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6ndor«ed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Oblo.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Midulelown O.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Preble and /Wont
gomery Counties.
Endorsed by Metal Trades Council
of Hamilton Uhio.
Endorsed by the United Trades and
Labor council, Dayton, Ohio.
m,*
The Mansfield Convention of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor
1915, outlined the legislative de­
mands of the Trade Union Move
meiit 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.
i. Prohibiting the importation of
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.
Eight Hours (or women work
era.
6. Providing for the Australian
ballot system at primaries.
THB union man who will quickly
yank off his hat to show you the
imbel when under fire, usually has
no other labels to show.
SHAMR on the man who is mak
ing more money by holdirg a un
ion card and then buys non union
goods with the same money.
HAMILTON
will soon have a full
fledged Firemen's Union affi'iated
with the rest of the labor unions
and chartered und* the American
Federation of Labor. Why not,
they are working men same as vie
are. Much power to them.
A FEW days ago a supposed un
ion man and a member of one of
the unions that has doubled their
wage scale through their organiza
tion, oiided himself on how he
could knock other members of his
organization and the labor move
ment in general. You can bet that
he never refuses an increase, yet
he has no labels on bis garments
and no brains in his head.
Ws
are afraid that bonus system
is going to be a boomerang for the
toilers of Hamilton. What is the
idea of the bonus system, is it to
make the worker think he is getting
something for nothing Why not
give it each day instead of at
the end of the year Perhaps it is
another way to halt the progress of
the labor anions. It can't be did
EVERY dollar that has been *e.
cured by the laboring men of Ham
ilton through the increase in wages
has be°n secured through the ef­
forts of the labor unions. The fac
tories or the men who do not be
long to a labor union will not care
to admit this, but it is the truth
Increases are very seldom given
voluntarily, although some people
make you think it is
WE hear that same old story
every day about union men getting
a shave and a hair cut in scab bar
ber shops. We wish to stamp ih's
as a plain lie or the fellow making
the charge would have enough
courage to report the name of such
men to their local or to the central
body. May we ask if it is any
more of a crime to get sha\ed by a
scab barber than it is to have your
work done by a barber who is work
ing under shorter hours with good
union prices and who buys all
lb
scab goods he can get on his back
The oarbers that are guilty shoul
not consider the other fellow
criminal.
THE NIXT Labor Day picnic AND
celebration will be the twenty-fifth.
The central body should start at
the next meeting to make arrange
ments to celelrate the twenty fifL
anniversary. The labor unions as
a whole should get into the propo
ition and make it a success.
The unions should be a unit in
making arrangements
for
the
anniversary and all jealousies and
petty political ambitious should be
cast aside for this undertaking
The unions that have their me in
btrs standing
on the
sidewa
k
when the parade goes by should
have their men in line. The un
ions that allow their me nbers to
think more of taking a trip out
town on Labor .y than they
for the organization that gives them
more bread and butter than they
ever had before, should a\v
at
et the
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line and at the celebration. St ilk a i
other kind of a union that has re
peatedly asked the cen ral body
favors and gave nothing in rettrn
should also
get their memu-rs t.
cooperate. Let the central bdy
the next meetirg ask each and
every labor union affiliated if
tbe\
will assist in lh* Twenty fifth ceh
bration of Labor Diy in Himil^cn.
If the replies are favorable start it
mmediately and ab ive all things
drones interested
MORE PAY
Wages of the book keeper of th«
gas and water departments and
s-veral
other employes of these de-
irtments have been increased.
The lamp trimmer hasal«o received
an increase in wages. Tne city
municipal plants have made enor
mous pr( fits in the past year and
the men employed in these plants
should receivf a part of it
1
They Are Truly
IRON CLAD
CLE.M PATE.R
Men's Water Tight Shoes Only $4.50—worth $485 SURETY STAMPS
WDRLOOF LABOR
A jury in the New York Su
preme urt awarded $32,000 dam
ages tn Adam H. Roeder. of Mt.
Vernon, against the Erie and the
New Jersey & New York Railroads
for the loss of his left arm while
working as a brakeman for the lat
ter railroad. Roeder sued both
corporations for $60,000 damages.
The verdict is a record one for
Westchester County for the loss of
an arm.
Wages in lumber camps in the
Lake Superior region started in at
least $10 a month ahead of last
year. Tne wages are: General
workers, including sawyers, road
makers road cutters and swampers.
$35 a month for transipnt, and $40
a month for men who stay ou the
joll^ month ot more tearos'ers and
canthuok men, from $40 to $15 per
month, These wages include board
and there is no chance to spend
money in camp.
The ray men's Association of
San Francisco or December 28
granted the demand of the Brother
hood of Teamsters for a wage in
crease of 50 cents a day, and com
promised the increased overtime
scale asked by the teamsters. At a
mass meeting held in Dreamland
Rink on the same evening the
teamsters ratified the agreement
oerfected. The increase bec.vnt
effective January 2. The teamstt *,
in their original demands, sought
ati increase of 25 cents an hour in
overtime for teamsters of all classes.
This demand was rnod fi a.
graduated scale providing for n
minimum of 50 o-nts and a maxi
mum of of 75 cents an hour over
time adopted. The agreement wili
extend for three yeats.
The Colorado Industrial Commis
sion has rendered a decisou in thp
mill carpenters' demands fora wige
ncrease which it alleges is eqn
to five cents an hour and an eigh
hou" day. The men interested
clare the award to be a sort of a
fifty fifty decision. The demand
«r a«a increase is denied, while the
Commission favors the eight hour
lay, recommending that for the
next six months the millmen work
eight and a half hours for the
present nine hour pay, and then
permanently establish the eight
hour day at the same rate of pay,
which averages in the Denver mill*
about 40 cents per ho ir. The com
ssion holds this will be equiva
lent to a wage ii.elease of 1-3- per
cent.
The draftsmen etr.pl'y-.d in tb
Norfolk navy yard refused to work
overtime. They had b^eu ,work
in® seven hours a day. Thev were
requested to work three additional
hours *t the same rate of pay re
ceived t,»r the seven hours. The
men objected to pursuing such a
oojrse and when the seven-hour
limit had been reached c-ased work
The managers in charge rtduced
vages 30 percent, when he learned
if the a?tiou of the men. When
hat became known the men re
fused to return to work. The mat
er was then referred, as the mana
ter said, to he secretary cf the
Navy Department. Negotiations
followed and in a short time the
trouble was adjusted by Naval Con
structor Watt agreeing »o concede
be just demanus of the draftsmen.
Wiiile the dispute was pend ng the
.lachiuibts n-itifiied Mr. Watt that
they would refuse to handle any
blueprints drawn by new men while
tne dispute was pending.
A. F, of L. Weekly News Letter
Washing* on, Jan. 1*2 A.
Hayes, third vice president of the
American Federal ion of Labor and
president of the Glass Bottle Blow
ers' association of the United States
and Canada, died of pneumonia
last Tu sday, in Puiladelphia, after
an illness of but two days.
Despite the great pressure of
duty President Gompers proceeded
to Philadelphia and at Brother
"MAKE PATER'S YOUR BUY WORD"
U Y I ,11111111
Hayes' bier officially represented
the A. F. of L. and announced a
eulogium upon the deceased, re
counting his great life work and
characteristics.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday at Zmrsville, Ohio, where
the remains were interred. Be
cause of the urgent requirement of
their presence at Washington on
account of the hearings before the
Interstate Commerce committee of
the Senate on the pending railroad
legislation intended to inaugurate
compulsory investigation, it was
impossible for President Gompers
or Secretary Morrison to attend the
fit eral exercises at Zauesville
The \meri an Federation of Labor
was represented by Vice President
Joseph Valentine, Frank Duffy'
and William Green. The flag on
the A. F. of L. building has oeen
placed at half mast and the offices
of the Federation were closed Sat
urday.
The executive council, in the
name of the A. F. of L., had a
fl iitl piece placed over the remains
of Brother Hayes, and worked in
the design the following: "His
work lives. American Federation
Labor A card on which the
names of the executive council
were wri'ten and the name of
A. Hayes omitted was attached to
the flowers.
Deceased was president of the
Glass Bottle Blowers' Association
for nearly a quirter of a ceutun
aud was a vice president of the A
F. of L. for sixteen years. He was
first elected sixth vice president of
the latter body at its 1900 conven
tion, held in Louiseille Kv. s
membership on the A. F. of L. Ex
ecutive Council has been continu
MIS sin^e that time.
He was known throughout the
en'ire labor movement as a man of
unflinching courage. He was
thoroughly imbued with the prin
"iples of trade unionism and stood
for this ideal with great intelligence
and umv ivering fidelity and zeal
Tenant Farming Increases,
Coluiibus, Ohio, Jan. 12.—Ad
vance of tenantry of farms in Ohio
and other states in the central val
ley, was termed disastrous" by
professor Vogt, department of rural
economies, Ohio State University
in an address on "The Land Prob
lems and Rural Welfare."
"The steady, even though no?
rapid, increase in tenantry, he said
''particular y in those sections where
land values are highest, indicates
the approach ot pr)blems most seri
ous for those who will in
future
tually live on the farms.
That's the favorable comment we receive daily on our Boys
Shoes, with a patented process, which makes the shoes wear two o
three times as long as the old way.
See them in our show windows sizes 10 to 13 $2.50
sizes J3& to 2, $2.75 sizes 2% to 5l/2 $3.00. Men's $4.
ac:
"The rise in land values can
mean only that ultimately the share
of the income going to the landlord
will increase through rising rents
or will become a permanent burden
on the land through the pric^ paid
for it by the purchaser."
The speaker said the policy of
p'anning tenant houses was the
perpetuation of a fundamental
bad condition."
"The letter policy, be said,
"would be to spend the energies of
public agencies in removing the
causes that have made the appear
ance of a u-rant class in America
po«sible."
Right To Quit Work ts A
Free Man's Bight.
Advocates of compulsory investi
gat ion and all other forms of 'can't
strike" laws were answered as fol
lows by the Baltimore convention
of the A. F, of November, 19IG
"Resolved, That men individual
ly or collectively have a right to
stop work any day or any time in a
free democracy, and that their right
is natural, 1 gal, inalienable, and
never should be surrendered and
that laws that violate this right are
hereby denounced as reactionary,
unconstitutional, and dangerous
to the stability of democracy gov
ernment."
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CROOKED, BUT FAMOUS.
Washington Street, Boston, One of
s
th«
World'* Great Thoroughfares.
Washington street in Boston is one
of the great thoroughfares of Amer
lea, worthy (o rank with Broadway in
New York ami Michigan avenue in
Chicago. Like nearly e\erytlihig else
in Boston, it has a history of almost
iueredihle length and respectability
making other streets seem painfully
young and eallow and crude.
Moreover, Washington street is one
of the longest in the world, running
all the way through Boston and on to
another town without a stop or a break
This is not accomplished without many
a bend and meander, however, for
Washington street is amazingly crook
ed, as are nearly all the thoroughfares
of ruritan origin. It seems that the
Mayflower party did not realize how
big Boston was going to be, and so
they carelessly let the cows lay out
the streets as they wandered home
ward.
Washington street today does not
look like an aristocrat of ancient lin
eage, however. On the contrary, it ap
pears decidedly democratic, swarming
with all sorts of people who jostle
and push each other on the narrow
overflowing sidewalks in the brilliant
glare of numerous electric signs that
flash the rival merits of moviug pic
ture shows, bars aud cafes.—Exchange
CURIOUS CLUBS.
The Man Killers, Their Cheerful^Talk
and Fitting Fate.
One of the oldest purely social clubs
was the Everlasting club, limited in
membership to a hundred people, who
divided the day among them in such a
way that some of them were always
on the premises. Solely for the pur
pose of keeping up the five from which
members lighted their pipes an old
woman was kept, and during the fifty
years of existence the club members
smoked fifty tons of tobacco.
No one who had not killed an op
ponent in a duel was allowed to be
a member of the Man Killing club,
where the conversation was confined
to wounds, bullets and slaughter. Curl
ously enough, most of the members
were executed.
Very different in character wus the
Six o'clock club, whose members, num
bering six only, met at U in the even
ing and separated at in the morning,
Meeting early in the evening and
sitting smoking until midnight, the
curious people forming the Humdrum
club observed the strictest silence.
But perhaps the most curious club
of all was the No Nose club, which
was founded by an unwilling follower
of the Egyptian fashion of flat faces,
—London Telegraph.
Persia's Great Superstition.
The greatest superstition in I'ersiais
what is known as the "evil eye." You
must not say to some one whom you
meet, "How well you are looking!" for
if you do and that person is taken ill
It will be because yon gave him the
evil eye. You must not say to a moth
er, "What a pretty baby!" "What a
bright child!" for if you do and any
thing unfortunate happens to the child
you will be considered responsible
Many mothers let the children go dirty
and poorly clothed in order that they
may not attract favorable attention
The sign which is thought to have some
power to avert the evil eye consists in
holding the second and third fingers of
both hands close to the palms with the
thumbs, while the other fingers are ex
tended straight out. Then, with the
hands behind you, you make a down
ward movement three times.
Struggle of the Rivers.
The discovery that there is a kind of
struggle for existence and survival of
the fittest among rivers is one of the
most interesting results of the modern
study of physiography. A notable ex
ample of this contest is exhibited by
England's two biggest rivers, t'
Thames and the Severn. Betwe.
their valleys lie the Cotswold hills, an
exploration shows that the Severn
eating backward among these hills
where softer strata underlie them has
diverted to itself some of the headwa
ters which formerly flowed into the
Thames.
Breaking It Gently.
MI
have called, sir, to see the photo
of the lady with $25,000 who wants a
husband.
"Can you keep your face straight?"
"Of course I can."
"Very well. We'll break you in first
with the $5,000 applicants, and then
gradually, as you grow stronger, we
will work you up to the big prize.
This way, please, and don't get fright
ened."—Exchange.
Boss at Home.
"How can you tell that the conductor
la the boss in his house?" asked the re
cruit.
"Simple," boasted the great detec
tive. "That woman asked him where
she got off. and he said. 'I'll tell you
where you get off.' "—Buffalo Express
Desperation.
'Is dis high cost of livln* worryin*
you?" asked Meandering Mike.
'It's drivin' me desperate," replied
Plodding Pete. "I'm almost tempted
to go to work."—Washington Star.
Nothing Lost.
"I hear she doesn't like me with a
mustache."
"Going to shave it off, I s'pose?"
"Oh, no! She never liked me."—Kan
sas City Journal.
Difficulty is only a word indicating
the degree of strength requisite for ac
complishing a particular object.
Bad Color Scheme.
"The man I am engaged to has been
,errlbly wild, but is going to turn over
new leaf."
Don't put your trust in such a bad
color scheme. Rosy futures seldom
grow on a purple past" Baltimore
American.
8ur» Thing!
Mrs. Exe—Dear, what does it mean
when you get a notice from the bank
that your nrconnt is overdrawn? Exe
In the case of a man it means that
he Is married.—Boston TranscrioL
Defends Adamson Law.
Allentown, Pa., Jan. 12—Decent
and humane treatment is one of the
reasons why emploves ot the Lfc
high Star Bedding company are
now on strike. Other demands in
clude a wage increase of 20 per
cent for piece workers and 15 per
cent for day workers. The strik
ers say they are forced to work
long hours und^r a speeding up
system. In answer to the "high
wage" claim of the company it is
stated that one employe was paid
$25 for a week of 70 hours. In a
statement issued to the public, the
strikers say:
"We are prepared to prove an
official of the company tried to in
cite violence early in the strike in
order to discredit the workers."
TITLES IN RUSSIA.
Where Th«ire Are Only Two Glasses,
Nobles and Peasants.
Contrary to the laws existing in Eng
land and Sweden, in liussia when a
lady belonging to a titled family mar
ries a Russian gentleman without a
title she takes her husband's name en
tirely, and the only right left to her of
her former title is to write on her visit
ing cards and ollicial papers "Mrs. So
and-so, born Princess, Countess or Bar
oness So-and-so." Her children are
called by their father's name. There
are only a few exceptions to this rule.
In Russia no middle class or gentry
are known. There are only nobles and
peasants. The czar, however, grants
sometimes for special merit the right
to be styled a nobleman and also for
the same reason thi titles of count and
baron and occasionally that of prince.
All those merchants who have kept
their firms always flourishing for a
hundred years have the right to receive
the foreign title of baron. This law
was made by Peter the (Jresit over lidO
years ago, but the men-Inn,u \ery\sel
dom accept this title and un-ally dc
cline the privilege.
In former days 11«• ilso peasant
were still slaves th. y had im famil.v
names, but were e..!vi ,ieir fa
ther's Christian mune on was
called sou of Poter—in Pelrov
so also Smirnov Sim. i, lvanov
—Ivan's (Jolin,i -:!. When
slavery was abolished and lhe emain i
pation proclaimed by the Kniieror Al
exander II. they all kept these names.
Since then many of them have received
the right to belong to the class of no
bles.
The Russian r.i v, 1 u-1.-n .-ing to the
class of peasant-, i u v seldom
happens that i ... ji is.
have special i., i, i ii
names mean ah. •a .. ... a
precious stone .H I', .I
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Clergy Wag a class apurr, and* a son or
ft clergyman was bound to be a clergy
man, and when they first entered ttie
church they chose a name for them
selves.—London Answers.
Cold Calculation.
"Quality is more to be desired than
quantity," said the man of artistic In
clinations.
"Not always," replied the practical
person. "A diamond is pure carbon*
but you can't get the action from it
that
vou
can from s ton of
Washington Star.
Made a Home Run.
Willis—I played golf yesterday for
the first time. (Jillis—II w did you
Inake out? Willis—Fine. Made a home
run right at the start. 1 hit the first
ball into the tall grass In laft field and
ran around the whole eighteen holes
before they found it.—Puck.
A Cutting Retort.
"I wish you were more like Mr.
Green. lie never has any business en
gagements downtown at night."
"That's so. But you don't see Mrs.
Green riding around town in an auto
mobile of her own, do you?"—Detroit
Free Press.
II
"The Girl from Frisco"
Sunday.
"Liberty," Wednesday.
"Helen Holmes" every
Thursday.
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