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Hamilton Did Not Deserve A
Fate Like This.
Seven-Year Locusts and New
Jersey Mosquitos.
Would About Complete Her
List of Troubles.
Since the Strikebreakers Have Taken
Posesslon of the Town citizens Are
Boing Made to Stand at Attention—
(Juards Shoot Each Other, But This
Does Not Occur With Enough Fre
quency.
Hamilton, Ohio, has had much
to contend with in the last year or
so, buc nothing that has been in
flicted upon that city in the past
will compare with what it is endur
ing at the present time.
The molders of the Ni'es Tool
Works are on strike, and the com
pany has imported a large number
of professional strikebreakers, and
these fellows are making it unsafe
lor the citizens to use the streets.
Several weeks ago two of these
"guards" became involved in a
controversy and one of the bellig
erents very kindly shot the other,
with the result the shooter is in
jail, with officials from Kentucky
waiting to take him back to that
state to answer a similiar charge.
Last week one of these "inde
pendents" brcke loose and began
an indiscriminate "panhandling"
campaign, stopping every one Le
met and demandiog raoney, curs
ing those who refused to be held
up. The police got him, and when
searched he was found to be armed.
He was fined for disorderly con
duct and diunkenness and bound
•ver to the grand jury for carrying
concealed weapons.
At the headquarters of the strike
breakers wine, wjman and noise
seem to be the chief forms of
amusement, as the police depart
ment has about worn out the pa
trol wagons answering calls.
Hamilton is no piker. It took
seven plagues to put the finishing
touch to Egypt, while the Butler
county metropolis is staging one
affliction that is combining all the
evils that were visited upon the
ancient nation in the m?ny at
tempts.—-Dayton Labor Review.
Labor Autocratic Whines
Employers.
New York, Nov. SO.—We are
patriotic but labor is autocratic is
the burden of a whine telegraphed
to President Wilson by the Natiou
al Founders' association, which
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SAMUEL GOMPERS, PRESIDENT.
held its annual convention in this
city.
In the telegram it was stated
that efforts of these employers to
supply 'he essentials for military
equipment woula be without avail
"unless ihe present autooratic de
mands of more branches of labor
for purely selfish advantage are
dissipated."
In his opening address, William
H. Barr. president of the associa
tion snarled at President Wilson's
solution of the eight-hour demand
of the railroad train service em
ployes. The federal department of
labor was also attacked by this
"broad-guaged business men" be
cause of its establishment of the
United States public service reserve
a movement which is intended to
supply necessary labor through
voluntary action on the part of
workers. President Barr declared
that the public service reserve WHS
"substantially held in the grasp of
union representatives," ai.d he de
nounced ii as a 'surreptitious
scheme to unionize all industry."
In an editorial entitled "Where
Labor Appears to Advantage," the
New York World makes this com
ment on Barr's outburst:
"Contrasted with the speech of
President Gompers of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor the trucu
lent telegram of the National
Foundeis' association, representing
many employers, to President Wil
son must make even its author
ashamed.
"Besides expressing a desire to
find some common gromd on which
well disposed capital and labor
might be able to adjust their dif
ferences during the war, Mr. Gom
pers suggested as a means to that
end recognition of the fact by or
ganization of employers as well as
by labor unions that neith-r side
possesses all the virtues or all the
vices.
"Addressing the president, the
Founders' association does not
hesitate to assume all the virtues
and to implicate labor in all the
vices.
'Capital in this case is rancor
ous. Labor is conciliatory. One
is self-righteously wrong. The
other is considerately and broadly
right.
Increase For Car Men.
Employees of the Chicago surface
and elevated street car lines hare been
granted wage increases of 3 cents an
hour after conferences lasting two
weeks with officials of the two sys
tems. The increase means an addi
tion of $1,454,000 annually to the pay
of the surface employees and $425,000
to the elevated operatives.
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I'lIE 15UT1.KK COUNTY
STRENGTH IN UNION.
Milwaukee Carpenters Issue Stirring
Appeal to Nonunionists.
The Carpenters' Union of Milwaukee
haa issued a fetching appeal to work
men of the craft to join the organiza
tion.
Among other things, the appeal says:
"Do you know what effect a thousand
onion men, getting an increase of 50
cents a day, has on all the carpenters
wages outside the union? Did it ever
occur to you that we are helping you?"
There can be no doubt that the un
ions of all organized trades help to in
crease the wages and better the work
ing conditions of those who are outside
the organizations. It is only a matter
of common fairness that the outsiders
should join and bear their share of
the expense and the time and labor
connected with the work of the unions.
By Joining they also still further in
crease their wages, for. while the un
ion increases the wages of the non
union man, it does not as a rule in
crease them enough to make them
equal the wages of the union man. By
Joining he therefore gets a still further
increase in wages. He usually gets a
decrease in the hours of labor, and he
invariably gets better working condi
tions.
Nor is this all.
He also gets the immense benefit of
co-operation with his fellows. This in
cludes not only such tangible matters
as sick, disability and funeral benefits,
but also the increased confidence, self
respect and happiness which come
from the banding together of many
men for a common purpose.
"In union there is strength."—Mil
waukee Leader.
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THE UNION MAN.
The union member who per
forms his whole duty to his un
ion will be too busy to spend
much time in criticising others.
The good union man will not
furnish employment to nonun
ion ists or business to unfair em
ployees, but. will demand union
label articles in return for his
wages as they are spent to pro
vide for the nee^s of himself and
family.
The true union man will try
to persist in the attempt to in
duce all nonmeinbers to become
unionists, both in his own trade
and others, being content with
nothing less than that his influ
ence for the upbuilding of un
ionism shall radiate from him
self to every person within his
reach.
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Answering With Another Question.
"What's become of the old fashioned
servant girl who used to entertain her
beau in the kitchen?"
"Shucks! What'a become of the old
fashioned kitchen that used to be big
enough for a girl to entertain coit^Mmy
In?"—Detroit Free Press.
Thoughtful.
"Does the new clerk observe dne pre*
rautlon against fire'-"
"He always throws bis c'garettes
bto some one else's wastebasket."—
hick.
Economy !s half the battle of iff®.
It is not so hard to earn money as to
jpend it well.—Kpurgeon.
?OL. XVII. NO. 32. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1917. 76 cents PER YEAR
GOMPERS-MORRISON ELECTED
ARE AGAIN HONORED BY THE A. F. OF L.
Loalty\of
Buffalo, N. Y. Nov. 30.- Sam
uel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor for
35 years, was re-elected on last
Siturday, virtually without oppo
si'ion, and with him were returned
to office every officer of the federa
tion, except John B. Lennon, treas
urer, who was defeated by Daniel
J. Tobin, President of the Interna
tional Teamsters and Chauffeurs'
Union.
Toil is Pledged by
Gompers in Accept
ing Office.
The re election of Mr. Gompers
marked a continuation of his serv
ices as Chief Executive, broken for
only one year since 1882, and the
veteran leader wai greeted with
rousing cheers as he took the floor
to accept. He pledged undivided
loyalty and effort for the cause of
men who toil, and declared the la
bor movement was at the most cru
cial period of its history.
An effort to read into the defeat
of Mr. Lennon a weakening of the
position of president Gompers as a
leader and a part histcry ef the
small group of pacifists which has
opposed him, was scouted by prom
inent federation men. It was de
clared that when it was decided by
Tobin's friends to run him for the
office Gompers announced an un
equivocal policy ef "hands off."
It was said further that the un
ions which lined up against Gom
pers on the indorsement of his war
policies early in the convention
Saturday divided, the majority of
them voting for Lennou.
Leader For 35 Years is Returned,
With Former Aids, Except Treas
urer Who is Defeated.
The vote for treasurer stood:
Tobin, 13,486 Lennon, 9,102, To
bin diawing his strength principal
ly from the teamsters, machinists,
miners, carpenters, bridge a nd
structural iron workmen and brew
ery workers.
To make his position clear, Mr
Tobin, in accepting office, declared
there was no "pacifism and no anti
ism" in him.
"Since war was declared," Mr.
Tobin said, "I have tried to carry
out the wishes of President Gom
pers, of the A. F. of L. and of Pre
sident Wilson, of the United States.
I want no misunderstanding as to
my position. With thousands of
men in our union there has not
been one strike. We have not
crippled industry during the war
We have been fighting an enemy
from whom we may expect no
mercy if he is victorious. We are
trade unionists, but we are Ameri
cans first, and should be willing to
make any sacrifice in this caus?.
I am human and h:.ve aspired for
this office—in doing so I have done
no wrong,"
Mr. Tobin's statement was
greeted with cheers and there was
another demonstration when Presi
dent Gompers spoke.
Says No Peace Is Possible.
No liberty loving man, Gom
pers said, would ask or seek peace
now until the purposes for which
the United States entered the con
flict had been accomplished.
"We have declared oarsellres
the fight to the end for freedom
and democracy there is no doubt
where union labor stands," he said
There was a few scattering votes
againtt Mr. Gompers and one
against Frank Morrison for secre
tary.
The officers elected oy acclama
tion, in addition to President Gom­
Hen Who
pers were:
First vice-president, James Dun
can, granite cutters.
Second vice prtsident, James
O'Connell, machinists.
Third vice president, Wm. Ma
hon, street railways employes.
Fourth vice president, Joseph F.
Valentine, molders.
Fifth vice-president, John R. Al
pine, plumbers.
Sixth vice-president, H. B. Per
ham, railroad telegraphers.
Seventh vice-president, Frank
Duffy, carpenters.
Eighth vice-president, Willian:
Green, miners.
Secretary, Frank Morrison, prin
ters.
St. Paul Gets Next Meeting.
St. Paul was chosen for the next
annual meeting, to be held in June
under the constitutional amend
ment passed here.
Joseph A. Franklin, president of
the Boiler Makers, and Wm. J.
Patrick Bowen, of the Bricklayers,
were named as fraternal delegates
to the British Trade* Union Con
gress, and Stewart A. Hay good,
President of the Buffalo Central
Council, delegate to the Canadian
Convention.
Speaking of a resolution pledg
ing the support of the federation
in the organization of the lumber
men of the Northwest, James A.
Duncan, of Seattle, sounded a
earning that if the federation did
not organize the men and obtain
for them an eight-hour day, they
would flock to the I. W. W.
"Nearly 200,000 men in the lum
ber industries," Duncan said, "are
on the fence as between the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and the
I. W. W. They will go to the
side that is able to help them se
cure the eight-houi day."
The convention approved resolu
tions plating to increased pay for
letter carriers and post office clerks,
and asking tor the right to appeal
from the judgment of officials in
disciplinary cases involving reduc
tion in position or dismissal.
CUTTING THE ROSES.
How to Remov* the Fiowara Without
Injuring the Plants.
There is a right as well as a wrong
way to cut roses. If not cut cor
rectly the blossom producing proper
ties of the plants may be seriously in
jured. This applies particularly, of
course, to rose plants chosen and
grown especially to supply cut flowers.
Such roses will be largely of the per
petual blooming sorts.
When a rose is cut from such a plant
only two or three eyes of the current
season's growth of that branch should
be left on the plant. This should give
the roses very long stems. Succeeding
blossoms should he cut to the ground.
It will seem like destroying the bush
to take so much off, but if the object
Is the production of roses the cutting
away of the surplus wood will simply
further the desired end.
If the spring pruning has not been
sufficiently severe the plant is likely
to have long, naked stalks and short
stems to the flowers. In such a case
only one or two strong leaf buds
should be left on the branch when the
flower is cut, so as to stimulate as
mnch growth as possible from the base
of the plant.
The temptation is great to leave
wood where there are two or more
buds on one branch, some being small
when the terminal one is open. This
bad practice can be avoided by pinch
ing off all side shoots after a bud has
formed on the end of a branch, thus
leaving the stem perfectly clean and
willowy.—Popular Science Monthly.
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THE FLAG
By Pauline Worth Hamlin o
The Vigilantes.
All over this country the e are
now flying faded, tattered flags.
If we do not respect The Flag
ourselves whom shall we expect to
respect it
The Stars and Strips a e otir
emblem. Shall it appear that we
consider dirt and tatters symbolic
ef our country Never! Our
Flag should be as blue as the skies,
as red as our blood and as whole
as our hearts. Let it be symbolic
and when a flag becomes bedrag
gled take it down. If you cannot
put up another be happy in the
consciousness that you honor it
far more by not flying it at all than
by flying it when it is faded, ragged
and dirty.
RHODES DIED UNSATISFIED.
His Lest Words Ware, "So Little Done,
So Muoh to Do."
"Bo little done, so much to do."
This was the sigh of Cecil Rhodes,
one of the greatest men the world ever
knew. John Hays Hammond, who
knew him well, tells about Rhodes in
the American Magazine. Lie says:
"The achievements of Rhodes are al
most unthinkable. Long before Amer
ican trusts were attempted he formed
what was then the greatest business
combination in history and became ab
solute autocrat, of the diamond busi
ness of the whole world. He organized
a huge consolidation of gold compa
nies. He was the first financier coura
geous enough to institute deep level
mining on the Rand, the method on
which now depends the future ot the
greatest of all gold fields.
"No Roman emperor ever won more
territory than Rhodes brought under
his native British flag. Through the
chartered company, incorporated in
1889. he added to the British colonial
dominions territory equal to the com
bined areas of the British isles. France,
Prussia, Austria and Spain. He made
possible the federation of all South Af
rican states and planned to link Cape
Colony and Cairo by rail, a project that
he carried halfway to fruition before
he was cut off by death when he was
only forty-nine years old.
"Yet with this record of empire build
ing behind him his last words as he lay
dying were these:
'So little doue, so much to do.'
He Was Posted.
"How old are you?" asked a little loy
of his mother's caller.
"Willie," said his inyther sharply,
"you must not ask a lady a question
like that it isn't polite."
"Why, mamma." returned the young
ster, "she isn't supposed to tell the
truth."—Boston Transcrint
Rubin Union Brewers' Counsel.
W. B. Rubin of Milwaukee has just
been elected as general council for the
International union of the United
Brewery Workmen of America. He
was appointed as a result of a meeting
of the executive board of that organi
sation recently
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ORYS TO TRY AGAIN IN
FAII OF 1918.
The submission of an amendment
identical in form with the one sub
mitted at the November election,
but scheduled to become effective
the fourth Monday in May, 1919,
was authorized by the Ohio Dry
Federation in convention at Col
umbus, Wednesday afternoon. The
resolution provides that the pro
posed amendment to the constitu
tion be submitted at the general
election in November next year.
The reason for selecting the
fourth Monday in May to have the
amendment become effective is *hat
it closes the fiscal year of the
Liquor Licensing Board.
THE FORWARD LOOK.
It la Never Too Late to Make a Freeh
Start In Life.
»V'W aiiii then a man pauses to take
account oi stock and looks back rue
fully over the course of his life to not©
the many places where he made the
wrong turn or was shoved off the track
by adverse circumstances. He says to
himself, believing what he says, that
If he could retrace his steps and take
a fresh start, knowing what he knows
now, he would n make su ii a mees
of things again.
He can put his linger down on the
very spot in the map of his life where
he went wrong. There was a blurred
place on the trail, where there was no
trace of the footprint of any who
passed that way and no mark o^the
woodman's ax upon a tree. It was
for him alone to choose the way to
take, and in his haste and fever to
arrive he chose wrongly and has wan
dered ever since.
A man plays a game, or runs a race,
or conducts a business, or marries a
wife, or chooses a friend, or elects a
calling, or forms a habit, and by and
by the conviction is borne in upon him,
like a growth weighing on the brain,
that he was in error. Now it is too
late to retrieve. He must wear for the
remainder of his days the millstone
due to the wrong decision.
What is he to do? He strangled hia
chance newborn. He exchanged his
birthright for pottage. It Is of no
avail to plead that he had bad advis
ers, that he was misled, that he was
the tool of environment, that a base
heredity rose up to claim him and a
latent taint in the blood broke out and
wrought an irreparable mischief.
The past is there, and its legend la
deeply graven on his brow or seared
by the brand of the iron that has en
tered into his soul. Can he go back?
The years and the closed doors and
the finished chapters tell him no.
But the forward look and the futu
rity provide him with a better way to
take. When Mrs. Peterkin, in the sto
ry, had spoiled her cup of coffee by
putting salt in it and was trying to
redeem the error by the neutralizing
action of all sorts of chemicals the
lady from Philadelphia suggested that
she make a fresh cup. Seeing that you
can't go back, why not make a fresh
start exactly where you are? Decision
has a miraculous way of finding a
standpoint of rock in the middle of a
quicksand.—Philadelphia Ledger.