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Columbus, Ohio-—Liability insurance
companies were dealt another severe
blow by the State SuDreme C-urt
Tuesday, when, in affirming the
Frankl:n County Appellate Court, the
highest state tribunal held to be v«l?J
the 1917 amendment to the workman'?*
compensation law, which p." 'Mbit
liability insurance companies aidem
nifying employers who elect to carry
their own insurance against losses
The suit was brought oy Frf-.v*
Thornton, a Columbus employer,
against the State Industrial Commis
sion to prevent the commission from
cancelling his right to carry his own
insurance because he had indemnified
Long Working Hours
Means Less Products Accord
ing To U. S. Public
Health Service.
Washington.—In a pamphlet issued
by the United States public health
service it is shown that the claim that
less hours means less production is
untrue.
The pamphlet contains a study on
industrial fatigue by a committee of
the council of national defense.
"It is obvious," report the investi
gators, "that a man can do more work
in two hours than in one hour but
it does not necessarily follow from this
that he can do more in 12 hours than
in 10 or more in 10 hours than in eight.
In fact, whenever the work is of such
duration that fatigue begins to be
pronounced, it has been shown again
and again that shortening the working
period actually increases the amount
of work done. This may not always
be evident in the first few weeks, but
it appears later.
"Innumerable instances wf this
might be qXioted. Thus a certain
granite-cv.ting company found that
the same man under identically the
same conditions accomplished more of
exactly th£ same kind of work when
These Honor Men
Explain Trophies
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most coveted mark of distil ic-.
Uon a soldier can wear is a red]
taesle hung from his left shoulder,
Corporal Francois Dalecky wear®
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The honor mark means the fighter
has seen nothing but front-line fight
ing service since he has been a mem
ber of the Foreign Legion of France.
With Interpreter Percy dl Geimaldi
1» is touring Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Kentucky on the Liberty Bond Trophy
Train.
Dalecky's first fighting was a year
*&d a half 1a Sfrloolki, then he fought
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ANOTHER NAIL
Driven In Coffin Of Liability Insur
ance Companies In Ohio.
WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION LAW RECEIVES
A STIFF BRACER.
Supreme Court Upholds Amendment Of 19 7 That Denies
Indemnity To Certain Employers.
himself against loss in a liability com
pany.
The Cleveland Stamp and Tool Com
pany entered the suit by cross-petition
Thornton and the Cleveland Com
pany alleged their indemnity contracts
with the liability insurance companies
were perpectual, and as they were en
tered into before the 1917 amendment
became effective to cancel the contract
would be in violation of the constitu
tional provision covering obligation of
contracts.
The Courts held that these contracts
were for only a year's period, and "that
the industrial commission had au
thority to refuse to recognize them
after the firs year.
he was working nine hours than he
did when he was working 10 hours.
And again when the hours were re
duced to eight this same man accom
plished still more in an eight-hour
day than he did in a nine-hour day,
or a considerable amount more than
he did when the day was 10 hours
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"In an English munitions factory
when the average weekly hours of
men sizing fuse bodies were reduced
from 58.2 to 51.2 the total output was
increased 21 per cent."
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HERE'S THE WAY TO DO IT.
Wheeling, W. Va.—The unions of
the Wheeling district have voted to
assess thc-ir members $1 each to aid
in the campaign of the National Com
mittee for the Organization of Iron
and Steel Workers, thus adding to the
efforts of the national committee.
Mass meetings are being held almost
every night in Wheeling, Bellaire,
Benwood and Martins Ferry, and ev
ery meeting has brought 100 or more
new members, of all trades, and of
unskilled laborers, employed in the
trust mills. It is estimated that 18,
000 new members will be added to the
various labor organizations of the dis
trict. This is the first case of a local
assessment being added to the national
campaign.
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Pei°ey di 6eimaldi
two years in France and a year in
Morocco.
He has been wounded three times,
twice at Gallipolis and the last time
in Albania. At both places he was
i« [ted for bravery in action. He wears
11 he croix de guerre with two stars
and has other medals.
It took Interpreter Peter di Geimaldi
two years to get fit for service at the
front. He weighed but 90 pounds
when he first tried to enlist in the
Foreign Legion Two years of med
ical care in the Swiss mountains put
on 30 pounds. Then he was accepted
as a truck driver.
How have you tried to get into the
service?
There's one sure way that always
brings acceptance—
BUY Liberty
Buy Bonds!
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Bonds! Buy Bonds!
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THE IHITJ.E II COUNTY
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS
Secretary of the Navy.
The relations between labor and the
Navy Department have been highly
satisfactory during the past year. In
spite of the general bidding for skilled
mechanic.*, the workmen in our navy
yards, with surprisingly few excep
tions, have remained loyal to the de
partment and have refused to leave
their vitally necessary work in the
yards for more lucrative positions
elsewhere.
In addition, on several occasions
when the general relations between
capital and labor appeared, under the
extraordinary conditions created by
the war, to have reached a critical
stage, the various trades in our navy
yards addressed resolutions to the
Secretary of the Navy so clearly defin
ing their belief that the duty of all
loyal American workmen lay in se
curing the maximum production of
war materials by combined individual
efforts, without regard to selfish con
siderations of personal betterment,
as to have no slight effect in bring
ing both sides in controversies going
on outside the yards to a realization
of the need of forgetting their dis
putes and devoting their energies to
ward winning the war.
Much of this satisfactory condition
is due to the loyal co-operation of the
heads for the American Federation of
Labor, wit whom the department has
maintained the friendliest relations
and whose wise and patriotic coun
cils have done much to keep such yard
workmen as were members of labor
organizations keenly alive to a sense
of their duty as American citizens.
The department feels it may take
some credit, to itself for this condi
tion of affairs on account of the prin
ciple it has established during the last
five years of frank dealing with men
of labor and by the rule that any
grievance could be brought, without
red tape or formality, directly to the
attention of the Secretary of the Navy
at any time for investigation and cor
rection.
The Navy Department trusts the
men who build and repair ships and
make munitions it believes they trust
the department, and that is the whole
secret of successful co-operation be
tween employer and employee.
The Navy has suffered severely, in
common with all industry, through the
shortage of labor. It was early seen
that men to operate our yards to their
greatest capacity could only be se
cured by further crippling the build
ing of merchant ships—so imperative
ly needed—and the manufacture of
nunitions.
The policy was established, there
fore, of niiking no demands for more
labor beyond what was absolutely
necessary for the upkeep of the fleet
and a very limited amount of new
construction. Even this required a
large augmentation of our yard forces,
but while at times work has been de
layed mere than we would have pre
ferred, yet enough men have been
found to carry on the absolutely need
ed requirements of the service.
The exigencies of war have made
it necessary for, the department in
many case? to take an active inter
est in the relations between private
manufacturers and their workmen.
In a number of instances the navy
department has itself by general
agreement acted as arbiter in dispute|
arising in plants engaged in furnish
ing it with materials. Close co-opera
tion with the labor-adjusting agencies
of the War Department was effected,
and the two military branches of the
Government, since the early days of
the war, have acted in absolute agree
ment and often jointly in such mat
ters.
Through the War Policies Board and
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Says "l abor And Capital, Acting
Wise, Fair And Right, No Fu
ture Labor Problem Impos
sible Of Solution."
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various special committees the Navy
has also been in close touch with all
labor-employing Government agen­
cies and under the general advice and
guidance of the Department of Labor
there has been a gratifying spirit of
helpful co-operation.
The policy of the Navy has been to
effect, whenever possible ,not only set
tlements without formal arbitration
and individual plants in a city, but
between all the manufacturers in the
city and their workmen by signed
agreements.
There will be many serious prob
lems of readjustments in labor condi
tions after the war, but to these the
department? look forward without ser
ious apprehension.
So far as organized labor is con
cerned, the wise attitude of the pres
ent leaders of the American Federa
tion gives assurance of no impossible
and unreasonable demands, while the
ever-increasing better understanding
on the part of American employers
generally as to what is a fair, wise
and profitable attitude toward their
workmen, on the other hand, causes
us to feel that solutions which are just
Watchful Waiting And Quick
Strike Win For Engravers
St. Louis.-—Members of Photo-En
gravers' Union No. 10 of this city,
have settled down to planning their
schedules for patriotic investments for
the coining year. They have settled
the mitter of a little controver°v with
the employers in a manner chat is
proving satisfactory—to the workers.
Realizing that all over the United
States there was a general adjustment
of wages to point somewhat commen
surate with the continuous increased
cost of living, the photo-engravers in
midsummer asked for relief from the
pinch of circumstances. To this the
employers refused to listen, saying
they coudln't grant an increase under
their existing contract.
The union settled down to a period
of watchful waiting. Their contract
expired Nov. 30. Efforts were made
to reach an agreement for the next
year, but the employers failed to see
the necessity for increased wages and
the matter came to a focus when the
committee reported back to the union
that there was a deadlock.
At a meeting where virtually all
the members of No. 10 were present
itv was the unanimous decision to re
port at Union Headquarters Monday
morning instead of on the various jobs.
The employers were notified of the
action and its unanimity and they
asked for an armistice.
The union was equal to the occa
sion and, disregarding its advanta
geous position, demanded a settlement
strictly in accord with existing condi
tions—nothing more.
It took just one day's strike to per
suade the employers that the scale
ought to be raised from $28 per week
to $35 per week. The 44-hour week
was also agreed upon, same to go into
effect on January 1, 1919. The agree
ment dates from December 1. 1918,
and includes back pay. The victory
was quick and complete.
Every member of this union is a
member of the local branch of the
American Alliance for Labor and De
mocracy. The membership has found
much inspiration and constructive
leadership in the American Alliance
for Labor and Democracy. What is
more, it has imbued every man with
the spirit of sacrifice and service un
til the union is able to boast that the
125 members have invested an a-»erage
of $500 each in Liberty Bonds and
Thrift Stamps. Besides, the union's
Service Flag contains 24 stars.
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Praises American Federation For
Haintenance of Friendly Re
lations. Predicts Safe
justment.
and reasonable will be reached with
the same spirit of justice and desire
to be fair that hes been shown, with
ever increasing clearness, by the great
manufacturers of the country .luring
the last six months.
With both capital and labor willing
to do what is wise and fair and right,
no labor problem of the future will
be impossible of solution.
The credit for the achievements of
the navy, under stress of war, is in
large measure due to the skilled me
chanics and other workers in ship
yards and munitions plants. They
have beer truly enlisted to win the
war, working in the cold of winter
and the heat of summer to make ready
and keep ready the material for the
fighting men on the sea.
Sailor and artisan, marine and la
borer—the whole Naval Enlistment
has given full proof of wholehearted
and efficient service.
Then men in those roles deserve the
thanks of America for their service,
and when the men in uniform come
back victorious, worker and seaman
will alike deserve the honor that will
be paid an invincible and efficient
navy.
I have been in close touch, in elbow
touch, so to speak, with the three
quartei's of a million men in naval
work, and it is a pleasure to record
the spirit of the men and women whose
hearty co-operation, cheerfulness and
skill hav? made possible naval effi
ciency at home and abroad.
Detroit Bolshevik Hotbed
Is Charge 23 Fined $3,849
Detroit, Mich.—Detroit was offi
cially characterized today as a hot
bed of Bolshevism. Crown Attorney
Rodd, of Windsor, Canada, just across
the river from this city and practically
one of its suburbs, declared during the
prosecution of twenty-three prisoners
charged with having possession of se
ditious literature, that Detroit was
fast becoming a menace to the United
States and to Canada on account of
the rapidly growing number of fan
atical Bolsheviki to be found there.
Attorney Rodd stated in the course
of the trial that he has reliable in
formation that 5,000 Bolshevists of the
worst type are banded together ?n
Detroit and are holding secret meet
ings weekly.
The twei'ty-three found guilty to
day were arrested in October. They
had on their persons copies of the
'Daily Free Russia," published in Chi
cago.
The aggregate of the fines imposed
upon the twenty-three was 3P49. an
average of $1670.
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FOR CHILD LABOR LAW.
Charleston, W. Va.—A campaign for
new child labor law in West Vir
ginia has been started with a punch.
The state-wide meeting formed a per
manent Child Labor Committee, with
Walter B. Hilton, editor of "The
Wheeling Majority," as chairman. T.
B. O'Flynn,secretary, and Miss Nola
M'Kinney, of Fairmont, treasurer. The
secretary is devoting full time to the
work, and a direct appeal is being
made to every labor organization,
woman's club, preacher and teacher
in the state. One thousand members
have joined. The proposed bill pro
hibits employment in any occupation
except agriculture of all children un
der fifteen, and under sixteen in dan
gerous or injurious occupations.
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LOAN SOME
'When a man of humble antece
dents marries into a family of aristo
crats he is often reminded of the fact
that he is self-made.",
"Yes, indeed, Hardly a day passes
that some member of the aristocratic
family doesn't try to touch him for a
loan."—Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Buy Thrift Stamps and helfe.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919. 75 CENTS PER YEAR
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full membership privileges for ONE
YEAR instead of three months, to all
Butler County Boys returning from
overseas or from training camps. The
Middletown district has their fund
raised and the people of Hamilton are
continuing to bring in their subserip
tions to this fund. $5.00 pays for
one full year's membership, as the
local "Y" is giving four months
This is the gift of the people of
Butler County to show their appre
ciation for the services these young
men have given to their country, also
the further fact that the boys have so
fully appreciated what the "Y" has
done for them.
In a statement by Dr. .John R. Mott,
Chief Executive of the Y. M. C. A. in
America, free access to all Y. M. A.
privileges for a period of three
months, was extended to all Ameri
cans in uniform returning from over
seas or from training camps. To the
hundreds of thousands of soldiers,
Marines and Sailors, who have learned
to appreciate the Y. M. C. A huts and
accomodations while in the service
this means the continuance of a con
tact with improving conditions which
the young men began after they donn
ed the American Uniform.
Where the "Y" hut provided the one
warm gathering place for the fight
ers in cold weather and at all times
a
cheery club, theatre, school, library,
writing room and church, the fine big
city Y. M. C. A. buildings will afford
all these, together with their swim
ming pools, gymnasium and restaur
ants for the boys who come hack.
Loneliness was the greatest evil which
the "Y" hut com batted overseas and
the city *'Y" buildings will perform
the same service for young men, who
are without co/.y home surroundings
and all this free.
"We welcome all the brave young
men returning from overseas or from
home contonments and are calling up
on all the Y. M. C. A's to place free
ly at their disposal their full member
ship privileges for three months,"
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY
An Injury To Nation, Declares
Secretary ot Labor Wilson.
Sounds Warning Note On In
creasing Number Of Wom
en Entering Rule of Labor
Washington.—In his annual report
Secretary of Labor Wilson sounds a
warning note on the increasing num
ber of women in industry. He says
it is impossible to view this question
without realizing the gravity of the
new situation."
This hard-headed trade unionist
quotes the findings of the children's
bureau of his department on the in
jurious efiect on babies, other children
and family life by permitting mothers
in industry.
The significant statement is made
that as the father's wage is increased
the employment of mothers decline.
The report says:
"Mothers can not leave their nurs
ing babies without risking an infant
death rate double that of babies whose
mothers are able to stay at home with
them.
'"Older children need the daily care
of a mother and suffer in health and
morals when they are obliged to shift
for themselves.
'Women ai*e unable to do factory
work and at the same time conduct
properly the affairs of a household,
and '".he attempt to do both o nthe
whole is ruinous to their health and
to family life.
"Unless occupations are selected
with due regard to the physical pow
ers of a woman they may insure per
manent injury, and in the case of
young girls injury which may greatly
reduce their usefulness and happiness
in later life.
"It must be bprne in mind, in en-
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Of Butler County Being Given Full
Privileges of Y. M. C. A. For One Year.
THE, PEOPLE'S GIFT
Butler County is unique in providing
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The following have called at the
Hamilton Y. M. C. A. and received
their membershcip tickets:-—
James Fox, Herbert Getz, John
Morris, Roy J. Kurry, Perry O. Stomps
F. L. Jester, Ellis Riley, Carl Althoff,
Clarence Munsey, Allen Hyer, Rob
ert L. Brunning, R. H. McClellan, John
J. Rowekemp, Wilbur E. Cox, John
McCreadie, Marion S. Moore, Court
ney Clark, Andrew
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leavoring to protect mother* and
younfc children, or to protect mothers
from injuiious work before the birth
of their children, that no prohibitory
laws are of avail unless it is dear
that an adequate income is assured
from some other source.
"Moreover, with a decent living as
sured there is no appreciable tendency
on the part of women to work away
from home during pregnancy nor when
children are neglected.
"The bureau's studies of infant mor
tality show the rapid decrease of work
ing mothers as income from fathers'
earnings increase.
"Thus far there is reason to hope
that the employment of women with
young children may be avoided by
oeal patriotic effort."
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Thirty Millions Bought
W. S. S. In 1918
Washington.—Thirty million per
sons have purchased war savings
stamps in the United States this year.
The income derived from them ex
ceeds the total government income for
the fiscal year 1914 exclusive of pos
tal revenues.
The income for that year was $714,
000,000. The sale of war savings
stamps this year has brought $900,
000,000—nearly a billion dollars. Their
maturity value is more than a billion.
That's five times the $200,000,000
bond issue that paid for the whole
Spanish-American war.
The bigness of the Liberty bond
campaigns has almost obscured the
impoi lance of the thrift stamp cam
paign. If we had no Liberty bond
campaigns, the country would have de
clared the war savings campaign the
biggest money-raising scheme the
nation's history.
That's why the government is pre
paring to keep the war stamps jpi
circulation after peace is signed.
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said Dr. Mott. "This should be of
greatest benefit especially to the men
readjusting themselves to civilian life
The Y. M. C. A.'s one object is to
render service to assure these men
that the Red Triangle is their friena
in peace as it was in war."
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Mosher, Jesse
J. Ends, Howard Doernbush, Ralph
Ruder, Edwin H. Schubert, Carl E.
Duemer, George Ruhl, Carl John Kaef
er, Emil E. Friedman, William Reaves,
Raymond Rowrkemper, June Calla
way, Louis Sauer. Edmund Huber,
Gordon Henninger, Vianzo Romano,
E. B. Vellmar, Allen Andrews, Jr.,
Vincent Theadore Hobbes, Joe. W.
Landis, Court Manning, Ralph W.
Morningstar, Paul Ranbie Ortolf,
Christ Panagioton, Louis C. Rentsch
ler, Leo. H. Tenforde, Hardman Wolke
William Walke, Raymond J. Walsh,
John Kenneth West.
Contributions sriven by the employ
ees of the factories other business
concerns and professions.
David Byrad $5.00, Columbia .Machine
and Tool Co. $27.75, Black & Clawson
$11.00, American Can Co. $45 50,
P. Deuscher Co., $40.75. E&g'e Wood
en Ware Mfg Co. $13.00, Lewis Ne*\
burg Co. $10.00, American Koiling
Mills $32.25, First National Bank
$36.00, Hamilton Furnace Co. $15.00,
American Frog and Switch $25.00,
Simplex Machine and Tool Co.$5.50,
Herring-IIall-Marvin $41.00, Strauss
Clothing and Shoe Co. $10.00, Miami
Valley Knitting Mills $25.00, Hamilton
Foundry $74.10, C. C. Paper Co.$199.75
Niles Tool Works $89.00, Long and
Allstatter Co. $34.00, Mosler Safe Co.
$60.00, Wallace Beach $5.00, American
Foundry Co. $31.00 and various small
subscriptions $7.00.
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