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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-08

aver 100000 people have
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drop of new scientific liquid deadens
pain in seconds - then dries up
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Inc, Chicago, U. S. A.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
PIECE WORK
Fought By Garment Work.
ers-WOuld Avoid
Strike

New York.-David Dubinsky, act,
ing president international Ladies
Garment Workers Union, calls on the
American Cloak and Suit Manufac
turers' Association to recede from
their approval of piecework
The union and employers are dead
locked over renewal of a contract
which expired June /, and the work
ers are striving to avert a general
strike.
IF contractors persist in their atti-
tude they will drag the industry into
chaos, the union with them," said Mr..
Dubinsky, who is substituting for
President Schlesinger, who is i'll.
The curse of our industry is lack
of organization and stability" said
Mr.. Dubinsky. "Piecework would
make matters worse"
The employers ask the union to
make piecework optional. The work
ers refuse to accept this sugar-coated
approval of system that would re-
store speedup systems and low
wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
FIVE-DAY WEEK is VITAL

For a long time the five-day week
has been a real issue. But now it has
arrived as recognized issue. Ma
chinery is coming SO rapidly, dis
placement is so general, unemploy-
ment so apparent, production so tre-
mendous, profits so swollen, that rem
edy is a matter not to be put off.
James w. Mullen, the able editor
of the San Francisco Labor Clarion,
puts the danger this way:
I've say to the captains of indus
try that the fve-day week must come
in the very near future. Without it
the American worker is in immediate
peril. Without the shorter work
week the toier will be idle and un-
able to purchase the products that
are turned out by his fellows that
are employed, and without a market
American commerce will be ruined,
and with commerce curtailed and
starving, American industry cannot
hope to prosper and succeed. A clear
view of the facts of the situation
ought to be sufficient to persuade the
masters of industry that it is also
to their best interest to concede the
five-day week, but if they cannot be
persuaded by logic, then, of course,
they will have to be moved by forces,
the force of public opinion and the
economic power of the trade union
movement. The five-day week is in
evitable. Let US have it peaceably
and without any discord whatever
Whether American industry is to
go on a fve-day week basis is no
longer an academic issue. 1t has
come down among the real things of
life. To argue against it is as fatu-
Gus and idle as was the late Judge
Gary's argument of dozen years
ago that the steel corporations could
not abandon the twelve-hour day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
CUBA LIBRE? YES,
LIK f ITALY!

Boss Machado, after gerrymander-
ing the constitution and running a
trick election with all opposition shot
to pieces or scared stiff, and with a
law that gave him the right to per-
sonally pick all party delegates, can
didates and platforms, has got him
self reelected president of Cuba for
six more years, ending constitutional
government in Cuba, as the best
Cuban lawyers declare. In the in
augural parade are some 10000
Cuban labor union" members of
unions that are as free as those in
Italy and Russia. What sorry spec
tacle! What shadow of that Cuba
Libre that burst into the constellation
of nations on a surging wave of
idealism and aspiration
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
STEEL-IRON TAKE
BIG JUMP

New York.-Profits for IA steel and
iron companies for the first three
months of this year show combined
increase of 105 per cent over the cor
responding period of 1928.
All of these companies are anti
union, and resist every attempt of
workers to unite that they may re-
ceive share of record breaking
profits.
Companies revealing net profits in
excess of S1,000,O0O for the three
months include United States steel
Corporation, Bethlehem Steel, Central
Alloy Steel, Inland Steel, Jones &
Laughlin, Republic Iron and Steel,
Wheeling Steel and the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company.
Profits of the steel trust, in round
numbers, was $42,00O,00O, against
$2l, 100000 in the first three months
last year. Bethlehem Steel jumped
from $3,O00,0O0 to $9,000,OO0, ana
Youngstown Sheet and Tube increas-
ed from $1,000,000 to $4,00O,00O.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
RALLYING THE GREAT MINDS

President Hoover has appointed his
commission to find out what's wrong
with law enforcement, not exactly a
crime commission, but akin to it. We
have another one of these rallying
of the great minds. The group of
appointees contains some outstanding
men of law, but it is not a notable
commission 1t does not give promise
of any notable point of view, though
there are on it two or three persons
whose individual views might be call
ed notable. If it be said that facts
arc wanted and not a point of view,
the rejoinder is that in social affairs,
in the law and in economic affairs
facts are largely relative and not
absolute. There must be a point of
view, at least part of the way. 1t
may be said that the commission is
good one, but not a notable one
And labor is just about out of it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

preme court slaps the interstate
commerce commissions face and de-
cides the railroads are entitled to
have replacement values credited to
them. In other words, railroad valu-
alton is not to be based on cost of
original construction, but on cost of
duplication. President Hoover doesn't
think this will mean higher rates, but
the farmers, clamoring for relief, are
by no means so sure. And how are
higher rates to be prevented, under
the present making laws? Who
answers? ?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1929
FAIRGROUNDS MEAN MUCH

Organized labor's stand for ade-
quate Fairgrounds and recreation
areas for children is strengthened by
facts made public in the American
City, published in New York. The
magazine reports that a decrease of
20 per cent in 25 years in the num-
Der of juvenile delinquents in Mil
waukee, Wis, although the population
doubled during that time, has accom-
panied the spread of supervised play
grounds which the city started at the
beginning of the period In Dayton,
Ohio, the report points out, the sec
tions of the city with adequate play
ground facilities show 80 per cent
less delinquency than the districts
which lack them. And a distinct de-
crease in court cases involving de-
hnquent children has been reported
as following the establishment of
proper play facilities by 223 of 351
playground directors and superin-
tendents of schools who replied to a
QUESTIONABLE addressed to them by
the magazine. The officials who did
not report decreases were mostly
from small towns where the deln-
quincy problem is less acute.
An interesting development is in
creased use of Fairgrounds after
nightfall as means of Turing chill
dren from the moral and physical
hazards of the city streets at night.
During the past few years Hamilton
has made great strides in the direc,
tion of Fairgrounds for the children
and it is noticed that the elders are
fast smelling out a good thing and
are getting into the game with en-
thusiasm to the extent of crowding
the younger people bit. We could
use more Fairgrounds, and TO doubt
the officials will give them to US as
fast as opportunity presents itself.
More power to EN- in this.
-:o:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

the only really free papers we have.
They do dare to step on the toes of
special privilege. They do dare to
speak in the interests of the masses
of the people. They are the unhal-
tered champions of fundamental and
essential rights.
Power company ownership of news
papers has stirred some of the pro-
gressive- minded senators to loud
protest. They act as if they were sur
prised. What there is to be surprised
about passes understanding. 1t is
nothing more than the natural conse-
quence of developments.
The surprise is not that power COM
panies own newspapers, but that peo-
pie of brains read them and believe
what they see therein.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

wage earners to apply this proven
principle to personal relations in in
dustry.
Organization is the method for put
ting order into any undertaking. 1t
is the one method by which wage
earners can cooperate in the creative
work of industry. Organization
makes possible human contact and
links together the minds of ALL Each
worker is human intelligence CEN
ter, and organization makes possible
the transmission of thought current
through the group, stimulating all to
greater activity.
Unions have their social aspect, for
they work for the establishment of
social purposes and higher standards
of life. Many human group has en-
dured greatest privation and suffer
ing for a human ideal. The great
appeal of the union to many workers
is its opportunity to do something
for the benefit of other workers.
1t is these spiritual purposes in
which the labor movement is rooted
that give our trade union movement
power and endurance. 1t is these ideas
that constitute its compelling appeal
to men and women who work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
THE STRENGTH OF UNIONISM

To the outside world a union is a
business undertaking through which
relations, determining the conditions
upon which they enter into work con-
tracts. This is an important aspect
of the union, for it represents a func-
tion essential to orderly progress in
industrial and business development
as well as results necessary for So
cial progress.
But there is even a more impor-
tant significance in the union. This
economic function of the union is an
expression in practical form of deep
est human aspirations and necessi-
ties. The union is an instrumentality
for human freedom in the broadest
cannotation of that term. Justice is
human necessity. Many a person
ality is blighted or perverted because
of some injustice AS we long ago
learned that justice between individ-
uals comes through organization to
assure justice, 1T is necessary for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

bG1LoO bilNO "A TLAlN All
A bulletin issued by group of
eastern social workers expresses be-
wilderment at the economic situation
with our abundant resources, large
capital equipment and scientific
methods that can produce surplus
while millions of workers are unem-
ployed.
This phenomenon appears in every
modern industrial nation" we are
told.
This is not phenomenon. 1t is
not remarkable. 1t follows a cause
that is self-evident.
Our highly organized industrial
machine can produce more than the
people can buy because Of their lack
OF purchasing power. When factories
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
UNION WINS VICTORY
FOR HOME INDUSTRY

San Francisco.-Assistant City At
torney Holm has ruled that mill work
used in local public buildings must
be manufactured in this city. The
decision will apply to all public con-
tracts.
Enforcement of the provision of the
municipal charter has for years been
the San Francisco Building Trades
Council.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
INDUSTRIES ABANDON
EMPLOYEES SCHOOL

Washington.-Tra schools for
workers "on the job" which received
an impetus during the World War,
have almost disappeared during the
last seven years, according to study
by committee of the presidents un-
employment conference.
Apprentice training courses are
still used in considerable numbers
though restricted for the most part
to a few trades" it is stated. Train
ing OF aliens has also been abandon
ed, although foremen training con-
tinues.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

Rightly does Henry Ford say, "A
sixday-week is all right for ma
chimes, but a five e-day-week is enough
for men,"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
BARRIERS WANT MORE

Steubenville, Ohio.-Barbers in this
city suspended work to enforce a
higher wage rate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
SHORTER HOURS

the railroad workers
that all Fear expressed that
headed for shorter hours What if it is?
having thirty mechanical slaves
each if all have working
The prouctven of the human labor
consumption; there will be jobs for millions
long We need
wealth Then will
than ever and
Business fveday Com
something aso would be
employers and employees the
foohy excited the gradual
approach the detectives ndusaism is headed for
more enjoyment of life for ALL
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
The Magazine Of Wall Street
Says 5-Day Week Is Coming!

Following editorial from The Magazine of Wall Street
this abOrs
labor leaders themselves Read
dodos what they have say about it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
The Cherry
" Where with our
we tell the truth
about many things sometimes pro-
foundly. sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Nothing has kicked UP much more
of rumpus in these piping days
than the revelations of power COM
pany invasion of the newspaper field.
Close onto fifty newspapers have
been shown under power company
influence.
The accepted method seems to have
been about like this: A power COM
pany would advance money to hus-
tling young men and these hustling
| young men would go into the market
and buy newspapers, giving the
power company stock i'm these news
papers as security.
The power companies and the hus-
tling young men have joined in pious
proclamations that this arrangement
did not necessarily mean power COM
pany domination of the newspapers
so purchased.
All of which is so much twaddle
and piffie.
This department has had much to
say about newspaper ownership and
control. The subject is interesting
| one to which return is justified.
America has had long experience
with subsidized newspapers. Quite
apparently America is not through
with that kind of experience. The
harm comes, not from the fact that
| newspapers are subsidized, or owned
by special interests, but that the fact
is concealed. Power companies may
have perfect right to own newspa-
pers. They do not have right to
conceal that ownership If the voice
is Jacobs, let the fact be known. Let
not Jacob seek to put out hand that
will look like the hand of Esau.
There is lot of hypocritical cant
about newspaper ownership. The
same owner-there is Gannett, for
example-may own republican
newspaper and democratic news
paper, publishing both simultaneously
and som etimes in the same city. To
the owner, both are purely business
ventures, for profit.
There are few daily newspapers
left about which there is a primary
public service purpose. They are,
from public service standpoint
about in the same category with
street car companies and power com
panies. The owner wants to make
a profit. Profit from newspaper own
ing is a necessity, if there are to be
| good newspapers. But it makes diff
ference whether public service is a
! primary motive, or a secondary one
The Elder Scripps founded his Penny
Press to serve the public. A fortune
resulted
Labor newspapers are founded TO
serve a special purpose, the interests
of wage earners, but they are about
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

shut down because the surplus can
not be sold we have unemployment.
This fact may be concealed but
not changed, by high-sounding and
incorrect terms.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

Issued Weekly st s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31
THE NONPAREIL PRINTING co.
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
Subscription Price S1.00 per Year
Payable in Advance

Whatever is intended for insertion must
be authenticated by the and address of
the writer, not necessarily for publication. but
as a guarantee of good faith
Subscribers changing their address will
please notify this office, giving old and new
address TO insure regular delivery of paper.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-31

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the MiddletOwn Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-18
Wife to Mush 200
Miles to Aid Hubby

North Bay, Ont. March is
pa missionary's wife who
cared for her injured husband
five weeks al Hudson Bay
trading post until a plane took
him to hospital. today was
preparing to rnush zoe miles to
his bedside.
After Rev. George Morrow,
whose hip was broken in a to-
boggan accident. had been re
ceived at Cochrane. Mrs. Nor
row listened in on her radio al
Moose Factory and was told Of
his safe arrival. She immediate
iy made plans TO join a dog
team party going south.
The injured missionary made
the journey from the northern
Ontario post in three stages. BY
airplane. sleigh and train. Capt.
Roy Maxwell Of the provincial
air force, who piloted the res
cue plane, suffered a froSen
nose and chin.
The airman said, on his ar
rival here, that at the post there
was very little medicine and no
skilled medical attendant to
check the ravages Of tubee-
culons among the Indiana.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-18
DRIVES HOME, finds
own HOUSE AFLAME
Councilman Conlon Fol-
lows Engines to His
Own DOmiciIe

When Councilman Frank l.. Con-
lon was driving toward his home at
II fremont street just before noon
today, he heard the shrek OF the
sirens on FIRE department apparatus
and Immediately pulled in toward
the curb TO give the trucks all pos
sible roadway. When he came with
in sight of his home. minute later,
he was greeted with the spectacle OF
hose lines playing on the cottage and
firemen's axes chopping holes IN the
roof. fighting a blaze which resulted
in $1,000 damages.
The fire started in a stairway lead
ing to the attic and is believed to
have been burning for many minutes
before it was discovered. Mrs Con
lon narrowly escaped serious burns
when she opened the door and the
fire shot out in puff. She exercised
good Judgment in slamming the door
shut. confining the fire until En-
gine Companies /. 3 and I, and the
aerial ladder company arrived. She
was at loss to account for the
source OF the fire. but in the opinion
of Chief William J. Noble and
Deputy Chief E. J. Barnes. cleaning
fluids may have ignited.
The stairway and roof rafters were
burned out. The fire was confined to
the upper section of the building
without causing any appreciable
water damage.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-18
Three Sons in Navy
Hear of Fathers Death

Three sons in the United
States navy are today being
wired the news of the death Of
their father, John kazlauskas.
aged so. of % Star street, who
passed away at his home this
morning following a short ILL
ness. The boys are 1gnatz. Paul
and John kazlauskas, serving in
widely separated divisions Of the
fleet.
Mr.. Kazlauskas is survived by
his widow. his sailor sons. and
a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Will
kelis: also two stepdaughters.
Mrs. Anna Mieczleinkis, and
Mrs. Victor Ahecunas, and
stepson, William Samolin. Fun
eral arrangements are incom-
plete.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-18
CHAOS IN SHANTUNG
Created BY Chang
War Lords Efforts to Get
Money From Villagers
Instigate Revolt

Chefoo, China. Mar. Is P0Con-
ditions bordering on chaos are re-
ported developing in that part Of
North Shantung held by the return
ed war lord, Chang ung-Chang
The situation is said to be an out
growth of merciless attempts by his
soldiery to extort money from
villagers.
Teng Chow has reported condi-
tions growing worse daily with VII
lagos refusing to pay futher military
levies and opposing its lawlessness.
There has been an attempt to in
stigate a revolt within the military
and this has resulted in terrible re-
prisals by the soldiers who have
robbed, murdered, and assaulted the
country folks.
Refugees continue to pour into
Tcng Chow while outward bound
steamers. regardless Of their desti-
nation. are leaving with thousands
unable to get aboard. These unable
to leave the villages sleep on the
hill sides. returning to their homes
in daylight, fully prepared however
to retreat to the hills in the event
Of soldier bandit attacks.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-18
SELF.DISCIPLINE IS
GOOD FRIDAY ADVICE
Governors Proclamation
Sets Forth Means of
Spiritual Advance

Hartford. March Is Rl-Governor
Trumbull's Good Friday proclama-
ton issued from the executive Of
fices at the state capitol today sets
forth self discipline" and the en-
during Of hardship as cardinal
principles" and New England tra-
ditions in the code of our forefa-
theirs" az means Of spiritual ad-
vancement. Friday. March 20. is
designated az 4 day OF fasting and
prayer.
The proclamation reads as fol-
lows: Self discipline az a means OF
spiritual advancement Is in the New
Egland tradition. The enduring OF
hardship for conscience sake. the
living Of sober and simple lives for
their souls good, were cardinal
principles In the code OF our fore
fathers. Our custom Of setting aside
Good Friday as a day for self-de-
nial and for special devotions is
therefore particularly fitting in its
emphasis on those ideals which
have been landmarks on the path
of our own moral development
For many Of us the day has a
profound religious Significance. For
all Of u.s. the solemn events which
it commentaries carry lessons OF
humility, devotion and sacrifice
which cannot fail to give strength
and inspiration.
Il therefore designate Friday. the
twenty ninth day of March next, as
q day Of fasting and prayer. and ]
recommend to all Of the people in
this state that this anniversary be
generally observed as benefits It's
origin. In the sure hope OF the spir
itual refreshment to be thereby
gained."
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-18
GIRL HELD IN AUTO
SCREAMS FOR Police
Man Covers Her Mouth
With Hand to Muffle
Cries

Help, Officer. help" rang out in
a feminine voice as a roadster con-
tanning three persons went through
North street in an easterly direction
about 1:45 yesterday morning. and
Supernumerary Officer Edward
Muszynski had a glimr>e Of a wom-
an with a man sitting on her lap
and covering her mouth with hts
hand, while another man was driv-
ing.
The officer, III his report, stated
that he was walking west on North
street near Erwin place. and the
roadster was going east. near Law.
lor street. Three men were on the
sidewalk and the girl in the car
shouted to them before seeing the
ofhcer. The latter stepped into the
street but was unable to stop the
car or catch the registration num-
ber. the tail light being poor. he
stated. He commandeered another
car and gave chase but was unabls
to overtake the roadster.
Lieutenant Matthias Rival. who
was notified by telephone by the Of
ficer. detailed Sergeant NJ. J. Flynn
to investigate. but no trace OF the
roadster could be found. 1t Is pos
sible. the police believe. that the oc-
cupants Of the roadster were play
ing a prank. or they might have
been ION a party"