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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1910.
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middlelown O
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Preble and Mont
gomery Counties.
Endorsed by Metal Trades Council
of tlamilton Ohio.
Gndorsed by the United Trades and
Labor council, Dayton, Ohio.
The Mansfield Convention of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor,
1915, outlined the legislative de
mands of the Trade Union Move
meut in Ohio when it unanimously
adopted the final report and recom
mendation of its committee t.n Leg*
islation. Those reauninen Nations
provided
1. Regulating and limiting the use
of the injunction.
2. Prohibiting the importation or
strike-breakers.
j. Prohibiting the exercise of police
authority by others than those in con
trol of the State.
4. That the incoming executive
board and the legislative agent be in
structed to prepare and introduce in
the next general assembly a bill to
amend the Workmen s Compensation
Act, prohibiting self-insurers under
the act from transferring their insur
ance risks to liability insurance com
panies.
5 Eight Hours tor women work
ers.
6. Providing for the Australian
ballot system at primaries
WORLD OF USOR
Girls employed by the Southern
Manufacturing company at Rich
mond, Va., are on strike. Piece
work rates make in impossible for
them to earn a living wage.
"Infant mortality is the 'y^rri
stick' for measuring the height of
social welfare and the breadth of
human efficiency," said Etnil
T. Lobeman, health official, in a
recent address in Milwaukee.
Practically every motorman and
conductor employed by the Birm
ingham (Ala) traction line has
joined the Street Car Men's Union
wh ch is being installed by Vice
President Ben Commons, tf the
international organization of
car men.
Team owners and a comm ttee
from Tn City Teamsters' Uni n
have agreed to a new wage scale
that raises wagfes $*2,50 a week for
Good
Wearing
School
Shoes
over 200 employe#. The union was
organized three months ago and
includes Divenport) Iowa,, Rock
Island and Molir.e, III.
Organized workers at Worcester
Mass., are planning for a "labor
forward" movement to effset the
non uniou activities of the Metal
Trades' Association, the Worcester
County Employers' Associations
and other an?i-tr*ion organizations
whose members insist on labeling
their trade union antagonism "open
shop.''
Alabama trade unionists and
members of the railroad hj-other
hoods attended a banquet givt*n in
honor of the convention of the
Farmers' Educational and Co-op
erative Union of Alabama, held in
Birmingham, Ala. Speakers repre
senting the three movements urged
closer unity and exchanged fra
ternal greetings.
The Boilermakers' Uniou of Wil
mington, Delaware, has won its
strike against the Harlan & Hol
lingsworth Corporation, shipbuild
er?. The work wees was formerly
54 hours and the strike demanded
a 48 hour week. The agreement
provides for 48 hours far piece
workers and 54 hours with incieas
ed pay for day workers
Chief of Police McNamara ot
Waco, Texas, requests the Mayor
and other city officials to consider
the question of an eight-hour day
so that favorable actiou may he
taken in preparing the next city
budget. "You gentlemen are aware
o
the demands made on the
strength and energy of patrolmen
under present n quirements. The
argument in behalf of the benefits
of eight hours' labor ate too well
known to make it necesstrv for me
to attempt to argue that i i".t with
vou," be says, The police official
however, insists that a policeman
who works short hours is free from
worry, care and vexation and will
rvec.
Huge Profits In Ships.
Washington Sept. 15.—The
irurket pages _•: i- tropolitan news
papers tell a different story from
that sung by ship owners, who as
sure the public that the seamen's
law his wrecked th
dustry.
hipping in-
In local papers the International
Steel and Suip Building company,
a new organization, in placing it*
stock on the marke*, savs
Large ship building orders at
en rmous profits are gcin^ begging
and the demand ior ships is getting
greater every day. Experts who
have studied the situat agree
tba-Mhe ship building bi: .ss will
be extremely profitable a:
15 years or longer.
The general i. the
present ship build u ndustiy is
aptly illustrated by :cnt Amer
icai deal in wbic' ship under
construction contrai. #700,000
was sold a\ 51,800,000 above the
construct cost before it was
launched.
''In other '.voids, a. su custicg
57 ),000 sold for 82,500,000.
New York, Sept. 15.—The an
nu i! statement of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company shows that the
year's profits amount to more than
21 per cent on i preferred and
common stock Kecently the com
pany sold several ships and said the
seamen's law had driven the Amer
ican flag off the Pacific ocean. La
ter it was discovered that high
prices were responsible for the sale
and since then the company has se
cured oth. vessels ed
»he Pacific service
Paperhangers Raise Wages.
Washington, Sepr 15.—Paper
hangers' union No. 4_'0 has in
cr-asei wages 50 :en sa day, uak
ing the new rate #4.50. It is the.
first increase in nine years and was
seemed without difficulty from
every employer of organized pa
perhangers in this city.
MAKE, PATER YOLR BUY WORD
mmsarmmtm
Congress Indorses Public's
View of 8=Hour Day.
Law Permits Masterly Retreat by
Railroad Managers.
Washington, Sept. 15—By a vqrte
of 43 to 28 the United States senate
Saturday, September, '2, passed the
luuse eight hour bill for railroad
employes engaged in interstate
commeice. The day before tMe
house passed the same bill, intro
duced by congr ssman Adams -n,
chairmauof the interstate and for
eign commerce committte.-, by a
vote of 239 to 56
The senate rejected every amend
ment
fo
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and Friday
Clem Pater
the house, as any change
would necessitate a conference be
tweeen th*1 two branches of con
gress. This delay would result in
a ration wide strike, as the bro
therhood executives were unyield
ing in their refusal to disobey the
order of their fellows that a strike
should be called Monday, Sept 4,
if a settlement was not reached.
Immediately after the senate's
action the four brotherhood execu
tives telegragraphed 600 code mes
sage? to general chairman located
all over the country, callin off the
strike.
President Wilscn signed the bill
Sunday morning. Monday, he
signed the bill again, as the point
was raised that his Sunday signa
ture might not be legal,
The law provides that after Jan
uary 1 next eight hours shall con
stitute a day's work for men en
gaged in the operation of trains in
interstate commerce (excepting
roads le^s than 100 miles long and
electric lines,) that they shall re
ceive p»o rata pay for work in ex
cess of eight hours and that wage
rates shall remain unchanged pend
ing an investigation of the effect of
the law upon the railroads by a
commission to be appointed by the
president
Preside .i Wilson suggested the
same solution cv.ral days ago. It
was accepted by the workers but
rejected by the manage: s. As the
brotherhood executives »iood like
a concrete wall, determined to
carry out the orders given them by
400,000 organized employes, the
question simmered down to two
plans of action, permit the trans
portatior systems of this country
being tied up or congress suspeud
all rules and hastily write into the
statutes President Wilson's sugges
tions. The latter' plan was accep
ted, though over three score law
wakers and a large section of the
daily rress, blind to changfng or
ders, were aghast at the 'insolence'
the "coercion" and the "intimida
tion" of these workers, who stood
united for the first time, and who
were conscious of their invincible
economic pnwer to secure a shorter
workday.
On the previous Thursday the
senate committee on interstate com
merce held an all day hearing on
the proposed law. At one end of
the committee room were ranged a
score of the most powerful railroad
managers, who also had the power
of attorney for the other railroad
systems of this country. At the
other end of the room were the
four brotheihood executives and
President Gompers, flanked by
other A. F. of L. and brotherhood
officials, the group forming an in
spiring picture of labor's so'idarity
and singleness of purpose.
As spokesman for the brother
hoods, president Garretson of the
conductors first presented the em
ployes' side. He said that the
managers have not made one defin
ite effer, and the only suggestion
of a settlement by the managers,
known as the "yard stick," was so
indefinite that the managers them
selves acknowledged they did not
thoroughly understand it.
The speaker objected to any law
that savore.d of compulsory arbitra
tion or compulsory wage setting, or
a denial of workers to quit their
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mployment. He said an eigh
hour law would be acceptable if a
strike could be avoided, although
he made it clear that "it is a prin
ciple of union labor that many
questions should not be settled by
legislative ac inn," and that these
include hours and *'ages. Regard
ing compulsory arbitration he said:
"No influence that can ever be
brought to hear enn induce our or
ganization to accept it." H-r said
the Cauadian industrial dispute act
has always resulted in disadvantage
to hs Orders of Railway Conduc
tors.
President Gompers confied his
efforts in the main, to labor's op
position to compulsory features in
the proposed law, which was hinted
by Senator Newlands, chairman of
the committee, who distingnisl ed
between an individual quitting his
employment and the same concerted
action by a number of individuals.
"How can an individual work
man resent a wrong ask til Mr.
Compels. "The individual has
lost his individuality he is a cog,
and if y u deny him the right to
associate with other workmen to
quit their employment, even for
an instant, you legalize involuntary
servitude.
"It may be a fond wish to tie
men to their work. You may
make strikes illegal and strikers
criminal but you can not avoid
strikes when necessary.
Senator Newlands insisted that
the proposal did not deny a man
the right to quit his work, but that
it would only affect their right to
quit in concert.
"Would you deny the right of
several officials of a railroad to re
sigr—to quit their employment
asked the unionist.
"Then why deny workt rs the
same right There are worse
things thau a strike. We have got
to live
-vhen
aad then, I ask you, will we find
upon the statute books a law that
says that men are criminals if they
strike in concert Such a condi
tion is intolerable."
Stn:e the law's passage railroad
managers are being quoted in the
public press as declaring the statute
is of no value and that it will be
contested ia the courts on consti
tutional grounds. Employes ex
press no alarm at these threats, as
they realize that they must depend
upon the same power to enforce the
law that placed the law upon the
statute books.
Child Labor Bill Is Signed.
Washington, Sept. 15.— Presi
dent Wilson has signed the federal
child labor bill and organized labor
records another advance in its fight
against this evil. Under the new
law it will be illegal to ship out of
a state any product made in whole
or in part by a factory employing
chiidren under 14 years of age, or
the product of any mine or quarry
which employes children under 10
years of age.
In signing the bill the president
said.
"I want to say wi'h what real
emotion I sign this bill, because
know how long the struggle has
been to secure legislation of this
sort and what it is going to mean
to the health and to the vigor of
the country, and to the happiness
of those whom it affects. It is
with genuine pride that I play my
part in completing this legislation
I congratulate the country and feli
citate myself."
The law will release from south
ern mills children who must now
be provided with school facilities
and whose parents must be paid
sufficient wage to keep them ill
comfort. Agitation for these con
ditions devolves upon the organ
ized workers, as does the demand
that 14 year-old children in an
state are not equipped, either men
tally or physically, for a factory
life which weakens future genera
tions,
Boycott Not So Funny.
Minneapolis Sept. 15—The man
ager of the Northern theatre has
sued the Moving Picture Opera
rs' union for $1,300 damages and
an injun tion restraining these un
ionists from advertising his place
s hostile to organized labor.
Low-wage employers are organized
into a Cit Xins' Alliance and when
the theatrical manager began oper
'iting bis house on the non-union
plan he was highly praised for his
naependence." But patronage
fell off and now he tells the ceurt
it is not the kind of advertising he
cxpected.
Job Selling An Ohio Evil.
Ctriumbus, O. Sept. 15.—The
state industrial commission has is
sued a pamphlet on the evil of job
selling in Ohio industrial establish
ments, practiced on illiteiate for
eigners.
"In some plants," it is stated,
"the custom has been established
for years, and it is almost incon
ceivable that such a reprehensible
practice should be carried on under
the very eyes of the general offi
cers of any company without some
knowledge of* the fact on their
part."
v
The payment ol fees to foremen
for furnishing
jobaS
is a well estab­
lished custom in a number of plants
in this stite. The victimized are
generally non-English speaking
foreigners, and those who profit
from the fefes are usually English
speaking, or able to speak English,
ard quite generally of a different
race from those wno are exploited,
The charges range from a box
cigars or a bottle of whiskey to
$25 for a job paying approximated
25 cents an hour. The shrewder
foreman seldom receive the'present'
direct, but have a number of men
who act as go bet weens, who are
either "straw bosses" or workmen.
These latter receive their reward
by "standing in" with the foreman
and secure more desirab'e work.
At the most, their direct s tare of
the "present" is the price of a few
drinks.
"The custom" continues the
commission, "appears to have be
come so well established in some
cases that no demand for pavmet
needs to be made, as the non-Eng
lish speaking applicant understands
that
ve
this strike is over,
must make a pay meut of
money before he can work.
"Such a custom produces the
worst possible type of industrial
slavery and it is small wonder that
the much »exploited immigrant
often feels bitter and that some
times this bitterness manifests
itself in acts of violence during the
excitement incident to a strike.
What respect can the immigrant be
expected to have for organized so
ciety which permits such condi
tions to exist."
Teachers Lose Fight.
Chicago, Sept. 15 —The beard
of education has refused -to rein
state the 67 teacrers who were dis
missed last June. Included in the
list are officers of the teachers' fed
eration and other teachers, whose
rating is his and who were ousted
without being permitted to reply
to charges or defend themselves in
any way. These dismissals are a
part of the board's anti-union cam
paign.
The teachers will ^ontu ue the
fight in the courts. The board's
action is referred to by organized
labor as a lockout. Miss Margaret
Haley, busings agent of the teach
ers' federation, said:
"We will pay lockout benefits
indefinitely. We have $9,000 as a
starter and we can raise $1-50,000
in the next fortnight."
The Chicago tribune makes this
comment on the board's action:
"Whatever the views any one
may entertain as to the teachers'
federation itself, there can be lUtle
question that the method employed
by the board in this affair was
shocking to fundamental instincts
of fair play as well as contrary to
the merit principle in public ser
vice."
Can't Strike Law Opposed.
Denver, Sept. 15.- The Trades
and Labor Assembly has unani
mously sustained the state federa
tion of labor in its condemnation of
the state law which makes it illegal
for workers to strike before they
have given 30 days' notice to the
Industrial commission. Local un
ionists will ask legislative candi
dates for their views on this ques
tion.
Miners Gall Off Strike.
Crosby, Minn., Sept. 15.—After
having lost several weeks' w.rk,
"watched their families and them
selves hovering on the brink of
starvation with nothing between
them and one oi Northern Minne
sota's winters," they said, pbout
200 members of the Industrial
Workers
Hof
the World, which or­
ganization called a strike of iron
workers «n the Cuyuna range met
in executive session today and voted
to call of the strike.
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