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BBLL 1296—X.
Endorsed by the Trade* and Labor
Couucll of Hamilton, Oblo.
Endorsed by the Miduletown 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 Ohio.
Endorsed 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 on Leg
islation. Those recommendations
provided
1. Regulating and limiting the use
of the injunction.
2.
Prohibiting the importation of
strike-breakers.
3. 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
tile act from transferring their in*w
ance risks tc liability insurance com
panics.
5 Eight Hours for women work
ers.
6.
Providing for the Australian
ballot system at primaries.
WORLD OF LABOR
An eight-hour day, improved
working conditions
Pnd
wage in
creases from $4 to $0 a day have
been secured by Electrical Work
era' Union No. 570, of Tucson
Ariz.
Longshoremen at St. John, N
h»ve accepted the wage compro
mise of steamship companies
Hereafter wages will be 87y2 cents
an hour. Former rates were 35
cents.
Despite numerous complaints
that the Montana nine-hour law for
women has been repeatedly violated
it is stated that the first conviction
was just secured in Butte. The law
was passed four years ago.
James Noland, Secretary of State
elect, has asked Colorada trade un
ionists to indicate their preference
for the position of Deputy State
Commissioner of that State, who is
actually the labor commissioner.
The ordinance prohibiting the
employment of motormen and con
ductors on the lines of the Yonk
ers, N. Y., Trolley company, un
less they had had 15 days' training
was declared unconstitutional by
Judge Beall of the city court.
Chain makers employed at the
plant of the Krein Chain company
Wapakonsta, Ohio, a branch of the
Cleveland Chain and Manufactur
ing company of Cleveland, struck
to enforce a demand for 15 per cent
wage increase.
A strike that involved members
of Electrical Workers' Uuion 67
Quincy, 111., has been settled. The
union is recognized and wages are
increased 2 */2 cents an hour until
May 1, when another 2y2 cent in
c-ease will be paid.
Stereotypes' Union of New
Haven, Conn., have signed a two
years' agreement with newspapers
in that city. Foremen shall be
paid not liss than $25 a week and
journeymen not less than $19 until
November, 1 1917, when the rate
shall be $20.
Determined by the supreme court
of the constitutionality of the
Adamson Eight-hour law in time
for congress to enact any desir
supplementary legislation at this
session was regarded as assured
when the court advanced the test
case for argument on January 8
The'Chamber of Commerce of
Tacoma, Wash., is tiring of its
non-union shop agitation and at the
last meeting of the Central Labor
Council a delegation from the
former body pleaded for unity and
asked the unionists to attend
meeting of the Chamber that will
be especially arranged for them.
Organized teamsters employed by
the Swift Canadian company at
Winnipeg, Man., suspended work
to enforce higher wages and be
cause some of their fellows were
victimized. These workers are
paid $13 and $14 a week. They
have to collect accounts and art re
sponsible for all moneys.
An advance of 18 per cent, in
wages and a reduction in hours was
granted 14,000 stove and foundry
workers throughout the country
under an agreement ratified at At
lantic City.^N. J., by representa
tives of the manufacturers and the
International Molders' Union. The
work day will be reduced half an
hour. The new acale will become
effective January 1. The men de
manded an increase in wages of
20 per cent, and a reduction of one
hour in their work day. The
it
COJI
promise agreem nt was reached af
ter conferences lasting nearly
week.
I Don't Know.
Net very long ago a writer in
The Ra lroad Trainmen drew at
tention, in a very brief but effec
tive way, to an idiosyncrasy that
is found not infrequently among a
certain class of union men' This
sickly state of mind may usually
be detected when you get the same
monotonous answer to the following
questions:
Listen When does your local
meet I don't know.
Who are your officers I don't
know.
How many members in your lo
cal I don't know.
A£y implications before the local
now? I don't know.
Is your local in good financial
standing I don't know.
How much are your dues to the
local I don't know.
Are your dues paid up to date?
don't knew.
Are your dues payable in ad
vance? I don't know.
What induced you to become
union man I don't kuow.
Of what good are you to a local
Nobody knows.
If you have lapsed into this help
less condition, don't you think it's
time to wake up
Restriction inevitable
San Francisco, Jan. 5—'The Bui
letin believes that immigration re
striction is inevitable, and gives
these reasons:
"But whether or not war condi
tions in Europe keep up the bar
against emigration to this country
it seems certain that the former
great waves of human beings will
not again bi permitted to roll
blindly in upon our shores, without
regard to their own fate or their
influence upon the nation. America
is no loader a land cf limitless op
portuntty, for the seemingly limit
less opportunities of former days
have practically all been claimed
and capitalized. Willingness to
work is no longer a guarantee of
fortune. Hence our brothers from
abroad can no longer be asked over
indiscriminately by the million,
but must come only in such num
bers as can be certain of earning
decent living at decent jobs. This
will be as much for their good as
for our own, and such restrictions
as will be imposed will arise from a
more generous spirit than that
which prompted the stupid anti
foreign movements of the early
years of the republic.
Iron Molders Make Nota
ble Gains.
Washington, Jan. 5. —The re-|
cent wage conference at Atlantic
City b^tweeen representatives of I
the Internatioral Iron Molders' un
ion and the Stove Founders' Na
tional Defense association .was anl
epock-making tvent, according to|
officials of this uni^n.
Writing to A. F. of head
quarters on these gains, John
Frey, editor of the International
Iron Molders' Journal, says:
"About 14,0U0 of our members
are affected, our piece workers
Under this agreement all ques
tions which have arisen in the in
dustry are adjusted locally tbrorgh
the show committee and the firm,
or, if they fail, through the pre^i
dents of the two associations of
their representatives.
One of the important questions
disposed was the introduction of
molding machines, that is, the ma
chine which supplanted hand labor.
before a
ow Wages Breed Disease.
The work-day is tte .»er.ge h0»«wlfe buy food as
half hour per d«y. a geteral $4.25|ch(.ap|y
onel
a day minimum for day workers is
secured and the wages of piece
workers are increasjd a little more
than 18}4 per nt.
were advanced a little more^haqj consistent with Amtrican needs.
18/4 per cent. I ''Among our unorganized work
"The hours of molding were re-1 ers thousands are receiving a wage
duced one-half hour. We have nolof less than $2 a day.
eight, nine or 10 hour workday in I "How do they manage to exist
the stove foundry, I in these high cost times on such
"At the present time, the agiee-lwage? Take a look at their 'home
ment provides that after the molder I surrounding for the answer. Figure
has worked at molding eight and I on what the future of a country
three quarter hours, th§ last ladle I must be where such poverty and
of iron must be given to him. Tbel neglect of human welfare ,is per
new agreement provides that tbelmitted to exist.
last ladle of iron must be given I "If $505 75 a year is the dead
within eight and one-quarter hours lline for food cost in Chicigo, below
after the molding begins. I which a fam'ly of five cannot be
We have again blazed e. way in |sefficiently fed, then the only guar
establishing new standa ds, for
have established a uniform mini
mum of $4.25 a day for day work
ers in the stove industry, whether
they are working in Portland, Me.
Quincy, 111. Kalamazoo, Mich.
Chicago, or Detroit
"I believe ours is the first inter
national union to secure a uniform
universal minimum wage rate thru
an agreement with a national asso
ciation of employers
"Of course, none of these things
would have been possible were it
not that we are pretty well acquain
ted with each other and believe in
fair dealing and being faithful in
all agreements entered into
"Historically, the International
Molders' union and the Stove
Founders' National Defense as^o
ciation entered into their first
agreement in March, 1891
"Tt was the first agreement ever
entered into tbe history of modern
industry between a national asso
ciation of employers and a national
trade union covering their respec
tive memberships.
tainly none of its women members
was working in a munition factory
10 hours a day,
,,T ,A cinnati, secretary of the federation.
It took 10 years of conferences
satisfactory agreement
could be reached, it proved emin-|
it
ently satisfactory to the foundry
men and to the members of the
Molders' union. This principle
was finally recognized: That no
improvement of any kind should
n any manner reduce the workers
total earnings, while on the other
hand, the employes was given the
advantage of the improvement in
larger o nput and lower costs of
unit.
"The Stove Founders' National
Defense association basin its mem
bership stove, hct air and hot water
manufacturers, controlling about
0 per cent of the output. In this
industry, so far as our union is con
cerned, we have about 95 per cent
degree of organization."
Chicago. Jan. 5. The recent ex Icathedral, said that the liberal dis
periment by the health department I tribution of bonuses by employers
oa feeding people for less than 401 of large numbers of men this year
cents a dav brings this comment I was an effort to keep workingm.^n
from the Union Leader, officialI satisfied, while avoiding the pay
paper of Chicago's organized streetl ment of fair wages,
car men: I "If employers paid an honest
Did you notice any hodcarriers, I wage," he said, "there would be
street car men, or husky growing I no need of bonuses. If they had
children among Dr.
Robertson's
Naw, none of the male mem
oers of the diet squad was breaking
fpig iron or carrying pianos up two
or three flights of stairs, and ce*-
diet squad Certainly not all of I would have been no labor troubles,
them follow light occupations and|The hard treatment of labor by
do not burn up physical fuel like algraspin# employers has given such
worker at hard labor or a healthy, Istrength t« the labor movement
growing child who is racing and I that employers now vie with one
romping in the open and can do (another in giving bonuses, ard are
justice to three square meals a day. ||anxious to arbitrate. The question
"Yet the diet squad averaged 31
ents a day each for food.
"Notwithstanding these favor
able conditions, under scientific
supervision, the cost for food for
each member of the diet squad was
31 cents a day.
"Applied to the average family
this figures $1.55 a day, or $10.85
a week, and $565.75 a year. And
for food only.
"Then the question arises, can
as the purchasi„g
ageut of
the diet squad Has the average
housewife the neee sary money to
buy in like quantities We think
not.
"However, figuring a yeatly
food cost basis of $505.75, the
average worker should have a wage*
upwards of $5 a day the year round
to meet household expenses and
lice and rear his family in a manner
lantee of a properly fed citizenship
is to establish a wage that will
Imeet it.
General Gorgas, in his successful
[campaign against disease in the
canal zone, found the key to the
situation by doubling the wages
He has b*en advocating this remedy
throughout the country ever since
yet none of the health department
heads of our b'g cities seem to have
grasped the significance of Genera
|G )rgan's discovery.
"The fertile source of disease
[poverty and crime is an inadequate
wage.'
To Oust Compensation Foes.
Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 5 —Offi
cers of the Ohio State Federation
of Labor has filled petitions suffi
cient to initiate a bill ousting pri
vate liability companies from the
state. The pet:tions filed bear
41,059 signatures from 08 of the 88
counties. About 35,000, cr 3 per
cent of the voters at the last gen
eral election, is needed. The un
ionists say that many more signa
tures were obtained, but these are
witheld for use in case the legisla
ture reject the bill. In this event
the proposal will be submitted to a
referendum, by the additimal sig
natures of 3 per cent of voters.
"The child has been born and wt
are now turning it over to the
nurse," said T. J. Don ,elly of Cin
John A Vol)j Zanesville| presWem
of
the
federation, said the filing cf
peUtions a.ght as well be con-
sidered "funeral services" for the
liability companies.
As originally passed the law was
intended to provide only for state
compensation. A ruling by the
state insurance comuissioner, how
ever, permits private companies to
write insurance and this has been
sustained by the state supreme
court.
The state fedeiation of labor now
proposes to destroy this decision
by driving the private companies
out of the state.
Givers Ot Bonuses Assailed
By Priast.
New York, Jan. 5.—The Rev.
John F. O Rourke, a member of
the Jesuit order, who preached the
Christmas sermon at St. Patrick's
I paid honest wages for years there
cf arbitration never occured to them
20 years ago, when labor was the
(under dog. But now they will ar
bitrate, now that the workingman
[has realized his power and holds
[the whip hand."
COMPARE THEM.
It is cheering to notice the
inan.v voluntary increases in
watjes granted by the «reat In
£ustrial corporations, but would
It not be helpful now to muke
the "deadly parallel" comparison
of the relative advances in prices
of products and the dates of the
advance':—George Foster Tea
body.
TRUCE FOR RAILROADS.
Nothing to Bo Dono Until Supremo
Court Renders Decision.
Tacit understanding has been reached
between railroad executives and the
chiefs of the four brotherhoods.
Pending a decision on the constitu
tionality of the Adamson law by the
supreme court, which is not expected
to be handed down before Feb. 1,
there will be a truce, daring which ef
forts will be made to reach an effec
tive compromise without resorting fur
ther to congress, courts or force.
A more conciliatory spirit is preva
lent between opposing Interests of cap
ital and labor. The National Civic
federation is endeavoring to act as
mediator to bring about agreement for
an entirely new basis of settlement for
disputes on railroads.
If the supreme court decides the eight
hour law constitutional the railroads
will promptly pay the increased wages
dating back to Jan. 1, so the men will
lose nothing. If the court should de
cide the law to be unconstitutional,
then conditions would revert to the
same critical state that existed last
August before the eight hour law was
proposed by the president and passed
by congress.
But in tills event it is the under
standing among principals to the con
troversy that if no mutually satisfac
tory agreement has been reached In the
meantime every endeavor will be made
by all parties concerned to prevent an
immediate crisis and to obtain further
time to work out an adjustment.
Those on each side who are working
for permanent understanding are hope
ful of early success.
All the labor men and many of the
railroad executives are opposed to the
president's proposition for compulsory
arbitration, and chances for its passage
by congress are now classed as very
doubtful. Labor also is unitedly op
po.sed to the president's demand for
legislative power to take over opera
tion of railroads as a military measure
In time of necessity. This would give
him the right to draft railway workers
to their duties in case of strike, as was
done in Frauce.
The proposition now under consider
ation is for some form of permanent
wage commission Which would have in
Its possession impartial and reliable
facts as to both labor conditions and
railroad finances to establish the basis
for arbitration settlement of future dis
putes.
It is not intended that such a com
mission should have absolute authority
to fix wages, power of compulsory ar
bitration or to issue decrees against
strikes and lockouts. The latest tend
ency Is to avoid arbitrary compulsion,
which, both sides have discovered, is
a two edged sword.
AWARD FOR WORKERS.
Pennsylvania Compensation Board Cre
ates a Precedent.
Au employee who Is injured while on
his way to reclotlie himself, after hav
ing garments damaged while at work
for his employer, is entitled to the pro
tection of the Pennsylvania state com
pensation act, according to an opinion
given by Commissioner John A. Scott
in the case of Mahala Bolden against
Austin G. Greer.
The case is an unusual one and cre
ates a precedent. Bolden was employ
ed as a truck driver and in loading
stone tore his clothing so badly it was
impossible to continue work.
"A necessity to reclotlie himself was
thereby created that he might proceed
with his work," says Mr. Scott. "To
do this he was obliged to leave the
place where he was working and go to
such a place as he could obtain over
alls. This was
BO
Want It Handed To Them.
Cincinnati, Jan. 5.—It is stated
that many federal employfs in *h?s
city declined the request of the
Federal Employers' union to joir
the trade union movement and as
sist in securing the passage of the
Nolan $3 a day minimum wage bill.
These government employes,
however, assures the unionists that
"they are heartily in favor of the
bill and hope it will le passed by
congress."
Street Gar Men Advance.
Agusta, Ga., Jan. 5.—In ac
cordance with a contract signed
last year wages of members of
Street .Car Men's union No. 577
will automatically increase 1 cent
an hour the first of this year. The
agreement provides that on enter
ing the service a minimum rate of
23 centsi will be increased I cent
an hour every year during the life
of the three year contract.
Demand Eight Hour Day.
Cincinnati, Jan. 2.—At a mass
meeting of organized garment
workets, it was voted to demand
an eight-hour day and wage in
creases.
LABOR- GOSSIP.
The American T'P!:UE and Teh
graph company 11..! tribuh»d $
000,000 bonuses it- workers.
Twenty-eight s i ve no tvr.iia
tion of street work bv fhJitlrrn. am
Wni'K
twenty states have poor r• u•)i 1 i11
such work.
The house o| representatives of the
Australian commonwealth has passed
a Mil fur tile suppression of the" In
dustrial Workers of the World.
Two more railroads, the Erie and the
Southern Pacific, have granted bonuses
to their nonunion employees. The ex
tra pay is given a- ai, offset to the
high cost of livin :.
The P'neliill «\»al company. Tolls
vllle. Pa., has issued au announcement
providing for profit sharing by its min
ers and other mi u
ment of a limn n
It is estimate*!
American 011151!
received the 1
Balarv increasi
in? distributio: a
a total of more t1
A'/,- am •!.i
closely connected
with the effectual carrying out of his
contract of employment as to be a part
of it. That he was hurt in
following out what appears to us to be
in the direct line of advancing the busi
ness of his employer is enough to throw
about him the protection of section 301
The employer's appeal is dismissed."
Vote Raise For Federal Workora.
Salary or wage increases of from
to 10 per cent for about 16,000 govern
ment employees receiving less than
$1,800 a year were provided for in the
$39,000,000 legislative, executive and
Judicial appropriation bill passed by
the house of representatives without a
recorded vote.
LABOR BRIEFS.
Employees of the Southern Pacific
lines in Texas and Louisiana whose
compensation is not determined by
agreement will be given a 10 per cent
bonus in 1917.
According to Chairman Elbert H.
Gary, the United States Steel corpora
tion distributed $33,000,000 In 1910
Hamilton 6.1'J
Daily
by the pay
'"iia^-.e mined
UMH» salaried
va^e earners
in wiuro and
M.II
PENNSYLVANIA,
LINES
Via Cincinnati
and L. & N.Ii. P.
Throng //.•-•
and u-.-.:-
r.
Particulars, also Tourist
Tickets to W-nler Resirts
in Florida and S^uth.runy
in- obtain*!
I
hi
wage Increases and bonuses
After operating continuously in Du
luth and on the Minnesota ranges for
year the Industrial Workers of the
World recently announced that they
would leave that part of the country.
/Odd f/ame Oddly Won.
The inn known as tlio "Same Yet," at
Prestwlch, has a curious history wlilch
Mr. Ilackwood relates: "The House
originally bore the 'Seven Stars,'' but
many years ago It became necessary
to have Its faded sign repainted. When
the painter asked the landlord what he
as to put on the board he received
the answer, The same yet.' And the
man took bim at his word."—London
News.
Have the courage to appear poor
and you disarm poverty of its sharpest
Jfttng^-idrs. Jameson.
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For Music
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Had No Time to Spare.
The stage was all set in the Itit®-"
Carlton hotel for the presentation of a
magnlllcent sixteenth century cabinet
to Thomas A. Edison. It was a copy
of a piece carved for Louis XII., of
Prance, which Mr. Edison had admired
while in France. At the appointed
hour the Inventor was'absent. A tele
phone call to his home in Oranpe, N.
simplicity, ecenomy
dealers
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Scenic Route
South
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Ticket 1 s
W A. LOWKY, HAMIJ.
Victor
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wT n
Kdison Dia
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and Cylindei
Machines.
Pianos and all
kinds of
Musical In
struments.
No. 10 S. 3d St.
BLALK UK TAN
J.,
elicited the laconic reply: "I'm too busy.
Ship lit over here."—New York Post
Superfluous.
The Beauty—Don't you think that a
fcusband should occasionally tell his
wife that she's beautiful? The Beast—
Nope! Wholly superfluous. If she is
beautiful she knows she is, and if she
Isn't beautiful she thinks she is.—Bos
ton Globe.
Boosting.
"That man says your wife has the
most beautiful hair of any woman "in
the city."
"He's trying to work up trade."
"Does he deal in hair lotions?"
"No he sold her the hair."—Hous
ton Post
One bad example spoils a good many
excellent precepts.
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