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TRADES COUNCIL
The Co-operative Trades and La
bor Council met Tuesday night in
regular session. President John
Pew presided over the meeting and
all trades except tvpo were repre
sented.
The credentials of Jos. Stoker,
John Gfroerer and Wtn. Fisher of
Bartenders' Union, Wm. Babb of
Stove Mounters' Union and Henry
Brinker of Cigar Makers' Union
Were read received and delegates
installed.
Ed Lieberman International Offi
cer of the Metal Polishers' Union
was admitted to the meeting as a
visitor.
Brother Wick of Local Plumbers
Union was admitted to the meeting
as a visitor.
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A communication was received
from Secretary Thomas Donnelly
of the Ohio Federation of Labor,
citing certain laws. The same was
received and turned over to the
Executive Board.
A communication was received
from the Steam Engineers and the
Stationery Firemen of Rochester
N. Y., who are on strike for better
conditions. The same was ordered
published in THE PRESS
A communication was received
from the Paper Makers' Union of
Elkhart, Ind., asking council to
assist in creating a demand for Un
ion Labeled Paper. The same was
ordered complied with.
A communication was received
from Printing Pressmen who state
that they are attempting to union
ize the American Book Co., Manu
facturers of School Books, who
boast that they run a non-union
shop in all departments. They al
so ask that we urge the Board «f
Education to purchase union made
books for the schools.
Communications from Metal
Trades Council of Erie. Pa., stating
that the lockout in several of the
factories in that city is still on and
asking council to notify all me
chanics employed in the metal
trades to stay away from Erie, Pa
A communication was received
from the Allied Printing Trades
Council to assist the Photo Engrav
ers in their fight against the Gill
Brothers company of New York
The same was received and ordered
complied
with.
Secretary A. P. Sandles, of the
Ohio State Fair in a communication
invited the labor organizations to
attend *be opening of the Fair on
Labor Day. The Secretary was
instructed to write Mr. Sandles
thanking him for the courtesy and
notify him that it will be impossi
ble for us to attend on account of
the big celebration we are going to
have here.
Mr. Ed Lieberman, organizer
for the Metal Polishers Union of
St. Louis was allowed the floor and
he stated that the members of their
organization who were employed
at the Mosler Safe Company went
on strike for an increase in wages
The council endorsed the strike
and promised their moral assistance
and the delegates instructed to
carry back the facts to their organ
izations.
Delegate Edward Etzler reported
for the Clerks Union that every
store in the city was closed Mon
day night,
The committee to wait on Cann
ing and Gray the new grocers re
ported that they met the firm and
that Mi. Canning stated that as
s«on as they found out that the
carpenter employed in their store
was not a union man they let him
go. The report was received and
the committee instructed to see the
firm again.
The committee appointed to wait
on Slifer Packing company report
ed that they met the firm. The
report was received and the matter
laid on the table for two weeks.
The Labor Day picnic committee
reported progress.
The Secretary of the Convention
Committee reported that the com
mittee met Sunday morning and
transacted the regular line of busi
ness. The committee instructed
the secretary to write all unions
having tickets to send in the money
and the stubs as soon as possible
All tickets and monies must be
turned over to Secretary Edw. Etz
ler before 3 o'clock Labor Day.
The Legislative League will meet
in Hamilton Sunday, Aug. 17,
Trades Council Hall.
The secretary was instructed
write Switchmen's Union regarding
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Metal Polishers
On Strike At Mosler Sate
Company Tuesday Afternoon.
All of the members of Local
Metal Polishers' Union employed
in the big factory of the Mosler
Safe Company went on strike Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Nine
men and seven apprentices are in
volved. The strike was the result
several conferences with the
ma .agement of the company by
Mr. Ed. Lieberman, Organizer of
the Metal Polishers, Buffers, Plat
ers and Brass Workers Union.
The polishers state that members
of their organization working in
other safe factories througouc the
country are getting considerably
more money than they are getting
and that only one apprentice is
allowed to every seven men. The
Mosler company refused to grant
the demands of the men and at
o'clock they walked out. The
men will immediately receive strike
benefits from the international or
ganization. It is said that the
strike will likely be settled before
the end of the week. At Tuesday
night's meeting of the Co-operative
Trades and Labor Council, that
body endorsed the strike and will
assist the Polishers iu every way
possible. They did not ask for fin
ancial assistance stating that their
union was in a position to take care
of them.
NOTICE
METAL TRADES.
All Metal Mechanics are request
ed to stay away from Erie, Pa
Big strike on with bright prospects
of winning.
Also Metal Polishers pass up
Hamilton. Ohio. Strike on for an
increase in wages and better con
ditions.
About Completed,
The new store front which is be
ing placed in Clem Pater's Shoe
Store is about completed. The
mechanics are finishing and it will
be completed by the end of this
week. After the front is finished
workmen will start on remodeling
the interiar. All through the re
modeling there was no interruption
to Pater's shoe business. The store
will be strictly up-to-date with a
arger stock and more bargains.
On Saturday, August 10, at the
Court House, ten o'clock A. M.,
two boys will be chosen from each
county to attend the Ohio State
Fair. The State Fair will pay all
expenses of the trip. A model
Farm Boys' Camp will be estab
lished on the State Fair Grounds,
under the control of the Adjutant
General of the State.
This is the third year for this
feature. Other states are doing
likewise. It is encouragement for
the boys. In counties where one
or more free trips to Washington
are offered to boys who enter in*o
the acre of corn contest, only those
boys entered, are eligible to com
pete for the State Fair Free Trip.
The boys must bring note books
and visit each department of the
State Fair and write a story of his
trip. The boys who win this trip
must also appear on the program of
any public meeting held in his
countay, if he is invited to do so,
and tell the story of what he saw
and learned.
On Sunday before the Fair boys
will be the guest of Warden Thomas
at the State Penitentiary church
services, after which they will be
shown all parts of the big prison.
At six o'clock, Sunday evening,
in the shadow of the old cabin in
which U. S. Grant was born, the
boys will be addressed by the Gov
ernor of Ohio, the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, and the Mayor
of Columbus. This sunset meeting
will be one of the high spots of the
trip.
The entire week's program wilj
be made highly instructive, and
will be a red letter event in the
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PLUMBERS
Held Meeting Monday Night.
Plumbers Local Union No. 108
met Monday night in regular session
with all members present.
A committee was appointed some
time ago to meet with the Plumb
ing Contractor of the new Y. M.
A. building. The committee
reported that they met the con
tractor and he agreed to employ
all union plumbers and steam fitters
and abide by the local agreement.
The plumbers are well pleased with
the contractors.
The Ohio State Association of
Plumbers and Steam Fitters inet io
Toledo, Ohio, last month. A num
ber of measures were discusstd
which will benefit the Plumbers'
Union. G. F. Schwab represented
the Hamilton Local.
Henry Betcher was elected dele
gate to the convention of the In
ter national organization which will
be held in Boston. Betcher will
leave for that city August 1.3.
Theatrical Stage Employes
Elect Officers
Theatrical Stage Employes Un
ion, No. 136 met Sunday morning
in Trades Council Hall and elected
the following officers: President,
George Schuler vice president,
John Janser financial and recording
secretary, Henry Humbach, Jr.
treasurer, Claude Lambert busi
ness agent, Edward Heim guard,
Harry Morton Arrangements will
be made later for the annual ban
quet to be held the latter part of
the month.
Notice To Merchants,
All the merchants and business
men are invited to have floats in
the Labor Day parade. They are
requested to send in their names to
Chas. Vaughn, Grand Marshl, 721
Buckeye Street, so a suitable place
can be arranged for them in the
parade.
Farm Boys Camp
Free trip to the Ohio State Fair first
week in September at Columbus.
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Notfce To Marshals.
All
Marshals for the Labor Day
parade will meet in Trades Council
Hall, Sunday Morning at 9 o'clock.
Women Go On Strike.
Demanding Shorter Working Hours
and increase in pay.
New York, August 8.—Seven
thousand women, employed in East
Side knitting mills, went on strike
Tuesday, demanding shorter hours
higher pay and more sanitary work
ing conditions. Several thousand
men went out in sympathy with
the women workers.
life of the boy who is so fortunate
to win it.
The following persons will have
a vote in selecting the two boys
County Commissioners, County
School Examiners, President and
Secretary of County and Inde
pendent Fairs, President and Sec
retary of County Teachers' Insti
tute, Master of Granges, President
and Secretary of County Sunday
School Convention, President and
Secretary of each regular and in
dependent Farmer Institute, Presi
dent and Secretary of Farmers Pic
nics that have been organized for
two years or more, each newspaper
President and Secretaries of Po
mona Granges, Pioneer Associa
tions and Farmers' Mutual Insur
ance Comyanies Presidents, Sec
retaries and Township Vice Presi
dent of County Crop Improvement
Associations. Persons er firms of
fering a free Washington trip to
have one vote for each trip tf
fered. In case the money f®r the
free trip was raised by subscription
the officer or persons in charge of
the subscription to have the vote.
The delegates will meet at the
county count house, August 16
1913, at 10 a. m.
Said delegates shall select a Pres
ident and Secretary and proceed to
elect two boys to receive the Free
Trip to the Ohio State Fair. Each
delegate present to have one vote
No proxies.
For full information and printed
circulars write to
A, P. Sandles, Secretary,
Columbus, Ohio.
FIGURES OF SPEECH.
Just 8upposa For a Moment That They
AH Turnsd to Faots.
No situation is more difficult to deal
with than that in which a figure of
speech becomes a fact. 1 mean that
when we have been using a phrase
truly, but
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Its general and metaphor­
ical sense, we are rather embarrassed
than otherwise if we find that it is
true, even in its strict and literal sense.
There does not seem to be anything
more to say. Suppose you heard a
family remark casually, "It's madness
In papa to go to Norway!" And sup
pose the next instant papa sprang into
the room through a smashed window,
with straw* in his hair and a curving
knife uml howled aloud' "Ubbubboo!
I'm going Norway'" The Incident
would be disconcerting. It would not
be easy to pursue the subject.
Or suppose we said to Rome stately,
silver haired woman who was an
noyed. "I think it childish of you to
take offense so easily." And suppose
she sat down suddenly on the floor
and began to scream for her doll and
her skipping rope. We would be at a
loss. Words suited to the situation
would not easily suggest themselves
Of if a wife said to her husband,
apropos of a luxurious friend to whom
he gave expensive dinners, "He's slm
ply robbing you," her remarks would
be cut short rather than further en
couraged by the sight of the friend
climbing out of the window with the
silver teapot under his arm. The wife
would have the extremely unpleasant
sensation of having said the worst
thing she could and having nothing
more to say.
Cases, of course, could be multiplied
indefinitely, as the case of one who,
entering a lodging house, should say
"Rats!" in disparagement of its praises
and find himself instantly surrounded
by those animals, or one who should
remark, "Uncle Joseph has lost his
bead over this," and should find him
decapitated in the garden.—Illustrated
London News.
LINED WITH GOLD.
Alaska's Enormous Deposits Will Last
a Thousand Years.
Like a tale out of the "Arabian
Nights" is the opinion given recently
by an expert on the future of Alaskan
gold mining, only this expert bases his
opinion on facts, whereas the oriental
story teller specialized in fancy.
But the testimony given by Palcoin
Joslin is doubly interesting because it
exceeds the imagination of the wildest
fancy while being bnsed on the facts
in the case.
"In my Judgment." says Mr, Joslin
"the placer mining industry in Alaska
will last a thousand years, the area
suitable for placer mining is so enor
mous. What we are working there
now is only the gravels that will carry
from $3 to $10 a yard. You cannot
work gravels that carry less than that,
but once we have transportation there
and can work gravels such as they do
in California, which carry 7 cents a
yard, we have got so nearly an unlim
ited area of it that no man can foresee
the end of that industry in Alaska.
"One great thing is that nearly the
whole area of Alaska is gold bearing
There are placers and quartz. It has
been said, and I believe the statistics
and explorations of the geological sur
vey show it, that you could go from
the extreme southeast of Alaska at
Ketchikan, where there are important
mines, along this route by way of
Hains clear out to Nome, a distance of
2,000 miles in a straight line, and that
in every twenty mile section along
that route you could develop gold
mines. It is infinitely greater than
any other area of gold country that
has ever been found in the world."
Engineering and Mining Journal.
Nice For ths Lady.
Quite regularly a certain London
school teacher invited two miserable
little girls to spend Saturday afternoon
at her house. Knowing how overbtn
dened with work the mother was an
how much the children's moral educa
tlon was neglected at home, a wettu
ment worker ventured to congratulat
the parent
'What a .-idvantage for them I
hlie said exceedingly kind u
her!"
"No di'ui.t siic'- glad of eomp'ny.'
complacently returned the motiier.
London Telegraph.
The Use of English.
Of the 80.000 English words avail
able for conversation purposes only
400 are said to be in common use. If
these were carefully selected there
would be little cause for complaint,
since the combinations they make
possible should provide innumerable
shades of variation. Careful word se
lection is something that should be en
couraged In and out of the schools.
Christian Science Monitor.
Strict Economy.
"Nothiug is lost here but the squeal,"
declared the pork pucker. "Are you as
economical in conducting your busi
ness?''
"More so," ansv
ered the
visitor, "I'm
in the lumber business. We don't
waste even the bark."—Philadelphia
edger.
THE SQUARE DEAL.
If I boost your union label
You should do as much for mine.
This is simple reciprocity.
A never falling sign
That the spirit of true brothe' I
Amoiiff us ranks supreme
To promote the union
All the time should be mr it-ieu.*
In the field of union lal"
Thla should be our Golden Rule
Work and strive to win diploma*
In the union label school
Always do unto each other
As you'd wish to be done by
Have the label of your brother,
Union man, on what you buy.
Act together as a unit
In this most important mors.
The results will be astounding.
Raise yourself from out tfe*
groove
Of Inaction, for, remember,
On one point you should agrss
If I demand your label
You should do as much for me.
—T. R. West in Kansas City Labor
Journal.
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