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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
WAGE CUTTERS MAKE
FLANK MOVE

The Iron Age, spokesman for the
iron and steel industry, says 1--WE are
in for wage reductions" and that "the
doctrine of the consuming power of
high wages is losing ground.
This statement should be read in
connection with the policy of employ
ers who slyly reduce wages while
proclaiming their belief in high
wages.
The Iron Age statement is hint
to these employers and to "me-too'
writer's and so-called economists tC
drop the high-wage theory and harE
on "the law of supply and demand.
This wretched philosophy for wage
standards sets no limit to workers
pauperization, as is illustrated in the
bituminous coal industry.
The editor does not attempt tt
prove that the theory of high wage!
is Closing ground" He seems, how
ever, to be we'll aware that the high
theory must be abandoned before hi:
Iow-wage objective can be reached.
The public do not approve wage
cuts. They understand that reduced
buying power prolongs business de
preston. If wage cutters are success.
full among their unorganized workers
it is necessary that the public be
quietly led from the high-wage the.
ory.
This sinister feature of the Iror
Age position will not pass unnoticed
by trade unionists who should inten-
sify their educational campaign or
the value of high wages.
1t must be remembered that Iron
Age speaks for the nations largest
unorganized, low-wage long industry
The strategy of these wage cutters
is to separate the general public
from labor's high-wage theory and
thus have a free hand in lowering
standards of helpless employees.
To talk of "the law of supply and
demand" in an age of monopolies,
mergers, combines and labor-displac-
ing machinery would be amusing but
for its malignant purpose.
These hardened exploiters would
extend the boundaries of their eco
nomic control and industrial anarchy
at the price of continued depression
and general hardships.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
heCherry
~ Where with our
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes aippantly,
sometimes recklessly. .......

Mr. Sinclair Lewis, once of Sauk
Center, Mimi, pronounced just as it
is spelled, made some very cutting
remarks the other day when he was
handed the Nobel prize for writing
good books.
Mr.. Sinclair Lewis, who used to be
called "Red" by his schoolmates, be-
cause of distinctly red thatch atop
his discontented head, gave the world
to understand that he didn't think
much of the United States.
Mr.. Lewis aped the chatter of a
great many others who have sought to
get on the first page by Grating about
the mental degeneracy Of the Amer
lean people. Mr.. Lewis says Amer
leans don't appreciate art and don't
support it.
Probably Mr.. Lewis didn't tell his
Swedish hosts about the Buick aris-
tocracy" about which he likes to talk
while at home, but he did give them
a generous helping of condemnation
of American commercialism.
Clearly,- Mr.. Lewis is not at all
satisfied with America.
Well, most of us can find fault
with America, but there are two ways
of finding fault. One is to find out
what are the faults for the purpose
of fixing them. The other is to rant,
magnify and gather an audience.
One is citizenship; the other is clap
trap. q
Mr.. Lewis, it must be said with re-
gret, put his mutterings in the clap
trap class, which is too bad, for he
has done some fine work and his
sympathies are quite often all to the
good.
Of course the full text of the speech
made by this young feller from Sauk
Center" is not available, but it is to
be gathered that he picked on super
fetal fault, which probably is not a
fault at all, and missed the real diff
culties, which is characteristic of a
certain type of famous persons.
1t is safe to assume that Mr.. Lewis
classes himself as an artist. If that
be so, then it must be said that his
own record is a contradition of his
remarks, for his work has been richly
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

the file factories of this country in
1927 was $12.97S, ,7S4; in 1929 it was
S1a,058 ,208. That was an increase OF
sexen-tenths Of per cent.
But the figures for the total value
of machine tools in 1927 was s144,-
496,326; and in 1929 was 1902, ,964.
That was an increase of 66.2 per cent,
within two years.
That is one of the meanings OF
"mass-production," as against "hand
tooling." And, since the machine tool
can work with more uniform preci-
sion than the hand tool, and can do
it over and over, working to mar
rover limits of precision, mass-pro-
duction can produce more than the
old machine shop" and at much
lower cost.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
PASSING OF THE MECHANIC

One of the tests of skill used to be
the results which he could get in the
use of file 1t was said of one head
toolmaker that, using his belt for a
bench, he could file two pieces of
steel to such an exactness of straight
surface that when laid together they
could not be pulled apart by hand.
and had to be slid off each other, SO
closely did they fit together.
The training OF the eye, and the
precision of touch, which used to
make the master mechanic" are now
giving way to the micrometer and
the machine tool. In witness of
which the census figures give testi-
mony that shouts aloud the disap-
pearance of the old-time skill.
The total value of the product of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
FIGURES ON JOBLESS
REFUSED TO SENATE

Washington. - President Hoover
notified the senate that he considers
as confidential the information given
him by his emergency commission
on Unemployment.
The senate asked for unemploy-
ment reports by the commission and
by Colonel Arthur Woods, its chair
man.
"The commission has made no re-
port on unemployment" the president
informed the senate. Notes and dis
cussions that pass between the presi-
dent and government officers are con-
Dental and should be preserved, the
president said.
Senator La Toilette Immediately
presented a resolution authorizing the
senate to call Colonel Woods and 9TH
ers to testify on unemployment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
WOODROW WILSON TO-DAY

History is replete with names of
great men whose greatness was not
completely realized until after their
death So with Woodrow Wilson
True, he was a mighty, if misunder-
stood, figure in life; but the tributes
accorded him now deal largely with
his influence in world affairs today
Such a tribute was we'll voiced re-
Gently by Pierre de Lanux, member
of the Secretariat of the League of
Nations, and twelve years ago mem
Der of the French high commission
to America Speaking at Woodrow
Wilson Association dinner in New
Jersey, M. de Lanux said:
"Wilson has formulated the basic
working principles of our interna-
tional ethics. These things did not
exist before him. These ethics are
now growing, and you will find them
presently in the very routine of our
international relations. 1t may be
said that by setting up these ethics
of international life, Wilson has
opened up a new field for human
energy, virtues and emotions at the
time when men became loath to ap-
ply their virtues to the destructive
activities of war"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

appreciated and rewarded Perhaps
it has been unduly rewarded. For Mr..
Lewis is well-to-do young man.
May it not be fair to oSwonder if he
spends his time going around appre-
ciating art
Mr.. Lewis is behind the times. He
is re-speaking the pieces that were
spoken two decades ago, when gentle
men who owned trusts were pictured
as fat ignoramuses, covered with dol
lar signs and ignorance, when the ex-
ploiter was brute and no less.
But certain refinement has come
into the business of exploiting and
the old days have gone.
As a matter of fact, the Industrial
lists of today probably spend alto
gether too much money and time ap-
preciating art and not enough time
and money in raising wages.
America is, in fact, the prize art
market, the priza music market and
the prize literature market of the
world, and all of the hungry writer's
and painters and singers of Europe
rush into the arms of our leisured
folks to garner gold. Having gar
nered they go home to rest in peace
and get ready for the next foray.
At times the fawning becomes sick
ening. At times the feeling possessed
by the superior persons that Amer
leans are a gullible people is revolt
ing. And at times the lofty advice
we are given arouses an ambition to
use the right toe to advantage.
Sinclair Lewis, who found his Bah
bitt and degraded him, who found his
Main street and made a cesspool of
| it, who found his Arrowsmith and
| drained his blood and -garnered
shekels in the process, did some poor
and miserable grouching over in
| Sweden. His pink friends, who are
legion, will howl with glee. For the
rest of us-not so hot!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO ALL

That the coming year of 1881 may
be replete with health, happiness and
prosperity for our friends and read
ers is the sincere wish of the Butler
County Press. May your cup of JOY
be filled to the brim, and your meas
ure of success be pressed down anc
running over.
We especially desire to thank those
who by their kind cooperation, pat
ronage and goodwill have enabled
the paper to circulate during the year
in the interest and welfare of the
Hamilton and vicinity workers. The
Press, ever since its inception, has en-
deavored to pursue the policy which
it believed to be for the best inter
ests of the community, and it will
carry on such policy in the future.
If mistakes have been made in the
past, they were committed uninten-
tionally
The Press hopes, and believes, that
the outlook for the coming year is
bright, and it will in every way en-
deavor to assist in promoting the era
of prosperity which is predicted for
1881, especially as regards the inter-
ests of Hamilton and its people. Let
US all put our shoulders to the wheel
with the determination to push, and
push strong and hard, for the return
and continuation of good times and
general prosperity.
And again-A Happy and Pros
porous New Year to all,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26


and shorter.
And then as the first day of jan
uary arrives the whole country comes
forth with full set of resolves.
But one by one these resolutions
usually go to pieces. To be sure they
were made with good intentions, but
adverse habit is greater force.
Yet these resolutions are never
made in vain. They have an infiu-
ence. 1t is a good habit to make rules
to govern our daily lives.
We should always seek to improve
ourselves, spiritually, mentally, NOR
ally and even financially. Prosperity
for the most part is habit. Good
habits and persistent resolving year
in and year out are big factors in our
constant efforts to live better and
fuller lives.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Lisht-Finsered Fair Sex

Eating luncheon at hotel coffee
shop we were stunned when the wait
ress, at the end of the meal, deposited
In front Of us a cute little standing-up
cigarette case, containing dozen
cigarettes or so.
'Those are pretty valuable souvenirs
to leave around" we said. Don't you
have to put chain on them2"
"Oh, no." replied the waitress
brightly. "We just use our eyes,"
"Do you have much trouble?"
"Not with the men, instantly.
1.-THE ladies'" In confidential whis-
per, "is what takes most Of them
Kansas City Star.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
AMT 1T THE TRUTH!

When the supply of picked herring
is too great, the surplus is dumped
back into the ocean, and when the
supply of calloused hands is too great,
the surplus is dumped out into the
streets to rot.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
FREE MEDICAL AID

Chicago.-Free medical aid for UNI
employed during the coming winter
us being arranged by the Chicago
Medical Society. A staff of physicians
is being organized for that purpose.
Applications for treatment will be
investigated and patients will be as
signed to physicians.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Tiresome for Roth

"How long," asked troublesome
prisoner, leaning over the dock rail, of
his solicitor, ''is this business going
on?'
"A couple of hours for me. About
q couple of years for you"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Triumph Of Thrift

IF you spend so much time at golf
you won't have anything laid aside for
. rainy day."
sWon't L? My desk is loaded up
with work that I've put aside for q
rainy day"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
RESOLUTIONS FOR 1881

1t has become the habit of people
to make New Year resolutions as the
breath of the old year grows shorter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Plumber's Emblem

A teacher asked her class-Whose
emblem is the leek?
A bright pupil raised his hand and
replied. eagerly, "Please, miss, the
plumbers !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
OF Decided Views

MY girl" he said, rs q decided
blond"
YES" said another girl II was
with her when she decided. STRAY
Stories.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Passed Examinations

"Ow's your daughter getting on
with 'er breach Of promise case?"
"Oh, fine. She's passed all 'er cross
examinations"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
WISDOM

The human race is in the best con-
dition when it has the creates degree
of liberty.--Dante.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Mathematical Statesmanship

To eloquence they will not stick
When phrases should be pat,
They hand us an arithmetic
And say, Now study that!"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

Angelina-Why won't you let me
announce our engagement? You keep
saying you'll tell the world you love
me.
Edwin-Darling, you know you're
all the world to me.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

In politics we often see
Strange cause for woe.
The friends of yesterday may be
Tomorrow's foe.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20
u. S. METALS STRAW
BOSSES BOAST ABOUT
THEIR SLAVE-DRIVING
Try to Guido Each Other in Race to Drive Men
to the Very Limit
Nettled By Distribution of the Daily Worker
At Big Carteret Plant

tant straw boss to Campbell is that
his slaves should report to him. No
difference as to unwarranted sick
ness in health to workers.
Now as to their speed efficiency.
This Mr.. Campbell and Adam,
"straw BOSSES" are boasting of their
speed-up system, of driving workers
to the limit on the last week of
November month. 1t has been
found out that during this period of
seven days continuous work of pro-
duction, the other two shifts turned
out 216-230 each. Then Adams
comes along boasting of record
breaking week with $50 pieces of
square cakes of brass. So we can
see, fellow workers, with our own
eyes the bosses efficiency schemes.
Take the straw-boss John Meyers
for instance. He recently remark
ed that if he'd find out who wrote
the articles in a recent distribution
of the Daily Worker he would fire
the S. o. B. In my next letter III
tell about more of the slave-drivers
here. ARNOLD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20

..,eclia and New Zealand both
are learning the meaning of the new
period of struggles accompanying
the world crisis. At the mine fields
of New South Wales, thousands of
striking miners are clashing with
police armed with rifles and fixed
bayonets.
At Cessnock, $500 striking miners
marching on the Aftermath mine,
we're attacked by police with bayo-
nets, and in the fight that followed
l2 were wounded.
In motor trucks the police speeded
to Kurri, and FLASHED with a demon
stration of 1900 marching miners,
wounding seven. At Paxton, 1,500
miners marched on the Stamford
Merthyr mine, where government
operation was working scabs. The
police in attack here made 10 arrests.
The fiction of peaceful transit
ton to socialism, which long de-
luded the Australian workers prior
to the onset of world imperialist
crisis, is being blasted by the VIC
lence of the ruling class. The LA
Dor" party at the head Of the Fed
eral government, stands on the tech
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20
CZECH WORKERS SHOW
FIGHT AGAINST fascist
AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Win Demands for Relief at KOmOtau by March
Into City Council and Demonstration
Great Skoda Metal Workers Halt At Benches
to Protest At Socialist Government

PRAGUE (By Inprecorr Mail
Service).--A great demonstration
of unemployed workers took place
before the city hall in Komotau re-
Gently, and exerted pressure on the
City Council, which agreed to grant
funds to feed unemployed workers
and supply them with coal. The
police attacked the unemployed bru-
tally at various points during the
demonstration.
| At the Kaolin mine in Winters
Gruen the workers carried out a
one-hour protest strike against the
rev social fascist government.
In Pilsen the workers of the great
Skoda Works (metal) organized
four great demonstrations against
the new social fascist government
and against the expulsion of Com
munist deputies and senators from
parliament. The police held the
doors Of the works and arrested
number Of speakers.
Here in Prague, after an increase
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20
On q Worker Coryespondent)

CARTERET, N. j., (By Mail).-
The bosses of the U. S. Metals Re-
filming Co. in Carteret, N. j., can
boast of exceptionally good (for the
bosses) slave drivers. This includes
the "straw" bosses also. This es-
pecially applies to the smelter de-
partment. Here is Campbell, who
it is said was called back from Mex
leo where he had been to shoot and
kill the Indians so he could rob from
them their gold. So in fact Mr..
Campbell aspired to get rich quick,
but the Indians thwarted him and
warned him to leave if his life was
dear to him.
Adam Nuremberg, one of his
henchmen who comes from Perth
Amboy and a leading member of
American Legion, takes "authori-
tative" occasion of sending workers
home for vacation" from two to
eight days, who had been working
for the U. S. M. r. from 10 to Is
years for the sole "claim" of not
asking him for the day off. Adams
desire in his capacity of an assis-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20
Australia, New leland, Samoa, Scene of
Struggles

nicality of the autonomy of the New
South Wales nationalist government,
and refuses to do anything to help
the miners-which is to say that it
helps the mine owners.
In New Zea, Ind, the Communist
Party and all militant labor papers,
are forbidden. And in both these
British possessions the workers who
have long been imbued with white
superiority" toward the workers of
China and India, are now finding
that they are mere colonial subjects
themselves.
New Zealand, which has mandate
power over British Samoa, now has
marines in Samoa hunting through
the brush trying to arrest several
Maoris who are supposed to have
been involved in demonstration
two weeks ago, where white con-
stable was killed.
Great un. est exists in all parts
of Samoa. The police searching
houses and offices have torn down
posters of the Mau, the native lib
Grafton society which said: Samoa
for the Samoansw But towns are de-
serted and the natives are supposed
to be concentrating for resistance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20

in rents of the municipal dwellings,,
demonstration of tenants took
place, and workers forced their way
into the city hall, from which they
were finally elected by police. The
Communists in the City Council
went onto the streets and led the
protesting masses. Collisions with
police occurred and a number were
arrested.
Demonstrations also took place in
Koeniginhof, Orlau and Ostrau. In
the last place The police attacked
the demonstration and arrested the
speaker, Slivka, 4 Communist mem
Der Of parliament But the demon
stration continued IN spite Of 81 at
tacks Of police. There are 100000
registered unemployed now and the
figure is rising. "Work or full
maintenance" is the slogan, together
with demand that those who cannot
pay rent have their rent paid by the
municipality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20

BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail
service) THE exhibition death
and Terror in Yugoslavia" is being
we'll visited by thousands of Berlin
workers. The exhibition shows the
regime of terror in Yugoslavia
against the workers and peasants
and exposes the bloody deeds of the
ruling classes there. Under such
circumstances, of course, the Berlin
police could not remain idle, but i'm
mediately interviewed in favor of the
bloody fascist military dictatorship.
The police visited the exhibition
and confiscated the text of the Law
for the Protection of the State in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20
Miller Tells Why AFL
Won't Admit Negroes

(COntinued from Page ORe)
black workers 20 organize into our
union under equal conditions.
Miller pointed out that white and
Negro organizers of the N.T.W.UY
as well as of the Trade Union Unity
League, are now organizing in the
South-at the risk of their lives.
"Our organizers never know if they
will be ly1ched during the day or
not" -.iller said. He declared the
workers had formed armed squads
to defend the organizers.
No Discrimination.
According to the words of Hill,
as far back as 1918 the National
Urban League asked the federation
to take active steps to bring Negro
workers within the movement.
"What did Bill Green and COM
pany do?
Nothing!
"Take the record of our union.
The Charlotte conference Of the
Trade Union Unity League and the
N.TW.U. on October IL and 13,
found for the first time in the his
tory of the South that white and
Negro workers We're mingling as
equals, they were in a union which
recognized no color lines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20

South African reports show that
the Negro masses exploited and OPP
pressed by British imperialism are
rising to struggle against their OPP
pressers, demonstrations of some
kind concealed by the censorship adj
n1ittedly having taken place in
many sections, it being stated that
n Carnavon, Cape Colony, the