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VOL. XIII. NO. 17
NEW FIELD FOR CONTROL
Congressman Copley of Illinois Intro
duces Bill to Require Secretary of
Labor to Register Goods—Some
what Similar to Pure Food Bill.
Federal prohibition of child labor in
a novel form is the purpose of a bill
Introduced in the house of representa
tives by Ira (J. Copley, congressman
from Illinois.
The bill is based on the principles of
Senator lieveridge's original proposal
In 1907, denying the right of Interstate
transportation to the products of child
labor. Manufacturers, producers, in
terstate carriers, jobbers and whole
salers are oiade responsible for unlaw
ful shipments. By a revision similar
to that of the pure foods and drugs
act commerce remains free to goods
stamped or labeled "registered under
the federal child labor act" Ship
ments from states having satisfactory
child labor laws are exempted from
the operation of the proposed law.
MEASURE] WOULD BAR PRODUCTS FROM INTERSTATE TRADE
The bill provides—
That the employment of a child under
fourteen years of a no in any mill, fac
tory. cannery, workshop, manufacturing
or mechanical establishment of a child
under sixteen years of ago in any coal
mine, coal breaker, coke oven, quarry or
In any establishment where poisonous or
dangerous acids, gas« or dyes are used,
manufactured or packed, or in any es
tablishment wherein the work done or
materials or equipment handled are dan
gerous to the life and limb or Injurious to
the health or morals of such a child. Is
hereby designated and defined as antl
social child labor and as detrimental to
the general welfare and debasing to com
merce.
The unusual phrase "anti-social child
labor" is used to express the motive of
the proposed legislation the protection
of society from the stunting of future
generations. It is the purpose of the
bill to bring the products of anti-social
child labor within the supreme court's
classification, of "outlaws of com
merce." In Its preparation Congress
man Copley has had the assistance of
the legislative reference committee of
the progressive national service.
The bill docs not go to the extent of
the uniform child labor law in prohib
iting all forms of harmful child labor,
thus avoiding many practical difficul
ties. Mr, Copley's proposal is to es
tabHsh a minimum standard to be en
forced nationally.
The administrative provisions of the
bill provide that the secretary of labor
shall make a public list of the busi
nesses and industries affected, together
with a list of their products.
Any manufacturer or producer may
make affidavit that he does not employ
the aid of anti-social child labor and be
authorized by the secretary of labor to
stamp or label his goods as registered
under the act.
No carrier shall transport and no
manufacturer or jobber shall ship ini
tlally In interstate commerce the prod
ucts of antl-soclal child labor.
The secretary of labor, after exami
nation of the laws, shall certify what
states have laws which "substantially
prohibit and effectively prevent" antl
social child labor as defined, where
upon the provisions of the act shall not
apply to such states.
A false statement to a common car
rier concerning the fact of employment
of child labor or whether the shipment
is an Initial shipment is made punish
able by fine. A carrier is permitted to
refuse to accept shipments where the
shipper refuses to make such a written
statement on demand.
The bill, while based largely on ac
cepted principles, comprehends a dis
tinct expansion in theories of federal
control. A machinery of administra
tion is presented which has no dupli
cate in the federal government.
O-
TRADE UNION BRIEFS.
•o
•There are about 240.000 female ste
nographers In this country
There are 30,000 unemployed building
trade workers in Milan. Italy.
Cigarmakers' international has paid
over $10,000,0K) in benefits to date.
In the city of New York there are up
ward of 5,000 building material team
sters.
Teamsters' local union No. 85 of San
Francisco owns a building valued at
$29,000.
More than 600,000 men are employed
In working the railways of the United
Kingdom.
In Sweden the Painters' union decid
ed by ballot on the establishment of un
employment Insurance.
The number of women wage earners
in Germany is now larger than in any
other European country.
Membership In the "free" trade
unions in Berlin was considerably over
800,000 at the nd of 1912.
There Is a larger percentage of fatali
ties among bridge and structural iron
workers thun In any other craft.
At the end of the year 1012 the Ger
man Tailors' union had 280 branches,
•overing 684 districts, and 50,000 mem
tors.
-A coafarsnes Q* tho International Ejp- I shadow.
CHIUD LABOR BIUL AN ESKIMO DINNER
iety Against L^employment will Luke
ilace In *hent. Belgium, on Sept 3. 4.
and rt.
The situation in the South Wales tin
,^ate trade is serious, there being
about 130 mills idle, involving the total
unemployment of 9.000 men.
TO WOMEN WORKERS.
The wages and the conditions
prevailing among women wage
earners make evident the fact
that those who have more re
cently entered the industrial field
must learn the value of collec
tive action and union organiza
tion. Women must take their
work and its problems seriously
and endeavor to help themselves.
Ileal and permanent betterment
can only come through the ex
ertions of the individuals con-,
cemed. The working girls of
the department stores must re
alize the benefits of unionism
and band themselves together
for mutual protection and bet
terment. Women must take
«their place in the onward march
of humanity. In that work wo
men arjd girls will have the
hearty co-operation and support
of their natural ally—the organ
ized labor movement of our
country.—Samuel Gompers.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
New York Tribune Says Constitutional
Rights Are Violated.
Alexander Scott, editor of the Week
ly Issue, a socialistic publication, was
recently sentenced by a judge In Pat
erson, N. J., to an indeterminate term
in state prison of from one to fifteen
years at hard lalior. A fifte of $250
was added. Commenting on the sen
tence, the New York Tribune says
If there were not higher courts in
New Jersey we should say that there
was occasion for such an investigation
of Paterson as that which the United
States senate has undertaken in West
Virginia. And indeed an effort is be
lng made to have congress determine
whether the constitutional tights of
Americans have not been denied in the
New Jersey city just as it is seeking to
determine whether they have not been
denied in the coal raining common
wealth.
But the higher courts of New Jersey
in upsetting a local magistrate's meth
od of clapping strike leaders into jail
without warrant of law and again in
giving the same leaders a trial by an
unbiased jury from another county
have shown a capacity to see that jus
tice is done in spite of local exaspera
tion. So probably justice will finally
be done, for the operation of the courts
has not been suspended In New Jersey
as it has been in West Virginia.
If it turns out to be legal to punish
an editor as the Socialist editor, Scott,
of Paterson may be punished for such
utterances as his in his newspaper
then the freedom of the press means
very little. Scott has been convicted
of "hostility to the government," an
extremely vague offense, something
like, we imagine, what our own good
mayor calls "sedition."
Scott sympathized with the Indus
trial Workers of the World and the
strikers. Ue criticised the police, ac
cused therv of brutality and lawless
ness. said that they were being used
to break the strike, declared that mon
ey owned Paterson and money owned
the polictt and warned the police to
•keep their hands off." For this he
may go to jail for fifteen years. And
this is in the United States of Amer
ica! Paterson has a simple way with
its "ragbag editors."
We have read as severe criticisms of
municipal administrations and of their
police as those of Scott In many pa-
vere for a Socialist.
And his conviction becomes all the
more remarkable when it is recalled
that a higher New Jersey court
through Judge Minturn, said In effect
practically the same things as Scott
did of the Paterson administration
when the court decided that the city
had lawlessly put the strike leaders
into jail upon trumped up charges. The
next step for Paterson to take is to
put Judge Minturn into Jail for "hos
tility to the government
It's Easy to Learn.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor
of the telephone, hit on his marvelous
discovery while studying and while
teaching the deaf.
Professor Bell ones said, apropos of
this fact:
"Yes, we can learn valuable secrets
It Was Not Very Dainty, but It
Was a Satisfying Feast.
SEAL MEAT AND BLOOD SOUP.
The First Course Was Served Out of
Hand, and the Second In Musk Ox
Horn Drinking Cups—The Hospital
ity Extended to Explorer 8tefansson.
A.n Interesting description of the hos
pitality of Eskimos is given by Vilhjal
mar Stefansson in his paper, "My
Quest In the Arctic." in Harper's Mag
azine. At one stage of his adventures
th4 writer found himself among Eski
mos who had never before seen white
people. He says
"Like our distant ancestors, no
doubt, these people fear most of all
things the evil spirits that are likely
to appear to them at any time In any
guise, and next to that they fear stran
gers. Our first greeting had been a
bit doubtful and dramatic through our
being fnistakeu for spirits, but now
they had felt of us utid talked with us
and knew we were but common men.
Strangers we were, it is true, but we
were only three among forty of them
and were therefore uot to be feared.
Besides, they told us they knew we
could harbor uo guile from the free
dom and frankness with which we
came among them for. they said, a
man who plots treachery never turns
his back to those whom he intends to
stab from behind.
Before the house which they Imme
diately built for us was quite ready
for our occupancy children came run
ning from the village to announce that
their mothers had dinner ready. The
houses were so small that it was not
convenient to invite all three of us
Into the same one to eat: besides, it
was not etiquette to do so. as we now
know. Each of us was therefore tak
en to a different place. My host was
the seal hunter whom we had first ap
proached on the ice. His house would,
he said, be a fitting one In which to
offer me my first meal among them,
for his wife had been bora farther
west on the mainland coast than any
one else in their village, and it was
even said that her ancestors had not
belonged originally to their people, but
were immigrants from the westward.
She would therefore like to ask me
questions
pers published in many places. His
language was not extraordinarily se-| maje by pouring cold seal blood into
the boiling broth immediately after the
from the most unlikely sources. A Per through with it and passed to another
1
sian poet, famed for his wisdom, was
once asked by his king where he had|
learned his philosophy.
'From the blind, sire,' the poet re-l
plied—'from the. blind, who never ad-1
vance a step until they have tried tbe|
ground.' "—New York Tribune
There is no act, however trivial, but
has its train of consequences, as there
is no hair so small bat casts its
It turned out. however, that his
wife was not a talkative person, but
motherly, kindly and hospitable, like)
all her countrywomen. Her first ques
tions were not of the land from which
I came, but of my footgear. Weren't
my feet just a little damp, and might
she not pull my boots off for me and
dry them over the lamp? She had
boiled some seal meat for me, but she
had not boiled any fat. for she did not
know whether I preferred the blubber
boiled or raw They always cut it in
small pieces and ate it raw themselves,
but the pot still hung over the lamp,
and anything she put into it would
be cooked in a moment
"When I told her that my tastes
quite coincided with theirs, as in fact
they did. she was delighted. People
were much alike then, after all, though
they came from a great distance. She
would accordingly treat me exactly as
if I were one of their own people
come to visit them from afar.
When we had entered the house the
boiled pieces of seal meat had already
been taken out of the pot and lay
steaming on a sideboard. On being as
sured that tny tastes In food were not
likely to differ from theirs, my hostess
picked out for me the lower joint, of
a seal's foreleg, squeezed it firmly be
tween her hands to make sure noth
ing should later drip from it and
handed it to me, along with her own
copper bladed knife. The next most
desirable piece was similarly squeezed
and hauded to her husband, and others
in turn to the rest of the family.
"As we ate we sat on the front edge
of the bed platform, holding each his
piece of meat In the left hand and the
knife in the right This was my first
experience with a knife of native cop
per. I found it more than sharp
enough and v»ry serviceable.
"Our meal was of two courses—the
first, meat the second, soup. The soup
cooked meat has been taken out of the
po tand stirring briskly until the whole
comes nearly—but never quite—to a
boil. This makes a soup of a thickness
comparable to our English pea soup
but If the pot be allowed to cotne to a
boil the biood will coagulate and settle
to the bottom. When the soup is a
few degrees from boiling the lamp
above which the pot Is swung is ex
tinguished and a few handfuls of
snow are stirred Into the soup to bring
it to a temperature at which it can be
freely drunk. By means of a small dip
per the housewife then fills the large
musk ox horn drinking cups and as
rigns one to each person. If the num
ber of cups is short two or more per
ions may share the contents of one cup
or a cup may be refilled when one is
"After 1 had eaten my fill of fresh
seal meat and drunk two pint cupfuls
of blood soup my host and I moved
farther back on the bed platform,
where we could sit comfortably, prop
ped up against bundles of soft caribou
skins, while we talked of various
things.'
Adversity has the effect of eliciting
which in prosperous circum
fiumeas would have lain dormant.—
Ham**
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BUTLER COUNTS
THE CRY OF TOIL.
We have fed you all for a thou
sand years,
And you hail us still unfed,
Though there's never a dollar of
your wealth
But marks the workers dead.
We have yielded our best to give
you rest,
And you lie on a crimson wool.
For if blood be the price of all your
wealth,
Good God, we ha' paid it in full I
There's never a mine blown Sky
ward now
But we're burled alive for you.
There's never a wreck drifting
shoreward now
But we are Us ghastly crew.
Oo reckon our dead by the forges
red
And «ie factories where we spin.
If blood be the price of your oursed
wealth.
Good Uod, we ha' paid it in!
We have fed you all (or a thousand
years.
For that was our doom, you know.
From the day when you chained us
In your fields
To the strike of a week ago.
You ha' eaten our lives and our ba
bies and wives,
And we're told it's your legal
share.
But If blood be the price of your
lawful wealth,
Good God, we ha* bought it fair!
—Hudyard Kipling.
LABOR LAUDS WELFARE BODY.
Chicago Branch of Federation Would
Continue Senate Commission.
Two resolutions were recently adopt
ed at the meeting of the Chicago
branch of the American Federation ot
Labor. One asked an appropriation by
the state senate to keep alive the sen
ate welfare commission, which has been
headed by Lieutenant Governor Bar
ratt O'Hara, and the other contained a
request to Governor Dunne to veto the
vocational education bill, which was re
cently presented at Springfield, in case
it should be passed.
The lieutenant governor in address
ing the meeting declared that the labor
element was more directly concerned
in the future of the senate welfare
commission than any other body of per
sons. He said that the commission was
practically at a standstill in its work
because of a lack of funds.
"We are working for better labor
conditions," said Mr. O'Hara, "and you
are the people who will benefit. We
are practically out of funds, however,
and without an additional appropria
tion cannot go much further. As you
who have followed the work of this|
commission well know, we are direc
ing our Inquiry toward those establish
ments which do not staud for good
clean labor conditions and a living
wage."
Upon the conclusion of the speech
the organization adopted resolution
asking that an appropriation be made
that will make of the senate welfare
commission a permanent body.
THREE GIRLS FOR $11 A WEEK|
es engaged girls by the "Job lot" and
paid one of them for the entire group.
In one case three sisters were paid all
together $11 per week. He got a pho
tograph of these girls, which showed
them to be bright capable looking
workers. At the conferences with the
manufacturers Brother Mitchell men
tioned this "Joint pay envelope" as
one of the evils of the trade, and he
told the story of the three sisters and
produced their photographs. fc, union
manufacturer who had signed up the
agreement looked at the picture and
suddenly exclaimed, "Why, that mid
dle girl is working for us now, and we
pay her $9 a week, and she Is worth
every cent of it" A new member of
the Manufacturers' association sitting|
at the other end of the conference
ble had to admit the truth when Broth
er Mitchell pointed him out as thel
man who had got these girls at whole
sale prices—three girls for $11. This
furnished a splendid example of the
way one manufacturer can undercut
another in the market and the reason
why workers are compelled to organ
ize to equalize wages.—Ladies' Gar
ment Worker.
English Printers Without Work.
According to the last issue of the of
ficial paper of the Typographical Asso
ciation of Great Britain, it Is roughly
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Splendid Example to Show Why! earth. It has peaks, ranges, ridges
Workers Should Organize. I valleys, plains and holes, gulches and
A good story of the Boston strike isl all sorts of uneven places, and if the
told by Vice President Mitchell. Hell earth could be made as small as a
learned that in some factories the boss-l baseball it would be practically a per
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'ban
3',000,of
the 19,000 members of that organization
are without regular employment and
have to scramble for a livelihood in
termittently and precariously for the
greater part of the year. This seems
rather a hard lot for members of a
craft that have to serve seven years'
apprenticeship In order that they may
be qualified by skillful training to earn
livelihood.—Typographical Journal.
Motives Usually 8elfish.
It is a doad certainty that employers
who refuse their employees the privi
lege of belonging to a labor organiza
tion as a condition for securing or
retaining employment do so from
purely selfish motives, and if allowed
to do so and get away with it they will
surely follow it up with a reduction
in wages or the curtailment of exist*
lng privileges.
Pensions For Mothers.
Fourteen states now have laws pen-
JAllowed
fonlng mothers. I^nols was the first
by California. Colorado. Wash
ington, Utah. South Dakota. Idaho,
Minnesota. Iowa, Nebraska. Ohio, New
I Jsruey, Pennsylvania and Missouri
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1913. $1.00 PER TEAR
PERFECT SPHERES
With All His Scientific Skill Man
Cannot Produce Them.
THE CURVING OF A BASEBALL
It Is Possible Only Because the Ball I*
an Imperfect Globe and In Compari
son With Its Size Much Rougher
Than the Surface of the Earth.
The real reason why a baseball can
be thrown so that it will describe won
derful curves during its progress
through the air is that every such ball
has a surface made up of mountains,
valleys, craters, canyons, gorges, plains
and other irregularities of the surface
that when the difference in size is
taken into consideration, makes the
surface of the earth seem like plate
glass.
If it were possible to make a perfect
sphere—if it were possible to make a
baseball with an absolutely smooth sur
face and an exact sphere—no pitcher
In the world could make it curve. The
very best pitchers baseball has ever
known or probably ever will know
could not make the ball deviate a hair's
breadth in its flight.
And so while It Is partly in the art
or knack the professional pitcher has
In holding and releasing the baseball
as he throws it, it is also due to the
fact that a baseball has a wonderfully
rough surface against which the air
catches and turns it that gives it the
curve.
It you pass your hand over a plate
glass it moves smoothly with nothing
to retard it. If you pass your hand
over an unplaned board you can feel
the roughness—splinters we call tlietn.
You cannot move your hand as easily
over the board. This is the same prin
ciple with the baseball. There is a
roughness in its surface that catches
in the air and forces one side about or
retards that side. This has but one
result—to make the baseball leave its
straight course, and In doing this it de
scribes a curve.
This does not detract in the lpast
from the cleverness of the pitcher who
can so accurately judge his muscular
control as to make a baseball curve up
or down, right or left. But the fact
remains that It is the roughness of the
baseball that makes all his pitching
cleverness possible.
Take a brand new league ball in
your hand. It looks to be a perfect
sphere—that is, absolutely even and
uniformly round and as "smooth as
glass." And it may be as smooth as
glass, for glass also has a rough sur
face.
Put a baseball under the most pow
erful microscope, enlarge it microscopl
cally 10,000 diameters, and what do
you see? The very thing mentioned in
the first paragraph of this article. The
surface is rough. It looks like the
landscape in the Alps or Yellowstone
park or any other rough section of the
feet sphere and absolutely smooth
This is because the highest mountains
of the earth and the deepest valleys
would be millions upon millions of
times smaller in comparison with the
rough uneven places on a baseball if
either the earth were reduced to the
size of a baseball or a baseball enlarg
ed to the size of the earth
If this were not true the earth would
not revolve so regularly upon Its axis.
It would perform an "in shoot" or
'out shoot" nnd curve off through
space
Even the billiard ball has a surface
much rougher in comparison to Its size
than the surface of the earth, and we
refer to a billiard ball as about th
smoothest thing known. "As smooth
as a billiard ball" Is a well know
simile. For the same reason that
perfectly smooth baseball could not be
curved, a perfectly smooth and per
feetly round billiard ball could not be
made to curve on the table. It would
not take "English," as billiard players
call it when they make a ball go for
ward and then roll backward or in any
direction just by the manner In which
they strike it with a chalked cue.
This fact of roughness causing it to
spin becomes all too evident when
player forgets to chalk his cue and
plays several shots thereafter. If th
leather tip of the cue becomes shiny
It will slip on the ball. There is no
purchase with which it can take hold
But chalk is sticky stuff, and the gran
ules are large, so that a well chalked
cue has a very rough surface, and this
rough surface of the tip of the cue fits
into the rough projections on the ball
and thereby a ball can be given a lot
of twist. In order to accomplish thi
successfully, moreover, the billiard
cloth nap must be new and therefore
rough.
During recent experimentation with
regard to the kinetic theory of gases
a Belgian scientUt desired to find out
how perfect a sphere could be made ir
order that by the clashing of these to
gether an idea might be secured of th
effect of the collisions of the spherica
atoms that make up a ts. The proj
ect had to be abandoned at last be
cause no machinery could be construct
ed that would turn out a perfect
sphere artificially, and nature has n
perfect sphere of large size in all hei
many forms of matter. Perfect dlskF
could be made, but a round ball wat*
beyond the limits of human accom
plishment—New York American.
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give it
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