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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1919.
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Weekly at 326 Market Street.
Hamilton, 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.
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ASSOCIATION
STEP-AT-A-TIME.
In an editorial on the trade union
movement the Baltimore Sun prints a
good illustration of organized labor's
policy, which was contumaciously re
ferred to a few years ago as a step
at-a-time plan by so-called revolu
tionists. The Sua says:
"Forty or fifty years ago a chess
player by the name of Steinitz in
vented what is known as the modern
style of chess play. Its chief char
acteristic was what he called 'the ac
cumulation of small advantages.'
"The old chess master staked sue
cess on bold and reckless strokes.
More often than not they came to
grief. Steinitz moved prudently
cautiously, gaining a small advantage
here and anothej there, and finally
winning out through the accumula
tion of these trifln advantages. The
Steinitz method has driven out the
old method among the first-class play
ers. It is the style that wins.
"The Federation of Labor, in the
three decades during which Mr. Gom
pers has been its leading figure, has
played the game of labor advance
ment in this way. It has striven to
get reductions in the hours of labor
here, and increase of wages there
better working conditions in this place
and that. It has resolutely put out
of mind all dreams of the achieve
ment of the millennium overnight and
past few weeks.
Men's New Spring Shoes and Oxfords for Sat­
urday. Big values, in. Black Blucher or English
Shoes, also Tan English Oxfords worth $4.00
$2.99
MEN'S SHOES In Gun Metal Button,
Blucher or Tan Elk Outing for SatuV
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Big Values
242 High St.
kept its mind always on the next step
in advance."
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We often hear the expression from
some of the drys, "what are you go
ing to do when the old town goes dry."
From careful investigation and inter
mingled with some direct informa
tion it is the drys who are worrying
themselves mostly about it. The fel
low who has always been wet and
who has had the courage to admit it,
need have nothing to worry about. If
there is anything floating around he
will get his share cf it. But the oth
er fellow, the one who has signed all
the dry petitions, attended all the dry
meetings and who has sneaked around
and bought his w'th tho excuse that
he wanted it for a sick friend, that's
the fellow who is worrying now about
the old town going dry. They are
just waking up to the fact that it will
be dry for them. Yes, very dry.
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An appeal has been made to oixr lo
cal manufacturers to give our return
ed soldier boys their old jobs back.
We are informed that only two manu
facturers in rnfr city agreed to take
the boys in. What is the trouble with
all the rest of them? We refer to
those who were so patriotic and se
cured prominent articles in our daily
papers in which they stated when the
boys left that they would get their
same positions when they returned.
Well, the war is over and the boys
are back, what are you going to do
about it? Will tbey ^et their jobs
back, or must they be left under the
impression that your word is not as
good as your bond?
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Director of Public Service, F. J. J.
Sloat, before the Citizens Booster
Club last Monday night reported that
owing to the loss of revenue formerly
acquired through the liquor tax the
city would not be able to do much
street improving this year. This
should be an easy problem Mr. Sloat
All that is necessary it to call in a
few of the "dry" movement leaders.
They had it all figured out before
.he election as to just how this rev
enue was .to be n.ade and„rto doub
can enlighten you now.
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When men were compelled to work
from sun up to sun down wages were
low. Since the shortening of hours
to nine and the inauguration of the
Saturday half holiday wages have
been on the increase. The univi
sal eight hour day will increase wag
es still more. This is advocated and
proven by the union men and women
that are working the short hours
Of course we have some overtime
hogs that cannot see it and never
will, but the manufacturer sees it
and that is the reason he opposes it
Get the eight hoirs and the money
will follow.
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Some few years ago if we are not
mistaken, the drys told us that un
der prohibition there would be no
more need for poor houses, jails and
penitentiaries. From the looks of
things they had better add some addi
tions to these institutions. Now over
in our sister state of Indiana they are
making wholesale arrests every day
of boot leggers, blind t'ger operators
We offer to-morrow the same great values, the same stylish footwear at
the same low prices that broke all records
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Specials in all departments Ladies', Misses* and Children's Shoes and Slippers
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and amateur distilleries. And only
today we read of Laporte, Ind., where
1000 young breweries are in daily op
eration and they say that they make
very good beer. We would rather
think that the drys voted in a flock
of breweries' instead of voting them
out, likewise making thousands of
men, women and even children take
a chance at the bootlegging business,
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Many of the su'dier boys could get
a job if they wanted to be strike
breakers. Some manufacturers would
employ them in a case of that kind
if they had both legs and both arms
off.
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Wont some kind real estate man
come to our city and show us the
route to a new city building. There
is no one in Hamilton who can put the
deal over and living up to our custom
of letting an outsider do It, we are
appealing to you. Please!
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The eight hour day in the factor
ies will solve the out of work prob
ltm. Three men will have a job in
stead of two.
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If only the rich were permitted to
subscribe to the Victory Loan we'd
say it was a graft—and it would be.
Victory Notes are the best invest
ment in the world
SENSATIONAL GAINS
Have Been Made By Butcher
Workmen
Chicago—One of the most" sensa
tional records in the history of the
trade union movement has been made
by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen since July 1917
At that time the union's member
ship was 6,500 with a debt of over
$2,000. At the convention in that year
a dual organization was discontinued
and the butcher wti kmen, now united,
started on an organizing campaign,
aided by the A. F. of L. and its affil
iate, the Chicago federation of labor.
In 18 months the membership has in
creased from 6,500 to 100,000, collec
tive bargaining secured and the work
day changed from 10 and 12 hours
to eight hours, with extra pay for
overtime. Wages have been increas
ed approximately 50 per cent, the to
tal amount being about $40,000,000.
These gains hnve been secured
through arbitration after the union
strengthened its lines to the point
where a successfu! strike'was possible
if living conditions were refused.
The Butcher Workman, official pa
per of this organization, makes the
following coniment on these skyrock
et gains:
"During this comparatively brief
space of time our international body
brought emancipation from virtual
slavery, a more adequate wage, the
long denied opportunity for sufficient
rest and recreation and consequent
social and educational advancement
recognition of organized effort, the
stubbornly contested privilege of col
lective bargaining and more humane
working conditions to over 100,000
packing house workers throughout the
United States."
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PRESSMEN RAISE WAGES.
Ottawa, Canada.—Printing Press
has secured a 10-months' agreement
which increases wages $5 a week for
cylinder pressmen, $2 to $3.50 for
other members and establishes a 45
hour week for night work at one and
one-third the day scale.
volume of business done in the
Boys and Youths Box
Shoes, Sizes 1 to 31-2 for
Saturday
Calf Blucher
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THE StfTL'EK COUNTY PRESS.
Stop Wage Cutting.
1 hold that Bolshe\ista and
standpatters and profiteers are equally
menace to the civilization of our
time.—Samuel Gompers, upon his Re
turn from Europe
Bethlehem Steel threatens a 30 per
cent reduction in wages, says an ed
itorial in the New York Evening Sun.
It appears that Bethlehem Steel in
tends to try out thi ground for others
who have the same desires but less of
either strength or courage
If there is any one thing "that any
body in America could do to bring
upon the country depression and dis
satisfaction, if there is any one thing
that anybody in America could do to
give encouragement to those whose
sole object is the disruption of our
social stability and the undermining
of our national stability, this plan of
Bethlehem Steel is that one thing.
All America ought to unite against
this blow.
No thousand preachers of sedition
and disorder could utter any preach'
ment as effective as the preachment
planned by Bethlehem Steel.
Disorder feeds upon reaction.
And, furthermore, we have got
through with reaction. The faces of
the great masses of the American
poeple are turned toward progress,
There never was and never will be
any progress fathered by a .reduction
in wages.
Reduction of wages means less of
food, poorer houses and poorer clothes
for those who get the shrunken pay
envelopes.
Wages must go dowi^
It is said that blind %ien develop
a sixth sense that saves them from
pitfalls and bumps. Evidently this is
not true of those afflicted with econ
omic and social blindness.
Somehow America must be saved
from the consequences of this most
dangerous loss of sight.
Wages must not be reduced.
It is argued that if Bethlehem Steel
can reduce wage?, others will be able
to follow. This may be true) There
fore, there must be no start.
It is argued that if wages can be
lowered the cost of living will go down
in equal proportion. This is not true
and it needs no learned professor to
bring forth the proof, though proof
there is in abundance.
The fallacy that is today the most
menacing fallacjfin the world is that
which preaches reduction of wages in
the process of reconstruction.
"Return to normal conditions,' they
say.
Reduction of wages will pile ruin
upon ruin in the world of industry,
when America and the world are in
need of every last ounce that industry
can produce. The history of American
panics should be better known by
Bethlehem Steel and some other great
corporations.
And as for returning to normal
conditions, what Americans today
mean by "normal" is that kind of
social balance that permits every in
dustrious person to live a normal life
Cutting wages means driving men and
women and children into a subnormal
existence.
And one more point. When wages
advanced during the war they just
about kept pace with *he advancing
cost of living. A reduction now, there
fore, means a reduction below the pre
war level—and that is the truth of
the matter.
There have been many famous slo
gans in the world and if Bethlehem
Steel carries out its announced plan
there will be another and it will be
made famous by American working
people shouting in unison, "NO WAGE
REDUCTIONS!"
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Profiteer Helps Bol
shevik
Secretary Redfield W a rns
Country to "Go After" Un
fair Price Boosters
New York,—The profiteer is one
of the chief perils of the present stage
American commercial reconstruc
lion, according to Secretary William
('. Redfield of the Department of Com
merce, writing in the current number
"Investor & Trader", on the prob
Hble effect of the Peace Treaty. The
Secretary's statement, however,
most optimistic as to the country':
business future, ?alling attention to
i he fact that the condition of the coun
try is sound with hank resources nev
t-r larger or more liquid.
"We have a great loan to face and
heavy taxes to pay, but we shall meet
them fearlessly and successfully and
in a few months shall find that our
faces are turned toward a bright and
prosperous future," he continues.
"How can we help," each of us in
'his period of reconstruction? One
vroy is to talk and act as optimists
tor the chief thing needed is confi
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dence. The profiteer has no place
among us now. Go after him where
ever you find him! He it is who pluys
into the hands of the bolshevik. He
it is who provides a basis for the I.
W. W.
Do not try to sustain prices fdr the
sake of a large profit. That prolongs
the agony. That prevents the return
of confidence. It is better far to lose
something for a month or two than to
prolong the hesitation for six or eight
months or ay ear. Business now faces
an opportunity for a sacrifice, tempor
arily, of personal profits that the
greater gain may come when the buy
ing movements starts. Business can
aid the buying movement, can stimu
late it,can bring ir nearer by letting
the public know it will be met half
way.
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'There is no doubt, humanly speak
ing, that prosperity lies ahead for
America, but there is yr an unsolved
doubt as to what use At.-crica will
make of her prosperity. Do we think
of our sister nations as twenty years
ago a trust magnate thought of the
concerns whose business he would like
to grasp? We have outgrown that
in our domestic commerce. I do not
speak of it as being illegal— it is more
illegal today the minds of the busi
ness men than on the statute books,
but when we get beyond the three
mile limit, are we going to be as far
advanced in our thoughts as we are
at home? Can we carry the spirit
of American law where the law of
America does not prevail? If we
do not, we may become fat and rich
and possibly win the contempt of the
world in so doing."
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Boy Thrift Stamps and help,
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Beautiful Panel Comes For
A. F. of Home.
Washington, D. C.—The beautiful
panel given by the British Trade IJn
ion Congress for the American Feder
ation of Labor Building here has ar
rived in America.
The panel was brought back on the
steamer with President Gompers^and
his fellow delegates who have just,
returned.
One of the world's art masterpieces
the panel is a massive affair. An al
legorical story is told by figures in
bas relief. It will be installed in the
Federation headquarters building here
but may first be exhibited at the
Atlantic City convention.
It was the puroose of the British
Trade Union Congress to have the
panel reach Amerca in time for the
dedication of the building, but the
outbreak of hostilities in 1914 put a
stop to plans to ship the treasure and
made it impossible to get it to Ameri
ca until now.
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In peace the union label aims to be
ever alert, t-ver accomplishing results
In defensive warfare it is the most
powerful weapon in the arsenal of
labor, and when the battle is on it
attacks the enemy in his rear, cap
tures his base of supplies, and brings
victory to the standard of unionism
It is the one and only fetich of the
labor movement, an idolatry revealing
the purest of hearts and the sanest
of minds.
The attributes of the union label
shine with the cardinal tenets of fair
play, shorter hours and reliable goods
From its inception it became a trade
promoter. It gave work to its crafts
men, but its vital principle was edu
cation.
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SAVE AND SUCCEED
Holbrock Brns.
Pdkfek Healers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Queens wart
Millinery. House Furnishings
Voss-Holbrock Stamps with
all Oasb Purchases.
The following Theatres employ
only members of the Theatrical
Stage Employes.
JEWEL THEATRE
JEFFERSON THEATRE
GRAND THEATRE
I YRIC THEATRE
EAGLE THEATRE
All other Theatres do not employ
Union Men
Union men are requested to pa
tronize only those displaying* their
emblem.
Look for their Emblem. 4 11 tf
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RECORD BREAKING EVERY DAY SPECIALS
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Granulated Sugar, 10 pounds for... 99c
French Brand Coffee, take a pound home, lb. 34c
COUNTRY CLUB STRICTLY FRESH
tSFlb. 68c ESSSdoz. 43c
Flour, Country Club, 12] lb. sack 83c
NAVY BEANS, nice, small, white, lb.. 10c
Lima Beans, small, tender 10c
Nice, firm
(J. S. Food Administration License Nos. G08271, B02184
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE VICTOR? LIBERTY LOAN
POR YOUR NEXT SUIT
SEE THE
Up-to-date Tailors
$18.00 and up
GARMENTS UNION MADE
avid Webb
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
We carry a full line of Western Casket Co/s Caskets
Suits and Dresses.
THESE'ARE UNION MADE GOODS
108 North Third Street
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fruit, 25c Dozf JVC
Lettuce, lb.... 18c Radishes, 2 for.. 5c
Green Onions, 3 bunches for 5c Kale, 3 lbs. 10c
Strawberries, qt. 35c Grape Fruit, each 12k
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