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VOL. XIII. NO. 14
SYMBOL OF HELPFULNESS.
Arizona Legislator Pays a Glowing
Tribute to Trade Emblem—Declares
It Is Recognition of the Golden
Rule—8ign of Noble Objects.
According to the Typographical Jour
nal, an effort was made In the recent
session of the Arizona legislature to
rescind the order providing that the
union label appear on the stationery
used by that body, but the motion was
lost, due In no small degree to a speech
made by Senator II. A. Davis, a mem
ber of the Typographical union. Dur
ing the course of his remarks the sen
ator said:
"From assertions made
that
has
been
kp&,
y
a
What
trial day."
STANDS FOR GOOD
j* jt REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TRADE UNION LABEL Jt
In
this dis­
cussion it is plain that some members
have a very limited conception of what
the union label stands for—of the prin
ciple evidenced by the appearance of
the union label upon a piece of print
ed
matter. Perhaps some senators
here do not realize that the principles
of
unionism are interwoven into the
basic law of this state. Perhaps they
do
not know that the Typographical
union, to which I belong, has operated
life its own affairs the principle of the
recall For many years it has had as
principles in its government the initia
tive and the referendum.
"Gentlemen have urged here that
this
union label order would foster
monopoly. Little can they know of
the
history of the Typographical union,
most conservative of all unions, to
make such statements as that Union
ism
is
here
and
a direct antithesis of monopoly.
Unions were brought into being as a
result of monopoly, and such state
ments that they foster monopoly have
no place in this body.
"There has been
a
suggestion made
that Instead
of
this order we
might have another one, one which
says
that 'other things being equal'
the
union should have a preference
I am
opposed to such an order for the
reason that union labor seeks no such
preference as that, and for the greater
reason that other things can never be
equal as between a union shop and o
nonunion
shop, as between unionism
nonunionlsm they
apart
are
as the poles.
as wide
"It might interest you to know that
the
union label appearing upon
card,
goes in
a
a
little
that may perhaps cost only
dollar,
a
slight measure to sup­
port some of the greatest things In hu
manitarian endeavor. Some part of
that dollar goes to pay old age pen
sions within the craft
Bome
part of
dollar goes toward the support of
the
largest tubercular hospital in the
world another part of that dollar goes
to
support worthy humanitarian ob
jects. No part of the wage from a
nonunion printer does any of theae
things. The state is not called upon
to support and sustain a union printer
Who has outlived his usefulness. The
people of Maricopa county ore called
upon to spend $30,000
a
year to sup­
port our indigent poor. This money
is not used for union printers. In
brotherly love we care for them our
selves through old age pensions
through
hospitals and in other ways.
When a union printer has reached that
age
when he can no longer work he is
not turned out as a charge upon so
ciety. The craft recognizes
that
he
useful citizen and it does
the state should do—it gives him
an
old age pension. Yet when we
come. In this small measure, to put
our stamp of approval upon such lofty
objects we are met with
a
cry of mo
nopoly.
"The union label is a recognition of
the Golden Rule. As the sunbeams
breaking through the clouds of morn
ing, adorn the dewdrops with a myriad
of diamonds, so does the union label
light up the dawn of
a
better indus­
n
TO PREVENT STRIKES.
Success of the Canadian Conciliation
Law In Labor Disputes.
Recent awards of higher wages to
railroad men under the Erduian con
ciliation act and the resultant petition
of
railroads for advances in rates to
compensate them have brought to the
front once more the subject of adjust
ment of labor disputes. Though lim
ited
only to the operating force of
railroads and though criticised in some
important particulars by railroad oflJ
dais, the Erdman law has been of val
uable service in averting many strikes.
The
principle it embodies might well
be
extended to other classes of rail
road employees, to street railways and
Other
public utilities and finally to
mines and manufactures. The public
has a direct interest in labor disputes,
for
the public suffers loss and incon
venience through them hence, as
agent for the public, the government,
State
and national, can properly take a
hand In averting or adjusting strikes.
Opinion inclines more to conciliation
ind mediation In preference to com
pulsory arbitration. The natural hu
man resentment against compulsion
militates against the latter method
The
alternative method
the
§g
of
compelling
employer who proposes a lockout
thA employees who propose to strike
"4* 'V*H
to ciercr jicliuii until mvt'snuaiiou, con
ciliation and mediation have been tried
has worked with marked success In
Canada and might well be adopted in
this country.
The Canadian law is the product of
a strike in the Alberta coal mines In
1006, which caused a fuel famine in
the northwest, accompanied by much
suffering and even death. An appeal
to the Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King,
then Canadian minister of labor, was
made ly the settlers of Saskatchewan
in which the following sentence sum
med up the situation:
We are informed that those persons op
erating the rnlnea of the people are dis
puting over their rights, regardless of the
right of the people to live.
Mr. King secured the passage by the
Canadian parliament of a law requir
ing that no industrial strike or lock
out should begin until the dispute had
been referred to a board of concilia
tion. composed of one representative
of each party and a chairman to be
selected by these two. If they can
not agree on a chairman that mem
ber of the board is appointed by the
minister of labor. Thirty days' notice
must !e given by the [tarty proposing
to change the existing status in an In
dustry, and that party must apply for
a board. The board has power to com
pel production of documents and to
take evidence under oath, but is pri
marily a board of conciliation and
mediation. If it effects a settlement
it simply reports to the government
If it fails to adjust the dispute it pre
pares a report, which Is published
broadcast, telling what Is the real trou
ble and what should be done to pre
vent a strike or lockout If a lockout
is begun by an employer without no
tice and without applying for a board
he is subject to a fine of $100 to $1,000
a day as long as the lockout continues.
Any employee who strikes in viola
tion of the act is subject to a fine of
$10 to $50 every day he remains on
strike.
Tills law proved so effective that
during the first five and a half years
of its operation, out of 132 disputes
brought before boards, strikes were
averted in all except fifteen cases.
There has been only one street railway
strike, and this was settled on the
basis of the board's award. There
have been but four railroad strikes,
while among men employed on docks
and in loading ships, who formerly
struck almost every spring, there has
been none.—Portland Oregonian.
A
Plea For Action.
Thomas L. Wilson, vice president of
the International Machinists' union, re
cently criticised the members of the
Philadelphia Central Labor union for
their manner of carrying on business.
He declared that a little less talk and
a little more system In their meetings
and general work would be a great
benefit to their cause of lubor. During
his address lie gave illustrations of
street cleaners In Butte, Mont., receiv
ing pay equal to the skilled trade
worker of Philadelphia. lie gave many
reasons for this condition. As his first
explanntiou he said that the labor man
of Philadelphia did little to see that
his brother in another trade was a
union member. lie urged that all del
egates to meetings see that the morn
bers of their organization be made, as
a man, agents for all trade organlza
tlons under the central body.
TRADE UNION BRIEFS.
Several hundred waiters struck work
in Philadelphia for a ten hour day.
Paterson silk mill operators have de
cided not to deal with their employees
as a union.
Labor organizations of California are
dissatisfied with the allien land act
claiming that it is not strong enough.
Teamsters of Buffalo want a uniform
rate of wages of $13 a week for single
horses, $15 for doubles and $17 for
triples and chauffeurs.
Marsden G. Scott has been elected
president of Typographical union No.
6 of New York. He succeeds Charles
M. Maxwell, who was not a candidate
for re-election.
President Wilson has under consid
eration a proposal to create a "bureau
of woman labor" In the department of
labor, designed especially to investi
gate and improve conditions of worn
en in the home.
PROTECTS WORKERS.
Provisions of Missouri's New Oocupa*
tional Disease Law.
Missouri
now lias an
for every violation.
occupational
disease law. The last general assem
bly passed the
measure,
which went
Into effect June 23.
Labor Commissioner Fitzpatrlck
says that every factory
in
Missouri
which handles minerals, chemicals and
other 8ubfUlWces which are Injurious
to human health comes under the new
statute, which is to be rigidly enforced,
Under the new law any licensed phy
sician who makes a physical examina
tlon of any person afflicted with
an
occupational disease is obliged within
twenty-four hours to make a triplicate
report to the state board of health.
Failure to comply
means a fine
Every employer whose workers come
in contact with poisonous agencies or
injurious processes is required to have
all such workers examined regularly
once a month.
The
new law
particularly applies to
industries In which antimony, arsenic,
brass, copper, lead, mercury, phosphof
us, zinc or other alloys or salts or pol
Bonous chemicals, minerals and acids
are used or Injurious fumes, vapors or
gases generated.
Employees must have separate work
ing suits to be worn while at labor.
The employers are required to fur
nish respirators, and employees are
obliged to wear them while engaged in
any work which produces noxious or
poisonous dusts.
The employer must furnish shower
baths, a locker for each employee, suf
ficient hot and cold water and individ
ual towels and soap. Male and fe
male employees are to be provided for
separately.
A room
apart and away from the
section of the building #bnffiinlng in
jurious substances must be furnished
by the employer for the use of the em
ployees during meal hours. Drinking
fountains must be protected, and in
warm weather the water Is to be iced.
Establishments coming under the
law must conspicuously display a plac
ard calling attention to the new stat
ute, the same to be furnished by the
state factory Inspector, A. S. Johnston,
on application.
An employer violating any section is
liable to a fine ranging
from $25 to
$200 for each case.
NEW PUBLIC PRINTER.
Cornelius J. Ford, Prominent New Jer
sey Labor Leader.
Cornelius J. Ford of New Jersey,
who has Leen named by President Wil
son for the post of public printer,
has long been prominent in labor cir
cles. He succeeds Samuel J. Donnel
ly of New York city.
Mr. Ford Is employed In
the office of
the Hudson Observer in noboken, N.
J., as a linotype operator and has been
there many years. Ho has long been
prominent in the American Federation
of Labor and at present is state presi
dent for New Jersey.
The new public printer was born in
Hoboken Feb. 27. 18G7, was graduated
from the Hoboken high school, has
been a member of the Hoboken board
of education and served three terms in
the state legislature. Mr. Ford has
been president of the American Fed
eration
of
Labor in the state for about
ten years. At the last session
bers.
of
the
New Jersey legislature Mr. Ford serv
ed as sergeant at arms. At the close
of
the session he was presented with
a handsome loving
cup
by
the mem
Convict Labor In Factories.
"Those who have studied, the sub
ject say that factories that" are oper
ated with convict labor have rea!'y
never proved a success." said It.
Keller of San Antonio, Tex. "Down
in my state the legislature investigat
ed the state prisons. It was found
that private individuals had made
money farming convicts, but that per
sons who had worked the convicts in
the sugar cane fields had, as a rule,
made very little money. The commit
tee that investigated the leasing out
of convicts reported that certain in
dustries should be maintained in the
state especially for convicts, as they
were suited for a class of labor that
was unfit for other men."—Baltimore
American.
Arbitration Scheme Balked.
Plans for the establishment in Spring
field, Mass., of an arbitration commit
tee composed of an equal representa
tion from the Central Labor union,
the Ministers' association and the
board of trade have been defeated, for
the time being at least, by the refusal
of the board of trade directors to con
cur In the proposition.
TRADE UNION BRIEFS.
Union painters In Nashville, Tenn.,
have secured closed shops.
The total membership of the Cigar
fnakers' International Is 48,457.
The twin cities of Port Arthur and
Fort William. Canada, will have a la
bor temple.
A recent Kansas law compels all tnu
nleipal work to be done under the
eight hour system at prevailing rates
of wages.
According to statistics compiled by
the United Mine Workers' Journal,
three men were killed in the mines of
the unorganized states, as against one
In the organized.
Thlrty-slx states now forbid the em
plo.vmc-ut of children under fourteen in
factories, and twenty-one states limit
the hours of labor for children under
sixteen to eight hours a day.
The Contingent Fes.
The following pointed note
Real coolness
of
$50
waa"wrifc
ten by Daniel Webster in answer to a
request that he take a certain case for
a contingent fee: "I do not desire
em
ployment in professional matters, al
though I do sometimes engage in
them. But I never engage on contin
gencies merely, for that would make
mo a
mere
party to a lawsuit"
Resourceful.
Gibbs—Your wife seems to be a re
sourceful woman. Dibbs—Resourceful!
Why, the other day she put
in a
pane
of glass with chewing gum.—Boston
Transcript
and
self possession are
the indispensable accompaniments of
great
mind.—Dickens
a
flLD WWDf.NTlCS
The Havoc That May Come When
a
Tornado Breaks Loose.
STORMS PLAY QUEER PRANKS
Houses Have Been Carried Bodily Into
the Air and Exploded, and Half a
Building Has Been Swept Away,
While the Rest Remained Unharmed.
The weather bureau at Washington
has been collecting statistics and facts
ubout cyclones and tornadoes for many
years, and the experts have succeeded
in securing considerable valuable data
about the big winds but, after all, the
freaks of the storm are the things that
give It special interest, and if all these
were properly classified some remarka
ble reading would be furnished. Every
visitation of a tornado adds to this val
iable storehouse of queer freaks.
It Is not uncommon for the whirling
wind to cut a house in half, demolish
ing one side and leaving the other un
disturbed. This happi-ned in an Iowa
tornado, and the part that was left in
tact was so little disturbed that the
clock on the mantel continued ticking,
as if nothing had happened.
In the Te.^fs town of Sherman,
which was visited by a tornado in
189G, two houses were picked up and
carried into the air, where they ex
ploded. Every one in them was severe
ly injured except a baby, which did not
receive so much as a scratch. A man
milking a cow in a shed saw the cow
and shed carried up In the air, but he
was not so much as touched. Not a
drop of the milk in his pail was spilled
or disturbed.
In the St Louis tornado of the same
year a carpet in the parlor of one house
was pulled up by the twister and car
ried away a few hundred yards with
out so much as a rent being torn in it.
The tacks had been pulled up as neatly
as if extracted by a careful carpet
layer.
In another house the bedclothing and
mattress were lifted from the bed, and
the bedstead was left intact A resi
dent was carried through the roof of
another house with the bed and drop
ped a quarter of a mile away without
injury. The mattress saved him in the
fall, and he picked himself up in a va
cant lot to dress without knowing ex
actly what had happened to him.
The "twisters" have been known to
pull nails out of shingles and then go
on to pick up a chimney bodily and
carry it through the air. In Kansas
one picked up a buggy and lauded it in
the branches of a tree. At another
time it ripped the harness completely
off a horse and left horse, buggy and
man uninjured. In Louisville, in 1S90
a tornado carried the roof off a house
and pulled a child from the mother's
arms and carried it safely to another
house six blocks away.
But these are merely among the
harmless freaks of the big wind. There
are others more heartrending. It has
dismembered human beings, tearing
arms and legs from the body, and
twisted the hair of women into ropes,
In Kansas it drove a piece of scantling
six inches square through the body of
a hog. At another time it blew in the
door of a farmer's house and carried
the owner away on the door, to drop
him in the branches of a tree. The
tornado did not hurt him, but he broke
his neck falling from the tree to the
ground.
No one has succeeded in measuring
the full force of a tornado, but it is
known to travel at the rate of 200
miles and more an hour.
Tornadoes are exciting more general
attention than formerly because of the
greater number of towns and villages
located in the tornado belt Each suc
cessive one is more dangerous than Its
predecessors because It is apt to find
more human material to destroy. For
merly It might travel half the length
of a continent without finding anything
in its path to destroy except grass,
trees and ocasionally the crops of
a
solitary farmer. Today, if it followed
the same route. It might pass over
a
dozen villages and towns.
The only thing that can possibly
break the force of a tornado is a range
of mountains. It may create wild
havoc among the trees and bowlders
of a mountain, but it cannot carry the
mountain itself away. It will uproot
giant forest trees, suck the water from
wells and streams, twist and demolish
Iron bridges and carry up houses, but
the mountains are proof against the
mighty force of the wind.
Until we know how to control the
tornado or find some means of baffling
it, its menacing danger must always
bo a source of considerable uneasiness
in the great plain sections of the conn
try. But, like earthquakes, the tor
nado and cyclone do not come every
year, and sometines they defer their
visit for a decade or so, for which we
may be thankful.—George E. Walsh in
Harper's
Weekly.
The Pleasure of Raising Whiskers,
The enthusiasm of those engaged in
the' cultivation of whiskers is inspir
ing. A man with a full beard may in
a lucid moment shave it off. But
watch him closely. Within ten days
lie will show signs of returning to his
old life almost as certainly, as a mur
derer will return to the scene of his
crime.—American Magazine.
Didn't Get a Chance.
"Did your son who went to the city
to
make his fortune deliver the goods?'
"No.
forty
where
He was caught with them be­
fore he bad a chance."—Houston Post
Doing well depends
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 11,1913. §1.M PER YEAR
RISE AND FALL OF SAWBILL
The End Came With a Rush When the
Gold Vein Vanished.
Far
from the railroad and
more than
miles away from the nearest
white resident, hidden in the wilds of
one
of
the most picturesque parts of
the province of Ontario, Canada, spec
ter like, stands ihe deserted village1 of
Sawbill,
once a
oustling mining camp
several
hundred
men were
em­
ployed.
The end catiie suddenly. Tools were
dropped where workmen were install
ing a dynamo dishes and furniture
and household goods were left as they
were when the word came that the
mine had closed. The books end on
July 31, 1901. The store was left with
its stock of goods on the shelves, the
hotel closed its doors, its contents in
tact and the postoffice ceased to be.
Only a watchman was left.
Sawbill grew out of a gold strike.
The ledge, reported fabulously rich,
quickly gave out when real mining was
attempted. A road was built through
the wilderness, a power house was
erected, a forty stamp mill went up
along with a hotel, store, postottice and
many buildings for the
emplo5'ees.
On
Aug. 15, 1809, the electric lights were
turned on. The telephone line was
opened. The water rushed through the
huge flume across the lake, the giant
turbine revolved, the dynamo hummed,
and the power for operating the mine's
Machinery was at hand.
But the $200 per ton output of the
little mill first installed proved to
be
only a deceptive lure for all the dol
lars thflt were poured into the enter
prise. When the big mill did run the
greatest amount of gold obtained per
ton was said never to have exceeded
$1.87. The shafts were sunk deeper,
new ones were opened, but the wide
veins of ore which showed on or near
the surface narrowed to thin ribbons
or to nothing at all. The gold ob
tained could not begin to pay the oper
ating expenses.
The mill and its machinery, the pow
er plant and its equipment, stand as
though waiting for the whistle an
nouncing the beginning of a day's
work, though the last evidences of the
half million spent at Sawbill are dls
appearing before inevitable decay and
the encircling and encroaching forest
Robert E. Pinkerton in Ontario Globe
A CITY IN A GORGE.
The First View of La Paz Is Startling
to the Tourist.
James Bryce in his book "South
America" gives a picturesque descrip
tion of the approach to La Paz, Bolivia
He tells how the traveler who nears
La Paz has a surprise in front of him
if he is coming from Lake Titicaca.
the usual route from the coast At a
point 13,000 feet above sea level the
railway from Guayaquil meets the rail
way from Antofagasta, 400 miles away
to the south. "From this point, called
Viacha, the route turns eastward to
ward the Cordillera, the line climbing
slowly in wide sweeps over the dusty
and shrubless plateau on whose thin
grass sheep are browsing. There Is
not a house visible, and the smooth
slope seems to run right up against
the mountain wall beyond. Where can
La Paz be? asks the traveler.
"Presently, however, he perceives
strings of llamas and donkeys and
wayfarers on foot moving along the
slope toward a point where they all
suddenly vanish and are no more seen.
Then a spot is reached where the rail
way itself seems to end between a few
sheds. He gets out and walks a few
yards to the east and then suddenly
pulls up, with a start, on the edge of a
yawning abyss.
"Right beneath him, 1,500 feet be
low. a gray, red roofed city fills the
bottom of the gorge and climbs up its
sides on both banks of the torrent that
foams through it. Every street and
square, every yard and garden, is laid
out under the eye as if on a map, and
one almost seems to hear the rattle of
vehicles over stony pavements coming
faintly up through the thin air."
Scotchman's Sad Loss.
"As the waiter laid down my five
pence change," writes C. M. in the
Glasgow News, "I noticed that the top
most coin was not of British currency.
It was, in fact a French penny. I at
tracted his attention, therefore, with a
motion of my forefinger and indicated
the pile of coins with a wave of my
hand, which was meant to say 'What
is this you have given me?' The wait
er bent gracefully forward, scooped up
my change with a practiced hand and
with a polite 'I thank you, sir,' moved
swiftly away. Next time
Mixed Up.
A
woman
stated at 8
graph.
upon doing Con*
pletely.—Persian Proverb.
i
I'll
language of signs
give the
a
miss."
Sympathetic.
"Don't you ever find it hard to be a
freak?" asked the stoutish, tightly laced
woman who had stopped to converse
with the fat lady.
"No, not a bit," was the reply. "1
often feel sorry for some of you people
who seem to find it so hard not to be
freaks."—Chicago Record-Herald.
recent inquest
that her husband's Christian names
were James Jonathan or Jonathan
James, she did not know for sure
which. "Y«u see." she explained, "he
was one of twins and they got mixed
up a
bit"—London Standard.
A Trade Union.
Ella ispitefully)—Their marriage was
nothing but a trade union. Sophie—A
trade union? Ella—Yes she traded
her money
for
his title.—London Tele­
Worry, whatever may be its source,
weakens,
takes away courage and
Bhortens life.
338 East 5th St.
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"Ask the man who builds them"
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6e Son
Reliable Dealers in
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Millinery. £L«us* Furnishings
tToss-Holbrock Stamps with
all Casb Purchases.
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Lunch Counter Connected
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and Business Houses in the city
No Bad Odors and Perfect San
itation at All Times
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