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CONSERVES HUMAN RACE.
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People are accustomed to think of
the living wage in terms of competi
tion, says the Saoe Workers' Journal.
That is to say, it is not so much a ques
tion of what the labor of a man is
worth or what he is entitled to in re
turn as it is a question of how much
cheaper one man can be hired han an
other or how far the wage can be re
duced by putting wage earners in com
petition with each other to bid for
work at the lowest price. Obviously
this is entirely contrary to the real liv
ing wage. This is purely a competitive
wage based upon the idea in the mind
of tin1 nployer of taking advantage of
the n e si
ties of the workers to the
very ist extremity.
The living wage recognizes the right
of the wage earner to life, liberty an-1
well beinjr. The competitive wage
condemns him to sacrifice all bis own
1 :e and the lives of those dependent
upon him. The one aims at the con
servation of the human race and the
other at its destruction. The one will
produce superior generations of men iu
the future, while the other can have
no other effect except to produce fu
ture men lower in physique and in
men till power.
The living wage must not only sup
ply the necessaries of the family while
the wage earner is employed, but it
must be hi.^ii enough to provide against
seasons of unemployment and against
accident or sickness. In other words,
there must be a surplus above the re
quirements for the bare necessaries and
even reasonable comforts of life, so
that the family may not be destitute
under ordinary conditions of employ
ment or of sickness or accident. In
every respect a living wage that is in
truth a living wage must provide for
the well being and comfort of the wage
earner and l^is family, assuming, of
course, that the expenses of the fam
ily are not profligate and that the earn
ings are not wasted on vicious habits.
A living wage has got to be under
stood as providing for the education of
the children and keeping them at
school until they have matured. The
idea of immature children being forced
into the mills and workshops at tender
years and without education is becom
ing more and more repugnant to the
best thinkers, who agree that the sur
est way to destroy the future of the
human race is to dwarf the minds and
the bodies of the children by condemn
ing them to hard labor when they
ought to be at school.
RECOGNIZES RIGHT OF WORKER TO LIBERTY AND WELL BEIrsG
the Other Hand, the Competitive
Wage Condemns the Toiler and His
Family to Lifelong Servitude—The
One Uplifts, the Other Degrades
Physically and Mentally.
There is another factor of the living
wage that deserves especial attention
The living wage in its broad sense will
prolong the lives of the wage earners.
In a statement published in the Chica
go Herald Major General ^niliaui C.
Gorgas, conceded to be one of Amer
ica's leading sanitary experts and who
converted the Panama canal zone from
a pesthouse into a health resort, said.
"Add to the laboring man's wage from
$1.2j to $2.50 a day and you will
lengthen the average American's thread
of life by thirteen years at least."
The average human life is now said
to be forty-two years. By simply add
ing to the living wage General Gorgas,
who, by the way, is surgeon general of
the United States army, says the aver
age of human life can be increased to
fifty-five years, and Dr. Victor
Vaughn of Ann Arbor, Mich., late pres
ident of the American Medical associa
tion, makes the further important
statement that "if every city would in
stall rules and regulations for health,
such as William C. Gorgas might give,
the lives of our children could be
brought up to an average of sixty-five
years."
One other factor in regard to the Iiv
ing wage would always be kept close
to the heart and mind of the wage
earner, and that is that it is the trade
union movement that does more for
the living wage than all other human
agencies combined. We are indebted
to the scientists for their knowledge
and for the sympathetic opinions they
express but. after all, it is the wage
earner in combination with other wage
earners in their trade unions that must
secure the living wage for himself,
and he must secure it according to
the advancing standards and costs of
living as they may be from time to
time. The purchasing power of the
wage of today may be insufficient to
morrow to provide the same standard
of living and all the comforts and en
joyments that go with it. It is our la
bor unions that we must depend upon
to meet the new conditions as they
arise from day to day. If we want an
increasing living wage, which means
more healthful conditions and longer
lives, we must keep our unions in con
dition of membership, finances and of
loyal support of the workers so that
no opportunity to advance the livin
wage shall be wasted nor any call
made upon the movement to find it
wanting, for. after all. the trade on
ions are as good, as effective, as reiia
ble. as the individual nuwnbers that
compose them.
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STRIKE IN CHICAGO.
Clothing Workers Would Establish
Principle of Collective Bargaining.
Chicago is tlie center of a bitter
struggle iu the clothing industry which,
from present, indications, may equal iu
intensity the light of five years ago,
says the Survey. The same employers
are involved and in large measure the
same employees, although the latter
are now under a new name and leader
ship.
The strike was called Sept. 27 by
Sidney Hillman. president of the Amal
gamated Clothing Workers of Ameri
ca, the faction which a year ago broke
away from the old United Garment
Workers because of dissatisfaction
with leadership and methods.
It is difficult to form a correct esti
mate of the number of men and wom
en involved. The employers say that
fewer than are on strike, while
Mr. Hillman estimates the number at
about 25,000. Of the large establish
ments only two have escaped the ef
fects of the strike, so that it may be
said that the industry at this time is
severely crippled. Hart, Schaffner &
Marx, who are working under an ar
bitration agreement with the Amalga
mated Clothing Workers, and Kd V.
Price & Co.. in whose establishment
Wjiges and working conditions appear
to be satisfactory the workers, are
not affected by 11- like.
The fundamental issue in ihe oiriwc
is the establishment of the principle of
collective bargaining. With that es
tablished aud an arbitration agreement
in effect the workers believe they can
standardize waues and working condi
tions. At present there is no uniform
ity in the wages paid clothing workers.
It is generally conceded that the wages
in some of the Chicago shops are high
er than in any ether city in the coun
try and working conditions are good.
In other shops wages are low, and,
while the sanitary conditions may meet
the requirements of the factory laws,
they are far from ideal. In addition
the employees complain of lining sys
lems and abuse of vower by foremen
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EVE?'Jlfi3~WITH~ DUMAS.
It Was a Cosmopolitan Crowd That
Flocked to His Shrine.
liuc bronze of a
Buddhist temple, w!:iie his guests
stood or moved about, conversing with
him or among themselves, writes Fran
cis Griersou in the Century, describing
an evening with the great novelist. A
famous comedian from the Gymnase
exchanged jokes with a tr rgodian from
the Theatre Franeais. a witty journal
ist was conversing with a gifted singer
from the Theatre Lyric, an artist with
Uowing hair and a huge pin« e nez was
begging a professional beauty to give
him a series of sittings for her por
trait, a novelist on the qui vive for
copy seemed to see, hear and appropri
ate everything and everybody all at
once.
A young poetess and "an aged drama
tist were discussing the latest plays. A
Russian countess, tall, slender, insinu
ating. clad all iu black, made me think
of a character I had seen iu a fantastic
pantomime. She glided about mysteri
ously and, stopping at Dumas' chair
placed her long, thin hand on his shoul
der for some moments, like a ghostly
visitor with a fatal message, and then
glided away. Austrians, Italians, Ger
mans. mingled their accent with the
accent of the true Parisian. But Du
mas was more than a Parisian he was
a cosmopolitan at a time when there
were no cosmopolitan Frenchmen, and
he gave me the impression of a man
who had seen life in every aspect.
He might as well have said in so
many words: "My mind is made up.
Do not give yourself the trouble to tell
me what is going on in England or
America or In the country of the Grand
Turk or among the nabobs of India. 1
know as much as they know. You see
me sitting here contented enough as
things are. All these charming women
of talent are my friends" (as a matter
of fact, there was not an old woman in
the room). "A man is not the author
of books like 'Monte Cristo* without
some recompense."
No one would have taken him for a
celebrated author. He had the air of a
man who had done nothing all his life
but invent, taste and prepare luxurious
dishes at a restaurant patronized by
wealthy gourmets.
KeptDes' Eggs.
Reptiles' eggs are not very attractive
objects. In the case of crocodiles and
many kinds of tortoises they are pale
colored or white and resemble those of
birds In shape. But the egg of the
gopher tortoise Is remarkable for its
complete roundness. It mi^ht well be
mistaken for a golf ball. Many snakes'
eggs are soft skinned, brown as to col
or and look for all the world like a
number of new potatoes.—Scientific
American.
Strictly Business.
"You say that couple lead a cat and
dog lifer
"Yes."
"Too bad. Incompatibility of temper.
I
suppose,"
"Nothing:--0f the sort. They conduct
a cat and dog hospital/'—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
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TEE RIVER
THAMES
London's Great Artery, With Its
Crimes and Mysteries.
TRAPS FOR UNWARY VICTIMS.
Waterside Houses With Floors Open
ing at the Push of a Lever to Drop
Its Fleeced Occupant Into a Watery
Grave—Ghost Boats of the River.
London's great artery, the river
Thames, hides many a grim story un
der its murky wafers, some of them
centuries old. some of them merely in
cidents of yesterday. Just as no other
river has quite the same wonder as be
longs to the Thames, so no other river
is so wrapped iu mystery, so surround
ed with stories of tragedy and crime.
Many of the old waterside houses,
which rise sheer with the bank, con
tain rooms in which the floor is built
directly over the water—floors upon
which one could stand in apparently
perfect safety while some one in an ad
jacent room worked a lever which
caused the floor to open and his vic
tim to drop into the river.
A gambling club is said to have met
in such a room once a year to play for
tremendous stakes. The party played
on until one of their members was
ruined. Then the rest of the men went
away in silence, while the ruined man
went down iuto the dark waters
One of the old waterside houses at
"Wapplug, too, is among the bits of the
Thames with a reputation for being
haunted A flight of steps leads from
the house to the river, but these steps
are disused, and the door at the top
of them Is walled up Despite this,
often people passing iy on the river
at night time swear to having seeu
two men come through the walled
door and down the steps Then, after
lowering some handle Into the wa
ters, they return the house. The
identity of the men and the contents
of their bundle remain among the in
soluble stories of the Thames.
The Thames police force of about
300 men is employed to guard against
all sorts of additions to the mysteries
of the Thames, and their task is of far
greater ruaunitude than might be casu
ally ii:,:i-.-iiied im mrative is it
that t' I) :11«• i!• ihi-i force shall
be an expert swn inier and understand
the right methods for dealing with
persons rescued from the water
A cry large mini i' persons are
saved lYom intention i i and accidental
drowning 1h the river every year, an
average number somewhere between
seventy and a hundred But the nuin
ber
"T I'I'I'MHIS
who are "found drown
ed" strikes still greater average—it
is never le» and often more than 100
in a year—besides which it is well
known that the waters of the river
close above many persons of whom
nothing more is ever seen or heard.
But if stones could speak the bridges
across the Thames could tell many
pitiful and grim life stories, especially
Waterloo bridge, which has such sad
associations as to have gained it the
sobricpiet of "The Bridge of Sighs."
Incidentally. Waterloo bridge is an
other part of the Thames which is said
to be haunted. It is not so very long
since a more than usually clear sighted
man went to the police with the infor
mation that he had seen a woman jump
from the parapet of Waterloo bridge,
He had been crossing the bridge late
one night, when he lyul noticed a wo
man in black walking in front of him.
Suddenly he saw her make an appeal
ing gesture, but before he could reach
the woman she had disappeared.
That was all. There was no splash
following her disappearance, and no re
sult came from the search which was
made. Those who are familiar with the
history of the river said that the mar
had seen the ghost of Waterloo bridge
—the tragic woman in black, of whom
nothing is known save that she haunts
tile London "Bridge of Sighs."
Another mysterious tiling about the
Thames, which no amount of police su
pervision will destroy, is the "ghost"
boats which have been and are fre
quently seeu in various parts of the
river. It is a fact that river police pa
trols have actually given chase to such
ghost ships. To find there is nothing
substantial to be found on reaching the
place where the ships had seemed to be.
One of the most curious stories of
this kind is that of the mysterious boat
which was seeu making its way along
the water toward London bridge one
day, about a quarter of a century ago.
As she neared the bridge there was a
tremendous explosion, a vivid burst of
light, and then—nothing! Not so much
as a splinter of wood remained of the
boat which had been, and the story of
It lingers from that day to this as one
of the hundreds of tragic unknown
things which form the secrets of the
river of mystery.—London Answers.
Talent Required.
"If you go about it in a diplomatic
way I believe you can get a good sized
loan from Scadsworth."
"How do you mean'.'"
"Well, tell him two or three rattlin
good stories that will make him laugh
uproariously and then recite the his
tory of your misfortunes iu such a wa\
that he will shed tears."
"Urnph! If 1 could do all that I'd go
into vaudeville and be a monologist."—
Birmingham Age-Herald.
He Needed It.
The Aviator— I've been five months
eompleting and learning to control my
machine. Mister B.—And what hav»
rou got for your pains? The Aviator
Embrocation.—London Telegraph.
Successful minds work like a gimlet
—Cb a single point—Bovea
VOL. XV. NO 33 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1915. $1.00 PER TEAR
GIBSON, THE_DWARF.
This Seventeenth Century Midget Wen
Fame as an Artist.
Purveyors of side show amusements
are agreed, it is said, that dwarfs no
longer may be'counted upon to draw
audiences, no matter how gifted these
Liliputians may be. In Charles Strat
ton, known the world over by his psen
donim of Tom Thumb, this country
furnished the most attractive dwarf
that ever exploited his accomplish
ments and who, as staled by his spon
sor in what was considered the most
"stunning" advertising of the day, was
"the delight of all the crowned heads
of Europe" as well as of the uncrown
ed sovereigns of America.
Great as Tom Thumb was in his
time, there were dwarfs perceding him
that made most enviable reputations.
Among these were llichard Gibson,
age seventy-five at his death, July 23,
1690, and his widow, who died nine
teen years later at the advanced age
of eighty-nine. Gibson was a minia
ture painter—miniature iu every sense
of the phrase—as well as court dwarf
to Charles I. of England, and his wife,
Ann Shepherd, was court dwarf to
Queen Henrietta .Maria. Her majesty
prompted a marriage between these
two clever but diminutive persons, and
the marriage proved a happy one. The
little couple had nine children, five of
whom lived to years of maturity and
were of ordinary stature.
Gibson's works were valued, and one
of them was the innocent cause of a
tragical event. This, painting repre
sented the parable of the lost sheep
and was highly prized by the king,
who gave it in charge of Vandervoort,
the keeper of the royal pictures. One
day the king asked for this picture.
Afraid or ashamed to say that he mis
laid it. Vandervoort commit ted suicide
by hanging. A few days after his
death the picture was found iu the spot
where he had placed it. Gibson and
his wife have, however, been excelled
in brevity of stature, as the united
height of the two was about seven
feet.—Indianapolis News.
MEANING AND SAYING.
Lines of Good Writers That Mangle
the Laws of Grammar.
The late and delightful Professor
Tom Lounsbury of Yale always main
tained that usage made language and
his contempt for critics who were strict
constructionists was far from conceal
ed he rather rejoiced in it. Presum
ably, therefore, he would say that a
couple of sentences, which we are
about to quo^e, were ali right They
are justified By his standard—they con
vey to the reader the idea the writer
had in mind. For what else is an
article written?
Here are the cases, accidentally hap
pened upon in casual reading. Arthur
Christopher Benson in his scries of
essays on "Fear," writing of Sam John
son, says, "No biographer likes, and
seldom dares to." etc. Now you know
what he means, but what he says is
that "no biographer seldom dares,"
and, untying the negative, this means
that a biographer usually dares, aud
that is exactly what Mr. Benson didn't
mean.
The other quotation from George
A. Birmingham's c!e «-r travel sketch,
"From Dublin to Chicago." In this,
telling of the slowness with which so
many American hotels and restaurants
fill the order for !i he says the
guest could smoke a cigarette "be
tween each course." There, too, the
reader knows what is meant, but in
fact you can't get "between each." It
must be between o md something
else. Can you get U iweeu a stone
wall or between noon, or between 5)8
in the shade, or, indeed, between the
soup? What he should have said to
complete bis KnglM was "between
each course and the
In both instances every reader knew
what the writer intended to convey.
Would the professor have pronounced
these breaks justifiable. They are
far from being exception.il. You can
find them in the sfari id authors.—
Hartford Courant
She Knew Better.
Ostensible He^d of the Family-.Ma
ria, there was a canvasser at the of
fice today who wanted to sell me a
work on etiquette and good behavior
Teaches it in six lessons. 1 told him
I'd ask you if you thought we want
ed it
Real Head—It's all humbug. John. It
can't be taught iu s lessons. I've
been trying to teach it to you for six
teen years and haven't succeeded yet
—Exchange.
Photography.
Photography was discovered in this
way: Daguerre was lying on a couch iu
his attic abode aud saw a sunbeam
fall upon a spot in the darkened room
He was startled to see the objects on
the street vividly portrayed in all their
colors—in fact, a panorama of the in
cidents outside. He studied the sub
ject, and his search in the mystery
was the beginning of all that is beau
tiful in photography today.
A Hint.
"Is that an eight day clock?" said the
young man as the timepiece struck the
midnight hour.
"Well," replied the sweet young thing
with an unconcealed yawn, "why don't
you stay a little longer and find out?"
«-£onkers Statesman.
Very
Serious.
She—Are your inteutlons toward the
fcidow really serious? tie—They are.
1 intend, if possible, to get out of her
Hutches.—Boston Transcript
Good luck is an excellent thing to
meet about halfway.
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PATRONIZE THE LABEL.
Trade unionists have been told
many, many times that their
greatest weapon lies in the pur
chasing power of their wages.
If every member of organized la
bor would be as insistent for un
ion label goods as he is for union
wages, hours and conditions the
sweatshop, child labor, prison la
bor and all the obstacles that
stand in the way of labor's prog
ress would be swept aside and
the onward march of the worker
would be a swift, steady move
ment that would stop only when
the highest aspirations of the
toiler were realized.—Typograph
ical Journal.
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NO STRIKE IN VAIN.
Each Protest of Labor Has Its Effect
on Subsequent Battles.
In his report to the Colorado state
federation of labor convention
As an instance of the effects of the
strike on the coal operators of Colo
rado, the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany, in a burst of repentance and
with a desire to play to public ap
plause, asked its nonunion men in the
various camps in southern Colorado to
meet, discuss any grievances thev
might have, select their committeemen
and have their wrongs, real or fancied,
brought to the attention of the com
pany. There is no record of their
having been so kind, so indulgent, so
paternalistic prior to the strike. The
nonunion men came together in several
of the southern camps. They formu
lated demands very similar to those
which the union had asked in the first
place. Tbey asked for a 10 per cent
increase in wages, and also something
that the uniou had never asked for, the
discharge of several harsh and tyran
nical pit bosses. It was what these
men had learned from the union and
its fight that made them ask for those
things. They had learned the things
which the union had demanded. They
had compared their own unhappy state
with what it would be if they were
union men enjoying all the fruits of
successful unionism, and being given a
chance they asked for these things.
They did not get them until backed by
the strength of the organization.
Labor Conditions In Canada.
Reports to the labor department as to
conditions throughout Canada this fall
indicate that unemployment has been
very considerably relieved as compared
with last year. At present there is
comparatively little unemployment in
urban centers except In two or three
cities of the far west. The outlook for
the coming wilder is considerably
brighter than it was this time last fall.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that at the present time there is
not a single strike or labor dispute of
any magnitude in the whole Dominion
and that wages remain steady.—Com
merce Report
Mfriers Applaud Walsh.
The international executive board of
the United Mine Workers of America
in session at Indianapolis passed res
olutions eulogizing Frank Walsh, late
chairman of the commission on indns
tial relations, for "performing the fun.'
tions of this important otlice in such
a manner as to reveal iu clear and com
prehensive form the causes of Indus
trial unrest hi America."
The miners also commend Fresid- r.i
Wilson "for selecting a man of his h'ch
type and character to officiate as chulr
man of this important commission."
Opposes Work Suspension.
John P. White, international presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America, does not favor a suspension
of work pending negotiations for a
new working agreement between the
anthracite miners and operators to titke
the place of the one that expires April
1 next
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Presi­
dent McLennan made these optimistic
references to the recent strike of Colo
rado coal miners:
The astounding manner in which it,
has opened the eyes of the general
public to the ordinary Injustices and
abuses with which the worker is beset
has made it worth while and laid the
foundation for future dividends for la
bor, and It can be set down as a hard
and fast rule that "no strike was ever
lost." Behind all the expense, the suf
fering and the hardship are the hidden
gains, which will only be realized and
appreciated in the future. Each strike
will have its effect on subsequent
strikes. It must have a tremendous
effect on each subsequent occasion
when labor confronts capital with a
bill of Industrial rights.
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LABOR NOTES.
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Governor Carlson of Colorado will
take no action to end the prosecutions
arising out of the recent coal strike.
All laboring men should join unions,
declared Governor Ferguson of Texas
in a Labor day address at Dallas.
More than 8,000 copper miners in the
Clifton-Moreney district of Arizona are
on strike for higher wages and union
recognition.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., recently ex
pressed the convictiou that neither
labor nor capital could prosper perma
nently unless the rights of both were
conserved.
T. L. Lewis, former president of th«
United Mine Workers of America, has
been elected secretary of the West Vir
ginia Gas and Splint Coal Operators'
association.
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