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VOL. XVIII. No. 3.
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Please Don't Read This
It Might Interest Youl
Paying Dues to Union Doesn't
Absolve You from Employ
tag Union Labor Per the I
Label.
You carry a card in your Union
don't you? Pay your dues regularly,
and you have been known to be at a
meeting of your Local, haven't you?
If this is true, you don't have to read
this for it can not apply to you.
You say you have a paid-up card,
and a good job that's all right it's
a good thing to have, or two good
things to have. Now, let's see what
you have done to deserve these good
money you make under Union condi
tions in any way that you like. We
know that you are a Good Union Man
even if the collar and tie you have
on are made in the sweat shop, we
know that you have almost as good
an excuse for not wearing Union made
shirts, collars and ties as you have
for not wearing a Union made hat.
We know that your brand of Union
ism must be good, for you say so, and
you attack any other brand that does
not appeal to you both on the street I1
corners and in the saloons, and you
roast your own officers as much as
you do others, for they are not your
kind of Union Men, and they do not
do things right we
you can't wear Union made shoes
you know it is so hard to fit some
people's feet with Union made shoes,
and then a nice Convict made shoe is
so comfortable, and it looks so well
on your feet, and then a lot of dealers
sell Union made shoes just because
the Label sells them they don't last
they get out of shape. Ke know that
your Unionism is just as good as any,
even if you do smoke and chew non
union tobacco, we know that you think
that the Union made Cigars and Ci
garettes are not good enough for a
Union man like yourself you want
the best and of course you make your
money and you spend it as you please.
You are a good union man, and of
course we have no right to criticize
any man who carries a card even if
he is helping to bring the Labor
movement into disrepute, helping the
enemies of Labor to kill and disrupt
and scatter our forces, well we told
you in the first place not to read this.
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ENGINEERS REDUCE HOURS.
Athens, Ohio.—Eight months ago
•stationary engineers in this city or
ganized. To date they have perfected
a 100 per cent union, reduced the work
day from 12 to eight hours and in
creased wages 3E per cent.
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Baltimore.— Stationary engineers
announce a wage increase of 10 cents
an hour.
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WAR SAYINGS
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WORKERS NOT
ORGANIZED LABOR
ttlings: Did you go to the meeting of I cure increased fares, the Interborough
your Local when they were fighting I Traction company ordered the offi
so hard to get that last raise Did I cers of its company-controlled author
you lend your valuable assistance to I ities and ask that fares be increased
the Business Agent or to the Com-1 so that wages may be raised.
mittee when they were working from I The "unionists" were told:
early morn to late at night to secure I "If yen think organized labor is in
the raise you got, or did you send I favor of a 6-cent fare, why not ask
your dues down by some active mem-1 organized labor to petition the board
ber, and then kick because the Local I of estimates for this fare increase?"
assessed you two bits to help in a I President Shonts of the Interbor
campaign for organization I ough smashed the Street Car Men's
Yes, we know that you are a good! union recently. Now Mr. Shonts has
Union Man, because we know that I a "union" of his own, and has written
you pay your dues, and we also know I a pamphlet on the necessity for unity
that you brag about your Union be-1 between employer and employed,
ing so strong that your Boss is afraid I
to fight it, and we know that you do INQ STRIKES WILL ARBITRATE
quite a bit of arguing on Unionism Indianapolis—The Bricklayers, Ma
on the street corners or in the saloon,
and we sometimes wonder why you
don't do a little bit more of this kind
of work in the Local meetings, but I tractors' association. Arbitration will
of course your Unionism can not be|SUppjanj. during this period,
questioned, even if you do wear a I por
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and almost invariably the only
successful ones. It can fairly $
be said that the great union of
coal miners made of the day ou iji
which it voted to stand by its
trnllirtfo f«« atvitAAmnnta At
moved
voluntary agreements,
thereto by the weight of the $
covenant rather than by the ex- •$"
trt ordinary critical nature of the
employment at this time, a red
letter day in the calendar of ij
American trade unionism.—New W
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FAKE "UNION" EXPOSED
New York.—In its endeavor to se­
sons and Plasterers' International
union has signed a five-year agree
ment with the Tile and Mantel Con-
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Non-Union Hat, you say that a Un-I^^ eight-hour day.
ion made hat doesn't suit your par-| file layers will not work on "ped
4* a|yle.$f features.-and of courseI died" contracts. This means that the
you have the right to spend the|
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years wages will be $5.75 for
nion will stand with the employers
in insisting that contracts must be
awarded to one of the original bid
ders, thereby ending a competition
that destroys conditions.
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MINERS RAISE WAGES
Washington.—Alabama coal miners
have raised their day wage scale 75
cents, as a result of aa aconference
in this city with representatives of
the fuel administration and their em-
Five cents a ton advance
war, secured for pick miners and 4
cents a ton to loaders of machine
mined coal. These gains are the re
sult of a successful organizing cam-
a'lso"know~that| Pa'£n started last June. Alabama
was supposed to be an anti-union bul
wark.
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*}AINS BY IRON MOLDERS.
Cincinnati.—In his last report on
gains made by various Iron Molders'
unions, International President Valen
tine says that 59 locals have secured
wage increases, reduced hours and im
proved working conditions. Increases
of $1 a day are numerous. In Seattle
a minimum of $6.60 a day is estab
lished for jobbing shops. In a stove
shop in that city rates are increased
from $6 to $7.10 a day. In other
northwestern cities the $6 minimum
prevails.
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STRIKEBREAKERS STRIKE.
Gid, La.—Strikebreakers imported
to the oil fields of this district when
unionists attempted to increase wages
are now on strike. They have discov
ered that pats on the back and songs
about "free and independent work
men" can not cope with old H.
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WAITERS GET RAISE.
Seattle.—Wages of organized wait
ers have been increased $3 a week
No demand was made by these work
ers—that is, the employers didn't give
the waiters a chance to present de
mands. The former acted first, and
now everyone seems satisfied.
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STREET CAR MEN WIN.
Grand Forks, N. D.—The Street Car
Men's union has won its first dispute
with the Grand Forks Street Railway
company, which agrees that hereafter
the union will be recognized and dif
ferences arbitrated.
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PAINTERS RAISE WAGES.
New London, Conn.—It was nece«
sary for Painters' union No. 897, to
suspend work for a short time before
employers would accept a new wage
scale which calls for $4.50 for paint
era and $4.75 for paper hangers.
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PRINTERS RAISE WAGES.
Nashville, Tenn. Typographical
union No. 20 has raised wages of its
members employed in commercial
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By Chester M. Wright,
Representing the International Typo
graphical Union on the American
Labor Mission to Great Britan.
London—The perfidy of the Huns is
being understood by the working
people of all Allied nations now as
never before, and is bringing the1
working people of those nations to
gether in such common understand
ing and determination as they have
not had since America entered the
war.
This the American trade union mis
sion now in Great Britan is finding out
with more surety as the days pass.
If the "peace by conciliation" idea,
with its "co-belligerent conferences"
forerunner has entirely lost its foot
ing, it also has surely lost all its
menacing possibilities, and no longer
constitutes a danger of even the re
motest kind.
Its most ardent proponents plainly
are fighting a rearguard action and
evidently are tm the way to complete
abandonment of their ill-sponsored
child.
Organized labor in the Allied na
tions is more closely united in
thought, policy and spirit than since
America's belligerency began, and
this unity promises to develop ra
pidlyand be firmly forever cemented
before the American trade unionists
take ships for home.
It became more apparent as the
time passes that there has been much
misunderstanding, due almost wholly
to what appears to have been a cam
paign of studied misrepresentation of
both the British and the American
workers to each other.
The American delegation so far
has met and conferred with each im
portant national division of British
labor movements. It has met with
the parliamentary committee of the
British Trade Union Congress, which
corresponds in a large measure to the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor. It has met the
executive committee of the General
Federation of Trade Unions, the
purely trade union organization of
which W. A. Appleton is secretary.
It has met the representatives of the
SBBSSS
The sample Honor Flag ot the Third
Liberty Loan which was hoisted in
front of the Treasury building at
Washington recently was made under
the direction of Mrs. William G. Mc
Adoo, wife of the secretary of the
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British Labor Holds American Pre
sident In Highest Esteem And
Cheer His Name At Every
Mention.
HAMILTON, OHIO, PfelDAY, MAY 10, 1918
American Trade Union Hission
Finds Perfidy In German Peace
Propaganda Now Is Realized
And Workers Stand Stead
fastly Behind Government.
labor party delegation in the House
of Commons.
Not in any of these groups has the
American delegation been able to find
the slightest trace of willingness _to.
consider peace with Germany before
the aims of democracy have been
realiaed.
The leaders of every one of these
groups have expressed complete ac
cord with the war aims laid down by
President Wilton and agreed to by
the American labor movement. Thus,
on the question of war aims, which
is the all-important question, allied
labor is united firmly and steadfastly.
The American pacifists have been
making strenuous efforts to console
themselves with the idea that there is
sympathy for their traitorous pro
gramme in the British labor move
ment. This has been found to be ab
solutely untrue by the American trade
unionists now here, a*hd the investi
gation has been searching.
There seems little oubt that Ger
man agents fostered the proposition
for a co-belligerent conference, for
what purpose remains to be seen, but
all too evidently to drive a wedge be
tween the workers and the govern
ments of the Allies while seeking to
lead the allied workers to believe a
wedge was being driven between the
Teutonic workers and their govern
ments.
Again Prussian treachery has failed.
The assault on the Western front has
revealed the fulness of that treach
ery. There is no questioning the hon
esty of the leaders of Great Britain,
who have propogated the conference
idea. Of these Arthur Henderson is
not holding to the ground which he
was represented in America as occu
pying. He will not go further now
than to say:
"We are willing to converse, but we
are not willing to negotiate."
His position is that negotiations
can only be conducted by the govern
ment of a democracy. The confer
ences with the Americans concerning
this and other questions of policy will
begin April 29, informal discussions
already having taken place. But the
American position is official, stead
Mrs. McAdoo Superintends Flag Making
Th hoisting of the flag was a big
event for the employees of the treas
ury department who got their first
fifteen minute "vacation" to witness a
public ceremony in the history of the
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fast and inflexible. There can be
agreement only upon the basis of ab
solute refusal to even have discus
sion with representatives from the
Central Empires while the war lasts.
However these conferences may re
sult, it is certain already that the la
bor movements of the two English
speaking nations are a unit on every
essential point in the programme of
war aims and that no wedge can be
driven between them or between them
and their governments.
As Alexander Wilkie, of the great
shipwrights' union, phrased it, "The
war is paramount," so also declare
Henderson and his co-workers.
"Not one of us is for a German
peace," said Henderson in an address
in the presence of the American dele
gation, and he said it with great force.
Not only has the situation almost re
solved itself in the political arena of
labor, but on the industrial field there
is marked change within the past
month.
What friction there was between the
engineers and the government has
been ironed out. There is no dispute
of importance in any part of the Brit
ish realm, and none is on the horizon
so far as can be seen.
In almost every angle of the situa
tion here is the guiding and inspiring
influence of President Wilson is seen.
British labor holds the American
President in the highest esteem and
his name is cheered at every mention.
He is looked to by organized workers
here as the greatest statesman in the
world of democracy. No influence has
contributed more than his to develop
ing the unity of the workers here for
having interpreted for all the real
significance of the meaning of the
colossal conflict between democracy
and autocracy.
The American trade union delega
tion has been accorded an unusual re
ception and an unusual opportunity to
see and learn in every direction.
Seldom has greater attention been
given to a foreign delegation seldom
has a more strenuous programme of
activity been laid out for one. The
delegation has been permitted to see
and inquire into things not disclosed
to any other civilians, and its knowl
edge is expected to be of great value
to America.
In addition to an intensified pro
gramme of public speaking the dele-
gation will visit and inspect the
British crusier and desti*oyer fleet and
the Allied fighting fronts in France
The tour of France will include the
sector held by the American forc
In the photograph Mrs. McAdoo ii
seen directly behind the girl at the
sewing machine and looking down
over her. The girl is stitching togeth
er the first flag. J. H. Burton, of New
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JOB FOR EVERY MAN
FOR EVERY JOB.
The message of the Americans,
"America is in with her full strength
to the finish," has been received on
every hand with rejoicing by a land
sorely tried but holding fast with
tenacity that is marvellous and
undefeatable.
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Newsies For Trade
Unionists.
St. Louis, Mo.—Secretary-Treasur
er Bechtold of the International Bro
therhood of Foundry Employes, re
ports that during the past month lo
cals have been organized in Ft.
Wayne, Ind., Marion, Ind., Cincin
nati, Ohio. Hannibal, Mo. Bremer
ton, Wash., and St. Louis, Mo. In the
latter city the new locial has increased
its 'membership from 28 members to
600 in less than a month.
to £3 Pa
Foundry employes at the Ludlow
Vale Manufacturing company, Troy,
N. Y., have suspended work to secure
a minimum wage of $3.30 a day. They
now receive $2.80. About 100 union
ists are affected.
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Washington.—The house has ap
proved wage increases of from 10 to
20 per cent to virtually all postal em
ployes. The senate bill only calls for
a flat increase of 15 per cent for the
fiscal year, to apply to every employe
from assistant postmaster down to
janitors. As the high cost of living
will continue after the present fiscal
year, the postal employes show that
if the senate bill is approved they
will have to wage another fight. This
can be avoided if the house bill, which
calls for permanent increases over
standards of a decade ago, are ap
proved.
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Houston, Tex. Carpenters' union
No. 213 has secured a new wage a
greement which raises rates from $5
to $6 a day.
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Cincinnati.—A wage increase of $2
a week has been secured by Carriage
Drivers and Chauffeurs' union.
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Portland, Me.—Organized painters
have increased wage from 41 to 55
cents an hour after a week's strike,
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Albion, Mich—After a five-weeks'
strike United Mine Workers in this
vicinity have won their demands for
a wage increase of 30 cents a ton.
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San Francisco—After a six-year
fight, the San Francisco Examiner
has signed an agreement with Web
Pressmen's union No. 4.
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Milwaukee Brewery employes
have negotiated a wage scale which
increases rates as high as $4 a week
in numerous instances. The new con
tract expires March 1, 1921, and is
effective as of March this year. An
eight-hour day is the rule except for
stablemen and drivers. The work day
of chauffeurs has been reduced from
nine to eight.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Leather Work
ers' union No. 8, whose members are
employed in the manufacturer of
trunks, suit cases and traveling bags
has secured a union-shop agreement
The work day is reduced from nine
hours to eight and the minimum scale
is increased from $2.75 to $3.75 a day,
with time and one-half for overtime.
Seattle—Electrical Workers' union
No. 46 is asking that contract-shop
wages be increased from $6 to $7
day.
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Augusta, Ga.—-The Augusta-Aiken
Railway and Electric corporation has
raised wages of its motormen and
conductors 20 per cent as a result of
negotiations with Street Car Men'
union No. 577.
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New York—Organized coopers in
this city have raised wages to $5 for
a nine-hour day. Overtime rates are
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There is a job in the United
States for every man who wants
to work and there is a worker
for every job that needs to be
filled, according to a statement
made by the United States em
ployment service, a branch of
the United States department of
labor. The statement said that
some part of the country had an
oversupply of workers, while
others had not enough, but that
the totals for the whole country
show about identical figures for
men seeking jobs and jobs need
ing men.
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PEACE
WAR AIMS
ligid Health Measures
To Safeguard Soldiers
Communities must back up Army by
Minimizing chances of exposure to
disease as well as by giving money
to war charities and funds.
Columbus, Ohio,—Is your com
munity proud of its Liberty Bond and
Thrift Stamp Sales, its Red Cross
subscriptions and its other war
services
It has no right to unalloyed pride
these "bits," declared the State
Department of Health today, unless
it is also carrying on effective work to
protect the public health.
"We must back up our soldiers
with health as well as with money,"
the department's statement said.
"The communiity which, through
careless health administration, allows
a visiting Sammy to be exposed to a
communicable disease, is guilty of
aiding the enemy. Strict enforcement
of sanitary regulations is necessary
and important at all times, but it is
doubly important now, with men so
congregated in the cantonments that
the exposure of any one of them may
mean scores of cases of illness and
perhaps death."
Scarlet fever, diptheria, measles,
whooping cough, infantile paralysis
and menigitis are important sources
of danger at this season and the
prompt reporting and strict isolation
of all cases should be insisted upon,
according to the health department.
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Sunday and holiday work.
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Boston—Officers of the Boot and
Shoe Workers' union report several
important gains by these craftsmen.
In Brockton, Mass., rates for vamp
cutters are increased to $25.50 a week
for machine and hand" work. Former
rates were $21.90 for hand, $22.90 for
machine. Other shoe manufacturers
in that city are offering a straight 10
per cent increase.
Rockland, Mass., cutters are raised
3.60 a week for hand work and $4.60
for machine work.
Marlboro edgemakers ar increased
10 to 20 per cent and similar gains
are recorded in Haverhill, St. Louis,
Mo., Cincinnati and other cities.
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Boston, April 6.—In arranging for
a patriotic parade in this city, off
eers of the central labor union have
been forced to abandon the proposed
organized labor division. Employers
complain that their workers refused
to march in the various industries'
divisions and notified them that they
will fall in behind organized labor,
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Seattle.-—A basic eight-hour day
for teamsters would be laughed at a
few years ago, but Teamsters' union
No. 174 has just "put the thing
across."
It must not be understood that eight
hours was handed these workers.
Their union has a membership of
3,000—which is quite an argument in
itself.
Washington.—President Lin of the
International Brotherhood of Foundry
Employes, who is in this city on mat
ters of interest to his organization,
reports that the Ludlow Valve Manu
facturing company of Troy, N.
has conceded wage demands of 100
foundry employes, who were on strike
two weeks. Rates are increased fiO
cents a day. President Linn also tee
ports that active locals have been
formed in Saratoga Springs and Dun
kirk, N. Y.
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Winnipeg, Manitoba.—Winni-.
peg Joint Terminals railway has
signed its first agreement with the
Maintenance-of-Way Employes'
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Newark, N. J.—Printing Press
men's union No. 31, has secured wage
increases from 15 to 25 per cent for
its members employed in commercial
shops.
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Springfield, 111. Teamsters and
Chauffeurs' union No. 73 has signed
an agreement with the Team Ownfl^'
association which raises wages $4.50 a
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SHOE WORKERS GAIN.
Boston.—Shoe lasters of the south
eastern Massachusetts district ha^e
secured wage increases that ra
from 10 to 21 1-4 per cent. About
3200 employes are benefited approxi
mately $200,000 a year, or $60 a y^Sr
on an annual investment of $13 for
dues to the Boot and Shoe Worked'
union.
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