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Washington, March 1.—The Broth
erhood of Railway Clerks has signed
an agreement wiith the Seaboard
Air Line railroad which provides for
the eight-hour day and pay for over
time. Seniority is recognized in the
promotion of employes and necessary
expenses will be paid clerks when as
signed special work away from home.
Employes will not be discrminated
against because of union affiliation
or for committee work. Bonded em
ployes will not be required to pay
the bond premiums and vacations
with pay and reasonable transporta
tion will be allowed as follows: One
years service, one week three year's
10 days five years, two weeks. Ar
bitration, provisions are agreed to
and wages are increased 20 per cent,
effective as of October 15, 1917.
Portland, Ore. March 1,—The Mail
ers' union has secured an agreement
with newspapers in this city rais
ing wages 50 cents a day. Hours
of labor will be seven and one-half
for night work and eight for day
work. The mailers are also assured
better sanitary conditions.
Detroit, Mich., March 3,—Officers
of the Stove Mounters' International
union reported substantial gains by
practically every local. These gains
range from 10 to 64 per cent, and in
many cases includes shorter hours
and improved working conditions.
Beaumont, Tex., March 1,—The
Painters' union has signed a new a
greement which raises rates from
$4.80 to $5.50 a day.
Chicago, March 1,—During the
past six years organized street ear
men in this city have received over
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benefits amounted to $152,368.45.
This represents $120,900 in funeral
and disability benefits, $28,196.70 in
sick benefits and $3,271.75 in funeral
expenses.
Cincinnati, March 1,—The Master
Painters' association has signed an
agreement with organized painters.
Wages are increased 5 cents an hour
the first year and 2 1-2 cents the
second year and 2 1-2 cents the
third year.
San Francisco, March 1,— The
Bartenders' union has established a
new wage scale. The former rate of
$18 a week is increased to $22.50 and
$24.00.
Tacoma, Wash. March 1,—The ship
building companies of Barbare bro
thers and Goo. P. Wright company
have reached an agreement with or
ganized labor in this city. The Ta
coma Ship Building company refused
to accept the invitation of govern
ment officials that attempts be made
to adjust differences.
Spokane, Wash., March 1,—The
Northwest Mining Convention has
declared against government control
of mines, but the operators are not
averse to the government subsidizing
them "to encourage the production of
rare metals."
Jamestown, N. Y., March 1,—The
Jamestown Brewing company has
voluntarily raised wages of its em
ployes $1 a week.
Cincinnat, March 1—The Brewery
proprietors in this city have volun
tarily raised wages $2.00 a week.
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For Every Member of the Family
ILLIONS of patriotic Americans during 1918 will take advantage
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dollars. You couldn't leave to that youngster of yours a greater
heritage than a clear understanding of the value of saving.
Uncle Sam Shows The Way
To a Remarkable Investment
Thrift Stamps Cost 25 Cents. A War Saving Stamp Now Costs $4.14. During March you can
exchange Thrift Cards with the 16 spaces covered with Thrift Stamps, and 14 cents additional,
for a War Savings Stamp redeemable for $5.00 on January 1, 1923.
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During March you can exchange a Thrift Card with the
16 spaces covered with Thrift Stamps, and 14 cents addition
al for a War Savings Stamp redeemable for $5,00 on Jan
uary 1, 1923.
Twenty of these War Savings Stamps will fill" a'War Sav
ings Certificate. Today this complete Certificate will cost
you $82.60, which on January 1, 1923, will be worth $100,001
Your profit will be $17.40, or 4 per cent interest compound
ed quarterly.
Begin to earn that fat dividend TODAY. War Savings
Certificates are Registered and not transferable, but you
can take them to any Post Office at any time and convert
them into cash. You'll get what you paid for them and ad
ded interest to date.
Ask at Your Bank or Post Office For Full Particulars
Baltimore, Md., March 1—Labor
deserves the highest praise for its
patriotism and sacrifices in the war
said Secretary of the Navy Daniels
here in an address before the Bal
timore Club.
The Secretary's address was an ap
peal for national unity as the only
thing to win the war. He warned
against pessimism. He pleaded
with Americans, when reading of a
strike of 10,000 workmen, to think
rather of the 10,000,000 other Am
erican workmen laboring in frigid
temperatures, risking their lives
and limbs in the cold, that the
country may be victorious in the
conflict.
Secretary Daniels, who was wel
comed by Mayor Preston, prefaced
his remarks by a talk on the duty
of the press in war. Speaking of
those papers which showed a dispo
sition towards pessimism, he said:
"This is no time for pessimisim.
Neither is it an hour for optimism.
It is an hour for dedication and reso
lution. There is no room for pessi
mism in America now. It is a sin!
How the War Will be Won.
"You may ask me," he continued,
"what
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But, said the Secretary, although
Hoover, Garfield, McAdoo and the
others might each select his partic
ular line to dwell on as necessary
to win the war, he could say the chief
necessity is "ships, and ships, and
more ships." But even then, he ad
ded, he must qualify, for it is not
really food, or fuel, or money or even
ships—but the "united spirit of the
American people" that will win the
for the Stars and Stripes.
"The spirit of pessimism," he said,
"has no place in this united spirit. I
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Which The Pessimistic Critic
Would Never Think of Do
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Willinglyi And Nobly.
it will win the war—that
is, what one thing above all others."
Here Secretary Daniels referred to
the various contributing factors—
food, fuel, money. He told of the
sacrifices asked in all of these things,
and the sacrifices made. "Because
of the sacrifices made," he said,
"America has done more in six
months to get into the war than any
other nation in an equal time in the
world's history."
Glory the Sole Compensation.
"There is no compensation for the
tragedies of war, except the illumi
nation and glory that comes to a
people out of sacrifice.
"Tonight, in more than 100 homes
there is that unspoken, indefinable
sorrow that comes from the loss oi
men torpedoed on the Tuscania. But
no man ever loved anything he would
not die for, and Americans love lib
erty more than life.
"We have committed ourselves tc
the consummation of victory. Out oi
the 105,000,000 American people there
are 100,000,000 who would willingly
die before they would stop the wai
until liberty has been achieved foi
the world.
"When the boys in the armj
marched through the streets of Nev,
York recently the people of that citj
gave them the homage due to men
who offer up all they have and all
they hope to be.
"I thought the young people oi
America were so given up to pleas
ure and sports that they had lost th
stuff of which their forefathers were
made. It is a great compensator
in all the tragedy to find America
today is the same America it was ir
*76 and '63.
"And though there has come i
shadow over some homes in America
there isn't a home where that shadov
hasn't with it a sorrowful pride. Therr
is not a man in America who doesn
feel the spiritual elevation—something'
new that has taken him* out of him
BUTLEll COUNTY PRESS.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.
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have no pessimistic view that labor
will not do its part in this war," he
said, coming to the burden of his
address. "I do not believe there has
ever been a time in history when
labor and the employers of labor
were more closely united than at
present.
"You read of the strike of 10,000
men and become alarmed. But you
forget that, while 10,000 men are
striking, 10,000,000 of oothers are
working—are doing work which the
pessimistic critic would never think
of doing. In the coldest days which
we have just experienced, tens of
thousands of workmen were out in
the open, driving rivets for our ships
while the critics were staying warm
in there homes and offices doing no
thing.
Labor Can't Be* Paid.
"You can't do the work necessary
at a banquet table criticising labor.
I personally witnessed 60,000 men at
work in the open, during the coldest
day of the recent spell, running the
risk of pneumonia and death, repair
ing ships that food might be sent to
our men in France. Labor can't be
paid for this work in money. There
isn't- enough money to p.ay for it. It
is their sacrifice, and they are mak
ing it willingly and nobly.
"If now and then men strike for
higher wages, let us not forget that
men of capital have held up the Gov
ernment for profiteering. But I
thank God that now 90 per cent of
capital, as well as 90 per cent of
labor, is standing loyal and true.
"When the Industrial Workers of
the World raised its head," contin
ued the Cabinet officer, "who hit the
head first? It was Samuel Gompers.
Yet every time we hold up organized
labor to scorn because of men quit
ting work when the weather is so
cold the critics won't even venture
out doors, we are striking down the
influence of such men as Samuel
Gompers and William B. Wilson,
who are up to the hilt in work in
this war, and who will continue to so
work.
"Labor is 95 per cent good. The
way to make it 100 per cent is to
have faith and to work without criti
cism of the men who have done
wonderfully well. Faith and the
American spirit will win the war.
Let us have that faith.
"When the Industrial Workers oi
the World raises its head let us draw
the full picture, but let us differen
tiate between the Industrial Work
ers of the World and the men who are
working tcf win the war.
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self and made him forget the things
that he thought were worth while
when he sees the million and a half—
all of them young men, with careers
before them some of them giving up
fortunes some of them leaving wid
owed mothers all of them making
the supreme sacrifice.
"For what? That the world might
be free. So long have we been accus
tomed to a free country, to liberty,
that it seemed commonplace to us.
In all our lives we had never heard
the word 'verboten.' But if this war
should terminate against us the word
'verboten' will be the only word in
all the language that we will hear."
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Attend Special Meeting
Trades Union Liberty
League In Columbus
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Albert Brown, Secretary of the
Brewers Union and Arthur Burns,
Secretary of the Bartenders Union,
attended a special called meeting of
the Trade Union Liberty League held
in Columbus last Saturday and Sun
day. The meetings of both days were
largely attended, members from all
over the state being present. The
object of the meeting was to discuss
the campaign to be waged the coming
summer and fall against the endorse
ment of National and State Prohibi
tion.
Much enthusiasm prevailed among
the members of
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the league present,
all seeming to take an optimistic
view of the situation. There is one
thing certain, and that is that the
wets are alive to the fact, that while
the state is wet by a big majority, it
behooves all interests concerned to
get busy and get this wet vote to
the polls. The wets say that they
will not be caught napping this year.
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National Labor Plan New
Board's Purpose.
Washington,— Secretary of Labor
Wilson has appointed a commission
of five trade unionists and five em
ployes to formulate a national labor
policy and end strikes during the
period of the war.
The five representatives of labor,
whose names were submitted to Sec
retary of Labor Wilson by President
Gompers, are:
Frank J. Hayes, president of the
United Mine Workers.
W. L. Hutchinson, president, of
the Brotherhood of Carpenters ami
Joiners.
J. A. Franklin, president of the
Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and
Iron Ship Builders.
T. A. Ricket, president United
Garment Workers.
Victor Olander, second vice-pre^i
dent International Seamen's union
and secretary-treasurer Illinois sta:«
federation of labor.
The five representatives of emplov
ers, recommended by the national i
dustrial conference board, represent­
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you would elsewhere.
A full pound-and-a-half loaf of Victory Bread at the same price you would pay
for just a pound loaf anywhere else in the city. And now that the government requires
all bakers to use the same formula, and make the same weight loaves, it is much easier
for you to see the big difference in the values.
Kroger Bread stands supreme in value-giving. It is simply the greatest value
to be had anywhere, and accounts for the tremendous sale. If you are not getting your
share of the enormous savings to Kroger customers, you owe it to your purse to start
today. You'll find that bread from Kroger's is as fine as bread can be made, and the
saving is very evident.
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THE WORKINGflAN
He makes everything.
He makes butter and eats oleo.
He makes overcoats and freezes.
He builds palaces and lives in shacks.
He raises the corn and eats the husks.
He builds automobiles and walks home.
He makes kid gloves and wears mittens.
He makes dress shirts and wears flannel.
He makes fine tobacco and chews sraps.
He makes fine flour and eats stale bread.
He makes fine clothing and wears shoddy.
He makes fine frocks and wears cotton ones.
He makes good cigars and smokes twofers.
He luilds electric light plants and burns oil.
He produces fine beef and eats the soup bone.
He makes carriages and pushes a wheelbarrow.
He makes broadcloth pants and wears overalls.
He makes meerschaum piipes and smokes clay.
He makes stovepipe hats and wears cheap derbies
ing organized employers of this coun
try are:
L. A. Osborne, New York city,
v ice president of the Westinghouse
Klectric and Manufacturing company
chairman of the executive committee
of the national industrial conference
board.
Charles F. Brooks, Ansonia, Conn.,
president of the American Brass com
pany.
W. H. Van Dervoort, East Moline,
111. president of the Root and Van
Dervoort Engineering company.
L. F. Lores, New York city presi
dent of the Delewure and Hudson
company: chairman of the executive
committee of the Kansas City South
ern railroad.
C. Edwin Michael, Roanoke, Va.,
president of the Virginia Bridge and
Iron company.
Besides the members named for the
commission, each group of five will in
turn select another man from public
life, making in all 12 men to sit in
the diliberations.
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