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'Tis war, the Kur »:in war, we are
all discussing, the needless slaughter
of human beings by the thousands—
for what? For military and commer
cial supremacy.
'Tis war that we of the working
Class are continually waging, and we
don't need bayonets, gunshot, cannons,
rifles or Dreadnoughts to wage that
War, and the shedding of one .human's
blood will not be the glory of any
other human.
The strike is fast losing its potency
AS a formidable weapon and is seldom
tised, only in extreme cases.
The boycott has been a very costly
and a rather questionable weapon.
The ballot is not appreciated to the
extent that it should be.
The label remains of the four 11n
most formidable weapon to use on the
economic field. No judge has ever for
bidden its use. no law prevents any
union man from buying products bear
ing the symbol of organized labor.
Organized labo'r many veal's ago
adopted the label to be applied to prod
ucts made by union men under sani
tary conditions, fair wages and short
hours of toil.
The most powerful weapon in our
hands today from an economic view
point is the union label. Properly used
and
proierl,v
applied, there is nothing
to beat it. We owe it as a duty, us an
obligation to employers of union labor
and especially to those who use Un
label to establish a market for union
label goods exclusively.
The label does not represent the
theft of the birthright of any man's
child.
The label properly patronized by or
ganized labor would take the little ba
bies out of the cotton mills of the
south and place them in the school
room and play ground, put sunshine in
their lives, where despair and misery
now reign.
The label demanded by union men
would raise_the wageg of the parents
employed in the woolen mills of the
north and enable them to keep their
children at school, feed and clothe them
properly.—J. W. 1 ooley In Tobacco
Worker.
MR. TAFT AND LABOR.
Ex-President's Denunciation of the
Clayton Act Unwarranted.
Critcising labor organizations for
tyranuy and politicians for timidity, in
the presence of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers, Mr. Taft said
the right tiling in the wrong place. The
attack that he made upon the Clayton
act regulating the use of injunctions,
and uion the trade commission act. by
which conspiracies in restraint of trade
are to be investigated and discouraged,
was unwarranted at any time or place,
and in that presence it is bound to be
misunderstood.
The National Association of Manu
facturers in its attitude toward labor
is altogether Bourbon. By the Mul
hall revelations it was shown that it
systematically used men and monej
not only to defeat remedial legislation,
but to retire from oliice those who
urged it. The members of this society
who heard and applauded Mr. Taft's
denunciation of labor unions for in
timidating congress were the very men
who for years maintained a lobby nt
Washington to promote their own sel
fish ends, and kept agents in various
parts of the country to terrorize con
gressmen and others.
On such a stage, surrounded by such
men, the ex-president takes on the ap
pearance of an extreme reactionary.
The National Association of Manufac
turers never supported any measure
that did not appeal either to its pocket
or its prejudice.
Favor "Labor Forward."
At a large meeting of unionists held
at Knoxville. Tenn., it was decided to
start a vigorous "labor forward" in the
city to renew interest in the organized
movement.
Homemade Rat Poison.
Farm and Fireside gives the follow
ing recipe for homemade rat poison:
Barium carbonate is a poison which
III small quantities is harmless to the
larger domesUc animals, but will kill
rats and mice. Mix four parts of meal
or flour and one part of barium carbo
nate and place where the rats will find
It, or mix ordinary oatmeal to a stiff
dough in water, with about one-eighth
Its bulk of barium carbonate.
Tracing a Thief.
A burglar who broke into an anti
quary's shop in Paris was identified by
means of a small strip of skin torn
from his ear by the broken glass of a
phowcase. The piece of skin was pre
served in a bottle of spirits, and it fit
ted on to a fresh scar on the man's left
liar.
Catty Comment.
"When I have anything to occupy
my time, I. hate to have a lot of fool
ish men hanging around me."
"You
are never idle, are you, dear?"
^Baltimore American.
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THE UNION LABEL
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MOST POWERFUL WEAPON IN HANDS OF OROANIZED LABOR
This economic war Is being waged
with the four weapons of the trades
union movement-the strike, the boy
cott, the ballot and the union label.
WALKING FOR SPEED.
Arm Action, Body Balance and the
Proper Leg and "Foot Motion.
In starting on the track the novice
should hold himself as erect as possi
ble, without, however, leaning at all
backward, the arms at the sides, with
the forearms in a horizontal position,
at right angles to the part of the arms
above the elbows. He should have a
feeling of being "well balanced on his
pins."
The weight must be kept on the heels
—therein lies the chief secret of walk
ing fairly. Speed depends on two fac
tors, the length and the frequency of
the stride. Experiments prove that the
length of the stride becomes greater as
the frequency increases.
Arm action should be carefully cul
tivated. Properly used, the arms seem
to act as levers to lift forward the body,
besides helping to balance it. In each
stride one foot should be always on the
ground and at same moment of the
stride some part of both feet should be
on the ground simultaneously—that is,
the first necessity. Second in impor
tance is to have the walk "heel and
toe"—that is, the heel of each foot
should strike the ground unmistakably
first and the toe of each foot should
be the last part to leave it. One should
not walk flat footed, with the ball of
the foot or any part except the heel
striking the ground before the heel
does. Lastly, the knee should be
"locked" at the end of each stride—the
grounded leg should be stiff and taut
as the loose leg swings out for tin next
stride.—Outing.
Story of a Dream.
Of course the medical sharps know it
all, but let me tell what happened to
me. I had a strikingly vivid dream in
which 1 saw and spoke to a dead
friend, and she emphasized what she
said by laying her hand on my hair, a
trick the dead girl had when living.
The subject of her speech has no value.
But when I woke 1 could almost feel
her touch still. In a day or two I no
ticed my hair looked queer where she
touched me, and it faded until I had
four bars, almost white, across my red
mop, just such as would be made by
four fingers.—Letter in New York
Times.
The
Change of
M'-„
"What's the baby's name. Bill?"
"Algernon."
"What? I thought yon were going
to name him John."
"Oh. that was when 1
still
had something to say in
—Philadelphia Ledger.
thought 1
the mutter!'
Cause and Effect.
She—I don't see why you can't dress
as well as Mr Jinks. lie is always in
the height of fashion He- Well, that's
not remarkable either saw .Jinks'
tailor yesterday.
a i!
ht» was in the
depths of despair Kichmond Times
IHnatch.
PERIL OF LEAD WORKERS.
Percentage of Poisoning Vastly Great
er Here Than In England.
The fourth number of its series ou
industrial accidents and hygiene issued
by the bureau of labor statistics deals
with lead poisoning in the smelting
and refining of lead. This industry
employs in twenty plants visited by an
Investigator about 7.."00 men. all of
whom are exposed to the fumes or
dust of lead. The report considers the
dangers inherent in the metallurgic
processes, the precautions to lessen
these dangers, the sanitary conditions
in the plants, the extent of lead poi
soning during the year 1013 among
these 7.100 men and the medical care
furnished them.
Of late years then- has
been
a notable
improvement In smelting and refining
plants, due largely to the concentration
of operations in a few large establish
ments and the consequent abandon
ment of old. crowded buildings. There
is now probably no plant in the United
States in which some effort is not
made to lessen the danger of lead poi
soning as well as to prevent accidents.
These efforts, however, are perfunc
tory In some, and in none are they suf
ficient. according to the investigator.
There is no plant in which no fumes
are allowed to escape, not one which is
as free from dust as It might be. The
result of this neglect is found in the
records of lead poisoning among the
men. While Great Britain had a rate
of 1.8 per cent men employed in a
single year in this industry, the rate in
this country is over 22 per cent.
Industry Versus War.
When compared to the loss of life
and the accidents due to the lack of
safety in the various American indus
tries war seems less terrible. Each
year 35,000 workers are killed and 200,
000 injured. Besides this, there are
3.000,000 cases of occupational diseases
each year. When it is known that at
least half of this waste of life and
time could be avoided the idea of mak
ing our factories and our railroads
"safe" seems very important. A small
city full of people killed each year be
cause "somebody blundered"—a vast
city full of sick because of improper
shop conditions—as a nation can we
afford to continue it?
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HARD HIES AND
UNION LABI
Organized Workers Should Sup
port Fellow Toilers.
UST because business conditions
are generally bad, employment
uncertain and earnings below
average is no reason why there
should be a letup in the effort of every
true blue member of organized labor to
advance the interests of the union
Uibels of the respective crafts and to in
crease the influence of a right use of
the purchasing power of the wages re
ceived by members of organized labor
and which are higher, vastly higher,
in every industry than they could pos
sibly have been had organized labor
not existed.
If it is a
crime
for a union man in
good times when employment is plen
tiful and earnings high to spend any
portion of
his
money in buying the
products of nonuniou labor it is many
fold more serious an offense for a mem
ber of organized labor to spend a por
tion of his smaller earnings in hard
times to support some nonunion worker
who in his indifference, to take the
most charitable view of it, to the labor
cause is doing all that he can to tear
down the trade union structure and to
nullify the efforts of the wage earners
whose wrongfully given support is fur
nishing the nonunion man with work.
In dull times when a man buys a
pair of shoes without the union stamp
he is giving that, amount of work away
from union shoe workers at a time
when it counts most heavily. The dif
ference a few purchases of this kind
may make may represent existence to
the nonunion workers and nonexistence
to the union workers, just so close is
the margin of existence in times when
business conditions are generally bad.
The same reasoning applies in all
trades and in the relation of each trade
to every other trade. If you are a
friend to a man you will give him your
support when he needs it most, and
least of all will you choose that par
ticular time of his extremity as the
time when you will give a ill and succor
to his enemies.
The margin of existence is just as
close with merchants in hard times as
it is with wage earners. Every busi
ness man understands that during a
long period of poor business, when
sales have shrunk very materially be
cause of insufficient employment for
the wage earners in his community,
those upon whom he must depend for
the volume of his business, a very
slight difference in percentage of the
reduced gross amount of business done
will represent to him the difference
between success and failure.
For the latter reason a union label
purchase made in dull times not only
benefits the union workman making
the goods and helps to show the non
union worker the necessity of being
enrolled in the ranks of organized la
bor, but it helps to put the merchant
on the right side and to compel him to
be there to save his commercial exist
ence.—Shoe Workers' Journal.
BONUS FOR COPPER MEN.
Calumet and Hecla Distribute $50,000
to Employees.
General Manager MacNaughton of
the Calumet and Ilecla Mining com
pany and mine companies controlled
by it recently announced that on June
11 these companies would distribute
$500,000 among their 10,000 employees.
This is planned because the companies
are enjoying an unusual era of pros
perity through the European war de
mand for the metal.
The disbursement will redeem all
losses in time and wages sustained by
the employees through the reduction
of wages and the curtailment of min
ing operations for several months be
ginning Sept. 1 last, when the declara
tion of war caused copper to sell down
to 11 cents.
Truth of the Matter.
The member of a union who buys
goods without, the union label is a
greater enemy of organized labor than
is the employer who hires nonunion
ists. Such an employer is at least
honest with himself, while such a
unionist is a crook trying to fool him
self and his fellows. If a man is not
Intelligent enough to understand this,
then what led him into the union? It
certainly was not his intelligence.
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NOTES OF LABOR.
John Mitchell has been appointed
chairman of New York state's new in
dustrial commission. .Tames M. Lynch,
former c. uimissioner of labor, is also a
member of the board.
Although Lie number of lives lost in
the mine disasters of 1013 was larger
than that of the previous year, the
number of mine disasters was reduced
by 38 per cent.
It was reported from Dayton, O., that
the National Gash Itegister, an open
shop concern, cut wages 10 per cent.
The annual convention of the Inter
national Typographical union will be
held at Los Angeles, Oal., beginning
•Aug. 1).
Rivera Martinez, president of the Ci
gar Makers' union of Porto Tllco, urcres
a congressional investigation of labor
and industrial conditions in the island
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TIIE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
VOL. XV. NO. 11. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1915. $1.00 PER YEAR
DOR ARMYCAMELS
The
A
Festive Orientals Uncle Sam
Once
Tried to Adopt.
BRIEF AND UNRULY CAREER.
Their Deadly Hatred Toward Mules,
Their Craving For a Taste of Soldier
and a £ew Other Eccentricities
Proved Their Inglorious Undoing.
The United States government's first
and only venture into the use of cam
els as army transports on the south
western frontier was sanctioned by
congress through the efforts of Jeffer
son Davis, then a member of the mili
tary commission and later secretary of
war. Davis had commanded troops in
the southwest in the Mexican war and
knew what it was to march for days
over a dry, barren country in a scorch
ing heat, with nothing to drink but
hot, dry air nnd nothing to greet the
eye except cactus and rattlesnakes.
The rapid development of California
after the gold strike of 1848 made nec
essary provision for the transportation
of troops and supplies to the new coun
try over a desert trail, which was a
task that set patriotism at a premium.
Jefferson Davis asked for camels, and
congress finally authorized an expedi
tion to the orient to buy them.
The expedition brought back nearly
100 animals, which were added to from
time to time till the number grew to
128. They were stationed at El Faso,
Yuma, Ariz. San Antonio and other
points on the frontier.
The return trip across the ocean
with the camels is recorded In amus
lng detail by Lieutenant D. D. Forter,
who was in charge. Each animal was
provided with a competent, chauffeur,
who was caretaker, interpreter and bag
gage master In one. Most of the animals
got seasick, and so did the drivers, and
both complained bitterly of the ar
rangements. The camels wished they
hadn't come and showed it by kicking
and biting pieces from various officers,
who were not to blame.
After landing in Texas the camels
did mot improve perceptibly In their na
tures. Their particular aversion was
the army mules. Even the younger,
inexperienced camels learned quickly
to kill a mule with one blow of the
hind foot and indulged in that pas
time frequently. Their taste for army
officers remained undiminished, and the
chauffeurs got the blame every time a
captain lost some of his anatomy.
The soldiers took to the camel with
reciprocal affection. In the first place,
they didn't like his looks, contending
that the soft, faraway look In the cam
el's eye indicated that his mind was
not on his business. Then the soldiers
couldn't get used to the odor radiated
by the oriental beast—circuses not be
ing in vogue—and many of them said
that Kipling was perfectly correct in
his ©pinion that a camel smelled most
awful vile. Kipling hadn't said it yet.
but soldiers are farseeiug and knew he
was going to say it.
Besides, the camel was no good to
ride, the soldiers agreed. Ills ambling,
rapid stride made them seasick, and
they wanted no animal which it took
ten minutes to awaken when the In
dians attacked them in the night. No
American had lived up to that period
who could tie a cargo on one of the
beasts so it would stay on. The cam
el is not constructed flat on top, it is
remembered, and only a clever Arab
chauffeur could load one to travel any
distance without losing the supplies.
The high record in dead mules was
made, it is said, by a camel in San An
tonio whose name was Major. Major
kicked seven valuable mules into eter
nity, and one day some soldiers, friends
of the late mules, took Major off up on
a high cliff and came back and said he
had fallen off •'accidentally." No ex
haustive probe
was made of Major's
disappearance.
A caravan loaded with supplies went
into the city of Sutherland Springs on
one occasion, and the camels were wa
tered at the town well. It was the
boast of the city that the well had
never gone dry. About half the cam
els took a drink and the well was dry.
The disturbance caused by the remain
ing thirst j" camels set the population
into a panic.
But the endless feud between the
camels and the soldiers soon convinced
the government that railroads would
do just as welL The rush to Califor
nia was well over and frontier trou
bles were well under control by the
time the war broke out The govern
ment withdrew the foreign camel
agents and closed the foreign offices.
By the time the war was over the cam
els died and some were stolen. Others
escaped to the desert, and even today
a hoary wild camel, white with age,
occasionally terrifies Sunday newspa
per feature writers into writing some
thing about it. Very likely the ones
which didn't go to the desert swam
back to Egypt Both reports are au
thenticated in the same degree.—Kan
sas City Star.
Car Windows and Fussy Women.
Every street car window was made
to puzzle the fussy woman who
doesn't know whether it goes up or
down. All she understands is that if
it is closed she wants it open and if it
is open she wants it closed.—Toledo
Blade.
An Invitation.
"My dear, you look sweet enough to
kiss."
"That's the way I intended to look,
Jack."-—Princeton Tiger.
Simplicity is, of all things, the bard
eat to be copied.—Steele.
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O LABOR PROGRESS.
o
o o
o The way to complete organiza- o
tion is difficult, but progress is
o being made. Every year shows o
a distinct gain in the total
o strength of the labor movement, o
Every union label is an organ
O izing factor. It represents so o
many more wage earners band
o ed together in the cause of or- o
ganizod labor. It represents un
o ion men and women striving to
improve their condition through
o organized effort. o
o No standard of wages, how- o
O ever
high,
can represent the ulti-
o mate object of organized labor, o
The higher we advance the more
o keen will be our desire to ad
vance still fun ln-r. This i.s prog
o ress.—Shoe Workers* Journal.
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EMBLEM OF JUSTICE.
What the Union Label Means When
Affixed to a Piece of Merchandise.
A clergyman at Baltimore paid the
following tribute to the union label:
"What can be more sacred, more holy
or more deserving of the reverence of
men or of the angels than the union
label, which signifies that human life
has been more highly valued in the
production of human commodities than
the mere profits sought for by greed?
The labei is an emblem of justice, of
fraternity of humanity.
"When you find a label on a garment
or a box of cigars, or loaf of bread, or
a piece of printing, you can be sure
that neither was made in a sweatshop,
that no little children's fingers were
compelled to sew, or to sort the tobac
co in the hours of night, intended for
childish sleep. When you see this
label on any commodity, you can buy
it with a clear conscience, knowing
that in doing so you are not becoming
a partner in an institution that de
grades humanity to private profit.
"You can sleep soundly and not be
worried with thoughts of typhus fever,
or smallpox, or leprosy, which are often
scattered broadcast from Chinese
opium joints, penitentiary convicts'
cells and tenement sweatshops, where
the most degraded specimens of hu
manity put their life's blood into mar
ketable goods, from which the poor,
unsuspecting public suffers all man
ner of foul and loathsome disease.
"The union label is a religious em
blem. It is a religious act to buy the
goods to which this label is attached
an act blessed on earth and honored
in heaven while it is a sin to buy a
cigar, a piece of clothing, a pair of
shoes or a loaf of bread without this
label, for then you do not know but
you are building up the business of
some heartless tyrant who is extracting
a fortune from the drudgery and de
gradation of his fellows at the risk of
public health. God bless the label!
"And 1 hope that all of you who leave
this house tonight will carry away,
indelibly impressed upon your minds,
the picture of the union label surround
ed by angels, and that you will always
know that the favorite banner In
heaven represents justice to labor,
fresh air and sunshine and healthful
conditions to those who toil, and the
truth that human life Is of gold."
DANBURY HATTERS' CASE.
National Union Refuses to Pay Dam
ages Awarded by Federal Court.
The Danburv hatters, defendants in
the famous Danburv hatters' case, in
which 189 memlK-rs of the industry
were sued under the Sherman anti
trust law for boycotting the firm of
D. E. Loewe & Co. of Danbury, may
lose their homes nnd the savings of
years as the result of the stand taken
by the United Hatters of North Amer
ica in convention. The organization
refuses to pay the damages, which
amount to about $300,000. and the onlv
course left opeu to the plaintiffs to col.
lect will be to seize the homes and
savings of the workers.
The union, although refusing to pay
the damages and denying that it ever
agreed to do so, admits Its duty to take
care of its involved members, and
an assessment of 1 per cent was voted
on the salary of each member for that
purpose. An appeal to the American
Federation of Labor and to all other
union organizations will be made to
contribute to the fund, which, without
their aid, will be sadly inadequate foi
the purpose.
The hatters' case rose out of a boy
cott established in 1903 by the hatters
of Danbury against Loewe & Co. and
carried out particularly in California.
The suit was brought not against the
union, but against 189 individuals. It
was tried twice in the federal courts
of Connecticut and won by the plain
tiffs. It was carried through the court
of appeals and was in litigation for
twelve years until the supreme court
of the United States affirmed the ver
dict. awarding $80,000 damages and
costs to Loewe & Co. Under the Sher
man law these damages are tripled
and, with costs and interests accrued,
now amount to about $300,000.
The United Hatters has a member
ship of 9,000. The weekly assessment
will bring in from $1,000 to $1,500 a
week.
Object to Nonunion Shop.
.The Plasterers' union of Toronto ob
jects to the nonuniou shop, which em
ployers term "open" shop, and a strike
is the result The workers are willing
to accept old conditions, but this is un
satisfactory to the bosses, who are
hinting that lower rates should be the
rule during the war. The plasterers
are agreed this reduction could be en
forced quite easily if they would agree
to work under nonunion shop condi
tions.
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FARE $3.22
am
Square is the name, Spare is our aim
All^Suits and Pants made to your
individual order in a
Union Shop
The SquareTailors
106 HIGH STREET
Reliable Dealers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Queensware
Millinery. House Furnishings
7oss-Holbrock Stamps with
all Cash Purchases.
Meet him at
& & a*
Cor. Front and Hieh Sts.
Merchants' Dinner Lunch
Served every Day
Lunch Counter Connected,
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CITY OF ERIE" 3 Magnificent St»amcr« "CITY OF BUFFALO"*
CLEVELAND—Daily, May 1st to Dec. 1*1—BUFFALO
Connections at Buffalo for Niagara Falls
I'. M. Lffive UufTalo
6:30A.M. Arrive Cleveland
(Central Standard rn-
and
all Easti-m
via
Zunt Heft, Special Brew and Taonbaoser
Sold by all Leading Cafes in Hamilton
Ohio Union Brewing Co.
Cincinnati, Ohio
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CLEVELAND &
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THE CLEVELAND & BUFFALO TRANSIT CO., HevulwJ, O-hio
Just Bear In Mind
The Ohio Union Bottled Beer
When you want a good Beer, all who have drank
it are delighted. Nothing but Hop* and Malt of
Quality are used in making our
Canadian points. Railroad tict-
factional pu^/Je chart., snowing both exterior and interior
of
The
Great 1
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We make Loans on Live Stock, Imple
ments or other chattle property.
Long time. Low rates. Call, phone
or write.
The Hamilton Collateral Loan Go.
208 S. Third St. Both Phones 28
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