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THE UNION
SIMPLE BUSINESS MATTER.
Th» frade Unionist Works Against
His Own Interest Whenever He Buys
•n Article Made In an Unfair Shop.
Points For Labor to Consider.
By "purchasing power" we do not
*nean to go out and purchase power
toy the corrupt use of money or any
thing like that. That is a game we
are not familiar with, and from what
we read In the daily newspapers we
would suppose that certain large capi
talists and certain politicians would
beat us pretty badly at that game, by
"us" meaning the labor movement.
There is a vast difference between
purchasing power in the sense above
indicated and the using of the pur
chasing power that we now possess in
the interest of ourselves, the move
ment In which we are comprised, the
wages and conditions of our own em
ployment and those of our fellow
craftsmen in other trades and the con
ditions of the future generations who
will logically take our places in the in
dustries and occupations In the indus
trial world-
Many of us have found It easy to
criticise the employers many of us
have felt that the best of them were
poor managers of their business and
that we could handle it better than
they can but, as a rule, we must take
off our hat to the employer in one re
spect—namely, that in the spending of
his money he intends to buy for the
Interest and advantage of his business.
He does not knowingly or intentional
ly go out and buy an article that Is to
the disadvantage either of himself or
of bis business.
Of course the employer may do such
a foolish thing, but be Is on guard
against it, while wage earners are do
ing Just that foolish thing all the time.
They criticise the employers as being
joor managers of their business, but
when the wage earner himself as
sumes the position of employer, as he
does when he purchases any commod
ity with his hard earned wages, then
many of them have no thought what
ever of doing their purchasing with
due regard for the interest of their
business—namely, the selling of their
labor power.
If a wage earner went out and
bought a suit of clothes or a pair of
shoes without the union label, and if
his own wages were reduced 10 per
cent every time he did that, and if he
knew that to be a fact, and it was ap
parent to him that he himself suffered
directly and Immediately whenever he
spent his union wages for a nonunion
purchase, then very likely he would
have a better conception of the Influ
ence that his buying power has upon
his wages and working conditions.
Unfortunately the connection be
tween the two Is not so obvious to the
mind of many wage earners, but It Is
there just the same, although he can
not see It, only the way is a little
more roundabout. If the shoemaker in
Brockton buys a nonunion suit of
clothes he is depriving some union tail
or of an opportunity to earn a living
and to buy union stamp shoes. On
the other hand, if he purchases a union
label suit of clothes he has made it pos
sible for a union tailor or garment
worker to buy a anion stamp pair of
shoes.
The purchase ts more deadly than
the vote, not only because it is more
final and certain In its effect but also
because the opportunities for exercls
lng the power are unlimited. Instead
of voting once a year you buy some
thing every day in the year, and usual
ly you buy something several times
every day in the year. It is not unrea
sonable to say that the wage earner
who is careful to give his patronage to
union label articles and to fair con
cerns In trades not having union la
bels, who in his capacity 'is employer
and purchaser will employ none but
union labor, is voting for union condi
tions thousands of times in a year.
A correct use of the purchasing pow
er means the casting of one's influence
forever and eternally for conditions of
unionism, for broader and better lives
to all who labor and to all who are de
pendent upon those who labor, better
wages and working conditions, better
schools, better clothing, better homes,
better education for our children, more
Intelligent and prosperous generations
to come, with peace, progress and pros
perity for all of humanity.—Sh e Work
era' Journal.
Railroad Dispute Ended.
VAST PURCHASING P»WER IN THE JHANDS OF WAUE EARNERS
There will be no strike of St. Louis
Southwestern railroad trainmen. The
federal board of mediation and con
ciliation has brought about a settle
ment of the controversy between the
workmen and the company, it was an
nounced at St. Louis by W. L. Cham
bers, chairman of the mediation board
Mr. Chambers left for Washington.
Conductor J. tt. Tillman, whose rein
stutement the workmen demanded,
"must withdraw unconditionally," ac
cording to Judge Chambers' decision.
Tbe railroad company, on the other
band. shall not discipline any of the
men who were connected with tbe agl
tatlon demand for Tillman'# "^instate-
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LABEL
FOR OLD AGE PENSIONS.
Secretary Redfield Declares United
States Should Protect Employees.
In his annual report Secretary Red
field of the department of commerce
declares the United suites cannot lon
ger hold off from giving protection in
their old age to its faithful employees.
In spite of the occasional loss of
aged employees, due usually to death
or resignation, says the secretary, su
perannuation still increases, thus ac
centuating tbe disadvantages of an im
paired service, the discouragement ot
a retarded rate of promotion for young
and deserving employees and the feel
ing of unrest and per bap* dread of dis
missal by those who are aware of the
fact that the best service they are able
to render does not rear!) the average
standard of the younger employees of
the same class and grade.
While superannuation probably ex
ists, it has
been
present
found difficult under
conditions to
obtain admissions
of tbe actual conditions from the high
er officials under whom aged employ
ees serve.
Naturally, so far as may conscien
tiously be done, officials are reluctant
to make any statement which might
lead to the separation from the serv
ice of those ulu have given the best
years of their lives to the government
and who, if deprived ot their income,
would face poverty and want.
In both governmental and commer
cial centers retirement on some system
of pensions for superannuated employ
ees is becoming more generally recog
nized as both a practical and profitable
movement. That such a policy can be
carried out by the government so as to
be ultimately a means of economy
seems to have been demonstrated.
A system of retirement has been
adopted by the leading governments of
Europe, and its growth among busi
ness corporations indicates toe value
of the results accruing from the poli
cy. It is found to affect not only Im
mediate relief, but its benefits are seen
in Its influences on the younger and
more active class of employees.
It removes much of the incentive to
seek other employment where tbe pros
pects are brighter it lDduces many to
render more nearly the maximum of
service and Improves the esprit de
corps when It is known that the faith
ful employees may expect to be cared
for after they have become Incapaci
tated In tbe service.
BLOW AT LOW WAGES.
Motoroar Man Tells Manufacturers to
Pay Living Rates.
At a recent gathering of the Detroit
board of commerce James Couzens,
vice president ot the Ford Motor com
pany, created a sensation by his senti
rpents regarding "What shall the board
of commerce do to become more use
ful to the community?"
"You fellows sit back snug and com
placent and don't care a cent what be
comes of your workmen,' said Mr.
Couzens. "The iHtard never was a fac
tor In the community and never will
be until it becomes more useful to the
people at large. Ybu are simply great
on hand shaking and making things
pleasant
"I would suggest that the board drop
all fads and devote itself to belpiug
the unemployed. If you fellows didn't
pay your men such rotten wages such
help wouldn't be necessary. When
your plants close down you grease up
the machinery and kick the men Into
tbe streets."
Marine Men Federate.
Marine workers in Suu Francisco
have started a defensive movement
that already numbers 2f,00 and that
la Intended to include every state along
the Pacific coast The organizations
that have federated are the unions ot
sailors, riggers and stevedores firemen,
marine cooks and stewards, fishermen,
bay and river steam boa tmeu. marine
gasoline engineers, teamsters, long
shoremen. steam fitters, plied rivers,
calkers and hoisting engineers. The
name of the new organization is the
Water Front and Marine Workers' Fed
eration of the Pacific Coast. The an
nouneed purpose of the new movement
Is to equalize conditions and stop dis
crimination.
Extends Compensation Act.
The California state industrial acci
dent commission has ruled that an em
ployee Is protected by the state com
pensation act when he enters the em
ployer's premises, eveu (hough the ac
cident occurs outside ot working hours.
This decision was made in the care ot
a worker who was being conveyed to
his place of employment in a vehicle
owned by tbe employer. The norse
took fright and overturned the wagon,
injuring the worker. The commission
held the Injured man was technically
on the premises of the employer and
awarded damages.
A Common Curiosity.
MWilHe,
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why weren't you in school
yesterday afternoon?"
"Do you want to know too?"
"Of course."
"Oh. gee. teacher! Pa and ma kept
me busy all evening explaining that"
Detroit Free Press.
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I? VOL. XIV. NO. 39. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1915.
FOUR
To insure success for the first Ohio
Winter Exposition, four big state as
sociations have combined exhibits
and programs. In union there is
strength to any institution
A large exhibit in each branch of
the show is now assured. The Agri
cultural Commission has equipped the
large central group of buildings with
heat, light, toilets and other accom
modations to be used by the follow
ing: State Horticultural society,
State Corn Show association, State
Governor Prank B. Willis will at
tend the big Corn and Dairy banquet,
to be held at the State Fair Grounds,
Wednesday evening, Jan. 13. and de
liver an address.
OHIO APPLE MP WILL
FEATURE
Apple, Corn, Dairy, Poultry
OHIO WINTER SHOW
Inauguration Week, Columbus,
January 9 to 15.
GOVERNOR WILLIS WILL VISIT THE
BIG WINTER SHOW AT THE OHIO
STATE FAIR GROUNDS NEXT WEEK
Over 100 bushels of apples will be
used in the monster Apple Map of
Ohio. Every county boundary line
will be marked by arranging apples
of different colors. The map will be
thirty feet across and will require the
services of several experts a week to
construct it.
CORN IS KING
Corn shows, big and little, and
corn growing contests, have taught
lessons. Not only have records been
broken, but average yield per acre is
rising in Ohio.
Every State Corn Show has had its
influence for better quality and great
er quantity. Men who have the habit
of attending these shows testify as to
the profit derived.
The annual average foutter fat pro
duction, per cow, is 150 pounds. This
average ought to be doubled. The
"boarder cow" steals the profit. The
good cow enlarges the bank account.
These striking contrasts will be
shown at the Big Winter Show, Co
lumbus, inauguration week. Messrs.
Marple of Chicago and Nichols of
Cleveland, two orators of national
fame, will appear on the speakers'
program.
The latest hints, "helps and sugges
tions in the dairy world will be on
Which was first—the chicken or the
egg?
When the world's last picture is
painted the old hen will have a place
in the foreground. Few folks realize
what a real asset the hen Is to the
nation as a wealth and food producer.
There is a big difference between
the right breed of poultry and the
kind that does not pay to keep. The
•MB who bave made the State Poul­
Ohio's Average Yield Increasing—Many Les
sons In Profit at Winter Show.
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Important Factor In Ohio Prosperity—The Old Cow
Worth Millions.
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Dairymen's organization and the
State Poultrymen's association.
The state of Ohio has resources and
opportunities unknown to many of its
own citizens. One part of the state
knows too little of the other parts of
Ohio. The Winter Show will be a
medium of education, instruction and
profit to those who will attend.
Each state association has arranged
a splendid program, and some of the
best talent in the country has been se
cured. The exhibits will be in place
and the exposition complete on the
rooming of Saturday. Jan. 9, 1915.
Many members of the legislature
will visit the Winter Show, and the
officers of several state associations
may urge an appropriation to support
an annual exposition of this nature.
!E UNIQUE
BIG WINTER SHOW
The State Horticultural society ex
pects this map to be one of the inter
esting features of the Winter Ex
position.
Hon. E&ra A. Tuttle of New York
will speak upon "Marketing Prob
lems," Columbus, Jan. 13, 1915, at 2
p. m.
The state exhibit at the Winter
Show in Columbus, inauguration
week, will be larger than ever before.
The address on "Seed Selection," by
Professor Brown of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Wednes
day, Jan. 13, will pay the expense of
the trip to the show.
I. n. Ezra A. Tuttle of New York
v-ill discuss market problems.
exhibition, in the form of machinery,
methods, etc.
The entire Woman's Building at
the State Fair Grounds will be used
for the State Dairy Show, Jan. 9-15.
Dr. A. Eichhorn of the United
States Department of Agriculture will
locture on the history and control of
the foot and mouth disease in cattle,
at the Chamber of Commerce Build
ing, Thursday at 2 p. m„ Jan. 14.
Moving pictures showing the disease
and its eradication will be shown dur
ing the lecture.
Hon. Ezra A. Tuttle of New York
will speak upon market problems,
Wednesday, p. m., Jan. 13, 1915.
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OF NATION S ifJSIG
Poultry and Eggs Are Choice diet
and Fit A!!.
try Show a success in the past have
rendered a good service to Ohio.
This year the State Show will be
held in connection with, and as a part
of, the Winter Exposition, at Colum
bus, State Fair Grounds, Jan. 9 to 15.
F. S. Jaooby of Ohio State Univer
sity will speak at the Chamber of
Commerce, Thursday, Jan. 15.
Ezra A. Tuttle of New York Will
speak upon the marketing problems,
Jan. IS.
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8CALE OF COMPENSATION.
Statistics show that there are
19,000,000 working people in the
United States who earn an aver
age of less than $500 a year ant
who, with their families, repre
sent a population of more tban
60,000,000. These are the per
sons who are affected by the
scale of compensation when in
capacity or death overtakes the
breadwinner.
With an average wage of less
than $500 prevailing throughout
the United States, a 50 per cent
scale of compensation Is abso
lutely inadequate, unjust and In
tolerable. The New York state
conference of charities and cor
rections decided that $825 was
the necessary Income to allow a
family of five to maintain a fair
ly proper standard of living in
New York city and vicinity, and
Streightoff, in his book "The
Standard of Living," adds that
it may well be questioned wheth
er $600 is not too low a minimum
for the large majority of the
smaller cities of the country.
Surely the 50 per cent standard
cannot be sufficient if the aver
age wage is too low to permit
wage earners to live properly un
der normal conditions. J. A.
Parks, Massachusetts Industrial
Accident Board.
RIGHT TO PETITION.
Congress Has Passed a Law of Great
Value to Workingmen.
Both branches of congress have pass
ed a law which gives the right to petl
tion the United States supreme court
for a writ of certiorari whenever the
supreme court of a state declares a
state law invalid on the ground that
it violates the federal constitution, a
treaty or a federal law.
A writ of certiorari is the legal term
for an order by a superior court to call
up the records of an inferior court In
a certain case that it may be tried in
the superior court
For over 100 years the law has per
mitted appeals to the United States su
preme court only when the supreme
court of a state decided a law
This one sided practice has been of
Inestimable value to large corporations
and special interests in their opposi
tion to remedial legislation and in in
dividual suits for justice instituted by
workingmen. To illustrate how this
system worked, Representative We!
of the bouse judiciary committee cit
the case of Ives against the Buffalo
Railway company, involving the teg.!!
Ity of a compensation act. The case
was carried to the New York state su
preme court which decided the law
unconstitutional. No appeal was pos
sible, and the railroad company got ti
best of it. But if the court had he'U
the law was constitutional the railro i
company could have appealed.
The law just passed by congress en
this unfairness, and in the futu
where a state supreme court declar
a law unconstitutional for the reason
stated above an appeal can be made
the United States supreme court
Law Protects Aliens.
Nonresident aliens may recover dam
ages under the federal employers' li
biiity law for the death of one w
supports them, says the United Stat
supreme court in deciding that t'
Reading Terminal company of Phil
delphia must pay damages to the pf
ents of a young man in Ireland.
son was killed while employed by
company, and the lower courts bt.u
that nonresident aliens could uot re
cover damages.
Living Wage For Women.
Eight dollars a week is the minimum
living wage for women in Denver, ac
cording to tbe report to the governor
of the minimum wage board. Ac
cording to the data collected by Mrs.
Catherine B. Van Deusen, secretary of
the board, 'J3 per cent of tbe women
employees receive less tban $6 a week,
and 1,630, or 54 per cent, of the 3,524,
upon which the estimates are made,
earn less than $8.
Want Union Made Coffins.
The principal topic of debate at a
recent meeting of the Chicago Federa
ation of Labor was funerals. It end
ed by the members of the federation
adopting a resolution which required
all to provide for burial in union made
coffins.
OF INTEREST TO LABOR
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Female laundry workers at Provi
dence, K. 1., have organized for higher
wages.
There are fewer suicides among min
ers than among any other class or
workmem
Barbers of Phoenix, Ariz., are pro
hlbiled by city ordinance from work
ing on Sundays.
Street car men ot Ohio are prepar
ing to ask the general assembly Tor a
law regulating working conditions.
New York (Big Sixi Typographical
uniou is paying out ao average ot $1,
200 a week in out of work benefits.
Bookbinders' International was the
first union in this country which In
sisted on equai pay for men and wo
men in the trade. Women compose
about 15 per cent of the members
his
of this union.
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Merchants'
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valid. But if the state supreme court
held the law was invalid appeal to
America's highest judicial tribunal was
impossible.
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UNION pi SUMP
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Pciiablc Dealers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Queenswarc*
Millinery. House Furnishings
foss-HoIbrock Stamps with
all Cash Purchases.
Meet him at
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Cor. Front and Hieli Sis.
Dinner
Served every Day
Lunch Counter Connected
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Service
Used by all the leading Cafes
and Business Houses in the city
No Bad Odors and Perfect San
itation at All Times
Just Bear In Mi rid
The Ohio Union Bottled Beer
When you want a good Beer, all who have drank
it are delighted. Nothing but hops and Malt of
Quality are used in making our
ZunMieit, Special Brew and Tannhauser
Sold by all Leading Cafes in Hamilton
Ohio Union Brewing Co.
Cincinnati, Ohio
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CINCINNATI, OHIO
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We make Loans on Live Stock, Imple
ments or other chattle property.
Long time. Low rates. Call, phone
or write.
Tiis Hamilton Collateral Loan Co.
208 S. Third St. Both Phones 28
Named shoes are frequently made
r^OOT & SHof^yj in Non-Union factories
WORKERS UNION
Do Not Buv Any Shoe
No matter wliat its name, unless it
bears a plain and readable
impression of
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