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The Labor Advocate "A PAPER FOR ALL WHO TO IV Official Organ of the Building Trades Council of Cincinnati and Vicinity INDEPENDENT NON-PARTISAN q: Vol. III. No. 27 .rf. - CINCINNATI, OHIO, OCTOBER 23, 1915 One Dollar a Year B Jfr ! Repudiates "Catholic Dry League9' ( Archbishop Asserts That It Misuses Church's Name Condemns the Movement as a Palpable Fraud Because Bishops of Ohio Cannot, In Conscience, Indorse What Is Contrary To Doctrine Archbishop Moeller, ranking prelate in the hierarchy of Ohio, yesterday re pudiated the so-called Catholic Prohibi tion League of Ohio and stated that the organization's use of tlte name Catholic is "misleading, unwarranted and unau thorized." "I known that I have not ap proved any organization of that char acter, and T can say the same for Bishop Hartley, of Columbus ; Bishop Schrembs, of Toledo, and Bishop Farrelly, of Cleve land," said the Archbishop. "The very purpose of the organization is contrary to the Catholic doctrine of freedom of the will and, obviously, none of the churches' Bishops can do other wise than repudiate the same. It may be that one or two Catholics, for reasons of their own, have banded together in an organization of this kind, but that is their own affair. They have no right, however, to make it appear that the Ca tholic Church as such is behind the movement or even that it has the moral support of any of the Bishops of this state. Movement Is a Fraud. "In their attempt to accomplish what, I contend, legislation will never bring about, prohibitionists have not hesitated to go to any extreme, and the advertise ments now appearing in the newspapers seeking to impress the public that the Catholic church is supporting this move ment, bears out this fact and is a palpa- i blc fraud. "As the head of this metropolitan See, 1 wish to emphasize, that no Catholic layman or priest has the right to use the name of the Catholic church as an in ? dorser of any movement without the 'JWianctipn-of.thc,.-Bishop of tllU4lisicc,sc,iu proper authorities to say what is Calho- , lie and what is not. The Bishops of ! Ohio have not as yet delegated this au thority, and it is certainly unbecoming, , to say the least, for those in no way associated with the church to make un warranted use of its name to further their hobbies. "For the reasons stated above, I ab solutely repudiate the so-called Catholic Prohibition League of Ohio and con demn the same in so far as the .use of the name Catholic may indicate that it has the official sanction of the church or the' hierarchy of this state." Columbus Prelate Quoted. The Archbishop then called attention to an utterance of Bishop Hartley, of Columbus, in which that prelate says that "The Catholic Prohibition League is the contradiction in terms adopted by a new set allied to the Anti-Saloon Lea gue. How strangely out of joint js the word Catholic in such an association. The old heretical sect of the nianachees, undone by the logic and eloquence of St. Augustine, finds its counterpart on our own soil in the prohibition party." Speaking of the attempt of some Ca tholics to bring the church into politics, the Columbus prelate says: "How wan ton and false are the movements of those who would dishonor their royal mother by attempting to make her a scullion in political trickery." BUILDING SUB-CONTRACTS ONE GOOD TERM DESERVES ANOTHER K-lB Mil H Building Trades Council Receives an Invitation To Parade From the Hamilton County Home Rule As sociation The Same Was Simply Received and . Filed Members Participate, It Must Be As Individuals The building trades council was call- Metal Workers Association was read ed to order by President, Jas. A. Cullen. ( and referred to the Board of Business The minutes of the previous meeting agents, were read and adopted. j Business Agent Hock's report was An invitation from Geo. Schott, grand read and adopted, marshal of the parade of the Ohio ! The Labor Day committee reported County Home Rule Association was ' progress. read. It declared for personal liberty I All trades reported business good, and requested the members to rally to I Under the good and welfare of the the colors, as all the industries of Ohio Council several speeches were made on were at stake. It was moved and se- i the different bond issues which are short conded that it be received and filed. j ly to be voted upon, but no official ac The contract of the Amalgamated , tion was taken, after which the Council Sheet Metal Workers with Master Sheet adjourned. K.MIMIATIC OPPOSITION" TNACHKHS AtJAIN" ATTACKED. To Prohibition Voiced By Ohio La bor Federation, Voll Says. Columbus, Ohio. Declaring the at titude of the Ohio State Federation of Labor in its recent meeting, on the question of prohibition, had been stated incorrectly, President John A. Voll, of , Zanesville, tonight made public the fol ' lowing statement : "The dispatch from Mansfield to a Cincinnati paper, saying the Ohio Fcder- Chicago. The Chicago Board of Edu cation, which was recently ordered to re frain from enforcing its anti-union rule against members of the Teachers' Fed eration, has passed another resolution which, it is hoped, will overcome Judge O'Conner's objection to their trade un ion antagonism. Members of the board believe that with the change they will have an easier time in their light to gain a dissolution of the injunction in a high er court. Judge O'Conner held that the tirst ation of Labor was cautious almost to resolution passed by the board included the extent of being, noncommittal on membership in the National Education the question ot prohibition, was a gross Association, the Illinois Mate teachers Jiiisrruitinnjjhe.;. Jjf jdr4i()ctiiiaiiditlc.peiisiiiTfj8l)d .iueuerauon aiiu-iis- imure pnucy luivara tm.o removi e prohibition menace, that is threatening tion or association of trade unions is thousands of wage earners in our State, , inimical to proper discipline, prejudicial but is conclusive evidence that the la- to the efficiency of the teaching force, borers of Ohio, through free and full and detrimental to the welfare of the dieussion, will continue to oppose the , public school sytem ; therefore such foutitl that thi' accounting system had been' prohibition agitation, the real purpose ot ! membership or affiliation is hereby pro- ...i..i. :.. ..i i..i.nH ..-.... i;....;....? i -i ..i ..- u ..- ..!...-, .::.. winen is m women Lumi uiuMi.auuiin iiimieu, as wen as ictiineis ijiK,iuiuiiuii and the economic force through which which have officers, business agents, or labor is slowly but gradually bettering j other representatives who are not niem couditions of the wage earners of our )ers of the teaching force." State and nation." JOHN' D. WAS NOT VISITKD. SHEET METAL WORKERS WILLIAM (BILL) LEIMANN City Auditor, Employer of Organized Labor, ami Candidate for Ile Kleejion On the Itcpiililicnn Ticket. When .Mr. Ijcimuuii look olliclal charge of the City Auditor's olllce on January 1st, 1914, hi installed by a leading; ccrtiiied public accountant (luring the lute summer of lOl.'J, and under which system it Balance Sheet of the City's Finan cial condition was shown for the mouth of August, 1913. Nothing had been done from that time, and, as a consequence, the olllce work, so far as the accounting' was concerned, was four months in arrears at the time of Mr. Iiciinnnu's induction into ollice. Steps were at once taken for a readjustment of salaries, and, notwithstanding the addition of one more clerk to the working force, there was still a reduction in the total of the payroll. Jjong before the close of the year 1914 the accounting work of t lit' ollice was gotten so well in haud'that complete balance sheets were shown not. later than thirty days after the close of each preceding month, and which condition is still in effect. Mr. Lelmimii had the honor and pleasure .of presenting the Ills! com plete and comprehensive Annual Iteport (for the year 191-1) issued by the City, and which report was favorably commented on by leading public accountants through their personal letters to Mr. Lciiunnn. KXCOUItAttH KFKICIKNCV. YOTK KOK IjKIMAXX. prohibition. The State Federation' of Labor declared expressly against pro hibition, there being only eight ' votes against the declaration out of Mil pres ent. "This expression not only shows the attitude of the Pcderation against the e tins objection, ttie board is forced to take a positive stand, and declare, by the following change, that the light is solely a denial of the. right of teachers to join a trade union : "Membership by teachers in labor un ions or in organizations of teachers af filiated with a trade union or a federa- ENDORSE WITT AND MALL0YrilKS,o1leUV"r.,5,S lie visited by delegations of unionists At ilu-ir mi'i'tinir last Monday niuht. I wl"'ll! m his. v'sit to M"'8 State- Xews: Ml ell- jl'ai'eis Liwciuii inntii tivi inuii. yn or City ' ln,s young man aim iruiiieu ihiuih.ii auenis wave wine ciri-uuuiuii iu ins un tile Sheet Metal Workers. No dorsed Hon. Richard 11. Witt Treasurer, and lion. J no. J. Malloy for Municipal Judge, and notified all their j members of the fact, requesting that tliev vine for these two gentlemen. MACIIIXISTS UAISK WACKS. Factory A one-story addition, 7-1x82 feet, and one 110x210 feet, for plant at Oakley, O. (suburb). Ownerv the Modern Foundry Co.; architects, Zettel & Kapp, Johnston Building, Cincinnati, O. Contracts awarded as follows : Car penter work, the M. Marcus Building Co.; concrete work, the L. Eid Concrete Steel Co.; plumbing. Lamping Bros. Factory Addition, one story high, OOx 22.') feet, to factory at Oakley, O. (sub urb). Owner, the Cincinmti Milling Machine Co.; architects, Zctttl & Kapp, Johnston Building, Cincinnati, O. Con tracts awarded as follows: Carpenter work, the M. Marcus Building Co.; con crete work, the L. Eid Concrete Steel Co.; plumbing, to Lamping Bros. School A public school building, of brick construction, to be built on Clifton Heights. Newport, Iy. Owner, built on Warren avenue, Clifton, Cincin nati, O. Owner, F. B. Strunz; architect, O. C. Burroughs, Union Trust Building, Cincinnati, O. Contracts awarded as follows: Carpenter work, Jas. Griffith it Sous Co.; excavation, Peter Kebrer it Son; plumbing, Henry Niemes; tile work, A. Schirmer; brick work, Piatt & Dickinson ; glass work, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.; roofing, Janzen & Co.; wiring, A. Wottitz; plastering, Wcrko witz it Meier; painting, R. C. Borden; cement work, Clias. V. Maescher & Co. Garage A two-story building, ."0x11(1 feet, to be erected at 2.'U(i Gilbert ave nue. Owner. 11. W. Fenker it Co.; architects, Stewart it Stewart, Bell Walsh; architects, Samuel Hannaford it Sons, Hulbert Block. Cincinnati, O. Contracts awarded as follows : Excava tion, masonry and rubble stone, Otto Kaiser; cement work, Clias. V. Mae scher it Co.; carpenter work, Jas. Grif fith & Sons Co.; brick and cut stone work, Piatt it Dickinson ; plastering and stonekote, Mulvahill it Kennedy; elec tric wiring, C. W. Wells; glazing, the II. Neuer Glass Co.; tile work, the Mar tina Mosaics Co.; hardwood lloor, the Kroger-Jacobs Floor Co. nounced plans, which would have a tine background if the story could be told how he received committees representing organized workers and how they listened with abated breath to the visitor's theor of "a new democracy of labor." j But no unionists appeared. In fact. San Francisco. As a result of con- i these workers exhibited an aggravated ferences between the iron trades council I amount of independence and seemed to and the California Metal Trades Asso-i yet remember Ludlow and the brutal ciation, the pay for all machinists, begin-1 anti-union policy of the Colorado Fuel ninir rvtiilier '.. will be increased from I and Iron Cotunanv. which has not been $:.."() to $:i.7.'i. and on December 12 the j repudiated by Mr. Rockefeller. The or- I he ! gaiuzed workers took the positiontnat it ! he was in. Colorado to find the facts it ' was 1111 to him to ask a conference. This position was practically the same as that of the State Federation of Labor con vention, which almost unanimously re- inmimuin will be increased 10 . eight-hour day will prevail. TOKOXTO WAITICKS KTIMIU At.'AIXST I'UIVATK POUCH. Tucson. Arizona. Ditcussmg the evils 1 eral walk out Toronto. Waiters employed at the 1 Royal Cafe struck against a wage reduc 1 tion of :':i 1-" per cent. These workers 1 accepted a .$." a month cut recently, be cause of the proprietor's "hard times" plea, the second cut resulted in a gen- jected a resolution to invite linn to ad dress that body. I!l; DIV1DKXDS. of private armies, maintained by cor- lllock, Cincinnati, O. J be following porations, President warren mane tins )VK WOUKKItS HX.IOIXKI). contracts have been awarded: Brick report to the state federation of. labor j work, George Cornuelle; cut stone, W. convention : . ,,,,, 1 1 1 C. Lang & Co.; roofing, Breese Bros. "We must insist upon the enactment Chicago, III. Judge Jesse Baldwin Co- iilnsterimr. A. Sicuman: vault, the f .1 law which will prevent a private has issued a temporary- injunction tbeiVirtnr Safe and Lock Co.: reinforced corporation from constituting itself an , against member ot the Uy solicitors, agents of tl and II Oil' L. Or- of the ' 1 f l?.l .- I.:..-,. C 1 -.... .....rl.. Uw. i.c ini.n.i.nn. I i ,.w!..in.i il int linlfi liriwer. S II1L law ! WUIKCIS UIIIUII .will .'. I x. TT.mW rn.iim..rri.il Tribune Build- School BuildinL's Five build nirs. to ' now stands, a private corporation can gamzer blood, togethei with their at 7 T? . . .... ...-.. 1 t. ..-..-! ... ... ....... .... ....II Ifirmii' rinrinnnti. (). I ontracts awarded he erected at line avenue ami iwau son employ aim arm as many men .is wm .......-.,- Minneapolis, Minn. The Labor Re view vouches for the truthfulness of this story: The Milk Wagon Drivers Union was organized three years ago with dues of $12 per year. In the three years which have elapsed since the union 'was organized, the wages of the mem bers have been increased on the average to the amount of $240. Total dues paid per member for the three years is $0; $240 is i6iVb P-'r cent dividend on the of $:iO. In addition to tne m r ..., ..- . - XT- 1.. II' t. c.l 1 ." ... I f, tl,.,.,, ...,.l ii.linr. vnllls' ' lllVCSt UCIU as to ows: Larpenter and mill worK, road, ior me r.asi iigm ingu ocnooi. agree 10 ueai mnu " i....., ..... ...... ........ ,i.;tt f,, i.,,rttc in iir,. the drivers have se- R. C. Koch; excavation and foundation, ! Owner, the Board of Education of Cin- ever this is attempted a condition ob- All these are ordered to les ist fro in bene It s in wagLs, ,'e of fourteen days Gibser Bros.; painting, O. B. Minn & cinnati, O.; architects, Garber & Wood- tains wherein otherwise peaceful com- aimounc.ng that the dye house of Jo-1 cure lie athairtafct ot 'r''1 "?; C ; pla teri.g, Wm.'Leininger; plumb-! ward, Union Central Buihling, Cincin- munitics are resolved into armed resist-' seph kaulman is unfair to o gan.ze 1 oft Ir ng tl e V'1' ' ' , ' . " hig Bcrger & Schmitz; structural iron nati, O. Contract awarded to the ance against such attempts to overawe labor, and the Unionists are debarred recently si gi.e a na.Kc" '12' '" work L J Rowekamp roofing, the Ferro Concrete Construction Co. Cost, ' and intimidate them. The, irresponsible from inducing patrons to refrain "V "L'L? er month This s one of laco Freund Rooting Co. ; heating John .$455,40, ' and privately owned and privately armed patronizing this p ace. or m any man- wages of . per niont 1 . us is one 01 Svekci &' Co dectric wiring to be Residence- A two-story brick resi- gumnau is the proximate cause of sveh ner interfering with ;.. S;w!"fs Siclf mult from a Porter Co. dence, to be built on Ludlow and Gano industrial disturbance now so widely A 1110 ion to make he order perma- f lancia ret r s .h L sult Residence-A stucco residence, to be avenues, Clifton. Owner, Mrs. Mary C. prevalent throughout the country." ne.it will be heard October Is. progressi.e, militant union.