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"WS1 VOL. XVIII, No. 22. New Home For Machinists' International To Be Erected In Wash ington D. C. Local Lodge Contributes $J00 To Project. Hamilton Lodge No. 241, Machin ists, met in regular session Wednes day night. A large attendance was present. The regular routine business was transacted and a large number of applications for membership were received. A large class of candidates was initiated into the organization. A communication was received from the International organization, inform ing the local lodge of its decision to build a home of its own in Washing ton, D. C. The new home is to cost $150,000. The ground has already been purchased and cost $48,000. It is to be right near the American Fed eration of Labor building. The reason for the decision of the International is that the quarters, which it now oc cupies in the A. F. of L. building, are becoming so crowded because of the large volume of business to transact, due to the enormous growth of the organization, that the step taken was deemed necessary. The cost of the new home is to be met by donations from the various lo cal lodges and individual members. At the meeting Wednesday night the lo cal lodge donated $100 for the pur pose and will make further donations tf necessary. S BUY LIBERTY BONDS~—— Never be dismayed at the failure of your plans find the reason, and attack the problem with stronger weapons next time. $15 New Fall Suits, beautiful fancy colors $18 Worsted Suits, latest, styles & patterns 4 MADE GOVERNMENT HIS BENEFICIARY Union Man, Killed in War, Had His Insurance Policy Running to The United States. Members of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union assembled in Memorial Hall, Toledo, were told an inspiring story of patriotic devotion by a member of their union at the un furling of a service flag, with 866 stars representing union men in the army. After an introductory speech, in which John J. Quinlivan, business agent of the Toledo Central Labor Union, tcld of the determination of the unions to back the Government, President William P. Clarke described the heroic death of Charles H. Mc Carthy, who sacrificed his own life in France for the sake of a friend. Not. only had McCarthy, a former member of the Glass Workers' Union, died heroically, but he had lived patri cally, Mr. Clarke said, for in taking out $10,000 insurance when he entered the Army, he asked that the sum be made payable to the United States Government. ——~BUY LIBERTY BONDS—— SOCIETY GIRL MAKES MUNITIONS Miss Catherine Lee Does Heir Share To Win The War As Worker In Plant Near Baltimore. One of the girls most widley known in Maryland, because of her many in terests and her family connections, has gone to work in a munition plant. Miss Catherine Lee, a granddaughter of James McLane and a resident of Baltimore, is now employed at the Bartlett-Hayward Qo.'s plant, where she is making good. BUY LIBERTY BONDS The state supreme court has upheld the Washington women's minimum wnor lmv. ^.iiUjya-i »i^^i*i^iif i oodhull, Goodale & Bull Union lade Guaranteed Suits at $22.45, $24.45 and $27.45 Winter Underwear and Sweater Coats at YOUR STORE always at bargain cut prices THE MOST FOR YOUR DOLLARS IS OUR AIM EVERYDAY ^^^iiCi»^i^i^^ji^)iigwjji^,i»| I have never had any illusions as to who started the war and why. Those in the ranks of labor who kept in touch with the international affairs of labor c.nd politics knew and felt for some years that a volcano .was seeth ing in oui international life that was ever a disturbing feature to the pro gress of democracy. We had in season and out of season discussed and debated the cause of international peace. We felt that there was nothing in the differences of men, organizations and nations that could not be settled by the rule of reason, if that rule were properly ap plied. We received a rude awakening. We saw the war clouds gathering in Western Europe. We saw a great, modern state, proud of its Kulture, boastful cf its progress, arise in its be stial night, declaring that the "hour had struck," and, tearing up treaties, denying its pledged word, glorying in its infamy, launched forth a cam paign of murder and rape such as the demons of hell would shudder to think of. Their idea was to do it quickly and explain afterward. They expected to of new Styles, new Woolens, new Col= ors, at Prices that say loudly ETTER BUY A word to the wise is as good as a hundred and that one word is BUY NOW Buy now at the Working man's Store, not because we want you to but because you want to save big money Forehanded buying big operations and the Workingman's Store determination to do business with less profit are reasons why you should buy at Hamilton's only Bargain House. VALUES THAT MAKE A NOISE LIKE BARGAINS: $20 Men's All Wool Worsted Suits The Workfnsrman's Store 246 Hi—St vie Without Hisrh Prices 'ji ii^inj.«r riii£^«i ,»tju*- en's Fail guaran teed All Wool Suits ^ywwlfe •"•*"-411 If We Should Lose, The Lights Of Liberty Go Out All Over The World ~"'~x*%T?« Tpir* .tf^TS^^T c*"*^0w Says Workers Love Nation So Well They Want To Insure Its Freedom Forever. explain it all from the vantage point of world dominion. They thought to catch an unsuspecting world asleep. They nearly did. They almost went to Paris. They told their murdering hordes that the shortest way to Rus sia was by the way of Paris. Instead of going to Paris, Berlin now seems to be their objective. We are now at war in a very effective manner with murdering, raping Ger many. W are, with our Allies, going through. We are going to "Bing'em on the Rhine." Why is labor so concerned in war? Organized labor has so well earned the right to public regard that she nteeds no eulogies from me. Organ ized labo- has no apologies to make to anyone for her existence or ac tivities. She has nothing to hide, nor is she begging for favors. Or ganized labor demands the right to solve her problms, to work out her own destinies. Organized labor loves this republic so much that she is de sirous of making every part of it, from coast to coast, from the lakes to the gulf, fit for a working man to live in. On the 12th day of March, 1917, a conference of the representatives of all national and international unions in the United States was held in the American Federation of Labor Build ing in ashington, D. C., nearly a $14.45 UY FOURTH LIBERTY BOH OS r^'r-r'^i HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918. 75 CENTS PER YEAtt Was Formerly Operator of Mov ing Picture Machine at Jewel Theatre. Cecil M. Murray, a former Hamilton boy, has been awarded the American service cross for heroism on the firing line in France. For four years he operated the picture machine at the Jewel theatre. He also worked at his trade of electrician in this city and was a member of the local electricians' union. He was also a member of the moving picture machine operators' un ion. After leaving Hamilton, Brother Murray went to Cincinnati and lived at 30G West Seventh street, when he was called into the service, being as signed to the 323rd Machine Gun bat talion. He is married and has one child. Brother Murray's friends were much pleased to learn of the destin guished honor conferred upon him. month before we formally entered the war. A document, the most his toric document ever written by the workers, in my opinion, was, after a full day's discussion, unanimously adopted, outlining labor's position, in peace or in war. By and through this expression, the organized workers of America showed the world what the true concept of democracy must be, that they fully understood the underlying causes of this world upheaval, and knowing the cause, they knew the cure. By this timely action, the organized labor movement-of our country was intelli gently, democratically mobilized in the world have more at stake than have cause of human freedom. We know that no people in the the men and women who do the useful work of the world, and we are willing to be judged, now and when victory is achieved, not alone by our spoken and written expression but by our deeds. I remember When the expression went out among the workers of all countries that we should so regulate our affairs that workingmen would refuse to kill each other in commer cial wars—that the workers of the world could prevent wars of aggres sion. We saw the representatives of the German labor movement and the German Social Democrats go through the different countries, especially this country, preaching pacifism. We welcomed them. Scheidemann, Legien, Baumeister, Liebknecht and others. We thought the ideas express ed were noble ones, and we drafted the resolution in the Seattle conven tion of the A. F. of/L. to be intro duced in the international trade union anil mining congresses pledg ing the workers of all nations not to kill each other. As time went on, we were dismayed to find the representatives of the Im perial German Government leaving the Hague Peace Conferences and the representatives of the German work ing class returning home, and Ger many building more armaments, in creasing and improving their hideous killing machinery. We find that when the resolution was introduced in the international labor meetings, the dele gation of every country heartily ap proved of and voted for it but the Social Democrats from Germany. We have had a rude awakening, but we are awake. I want to take this opportunity to pay. a tribute to Karl Liebknecht. He, and a pitifully small coterie of his associates, kept the faith. Lieb knecht has never hesitated to speak out against the monstrous wrong Ger many has visited on the world. He and his few associates are the one il luminating ray of hope in all this aggregation of Teuton-Turkish treach ery and iniquity. The Turk has been despised and loathed by humanity the world over for his beastliness of heart, his atro cites and ciuielties. But even the Turk can now smile on the German and say, "I am bad, but you are even worse 7^"^'-' "J2"''t'',^TW'''*** -y "srfa ,^v" ers of the working class in Germany, with the few exceptions I have named will perform the most creditable act of their lives when they lie down and die. They have submitted to the proc lamations of the Imperial German Government that provides for annex ations and indemnities. They have never protested against the ravishing of Belgium, the invasion of France, Awarded War CROSS FOR v ^xraaj9..v. ,y •M? fj s- r* v CECIL M. MURRAY than I am. I am an amateur as com pared with you. These so-called lead bombing of innocent non-combatant men, women and children in Britain, the annihilation of their fellow-work ers in Serbia. They are in my opinion worse than their Prussian masters. And they will pay the price of their monumental treachery. I have been, and am now antimili tarist. I hate and despise war. But I am not a pacifist. I am fighting just as long as there exists one meas ure of social injustice in the world to fight against. Withal, put me down in this particular fight as a "bitter ender." I agree with Kipling when he said "If we should lose, the lights of liberty go out all over the world." We have got to fight on, we have all got to give all that is in us, until the Prussian Beast has had its eyes blind ed, its teeth extracted and its back broken. No human being need have any illusions now as to what we are up against. We are not fighting for France, for Britain, for Belgium nor for Serbia. We are fighting for ourselves. We are going to show the Teuton-Turks that treaties are more than scraps of paper, that there is a human equa tion in this life that will not be gov erned by fear, that cannot be regulat ed by rules and formulas, that com munity rape of women and wholesale murder of babies are not necessary steps towards creating a "place in the sun." I had the honor to represent the American workers at the British Trade Union Congress a year ago, and also represented them at the Inter-Allied conference in London. While on the Square is the name, Squareis our aim All Suits and Pants made to your individual order in a v~f* -t*-'"^ 'J UK TED STATES COVT RhMENT other side I had opportunity to study the attitude not only of the British, but the French, Belgians, Serbians and Italians. I saw the results of this frightfulness. I have seen sights it is not good for a man to see. I have seen the mutilated, the outraged, the blind and shell-shocked. I have seen sights that would make the angels weep. The most terrible thing I saw was the shell-shocked man. It is a sad sight to behold a group of young blinded fellows led along the streets by st nurse and you realize that for these men the light has gone out for ever. But, even worse, to my mind is the shell-shocked man. His nerve centers are paralyzed. He has no con trol over himself. Some have to be strapped into their chairs to keep them from flying out. They cannot feed themselves. Some are so bad that they cannot get their tongues back in their mouths. Some I have seen squalling like babies, fully realizing their helpless condition. It is some satisfaction to know that many of these cases are now. being success fully treated. Everybody over there has some body either in the war or killed. They have invariably one or two replies, "He has joined up," or "He has gone under." Yes, they have joined up, or gone under in the greatest and holiest cause that ever engaged the mind and heart of mae. A cause that can not fail. Yes, labor is meeting and will con tinue to meet its obligation to dem ocracy. The labor movement is not a movement composed of perfect indi viduals, neither is any movement with in ken so constructed. But if all other elements of our body politic render service in this crusade in the same proportion that organized labor does, there can be no doubt about the outcome. And I believe society as a whole is going to render this service. The world is awake and the awak ening spells the doom of murdering, raping Germany. We say that Prus sianism, the Kaiser and his six rotten sons and all are playing their last tune. We say that we have no feel ing against the German people that cannot be set aside when the war is ended. We, the organized workers of the Allied countries, declare that when the conference of the society of nations is held, the representatives of labor must be on those delegations. We declare that we will hold a labor conference at the same time and place. We want something to say about the reshaping of the world's affairs. We declare that this must be the end of all wars, that the maximum of good things existant in any country shall become the minimum for all countries, that the trade routes of the world must be free to all participants in the society of nations. When the world has thus been put on a human rather than a dollar basis, when man is rated above money, a pathway of peace and progress will be opened up for all the children of men, and in that day we will again extend the hand of brother hood to the German and every othgr worker.—James Lord, President, Min ing Department, American Federation of Labor. ——fBuv Liberty BONDT—— Union Shop SuuareTailors 106 HIGH STREET 139 MARKET STREET Plumbing, Steam, Hot Water, Cas Fitting PROMPT SERVICE. GIVE US A TRIAL JOHN P. HENN—Props.—JOHN A. MERGER Bell 428-L, PHONES—Home 751-M i /-I jaa-lt-tf & 1 I* vS "%i§i