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"When Greek
Meets Greek"
Exodus of Gun Men Has Startling
Sidelights,
Last Tuesday evening as
#as coming on there was
quite a bit of excitement around
the lobby of Hotel Howald as
Rouse O'Brien and Red Faber were
checking out their gun men for
pastures new.
To begin with the story of their
departure is amusing when the
reasons became known to the by
standers who were in the lobby at
the time. It is said that Rouse had
contracts with several of the manu
facturing plBnts where strikes have
been in progress for the past eight
months to furnish'' Armed Guards''
to protect their property against
damage. He was also to furnish
these guards to see that the strike
breakers were not molested when
making there wa3' along the high
ways, and last but not least we are
told, were to put fear into hearts
of the union workers.
Rouse in his report to one of the
factories it is said, claimed that he
had forty-two men watching the
plant while the management of the
concern only checked up seventeen
men. When this was reported it
is said that the same condition ex
isted around another plant. Not
only have we been told that the
pay rolls have been padded, but the
expense accounts were swollen all
out of proportion. Then came the
hour of reckoning with the result
that the guards were dismisssd
from actual service and were sent
on their way, in other words
"canued".
If this be true we are unable to
cypher out how the heads of the
factories can oppose working men
whom they have known all their
lives to be true blue and conscien
tious workers, for men of this
make-up. Would it not be better
to have a contract with honest
working men and women who are
only making a stand for better con
ditions, than to make a contract
with men who carry black jacks
and large guns to make a living?
Textile Strike Ends.
H»osick Falls, N. Y., Oct li).
A two-months' strike against the
Superior Manufacturing cojipany
has ended with an almost complete
victory for 150 employes. The
management agrees to dismiss an
objectionable foreman, raise wages
and conduct the plant on a sanitary
basis. Provision is made to adjust
future disputes.
#7
HAMILTON'S
John A. Voll Again Elected
President ot the Ohio
Fideration of Labor.
Akron Chosen For I9IB
Meeting.
For the ninth time John A. Voll,
of Zantsville, was rlected president
of the Ohio State Federation of La
bor at the closing session of its con
vention last Friday afternoon in
Eagles' ball in Cincinnati. He had
announced before the conven'ion
convened that because of duties
adcl^d last year, when he became
president of the Glass Bottles Blow
ers' union of the United States and
Cmada, he would not be a candi
date for re-election. The delegates
wouldn't stand for this however
and w!?en he called for nominations
there to^s a regular stampede in
which he wr.s appealed to again
serve as president, took place.
When order was finally restored
John J. Quiulan, of Toledo, first
vice president af the federation,
whose name had been mentioned as
a candidate in case Mr. Voll refused
to accept the nomination, arose
and nominated Mr. V®11 with an
appeal that he accept. This was
more than Mr. Voll could with
stand and he agreed to serve an
other year. He theu unanimously
was re-elected by acclamation.
Thos. J. Donnelly, Columbus,
secretary-treasurer of the federa
tion, whom it was said was to have
opposition was re-elected unani
mously by acclamation after a de
monstration on the part of the dele
gates. He has served as secretary
treasurer of the federation the past
four years and during that time he
has served faithfully and well and
it was a just reward due that
he should be re elected.
Other officers elected were: Vice
presidents, first, John J. Quinlivan,
Toledo second, O. B. Chapman,
Dayton third John G. Owens,
Cleveland fourth, Chas E. Vaughn
Hamilton fifth, John J. Graney,
Youngstown: sixth, Wm. H. Mor
gan, Newark seventh, Albert Hau
brock, Cincinnati James Boyle was
named delegate to the American
Federation of Labor convention at
Buffalo.
Akron was chosen as the con
vention city for the 1918 meeting.
The selection was unanimous.
Union Can Stats Facts.
Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 19.- A
non-union barber shop propiietor
has failed to secure an injunction
restraining pickets from carrying
a banner reading-. "This shop is
unfair to union labor." The court
held that unionists have the right
to state facts.
Textile Worker* Slogan:
"ALL OF US
OR
NONE OF US
GO BACK. TO WORK"
Holbr
The
fell" it
h9
Reliable Dealers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Queensware
Millinery. House Furnishings
Voss-Holbrock Stamps witlp
all Cash Purchases.
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gun to subdue
plead guilty.
outhpiece of the Corporations
tails to mention these arrest.
Why? Was it because they
were'nt union men?
Just what has been predicted for
some time has come to pass. The
imported detectives and gunmen
are fighting among themselves.
On last Thursday some one rushed
into the police station crying
There's a big fight on at the cor
ner of Front and Market streets."
Officers Welsh and Johnson and
clerk of the Municipal Court Wm.
Blackall, immediately rushed to the
spot indicated. Upon their arr'val
their eyes met with a most disgust
ing spectacle, being witnessed by
several hundred people. Two of
the big "bulls," imported here by
one of our large factories, osten
sibly for ti^ purpose of giving pro
tection t® the strikebreakers, (also
imported), but believed by many
to have been brought here for the
purpose of beating the strikers
into submission, were out in the
middle of these two prominent tho
roughfares fighting and beating
each other up like a couple of wild
beasts.
No one of the big crowd assem
bled dared interfere because of the
size of the men. As one spectator
remarked "these fellows fought so
The Food Pledge.
A Little Thing: to Sign
A Big Thing to Keep
To win the war, we need four
things—-Men, Money, Materials
Food.
Our nation, when msbilized
should have for each 100 persons
of the population, 2 fighting men
10 bend buyers, and 50 workers
engaged on war equipment, from
shells to ships, and steel to shoes
directly or indirectly.
In the big war task of saving
part of this year's wheat, meat, fat
and sugar to feed soldiers who are
now fighting for us in France, and
workers back in the French and
British factories, we must mobilize
out of every 100 persons in the
United States 100 persons.
Food saving is the most imme
diate service.
It is the only 100 per cent war
service, seeking to enlist every
body.
Men are being drafted for war
money taxed, materials comman
deered, but there is ao compulsion
in food.
This is a volunteer service.
You sign the food pledge,
or
iVv^'TrffttifW^i- i.
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not
as you please.
If you sign, it is wholly an affair
of honor.
Somebody mast watch you, oi
course, to see that you eat the
wheatless meal every day, and the
meatless meal, and clean up your
plate, and go lightly on the butter
sugar and milk.
Somebody is appointed- to fratch
you.—Yourself
The food pledge means more than
food saving. It means national
self discipline, a new sense of honor
efficiency and economy in matters
I I K U E O U N Y E S S
Two of Them Arrested for Fighting
on one of our most prominent
streets. Another locked up for
drunkeness and disorderly con
duct. Arresting officer had to draw
VOL. XVII. NO. 2b HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19,1917. 75 cents PER TEAR
DEMOCR "I
In the Hands of the Imported De
tectives And Gunmen Who
Are Patrolling Our Streets.
one of them. All
viciously and were so big that the
ordinary man had to be afraid to
interfere for fear of being injured."
When the officers took a hand
one of the men ran down Market
street and escaped, the other was
grabbed by officer Welsh and im
mediately began to act ugly. Offi
cer Welsh knowing this class and
not wishing to take any chances
drew hts gun and warned him what
the consequcnce might be if he
made any attempt at roughing it.
He then subsided. Upon being
taken to headquarters he gave his
name as James White, a detective.
In the meantime officers were
scouring the city in the police auto
seeking the other man. It was de
nied at the Atlas hotel that he was
there when the officers arrived.
Later on however, this man ap
peared at the police station accom
panied by another man and gave
his name as Rounce O'Brion, de
tective.—Baih Men gave am -ap
pearance bond of $25 and were re
leased. Later upon their plea of
guilty both were fined $50 and
costs which they promptly paid.
Who furnished the money with
which the fines were paid can easily
be guessed.
It is said these men are mem
bers of rival detectives. O'Brion,
tis said, is the head of the agency
of that name which is furnishing
about which we have beenselfich,
wasteful provincial.
Long after the war has been won
its good results will evident in
national character. McClure's
Magazine.
Unsure Soldiers and Workers.
By all means let the soldiers' lives
be Insured. Let them be insured bj
the government, not by private com
panics. And let the government in
sure ail other men and wciiicn too.
Milwaukee leader.
Textile Workers
Wanted by Racine,
Wis, jm
It looks as though, unlesthe dif
ferences existing between the Shu
ler & Benninghofen Co., and their
striking employes are adjusted soon
Hamilton is going to lose many of
her skilled mechanics of the textile
trade. A gentleman is in the city
at present who says that the Chas
Alshuler Manufacturing Co., of
Racine, Wis., wants two hundred
girls. This company has maay big
contracts and will pay big wages
to any of the Hamilton girls who
ill go to work for them.
A Cleveland concern, having
large government contracts, are al
so desirous of securing some of our
Hamilton girls for their mills. It
seems that the textile workers of
Hamilton have gained a reputation
for efficiency throughout the conn
try as many communications have
been received by them offering them
good positions. And, as stated be
fore, unless the strike is settlec
here shortly, so that they can re
turn to work, many of the former
employes of the Woolen Mills will
leave the city and take up employ
ment elsewhere.
AO
strikebreakers throughout the
country. What caused the fracas
is not known at this time.
On the same afternoon of the
same day on which all this occured
another of the out of town guards,
named W. A. McCaffery, was ar
rested for being drunk and disor
derly. He was staggering around
on High street, opposite the Court
House, jostling men and women
round and pushing them off the
sidewalk and raising a rumpus in
general. When brought before the
municipal court he pleaded guihy
and was fined $80 and costs and
sent to jail.
There are a greet many more of
these men, great big burly, sinister
looking fellows, languishing all
along north Third street who throw
fright inta every woman and child
when they look at them. It seems
that the company employing these
men hired them for their bigness
and fierce looks. It is time that
the authorities take hand and de
clare them a nuisance anci drive
them from the streets.
Thus the citizens of this town
can see the class nf men that have
been brought in to protect their
homes and make Hamilton safe for
DEMOCRACY.
It has been commented on that
the mouthpiece of the corporation
never made mention of these ar
rests. Why is this, is asked Is
it because they are not union men?
Had they been, or h- they been
strikers, no type big enotgh, nor
language strong enough could have
been found to make it known to
our citizens what desperate char
acters these men are.
But this only goes to show what
organized labor is up against in this
city. There is a deep laid plot to
crush unionism in Hamilton and
news to this effect will crop out
shortly. Watch for i*.
A. R. _McGANN
Retiring Superintendent of the
Hamilton Machine Tool Co. pre
sented with Diamond Ring
A. R. McCann. superintendent
of the Hamilton Machine Tool Co
presented his resignation to the
company the same to take effect on
last Saturday. At 10 o'clock Sat
urday morning Mr. McCann was
called to the center of the factory
where surrounded by several huu
dred employees of the shop, he wa
presented with a handsome dia
mond ring, the gift of the men
who worked under him in the past
as an expression of the high esteem
in which they held him. Mr. Mc
Cann was so overcome by his feel
ings that he could only thank the
men.
The employes regretted very
much to see him leave but they
wished him success through all his
life in the future.
Before leaving on Saturday Mr
McCann shook hands with each
and every employe in the shop and
personally thanked them for their
services to him while he was
charge of the plant.
Adjusting
Chicago Strike.
Adjustment of the differences which
led to the recent strike of railroad
switchmen atliliated with the Brother
hood of Riiilrond Trainmen, which af
fected nineteen roads entering Chi
cago. has been begun by a joint con
ference of railroad managers and rep
resentatives of employees' brotherhoods
allied with the Brotherhood of Rail
load Trainmen.
Rock Island fiaivM Wages.
Unorganized employees of the ('h
cago. Rock IslatKl and Pacific railroa
receiving less than $200 a month li:iv
been granted n 10 per cent wage
crease. Approximately S.noo empl
•6»wUlb« affected.
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Night To Greet the Girls Who
Try To Break Strike.
In the past few weeks the pro
prietors of the big Woolen Mills in
Lindenwald, Hamilton Ohio, havel Sir*s
beentrying their utmost to break thel
weeks they have made a house tol
house canvass of their employes
and informed them that they were
going to start the mill and wanted
them to return to work. In this
canvass they were successful in in
ducing about fifty of the younger
girls to return and those girls that
refused, their names were taken
down and perhaps will be used to
blacklist them when they try to
get employment elsewhere.
When the mill started last week
the proprietors of the Shuler 8:
Benninghofen Mill r.t our \wo
daily papers word that one hun
dred and fifty of the girls had re
turned to work. The newspapers
ho are of course very friendly
with the firm in their fight against
the textile workers came out with
the firm's statement and like al
ways some of our citizens took it
for granted that it was the truth
The facts are that about fifty in all
have returned but ha v.- n' re
mained at work. Sonic oi ihc girls
and some of the men that went
work have been persuaded by th
members of the textile work
nit. which they did
In the past mor.th not many ot
the textile workers were at the
mill at any one time doing picket
duty and it was this no doubt that
led the Shulers and the Benning
hofens to believe that the members
of the union had laid down and
quit. If they thought th&' '/nisi
was the case they were sadly
taken and it was conclusively prov
en that the girls were very much
on the picket line Wednesday
night. WThen the girls who went
back to work left the mill Wed
nesday night they were met on the
outside by at least five hundred
strikers ami oil i/ens from at* parts
of the city.
As soon as the Shulers and the
Benninghofenssaw the strikers and
their friends on the street they be
came very excited and could be
seen darting from one building to
the other. Their excitement be
came so intense that they turned in
a riot call at the police station and
in a few minutes about twenty of
ficers arrived on the scene. There
was no disorder only that of a few
boys of the neighborhood calling
the employes of the mill "scabs."
which we are told is a violation of
the injunction to use that word
No arrests were made by the police
and they returned soon after to the
police station.
In their picket campaign Wed
nesday night the strikers were sue
cessful in having about twenty of
the girls agree to not return to
wrork again until the trouble is set
tied satisf actor}' to all concerned.
A continued effoTt will be made bv
the strikers to get every one of the
girls that are now working to join|
them in their strike against the un
favorable actions of the employers.
Notwithstanding the threatened1
reports of the grand jury which is|
now in session the giris are deter
mined to win their strike and will I
not go to work until they are all
taken back. They expect-to con-|
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iiieir
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Textile Strikers Re
main on picket line
and persuade some
to quit.
Shuler & Benninghofen Try To Op
perate With a Handful of Girls
With Little Effect.
arge Crowd tame Out Wednesday!
tinuedoins
I*'"' 'V
-ct«t duty and wii*
endeavor to persuade the balance
of the girls in the mill to join them
in their fight.
Some of the girls that were in
the mill informed the strikers that
very little work was being done.
are
w^°
are
strike of the textile workers by in-l because none of the ex
ducing a few of them to return tol Perienced help on the machines or
work. In the past two or three!the Joiners
*n
stam^n£
around doing practically
bave
g°ne
back
a*so rePort t^iat
proprietors
the proprietors of
the mill are trying their hand at
the work and in this they are a dis
mal failure. Three machines are
out of commission and three more
were started it is said. If this be
the truth it would be better if the
four proprietors of the mill would
get their heads together, sign the
agreement of the Textile Workers'
Union, take all their old employes
back, (every one of them) dissolve
the injunction and get down to the
up-to-date way of doing business.
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