as the solons take I'd the
Kellogg peace treaty-the one in
which America and some 20 or 90
other countries propose TO "renounce
wal as a national policy"-as oon as
the senate takes up-to ratify il, or
chuck IL in the waste baSket-then
we shall begin 70 hear about the
"corollaries"-ohl a whole lot about
them.
The Kellogg treaty is not actually
in effect. understand.
The different countries respective
foreign ministers. like Secretary kcl-
log. have signed il; il still remains
for their various congresses, parlia-
ments. assemblies, diets, tags, skuot-
chinas. sobranjes. or whst-not-such
as our senate-to ratify ID, 10 make
IL binding-if 50 hazy an agreement
can be considered binding at all.
These assorted legislative bodies
show no enthusiasm about going
ahead with the job until the senate
has acted favorahly on il.
And no wonderl mayhe-consider-
ing how the senators fooled them
on the Versailles treaty and the
League of Nations-lettinc the rest
az the world ratify both propositions
for all they were worth. and then
giving them both the air. here in
Washington.
But the "corollariesi"
Well. the Kellogg treaty Is regarded
~ senatorial circles as nj least
harmless to the United States-ex-
cept possibly in one detail. Quite a
few senators are afraid il hints that
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26

/ say to you that one Of every three deaths among
American citizens could be prevented il the utmost IN
intelligent health education we're attained. The figure
is astounding, of course. Think Of saving 100000 lives
a year in this great nation Of ours!
But the men who sit at health administration desks
and scan the death certificates know how many Of them
carry the tragic story Of a life lost that should have
been saved.
So ! say that our aim shall be to sell health. The
Lord promised to man, in the Old Testament: "And mis-
days shall be an hundred and twenty years" We
should strive TO give him his biblical quota, and let
him have a century of life. at least. And while We
add years to his life, let US be sure to add life to his
years. and make them hale and vigorous.
Moreover, we should add lives to the nation by saw
ing babies, preventing epidemics. by carrying our
knowledge of health giving and life saving measures
to the humblest citizen Of the lowliest hamlet in the
land.
In a hundred years in our country the death rate
has been cut in two. The credit for that. in my opin-
ion, is in great part, due to public health activities and
publicity.
The same means by which those countless lives were
saved are in your hands today, but they have not been
used TO anywhere near the extent possible. We must
continue striving ever more vigorously in tuberculosis
and cancer control. and in other new medical re-
searches. But il we just apply the methods that are
now generally known to be life saving and health pro-
ducing, as many lives can be saved in the next two
decades as we're saved in the last century.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
=

like trying to buy a reserved seat
in heaven.
After several visits to the Park
way. his final hope short Of hiring
a ballroom or a hall. he az last OBJ
tanned an interview with the house
manager. Abe Lengel. a h~awk-nosel
individual who regarded him with a
sour look and wanted to know his
purpose in renting the house.
TO show a picture, Ben told
him.
Mr.. Lengel did not seem at all
interested.
"October's a biz month he said,
shuftlirg some papers on his desk.
i got propositions from three mu-
steal shows right now. ready % guar
antee me six weeks"
"I1l guarantee you that" Ben re-
piled. with a certified check"
Mr.. LenEel relit his cigar with a
cynical smile.
THE rental Of this house" he
said. in~pressivelv. Ills forty-five
hundred a week. flat-lights. house
crew. everything else extra. II
ought n be five thousand. On q
gross OF twelve thousand. a forty
per cent. we get forty-eight. II a
show does twenty. We get eight
Thousand. ! amt advising Mr.. Van
Austen to take any more flat rentals
You must think you got n pretty
nifty film. young Teller. TO tall
about laying down a certified check
for twenty-sevcn thousand bucks
right off that bat. What's the name
Of this here new production ?"
(T0 BE CONTINUED
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26

A Dallas automobile dealer has raised q pertinent
question: Can the people Of the United States afford
TO expend more on cosmetics and other artificial aids
to beauty than upon development of highway systems?
The Dallas man holds that the American girl or
woman, with few exceptions, needs no artificial aids
to beauty. why should the United States, which
boasts Of the beauty Of its women. waste ~S5,000,0OO per
day in a fruitless effort to make them more beautiful?
is his plant.
Statistics recently published reveal that the United
States expends something like sl.s25 100000 for beauty
aids, and treatments, and about s400,000-000 is invested
annually in good roads.
"If those expenditures we're reversed, this would be
the most attractive country and we would have the best
system of highways in the world the Dallas complain
ant states. sour women don't need aids TO beauty. W
like EN- crude, without the unnecessary cosmetics and
other fol-dee-rols which American femininity consider
necessary. But We do need more and better roads, and
/ would suggest that more money be invested in CON
crete and less in face powder and rouge"
There Il food for thought in that assertion. The
development Of the immense resources Of the nation
i dependent upon highway. rail and water transporta-
ton. and surely the United States has sufficient wealth
to spare at least as much for highways as i does for
beauty aids.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
Washington Letter

We must not fight even for the Mon
roe Doctrine.
Secretary Kellogg says IL hints NJ
no such thins-that it distinctly per
mits defensive warfare"-and that q
fight for the Monroe Doctrine. on
this country's part, would be "de-
fensive warfare" any day.
Nevertheless, ome senators are
not satisfied.
The suspicion In that these sena-
tors, before voting for the treaty.
will insist on a clause putting teeth
into the Monroe D~octrine-and its
'corollaries."
The European governments would
stand for it.
They have swallowed 10 mach az
that ooctrine-and its "corollaries"-
that they are not likely TO gag az
anything at this late day.
The Latin American republics are
different.
The doctrine itself. TO be sure. Is
NH right by them. Substantially. IL
simply mskes the United States the
new worlds general protector against
old world aggression-which, even
though unsolicited, j. friendly.
But-the "corollaries"?
There are several OF them-ths
Grant "~corollary." the Olney "corol-
larry" the "corollaries" of Root and
Hughes.
Assembled. they signify
america will not permit an old
world power 10 do anything which
might seem. IN reason. TO Justify m
old world power in resorting to bull
doing tactics"
Also
america claims the right TO do rs
she thinks best in the new world-to
maintain protectorates in Cuba and
Panama. to impose prohibition on
Porto Rico and the Virgin Isles, 20
intervene in Haiti and Nicaragua,
and the like"