The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-08-17

one of these days. Office boy Hitler
will go out on his ear.
The danger is that when it starts
the reaction against industrialist rule
will be equally far toward the left
extreme
Meanwhile the whole works is a
powder keg out of which anything
can be hurtled into the world atmos-
phere.
Once it was popular to refer to
many daily newspapers as the kept
press" There is much good reason to
revive the label and pin it on some
of the biggest daily newspapers of
the land.
The kept press pours forth it's blah
against the unionization of labor. 1t
weeps crocodile tears for the Fright"
OF the worker to keep out of the
union, and bargain for himself. 1t
parades in mock mourning for the
passing of those dear company un-
ions in whose eyes the corporation
could do no wrnng
The kept press is making holy
spectacle of itself
And if the wage earners had about
the newspapers the good sense they
are showing about most other things
today we should have a great band of
strong weekly newspapers and an
adequate number of fighting daily
newspapers. First, strong weeklies;
then alert dailies ready and eager to
b con the job in every phase of the
struggle.
Every labor newspaper, this one in
cluded, needs much more support than
it is getting, needs more of the 10y
atty of the members of the organiza-
tions of it's community. Newspapers
are made good and then made better
by and through the support of read
erS.
Newspapers can fight battles when
they are supported properly.
Tomorrow's battles will be bigger
than those of today. The first thing
every organization clamors for in a
struggle is a voice-a newspaper.
Newspapers can be strong for con-
fiict only when they are made strong
when there is no conflict
Spread the great gospel of stronger
the payment of benefits in time of
labor newspapers-and more of them.
Read this newspaper; pass it along;
get other readers.
Unions build up great reserves for
struggle. The voice is as important
as the commissary in time of strug-
gle.
The voice prevents deception. 1t
holds the lines straight.
The bitter fate of many lost bat
tie has been wrapped up in package
made out of the kept press.
The tide of victory in many
struggle has been turned by labor
paper that had the strength and the
courage to tell the truth.
And yet there are plenty of union
men who give no thought to their
press
The first thing tyrants do is to
muzzle the press. That's how vital is
the press. Tyrants know. The ranks
of democracy are slow to learn their
own needs.
Tyrants muzzle the press because a
free and fearless press is bad for tyr
anny-industria as we'll as political.
1t matters little how small free
newspaper may be. 1t is the freedom
| that counts. If there is virility, size
| is a matter of mechanical expansion.
easy, rapid.
But if lack of size is due to utter
lack of support, to a blank and woeful
failure on the part of the rank and
file to care about their voice, then
when struggle comes it is usually too
bad
There needs to be some lash of scor-
pions to bring American labor to a
realization of its need for stronger
press. Every labor newspaper in the
land needs more support.
Employers know what to do and
thus we have the kept press. Labor
wants, not kept press, but support
ed press for the sake of human prog
ress and human freedom.
Demand the union label and show