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MOVING A BIG ARMY
1
Transporting Troops In Time of
i
War to a Gigantic Task.
A WORK OF INFINITE DETAIL.
What It
WoulU Maan
In
of Various Kinds and
Railway Car*
In
Equipment to
Supplies
CuLUrrs & Butcher Workmen
Plumbers, i-i8
Pattern Matters
Printing Prtasmen
Painters ana Decorators
Paper Maaers
itetaii Cierioi, 11V ____________
Stove Mounters. 8
Tailors .No. 368
Middleto wn Xrades and Labor Council
i roi:. steel and Tin Workexs
Cartenu rs
Hod carriers
Musicians
Mtiai Poltshais
Plasterers
Plumbers
Barbers
faiiOrs No. 418
'iypograpbical, 487
Tobacco Workers
jutgt and Operators
Bricklayers
Bartenders
Paper Maatrs
Painters' Union, No. 643
and
Carry a
Million a
Ad a
Half Men Across the Country.
Before a body of troops is entrained
the time and place of every move are
mapped out. including the date and
place of entraining, destination, time
of arrival, route, assembly point, time
of troops leaving assembly point, route
of assembly point to train, time of ar
rival at station, time of boarding train,
time of departure of train, rate of trav
el over each section of route, time,
place and duration of stops time ard
place of feeding troops and animals
and a schedule showing the assign
ment of troops and equipage to each
car. Aside from this are countless de
tails connected with procuring sup
plies, the disposal of troops and their
care.
All these preliminary arrangements
must be made by an officer of the quar
termaster corps. The first thing to be
done is to procure lists with weight
of all property to be shipped, obtain
this material and make out the bill of
lading. This, with the number of men
and officers, constitutes a basis on
which he estimates the number and
kind of cars needed. He then engages
the cars and provides loading facilities,
snch as material for blocking and lash
ing, and constructs necessary ramps,
or runways, for entraining animals or
wagons.
Next, on the arrival of the cars, he
inspects them from a thousand major
and minor angles. All cars must be
clean. Passenger cars must be fully
supplied with water and ice. sufficient
ly lighted and heated and all other
appurtenances in proper condition
Stock cars come iu for special atten
tion.
Then the number of men or kind and
quantity of supplies allotted to each
car is marked on the side or steps, to
gether with the name of the organiza
tion. In loading men three are as
signed to each section in tourist sleep
ers or three to each two seats in a day
coach.
Another important point Is to keep
the troops of each unit with all equip
ment together. This is important In
case of sudden attack. Imagine the
fate of a unit of troops suddenly de
trained at the firing liie without equip
ment!
A possible element of delay lies In
the timing .of the arrival of troops at
Secretaries will please report all changes in their sdrtrsss
Typographical, No. 17#
Horse Snoers
Carpenters, No, 104
Garment Workers
Machinist, No. 225
Brewery Workers, No. 60
Bartenders League, No. 222
Howling Engineers
BUi Posters
Plumbers, So. 162
Moviug Picture Operators
Iron Molders, No. 181
Iron Molders, Nt. 46
Lath Union, No. 194
Plasterers Union
Pattern Mitkers
8ta*« Enip oy«s
Stovt Mounters
Tailors' Nix 802 ____.
Tile Layers
Upholsterers
Lithographem
Electrical Workers, No. 118
Metai Polishers, No. 6 ____
Cigar Makers, No. 86 ___
Bakers, No. 61
Clerks, No. 18S
Printing Pressman
Shtei Metai Worker* _____
Teamsters. No. 62 _______
Photo Engravers
Barbors, No. 22
Painters, No. 249 _______
Musicians
Musicians, No. 636 (Colored)
Woman's Uaioa Label Leasos
.1<p></p>FENTON
the stidlon. There must be no timt
lost by cars waiting for the troops.
The facilities for loading animals and
wagons at each station on each rout®
should be part of the quartermaster
corps' records. Quick and noiseless
loading and unloading of animals with
out confusion are an art in themselves.
Dispositions of individual animals must
be 6tudied. Gentle animals should be
placed opposite doors and therefore
loaded last.
The time of loading and unloading
has been carefully tabulated and
should not exceed the following: In
fantry, one hour cavalry and light ar
tillery, one and one-half hours heavy
artillery and engineers with bridge
train, two hours. All movements, load
ing, entraining, detrainiug, feeding and
watering and exercising men and
horses, are made in military fashk n.
With each train kitchen cars are pro
vided. Otherwise baggage cars are fit
ted up by troops or arrangements made
for procuring meals, or at least liquid
coffee, at stations en route. Feeding of
men and animals is in itself no small
matter.
Say the war department was called
upon to transport twenty field armies
of 82.000 men each, or 1.040.000 men.
In moving such a military force the
railroads must calry. besides the 1,640,
000 men, 700.000 mounts and draft an
imals, 60,000 vehicles and 3,360 big
guns.
To accomplish this the quartermas
ter corps must have available at the
right points 42,300 passeuger coaches,
7,700 baggage cars. 21.100 box cars,
37.9S0 stock cars and 15,500 flat cars,
making a total of 124.580 cars, or 7,320
trains with as many engines.
Here is the government's minimum
estimate of the gross weight of mate
rials needed each month by this force
of 1.640,000 men: Rations, 250,t'30.4G0
pounds ammunition. 7.046,160 pounds
forage, 623.147 n o pounds general
quartermasters' supplies, 33,704.440
pounds clothing and equipage. 22.6S0.
340 pounds: ordinance supplies other
than ammunition. 1.622,740 pounds
engineers' supplies. 12.208.320 pounds:
signal supplies, 9.043,200 pounds med
ical supplies, 507,160 pounds candy
and tobacco. 319.680 pounds, making a
total of 061.089.100 or nearly 1,000.000.
000 pounds. Tt»e transportation of this
enormous weight would require fifty
five trains of thirty -nrs enh day as
long as the for was ill the field.
Leslie's.
To the Ladies.
Ladies, if you uoe a man marry him
If you marry him know him If you
know him study him If you study him
humor hijn. If vi humor him Hatter
him. !f you tiat Liin you will htunoi
h&n Tf you humor hfm you will study
him. If you study him you will know
him If you know him yon may di
vorce him.—Life
KUilLK Of OfttiAMZA I
iOitS
HAMII/TO.N LABOtt IMOMs
Co-Operative Trades and Later Council, Hamilton Alternate Tuesday*, Trades Council Bali, ft. c.
Cor. Sec'y., 2nd and Court
Musician*, No. 81 1st Monday. Imp. Band Room. 6 High
Baittr No. HI 1st and .irtl Saturday, T. C. Hail
Bart***, No, 182 idnd and 4t.ii Mondays, T. C. Hall
iirewt-rft, No. 88 'zr"t and 4iii i nuan, X. C. Hail
Mationary firemen, 98
BaruuiOttrs, 16V
bmcMMinutii) and £1
wiper*, 29
Oarptnltm, 63
Cigar Mantrft, 128 ______
Hor»«-ofij«n, 76
iron Jloidtrs, 68
iron Moidcr*, 283
Steam iLngineer*, al
l&eatrical Alagc Employee _____
Common L-tlxirtr*, Zbi
Mtuu Trade* Council
£iacincisu, 241
...Und and 4in Ihursdays, iiuo High St.
.1st and bra Sunday aiternoon, I. C. Hall
iat and 3rJ iridaye, i. C. Had
isivery i'tiurBday. 1. t_. Hail
2nd Monday, 1. C. Hall
1st and Jru Monday, High St.
iat ana 3rd Monday, 1. C. Hall
Alternate ednesdays, T. C. Hall
ist ana 3rd Mondays, T. C. Hall
.1st and JrU £unaay, I. C. Hail
2nd anti 4tu JL nursdays, byUiin* Hall
znd and 4in J- rmuya, 1. C. Kali
..livery Wednesday, 1. C. Hail
lbt and o:u v cunesduys, ratles Council lialL.
1st aud 3rd Monday, bauers Hail
1st and 3rd Fridays, T. C. Hall
2nd Wednesday ___________
_Pivery lnursoay, X. C. Hail
.2nd and 4th Mondays, T. C. Halt
Hail
1st and 3rd Fridays, X. C.
list iuesday
2nd V\ cua'.aday, X. C. Hail
1st and ord inursday, 1. C. Hail
Alternate uesdays, X. C. Hall
__Aiternate Wednesdays, T. C. Hail
Typographical, 2»U
leaiiisters,
Eiectricai Workers, 648
Poiisners,
Farmers
Switcnmen, 130 2nd and 4th 1
riursuaya, X. C. Han
Woman's Union .Label Leacoa 2nd and 4tb Thurs., and 1st Friday.
Unon Boot and Shoe iiepairarm. Ho. Ml 3rd Friday at 42 H. *Ui St..
City Firemen's Union, No. 163*9
Street R. R. Employes, Meets 2nd Thursday each month
...lbt and 3rd I uesdays. lownship Hail.-
S1IDDLKTOWN LABOR UNIONS
...i'lrst and Tnird Thursdays, 1. C. Hail
-1st and 3rd Saturdays, K. of P. Hall
_4th irnlay, X. C. Hall
—1st Mo^'iay, T. C. Hail
_ist Sunday morning, 1. C. Hail
_2nd and 4tb InurhOays. T. C. Hail
_2nd and 4tn Wedntadays, X. C. Hail
_2nd and 4tn Xuesdayn, X. C. Hall
_lst and 3rd Monoays, B. A &. Barber Shop
_4th Tuesday, Trades Cxtuncii Hail
_ist Tuesday, X. C. Hail
...1st and od Saturdays Trt-des Council Hall.
..2nd and 4tti Mondays, X. c. Hall
ist and 3rd Mondays, Ked Men's Hail
1st and 4uj Sunday aiternoons
-2nd and 4in Sundays
.Meets 1st and 3rd Fridays
DAYTON LABOR UNIONS
-Meets every Thursday evening. Plumbers Hall- Daniel Sullivan, 17 East Pond St., Sec.
Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 6th and Plum St. Casper iieiati, 16 Bonner 8t_, Sec.
——Meet ist Tuesday of eacn mourn, Cor 6th A Plum..J. A. Huitgrcn, 626 Kiver St., Sec.
United Trades and Labor Council
Brewery Drivers and Stablemen
Brtwery Engineers
Bricklayers
Building Trades Council
Carpenters No. 83i»
Carpenters No. 846 (German) ________
Cement Workers Meet every Thursday at 302 E. 6lh St.
Dayton Job Preasman Ass is tan ts Mo. 12 Meet 2nt Wsd. of each moutn. Plumbers Hall, frriwjp Jones, 8as»
Electrical Workers, No. 118 Meet every lueaday at 26 N. Mai-i SL
Eiectroty«rs and Sterotypers, No. 16 Meet ist Tuesday of each moiitn, 38 E. 3rd St Louis Mitchell, 16 Lafayette St., Sec.
hod Carriers 301 Dunbar Ave W. S. Vance, 123 Mathews Lane, Sec.
Machinist, No. #08 23 Hort»« St.
Meet every Monday eve., 3u2 E. 6th St. i'iat Bayiiss, 332 Johnston St., See.
.Meet* every Wednesday ingci at Plumbers
.Meet every Triday eve., at 1120^§ W. #rd Street
.Meet 3rd Tuesday, 220 McLain St.
—Meet 2nd of each month at 217 S. Jefferson St Chas. Grueiuer, 34» ttiver St., Secy.
Meet at 302 E. 6th St. J. F. Eiclioru, 7 Market St., Secy.
Hignland flat* W. S. Cregg, 41 Great Miami BouL, Becy.
.66 Eagl» St- H- E. Maart, 27 N. Jefiersou St., Nsrj
-Meet ea*n Monday eve., Main Washington St. Geo. Lorab, 827 Loraine Ave., Secy.
Morgan thaler, Ideal Theatre, Secy.
Meet 2nd and 4th Wednesday at Lafayette H»n
Meet 1st and 3rd Monday eve., at 6tJb A Pium___L. Phillips, 29 Britt Ave., Secy.
Meet Plumbers Haii Ora Kress, Secy.
Meet* 2nd and 4iti Monday at 802 E. 6th St
Meet 1st and drd Wed. at 38 E- 3rd St D. L. Logan, 207 W. Monument Ave., Sec.
Meet ist Sunday at 302 E. 6tb St ^Geo. Kern, P. O. Box 78
——Meet 2nd Monday, fcth and Pium St.
2nd and 4th Wedneedays, Plumbers Hall Emel Weber, 87 Central Block.
Meet 1st ft 3rd Monday at 6th ft Commercial St.
__—Meet 1st and 3rd Tuesday at '.'A'2 E. 6th St.
Meet 2nd Thursday at Lafayette Hall Frank C. Sailer, lit Campbell St., Sec.
Meet* at 26 N. Main every Tuesday J. D. Young, St Potomac St., Sec.
——Meet 1st arid 3rd Friday at 6th ft Plum St. Benjamin Ciosterman, i22 S. Nevin, Secy.
Meet Wednesday of each month, Plum ft 6th 8t. Wm, Scnntuberger, 6tb and Plum, Secy.
_—Meet ist ft 3rd Saturdays at 6th ft Commercial Geo. L. Wallace, 161 Samuel St., Secy.
st and Srd Tuesdays. Holiencamp Hall.
INSURANCE FOU
MEN AT FRONT
Families of Our Defenders Must
Be Protected Against Want.
6GVERKMEfirS
JUST
OUTY
War insurance Bill Gives Compensa
tion, Not Pensions—Fixes Amount
Definitely In Advance Instead of
Holding Out Mere Chance of
Gratui­
ties After Peace Is Concluded.
By W. G. M'ADOO, Secretary of the
Treasury.
The purpose of the war insurance bill
now pending hi the congress is to se
cure the future of America's soldiers
and sailors by insuring their lives and
providing adequate compensations and
indemnities for loss of life and total
or partial permanent disability also to
protect their families against poverty
and want by providing them with suf
ficient means of support during the ab
sence of the men at the front.
The nation, having been forced to re
sort to the draft iu order to create
quickly an army to save the country, is
under a higher obligation to do these
things for its fighting forces than if a
volunteer army only was created. This
great and rich republic cannot afford to
do less, and it must do what is pro
posed in a spirit of gratitude and not
as charity. Every soldier and sailor
who serves his country Iu this war will
earn everything the proposed war in
suranee bill provides. To be a benefi
ciary of the proposed law will be a
badge of honor.
When we draft the wage earner we
call not only him, but the entire family
to the flag the sacrifice entailed is not
divisible. The wife and children, the
mother, the father, are all involved in
the sacrifice—they directly share the
burden of defense. They suffer just as
much as the soldier, but in a different
way, and tlfe nation must generously
discharge as a proud privilege the duty
of maintaining them until the soldiers
and sailors return from the war and re
sume the responsibility.
We have drawn the sword to vindi
cate America's violated rights, to re
store peace and justice and to secure
the progress of civilization. We cannot
permit our soldiers, while they hold the
front, to be stabbed iu the back by un
certainty as to what is being done for
their loved ones at home. Our tomor
rows are iu their hands—theirs in ours
The national conscience will tint permit
America's vililiirs and tii»ir dt pend-
IN THE TUIKU
DISTRICT
A. iit. Kggleston, Pres. Henry Eriaker,
... Frank Wessel, 227 K. St.
Wm. Glauch, 32i N. Tenth St.
_Jacot ltiedei, 436 Owen St.
fcrnbt LekK. South Vth
Albert Brown. (01 South Monument Ave.
Otto i'lgmaa, 2- Stephen St.
Arlnur Burns, 334 S. 6th.
...H. VYyaia, tL K. No. 1.
_A. & Jtuggieston, 136 Webster Ave.
H. Brinaer, Zb7 Washington St.
—Harry Heinle, bZi S. Second
„Uarry Hansel, *27 Hanover St.
John Cahalane, Secy., 636 So. Ninth.
J. Kuenzei, Secretary.
...Tom Brennan, i06 So. Third.
Cnas. P. Cook, Z6c Washington St.
—Pete 1 inkier. Secy., 316 Harmon Ave.
_1. M. Ziuiox, itsu Forust Ave.
...Chllord Ldirnb, Sec y, £iii S. Front.
...Julia Uurwm, Hanover St.
_Phil Kendall, 86 N. Second St.
_Kidon J. Bruck, 641 S. Front St.
_Clay Holder, btu and Vine
_Kobert Waller i, 621 Pry lama Ave.
Henry Janstr, Overpeck, Oiiio.
Wm. J. tiavid, 462 S. Xbird St.
_t»car F. Bergman, iu2o Campbell Ave
..Iran* Crawiord, 434 Cnarles St.
L-J
aard Ca*ein, do Ibast An.
£.rnil Snow, 1X61 Ludlow St.
.J. C. Boyle, Hanover Township, Ohio.
....VSm. J. Welsh, 61V Central Ave.
—Mrs. Edith Vaughn, 31U S. Second St.
.Henry Bubenneun, Sec., 42 M. 6th.
~Frank Woli, Secy., Hoae Co. Mo. 4.
...A. A. lieiiand, 460 Bell Ave.
H. B. Voris, 1Baltimore SL
.itoiand L- Layer. hlW Moors St.
-hoy Morgan, hi wood and Henry Streets.
,L». K. Jacason, 604 JLetlersou.
._liumcr Iuamuk, Clinton Street.
.—.Ford (Juerin, Sec y., 416 Canal St.
1. A. Scuily, 442 U. 2nd St.
Oeo. Buck, V0V Baltimore St.
M. Seruiett, 208 K Third Street.
W. Scbwarti, Secy.
Neil Heilaer, Tue Brotherhood.
.._i-io stacey. Secy., 632 ik. 3rd.
Otto naiser, iytus Ave.
„T. Wilson, ians.ee Koad.
,_.Cbarlea BL Luckey, 3U8 £. Fourth
lifcuxy i^aurence, P. U. Box 91.
... Walter Lee, Secretary.
J. O. Neal, 233 Warren St., Secy.
.409 Arcade Bldg. Jnm«« Duncan, 40V Arcade Bldg.. Secy.
B. P. Mitcoeii, 3rd and in ley SU, Secy.
-Meet every Tuesday eve., 26 N. Main St..™ C. E Leap.y, »0l Troy and Kay C. Vore,
40 Hersfiey St., Sees.
.Meet 1st Wed. of each month, 184 8. Jefferson
.Meet 38 E. 3rd St.
Emma Keiber, 224 W. 6th St., See.
„Geo. D. Kicliardson. 3» E Srd St.. 8ecy.
E. H. Ctevender, 12 F.dgar Ave., Secy.
Meet 3rd Tuesday of each month, Plumbers Hall A. W. K.ramer, 466 Wyoming St., Becy.
Meet 302 E. 6th 8t. J. ii. Bickman. 24V W. 6th St., Secy.
Meet 1st Sunday at Lafayette Hall Geo. B- Richardson, 810 Wayne Ave., Secy.
... _Paul Laub, Jr., 120 ftockwood Ave., Secy.
Meet 2nd ft 4th Monday at 26 N. Main St. A. C. Etirstine, 486 N. Mam St., Secy
Meet 1st A 8rd Friday at Lafayette Hall H. W. Buzzard, 487 Kiefaber St., Secy.
.Meet 1st Sunday at Hoileneamps Hall Frank Fergus, 142 S. Hawthorne St., Secy.
.Meet 1st Sunday at Ellis Hall
E. C. Shadden, 60 Homestead Ave., Secy.
rUr*.<p></p>CLEANS
£. Stansel, 820 W 4th St
ents to go unprovided with everv!iiu«
that a just, generous and noble people
can do to compensate themtfor the .snf
ferings and sacrifices they make
serve tlieir country.
Aside from the are and protection'of
their dependents while the soldier is
alive, the proposed war insurance act
provides for definite compensation for
his dependents iu case of death, for
definite and adequate indemnities In
case of total or partial disability and
for re-education of the maimed and
disabled man, so tliat he may take up
a new occupation and make himself a
useful member of society. We must
restore their efficiency and ad.fu.st their
still available faculties and functions
to suitable trades and vocations, which
the injuries of the battlefields have not
wholly destroyed.
The heavy depletions in man power
resulting from this conflict, which is
without precedent in history or imagi
nation, will place new arid greater val
ues upon all forms and degrees of
human energy and demand as a first
duty of intelligent government that
every remaining useful sense and limb
of the blind uud crippled shall be re
claimed under tee beuevolent processes
of education and reapplied to economic
uses for the benefit of society.
The millions we shall be called upon
to spend to support the dependents of
the soldiers while they are in the fight
ing line, for indemnities and for re
education of the crippled are in the last
anaylsis investments of the best sort
they are sums of capital advanced by
the nation to promote utility, self re
spect and economic development. More
than all, they are essentially humani
tarian and in the highest sense a dis
charge by the government of an essen
tial duty to society.
We are proving to expend during
the next year more than $10,000,000,
000 to create and maintain ths neces
sary fighting forces to re-establish jus
tice in the world. But justice must
begin at home. Justice must be (lone
to the men who die and suffer for us
on the battlefields and for their wives
and children and dependents who sac
rifice for us at home. To do justice to
them requires only a tithe of the money
we are expending for the general ob
jects of the war. Let it not be said
that noble America vras ignoble in the
treatment of her soldiers and sailors
and callous to the fate of tlieir depend
ents in this greatest war of all time.
The pending war insurance bill gives
compensation, not pensions. It. fixes
amounts definitely in advance instead
of holding out the mere chance of gra
tuities after the conclusion of peace. It
saves the dependents from want and
gives them the necessaries of life while
their men are at the front. It deals
with its heroes liberally for the suffer
ings that result from their disablement
on the field of battle, and if they die it
makes just provision for the loved ones
who survive them. It fosters the help
less and dependent, the maimed and
disabled, and recognizes the immensity
of the nation's debt to the valor and
patriotism
of
her heroic
sons.
Loyal Minors at iiutce.
The Cornish. Welsh and Servian
miners, together with the loyal Amer
icans. form over 50 per cent of the
miners employed in Butte, and these
men have consistently refused to have
anything to.do with what they regard
as an effort engineered by German
lympathizers to stop the mining of
copper and zinc.
Federal Wages Lower.
Roy E. I'eubody. San Francisco im
migration bureau, declares that the
iverage wage of the federal employee
bs
$100 less at the present time than
in 1853. He said wages were dropping
•teadlly.
Corn Bread.
in making corn bread be sure to get
the proper kind of meal otherwise it
needs flour to keep it together. Ask
for the old southern milled commeal.
It is very tine, white and needs no
flour. A good recipe for corn bread
is as follows: One and one-half cupfuls
of eoruineal, one-half cupful of milk, a
pinch of salt, a piece of butter the size
of an egg, one-half teaspoonful of bak
ing powder and one egg. It must not
be too stiff. Put in a pan that will
make the batter about one and one-half
Inches thick and bake till brown. It
is impossible to make the southern
corn bread with the coarsely milled
meal, says a southerner -New York
Sun.
Animal Criminals.
As a species of hardened criminal
among placid herbivorous animals none
is worse than the bison, or American
buffalo. Toward man and beast and
even among themselves these vicious,
vindictive and agile brutes, whose half
brothers on the other continents do not
fear even the terrific onslaughts of
lions and tigers, are in a state of al
most continual warfare. They are
among the wickedest rogues ever seen
in a zoo.
Pride a Strange Thing.
Pride is a strange thing. For In
stance, a man would much rather be
seen by the younger and prettier set
of neighbor women filling up the gaso
line tank than emptying the garbage,
though the latter act is really much
more commendable in that he just
does it to help his poor, hardworking
wife that much.—Columbus (O.) Jour
naL
Patience.
Enter into the sublime patience of
the Lord. Be charitable in view of it.
God can afford to wait. Why cannot
we, since we have him to fall back
upon? Let patience have her perfect
work and bring forth her tehstial
fruits.—G. Macdonald.
The Fine Art of Visiting.
"Visiting is an art," says Woman s
Home Companion. "To make people
feel at home in their own house when
you are there is the highest point of
human conduct."
The uncertainty of death is in effect
Ihe great support of the whole system
)t life.—Ben Jonson.
STOP SWEATSHOP
!.1!».'»»
PIoei of How Yuik's Commit-
t3S Oil QtiCiiSC.
i
Thousands of Union Needle Workers
Have Been Idle Because Government
War Contracts Have Been In the
Hands of Contractors Who Violate
Healthful Working Conditions.
A plan to correct the evils of sweat
shop manufacture of army uniforms
has been submitted by the mayor's
committee on national defense to the
committee appointed by the war de
partment to investigate the situation,
says the New York World. The latter
committee consists of Louis E. Kir
steiu of Boston, chairman Mrs. Flor
ence Kelle.v of the Consumers' league
and Captain Walter E. Iireust of the
quartermaster's department.
The plan, made public by Thomas L.
Chadbourne, Jr., chairman of the may
or's committee, provides for the for
feiture of contracts unless fair condi
tions of labor are maintained. Govern
ment boards of Inspection are to see
that these standards are consistently
maintained.
The plan as made public by the
mayor's committee is as follows:
"Suggested policy for government to
adopt with reference to war contracts,
premising that the government is only
slightly less interested in having fair
labor conditions maintained in connec
tion with government work than in
haviug the work itself economically
and prompt?y performed in this na
tional emergency.
"The mayor's committee on national
defense of New York proposed the fol
lowing method of safeguarding the
labor conditions:
"First.—Every contract should pro
vide that it will be forfeited unless fair
labor conditions are maintained. Fair
conditions should include—
"(a) Compliance with the require
ments of the labor laws and orders and
regulations of the department of labor.
"(b) Maintenance of wages and hours
at least up to standards customary in
the trade (prevailing rate of wages)
such standards to be determined as
quickly as possible through joiut agree
ments between employers and employ
ees. There are on file in the bureau of
labor statistics, department of labor,
Washington, tabulated records of pre
vailing agreements In various indus
tries that would readily give the last
established rates of hours and wages
as a basis for negotiations.
"Second.—The government should or
ganize, directly or through local defense
councils and committees, boards of in
spection, with a proper force of Inspec
tors, to see to it that -standards are
properly established and maintained,
these boards to have power of enforce
ment as per (1) of this statement.
These boards of inspection might uti
lize as far as possible already existing
machinery for investigation, such as
the bureau of information and investi
gation maintained by the employment
clearing house of the mayor's commit
tee of women.
"Third.—Firms now holding contracts
should be inspected as rapidly as pos
sible either by those same boards
of inspection suggested in (2) or by
some other body of inspectors, and
those derelict in maintaining fair con
ditions should be barred from receiving
future contracts unless a definite plan
for improvement satisfactory to the
board ot inspection is furnished.
"Fourth.—Employers should be ad
vised that they must come to some un
derstanding with their employees for
the organization of machinery for the
making of collective agreements, such
machinery to give full freedom to the
employees in the determination of the
organizations to which they shall be
long for such purpose. Such collective
agreements shall include standard in
reference to wages and hours and pro
visions for appeal to local boards of in
spection or mediation in settlement of
disputes and where necessary for final
appeal to a national board of arbitra
tion.
"Fifth.—Tho city of New York points
out that it has some 300,000 skilled gar
ment workers, half of whom are idle
and have been idle for some time. A
situation of unemployment is rapidly
developing, while new markets are be
ing developed elsewhere by the placing
of government contracts In new cen
ters where new and unskilled employ
ees are being utilised. New York city
is the logical market for the garment
industries and contains more skilled
garment workers than any other mar
ket in the United States. These gar
ment workeis, while highly skilled In
their own trade, are not employable for
other indcE'aies. There should be cre
ated a board of review, which will go
over all garment contracts as distrib
uted at present'from the point of view
of their proper apportionment, so that
future contracts will be given out with
due recognition of the importance of
the New York city market."
Minimum Wage In California.-
The California industrial welfare
commission has set the minimum week
ly wage for adult women iu the mer
cantile business at $10 a week. This
is the highest minimum wage in the
United States. Twenty-five thousand
girls In California will be affected by
this law. In Massachusetts the law
calls for $9.25, and in Oregon the min
imum Is $8.50.
JUG HANDLED PATRIOTISM.
Gompers Says Employers Want Work*
ers to Bear the Cost pf War.
'•1 ui'ifil Goioxetsi un V of
5UITS and
OVERCOATS
local Organizers and Busi
ness Agents.
Charles Ii. Vaughn, A. 1 L.
Residence, 310 So. Seconl Street
Bell Phone 308 X.
Timothy Rowaj, Intel nation a
MToIders' Union, Residence, 930
Ctntrai Ave., Bell Phore 408 X.
Wra. K. Bennett, Painters'
Decorators' and Paper Hangers'
Union, No. 135. Residence M»,
Pleasant Pike.
W. R. Smith, Paper Makers' Un
ion, Residence, Hotel Hamilton.
Home Phone 31. BeU Phone -Si.
Swain B. Corson, Carpentei
and Joiners' Union, No. 637, Resi
dence 1(7 Brosey Ave., Bell Phone
756 L.
Conrau Mot bus, Business Agent
Baitenders' Union, 258 Walnut St.
Wm' Geppinger, Business Agent
Theatrical Stage Kmplo)es' Union,
Aim-ru-an I it mil or l-uijor, was
recently int .wed by a reporter of
the New yt!: un uf the Hotel Conti
nental I ij• inuiK-ed the proposal to
prohibit ii• manufacture and sule of
li^ht wine and beers as the work of
cranks.
Gompers was asked about the ship
yard strike.
"Conditions in tin*
NOTICE TO CAR OWNERS!
No Need To Lay Up
Your Car.
We are prepared to furnish you with a rental bat
tery while doing your battery repair wtrlc. We have a
large supply of new
"Willard Storage Batteries
oti hand at all times for auy make of car.
Service Is Our Watchword
Bring in your car and let-«fi test your battery every
two weels free of charge.
TheOomiiilcm Auto Stpplj Co.
9-13-15-19 High St. Both Phones
O S K
All Suits and Pants made to your
individual order in a
Union Shop
The SquareTailors
106 HIGH STREET
Patronize Home Industry
The Co
Uiic0ilii3t!
726 K High St. Home Phone 1101
Tho-. Brennan, Business A ent,
Stajje Employes' UHoti No. 136.
Residence 205 Sou!h Thirc street.
John Buhi, Teamsters' Union
Hotue Phone 1627 X.
DAYTON OHIO.
Ben Closterraan, Polishers.
J. F. Kichorn, Bartenders, 7
Market street.
W.J. Gregg, Hoisting Engineers
41 W. Great Miami Boul« vard.
WTm Schneberger, Cigarmakers'
125 Samuel street.
George Richardson, Teamsters'
310 Wayne, Ave., Bell Phi re 541
Home Phone 2541.
Earl Nyswander, Carpenters' 25
N. Main street.
Geo. Lorah, Plumbers' corner,
Washington and Main, street
Plumbers' Hall.
MIAMI
Spare is the nan4 Spare is our aim
VAIXBY
L. Haeffele, Interaational Mol
ders' Union. Residence, 754 Clark
street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
I y mis (ill
O E S O
rJure
E I E PHONE 1 3 3
Try a case today
i i |iyards
are in­
tolerable," iie .said. "The employers
should consider their men. They wish
employees to go on working no matter
what happens while they continue to
make large profits. All the men ask is
$4.50 a day, and everybody knows that
Is not. exorbitant. A man can't do
much living on $-1.50 a day
"The employers are for patriotism of
the Jug handled variety, with them
holding, the handle of the jng and mak
ing large prolifs. but eoneeding nothing
to their men and expecting the work
man to proceed along as he has been
doing despite changes in the colst of
living."
"Are you still opposed to the prohi
bition of light wines and beer?" he was
asked.
"Yea 1 am," said the labor leader.
"I want yon to be exact on this. I am
against it for several reasons. First,
there are a million or nmvn uica now
o
Gold
employed In the iieer and Iignt wine in
dustries. They are men generally be
yond the military age. They cannot
acquire new trades at their time of
life. They have some fair conditions
of employment, and many of them
have equities in their homes. In time
they might make a living in some other
occupation, such as common labor, but
during the meantime everything they
have would be lost.
"They may abolish whisky and spir
its. It is probably a good thing, but
let them put the prohibition or modifi
cation of the use of beers und light
wines in the hands of the president."
Kilometers and Miles.
Wireless telegraph transmission dis
tances are often stated in kilometers,
nautical milfls or statute miles. To
convert the number of kilometers to
nautical miles, multiply by titty-four
and point off two decimal places. To
convert from kilometers to statute
miles multiply by sixty-two and point
off two places, if the distance is given
in statute, or land, miles and you want
it expressed in kilometers, multiply the
number of miles by 101 and point off
two decimal plates. Topular Bctance
Monthly
32 High Street
II Phone 547-L