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BKJL 1296-X.
endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middlelown O.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Preble and Mont
gomery Counties.
WHY not build the High and
Main street bridge now, and fight
about the money afterwards.
IT has been socse time since we
have called the trades unionists at
tention to the anion labeled bread.
There seems to be a healthy de­
mand for labeled bread but to make
a showing we mi st educate the
non-union families to purchase
home made bread bearing the la
IF the County Commissioners
and the Emergency Commission
do not get busy pretty soon there
might be a few more surprises at
the next election. The public is
getting very tired and restless ow
ing to the fact that too much dilly
dillying is going ®n which is delay
ing the building of bridges.
WE are told that the cigar man
ufacturers and the members of
Cigar Makers' Union No. 123 are
holding meetings for the purpose
of devising some method of creat
inga demand for home made cigars.
This is necessary for the employer
and employee because both have
suffered in this city by the dealers
and saloons buying outside goods.
The saloo list says it is the custo
mer that demands outside cigars.
We say if the dealer would not in­
troduce the outside non union
cigars the customer would never
call for them. It is about time the
saloons are waking up.
IF the city allows the Associated
Charities the $1,400 wh« will get
the most of it? That is the quest
ion that is in the minds of the peo
ple in Hamilton. We are told that
the Associatied Charities are doing
wonderful worlc and we are told
that one half of the money they re"
ceive is expended for office help
and expenses. If this be true t'ae
expenses to run this establishment
GIRLS' SCHOOL
is enormous even if Hamilton is
larger than Middletown. Not only
are the working people thinking
seriously of this matter but some
of our business men are of the
opinion that this money is expend
ed mostly for office salary. If the
city cares to make a test let them
give the Associated Charities $700
and give the Salvation Army $700
and after they have expended the
money have them report what they
did with it. Captain Peter Auld
does not receive $2,500 per year
but be does a world of good for the
or people of this city. Captain
Auld knows ev^ry worthy family
in the city and when he distributes
his little might you can bet it is
properly placed.
Wb are in receipt of the March
Federationist* which contains a
lengthy article "President Gomp-
ers at the Miners' Convention."
The article deals with the attack
on President Samuel Gompers of
the American Federation of Labor
by Duncan McDonald a member of
the Miners' Union. At the miners'
convention which was held in In
dianapolis a shor* time ago, Mc
Donald accused Gompers of being
drunk at the convention of the A.
F. of L,., stopping at an unfair ho
tel and with refusing to support
miners who are on strike in Colo
rado and Calumet, Mich. He also
accuses the A. F. of L. of eing
weak, reactionary, fossilized and
dead. President Samuel Gompers
in a very clear and gentlemanly
manner denies the charges made ly
this McDonald and proves it.
Space will not permit or the PRESS
would be pleased to publish the
entire article. All trades unionists
should secure a copy of the Ameri­
can Federationists the official mag
azine of the A. F. of L. and read it
thoroughly. Since Duncan Mc­
Donald has charged Gompers with
the above it is said by the Federa
tionists that he, (McDonald) has
transferred his property in the
names of others fearing that Gomp
ers might bring suit for slander.
Gompers has lnfo med McDonald
that be will not resort to the courts.
The attack of McDonald upon
Gompers was oae of the dirtiest
tiicks ever played tuon an officer
of the American Federation of La
bor. Read the article.
WORLD Of tASOR
Employes of the California and
Hawaiian Sugar Refining Compans
at Crockett, Cal. have i een noti
fied that the plant will be operated
on a basis of three eight-hour
shifts
A io ceuts-a day increase to la
borers receiving $2.25 per day, and
an advance from 28^ cents an
hour to 30 cents for street laborers
has been put into effect in/Fall
River, Mass, The increase will
benefit 150 employes in the street
department, and within a short
time over 000 will profit. The in
crease was opposed for over a
month by Major Kay, but public
opinion forced him to recede, as it
was shown be favored raising sal
ariea of department heads.
Asiatic immigration is intolera
ble ana California is right in her
contention were the views expressed
by Prof. Sydney Gulick in a
meeting of churchmen, held in
Pniladelphia. The speaker said:
"With fr e immigration millions
of Asiatics would quickly swamp
us in sparsely settled States and
bring economic ruin to all white
laborns in all our cities. Unas
similated they would plant Asiatic
civilization in every part of our
land and render impossible the suc
cess of our American experiment
in democracy."
Announcement has been made of
an increase in wages granted to the
train operatives of the United
Railways and Oregon Electric sys
tems, owned by James J. Hill and
associates. The new scale is said
to be the highest on the Pacific
Coast for eiectric loads. At pre
sent conductors on the passenger
trains receive from $105 to $151 a
month. Beginning March 1 thty
will draw from $1(|5 to $202.50 a
month Brakemen now earn frem
$75 to $110 a month, and their
minimum will be $92 95, with the
minimum $106. Oa freight train?
the existing scale is for conductors
$8.50, for brakemen $2.90. Under
the new scale the minimum for con
ductors is $4 24, for brakemen
$2.90.
In response to a request from the
Massachusetts State Board of La
bor and Industries, Attorney-Gen
eral Boynton has ru'ed that women
stenographers, bookkeepers, clerks
and other clerical employes under
twenty one years of age come with
i# the law which provides that
"No child and no woman ihall be
employed in laboring in a mercan
tile establishment more than fifty
four hours in a week." The form
er Attorney-General ruled that the
use of the words 'in labjring" re
stricted the use of this statute to
those women and children engaged
in manual labor aud did not apply
to workers in offices. The new
rule sets this decision aside, as it is
held that the terms "work" and
"laboring" include every kind of
human employment.
Important Conference.
Memphis, Tenn., March 13.—
Secretary Treasurer Hanson, of
the Southern Conference on Wom
an and Child Labor announces that
the next meeting of this organiza
tion will be held in New Orleans
Friday, March 20, and that indica
tions point to a successful gather
ing. Trade unions are securing
representatives to be presen*, much
progress has been made recently in
this section in efforts to better the
conditions of working women and
to abolish child labor. The Ten
nesse legislature has greatly im
proved its laws and provided better
methods of enforcement, and the
Missippi legislature has just passed
a law providing for a factory in
spector to see to the enfoicement of
the laws in that state. In this
work the Southern Conference on
Woman and Child Labor is taking
an active part and organized wage
workers are urged to be as strougly
represented at the New Orleans
meeting as is possible.
Favors Semi-Monthly Fay.
Columbia, S. March 13—The
State Senate has approved a bill re
quiring railroads to pay their ma
chine shop employes semi-monthly.
As origirally drafted the bill pro
vided that manufacturing and tex
tile corporations shou'd pay their
employes weekly, but this was
stricken out by the senate com
mittee. Senators have given notice
that they will move to reinstate
this section when the bill comes up
for third reading.
Active In New Mexico.
Albuquerque N. Mex. March 13.
The recently organized Brewery
Workers' union has secured a con
tract with employers which calls
for wage increases and a reduction
of working hours. The barkers
have shortened their workday with
o-Jt a decrease in pay. Most of the
unions in this section havt affiliated
with the State Federation of Labor.
Unions of the Printing Pressmen,
Retail Clerks, and Hotel and Res
taurant Employes are under way.
THE OUT OF THE WAY SHOE STORE THAT
NE.W CUSTOMERS EVF-RY WEEK
On our "DRY FOOT' Shoes. It seems one customer tells another. Hadn't you better get in li&e with hun
dreds who are saving money, besides having 'Dry Feet" and our price is only $4 00
Our Heavy Work Shoes for Men
$3 no
$2.00 $2 50
CLE.M PATE.R., 421 South Second Street
POVERTY AND CHILD LABOR,
Does -Mid labor create pov
erty? I)i'. A. .1. McKelway of
Virginia discusses this question
in the last child labor bulletin
and concludes that child labor
reduces the wages of adults. He
cites figures concerning the
wages of 32,409 operatives in
southern cotton mills and says,
"The wages of the adult are
measured b.v the wages that will
satisfy the child worker or his
parents. The manufacturer be^
lieves in 'equal pay for equal
work,' and it is a very profitable
doctrine In keeping down the
wage scale."
Dr. McKelway believes that if
a million children under sixteen
could be taken out of industry in
the United States it would lead
to increased wages for adults.
HEROD OF THE FIELDS.
King Cotton Charged With the Slaugh
ter of Children.
We have long assailed, and justly,
the cotton Industry as the Herod of
the mills. The sunshine in the cotton
fields has blinded our eyes to the fact
that the cotton picker suffers quite as
much as the mill hand from monotony,
overwork and the hopelessness of his
life. It is high time for us to face the
truth and add to our indictment of
King Cotton a new charge—the Herod
of the fields.
Why? What is it that is actually
happening to these children? Come
out with me at •'sunup" and see them
trooping into the fields with tfteir
parents and neighbors.
Watch them picking through all the
length of a hot summer day. and the
mere sight of their monotonous repe
tition of a simple task will tire you out
long before they stop.
Millie, aged fouiv was picking eight
pounds a day when I saw her and
Mellie, her sister tive years old, thirty
pounds a day. Ruby, a seven-year-old
girl, on another farm stopped picking
long enough to say as I stood by her,
"I works from sunpp to sundown an'
picks thirty-five pounds a day.'' Think
how many light and feathery bolls lit
tle hands must pick to turn the scale
at thirty pounds.
The result of a few years of this in
cessant grind, long hours, physical
strain, lack of proper food and care
and lack of mental stimulus, what can
it be but physical degeneration and
mental atrophy, the human being de
graded into a machine, aud a poor ma
chine at that? inevitably there is
weakening or utter absence of moral
fiber. Many of the wo*st crimes
against childhood are not physically
evident until later years. The dreary
stretch of deadening toil and the road
ahead, the stunted mind and the shriv
eled spirit are not always reflected in
the physique of the child who is Just
opening the door into the world of
overwork.—Lewis W. Hine in Survey.
CARPENTERS WITHDRAW.
8ever Connection With the Budding
Trades Department.
By a referendum vote the. United
Brotherhood of Car]tenters and Joiners
of America has decided to withdraw
from the building trades department of
the Anieri'-an Federation of Labor.
It is explained by officers of the union
that the action would go into effect
immediately, but that it in no way
would affect the membership of the
carpenters' organization in the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. Frank Duffy,
general secretary of the carpenters,
said the action of the International or
ganization did not mean that all car
penter unions must withdraw from the
local building trade couucils. "Such
action," he said, "is left to the discre
tion of the local unions."
The principal reason given for the
withdrawal from the department is the
Jurisdictional disputes which arosu be
tween the carpenters and the sheet
metal workers' union. The carpenters
also contended that they were not
given representation in the department
in proportion to their strength.
My Little Boy.
[•Translated by tV. Ettelson from the
yiddieh of Morris Rosenfeld.]
I have a boy. a little boy.
He is a youngster fine!
Whenever 1 catch sight of him
I think the world is mine!
But of him, precious one, awake
I've seldom, s-oldnm sight.
Most times 1 find him fast asleep
Just see him in the night.
The workshop calls me early out.
And late 1 leave the place.
Ah, strange to me my flesh and blood.
Ah, strnnge my own child's face!
I come through pall of darkness hnror,.
Fagged out nnd in a daze,
And my pale wife, to cheer me. tells
Of baby's cunning ways.
How sweet he talks, how cute he
"Please, mamma—tell me, do
When is dear daddie going to come
And bring me penny too?"
And, hearing this, I dart away,
For ::o it needs must be.
The father love flames passionate,
"My child must, shall see me."
I stand beside his tiny crib.
I see and, ah, I hear
The little lips ask in a dream,
"Where Is my daddie dear?"
I kiss his eyelids tenderly.
They open wide—sweet sight!
They see me now, they see me ncv,
But soon again shut tight!
WES vrou
2. Si 29. Sizes 8'4 to 11, $1.19
"•Here** father now, my one, my own!
A penny for you, there!"
The little Hps nsk in a dream,
"Oh. where is papa—whereJ9*
I stand there stricken, deep dlstreiand
And speak In accents sore,
"Some time you'll wake, ray child, alaf.
And find me here no more?"
—Survey
PROTECTION FOR
WOMEN.
What California Is Doing For its Wid
ows and Orphans.
California is progressing rapidly
towards the millciilum. where peace
shall reign on earth. The legislature
of California is leading the civic pro
cession in the enactment of laws look
ing more to the comfort
of
humanity
than the sacredness of vested inter
ests. Capital is gazing upon the per
formance with contempt, ridicule and
disgust. Women are to be more pro
tected by the state than ever. One of
the principal laws affecting them is
the passage or adoptioji of the "blue
sky" law of Kansas, which compels
the various investment companies to
file with a salaried officer of the state
an account of their assets and liabili
ties from time to time. This is a ter
rific blow to a large number of swind
ling concerns that are thriving on the
credulity of widows and others who
fall easy prey to their advertising
wiles.
But the state has gone further. It
is In a paternal way guarding widows
having children. No widow's child
need now through ignorance resort to
crime to get a living, nor need the
daughter of a widow without means
of her own become a victim through
poverty of those accursed influences
that are continually operating to cor
rupt young womanhood. This enact
ment Is in a way similar to the peu
siqn act of the British parliament al
though "decidedly more liberal.
Then a minimum wage law for
women has been passed. To pay a
working girl or woman less than a
certain sum as a weekly wage is to be
penalized, and thus Is avarice re
strained and the female who works
for a living insured a compensation
that will provide an honest livelihood.
Also, as well, employment offices or
bureaus under state management and
coutrol are to be established in all the
large eities of California, where
worthy white women and men seek
ing work can get information as to
employment without being swindled
by the numerous dishonc-st employ
ment agencies that frequently rob the
poor of their last coin.
BIG ORGANIZING PLAN.
American Federation of Labor to
Unionize Government Workers.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, has
announced that the federation would
Instruct its organizers to undertake to
unionize the 300,01*) employees of the
United States government throughout
the country. As far as possible gov
ernment employees will be brought
into existing unions, but it will be nec
essary to create new unions for those
engaged in some lines of work.
There is no law prohibiting unions
of federal employees, although there is
a provision in the new postollice ap
propriation act which says that em
ployees of the postal service shall not
join any organization "Imposing an ob
ligation or duty upon them to engage
in any strike or proposing to assist
them in any strike against the United
States."
This provision was enacted as a re
sult of an attempt to organize postal
employees into labor unions and the
fear that such organization would be
able to tie up mail trains.
Mr. Morrison declared that the strike
question had no bearing on the inten
tiou lo organize government employ
ees. The idea was. ne said, that with
an organization they would be better
able to obtain fair treatment through
applying to congress for redress.
Trade Study Board Named.
President Wilson has appointed the
commission authorized by congress to
investigate and report on vocational
education and trade trainiug. The
two unionists appointed are C. B.
Wlnslow of the Sawsmiths' union, now
connected with the United States de
partment of labor, and Miss Agnes
Nestor of the" Glovema Iters' union.
The American Federation of Labor has
repeatedly urged that vocational and
trade trainiug be systematized to sup
plant the present practice in many
parts of the country where cultural
studies and fundamental vocational
training are overlooked while the stu
dent is forced to acquire a surface
knowledge of things not practical.
Labor Is Capital.
It is many years since Cardinal Man
ning issued his favorite dictum, but It
to always worth repeating. Said this
great champion of the poor and op
pressed: "Labor is capital. Labor has
the same right to protect itself by
trade unions, etc.. as any other form
of capital might claim for itself."
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The Garment Workers of America
issued more than f»o.0oo.000 labels last
year.
Rochester, N. Y„ clothiers have an
nounced that after May 1, 1914, a fifty
hour week will go into effect.
Striking teachers of the elementary
schorils of Hi-ri'fiird. Emil nd„ won
Plr Spec,
$00T & SfiQ£
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infu* tad Fftttera Cmioguc ftae,
tneir striKe Mr i iiiiiutnuin salary ui
$500.
San Frninisco l.jiunclr.v Workers'
Onion has now an enrolled membership
of 2.000. which Is said to be the largest
union of Its kind in the world.
Members of congress holding trade
union curds were guests of honor at a
banquet given in Washington b.v the
Washington Building Trades council.
Unanimous opposition to the proposi
tion for government ownership of the
telephone and telegraph systems, at
least until a full investigation is made,
lias been expressed by all seven of the
Bostou electrical workers' anions.
A Tardy Act of Ji-stice.
Marriages between English actresses
and men of a high social position be
gan In the eighteenth century, if no
earlier. There was Lavinia Fenton
the Polly Penchum of Gay's "Beggar's
Opera," who became Duchess of Bol
ton there was Miss Farreu. who mar
ried Lord Derby a^o Miss, Bninton
became Lady Craven not long before
Lord Thurlow married Miss Bolton
Earliest of the list, though, comes the
Earl of Peterborough, who married
Anastasia Robinson, the singer, and
kept the marriage secret until a few
days before his death in St. James"
palace, when he assembled his relatives
and friends and publicly acknowledged
the woman "to whom he owed the
best and happiest hours of his life." a
tardy act of justice that caused the
lady to swoon away.
The Luxury of Sugar.
Sugar was considered an article of
mxury in Europe until tea and coffee
became usual articles of diet. Sugar
was then used to sweeten these bev
erages and so gradually came to have
a prominent part in the daily diet. Be
fore the days of sugar much more
meat was eaten and the drinking of
alcoholic beverages was miich more
common. The fair maiden who could
not with impunity drink a pint of ale
for breakfast was unusual. Perhaps,
in spite of the fact that most of us
eat too much of it. sugar Is a blessing.
Even oversweetened "coffee and cereal
covered with sugar sound more bene
ficial than a pint of ale and a half
pound of beef for breakfast-Bostou
Herald.
Peor Alexander.
A high scliool freshman, asked to re
cite on the life of Alexander the Great,
extemporized as follows:
"Alexander was a quick tempered
man Once when he had taken too
much wine he got angry ,at his best
friend and killed him Alexander was
rery much grieved and did everything
he could to help bury bis frieud "—Ev
erybody's. ,f
Public Aids to Efficienoy.
Address your mail correctly.
Speak distinctly when you use a
phone.
Walk on the right side of tbe side
walk.
Cross the «enprt on crosswalks
Cleveland'piuin Dealer.
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Purchasing Biead See That
Loaf
allied shoes are frequently made
in Non-Union factories
Do Mot Puv Any Shoe
No matter what its name, tin less it
bears a plain and readable
impression of
A11 8hoes
HIS U 1* I 1* I I* I 1 are always Non-Union. Do not except
any excust for Absence of the UNION STAMP
Boot and Shea Wai kers' Union
Without the UNION STAMP
21ft Summer Street, Hoston, MM.*:
CHAh. I.. BAINK, Sec.-Treas.
MONEY TO LOAN
ON FARMS
At
and 6 per cent
614
Hiram S. Mathers
Lytic Theater
Building
CINCINNATI
PICTURES IN THE PAPER.
First Crude Attempts to illustrate
Events of the Day.
It is a little surprising to.learn that
the first journal to giv" illustrations
with any frequency was the Mercu
rius Civilius, which came out during
the civil war lu England with portrait!*
of Charles 1. and his queen. Cromwell
and his officers and Prince Rupert
More elaborate pictures dealing with
the war were, however, left to tho
pamphlets of that time. The frost
fair on the Thames in 1083 was made
the subject of an interesting broadside,
and so also was the funeral of Queen
Mary II. in 100").
With the eighteenth century the art
of illustrating actualities grew. Car
icatures abounded, now of tbe Jacob
ites, now of the south sea bubble or
similar exciting events. The Daily
Post of 174U afforded an example of a
dally paper attempting to illustrate a
current event. On March 29 of that
year it published a detailed diagram
of Admiral Vernon's attack on Porto
Bello.
The St. .lames Chronicle in 1705 pre
sented its readers with an illustration
of a strange wild animal that had cre
ated much excitement in France, but
this illustration was obviously imagi
nary. The Gentlemen's Gazette in
1751 gave a portrait of Edward Bright,
a record fat man In the Town and
Country .Magazine in 1773 there ap
peared portraits of the principals in a
famous scandal —New York Sua
VOICE CULTIVATION.
It Is Said That the Average American
Needs It Badly.
The American voice lacks cadence.
The touch of harmony is lacking. In
depth or shrillness its strongest quali
ty is monotony of tone.
In conversation it is colorless, and
half of the resources of the vocal cords
are unused or undeveloped. A strident,
high pitched, uasal voice falls in say
ing any good thing well.
Every one has the power of speaking
with sweet inflection. Every one can
attain a reposeful utterance and clear
enunciation by training the ear and
voice to work together in avoiding
harsh tones and cultivating the middle
and more mellow register In every
voice.
Excitement sends it up to a scream
ing pitch, but self control will lower
it again, and its playground should be
through the varying harmonies or ca
dences of five notes.
According to Thomas Wentworth
Higglnson, our English cousins put
more cadence, more up and down, into
an inquiry, "What time is it?" than
Americans would into the announce
ment that a president was shot A
crowd of baseball fans will pitcf) the
cheering on a high note and yeil it
self hoarse. In the same number of
Europeans the shouting would be full
of undertones and cadences. They
would sing their enthusiasm.—New
York Sun.
Pair Warning.
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bad language punish It?"
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