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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter
Issued W ekly at 326 Market Street,
Kairilton, Ohio.
Home Telephone 809.
Bell 1296-X.
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
Libehty
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O N O A
LETS WIN ONE
FOR
HAMILTON
Labor is not trying to destroy any
thing. Its nature is not destructive
but constructive. All it asks is
fair chance. Hitherto it has been at
the mercy of capital, and capital has
shown little mercy.
Our sons and our brothers are to
day fighting to secure for us the right
to live our lives in peace forever in
the world. If they fail- our lives will
not be worth living our country will
not be worth living in. They can not
win our fight alone. The most we
can do is the least they have a right
to expect of us. Our state is peculi
arly favored in its industrial advan
tages and much is expected of us
The acid test of a union man's worth
at this time is service. Little Thrift
Stamps are a sound and paying in
vestment and a service to the cause
of Democracy. Buy Thrift -Stamps
today, buy tomorrow, buy every day.
When buying a cigar or a pack ff
smoking tobacco brother, do you see
that it bears the little blue label
Every time you buy the goods that
havn't the label you boost the scab
and knock the union man.
On Monday night of last week the
Hamilton Commercial and Industrial i
Association met with delegates re
representing thirty organizations
present. Nine labor organizations
were represented. The Association
will meet again 6n next Monday
night. It is to be hoped that every
labor organization will be represent
ed. Every union should elect a dele
gate. The Associations' plan of rep
resentation is a splendid one. The
laborer is on an equal with the capi
talist. The cost to any organization
desiring to be represented is small,
just three dollars per year. Much
criticism has been made of other
civic organizations in the past, the
claim being made that the working
man didn't get justice or a fair deal.
The Press doesn't care to dispute or
argue this point but it can be said
that such conditions do not exist in
the Hamilton Commercial and Indus
trial Association. All are on an equal
basis. The Press urges that every
labor organization elect a delegate
and then have him report-the proceed
ings after each meeting of the organ
ization at, the meeting of the union
he represents. In this manner every
member of the union can keep in
touch with doings of the Association.
Take a chance brothers, spend three
dollars and send a delegate for a
year at least.
There may be investments that look
better but there's no safer or more
willing worker than a Liberty Bond.
Buy Liberty Bonds or goodbye
Liberty.
Do you know brother that the
bread you eat tastes better and is
cleaner if it bears the little label?
And think of the satisfaction you get
out of it for helping one of your fel
low workers. Watch for the label.
Demand it on all bread you buy.
After reading the ownership of the
Republican-News published in the
Press last week was it to be wondered
at that the common workman got
nothing but abuse from that paper
during the turmoil of the industrial
strife in this city last summer and
fall. The proprietors of the two
plants where the workers were on
strike at that time also own the
greater part of the Republican-News
stock. Nothing strange about it after
you understand the thing, is there
Did you ever encounter a lazy man
who did not attribute his trials and
tribulations to bad luck?
Napoleon had Europe glued into
much the same fantastic shape that
Wilhelm dreams of, but the glue
melted.
If that army of dry's and anti
saloon leaguers would put in the time
money and energy to put the Kaiser
out of business that they are using
to put the saloon out of business what
a big help they would be to this
country.
There was much wonderment at the
teriffic odor along several of our
streets early in the week until it was
explained that a car load of strike
breakers had arrived in our city. Im
mediately there was much strewing of
lime and disinfectants and it is to be
hoped there will be no evil results
obtaining from the sojourning of these
classics in our midst.
Which would you rather do, just
break even in your business this year
or leave a leg in France? Boost War
Savings Stamps and save some
American soldier from a legless or
armless existence.
HENN
11MBP
The time has come and the candi
dates are here. We don't want to get
into politics but there is one office
however, the candidates for which,
the Press would advise the voters of
organized labor to scrutinize closely.
The office referred to is that of Rep
resentative to the State Legislature.
Mayor Smith who has been our repre
sentative for a number of years of
course is not a candidate. Mayor
Smith it must be said was always
friendly to labor legislation. It be
hooves us to watch it so that a man
just as friendly as he has been shall
take his place. The war profiteers
and exploiters of labor are watching
and taking advantage of every op
portunity to tear down any of the
laws beneficial to labor. So be on the
job Mr. Workingman, see to it that
every man nominated at the primar
ies is at least friendly to your inter
ests. The primaries is the time to do
your work and then let the best man
win at the regular election.
It seems that the county commis
sioners weren't joking after all. We
mean regarding that dollar increase
given the court house employes. The
dollar raise stands. Of course the
men can quit if they want to or per
haps they can cadge a little of the
food that is flipped to the squirrels by
the charitable inclined. The county
is to be congratulated? upon the econ
omically inclined commissioners it
has.
You can never gain the friendship
of workingmen by sending them to
the workhouse.
The union molders and union core
makers throughout the city are pur
chasing thousands of dollars worth of
thrift stamps and liberty bonds. Won
der how many the imported strike
breakers and gunmen are buying
The political kissing bugs are be
ginning to emerge from their por
tals. It's no use to worry about them
and the coming election will not diffei"
much from the rest, because the game
will be worked the same old way in
the same old style. You know money
makes the political mare go and the
public pays for the oats. Watch it.
The candidates are already selected
all the workingmen are expected
to do is to vote for them.
Why wouldn't it be a good idea for
old Butler County this year to elect
three workingmen for commissioners.
One from Hamilton, one from Middle
town and one from the rural districts*
It would have a tendency to balance
old Butler a little bit, and it would
please some of our Middletown folks
who have a kick coming, yes, lots of
them.
It is reported that strikebreakers to
date have purchased liberty bonds and
thrift stamps to the amount of
$0,000,000,000,000,000,68.
Memory Of
Cheaper Days
By Berton Braley.
I remember, I remember
The days that used to be
When porterhouse was eighteen cents
And soup bones given free
When milk was five cents by the quart
And butter twenty-four,
And bacon fifteen cents a pound
In those brave days of yore.
I remember, I remember
When one could hire a maid
For three or four or five a week
And when she came, she stayed,
But now they are a haughty clan
Who cost you eight or nine,
Who come to you at ten o'clock
And then at noon—resign.
I remember, I remember
When gentle working men
Would come whene'er you asked
them to
For life was simpler then,
But now, although your pipes are
burst
And trouble leaves you vexed,
Until week after next.
I remebmer, I remember
(Oh, why must visions fade)
When there was sugar sold to all
And coal men sought your trade
But now the times are altered,
And there is little joy
In thinking of how cheap things were
When I was but a boy
Proas.
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Metal Button and
Lace Shoes. For
dress or every-day
wear. Wonderful
value
For the Garden
Hoes, Rakes
Plows, Forks,
Spades
Can't Stay Union
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For the Lawn
Sprinkling Hose, Lawn Mowers
Rakes, Hedge Trimmers
High Standard Paints, Varnishes
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Complete Line Fishing Ta'ckle
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20 South Third St. M, D. McGrath Hamilton, Ohio
St. Louis, Md.—The world has got
beyond the stage of individual bar
gaining in labor, writes William M.
Reedy, editor Reedy's Mirror.
"Collective bargaining is here and
it has come to stay. Only the trades
powerful enough to enforce the prin
ciple of collective bargaining are get
ting the best wages. Trade union
ism is getting what it demands. Un
organized workers are lagging behind
in raise of pay. The worker cannot
depend on generosity. He is given
nothing. He gets what he can win
no more.
"The individual/worker can not do
much to better himself. In combina
tion with others he can do much.
Therefore they organize. They bring
to "Bear against the employer coer
cion. It is their answer to the em
ployers' utilization of the individual
worker's necessities to coerce that
worker into acceptance of the low
est wage consistent with subsistence.
The employer appeals to 'natural
law.' There 'ain't no such thing' in
the situation, with the employer in
control of the job. To correct that
unnatural law trade unionism has
come into existence and it will remain
until there comes into action another
method of making natural law nat
ural."
Newark, N. J.—Mailers employed on
local newspapers have secured a new
wage scale of $20 a week, which will
be increased to $21 the first of next
year.
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Firemen Convene Under
Union Auspices
The International Association o:
Fire Fighters held its first conven
tion in Washington and elected Thom
as G. Spellacy of Schenectady, N
Y., president, and W. A. Smith of
Washington, secretary-treasurer.
Eleven vice presidents were chosei
and Pueblo, Col., selected as the 1911'
convention city.
The fire fighters were given a char
ter by the American Federation oi
Labor at its Buffalo convention last
year. The new organization includes
municipal firemen.
Nearly half a hundred delegates
representing the various city firemen's
unions affiliated with the A. F. of L,,
were present. The convention de
voted much time to the question of
shorter hours and indorsed the two
platQon system.
Augusta, Ga.—The Typographical
union's new wage agreement increases
rates $4.50 a week for machine men
on afternoon newspapers and $3 a
week for floor men. On morning news
papers rates are increased $3 a week.
The contract calls for the usual un
ion-shop conditions which the Typo
graphical union can enforce because
of 100 per cent organization.
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