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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
MUTUAL EMPLOYMENT

From the standpoint of common
sense the breakdown or curtailment
of business is about the silliest exhi-
bition this silly world has ever given.
The world is full as never before of
insistent economic demand and of the
means of supplying it. People want
more and can have more than ever,
and they are receiving less and CIV
ing less. The world abounds in the
substance of wealth and seeths with
need of it.
Owners would give their souls to
sell their goods for other goods and
services, and the highest ambition of
workless millionaires is to buy. We
have practically excluded 100000
people and their dependents from
the national economic circle, and yet
growing population has always
been esteemed the very cornerstone
of abounding prosperity.
Now this ostracized segment of our
population is giving us a sardonic
demonstration of our asininity.
Through direct barter and scrip, they
who were denied work in the normal
way and were deprived of purchas-
ing power are to an important extent
employing each other and buying
from themselves. Being denied access
to regular money as their medium of
exchange, they have created their
own. Yet they had far greater buying
power and social efficiency before
they were cast out because society
couldn't keep its economic machine
going full time, although they were
competent to pay their own way and
more
If a foreign power should under
take to annex a territory inhabited
by one-ffth of our people and cut
us off from all commercial relations
with it, we would fight as we never
fought before. But for the time be.
ing we face substantially the same
condition-except that we are spend
ing hundreds of millions of dollars
to support the economic expatriots
1t doesn't make sense.-Wall Street
Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
BAD NEWS FROM GERMANY

Startling reports of the reign of
terror instituted by Hitler's dictator
ship are coming out of Germany. Ref
ugees escaping to neighboring coun-
tries are telling almost incredible
stories of Nazi brutality. Yet there
is no doubt that many of the reports
of outrage and cruelty are true.
Germany at present is one more
object lesson in the danger of die
tatorial power. 1t is a sorry spectacle
"a bitter disappointment to believ-
ers in democracy all over the world
who had hoped for much from the
German republic. The only hope for
democracy in Germany seems to be
in the middle classes and the power
full trade union movement, now ap-
parently helpless but perhaps bding
their time for the opportunity to oust
the gang that is disgracing their
country.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
MACHINERY AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Kmba, college engineering Cornell
University of Science
and has been the primary Of unemployment
Kmba abosplacing machinery under the
present economic system Machinery
breah thinks But machinery controlled by those who own
installed for the of displacng
working machines of
enable workers produce large output
methods
machinery.
automatically machines owned and used to impair
security unemployment
When operating modern machine does the work
formerly when operating glass tube
formerly 600 skilled hand womn
operating light machine takes the
place machinery tens of
possible for workers with the
workers could produce by
hand metowen authenticated idle
Kmba other consecraed to the ppe OF hou
try operated solely those who to declare that
machinery impair the security the workers and create
millions of obess.
Federation of Labor covered this
question nwthp precision declared:
it made 1t becomes
menace is used to dispace him
purpose machine tighten the burden of labor
needs accomplished
in shorter time"
Those who own and control our industries
used mankind They have
selfish for the purpose maxi
profit regardless of the interests of the workers ana
the people generally
They have installed machinery industry They
have day week
portion productivity of machine labor Without the qu'ver
Of an yesh discarded workers the bread
them and their families to poverty ana
provided by private and public charity
which should be used to ghen the
exclusively for the benefit OF the
pofteers industry with the ob millions and their fames
in poverty a destituton
and the fvdy week. which demanded by the
of
could be made blessing for all ont then VIII
social
industry based on the relentless
the workers. should find defender
the dean of the college of Cornell University
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31

imentation" has an unpleasant con-
notation for free men, no matter in
how attractice a guise it may be pre-
sented. The word smacks of army
camps and automatic military disci-
pline, which have their proper place,
but which are not intended for free
American workers in civil pursuits.
The proposal that wages of 81 day
be paid in the camps does not appeal,
either, despite the assurance that the
men will not compete with free labor.
While men employed at reforestra-
ton and similar work might not in
sense compete with free labor, the
pay they receive would inevitably
have it's effect on wage scales gen.
orally. If the pay was only ST day,
further "defation" of labor in private
industry would be greatly encouraged
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
ORGANIZATION MAINTAINS
RIGHTS

Mortgage ridden farmers are CIV
ing the nation a striking example of
the value of organization. Confronted
with the loss of their homes through
foreclosure, they are standing solidly
together and defending themselves as
they never could as individuals How
effective their resistance is is pointed
out by the American Federationist,
which says:
Threatened with foreclosures that
put them at an enormous disadvan-
tage, farmers have organized in self
defense. They have prevented fore
closure sales or bought in the farms,
cattle, tools and household goods for
a nominal sum. The result is to save
the farmers their land and to assure
our nation food producers of expe-
rience with substantial interest in the
national welfare.
There is lesson being taught the
nation in this farmer revolt 1t is
that organization maintains rights
when intelligently and purposely di
rected."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31

and the creation of debts here and
abroad that have resulted in many
failures, and the sure Reputation of
many of the foolish loans made to
foreign governments and foreign
manufacturers.
Thousands are on the verge of a
hunger where reason steps out and the
law of self-satisfaction and self-pre-
servation takes full swing.
The employers who have reduced
wages thus reducing purchasing
power of those who are employed in
addition to the almost total lack of
purchasing power of the more than
twelve million unemployed, cannot es-
cape their share of the cause and
continuance of the depression, with
its want an unprecedented suffering.
The hours to toll, as the first real
move for better conditions, must be
limited to thirty a week. When this
is in operation wages must be raised
to a point that will enable the pro-
ducing masses to buy what they pro-
duce
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
SUCH A HEADACHE

Old Boy Depression has been on a
spree for well nigh four years, and
has left nearly everybody up in the
air with bad headache.
All people are doing some thinking
Some are doing hard thinking. What
will be the harvest of much thought /?
We are going somewhere. Nobody
with common sense pretends to know
just where or whe nwe shall arrive.
But everyone knows that we are on
our way. We cannot stand still. We
shall go forward or backward.
Organized labor is the only organ
lied force that has so far pointed
the sure way to a substantial. pro-
gressive future for all concerned.
The bankers are wholly responsi.
BILE for the over-extension of credit
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
DOESN'T FIT

Somehow or other, the threatened
cut in pay for government employees
doesn't seem to fit into the financial
and economic picture now being
painted before the eyes of America.
Currency expansion, there has
been. Whether it's imitation depends.
In any event, the trend of commodity
prices should be upward.
Then why lowering of the buy
ing power of such a large classifca-
tion of workers?
1t is to be recalled, too, that only
per cent of the federal tax dollar
goes for the payment of wages of
employees
Saving to be effected by Is per
cent cut in pay, as proposed, will pro-
duce no real effect on taxation, as
can easily be determined by mathe-
matics.
Daytonians can just as easily figure
that the proposed economy is going to
affect real hardship on their city,
far outweighing any possible benefits
that might be obtained loclaly.
There are in this district upwards
of 5000 government employees, includ-
ing those in the postal service, at the
air fields and at the military home.
The combined reduction in the buy
ing power of this large group will be
considerable and will place still
another handicap on an already
strained economic structure.
Other cities will experience simila,
reactions, doubtless, causing even the
calloused of wage cutters to wonde,
if, after all, it pays to consistently
undermine the purchasing power Of
the masses.
The trend in wages should be up
instead of down at this time.-Tht
labor Union, Dayton, Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
The Cherry
- Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

So they pinched Charley Mitchell
and dragged him forth and made him
post bond and all those things that
go with crime and alleged crime.
They say they're going to give
Mitchell "the works." charging him
with ducking lot of income tax
while head of the National City
Bank, which is John D. Rockefeller's
other name.
Well, as to the outcome, we wait
to observe
Meanwhile, there's something else
in the air.
The National City, now headed by
James H. Perkins, and Chase Ma
tional, now headed by Winthrop w.
Aldrich, are in battle array.
Back of them are two colossal fig
ures, Rockefeller and Morgan.
The juicy low dow non the whole
mess is that Morgan has gone to wal
with Rockefeller
Chase National pours forth stories
. of repentance and plans for divorcine
its securities affiliate Thus it spouts
high ethics to show how National City
is persisting in being bad.
Why did Morgan go to war will
Rockefeller?
Or why did Rockefeller go to wal
4 with Morgan?
1 Gentlemen, here is news in the raw
I so it seems.
Morgan got himself into Continen
/ tai Oil.
Rockefeller regarded oil as th
Rockefeller preserve, industry as tn,
Morgan field.
So, by words, gestures, long nose
or what have you, Mr.. Rockefelle
let it be known to Mr.. Morgan tina
the House of Rockefeller was dis
pleased-and how!
1t is whispered that the Rockefelle
forces conveyed to the Morgan force
that it would be much nicer if Nor
gan forces got himself out o
oil. whereat the Morgan force
laughed long and deep and said, ctr
and get us out"
National City and Chase Nationa
are the front doors of the two houses
They are fighting, not battle owe
ethics, to see which can be best an
most patriotic. They are fighting
battle over oil-oil in America an
oil throughout the world.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
WHAT NEXT?

A new automatic machine weighs
the desired quantity of any free flow
ing material, pours it in bag and
seals the bag. The machine weighs
ont the material on an automatic
scale, delivers it to hopper mounted
on revolving turret, whence it is
poured into bag resting on a con-
veyor which joggles the bag during
filling to settle the contents. After
being filled, the machine sews the bag
shut and seals it with pasted seal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
Endersod by the Trades anA Labsr
Council q xsniltsa. ohio
kndsrsed BY the Midtown Trades
and Lsbof Counedl Of MlAdlst0Wn, q.
FRIDAY, MARCH 81, 1888
THE sWEATSHOP MENACE

The sweatshop Is not a new racket
1t is an old racket revived. But in
these days it is even more of vicious
anomaly than it was 25 or 80 years
ago. Standards have been much
higher in recent years than in the
period when the sweatshop was in its
heyday, and there is not the slight
est shadow of excuse for its exist
ence now,
Unemployment is responsible for
the revival of the sweatshop. I'm
scrupulous employers, taking advan-
tage Of the plight of the unemployed
have cut the wages of unorganized
workers to a starvation level. Women
arc lucky if at the end of a long,
exhausting week they earn So. Work
ers are being degraded and submerged
to degree hard to believe.
Sweatshops, if permitted to thrive,
will inevitably reduce all wages.
Legitimate manufacturers will be
ruined by unfair competition. Pur
chasing power will be destroyed and
business recovery prevented.
Revival of the sweatshop is a chal-
lenge to every patriotic citizen.
There must be concerted action to
drive out sweatshops, by passage of
adequate hours and wage laws and
their strict enforcement. There is no
time to be lost and action is the de-
mand of the hour. Otherwise labor,
industry and the nation as whole
will suffer grievously
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
BREWERS TO MEET
DEMAND FOR BEER

Chicago (ILNS) Millions of bar
rels of beer, properly aged and hav-
ing an alcoholic content in conform
ity with the new beer law, wuold be
available at retail within "a hours
after legilization, Joseph Dublin, edi-
tor of the Brewery Age, said.
There are 146 licensed near-beer
breweries," Dublin said. "These brew
cries have in storage from 100000
to 100000 barrels of brew. To place
this on sale would merely involve a
slight change in the de-alcoholizing
process used now to produce near
beer. The de-alcoloholizing process
follows the aging period"
Dispatches from New York, Gin
cinnati and other centers told of the
preparations of brewers to make quick
distribution of their product as soon
as the law permits.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
FREEDOM MUST BE EXERCISED

The federal constitution was not the
act that made the people of this ma
tion free. 1t was the determination
of our forefathers to exercise their
freedom, which made them free men.
1t was their successful resistance
against the tyranny of Great Britain
which established their freedom, for
the Declaration of independence and
the federal constitution are evidence
in themselves that they were docu-
ments prepared by men who had al
ready established their freedom, who
realized what their rights were as
free men, and who were determined
TO protect these rights with their
lives if necessary.
Human liberty is something which
must be continually exercised if it is
to live. Liberty, human liberty, is
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31

Knowing these things it is possi-
BILE to see lot of things in the news
that are told only between the lines.
Chances are that Morgan grins at
National City's discontinue, while
Rockefeller grins at any Chase Ma
tional discontinue.
The Peruvian bond story must
have been great meat. And there IS
lot more good meat coming.
We shall see what we shall see and
perhaps because of the senatorial
plague on both their houses, the pub
lie may gain some in the end.
Meanwhile 1t is well to have the
hokum labelled, so that we may know
the trend and the meaning as events
unfold
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
Parade and Meeting Urge
New Trial of Tom Mooney

San Francisco (ILNS)-A "free
Tom Mooney" parade and mass meet
ing were held here March 10, with
Lincoln Steffens, noted writer, speak
ing at the meeting, held in the civic
auditorium. Resolutions were adopt
ed urging the trial of Mooney on a
murder indictment still pending
against him in superior court. Mooney
his supporters contend, was convicted
on perjured evidence of completely
in the bombing Of the San Francisco
Preparedness Day parade Of 1915.
He is serving life sentence.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Wake Up Your Liver Bile
Without caIomeI

II this bile = not flowing freely. your food
dossn't digest II just decays In the bowels.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You have Q
thick. bad taste and your breath Il foul. akin
often breaks out In bismishss. Your head
aches and you feel down and out. Your whole
system u poisoned.
Ittakss those good old dCARTER'SLIrrI.B
LIvERPILLS to get these two pounds Of bile
flowing freely and make you fee, "up and up."
They contain wonderful. harmless. gentle
vegetable extracts. amazing when it comes -
making the bile dow frseIy.
But don't ask for liver pills. Ask for Cartss's
Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Cartsr's
Little Liver Pills on the red label. Resent
substitute. 2Scat all stores. Q 1891. C. Ia. Co.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
And You'll Jump Out of Bed
in the Morning Karin to Go

If you feel sour and sunk and the
world looks punk, don't swallow lot
Of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative
candy or chewing gum and expect
them to make you suddenly sweet
and buoyant and full of sunshine.
For they can't do it. They only
move the bowels and mere move
ment doesn't get at the cause. The
reason for your down-and-out feeling
is your liver. II should pour out two
pounds of liquid bile into your bowels
daily.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
Nevada Labor Supports
Anti-InjunctiOn Bill

Carson City, Nev.-President B. b.
Wartman and Vice President Gene
Keefe, of the Reno Central Trades
and Labor Council, and Harry Hey
wood, delegate to the council from
the Reno Painters Union, spent sew
eral days here in the interest of the
anti-injunction bill introduced in the
state legislature at the request of the
Nevada State Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Keefe explained the bill in de-
tail to the senate committee in charge
of the measure. He reported that the
prospects for the enactment Of the
bill were bright.
The Nevada anti-injunction bill is
patterned after the Norris -LaGuardia
bill which was enacted into federal
law last year by the United States
congress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
WISDOM

Many man thinks that it is his
goodness that keeps him from crime
when it is only his full stomach. On
half allowance he would be as ugly
and knavish as anybody. Do not mis-
take potatoes for principles.-Thomas
Carlyle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
RECOMMENDATION NOT WANTED

Labor looks with suspicion on any
plan for the RECOMMENDATION" of un-
employed men in camps for refores-
tration and other conservation work,
as is now proposed. That word "reg-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31

similar to our muscular systems. If
we fail to take physical exercise our
muscles not only grow weak and
fiabby, but may in time became afro
phied
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31
Indiana Legislature Bans
"Jim Grow" in Employment

indianapolis, Ind. (ILNS)-lndiana
now has state law providing that
contractors doing work for the state
must not discriminate against work
ers Of any race or color who apply
for jobs. Gov. Paul v. McNutt sign
ed the bill March IL.
Representative Henry j. Richard
son drew the bill on the model OF one
sent him in January by the national
office of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
The N. A. A. C. P. has been carrying
on a nationwide campaign to Danish
discrimination against Negro work
men, especially on federal, state and
municipal projects, and threw the
weight of it's Indiana branches and
the national office behind the Indiana
bill.
Albany. N. Y. (ILNS)-A bill pro-
hibiting discrimination in giving en-
ployment on state construction be-
cause of race or color has been intro
duced in the New York assembly by
Assemblyman James Fl. Stephens, OF
New York city. Stephens bill IS
Identical with the bill passed by the
Indiana legislature.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-03-31

Happiness is perfume you cannot
pour on others without getting few
drops on yourself. Emerson.
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
YELLOWSTONE
TALES NEARLY
SET RECORDS

YELLOWSTONE PARK, wyo.,
July 81. U.PJ-Yellowstone National
Park, where nature cuts some fancy
capers, is the birthplace of many
tall stories" The tall story" sea-
son is open.
One was related by Capt. Stew
ard D. Campbell, OF the adjutant
generals office at Washington, D.
lC.
While casting into the Yellow
stone River, Campbell hooked a 10
inch trout. He tossed it back in the
river, declaring that it was too
small.
On his next cast the trout fol.
lowed the line back and flopped up
on the bank at his feet. The cap
tain tossed the trout back. The fish
repeated the performance.
This time Campbell was discour-
aged.
Sucker" he growled and hurled
the fish into mid d-stream. Evident
ly the fish could not find its way
back and gave up the idea.
A Seattle, Wash, policeman be-
acme doubtful about the saying,
"a bird in the hand is worth two
in the bush.'
Officer I. A. Clark was using a
300-foot line, weighted with lead,
in his attempt to catch a big one.
He whirled the weighted line about
his head and cast.
One of his casts wrapped around
sea gull's wings as it started up
from the river.
The gull flew away with the line
and pulled the reel out Of Clark's
pocket. Clark chased his catch. The
line became entangled and he was
able to land the bird.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-31
FIRE: BRINGS
SANTA CLAUS

WASHINGTON, July 81. U.Pi -
Two thousand children CT two
Maine towns, Ellsworth and Au-
burn, recently were the recipients
of gifts of thousands of toys of all
kinds, given them by the National
Junior Red Cross.
The towns both were destroyed
by fire last month, and relief for
the hundreds of families, who lost
all their possessions, was provided
by the National Red Cross.
The Junior organization, how
ever, realized that the younger
children would be badly in need of
something with which to occupy
themselves until the cities were re-
built and normal life resumed.
Hence a drive was started to gather
all the toys possible.
Junior Red Cross societies of
Washington, D. c., Bridgeport
Conn; Portland, Me-; MiddIeSoro
and Boston, Mass; Concord, N. H.;
New York, White Plains and
Poughkeepsie, N. Y; and Norfolk
Va, supplied the playthings. In
addition to these, some organiza-
tions sent money with which to pur-
chase other articles.
The toys were distributed at spe-
cial parties held in Auburn and
Ellsworth by the Junior Red Cross.