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THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY
The eight-hour day means the eight
hour day, it doesfri't mean the basic
eight-hour day.
Organized labor has spent too many
dollars nad too much hard labor to
secure the foothold they have secured
on the pathway to a decent working
day to lose one inch of it without put
ting up a fight. Every contention of
organized labor on the advantages, of
the eight-hour day, both economically
and for the physical well-being of the
workers, has been proven time and
time again. The employers in those
grades where it has been established
for any length of time will themselves
put up a fight before they will go
back to the old long hou* system.
The newspapers made mu^fi of the
strike of workers at the Cramp ship
yard when the government ordered the
overtime abolished and the eight-hour
day in effect. The impression was
left that the men were organized, but
an investigation showed that the union
men stayed at work and the only ones
who walked out were the unorganized,
uncontrolled workers. What do these
men know about the eight-hour day
or the principles underlying it? All
they knew when overtime was abol
ished was that their weekly wage
would be less, and it was against less
wages they struck rather than against
the eight-hdur day. They did not
know that extra pay for overtime was
in the nature of a fine to make over
time prohibitively expensive, but im
agined that the extra pay was to en
courage workers to work long and
physically expensive hours. They im
agined that the government was arbi
trarily reducing wages by discontin
uing overtime, never knowing that or
ganized labor surrenderer the eight
hour day .only for the period of the
war as a patriotic duty and that the
government was only keeping faith
with organized labor when it returned
to the eight-hour day as soon as pos
sible after the war emergency has
passed.
Organized labor is not responsible
for the attitude taken by the unorgan
ized workers nor will it permit them
to undo the efforts of years.
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The eight-houT day is the logical
period of work, organized labor has
proven it, organized labor has gone a
lonk way toward securing it, and or
ganized labor is going to finish the
job.,
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CONTINUE LABOR BOARD.
In the following article the Day
ton Labor Review gives excellent rea
sons and makes plain the necessity
for creating a national labor board for
adjusting the differences that may
arise between employer and employe.
The Review says:
Within the next month the
Labor Board goes out of existence,
and with it goes the greatest stabili
zing influence in the history of indus
trial life. With absolutely no power
of itself it has revolutionized the
methods by which employer treated
with employe has raised wages to a
point where the recipients of these
benefits could live like real Americans
has practically abolished strikes and
lockouts has met with no real objec
tion from either-side to controversies
submitted to it for revision, and as a
result of its efforts production has
been tremendously increased.
All this will be changed when the
War Labor Board ceases to function.
Wages will be lowered, strikes will re
sult, lockouts will occur,bitterness will
be engendered, production will de
crease, the Bolsheviki will be abroad,
and unrest will be general. All of
which is unnecessary.
By mutual agreement between the
employers and employes, as represent
ed by the international unions of
workmen and the national association
of employers, the Labor Board can be
continued under the supervision of the
Department of Labor, but with no
authority to enforce its rulings.
Public opinion will attend to that. To
confer police powers upon the board
would constitute compulsory arbitra
tion, something the American employ
er and employe will not countenance.
Through this simple and common
sense arrangement all of the loss and
waste of material and time, all of the
bitterness and strife that formerly
characterized the relations between
capital and labor can be abolished.
It is difficult to believe that thinking
men will deliberately return to the old
order.
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There are a few machinists in Ham
ilton who are willing to work 18 and
20 hours a day as long as they can
hog things on overtime and constantly
criticise those trying to better their
working conditions of the craft. These
same fellows will be the first ones,
who when the shorter workday is es
tablished and decent wages are ob
tained, to stand around—cuss the
bosses—and tell how w-e-e—done it.
These same fellows ought to be
ashamed to draw the money they are
getting as the result of the efforts of
machinists organization. But that
class doesn't know the meaning of
the word shame. The man who will
knock his own organization or its
members is worse than a scab, for a
scab will at least stand by his tribe.
The sooner the machinists organiza
tion puts the rollers on all this kind
that they can get the goods on the
better it will be for the union and or
ganized labor in general.
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Director-General McAddo's proposal
to keep the railroads under govern
ment control untj^l924, so as to test
the plan of government ownership,
has been received by a storm of pro
test .from the grafters and their min
ions who formerly robbed the roads.
It ip up to every person who favors
government ownership to write their
senators and congressman immediate
ly telling them of their attitude. Pub
lic sentiment will do the work. Your
representative wants to know where
you stand.
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The farmer who comes into town
the day before Christmas and holds
the people up for 45 cents a pound for
turkeys and $2.00 for an ordinary
sized chicken certainly can't know
what Christmas stands for. There
never was a greater trust than that
THE OUT OF THE WAY SHOE STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY
WE WISH YOU
A Very Happy New Year
And extend to one and all our sincerest thanks
for the liberal patronage extended to us.
CLEM PATER, Your Shoe Man
421 South Second St.
MAKE PATER. YOUR BUY WORD
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New "York—Santiago Iglesias, pres
ident of the Porto Rican Federation of
Labor, and one of the American com
missioners in charge of the recent
Pan-American Labor Conference held
at Larpdo, Texas, will leave this city
in a few days for a'tour of Porto Rico,
Cuba, Santo Domingo and South
American republics in the interest of
the new ^deration.
He will stop first at Porto Rico,
where he will confer with the investi
gation commission recently appointed
by the War Labor Board to study
labor conditions on the island.
Iglesias will get in touch with the
various labor movements of the South
and Central America republics. His
instructions while on tour are:
To help the Pan-American workers
along the lines set forth by the Pan
American Labor Conference, creating
bureaus in New York and Washing
ton, and calling a congress next June.
To get touch with the various
labor movements of Pan America,
either by correspondence or in person,
and report back to the officials of the
Pan-American Federation in Wash
ington.
To bring about a better understand
ing of the ideas and ideals of the
American Federation of Labor among
the workers of Pan America.
To Promote Good Will
In Pan •American
Labor
Santiago Iglesias Goes On TouryOf
Southern Countries Jo Arouse
Greater Interest In Coming
Labor Congress.
To bpng about a more reciprocal
formed by the farmers who come to
market right here in our town. As
soon as two or three back their wagons
to the curb they get together and fix
the-jsrices and as others back up they
get the figures and the people have to
stand for it no matter how high they
fix it. It is a pity that there isn't
some way that these bloodthirsty pir
ates can be reached. They are worse
than the night prowlers who knock a
man down in the dark and take his
money from him. The market rob
bers take your money while you are
looking at them.
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LABOR'S ONWARD MARCH
Labor has gained great concessions
during the war.
Ko one doubts this, but there is an
inclination to attribute too much
achievement to conditions brought
about by the war.
It is true that organized labor has
been alert to its rights and to its in
terests that it has taken advantage of
situations to see that the workers
received wages somewhat commensu
rate with their extraordinary efforts
toward greater output for the em
ergencies arising from war necessities.
It is als? true that a vigorous oppo
sition was entered at every point
where employers sought to break
down the safeguards which the work
ers had been able to build up during
years of struggle.
The enviable position of the organ
ized workers of America as regards
wages, hours, safety appliances and
sanitary surroundings is not the re
sult of a sudden upward wash on a
wave of widespread war prosperity.
Whatever the measure of success
achieved, it has been the result of a
background of long years of struggle
on the part of organized labor.
It has been pointe out that reac
tionaries are at work trying to under
mine the position of labor. This they
shall not do.
This is the hour for labor to stand
firm to its position of unwavering
loyalty to the country, loyal and pa
triotic during the days of reconstruc
tion, the same as it stood during the
war. It is the hour to stand firm for
for the retention of its dearly bought
measure of industriA freedom.
Notice of this already has been
served on the few employers who have
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
and co-operative course between the
various labor peoples of Pan America
and the United States.
To give information in regard to
what has been done regarding the
acceptance of union cards of bonafide
unions of various countries by the
international unions of the United
States.
To emphasize the rights of the
people to secure the economic, politi
cal and social improvements of the
conditions of the workers of Pan
American countries through an econ
omical, collective, sympathetic legis
lation and sympathetic and co-oper
ative administration^
To propagate the principles of the
Pan-American federations of labor
among the various labor movements
of Pan America.
To endeavor to have a direct rep
resentative of each labor movement
of Pan-America to the Pan-American
Labor Congress to be held July next.
To endeavor by every honorable
means and within the limits of the
powers of private, voluntary, asso
ciated efforts to secure the coopera
tion of the various governments of
Pan America in firmly establishing the
principles of protection of the peop
les to work out their own salvation in
the ,war to bring about mutual good
will, co-operation and confidence
among the workers, the peoples and
the governments of Pan America.
thought to seize upon the days of de
mobilization and what they hoped
would be an overfull labor market as
the occasion to reduce wages and pos
sibly increase hours of labor.
The march of our progress will be
onward and onward, never ceasing.
This is the hour for organizing, for
planning constructive campaigns for
the advancement of the cause of those
who toil.
We who have remained at home owe
it to our returning heroes that condi
tions shall be improved when they go
*back to their employment.
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With peace at hand—what a joyous
Christmas. Do you remember Christ
mas of last year? Of course you re
member the war was going on, but do
you remember also the great strikes
that were on last Christmas tin^e
Although one of the strikes nevier
has been settled, all is quiet and har
mony prevails. Well could we say
this Christmas—""On earth peace
good will to men."
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Hamilton's stores did a splendid
Christmas business. Passing through
many of them the day before Christ
mas, it was observed that many
shelves were vacant This speakers
well for Hamilton shoppers, it goes
to show that all our people don't do
their buying, outside the city. The
merchants all report record breaking
sales.
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The union label is the symbol of effi
ciency, of honest endeavor, of a square
deal, of industrial peace in the life of
a nation. It appeals to the potency of
the purchasing power of the toilers
in the elimination of the sweatshop,
of child labor, of prison contract labor
and of underpaid labor in general.
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Have you been to the meeting
lately brother? Much is going on at
all these meetings of great importance
to you at this time. Don't sit behind
the .stove and depend upon the other
fellow doing it all.
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Santa Clause was certainly good to
the Horse Shoers. He put a slippery
street in the sock of every one of
them.
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Oh, if I only was Woodrow Wilson.
—Theodore Roosevelt.
A PROPER START
"So your husband refused to buy
you an rutomobile?"
"Not cxactly refused he said I
ouy:ht first to become familiar with
machinery in general, so he bought
me a sewing machine."—Boston
Transcript.
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WOULD DEPOPULATE t2w WORLD
Little Jack Smith's Sunday school
teacher, after a lesson on Ananias
and Sapphira asked, "Why is not
everybody who tells a lie struck dead
Little Jack answered gravely,
"Cause there wouldn't be anybody
left."—Boston Transcrint.
PEACE
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ADDS
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TO
FOOD
TASK
Europe Needs Nearly Double
Last Year's Supplies From
America.
ECONOMY MUST CONTINUE.
World Survey Shows 8ufflolent Wheat,
But Shortage of Fats—Govern
ment's Stimulative Pro
gram Justified.
With the return of peace America is
confronted by a food problem ev»n
harder of solution than that with
which we coped in time of war.
We
have an entirely new world situation
in food. It*will mean essential changes
in our domestic program. But more
important than this. It must of neces
sity require Increased export.
Last year we shipped 11,820,000 tons
of foodstuffs to the European Allies.
Had the war continued we would have
Increased this enormous figure to
17,-
550,000 tons in the present year. Now,
with the responsibility of feeding mil
Ions of people liberated from the Ger
man yoke, our exports must be brought
up to at least 20,000,000 tons—prac
tically the limit of loading capacity at
our ports.
World Food Demand Increased.
The end of the war will create an
enormously increased demand for food.
Humanity demands that the starving
millions freed from Prussian oppres
sion shall have sufficient supplies to
assure their return to health and pros
perity. If these liberated nations are
faced with starvation they cannot es
tablish orderly governments. Hunger
breeds anarchy in a people. The war
to free the world for democracy will
be lost after it has been won. Amer
ica must continue Its work to libera
tion and by sharing its food make de
mocracy safe in the world.
In order to meet this new situation
the Food Administration has made a
careful survey of the food resources of
the whole wjrld In relation to the to
tal demands. Computing supplies on
the basis of the avoidance of waste
and war consumption, it is found that
wheat and rye may be obtained in suf
ficient quantities to meet economical
world consumption high protein feed
for dairy animals will show a shortage
of about 3,000,000 tons, while there
will be sufficient supplies of other
feeds to allow economical consump
tion beans, peas and rice will also be
found hi sufficient quantities to main
tain economy in consumption there
are sufficient supplies of beef to keep
pace with the capacity of refrigerating
space.
Great Fat Shortage.
The most distinct reversal of policy
will come with pork and dairy prod
ucts, vegetable ollfe, sugar and coffee.
Utmost economy will be required in
the use of fats and oils, in which there
is a world shortage of about 3,000.000,
000 pounds. Inere are sufficient sup
plies for us to return to our normal
sugar consumption if other uations
continue their present short rations,
or even if their rations are slightly in
creased. If the European countries,
however, are to resume their normal
sugar consumption it will be through
our continued conservation In order
to share with them. There is a sur
plus of coffee.
Of'the world total required to pro
duce these results Nprth America will
furnish more than 60 per cent The
United States, including the West In
dies, will be In a position to furnish
a total of about 20,000,000 tons—
against our pre-war exports of about
6,000,000 tons.
The bread grains situation allows
the world to abandon the use of sub-
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stitutes In wheat bread. Large sup
plies have accumulated in the Argen
tine, Australia and other hitherto in
accessible markets. A continued high
milling percentage, economy of con
sumption and elimination of waste
make it,possible for the world to re
turn to a white wheat loaf.
Of all our export possibilities In
fats, the largest and most important
Item is pork. While we cannot supply
the world deticiency, wo will be able
to help it enormously because of the
past iMjlicies of stimulating production
and rest mining consumption. The
government's policy .with regard to
stimulating the production of wheat
and of pork, the readiest source of
fats, is thus amply Justified by the sit
uation upon the return of peace.
Famine Specter Still Stalks.
The people of the United States
must continue care and wise economy
in tlie use, of food in order to complete
the work of liberating the world. But
even with the utmost conservation and
production in this country there will
be in Europe for the next year or more
starvation beyond all human power to
allay. In North Russia there are 40,
000,000 people to whom food cannot
be made accessible tills winter. Their
transportation is" demoralized In com
plete anarchy. And even If internal
transport can be assured their ports of
entry would soon be frozen. Millions
more who have felt keenly the oppres
sion of war will be beyond reach of as
sistance.
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