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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1911.
Entered at the Postofftce at Hamilton, Ohto, at
Second Class Matl.Matter.
ISSUED WKMLT AT 836 MAKKKT STRKHT,
HAMILTON OHIO.
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BBI.L 1^96—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.
Endorsed by Metal Trades Council
oi Hamilton Uhio.
UNION
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men be true to your or­
ganization.
DBFKAT
your enemies and elect
vour friends.
Now is the time to consider
which candidates are the friends
of organized labor.
THE
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county i* sadly in need of
a new tuberculosis hospital and the
county commissioners should get
busy and build one immediately.
IF
NOTING
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can be done to have
the csunty commissioners to em­
ploy union men on county work
after being promised, union men
can be elected to the office who
will keep their promise.
trades unionists of this
county will go before the county
commissioners and protest against
allowing any nn,re contracts to tlie
Yager Company. Any firm that
breaks a premise with organized
labor is not worthy of any on
tracts from Butler on my.
The trained nurse at the tuber
culosis hospital works day and
night taking care of the patients.
She walks up to the infirmary and
receives the supply of food for the
patients and also the mail. She
does all the cooking and nurs s
white and colored people alike.
She very rarely has time to come
to the city for a little recreation
and relaxation. For all this she
receives the large sum of $50 per
month. Less than a Sab' r«.r's
wages.
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Yager Company
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High and Main str et bridge prom­
ised the business agent of the local
carpenters' union that they would
employ union men. The Yager
Compauy lately told the carpent
ers' business agent that they have
their n.ind. Yes, they
havt They bave employed some
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of the rankest carpenters in the
state. Even the foreman on the
job has a bunch fines hanging
tver lis head.
Commissioners
Will Be Asked To Retain
Tuberculosis Hospital.
New building will be suggested
by Organized Labor.
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A committee from the Co opera
tive Trades and Labor Council will
meet with the County Commission
ers in a few days for the purpose
of asking that body t~ retain the
Tuberculosis Hospital on the hill
and if pjssible erect a new build
ing to accomodate the patients of
this county afflicted with that dis
ease. This committee was ap
pointed by the Trades and I/»bor
Council to visit the hospital and
investigate the same as to the needs
of the institution. Complaint was
laid before the council that condi
tions at the hospital are not what
they should be and that thefe was a
movement on foot to send the But
ler County pa ients to Mt. Vernon
where the state hospital is located.
The committee visited the hospital
on Monday, July 27th. This com
mittee found that the hospital with
it's seven patients are about all
that can be taken care of because
there is no room for other patieuts.
The hospital is in need ©f better
telephone service to call up doctors
etc. The sanitary conditions are
not the best and could be improved
wonderfully. The hospital is con
nected with the same old cesspool
that takes care of the Infirmary.
This cesspool is a nuisance to the
whole community and should be
abandoned at once. The commit
tee was told that the roof leaked in
rainy wefther and needs repairs
The building is entirely too small
at the pre^ont time and no more
than seven patients can be accomo
dated. The committee has also
been told that the commissioners
only erected the old building on
the hill as an experiment. There
is no doubt that the commissioners
through their experiment find that
the county is very much in need of
a new sanitary and up to date hos
pital for tuberculosis patients.
There is plenty of ro'm for a new
building and the cost will not be
very great and when completed will
be an institution that has long
been needed.
To have a tuberculosis hospital
en the Infirmary hill means much
to the citizens of Butler County
The relatives of the afflicted can
visit the patients where if the pa
tients were carted to Mt. Verncn it
wou)d be an expense to the rela
tives and probably some of them
would never see their loved ones
alive after making the trip. The
care of the path nts was found to
be good considering the meager ac
comodations and necessities which
the nurse has. The institution is
run economically and everything
appeared to be neat and clean out
there is no room for other patients
who might want the services of a
well trained nurse and being with
out funds to pay for it. The com
mittee will recommend to the com
missioners that they look into the
matter at once to Luild a new and
up-to-date tuberculosis hospital,
k is needed badly by the citizens
oi Butler County* and ?11 should
heartily in favor of it.
INDIAN MOTOCYCLE
FAIR TO ORGANIZED
LABOR.
Ur. Geo. A. Hill.
Hamilton, O.
Dear Sir and Brother:
You are hereby officially notified
that the Indian Motocycle strike
has been settled.
The Metal Polishers & Buflers'
international Union and the Hen
dee Mfg. Co., makers of*-the In.
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In the Interest of Your PocKetbooR
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dian Motocycle, have amicably
settled their grievance. This set
tlement was effected July 21, and
tito met with the unanimous ap
proval of the Metal Polishers &
Buffers International Union, the
strikers themselves, and the Cen
tral Labor Union of Springfield,
Mass.
This company has also adjusted
their differences with the aiding
Trades Council. Any grievances
that may arise in the future will
be referred to a board of arbitra
tion.
The splend'd assistance of or
ganized labor made this settlement
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possible we hereby extend to you
and your organization our sincere
thanks for ycur support.
Kindly give this all publicity
possible by directing your delegates
to report it back to their respect
ive locals and further inform the
general public that the Indian Mo
tocycle is again fair to organized
labor.
Again expressing our gratifica
tion, and with best wishes for your
continued success, we remain,
Fraternally yours,
T. M. Daly,
International President.
Attest:
C'nas. R. Atherton,
General Secretary.
Labor Day Outing
lib-Committees.
The Labor Day Outing Sub
committees appointed are as fol
lows.
Amusement Com.—Vaughn,
Weiss, Pawlosky, Etzler, Mistier,
Betscher, Howard and Babb.
Refreshment Committee—Sims,
Gfraerer, Lentz, Buhi, Brinker,
Brannon, Owens, Remle, Mrs. Fin
frock, Mrs. Vaughn, Mrs. Sims.
Committee—Finfrock,
Strategier, Boles and
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Hartman,
Murton.
Printing Hill,
Mayer, Miller,
Binotch and Menchen.
Grand Marshal, Chas. Owens,
Assistants, Andy Lentz and Wm.
Babb.
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The prohibitionists tell us that
intemperance in drink is the chief
cause of poverty.
Of course, every workingman
knows from his experience that
this is not the fact, and the state
ment is a slander upon the charac
ter of the wcrking people
But let us see what those who
have studied the matter on the
basis of fact have to say, rather
than take either the arbitrary as
sertlon of the prohibitionist or the
stacement of the workingman ba?ed
on practical life, although he may
not be able to adduce tht necessa
ry figures.
If intemperance in alcoholic
drink were the chief cause of pov
erty, then those who drink too
much ought all to be poor, while
there ought to be little, if any,
poverty among abstainers.
Is this in accordance with the
facts? Da we not know that many
people are rich although they drink
more than is good for them? And
are the abstaining workmen not
poor as well as those who do not
abstain?
In 1908 Carroll D. Wright, Uni
ted States Commissioner of Labor,
stated the percentage of those un
employed during some part of the
year as 49.8 per cent. The census
of 1900 placed it at 22.8 per cent.
According to Mr. Wright's figures
the causes of unemployment were:
Establishments closed, 56.96 per
cent sickness 23.65 per cent
strikes, 2.67 per cent accidents,
Sale. Remember nothing reserved, every pair of
Shoes or Slippers go at cut prices.
ONLY 50c for Child's White Canvas Baby I And still adding new customers every week to our vei^Llong list. Low prices,
Doll Slippers, sizes 1 to 5, worth 70c. 60c I courteous treatment is what counts. Girl's Gun and Patent Baby Doll
for 80c kinds. 70c for 90c kinds. Slippers, sizes to 11 $1.12, $1.29. Sizes 11^ to 2 $1.89, $1.59
CLEfl PATER, 421 S. Second St.
DOUBLE. GOLD BOND STAMPS EVERY DAY OF SALE
All this week $1,00off per pair on our Men's Potent Low Cuts. $4.50 go at &J.50. $3.50 go at $2.50. $4.00 kinds at $8.00
1.66 per cent drunkenness, 26
per cent.
It thus appears that a trifle dver
one-fourth of one per cent of idle
ness was due to intemperance.
"If the saloons were all closed
and the people were all total ab
stainers, the pall of poverty would
still hang over the home of the
workingman because of his enforc
idleness at times and the poor wag
es paid for his labor," says Mary
E. Garbutt in the Gqyernment
Worker.
Prtf. Richard G. Ely regards
long hours of work and the strain
of work by the side of rapid mov
ing machinery on the nervous sys
tem as predisposing causes of in
temperance.
Even Frances E. Willard, the
patron saint of the anti-drink fa
natics, came to the conclusion in
her later years that "the only way
to have a sober people is to strike
at the root of the evil which causes
inebriety. Poverty, many hours
of labor, the nerve strain under
which men toil, the anxiety from
the insecurity of their jobs—re
move aH this, and in a short time
the demand tor stimulant would
cease and drunkenness would ke
unknown."
Prof. Jacob H. Hollander, of
Johns Hopkins University, in dis
cussing "The Abolition of Pover
ty," gives an exhaustive argument
but does not refer with a single
word to intemperance as a cause of
poverty. The United Charities of
Chicago trace 12.4 per cent of the
distress that came under their ob
servation to "drink." German
and Austrian statistics go as low
as 2.1 or 1.3 per cent.
And in these figures only sur
face indications are considered.
The fact, now well understood,
that excessive drunkenness is not
a cause, but a sympton of defect
iveness, is not taken into account
by those who compiled these sta
tistics.
But evei taken at their face
value, all these facts show clearly
that there is no sense whatever in
charging poverty to drink.
Furthermore, the United States
Bureau of Labor statistics in its
forty-fifth bulletin gives figures
showing that the workingmen of
the country spend only a fraction
over one per cent of their earnings
for pleasures that can be in any
way connected with the saloons.
If they saved this one per cent,
w»uld they not be poor?'
As usual, the prohibitionist has
put the cart before the horse.
Vacation Trips on the Great Lakes
Summer vacation travel on the
Great Lakes is now in full swing,
and the volume of tourist travel
attracted to the lake routes by the
splendid equipment of the passen
ger lines and for the cool and rest
ful lake ips is even larger than ic
former seasons.
The great ship SEE ANDBEE'
now running daily between Cleve
land and Buffalo, has created
sensation with the traveling public
who break their rail journey at
either city to enjoy a night's trip
on this marvelous steamer.
The "SEEA^fDBEE" is the
largest and most costly passenger
steamer on inland waters of the
world. She has 510 staterooms
LENIV. DELANEY
^indly asks your support for
At the Democratic Primaries, Tuesday, August 11,1914
Some of th'e Things I Stand Foifr:
Build good roads at the leaat possible cost, and create a fund to keep all main
County roads in good condition at all times, also to keep them oiled.
When awarding County contracts, that Home Contractors and Laborers he
given preference when reasonably justifiable.
That State Supervision of Highways may be continued, but. funds left to Com
missioners and Township Trustees for distribution.
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and parlors accommodating 150
passengers, equalling in sleeping
capacity the largest hotels of the
country, and can carry 6,000 peo
pie, the population of a good size
town.
Notwithstanding her gigantic
size, during the summer season her
sleeping accommodations are re
served well in advance, and those
contemplating the trip shorld ar
range for rooms as early as possi
ble.
All railroad tickets reading be
tween Cleveland and Buffalo are
good for transportation on C. &
Line Steamers, and no one should
miss the opportunity of using the
lake route during the hot summer
months.
WORLD OF LABOR
The Union Fuel Company, con
trolling the Star mine at Rugby,
Colorado, has signed a contract
with the United Mine Workers
All the damands made by the Trin
idad convention lasf year have been
granted. The company agrees to
pay 55 cents per ton for machine
mined coal.
A universal eight-hour day, ap
plicable to all states, was favored
by General Manager Barda, of the
Mid vale Steel Works, before the
Federal Commission on Industrial
Relations. Mr. Barda modified his
opinion, however, by declaring that
such a law would militate against
American industries in times of de
pression, and that a shorter work
day woula mean an added cost to
the ultimate consumer, i
Trade unionists in Michigan be
lieve the conspitacy charges agaijst
President Moyer and thirty-seven
other officers will eventually be
dropped as the result of the agree
ment reached between Attorney
Hilton, of the Western Federation
of Miners, and Special Prosecutor
G. E. Nicholls. Formal motions
for postponements until next fall
of the trial of the miners' officials
will be made. The prosecutor in
sists that the absence of the Stale's
witnesses will make it impossible
for the prosecution to push the
case.
Chester ParK
Big amusement events continue
to hold forth at Chester Park, Cin
cinnati's most popular summer re
sort. The vaudeville bill, one of
the many free attractions in the
park promises to be of the uiual
high quality. Smittie's Military
Band will render a delightful con
cert program consisting of a mix
ture of popular classics and rag
time. The bathing beach with its
attractive play apparatus an ocean
wave effects will offer a pleasure to
*nany thousands daily. Hiliarity
Hall, the Blue Streak, Derby Racer
and a thousand and other features
continue t» attract the pleasure
oving thousands.
CONEY ISLAND
Famed for three seasons ai pre
senting the only aviation that Cin
cinnati has ever witnessed, the
Coney Island company will present
next Wednesday and Thursday,
the greatest airship expert the
world has ever known. Orville
Wright, who, with his brother,
evolved the modern airship.
Beachey ascends an altitude of
0o0 feet and then plungtfs head
(orward 2000 feet, dropping like a
tlat-iron dropped trom a skyscraper
although many times as far. Then
Jie rights the aeroplane just when
one expects him to be plunged to
iiis death. Then he loops the loop
-lies upside down, and his speeding
with his machine is little less than
superhuman. With Beachy comes
jJarney Oldfield, with two wonder
ful racing automobiles with exhi
bition speed runs against time, and
joncludihg the day with a race be
tween his speediest auto and the
rship with Beachey at the con'
tiols. 1
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Frank Kinch
Kindly solicits your vote for
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The Union Label is a protection
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At the Democratic Primary, Tuesday,
'August 11,1914
When Purchasing Bread See That
•THIS
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Is On Every Loaf
producers and consumers
This UNION STAMP
any excuse for Absence of the fNTON hTA?*"
JOHN F. TOBIN, Pres.
No matter what its name, unless it
a plain and readable
impression of
bears
THE GREAT SHIP "SEEANDBEE"
length ",00 feci breadth 98 feet, 6 inches 510 stateroom#and parlor* accommodating 1500 paMen
gcr-. Greater in cost—larger in nil proportions—richer in all uppoinUnenta—than any at earner ..u
inland water* of the world. In service June 15th.
Magnificent Steamers "SF.EANDBEE," "City of Erie" and "City of Buffalo"
Daily —CLEVELAND and BUFFALO May ut to Dec. l»t
Clpvrlaad ti 00 1'. M. Lt*«ve lluiTalo ii 00 1*. M.
Arrive Bulialo 6:30 A.M. Arrive Cleveland 6:30 A.M.
(Ontral Standard Time)
Connection# at Buffalo far Niagara FalU ainj ail EaAtern amP Canadian Points. Railroad
reading hclwren (Itmland ami HuiTalo arc good for traoHnortatioo on our steamer*. A-k
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THE CLEVELAND & BUFFALO TRANSIT CO, Cleveland. O.
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Of Liberty Township, Candidate for
Kindly solicits your support at the Democratic Primary
to be held August 11, 1914
As a member of the General Assembly, If r.
Billingslea was the friend of
Organized Labor
OF SEVEN MILE
Respectfully asks your support for the nomination of
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Earned shoes are frequently made
in Non-Union factories
Do Not Buv Any Shoe
All shoes without the UNION STAMP
are always Non-Union. Do not except
rs' Union
summer ssireei, uoston, Mass
CHAS. I*. BAINE, Sec.-Treas.
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Buffalo
MONEY TO LOAN
ON FARMS
At 5 and 6 per cent
Hiram S. Mathers
«, Lytic Theater Building
CINCINNATI
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