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Evening star., 1928-05-28

Especially designed for boys, to s, are
these wash suits-fashioned of broad
cloth, crash and linen-in smart styles for
dress and play. One may select from a
wide selection of plain and fancy patterns.
DOWN STAIRS STORE
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
A. F. OF l. COUNCIL
Meets to Determine Policy
for National Political
Fight

Atlantic City, N. j., 0. l. N. S. y
With politics the big issue of the hour
the Executive Council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is meeting
here under the presidency of William
Green.
While no action has yet been taken
it is the general presumption that the
Council will decide to present the an
alysis of the major platforms and the
records of candidates, advising labor
voters to draw their own conclusions
1t is pointed out that this is the true
practice of the non-partisan policy OF
the American Federation of Labor
which was emphatically reaffirmed
after the LaFollette campaign. in
which labor officially deserted botf
major parties and backed the Wiscon.
sin senator.
Secretary Frank Morrison said there
was nothing else, aside from a con.
siderable volume of regular and ro,l.
tine business, to occupy the attention
of the meeting, giving politics cleal
path for thorough consideration.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
is TROUBLE LOOMING?

Don't wait for the change in pro-
duction and distribution; it's here
right now; the crisis in our industrial
and financial affairs is in the max
ing" says l. NJ. Ornburn, president OF
the Cigar Makers international I'm
ion, writing in the official magazine Of
that organization.
"This condition is caused by the
revolutionary introduction Of labor
saving machinery and powerful dis.
tributing agencies" said Mr. Ornburn
1--WE are producing more than we can
consume, and creating prosperity
which is daily adding to the distress
of the growing army of unemployed
This condition can not go on indef-
nitely.
"The situation is more serious than
the World War in its consequences
upon the future Of mankind. The new
order will not adjust itself. This prob
lem is the concern of all right-minded
men and regardless of sta
tion or calling. We must find a solu-
ton or meet trouble just around the
corner"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
STRIKES DECLINE

The United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics reports that fewer strikes
occurred in 1927 than in any year
since 1916, when the bureau began its
regular compilation of strike data.
The peak of industrial unrest was in
1917 when 4,450 strikes and lockouts
were reported. Since that time, with
some fluctuations, the number has
steadily declined, and in 1927 but 734
strikes and lockouts were reported.
The number of employees involved
lin cases where this is known) was
greatest in 1919, involving 4,160,34s
employees. In 1927 there were 349, ,434
persons so involved, which was some
what larger number than in the year
before (329,592).
The principle causes of dispute are
in the order named, wages, recogni-
tion of the union, and hours of labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

These fine men are deserving of all
the laurel crowns that can be given
them.
But American simpletons, sentiment
mongers and goofs, who seize upon
the heroism of the Russian rescue ex-
pedition to make an argument for
American recognition of Russia show
that while men of every. race may be
brave, it is also true that men of every
race may be fools.
If there is any relation between the
conduct of government and the con-
duct of some of it's individual mem
bers history has not made it clear
There were heroes under the czars
and there were plenty under the Ma
poleons and Caesars, There were he
roes in Royal France, though her po.
iticdi lHsIilutlols were decduehl
There were heroes and knaves. Amer.
lean democracy does not make all mer
wise, nor does soviet autocracy rof
all Russians of the inherent and ad
mirable qualities of their race.
Let us be fair and dignified in pay
ing homage to the brave, but let IL:
not spoil it all by getting silly Over
it. This exploit has not changed the
soviet despotism in any respect. 1t i:
as brutal, as tyrannical, as hateful il
August as it was in May.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
THE SMASH-THE-U UNION IDEA

Following the change of policy on
the part of the United Mine Workers,
the big mine owners of Pennsylvania
announce that they viii continue to
have nothing to do with the union
Their aim is to smash the union. Well
there can be no doubt that this was
their aim from the start. Mr.. Andrew
Mellon and his pals no longer have
even shred of camoufage to get be-
hind. But will America in 1923 stand
for this barbarous idea? 1t remains
to be seen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
"REDS" AGAINST
SHIPSTEAD

Duluth.-Communists in this state
will nominate a candidate against
Senator Shipstead, who has been re-
nominated by the farmer-labor party
and indorsed by organized labor.
VIM. Z. McEwen, veteran editor of
the Labor World, points out that the
"reds" played with the farmer Labor
party and pretended they favored soli-
darity. They fought Shipstead's nom
ination, and when they were defeated
they threw off their sleeps clothing.
Editor McEwen handles the revolu-
tionists without gloves. He calls
them "vassals of Moscow" and says
"they are doing exactly what expert
enced union men long ago predicted
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

ING conditions that then existed and
provided that both parties should as
semble "the second Monday of Feb
ruary, 1927, at Miami, Florida"-or
two weeks before the expiration of
the Jacksonville agreement-to con-
slider a new contract.
Prior to the Miami meeting the
Pittsburgh Coal Company, the Con-
solidation Coal Company, and other
"key" coal producers, broke the Jack
sonville agreement and declared fol
the anti-union shop.
The Miami meeting was fruitless
Coal operators refused to renew the
jacksonville agreement. Some of them
claimed wages should be based on the
non-union fields of West Virginia and
Kentucky.
The miners suspended work through
out the country when the agreement
expired, on March 81, 1927, and have
continued on strike since that time.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, announced OF
July 10, that the Policy Committee Of
the miners voted that each district car
negotiate wage scales.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
UNEMPLOYMENT
FORCES DOWN
FARM WAGES

Washington, d. c. I. L. N. 81
Wages of all classes of farm labor are
below wages year ago, the index of
the general level of farm wages on
July this year being placed at ITO
per cent of the pre-war level as COM
pared with 172 per cent in July last
year by the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, United States Department
of Agriculture.
The lower level of farm wages, says
the bureau, is probably due to the
larger supply of farm labor availbale
this year. Supply expressed as per
cent of demand is 105 for July / as
compared with 100 year ago. The
larger supply in turn, the bureau adds,
is probably explained by the much
lower volume of industrial employ
ment in the cities which has prevailed
during the first six months of 1928,
thus releasing more labor for the
farms.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
WE MUST NEVER FORGET

We must never forget-never for
get the men and their associates who
did their utmost to reduce labor to a
bargain-counte commodity; never
forget that the courts We're made for
men and not men for courts; never
forget that legislators for state or
nation are but the Representatives of
the citizens, in duty bound to enact
such laws as shall make secure the
freedom Of all our people and be in
furtherance of their rights and in
terests.
There must in justice be no law,
formulated by judge or lawmaker,
which can deprive a wage worker of
his exclusive ownership of himself, or,
in other words, of those rights over
his own labor which are guaranteed
by the constitution and the concepts
of liberty implied in the fundamental
principles of our republic.
There must be an end to the un-
tenable doctrine that right pertain
ing to an individual singly becomes
wrong when exercised by him in
combination with other individuals
legally enjoying the same right singly.
A. F. of L. Convention Declaration,
1910.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
HALF HOLIDAY
For Half Million Women Backed
by States Attorney

Albany N. Y.,-Attorney General
Ottinger has frustrated an attempt to
nullify the women's Saturday half
holiday in this state. More than 500,-
600 working women are affected
Employers were working these en-
ployes nine hours a day, five days in
the week, and six hours on Saturday
The effect of the additional employ
ment on Saturday virtually destroyed
the intended half holiday.
There is no such thing as an 'au-
thorized' regular nine-hour day for
five days." said the attorney general
THE authorized regular workday for
women is eight hours and they can
be worked nine hours a day regularly
for five days only so that they may
be given four and one-half hou1
short day. If they are not to have
the short day of four and one-halt
hours, all hours beyond eight on the
other days is overtime
"The law contemplates the protec-
ton of women workers against such
long hours of employment as would
impair their health.
Its manifest design is to grant
them the Saturday half-holiday, which
is only possible under a four and one
half hour day on the last day of the
week. / am confident that any abuses
heretofore committed in violation of
the statute will be peremptorily
curbed. Common decency demands
that the law be observed in letter and
intent"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
CHANGING CONDITIONS

In the early union days the main
argument of the union was one of
force-the strike. Force was neces-
sary to establish the fundamental
right of status. Employers would heed
no other argument. AS records and
fact finding developed we began to
realize the direct and indirect costs
of force and the wisdom of exhaust
ing all other methods before resort
ing to the strike. Fundamental changes
have taken place in industry that
make it much greater hazard for
workers to go out on strike. Unions
are necessarily compelled to find new
ways of protecting the rights of their
members and advancing their inter-
ests. Instead of relying wholly on re-
fusal to work unions must be ready
to point out mistakes in policy or
method by argument and acts to con-
vince management and then outline a
substitute of policy. However the
fighting spirit, refusing to accept in
justice is just as essential to progress
as ever.
Instead of evaluating union ac-
cording to standards of militancy in
terms of fight we judge it by its re-
sourcefulness in making suggestions,
its intelligent strategy in determining
when and how to act, its efficiency
in advancing the interests of its mem
bers, the services it renders its mem
bers by its ability to counsel its mem
bers in cooperating for more efficient
production. Such a union is virile, re-
sourceful, efficient, militant" in the
use of facts and experience, dedicated
W tllC eidFailISlIlcIL VI wage GdIIlCIo.
1t undertakes to secure for its mem
bership an ever increasing share in the
products they help to manufacture so
that they may share more fully in
the progress of civilization. This un-
ion helps to extend the solid basis of
national wealth.
Such union is not a weakhng. 1t
is dealing with new problems and
conditions in ways that will be eff
fective-as a person puts away things
he has outgrown, so this union seeks
more effective policies. Even as a
nation must if necessary, have the
right fo self defense, so the union must
always reserve the right to strike.
It's strength, however, will rest with
the conference, constructive sugges-
tions and cooperation for efficient
production in order to have the ma
terials for higher standards of living.
-Ex.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

Central American Utilities and repre-
sent an investment of $S00,000. The
purchase by the Foshay interests, in
corporated for this purpose as the
Central American Power Corporation,
was made at a net, sound depreci
ated valuation of $727,0O0, free of
incumbrance except for a $4,000
mortgage.
Previously Nicaraguan railroads
and banking operations have come un-
der American ownership and control.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
LET US NOT BE SILLY ABOUT
RUSSIA

A big Russian ice breaker, manned
by a brave Russian crew, has been
winning the plaudits of the world
through its rescues in the great polar
wastes. Where Mobile, from one land
of despotism, came to grief as lead
er and forsook the traditions of lead
ership, Russians, from another land
of despotism, retrieved the laurels.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
QUESTIONABLE Submitted
To Senatorial Candidates
By State Body and Answers

July u, 1928.
To Affiliated Organizations and Leg
islative Committees:
Greetings:
The Ohio State Federation of Labor
on July 21 sent to the candidates for
United States senator the following
| QUESTIONABLE, with a request that
they answer it:
| QUESTIONABLE
Are you in favor Of
| 1. Amendment of the Sherman anti
trust act, that labor, industry and
agriculture may develop along nor
NAL, constructive lines?
| 2. Legislation to define the juris-
diction of equity courts and prevent
the issuance of injunctions against
labor in industrial disputes?
3. The continuation of the present
restrictive immigration policy and its
progressive application as further
needs develop?
A. Constructive legislation for the
rehabilitation of the coal industry?
5. Advance planning of public
works to provide authorization and
Finances, SO that work may be initiat-
ed promptly as unemployment in
tcreases, and thus not compete with
demands for workers in private en-
lployment?
6. Federal legislation to enable
states to prohibit within their juris-
Idiction the sale of goods manufacture
led by convict labor in other states ?
Time does not permit us to print
and send to you for distribution
Iamong your membership, before the
lprimary, the records and answers to
1.-THE QUESTIONABLE. Our office is
therefore adopting this means of max
ling known to you the candidates
with statement as to whether they
Ihave answered the questionable and
as to whether the answers are salts
factory to labor:
Candidates for u. S. Senator
(Short Term)
Theodore E. Burton, Cleveland
REPUBLICAN. Answers satisfactory.
H. d. Cook, Ashtabula, republican
Answers satisfactory.
Jacob S. Coxey, Sr., Massillon, re-
publican. Answers satisfactory.
Charles Dick, Akron, republican
Answers satisfactory.
Graham P. Hunt, Cincinnati, demo
crat. No answers received.
Cyrus Locher, Cleveland democrat
Answers satisfactory.
Darlington I. Marshall, GAINESVILLE
republican Answers satisfactory.
Candidates for U. S. Senator
Long Term)
Simeon d. Fess, Yellow Springs
, republican. No answers received.
Frank F. Gentsch, Cleveland, demo
crat. No answers received.
Charles v Truax, Bucyrus, demo
crat. No answers received.
George White, Marietta, democrat
Answers satisfactory.
) Charles E. Wharton, Kenton, demo
crat. Answers satisfactory.
Thomas S. Wright, Lancaster, dem
ocrat. Answers satisfactory
You are asked to make known t.
your membership, as far as possible
the contents of this general letter tx
the affiliated organizations and tn,
Legislative committees thereof.
Fraternally,
lOHIO STATE FEDER'N OF LABOR
Thos. j. Donnelly,
Sec.-Treas. and Legis. Agt
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
THAT BROKEN AGREEMENT

The wage contract between miners
and coal owners, known as 'the Jack
sonville agreement" was signed Feb
ruary 19,1924. 1t covered Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and western Pennsyl-
vania and served as a basic wage for
other districts throughout the coun-
try.
The Jacksonville agreement was to
continue from April /, 1924, to March
81, 1927. 1t reaffirmed wage and work
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
BUSINESS FOLLOWS
The Flag to Capital of Mic.
aragua

BY International Labor News Service.
Washington, d. C.-First evidence
tervention in Nicaragua is seen
in the announcement just made
in Minneapolis that the w. B.
Foshay Company, of that city, has
bought the electric light, water and
ice systems of Managua, capital of
Nicaragua.
These utilities were owned by the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

they would do at the proper time"
'The honest, but fanatical, simps
who are falling for communist candi-
dates against Senator Shipstead and
Congressman Carss are being misled
by as crooked gang of pirates as
ever scuttled political ship" said
McEwen.
What the communists have done to
the fur workers in New York, and to
the miners in Pennsylvania and Ohio,
they are now trying to do to the
farmer-labor movement of Mime
sota."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
GLOSS OFF

Will remove the wearshine from
Ladies' and Gents garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
ing and Remodeling done at Kappel's
162 N. B street. Phone 2617-L
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

Another thing that causes to worry
about and lose sleep over is wondering
whether every couple who registers
as man and wife really are.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

When you tell some men anything
1t goes in one ear and out the other;
but when you tell some women any
thing it goes in both ears and out
her mouth.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

Why doesn't some one invent life
boat that will float on the sea of
trouble after the good ship matrimony
runs on a hidden reef?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03
CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR CHRIST
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RIGHT ATTITUDE:-O come, let
US worship and bow down; let US kneel
before the Lord our maker. For he
is our God; and we are the people
of his pasture.-Psalm 95:6, z.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

Look before you leap, else you might
have to support half dozen of her
relatives.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

If you're crank about the quality
of your bootleg liquor, just keep on
drinking it, and you will soon stop
kicking.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

Issued Weekly at 5zs Market Street
Telephone 1926 Hamilton. Ohst
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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-03

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1923
Evening star., 1928-02-09
AUCTlON SALES.
FATVKE WNHN-
ADAM 4 WESCHLER & SON. Auctioneers.

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BUiLbaNG IN REAR.
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"nss Of me pa,y seeursa sr thsrny tsr .,s the he
$%Ss s$i,@f THh !" ssS E
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and premises situate in the District Ut CO Co'
isIs"n % made no T BY .he s' heirs 81 &c" Of John
NIX f"os .1oa and lo3 Of the record. q
rolun,bia described - follows: Beginning
for the same on the line Of Ninth street mt
northeast corner of said lot and running
thence south along the line Of said street
ives, on the south line of said lot l"o feet
to an alley 30 feet wide thence north along
said alley 26 feet TO the northwest corner
OF said lot. thence east along Us" North line
Of The east line of he wall IF t!hs. brick
thence east and pnraii" with the north line
of said lot and through the. enter line Of
M sss 'fi1S" N"sS street t hse 10 % oace "f
Tsr"s q sale: The shose ,Drcpsr.y, , WIN ";
si3 500 ai 6h "a due February .. 1929:
balance cash. A deposit of $500 required
of purchaser at time Of sale. An convey.
aacing. recording and r":arial fees at cost
with within thirty lays from day Of sale.
otherwise the trustees reserve the light 10
reaell the nroperty, n: the risk and cost ot
thu defaulting purchaser. after five DAYS
advertisement Of su"h resale in some Eews-
naper published in :he city Of Washington.
u. G.
THOMAS Is. LAWf.ER.
feS-ead&ds exSu Trustees.
TH0s ]. OWEN son ATCTIONEERs.
Evening star., 1928-02-09
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four i.24l IN square nunbercd forty hun.
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meas IT 81 7so. and said properts WI r.
ness OF the purrhase prite over and alose
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In rssh and the baIanns in Two eanai install.
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af the option of tho purchassr lnteseei sni
taxes 2 hs raid cr 3inn..sn , 70 % s enires ns q,
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sale % be complied with within thirty days
from date Of sale. otherwise deposit VIII ne
forfeited and tho ,,roperty resold. ~ the risk
and cost .of ;h+ deiauitior purchase. after
son,s re xspaber published In Washington
gaAS:is sArI. ,w
WILLIAM BENSON
No h:5 18th 81 NV.
fe7d&ds exSu Trustees.