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VOL. XIII. NO. 15
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TO BOYCOTT THE BOYCOTT.
National Association of Manufacturers
Proposes to Put Pressure on Those
Merchants Who Permit Union Label*
to. Be Placed on Their Goods.
I
At the recent convention at Detrott
of the National Association of Manu
facturers much attention was paid to
consideration of measures affecting
Its employees in general and the la
bor uuions in particular. We ask our
readers to please note that this conven
tion of employers spent nearly all of
Its time denouncing the labor unions
and giving advice to their employees.
According to press reports, one of
the speakers said: "If all who labor
were members of the closed shop un
ions or were even sympathizers with
them one might consider its political
wisdom for the party in power to man
ifest its sympathy with closed shop
Ideals as it has done. However, the
number of people in closed shop organ
izations would not equal 5 per cent of
all the laboring people in this country.
Yet it seems the 5 per cent are being
given special privilege which cannot
help but work injury to the 05 per
cent." This is the strongest testimony
in favor of the efficiency of labor un
ions that we have ever heard. Ordi
narily a trust is presumed to control a
considerable majority of its product
before it can be considered a trust
Monopoly means control, but in the
above quotation we have a new theory
that 5 per cent constitutes control of
95 per cent If labor unions so In
crease the efficiency of 5 per cent that
they control the other 95 per cent, then
we repeat that this is the strongest
testimony for the efficiency of labor
anions that we have ever heard.
Afl to working Injury to the 95 per
cent the labor unions are composed
of working people who desire better
wages and conditions of labor, who de
sire to keep their children in the
schools and their wives at home. Ev
ery new desire of the wage earners is
for Improved conditions of life, which
would benefit not only the 5 per cent
which the speaker conceded as organ
ized, but also would benefit the 95 per
cent whom the speaker conceded
would be controlled by tho 5 per cent.
Just in what way better wages, short
er hours, better living conditions, bet
ter food and clothing, would be un in
Jury to the 95 per cent, who are en
forced beneficiaries of the 5 per cent
we are not yet informed.
LABEL EFFICIENT
To cap the climax this convention of
manufacturers has a committee on un
ion label, not of course, for the pur
pose of promoting the demand for un
ion label goods, but of trying to bring
force to benr to crush the union label
idea. Therefore this committee on un
ion label brings in the following re
port: "It is gratifying to note that, like
other union suggestions, the indentifl
cation that a label conveys has not
been welcomed by the general public.
In urging that our members discour
age manufacturers and retailers from
permitting the discriminatory and mis
leading union label to be placed upon
products for general consumption we
would remind them that the total
membership of the unions that under
take to pass upon the fairness or ut
fairness of a manufactured article is
only 400.000, a small fraction of the
great working forces in American in
dustry." This folderol means that the
Manufacturers' association, recogniz
ing the fact that the union label is an
effective boycott proposes to use its
Influence as far as it can to boycott the
boycott
With this idea in mind it will urge
that its members shall discourage
manufacturers and retailers from per
mitting the union label to be placed on
products. It thinks It is an awful
thing if a labor union committee waits
upon a merchant and asks him not to
purchase goods of an employer whom
it considers unfair to It but still these
same manufacturers will go to a mer
chant and ask him not to buy goods
bearing a union label.
The most ridiculous feature of this
position of the manufacturers is the
smallness of their numbers as com
pared with the millions of working
people. We admit that not all the
wage
workers are organized, but we
have just quoted the authority of the
manufacturers' convention to show
that 5 per cent can control the other
95 per cent Its label committee was
sadly off in its figures, however, In giv
ing 400,000 as the membership of
unions committed to the union label
idea. The membership of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor has just pass
ed the 2,000,000 mark. This does not
include the great railroad brotherhoods
or organizations like the bricklayers,
who nre not affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, but are still
indorsers of the union label Idea and
Just as loyal to that idea as the manu
facturers as individuals are loyal to
any alleged principle of their asso
ciation.
They are welcome to any satisfaction
or encouragement they can get from
their attempt to boycott the boycott
All that organized labor has to do is
to keep right on building up the de
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MANUFACTURERS WAKINO UP TO THE INCREASING POWER JT
fluence with the merchants of tne
country will be overwhelmingly
stronger than the influence of any as
sociation of employers, who must nec
essarily be few in number. Shoe
Workers' Journal.
SUPPORT THE LABEL
One nonunion workman who
spends his wages in buying
union label goods is of more
benefit to the labor movement
than a hundred so called union
men who spend their union
wages for nonunion goods. There
are nonunion men with better
principles than some individuals
whose ouly claim to unionism is
the fact that they carry a union
card. What a man says doesn't
go for much unless it is sup
plemented by sincerity of action.
The union dollar Is potent just
exactly in proportion as it is
spent to a purpose. The open
shop exists upon tho patronage
of the people who believe in buy
ing open shop goods. Just think
this over and size up where you
stand. It is the way in which
you spend your dollars and not
the style in which you "holler"
that counts.—Peoria Weekly
Gazette.
STUDY LABOR IN ANTIPODES.
Representatives of Manufacturers' As*
sociation to Make Tour.
Labor conditions and industrial poli
cies pursued in Australia and New
Zealand, called "the land of no
strikes," will bo studied by representa
tives of the National Association of
Manufacturers, who sailed from this
country on July 1.
John Klrby, Jr., of Dayton, O., pres
ident of the association from 1909
to 1913 David M. Parry of Indian
apolis, president of the organization
from 1902 to 1900, and Dr. Albert A.
Snowden, an investigator of Euro
pean and American industrial condi
tions, who will act as secretary, make
up the party.
"With our state legislators and even
congress grinding out 'cure-alls' for
restless industrial conditions," a lead
er said upon his departure, "It seemed
worth while to examine at first hand
conditions in the Australasian states.
"There schemes of state socialism
have arleady taken root, and conclu
sions may be formed as to their per
manent value and effects on national
advancement or retrogression. Gov
ernment ownership of railroads, wom
an's suffrage, old age pensions and
workmen's compensation acts, compul
sory arbitration of industrial disputes,
the minimum wage, government loans
on real estate and restricted immigra
tion of labor are only a few of the
policies which will be investigated. I
believe the findings of the commis
sion will be an invaluable contribu
tion to the literature of economics and
industry."
THE STRONGEST UNIONS.
Result Only of Patient, Painstaking
and Intelligent Management.
Tho big, powerful unions of today
are not the result of accident, the
mere turn of fortune. Itather are they
the result of patient painstaking, in
telligent management There is al
ways some good reason why one un
ion is able to weather the storms en
countered on the journey while others
collapse and die. The band of union
men who are willing to make material
sacrifices constantly in the interest of
the union will have a strong union,
and by sacrifices Is not meant striking
indiscriminately or making a lot of
noise, but rather the willingness to
bear up under heavy assessments In
order that strikes when necessary may
be properly supported and prosecuted
to a successful conclusion. Tho union
which Is always compelled to ask for
financial assistance when trouble
comes, in the very nature of things,
cannot be as strong and successful as
the union which finds it possible to
finance its own fights. There is food
for thought in this argument Noise
is cheap, but it doesn't produce the re
sults.—San Francisco Labor Clarion.
In His Defense.
"Daughter," called the father from
his position at the top of the stairs at
the well known hour of 11:55 p. m..
"doesn't that young man know how to
say good night?"
"Does he?" echoed the young lady in
tie darkened hall. "Well, I should
say he does!"—Ladles' Home Journal.
Explaining it.
Jones (just introduced) I suppose
you don't remember me, but I was
once a witness against your side in a
certain trial, and I remember that you
cross examined me with the greatest
courtesy. The Lawyer—Is that so?
Perhaps your testimony wag not ma
terial*—Pock
Bills For Changing Erdman Act
Are Prepared.
REASONS FOR THE ACTIONS.
National Civio Federation and Other
Bodies Are Supporting Proposed
Modifications Which Would Change
Number of Men on Committee.
Amendments to the Erdman concilia
tion act have been drafted by members
of the National Civic federation and
supported unanimously by a joint com
mittee of railroad men and railroad la
bor representatives. A number of de
viations from the Erdman act are pro
vided for in the new bill, which will
shortly be introduced in both brauches
of congress. Chief among these are
lhanges in the number of members of
conciliation committees when possible
and the creation of the office of com
missioner of mediation and arbitra
tion.
The Civic federation calls attention
to the fact that the railroad situation
in the eastern part of this country is
acute. The engineers and firemen
have struck within the past year, and
the trainmen and conductors are now
taking a strike vote. This situation
makes it imperative to devise means
of arbitration more efficient than those
which already exist.
Mr. Low, president of the National
Civic federation, has issued a state
ment describing the amendments and
giving the reasons for their adoption
by the committee. lie says:
"Like all measures which represent
the asset of many minds, the bill as
submitted to congress represents a
compromise on certain points. Both
the railroads and their employees ad«
mit that the arbitration board of three,
as provided by the Erdman act as it
now stands, is too small when the in
terests affected are the interests of a
whole section of the country and not a
single railroad.
"The Erdman act, broadly speaking,
provides for mediation between inter
state railroads and their employees at
tho request of either party by the
chief justice of the commerce court and
the commissioner of labor. It also pro
vides a method ffcr arbitration under
the authority of federal law. For
several years after its enactment no
appeal was made to the services of the
mediators under the Erdman act. Of
late years, however, it has been in
creasingly resorted to both by the rail
roads and their employees, with the
result that as to the mediation fea
tures of the law the work has be
come so continuous and so important
that the proposed bill suggests the
creation of a commissioner of media
tion and conciliation, to be filled by
the president, by and with the advice
and consent of the senate, whose time
shall be exclusively devoted to this
work. With the commissioner of me
diation and conciliation is to be asso
ciated under the proposed bill an as
sistant commissioner of mediation and
conciliation.
"This proposed bill, like the Erdman
act, relies entirely upon voluntary arbi
tration. Arbitration which is volun
tary has repeatedly proved its value
in railroad experience, because when
men arbitrate voluntarily they accept
the terms of the award. Compulsory
arbitration, on the other hand, is im
practicable, because not even the
power of the state can compel men
to work under conditions which do
not command their assent When the
employers and employees of a great
industry, therefore, as in this instance,
are simply asking for a law which
will give legal sanction to a method
of arbitration which both are willing
to accept, the argument in favor of
such legislation is exceedingly strong."
Advertising the Union.
"Good Union Medicine," sent out
with the compliments of Dr. James M.
Lynch, president, -and Dr. John W.
Hays, secretary-treasurer of the In
ternational Typographical union, comes
in a gelatin capsule two inches long
and one and a half inches at greatest
circumference. Tho capsule is not, of
course, to be swallowed, but the con
tents are supposed to be inwardly di
gested. In the capsule is a strip of
glazed paper two Inches wide by twen
ty-four Inches long, and on it is photo
graphed a view of the Union Printers'
homo at Colorado Springs, Colo., an
establishment erected and maintained
by the International Typographical
Union of North America, tho only in
stitution of its kind in the world. On
the reverse side there is printed the
following "good union medicine:"
Just a few of the benefits: Home
for sick and aged. Pensions for super
annuated members. Mortuary benefit
for the family. Education for appren
tices. Sanitary workrooms for com
positors. Membership In one of the
strongest trade unions on the North
American continent. Sixty thousand
members.—Quincy (111.) Whig.
The I. W. W. In Philadelphia.
Some of the leaders of the Industrial
Workers of the World are concentrat
ing their forces in Philadelphia with
the object of attracting members to
their organization. Curiously enough,
their first point of attack will be the
America^ Federation of Labor in the
attempt to show that so tame, peace
ful and argumentative a controversial
ist as a labor union which seeks by
peaceful and orderly methods the up
lift of workers is a menace to labor
and weak compromiser with a state
of society that must be regarded at
all times as an inveterate enemy to
be exterminated.—Philadelphia Ledger.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913.
CLEAR THE WAY.
Tho crest and crowning of all good.
Life's final star, is brotherhood.
For It will bring again to eartlft
Her long lost posea and mirth
Will send new light on every face,
A kingly power upon the race,
And till it comes women are slaves
And travel downward to the dust
of graves.
Come, clear the way, then clear
the way.
Blind creeds and Icings have had
their day.
Our hope is in the aftermath—
Our hope is in heroic men
Star led to build the world again.
To this event the ages ran.
Mako way for brotherhood—make
way for man!
—Edwin Markham.
ARBITRATION CONTRACTS.
Value of Each Agreement is Great to
Employer and Employee.
When a contract is made between a
labor union and an employer by the
terms of which each party agrees that
there shall be no strikes or lockouts
take place in that factory during the
rtatcd term, but that all disputes that
smnnot be mutually adjusted shall be
referred to a board of disinterested
arbitrators to decide, the general pub
lic has come to regard such an event
as one to be highly commended, be
cause it tends to allow production and
distribution to go on unchecked, say*
the Shoemakers' Journal.
The public believes that employer*
and employees ought to find some way
of adjusting their disputes without
stopping the wheels of industry and
commerce and without discommoding
the public.
Under the strike method when an
employer is presented with a demand
for more pay, with a strike as an al
ternative, there is an element of coer
cion about it that nettles him, and he
is apt to reason that as the employees
are looking for trouble anyway, it
might as well be now, and the strike
occurs. Similarly, if the employer in
troduces any new method of work or
any new condition of employment em
ployees may think he is looking for
trouble, and growing resentment leads
to a strike or lockout It is the mental
irritation that makes both sides nerv
ous and scrappy that leads to many of
the labor conflicts.
Just as the strike method of dealing
with industrial disputes breeds strikes
and lockouts, so does the arbitration
contract breed conciliation and mutual
adjustment. The real fruit of the agree
ment of both sides to arbitrate—the
value of arbitration contracts that the
public does not know-rls that the men
tal condition of both parties, with oc
casional exceptions, of course, is such
that it leads then? to say to themselves
and to each other: "As long as we have
agreed to settle this any way, why
bother with arbitration? Let's adjust
it"
And so it is adjusted nine times out
of ten. In the experience of this union
in the last ten years the adjustments
of wages or conditions in factories
working under arbitration contracts by
mutual agreement have outnumbered
the arbitration cases by about twenty
to one. In our experience the arbitra
tion contract has proved valuable not
for the cases of arbitration It has pro
duced, but for the twenty times as
many mutual settlements it has made
possible without arbitration being actu
ally invoked. It Is on the same theory
that a policeman Is valuable not for
the arrests he makes, but for the obedi
ence to law that his presence Inspires.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR PACT.
Continental Agreement as to Employ
ment of Girls and Boys.
The Swiss federal council has decid
ed on Sept. 15 next as the date for the
meeting of a conference of delegates
from the governments of the principal
industrial countries in Europe, by in
vitation of the Swiss government to
consider the drafting of an interna
tional agreement to prohibit the em
ployment of girls and boys below spec
ified ages and to tlx a maximum ten
hour day for youthful workers within
certain other ages.
An international governmental com
mission is to meet on Sept. 11 to ar
rango a basis for the periodical ex
change between the governments of
statistics in regard to the application
of protective labor laws.
The British Labor Party.
A report of tho British Labor party,
to be presented to the international
congress at Copenhagen, shows that
the total strength of the party last
year was 1,481.3(13. The total consist
ed of 1,445,708 members of 161 trade
unions, 30,082 members of Socialist so
cieties, 4,000 m'. abers of the Women's
Labor league and C78 co-operators. In
1908 the strength was 1,152,780. Dur
ing 1909 the Miners' federation, with a
membership of 550,000, was affiliated.
The strength in 1900 was only 375,931.
Last Tribute to Union Members.
The Musicians' union of San Fran
cisco has amended Its laws as to fu
neral detail. The members will here
after be chosen in alphabetical order
to attend funerals of deceased mem
bers and will be paid $3 for the serv
ice. A failure to attend or furnish a
substitute will entail a penalty not to
exceed $5.
Women Run 8triker«' Cars.
Three women operated street cars as
strike breakers in Phoenix, Ariz., re
cently. They stuck to their jobs for
some time In spite of threatening street
crowds, but the manipulation of con
trollers and brakes finally proved to
be too much for them, and they aban
doned their gongs after a struggle of
three hours.
79
I COUNTY
AGING TORTURES.
The Sublime Courage Shown by
an American Indian.
WILLING TO DIE FOR ANOTHER.
Story of a Dramatic Episode In Whioh
the Iowa and Musquakie Tribes
Figured—Heroism That Won tho
Admiration of the Enemy.
A striking story of the courage and
self sacrifice of which the American
Indian at his best is capable is given
by O. H. Mills in the Des Moines Reg
ister and Leader. It was told to the
white men by the famous Sac chief,
Black Hawk, who himself saw the in
cident.
It all began with an unfortunate
quarrel between an Iowa and a Mus
quakie, in which the latter killed the
former and then in a moment of fren
zy scalped his victim. The two tribes
were at peace, and this act, allowable
only in time of wrar, was, in Indian
eyes, an intolerable breach of good
faith.
The Musquakies offered all sorts of
reparation, but the Iowas would ac
cept nothing but the person of the of
fender, to be tortured and put to death
in propitiation of the outraged spirit
of the dead man. To this tho Musqua
kies agreed on condition that the cul
prit be given a month to fortify him
self for his terrible ordeal. But just
as the month was about to expire he
fell ill with a raging fever. In that
condition he could not be carried across
the prairie, but a failure to produce
him at the appointed place would
arouse the suspicions and perhaps the
hostility of the Iowas.
A council was called to debate the
matter, before which appeared Cono, a
brother of the sick man. "There are
no squaw men in our family," he de
clared. "I will go-in his place."
The others tried to dissuade him and
described to him the tortures he would
have to undergo, but he insisted upon
making the sacrifice. Accordingly an
escort was selected to accompany him,
at the head of which Black Hawk,
then a young but widely respected
chief, was placed.
"I never saw a more pathetic scene,"
said Black Hawk, "than the parting of
Cono and his father and mother and
other relatives. The whole tribe was
overwhelmed with gloom."
In the middle of the afternoon the
party arrived at the Iowas' village
Cono hati asked that his identity should
not be disclosed, but one of the Iowas
who was present at the time the young
Indian was slain saw that the guilty
party was not being delivered, and
Black Hawk told the whole story. The
Iowas accepted it as true and, after a
brief council, consented to the arrange
ment. The death circle was staked out
and patrolled with armed guards, and
Cono was placed in its center, while
his escort was entertained in the tepee
of the chief. It was a chill November
day, and the sun was just sinking be
hind the cliffs of the Des Moines river
when the escort left the camp.
They paused on a hill about a half
mile distant from the camp. They
could see that the fires had been lighted
round the death circle, and in the hush
of the evening came the plaintive
sound of Cono chanting his death song.
Having traveled some two hours,
they halted and made camp. About
midnight they heard the clatter of
horses' feet, and in a moment more a
single horseman rode up. It was Cono!
This was bis remarkable story:
The fires of the death circle were
burning brightly, and the squaws with
their burning sticks were preparing to
make the first attempt to extort a cry
of pain and agony, when an old man,
the father of the dead Indian, raised
his voice:
"Step!" he said. "Let me speak. I
am the one that has suffered. My son
was killed and scalped by a Musqua
kie. I was hungry for revenge,and were
the one that killed and scalped him
here I would shout with joy at his
torture. But this young man is brave.
Never have I seen such bravery before.
He is too good a man to torture and
kill. Release him and let him return
to his own people."
Although the entire village a few
hours before had been eager for re
venge, there was a murmur of approv
al as the old man gathered his blanket
about him and took his seat. Without
any one's making a single objection,
Cono was removed from the circle and
given food and drink. A few hours
later he was led from the camp, allow
ed to mount his own pony and depart
in peace.
Persuasive.
The teacher meant to convey a pro
found lesson. "You must forgive your
enemies, boys," she said, "and then
your enemies will forgive you. I want
you all to try it."
The next morning Johnny Jones
came to school with a very black eye.
"Why, Johnny, what's the matter?"
"Aw," replied Johnny, "I've been for
givln' Scrappy Green an' makln' him
forgive me."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Parke—Dear me, I ha
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fully)—I can try. What do you make
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If you make money ytror god, 'twin
plague you like a devil.—Fielding.
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