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A PRINTER FROM NEW YORK.
WHon About to Take Hii Seat a Move
ment Was Started to Prevent Hit
Qualifying Contumely and Scorn
Heaped Upon Him.
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A BIT OF HISTORY
SKETCH OF FIRST UNION LABOR Mt-MBKR OF CONORFSS
In the Sixty-third congress the trade
unions of America will be represented
by seventeen members. This result
has been the outcome of the policy in
augurated by the American Federation
of Labor during the past three con
gressional campaigns. Prior to the
time mentioned men with paid up
Union cards in their pockets in con
gress were conspicuous by their ab
sence, although there were union
men members of congress prior to
1906. The election of the first union
man to congress, however, occurred a
great many years ago—in 1834, in fact.
Ely Moore, a journeyman printer, was
elected to the Twenty-fourth congress
and re-elected to the Twenty-fifth
from New York city. He was a mem
ber of what was then known as the
Typographical Association of New
York, organized June 17, 1831. Moore
also was editor of a labor paper, but
data are not available an to its title.
The brief biography of this early- con
gressman contains the facts that he
•was born in New Jersey and died in
Kansas and that during the active
years of his life he was a labor agitator
and organizer of trade unions. Apropos
of this subject, Senator Ashhurst of
Arizona, while discussing the recall
of judges, wove into his address a ref
erence to Ely Moore, likewise paying
tribute to the valor and high charac
ter of the men who laid the founda
tion for collective action among work
men. That part of Senator Ashhurst'8
speech referred to Is as follows:
"When Ely Moore, the first member
of a labor union to be elected to the
congress of the United States, was
about to take his seat in the Twenty
fourth congress there was a move
ment set on foot to try to prevent his
being seated. Coutumely, scorn and
derision were heaped upon him by the
reactionaries of that day, who believ
ed that the liberties of the republic
were in danger because a member of a
labor union had been elected to con
gress. But the stubborn courage of
Ely Moore, his superlative eloquence,
biting sarcasm and wonderfully pierc
ing analysis convinced the nation that
no mistake had been made in sending
a member of a labor union to congress,
and eo strikingly did this journeyman
printer, this organizer of labor unions
this so called 'agitator' and 'dema
gogue' distinguish himself for patriot
ism, learning and ability that he be
came a confidential adviser of the ad
ministration of President James K.
Polk. 1 mention these clr*
urn stances
bo tluit those who are supporting this
contest in behalf of a larger humau
liberty will not become discouraged,
but will become encouraged when they
reflect how much more intensely heat
ed was the opposition to these reforms
in the days gone by. He is wasting
his time who believes he can stop or
stay these forward movements in their
progress. The movement, especially in
behalf of those who perform physical
labor, for a greater share of freedom
for the right to enjoy a part of the cre
ation of their hands and of their own
toil, will Inevitably live, for it is broad
based as the world Itself and as deep
as humanity."—Garment Worker.
Progress Due Largely to Effort.
Organized labor has progressed, se
curing a fuller measure of what it
produces, only by steady, persistent
unremitting effort. It has proved its
worth as it has gone, and recognition
has perforce followed. But the end is
not yet. as a larger proportion of the
fruits of labor's toll must be its share
until finally it receives all its produces
This result, however, will only be ob
tained by the continued employment
of the same methods of persistently
pushing forward.
Combine Against Unions,
The Children's Clothing Contractors
association
ot
Greater New York was
recently incorporated. Among its ob
jects is the mutual protection of it
members "from violence by any person
or persons connected with labor un
ions" and "from being boycotted by
any person, persons, firms or corpora
Hons."
Merely a Matter of Spelling.
«Tes," said the very severe maiden
lady, "the word 'mule' Is only 'male'
spelled wrongly."
"1 suppose so." responded th* crusty
bachelor, "but according to the Latin
dictionary a woman is 'muller.'"
Ladles' Home Journal.
Human Incredulity.
Toll a man that there are 270,169.
825.481 stars and he will believe you
But If a sign says "fresh paint" he
will have to make a personal invest!
gation.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Modest.
••Bo you want to become my sotj-Io
law, «h
MY-yes.
sir-that is, If you can afford
It*—lostaa Traaacrtpt,
MINNESOTA'S NOSE.
Curious History of the Jog In Our
Northern Boundary Line.
How did the Tinted States come to
get that
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corner of land which
Juts out from the extreme northern
boundary of Minnesota? History of
that little "nose" which sticks out into
Canada from Minnesota and which
ronstitutes the northernmost point of
the United States Is very interesting.
Under the treaty of 1783 the boundary
between the United States and British
possessions was tixtnl. A certain point
on the Lake of the Woods was mutual
ly agreed to as oue starting point, this
being considered the headwaters of the
St. Lawrence river and great lakes
system.
\t that time it was not known wheth
er this point was north or south of the
forty-ninth parallel, but it was known
to be close to it. The understanding
was that from that point the boundary
should go north or south to the forty
ninth parallel, as the case might be.
Later and more accurate surveys
showed that point was about twenty
five miles north of the forty-ninth par
allel, and so at this place the boundary
makes a jog above that line.
Uncle Sam thus has a little pit*' e of
territory of about a hundred square
miles in extent north of the general
boundary. And the joke of it 1-s that
any one has to go by water in order to
reach this little piece of territory unless
he wants to go through Canada.—Path
finder.
LOVE SWAYS THE ARTIST.
His Work Shows the Glorifying Power
of the Grand Passion.
"How Wagner must have loved when
he wrote that!" exclaimed old King
William of Prussia when be heard
"Tristan und Isolde" for the first time
We know now through the publication
of Wagner's love letters and other bio
graphical and autobiographical mate
rial that he was in love with Mathllde
Wesendonck when he composed the
opera. This passion was warp and
woof of that Immortal music drama
the greatness of which compelled Wag
nor all the rest of his life to hold him
hii 'St level of !il'ii'Jitc
self up to hi
tion.
Frank Harris has pretty definitely
proved that Shakespeare wrote "An
tony and Cleopatra" under the influ
ence of a tragical and hopeless love for
Mary Fitton. It has been declared by
a great critic that "Antony and Cleo
patra" has in it every shred of Shake
speare's vitalizing power and that as
tragedy it marks the zenith of his
achievement. If it is indeed Mary lit
ton who is in it she possesses a nionu
ment more glorious than any memorial
of stone ever raised to a potentate, a
saint or a god.
Not every man
w .j...
w o i v e s
by art
VOL. XIII. NO. 18 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8,1913.
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a
Shakespeare or a Wagner, but every
artist, great or small, is subject to th
same principle of the animating and
glorifying power of love.—Joseph Ed
gar Chamberlain in New York Mail
Mental Medicine.
"Imagination." says a doctor, "must
always be reckoned with in medl
cine—sometimes as a friend, some
times as a foe. I know a doctor who
treated an old woman for typhoid, and
on each visit he took her temperature
by holding a thermometer under her
tongue. One day when she had nearly
recovered the doctor did not bother to
take her temperature, and he had
hardly got UK) yards from the house
when her sou called him back.
'Mother is worse.' said the man
'Come back at once.'
"The doctor returned. On his entry
into the sickroom the old woman look
ed up at him with angry and reproach
ful eyes.
'Doctor.' she said, 'why didn't yon
give me the jigger under me tongue to
day? That always done me more good
than all the rest of your trash/ New
York Tribune.
Sharpening a Penoil.
An expert manual training man talk
ed with the writer about so simple a
thing as sharpening a lead pencil. In
the first place, he says, the knife should
not be oversharp, but should be a
little dull, as if too sharp it will cut
quickly through the wood and cut
away the lead. Then, again, he says
it is best to hold the pencil in the left
hand with the end to be sharpened
pointing away from you and to cut
iway with a pushing cut rather than
toward yoa with a drawing cut as
then the point of the pencil is rested
against the side of the thumb and is
sharpened by a draw cut stroke of the
knife blade.—Scientific American.
Told by London's Bishop.
The bishop of London told the fol
lowing ^tory to illustrate the diffl
culty sometimes met with by mission
arles among the working class.
"A curate goes to a house." he said
"and knocks timidly at the door. He
hears a voice shout. 'Who's there
Sally?' and Rally replies, 'Please
mother, It Is "religion."'
"It require* a little bit of tsct for
a man to do what he ought to do when
be is ushered In as 'religion' on wash'
bur day."—Leadoo ftaadtsi.
WELFARE WORK LAST.
Secretary Bed held, himself an
employer of labor, speaking of
welfare wotk, is quoted as fol
lows: "The wise manufacturer
understands that the men in his
shop are more important to him
than his machinery and that
their wages do uot constitute an
expense, but take the tangible
form of an investment. The
new conscience -and 1 am going
back to a favorite expression of
my own—teaches that the well
paid worker, free from over
strain, fatigue or disease, 1s the
cheapest producer. Let us say
that you are employed in my
foundry. The moment I realize
that your health and happiness,
I not to mention your prosperity,
are, aside from a human view of
your case, assets to me you get
1
light, pure air and the means of
doing your work without danger
to your health and efficiency. A
1 happy employee means a happy
employer. Good wages, steady
jobs and decent hours, then
j* welfare work without those
three fundamentals or any one
of them welfare work is a fail
ure and can't fool the youngest
bo.v or stupidest man in the es
tablishment."
PACKING FIRM HIRES DENTIST.
Teeth of Employees Kept In Good Con
dition Free of Charge.
A packing linn of Chicago is looking
out for the health of its employees find
Incidentally snvmu thousands of dol
lars annually
The company has established a
dental office in the plant. Teeth are
filled, pulled and crowned—in fact
treated in any way that will tend to
keep a person in good physical condi
tion.
The object of the company Is not
jtfhllanthropic. Lung ago it was found
out that when an employee is suffer
ing from toothache or his teeth need
professional attention he cannot work
as well until the teeth are attended by
a dentist. Having learned this, the
company set about to furnish a parlor,
hire a dentist aud send him a large
number of patients There are many
at the plant.
The chief surgeon at the packing in
stitution keeps his eyes open for per
sons who are ill. If examination
proves their illness is due to some
trouble of the teeth they are sent to
the dentist Their pay goes on while
they sit in the chai.- and iet the doctor
restore their health through their teeth
"The patients come back to work
with new vigor." said a member of the
"Not only do thev feel bet
company,
ter—and.
that—but
sequently
us more."
are glad for
rder, and con
pay them net
work 11,
WISCONSIN LIABILITY LAW.
All Employees to Carry Insurance Un
less Exempted by Commission.
A new workmen's compensation act
approved by Governor McGovcrn of
Wisconsin, effective Sept. 1, provides
that every employer of four or more
persons will be subject to the provi
sions of the act unless he specifically
elects otherwise.
The benefit to Injured employees or
their dependents remain almost un
changed, the chief exceptions being In
the case of workmen permanently dis
abled, in which even the compensation
is extended six years from the date of
the injury. The new act abrogates
the defense of contributory negligence
The act of 1911 abolished only the two
defenses of assumption of risk and
negligence of a fellow servant.
The provision under which employ
ers automatically will come under the
law unless they elect to the contrary
will affect approximately 2,000 em
players in the state. 1.500 employers
having already come under the law.
The new act contains provisions of
considerable importance to contractors
who are made liable for injuries to
employees of subcontractors. Special
provision Is made, however, for the
contractor to protect himself against
losses. A new section requires all era
ployers to carry insurance unless ex
empted by the Industrial commission.
Employees Given insurance.
Arrangements have been made with
one of the leading insurance companie
by the publishers of the I-Iarfford Cou
rant for the group life Insurance of all
its employees, more than 100 in num
her. Every one above eighteen years
of age and under sixty is taken in by
the company, and all at the expense of
the Courant. Each of these will hav
his life insured for the coming year for
an amount ranging from $2o0 to $1,000
according to the length of his service
Those who have been working for th
paper for less than five years are In
sured for $250, those between five and
ten years for $."00 and all over ten
years for $1,000 each. This applies to
all along the line, in the editorial rooms
counting room, composing room and
press and stereotyping rooms. Typo
graphical Journal.
Janitors Organize.
Janitors of public buildings, re-en
forced by caretakers of public play
grounds in Philadelphia, recently
formed the Special Officers of Recrea
tion Playgrounds association. Resolu
tlons were unanimously adopted to pe
tltion the mayor and councils for an
eight hour day, a short Saturday and
increased salaries. The resolutions
asked that the association members hp
placed upon a uniform footing with
public school janitors and public
aquare earvt&tevs.
iMMIWI—WM—•
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WAGES AN ISSUE
Better Pay Fundamental For
Social Betterment.
NUTRITIOUS FOOD NEEDED.
Physical Well Being and Higher Wages
Recognized as Prerequisites of Great*
est Development Malnutrition Air
Line to Penitentiary.
Seldom has a more forcible presen
tation of^the vital importance of higher
wages been made even before a labor
gathering than was made in Washing
ton before the International Kinder
arten union by Professor Scott Near
ing of the University of Pennsylvania,
says the American Federationist. Wage
earners have long realized the immedi
ate relationship between wages and
standards of living. Other thinkers
are coming to realize this truth also.
Poor food, insanitary homes, improper
clothing and undernourished bodies
are not always the result of ignorance,
but more often are the result of low
wages. As Miss Julia Lathrop, chief
of the children's bureau, said at the
same meeting, the educating effect of
higher wages is remarkable.
Poor people have poor ways is true
in many senses Their poor ways can
only be changed by securing for the
poor folks the means for having bettor
ones. Physical- well being is condi
tioned by the quality and quantity of
food and by healthful environment.
Wages determine the ability to obtain
these necessaries. It cannot be stated
too emphatically we are what we eat
The food we eat furnishes nutriment
for sustaining the health of the bones,
muscular tissues, nerves. It makes
the physical machine upon which all
activity is dependent, not only for ex
istence, but for distinctive character.
The material things of life are not in
ferior to the intellectual and moral,
but are inextricably associated. Nor
is this a grossly materialistic philoso
phy, for the intluence of the mind and
heart remains just as potent, just as
sacred, just as essential a factor in so
cial betterment even when physical
well being aud higher wages are rec
ognized as prerequisites to a condition
of highest development The purpose
served, not the origin, determines
value.
Following a i extract of Professor
Neariug's earnest addres-:
"There is another factor a, American
life which tends in many s to make
children ratliei uian assets—
that is, the w ucsuon. It requires a
minimum of .lolliing and shelter to
maintain life i things cost mojipy
Several .... •i.jve recently
timated •. of money wli.
they eo- t. city for a
ily of three i and a man and wife
varies from $.'••" $!K30. An examination
of the averag. i i paid in American in
dustry will show that approximately
three-quarters of the adult males work
ing in the industrial cities and towns re
eive 1? in wages and there
jre pn s than enough to sup
ort a three children in de
ccncy.
"The
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the working iren
has vis. i- ry factory rip
ping gruat ii" the pubTic cuiio^icnce,
making actio* table. Has your heart
lamented ovot slaves of the factory
siren? Listen. ihe United States there
are thousands and tens of thousands of
children who are habitually hungry. A
recent investigation in Chicago discovered
15,000 children of school ago who did not
receive sufiicient nourishing food. 'Fur
thermore, many children lack shoes and
clothing many have no beds to sleep in.
They cuddle together on hard Moors. The
majority of the indigent children live in
damp, unclean or overcrowded homes that
lack proper ventilation and sanitation.'
"In the entire state of Illinois there are
but 8,900 child laborers in the city of
Chicago alone, 15.000 hungry school chil
dren.
"Nor is this exceptional. Louise Stevens
Bryant concludes a recent study of under
feeding with the statement. 'In New
York and other American cities, 10 per
cent of the school population are serious
ly underfed
"Hungry children do not make acute
students starvation is not the royal road
to learning. Rather does It lead to mis
ery, vice, inefficiency and delinquency,
Children who travel that road end up In
the liability class. Malnutrition is the air
line to the county house and the peniten
tiary."
Real Union Work.
Every union ought to send its full
quota of delegates to the convention
which makes the laws and elects the
officers for the two years followin
Nothing in connection with the work
of the union can be more important
THE UNION MAN'8 CREED,
I believe that in union there is
strength. I believe in the union
I represent in the cause I am
flghtiug for and in my ability to
win the tight. 1 believe in fight
ing. not waiting in smiling, not
weeping in boosting, not knock
ing, and in the pleasure of de
fending my union. I believe a
man can get what he goes after
and that a fight today is worth
a war tomorrow. I believe no
man has taken the count until
he's down and out and has lost
faith in himself. I believe in to
day and in the tight I am wag
ing. in tomorrow, in the battle I
hope to continue aud in the fu
ll ture for a decided victory. I be
lieve in genuine backbone, asso
ciated with the best brand of
grit, sandwiched with the bread
of honest sweat coupled with
the ability to look the whole
world in the face, and all forti
fied with a pure heart, born of a
noble birth and parentage. I be
lieve I am a man of this caliber.
Amen.
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GROWTH OF UNIONS.
Capital Shows Weakness In Pretend
ing to Ignore Labor.
There are those who chafe ftt what
they regard as the slow growth of the
trade union movement, says the Shoe
Workers' Journal. They are impatient
because it is not immediately as pow
erful as they recognize it could and
would be if it embraced the entire
wage earning population.
There are others, however, to whom
the growth of the union movement ap
pears healthy and vigorous, all things
considered. It is only a few years
ago that the membership of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor was around
600,000. A committee of the Nation
al Manufacturers' convention in De
troit recently reported in opposition to
the union label idea that the entire
ftiembership of unions committed to
Hie union label proposition was only
400.000. At one time this statement
might have been applied to the Amer
ican Federation of Labor with truth,
but it would be about twenty years
ago, or, in other words, the figures are
about twenty years behind the times.
In the last twenty years the Ameri
can labor movement, as represented
by the American Federation of Labor,
has multiplied five times, and there
are more than five times as many peo
ple committed to the union label idea
than the committee of the manufac
turers conceded. The trouble with the
manufacturers is that they underes
timate the ui.i'.ii strength, and they
speak foollM when they imagine
that a retail ucuier will refuse to han
dle union label products demanded by
a thousand employees and put in their
place nouuii'.o-. i len»:imn«l by
one employe
It would be iteller for employing in
terests to recognize that the steady
growth of the movement must be bas
ed upon stron- fundamental sons
and that it i- fi tter to treat uh it
In tolerance and liberality with a view
to industrial peace rather than to be
perpetually making ineffective efforts
to suppress tiic ,.!••«
T" hose liH-fii'M-r- labor
who feel impatient and. who imagine
that the growth of the movement Is
slow we repeat the statement that the
American trade union movement has
multiplied by five in the last twenty
years, and, with all due respect to
their opinions, this is not a slow
growth. On the contrary, the rate of
growth is perhaps fully as fast as Is
healthful, meaning by this that it is
just as essential that the movement
should grow on sound lines as that it
should grow in large numbers, and if
it grow on sound lines it roust be by
the increasing intelligence of the rank
and file of its membership, and this
Increasing intelligence must be the
product of education and experience
in union principles and work as well
os in the everyday affairs of life.
The growth spoken of in which the
American labor movement multiplies
by five in twenty years is natural
growth, and when we speak of 2.007.
650 members we speak of 2,007,030
members in good ling whose dues
are paid within able limits, and
these figures do not Include many
thousands of other members who are
not financially in trood standing, but
who are con-id. members and
are expectsi it .-ut doubt intend
to r'-in^tafe fv ---,.
Dividing Strength.
A -i.! news item gives particulars
vf
i action suit in Philadelphia
bet we- i lion of street car
men a i ganizatlon. The
suit w.-i- '. vor of the regu
lar oi. is only a few
years i.,- t!:.- street car men of
Philadelphi 1 a desperate battle
for the riulr rganize and to secure
some slight i ovement in their con
dition. The u. re none too strong to
win with all rh.-'.r forces united. Have
they
sinci
Street railway men of Regina, Can
ada, have secured a nine hour day.
A workmen's compensation bill was
passed by the last West Virginia leg
islature.
A $500,000 office building will be
erected in St. Louis by the Order of
Itailroad Telegraphers.
Labor unions of Point Richmond,
Cal.. have taken the preliminary steps
to build a labor temple.
In Belgium boys under sixteen years
of age can still be employed in brick?
yards up to twelve hours daily.
A new paper has been launched in
St Augustine, Fla., by the Central
Trades council under the name of the
Artisan.
Journeymen tailors of Scotland have
received an increase of 10 per cent in
wages. This means every large center
in Scotland.
Widows' pensions as a companion
law for the minimum wage is urged
by the National Women'* Trades Un
ion league.
A law has beer, passed recently in
New Zealand which makes a tine pos
sible for any person that work* mart
tiuui eight hotiM a 4aj.
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Dry
Goods,
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become so strong that they
can afford to be divided? If it were
possible to punish adequately those
members of organized labor who cre
ate these divisions of the forces of la
bor n fuiiishment could be too severe.
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TRADE UNION 3RIEFS.
British fisheries employ over 100,000
men and boys.
The French working trirl can live
on SO cents a day.
One Oldham (England ma.•bine shop
employs 10,000 men
There are upward of 300,00o female
teachers in this country.
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