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HAMILTON OHIO.
HOME TELEPHONE 809.
BEI.L I-2«E—X.
Endorsed by the Trade* and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio-
Endorsed by the iVlidUletown 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
of Hamilton Uhio.
Endorsed by the United Trades and
Labor council, Dayton, Ohio.
THE eight hour dpy for the ma
chinists is coming and coming fast.
THE
opening of the factories
Monday morning and each morning
since has been a rank failure.
THK method of starving the
striking machinists into submission
will also be a failure. There is no
chance to starve when you can al
ways locate another
THE injunctions granted this
week by Judge Murphy and Judge
Harlan against the striking ma
chinists a^e very hrord and far
reaching. Injunctions ot this na
ture are the seeds where from so
cialism grows.
THE proposed scab organization
which the manufacturers tried last
week to organize did not material
ize. If you cannot get them into
the m«*chini«t«' union, it's cinch
We've
Got
Them
You
Want
Them
Clem Pate
that they will never stick to their
ewo shabby bunch. No never.
IT is too bad that some of the
gang bosses were compelled to scab
in order to protect their jobs. Some
of them are heart and sou' with the
strikers but they were compelled to
turn down their fellow workmen
because a certain boss with a record
of 1901 used the strong arm to get
them to go into the shop Monday
morning.
CASTINGS are being shipp from
this city to a certain machine shop
up the state by a local strike ridden
shop. We are told that union men
in that shop will refuse to work on
the castings. Shipping rates are
very high and if they are compelled
to return them in the rough not
much money can be made on the
deal This is one of the chemes
to defeat the machinists.
SOME of the machinists who are
enjoying peace in two of the shops
that have not been affected by the
strike could do a great deed by
contributing to th* machinists who
are on strike If the union men
are successful
in
their demands
these shops will also come into
line, and the men will be getting
the
benefits with
ro
efforts
on
tiieir
part. Reach down in you jeans
and help the machinists' unioj win
the strike. Don't wait, do it now
ON
LAST Saturday night the
gang bosses of the Niles plant met
with tbe general superintendent
Mr. Wood of th« company for the
purpose of trying to get a settle
meat of the strike. The bosses re
ported bacK to the officials of the
union that Mr. Wood stated that
he would not give an inch to the
strikers and that if they wanted to
return to work i nder In conditions
laid down by the company thsy
could do so Monday morning. If
they vl -t ac\tpt the terms i the
company he would drive the un
ions including the socialist party
out of the city. If that is tbe pur
pose of the manufacturers they
will have so r.. job on tLe .nds
and they will not do n by working
one shift day. It's a broad as
sertion but it would'rt surprise us
t"» them attempt it, although
the have tried it oefore and failed
completely. Driving labor unions
from the city is o small matter
Mr. Wood ar.«l if .\i remain
this city aw length time you
will find i it out t. your entire
satisfaction. Men with a desire to
breaK lahor tinions are generally
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Our S2.25 comfort lace
shoes are very good sellers.
Ladies' Gypsy button mat
kid,
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$2.69
Double Gold Bond Stamps
Wednesday and Saturday.
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tiUu
the best organizers for the socialist
party. Djn't forget this last sen
tence.
SETTLE
the Strikes in Hamilton
Mr. Rentschler. It is within your
power as one of the leading manu
facturers of this city to have the
men return under improved condi
tions. You have known tor several
months that the machinists in the
different factories were going to
ask for shorter hours. To ask for
shorter hours as individuals they
knew you would not grant their
request, so they decided to become
members of he machinists' organi
zation and to ask you collectively.
This move on their part was no
mare than proper, it is jus* what
ycu would have done Mr. Rentsch
ler if you were still working in the
old hinge factory down along the
C. H. & D. tracks below the depot.
Of course that was a long time ago
when men worked from early in
the morning and sometimes late at
night. As time goes on conditions
iu all factories improve, but it takes
someone to start the move to better
conditions. You are still aware of
the hard struggle you and your
fellow workmen had in those days
to make ends meet. You would'nt
like to gri back to the old hinge
factory again would you and work
under the same conditions? No of
course not. Conditions in those
days were so bad that men who
worked in those factories got to
thinking at'd it was not lorg after
that they organized labor unions.
Perhaps there was n union of
the hinge makers organized but
there were other crafts organized
and through these organizations
came better conditions and better
wages Unions in those days were
not so numerous as they are now
but those that were organized
helped to better the conditions of
the working people to some extent.
You remember that Mr. Rentschler,
yes, you remember it well. You
like to talk of the ola days and tell
your friends of how hard you
worked long hours for a few paltry
dollars. You like to tell how you
i# iced your start in life and how
successful you were until you be­
came one of the wealthiest men in
the great Miami Valley.
It is an interesting story we are
ton! and your friends enjoy hearing
you recite it, but you could improve
the story Mr. Rentschler by adding
another chapter. It would be the
chapter that would be in the minds
of thousands of people for yeais to
come, yes it would probably be im-
beded in their minds forever. You
ciii that chapter to the story
with but very little effort on your
part. You are the man that can
do it and if you do you will make
thousands of families happy and
you wilJ make your own family
happy also, thousands of children
nappy. Thousands of business men
all walks of life happy and you
would also make yourself happy
and besides one of the most popular
Hnd talked of men in the country
To include that chapter you should
call a halt to the strikes that now
exist in the factories ot our city,
send for the men to come back to
work Mr. Rentschler under the
new conditions of an eight hour
day. Do this for the men who
have assisted in making you a rich
man, do this to make your story
complete, make it a story that all
should hear. Settle the strikes
Mr. Rentschler it is within your
power.
Thrift/.
"I fear iny cousin la going to marry a
very stingy man."
"Why so?"
"She suggested a morning weddin
but he said to make it after lunch on
the ground that she would get one
more mea! at borne."—Ixu!sville Coii
rier-Journal.
father's Baby, Willie's Lady.
"But my daughter's too .voun^ to
marry, young num. She's just barely
a miss."
"She may seem tbat way to you. uir.
but she Is a hit with me."- Jmljr*.
Fortune is like a mirror-it does
tit .iitT i'lt'n
:i iiiIy
fis !hoy iii i'. Millings.
shows wen just
NOTICE
Machinists stay away from Ham
ilton. Strike on. Twelve hundred
machinists are out for the Eight
Hour Day with bright prospects
of winning. All machinists are
expected to scab when taking jobs
in the factories where strike ex
ists. Labor Papers please copy.
Little Bits.
The molders who have been »n
strike in this city for several months
are as confident now of winning
the strike a they were the day they
walked out. Not a mar has de
serted their ranks and every one is
a true blue union man.
tJ
The regular meeting held by the
Machinists' Union last Tuesday
night was larger than ever. The
hall was packed and there was no
standing room left. The machin
ists are very much interested in
their meetings and the committees
are always on the job.
OLD COIN VALUES.
Only Very Rare Specimens Can Com*
mand a High Price.
"The 180-1 dollar," .said a coin ex
pert, "is believed by thousands of per
sons to eomuiand an enormous premi
um. There never was an 1804 dollar
made in that year." he continued. "The
1804 dollar was made some time be
tween 1830 and 1800. The country is
flooded with counterfeit coins of this
date, many of which have been made
from 1S01 dollars. A large number of
them have tine milling on the edge,
which could have been made only by a
machine which the government did
not begin to use until 1S3G.
"The Queen Anne farthing is another
coin which has gained a high value in
the public mind, because a collector
once paid a high price for several that
had never been in circulation. The
used coins bring as high as $10, but
they are often offered to dealers at ten
times that price. The Jewish shekel,
worth to dealers about $1, is often held
for as much as $250 by enthusiastic
amateurs who art? misled by dates and
the strange characters stamped on the
coin.
"In the public mind a coin more than
fifty years old is hoary with age and
so rare as to be almost priceless, but a
silver dollar of 179u is actually worth
no more than $2 to dealers, and then
only if it is in an excellent state of
preservation, for a great many of them
were coined. A half dollar of 180M is
worth as much as 1." cents more than
its face value, but collectors and
dealers find that there are so many of
them in circulation that there is no
profit in buying and selling them. In
fact, a person might have a hundred
United States coins of different de
nominations and dates, no two alike,
but all more than 100 years old, which
would be worth to a dealer not over
$10 above their face value." New
York Times.
GLACIAL EPOCHS.
This Old Earth of Ours Has Had Mere
Than One Ice Age.
Every one with intelligent interest in
the history of "the world on which he
lives has heard of "the glacial epoch,"
or the ice age. The inhabitants of the
northern portion of the United States
have no doubt a general understanding
that the gravel hills and ridges and the
huge bowlders with which they are fa
miliar are due to an irresistible inva
sion from Canada by "the great ice
sheet" at a date just preceding that
which geologists term "recent," yet
many thousands of years ago.
It is, however, not strictly correct to
speak of the "ice age" or the "glacial
epoch," for there have been many of
them. It is now known that even this
latest or pleistocene glacial epoch has
several important divisions, and in the
Rocky mountain region it appears that
important changes In the form and
height of the mountains, due to a wear
ing down by erosion, took place be
tween the glacial subepochs.
More than fifty years ago it was rec
ognized by English geologists that cer
tain masses of gravel and breccia and
certain planed and grooved rock sur
faces in rocks of Permian age in India
indicated a glacial epoch vastly older
than that of the Canadian ice sheets,
but it is only within the last thirty
years that geologists have learned that
glacial conditions have recurred at
many different times in the earth's his
tory. The evidence of this has been
found in all continents in Europe, Af
rica, Asia, Australia, South and North
America. The formation of great ice
sheets took place at different periods in
the larger divisions of geologic time
back to the proterozoic—that is, to the
age of the oldest known sedimentary
rocks, a great many million years ago.
Can't Be Done.
The Wife—This paper says that New
York doctors have formed a society to
study methods for staying the advance
of old age. The Husband—Well, tell
'em you've tried prevarication and re
ducing the number of candles in your
birthday cakes, and neither will do it
—Yonkers Statesman.
8ome Consolation.
"There's one consolation about being
In jail, mum."
"What is it, my poor man?"
"After I once go to bed nobody here
makes me get up and go down to be
sure that the back door's locked."—De
troit Pre* Press.
Yachting Ethics.
In yacht racing every yacht is bound
by rules to abandon the race and go to
the assistance of any yacht or person
In peril.
Work is the best thing to make as
love life.—Ernest Kenan.
SLIGHTED A HERO.
Later on the Coaching Party Got
a Startling Surprise.
A
HOST WHO PROVED
A
SNOB.
He Thought His Quest Was Not Classy
Enough to Travel Witfi' Him and His
Friends, but Waked Up After Awhile
to Find Htm the Lion of the Day.
Here is one of Captain James A.
Scrymser's best anecdotes, which he
did not put in his volume of personal
reminiscences of peace and war:
After the close of the war between
the states in 18G5 Secretary of War
Stanton, at the suggestion of President
Johnson, selected Major General Fran
cis C. Barlow as the bearer of certain
dispatches to the American minister,
Mr. Adams, in London. It later de
veloped that the main purpose of this
mission was to allow the English army
officials to know Major General Bar
low, he being deemed by the president
and secretary of war an excellent
specimen of a youthful volunteer gen
eral, who had served gallantly through
out the war.
General Barlow sailed for England
with his otiicial dispatches, and short
ly after his arrival he was presented
to the Duke of Cambridge, then com
mander in chief of her majesty's
forces, by Mr. Adams, our minister,
and likewise to other high military
officials.
Of course General Barlow received,
many Invitations and was able to
accept but few. One invitation which
he did accept was for a week end
party at the house of a well known
major general of the British army, re
siding a few miles from Aldershot
On his arrival Barlow found a very
gay house party, made up of distin
guished social "lions and lionesses."
I have not the slightest doubt that
Barlow held his own in this distin
guished company, although these high
army officials of her majesty's serv
ice evidently drew a sharp line be
tween volunteer and regular officers.
This fact Barlow fully ,realized the
Saturday morning after his arrival,
when, much to his surprise, his host
and ultra exclusive house guests de
parted for "a drive" in a four-in-hand
coach, leaving General Barlow behind.
No invitation had been extended to
Barlow, and he was left alone on the
piazza, being told by his hospitable
host that there were a box of cigars
and the London Times in the smoking
room, which would keep him fairly
well occupied until their return.
The coaching party had been absent
about arvbour when a troop of cavalry
commanded by a British officer, halted
in front of the house. The officer ask
ed for General Barlow and, upon
meeting him, said that he was com
manded by his royal highness the
Duke of Cambridge to invite General
Barlow to accept a review of her
majesty's command (of some 10,000
men) at Aldershot at 2 o'clock that
afternoon.
General Barlow gracefully accepted
the invitation and. donning his "war
paint," mounted an extra horse, which
the Duke of Cambridge had thought
fully provided for him. and started
for Aldershot with his escort.
As Barlow and his escort approached
the reviewing stand the band struck up
"The Star Spangled Banner," all flags
were dipped, and the Duke of Cam
bridge rode to the front and received
General Barlow in a most courteous
manner.
Naturally, General Barlow was the
center of all eyes. Barlow was sur
prised to see the coaching party of his
host directly in front of the reviewing
stand. Its presence accounted for the
early departure that morning. If Gen
eral Barlow was surprised one can im
agine the surprise and dismay shown
by the gay host and his party when
they discovered who was the hero of
the day. General Barlow's host had
during the morning drive supposedly
learned of the intended review which
was to be held, but had not the slight
est idea it was to be in honor of his
guest, the volunteer general from the
States.
All sorts of apologies were offered
but General Barlow, in his dignified
manner, politely let his host under
stand that be understood the situation
perfectly and that he had evidently not
been invited on the coaching party be
cause he did not come up to the Eng
llsh standard of a major general in
their eyes, despite the fact that he had
probably seen more fighting than all
the ifritish officers on that field.
Barlow was urged to return, now
that he was a "lion" in their eyes, but
after such a slight he preferred to re
turn to London, which he did, after
leaving a polite but dry note of thanks
and arranging for his valet to pack up
bis things and join him in London.
New York Post.
Very Likely.
"Our ancestors had very few boards
of health, insanity commissions and
so on."
"Perhaps it is Just as well. Probably
they would have locked up Sir Isaac
Newton, Copernicus and also Chris
topher Columbus."—Louisville Courier
Journal.
Growth of a Union.
Thirty-four years ago last September
the Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners was organized, the convention
consisting of representatives of twelve
local unions with a membership of
2,042. Today the organization consists
of 1,898 local unions, 141 district coun
cils and 18 state and provincial bodies
with a total membership of 250,000
and owns its own office building of
three stories and a basement at Indian
apoils, in which is located a printing
plant recently installed.
Value of Organization.
The trade onion movement has to
work with conditions as they find hem
Often much valuable time could be
saved if the workers of an industry
were already organized when the op
portunity comes.
Easily Explained.
"Why did that young man look
eross when Mrs. Smith told him stu
fceard he bad snob killing ways?"
"She told him that? Great Scott
He's a doctor!"—Baltimore American
Both Phones, Bell 1A2-Y Home S28-X
Local Organizers and Busi
ness Agents.
Charles £. Vaughn,
George Richardson, Teamsters'
310 Wayne, Ave., Bell Phone 541
Home Phone 2541.
Earl Nyswander, Carpenters' 25
N. Main street.
Geu. Lorah, Plum be is corner
Washington and Main, street
Plumbers' Hall.
O O O O O O O O O O O O VJO O O
o o
O PLEA FOR UNIONISM.
o
O o
o Labor must organize. Lot me o
o plead with every 111:111 who earns o
o his livirjfi by honest toil to join o
o some union. You can be just as o
o honest outside of a union, but o
o you will accomplish nothing by o
o yourself. If you have more sense o
o or influence you ought to join the o
o
union
The Auto Service Co.
We are prepared to paint and return your Auto in five days. Price $15.00
We will body polUh your car and m«ke it lok like new for $1.50.
We have the Agency for the tialladay Ignition This system
does away with coils and timers. Price $21.CO installed.
Shock Absorbers and Accessories at special prices. Try our metal pollth
25c per quart. Cut prices on all repairs and work.
Stand In (storage) only 25c.
THE AUTO SERVICE COMPANY
934 and 936 Central Ave., Hamilton, Ohio.
jun 11-tf
Py rl Bruner Coal Co.
0 S E K
O i. 11. & I- R. and Wnlnu'
Wholesale nnil
to give your fellow men o
o the benefit of your talents. If o
o you have less sense than the av- o
o era go come in and let the union o
o help you.—Governor Ferguson of o
O Texas. o
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COAL AND METAL UNIONS.
Amalgamation of Two Bodies Would
Be Detrimental to Both.
The product of the metal miner in
nowise enters into competition with
that of the coal miner is one of the rea
sons why a committee appointed by
the United Mine Workers' union does
not favor amalgamation with the West
ern Federation of Miners.
Attention is called to the interchange
of cards and other exhibitions of fra
ternity between the two organizations,
and it is stated that tbe present status
of affairs has never debarred the two
unions from "working together in the
interest of their common welfare."
The committee points out that the
work of the two unions—from a practi
cal standih)int—is entirely different and
that an amalgamation would weaken
both in their respective attempts to or
ganize tbe coal miners and the metal
miners. It is stated that:
"The immutable law of self preserva
tion dictates that we throw all of our
resources into the work of organlzin
these nonunion coal miners, whose
product is taking the markets of union
mined coal."
In referring to the differences be
tween the two industries the report
says:
"We point to the fact that, while the
metal miner, like the coal miner, Is
called upon to brave the dangers of a
common calling underground, the prod
uct of the metal miner in nowise enters
into competition with that of the coal
miner. In fact, his relationship to the
coal mining industry Is not
BO
Retail Dealer in
NUT and SLACK, BLOCK and all kinds of STOVE COAL
A. F. of L.
Residence, 721 Buckeye Street
Home Phone 890 A.
Timothy Rowan, Intelnationn
Molders' Union, Residence, 98.'
Central Ave., Bell Phore 403 X.
Wm. W. Finfrock, Painters'
Decorators' and Paper Hangers'
Union, No. 135. Residence 308 S.
Second StTeet. Bell Phone 1396 L.
W. R. Smith, Paper Makers' Un
ion, Residence, Hotel DeArmond.
Home Phone 31. BeU Phone 31.
Swain B. Corson, Carpenters'
and Joiners' Union, No. 637, Resi
dence 107 Brosey Ave., Bell Phone
756 L.
Thomas Welsh, Business Agert
Baitenders' Union, 524 So. 5th St.
DAYTON OHIO.
Beu Closterman, Polishers.
J. F. Kichorn, Bartenders, 7
Market street.
W. J. Gregg, Hoisting Engineers
41 W. Great Miami Boulevard.
Wm. Schneberger, Cigarmakets'
125 Samuel street.
BO
near nor
important in time of industrial strife
as Ls that of the men employed In the
transportation industry, nor is his rela
tion to us from a competitive stand
point so important as ls that of the
men employed in the production and
marketing of oil and gas and in the
plants and waterpower sites used to
generate electrical power. We cite the
foregoing In order to make plain that
coal mining and metal mining are in
dustries separate and distinct so far as
the competitive relationship of their
product is concerned."
The Hospitable Board.
"Your wife's dinner parties are al
ways beautiful affairs."
"Yes." replied Mr. Cumrox. "At first
people didn't seem to want to come to
'em. I guess mebbe the high cost of
living is making a difference "—Wash
ington Star.
Bell hone 728-R
WHITE, ASH COAL
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