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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-24

was a copy of letter sent to Thos.
j. Donnelly, secretary of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor. In the
letter President Green appeals to the
working men and women and to their
friends in Ohio to vote against Sen
ator McCulloch at the election No
vember a. On motion the communi-
cation was received and delegates
ordered to take notice.
A communication was read from
the old age pension committee of the
local Fraternal Order of Eagles. The
communication states that the old age
pension committee of the Eagles will
hold public meeting at the Eagles
Temple, on Monday night, October
27, at o'clock, for the purpose of
bringing before the citizens of ouur
city the old age pension. All mem
bers and their friends are invited to
this meeting. On motion the COM
munication was received and the in
vitation accepted.
On motion a card of coincidence will
be sent to the family of Charles Lau-
ders, city fireman and former
delegate of the Cooperative Trades
and Labor Council Ladders died this
week at his home on Chestnut street.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-24
OLD AGE PENSIONS
A REALITY

An old age pension law in every
state in the Union is the goal of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles. No
worthier work has ever been under
taken by any fraternal organization
In Montana, Nevada, Wisconsin, Ken
lucky, Colorado, Maryland California,
New York, Alaska and Minnesota and
British Columbia in the Dominion of
Canada, old age pension laws are now
a reality. Legislative committees
have been appointed in many other
states to make study of poorhouse
conditions. Partial reports that have
been submitted by the commissions
make it inconceivable that any legis-
lature would refuse to abolish aims
houses and decline to substitute
therefor the system of old age pen
sions. With continued support and
cooperation, it is possible that the
general assembly of Ohio will adopt
such a law at its coming session. The
$25.00 month provided for in the
Ohio Eagles model bill is not much,
but it means tremendous lot to the
old folks who are descending the final
steps of life's deep decline, and who
have to depend on charity and rela-
tives to keep body and soul together.
1t has been proved what godsend
these pensions are to the deserving
aged and that they cost the tax
payers little. They will drive away
much of the despair that now darkens
the lives of those stricken by poverty
without any fault of their own. They
will permit the sunshine of love to
penetrate the darkest recesses of the
hearts of those who are about to
abandon hope. The more fortunate
in life have no certainty of continued
prosperity. They are living in pre-
carious age, when wealth disappears
over night, and pauperism comes with
the dawn of the morrow. The old age
pension system is not an experiment.
It's practical operation in several
states has proved for it what its
originator in this fraterniay, Frank
E. Herring, claimed for it. The sacred
spirits of the old men and women who
have endured the horrors and miser-
les of the poorhouse hold aloft the
torch We must follow along the
lighted path.
ROBERT A. FALLERT.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-24
President Green Urges Defeat |,
OF McCulloch For Senator

in Ohio, to support the position of
ton of the appointment of Judge
Parker, and to stand heroically and
courageously with labor in it's fight
against the ''yellow dog" contract.
Senator McCulloch refused this re-
quest and rejected this appeal.
Neither this request nor this appeal
was personal. This request should
have been considered as the request
of the working men and women of
Ohio and of the entire country as
we'll
In view of the fact that Senator
McCullocn would not support labor
when his support was badly needed,
labor should not support him when
its support is needed
In behalf of labor and as the chief
executor officer of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, | appeal through
you to the working men and women
and to their friends in Ohio to vote
against Senator McCulloch at the
election which will be held on No
vember 9TH. Labor must be consist
ent if it is to succeed in securing
the enactment of remedial legislation.
Through its support of those who are
friendly, and in its opposition to
those who are against US, let labor
consistently support its friends and
defeat its enemies.
Fraternally yours,
(Signed) VIM. GREEN,
President, A. F. of L.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-24

Boston, Mass, October 13, 1880.
Mr.. Thomas j. Donnelly, Secretary,
Ohio State Federation of Labor,
Atlas Building, Columbus, Ohio.
Dear Sir and Brother:
The American Federation of Labor
is deeply interested in the election
of United States senator from the
state of Ohio. This interest is neither
partisan nor personal. The organized
labor movement of the United States
is committed to a bipartisan polit-
ical policy.
The American Federation of Labor
is strongly opposed to the election of
Senator Roscoe C. McCulloch. While
serving as United States senator from
Ohio he voted in favor of the con-
firmation of the appointment of Judge
Parker to the supreme court of the
United States. He voted for Judge
Parker, supporting his appointment,
after the representatives of labor had
earnestly requested him to stand with
labor and to support labor. Organic
ed labor was opposed to the confirma-
ton of the appointment of Judge
Parker because as circuit judge he
had rendered decision sustaining
the yellow dog" contract and its
validity, and as a result of this deci-
sion thousands of working men in
West Virginia were reduced to CON
dition bordering on involuntary servi-
tude.
l personally appealed to Senator
McCulloch, in the name of working
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-24
POSTAL LABORERS
PAID LOWEST WAGE

Boston, A. F. of L. conven-
ton again registered protest
against low wage postal laborers.
These workers are the lowest paid in
the postal service, and congress was
asked to pass House Bill 2402, which
would give each grade of laborers
$50 increase.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-24

The Hamilton Evening Saturday published
headed, TAXES AND FACTS"
1t contained the following statement
P G. Banker of Mddeown republican
ddw nor did he have part the fixing Of these values which
he has been accused
In reply thereto, the records the County Auditors while
Harry j. Long Auditor, show:
Voucher No 1862 dated March 3 l925o P G. Banker all Real
Estate Appraisers City Nddetown, payment
ct s77750 payment
2257.
Voucher 25o9"To reapprasal Mddletown
Ohio, S137025 check in payment 25O9.
Voucher 33-To G. Banker Deputy" services appraiser real
estate Middleown $4,000 check in payment c 1858
Banker al appraisal of land and check
ing of buildings Middetown Ohio payment
The article also contained the following
he per
the City Middetown
County Auditors office"
This may ruthose which County
nothing to do He neither levies fixes the
necessary by
the taxing authorities County Commissioners
Councils and Township Trusees
The article Every property County
asked this question: How much have been reduced?
increased depending upon the action
the taxing authorities
The laws of Ohio provide be taxed of Is mills
$500 thousand dollars value unless people
authority from the Legislature
high taxes can be collected and still
within the l5 limit that be collected the valuation
Therefore the reduction had been made would
have paid taxes.
The of the typical would
have paid more taxes had this reduction been made
complete of and Montgomery Certified
Public Accountants and Auditors Cincinnati Ohio
of the reduction real values
jec to inspection in the County Auditors office
John N. Harlan
:: !: : !.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-24
Ak IS
AND
T ACC 5

On Monday October 20 1890 requested the Hamilton Eve
ming Journal to publish reply the article TAXES AND
FACTS published its issue Saturday. October and
refused My reply follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
Communists Gain in Hupeh, China

SHANGHAI, China (IPS).-The
insurrectionary movement in the
province of Hupeh is developing ra-
pidly. Thirteen districts of the
province are in the hands of the reb-
els. Government troops sent against
them have been overpowered and
disarmed. In addition there is
constant stream of deserters from
the government troops over to the
rebels. The food problem in those
districts where the government has
defeated the rebels is acute on ac-
count of the fact that the peasants
have stopped sending supplies into
the towns. The correspondent of the
Times reckons that the province CT
Hupeh is lost for at least three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
RELEASE March
9Th LEADERS
Workers Demand for
Their Freedom Grows

The release of the leaders of the
New York March 6 unemployed DEM
onstration, William z. Foster, Robert
Minor, Israel Amter, Harry Ray
mond and Joseph Lesten, now serv-
ing prison terms is demanded in
resolutions adopted by hundreds of
working class organizations in all
sections of the country.
Among the latest organizations to
send copies of their demands for
the liberation of the jobless spokes-
men to the Labor Defense, 80 E.
18th St., New York City, are Lodge
416, C.F.U., Ebert, w. Va; Work
ingman's Sick, Benevolent and Edu-
cational Federation, McKeesp t ,
Pa; S. T. Yhdistys, Marriage, Wis;
Northside Scandinavian Worker S
Club. Chicago, H.: Local 272 Paint
ers Union, Monterey, Cal; Journey
men Tailors Union, Local 322, Wash
ington, Pa; Young Communist
League, Rockford, ILL.,; Vega Lodge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
Detroit TUNNEL
WORKERS STRIKE
Led By T.U.U.L.; Want
Dollar a Day More

DETROIT, Mich, April 24.-The
tunnel workers of two shafts on the
Blanck and Gargaro city sewers
Jobs are on strike under the leader
ship of the Tunnel Workers Indus
trial League of the Trade Union
Unity League. The number on
strike is 200, but $500 more may
come out.
Joseph Kowalski, business man.
ager of the Workers Tribune, spoke
to the men Tuesday, in the name of
the League, and they voted to walk
out at once for dollar a day raise.
The boss threatened to replace
the men with Negroes, thus trying
to fan race hatred and divide the
workers forces.
The League is distributing leaf
let's calling on the workers to fight
for a seven-hour day instead of IL,
no overtime, no speed-up or piece
work, no discrimination for race,
color, youth or nationality; safety
devices, sanitary arrangements,
water, lockers, ETC.; more wages,
recognition of shaft committees,
work or wages and social insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
FACTORIES, RAILROADS
OPEN UNDER FIVE-YEAR
PLAN IN SOVIET UNION
Tremendous Strides Made in Building Up of
Socialism
New Industries Built. Up from Ukraine to
Yaroslav

MOSCOW, UPS)-A new factory
for the production Of large-size
piping has just been opened in
Mariopol in the Ukraine.
A tractor smithy has just been
opened at the Red Putilov works in
Leningrad. The department is sup
piled with the most modern equip
ment and represents an important
link in the tractorization of Soviet
agriculture.
In Stalingrad the building works
of the main department of the giant
tractor work which is being erected
there, have been concluded. The
"Guipment is now being installed.
It joint meeting the engineers
and workers decided to have the
work completed by the 18th of June,
long before the time originally
fixed.
On the 28th of April the northern
and southern section of the Turkes-
tan-Siberian line will meet in Alma
Bulak where a short celebration will
take place. The solemn opening of
the great line for traffic will take
place in Alma-Ata on May LIST in
the presence Of delegations from
all parts Of the country. Thanks to
the socialist competitive scheme
and the enthusiasm of the workers.
the line, which is the longest in the
world and of tremendous impor-
lance for Soviet economy, will be
completed year befofv the original
date fixed. The economic unifica-
ton of Siberia and Central Asia
will be realized by this line. Sur
plus Siberian grain will be poured
into Central Asia and will release
immense tracts of land at present
used for growing grain so that cot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25

ton can be grown on a mass scale.
This scheme will make the Soviet
Union independent of the capitalist
countries for raw material for the
textile industry.
Great new boring and building
operations are being conducted on
the Soviet section of the island of
Sakhalin. The building of a ran
way line has been commenced and
a petroleum pipeline is being laid.
In Moscow the fat products trust
has erected a new high pressure
electrical power station which is al
raady operating.
In Yaroslav great electrical
works has been completed and put
INTO operation by the Swedish cleo
rical concession ASEA. In an in
terview with journalists, the chair
man of the concessions committee
Of the R. S. F. S. R., Comrade Sko-
belev, declared that the new works
presented the last word in technical
progress. The concessionaries had
invested about ID million roubles in
the undertaking, which was COM
pleted considerably before the term
laid down in the contract. The
ASEA works was a decisive answer
to the slanderous allegations APP
pearing in the capitalist press and
a living proof of the fact that a
solid concession undertaking with
the necessary financial basis was
well able to operate normally in the
Soviet Union. In accordance with
the agreement the concession had
built club for its workers, a can
teen and other rooms to satisfy the
cultural needs of the workers. The
seven-hour day was introduced from
the beginning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
HOOVER ATTACKS WAR ARGUE l3l ERRORS in
VETERANS PENSION BILL GASTONIA CASE TRIAL

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Hoov-
er's letter about a deficit in the
treasury is being used, not only
against the 100000 unemployed
workers, but against the World War
Veterans. The letter was read today
in the House against the Johnson
bill which provides for an extension
of relief for veterans at an addition
al cost Of S90,OOO,OOO to 5000, 900, 900.
Hoover very quickly granted the big
corporations present Of $160,000,-
900 in tax refunds. Many of the
veterans who were wounded in Wall
Streets war are suffering the most
miserable conditions, walking the
streets facing starvation. 1t is these
men that the bosses want to use
against their fellow workers on May
Day to smash up demonstrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25

RALEIGH, N. c., April 24.-At-
torneys representing the seven Gas
tonia defendants sentenced to pris-
on terms ranging up to 20 years and
representative of the attorney gen.
erals office appeared before the
North Carolina supreme court for
three hours and Is minutes, Wednes-
day, and argued the question of a
new trial.
Briefs filed by the lawyers for the
strike leaders listed 131 errors in
the trial conducted before Judge
Barnhill in Charlotte. They includ-
ed the calling off of the first trial by
Barnhill, when he personally de-
cided that one of the jurors was in
sane, without making any investiga-
ton of the question. The appeal
also points out that religious ques
lions were brought into the trial and
used to prejudice the jury.
Attorney Hardwick of Georgia and
j. F. Flowers were retained by the
international Labor Defense to ar
que the appeal.
The decision on a new trial is now
expected May 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
UNEMpL OYME:NT,
WACE-CUTS RIFE
IN LUMBER FIELD
Skidroad Full of Idle
Men; Bosses Push
Speed-Up
Show Up IWW Takers
A Logger Writes of
Rotten Conditions
Show Up IWW Takers
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
The lumber situation today with
its constantly dwindling market is
the best barometer of unemployment
today. At the same time with the
dwindling market there has been in
PRODUCED new and more efficient ma
chinery, the piece work system iH
the cutting Of the timber and even
in the building Of the logging rail
roads. In 1926, '26, '27 the camps
in Washington and Oregon oper-
ated about 7la to eight months
From 1927 to- the present they have
operated about 512 months year.
Remember the workers have to live
IL months and should they break
into some other job they displace
other workers who are on part time
work. The skidroad in Portland is
now full of idle men. All day from
morning to night there is a constant
parade of men looking for work. The
few jobs coming up look like there
81 "little doing" Conditions are so
bad, speedup so keen and piece work
money so small that men can't stay
and there are only the same jobs
coming up again. You miss man
from the skid road two or three
days and then see him again and
he will say either speed-up was too
much or he could not make anything
on piece work.
The camps near Portland have
been running about 60 per cent
capacity for about two months. Last
Christmas there was already an
overproduction. Soon they will be
shutting down indefinitely. Though
operating in the hope of a market
without regard to the overproduc
ZION they have speeded up the work
els to the limit. If they can't stand
it they replace them from the I'M
employed.
The new union, the National Lum-
Der Workers Union is the Lumber
Workers section of the T.U.U.L.,
which is the American section of the
RI.L.U. and is composed of the most
militant class conscious workers rep
resenting unions from every country
in the world. 1t cannot mislead us
like the fakirs and disrupters Of
the I.W.W.
Many of the lumber workers who
cannot stay in town any longer, men
who have been working in the woods
for years are now hitting the
road" hiking about the country
riding freight cars, with all their
years gatherings in a pack-sack on
their back living in the "jungles. /"
Organize the unemployed, Work or
Wages, Fight or Starve, is the only
hope of the workers, until this sys-
tenn can be changed. Join the Ma
tional Lumber Workers Union and
fight for better conditions on the
! job.
/ A LOGGER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
KILL $50 Men IN
Ohio DEATH PEN
Demand Release Of the
Worker Prisoners

| COLUMBUS, Ohio, April "a
/ Over 1000 of the imprisoned men,
squeezed into small, filthy cells
after the fire which burned to death
$50 of their fellow prisoners, are
protesting against their mistreat-
ment and the reign of terror against
them instituted by the jail authori-
ties to cover their murder of the
$50 dead.
The men are demanding better
treatment, food and stoppage of the
I sadistic torture they are subjected
to. They also demand that John
Richardson, one of the men saved
from the fire, who is condemned to
be legally murdered tomorrow
night, be reprieved and sentenced
to life-term Imprisonment instead.
The prisoners are incensed against
the guards who joked while $50
prisoners burned to death.
"The wiping out of $50 lives in
the disastrous fire that swept the
Ohio State Prison at Columbus will
bring to the attention of all work
ers the vicious conditions that exist
in these veritable hell-holes of the
capitalist social system, that are
only rivalled by the barbarous chain
gang system in the South" said 4
, statement issued by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense today.
"'The Handbook of American
Prisons and Reformatories,' issued
by the National Society of Penal In
formation, declares that the ancient
plant of The state penitentiary in
| Columbus, Ohio, one of the largest
prisons in the country, suffers from
condition of overcrowding worse
than that in any other large prison.
SIT is into this inferno that polit-
ical offenders are thrown with those
against whom social crimes are
charged, the United States being
one of the few countries where all
prisoners are thrown together, be-
ing subjected to the same brutal
conditions.
"The International Labor De-
tense has just learned that the three
coal miners, whom it has been tax
ing care of, Steve Jacobs, Teddy
Jackoski and Dominic Venturato,
framed-up on charges against them,
during the strike struggles in East
ern Ohio, are not among the dead.
But they are being sent back to the
living tomb which blotted out in q
few moments the lives of more than
300.
"These conditions will not be i'm
proved. In fact they will become
increasingly worse, that large num-
bers of the workers, especially the
unemployed, are caught in the
meshes of the capitalist law. Yet
this very fact will drive the whole
working class to struggle all the
harder for the release of all class
war prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
RAILROAD DAUGHERTY
ON ASSAULT CHAR GES

BOSTON, April 24.-Leonard Do
herty, organizer of the Marine Work
ers League, who is charged with
murder in Canada five years ago.
was today convicted of assault in the
Superior Court and sentenced to two
months in prison. Doherty was
tried for his active participation in
the recent strike of the needle trades
workers.
The International Labor Defense
announced after the trial that they
will appeal the two months sentence
and will fight the attempt to extra
dite him to Canada where the bosses
would frame him and send him to
the electric chair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
Write About Communist Advance in China

PEKING, China .S.).-The
Picking Leader reports that insurec-
tionaries, under Communist leader
ship, have captured the important
town of Kanchow, in the province
Of Kiangsi, a little distance from
the frontier of Kwangtung. The in
surrectionary army, which is re-
ported to be several thousand
strong, is pressing forward into
Kwangtung, with view to effect
ing a junction with the Communist
detachments operating there.
There is considerable excitement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The strik-
ers of the Tulip Hosiery Mills, hav-
ing been promised arbitration" to
result in lettering their conditions,
returned to work last week.
This week, seeing that nothing
came of the Arbitration" the en-
tire mill went out again, 100 per
cent of the workers responding and
establishing picket lines.
The bosses claimed that the strike
(the new one) was caused by illog-
ical demands of the workers who
had not completed a four years. zap
premiership" Previously the bosses
were willing to negotiate. Some of
the "illogicar' demands was the
shortening of the 13-hour day pre-
vailing in this factory. No doubt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
Sun Ship Has Agencies to Snare Cheap Labor
in Many Cities
by q Worker Correspondent

CHESTER, Pal am writing
something on the conditions in
Sun Shipyard.
The Sun Shipyard is maintain
ing employment agencies in vari-
Gus cities in order to fool the
workers about the miserable
wages and conditions under which
they are compelled to work. The
A. F. of L. representative here
has been asked by letter if the
Sun Shipyard has a strike on be-
cause of the fact that they have
an agency in Newark, N. ].
The situation warrants a strike,
but the A. F. of l.. has not tried
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-25
Cop Beat Workers,
Now Wants More Pay

SAN FRANCISCO, April pa
policeman, injured when workers
broke up recent mass meeting adj
dressed by the notorious enemy of
the Soviet Union, Victor Chernov,
is suing the International Labor De-
Tense, Communist Party and individ-
ual members of those organizations
for $4,000. Warrants have been is
sued against leaders of the Commu-
mist Party and LID. on the COM
'laint of the policeman who was