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VOL. XIX. No. 28.
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"R ASOLA" And "1122" Cigars
Now Manufactured By
Cheap Non-Union Labor
The cigarmakers of Cincinnati,
Ohio, are in a bitter fight against the
S. Joseph & Company, manufacturers
of the non-union "Rasola" and "1122"
cigars. The cigarmakers are carrying
the fight to other cities where these
cigars are sold, and from the cigar
makers come reports that their fight
against these cigars is being crowned
with success.
In the past few days Messrs. Frank
Haas and William Hockenjos, repre
senting the Cigarmakers' Union of
Cincinnati, have been calling on the
local dealers of cigars and have been
successful in securing the promises of
the dealers that they will not carry the
two brands of the Joseph Company
until they settle their differences with
the members of the union.
In a communication that was sent
out by the Cigarmakers' Local No. 4,
and signed by Wm. F. Lamke, secre
tary of the organization, states that
this firm is paying their employes less
than one-half the union scale. The
union cigarmakers of Cincinnati ap
peal to their friends to stand by them
in their fight against a firm who is
endeavoring to drag the wages of their
members down.
Square is the name. Spare is our aim
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MISS MARGEDANT
Attends the Ohio State Con
ference of The Ameri
can Red Cross
Miss Margedant, of the Hamilton
Red Cross Chapter, local executive
secretary, is in Cleveland attending
the Ohio State Conference of the
American Red Cross. Representatives
from 108 Ohio chapters of the organ
ization met in conference Wednesday
with national and divisional head
quarters officials for discussion of the
various phases of the peace-time ex
tension of Red Cross service to bene
fit Ohio communities.
At a special meeting, during the
conference, MacKenzie R. Todd, Lake
division manager, of the Third Red
Cross Roll Call, made a request for
concentrattu Red Cross effort, Novem
ber 2-11, the week of the annual en
rollment of Red Cross members.
"Every Red Cross membership,"
said Mr. Todd, "is a vote of confidence
in the Red Cross." Universal mem
bership is the slogan for the lake di
vision, which covers the territory of
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
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THE I'U'l'LF.Tt COUNTY
Washington!—Never have Labor's
rights been more ably championed
than in the National Industrial Con
ference called to meet here by Presi
dent Wilson.
The greatest debate ranged around
the subject of collective bargaining,
the key-stone of the arch of Labor's
demands. The speeches of Gompers,
Morrison, Woll and Johnston, labor
champions, were declared even by the
capitalist representatives as most elo
quent.
Contending thus for a right that has
been established by all the great inter
national unions, a right recognized by
the Amercian government, a right rec
ognized in France and England, the
Labor delegation fought a great fight.
Here follows extracts from the
speeches delivered during the course
of the debate by Gompers and Morri
son
Sam Gompers on Capital vs.
Humanity
Capital consists of tables, these
tables and these chairs, these clothes,
steel, clothing, boots, shoes, pork,
hides and cattle, machinery, wool,
sugar, oil, anything that can be
brought to your mind relative to the
things I have mentioned, is encom­
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Boys' Overcoats
Wool mixed materials, dark colors and
splendidly made.
Boys' Winter Suits
Hea\ v dark wool mixtures.
Sizes 8 to
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Coats,
$2.47, $3.47, $5.47
$1.97
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Red Trunk 246 High St.
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By Labor Chiefs At National
dustrial Conference Called
By President Wilson
Morrison Says When Wage Workers
Are Not United, Employers Play
One Worker Against Another
In Competition.
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passed in the term "capital"—dead
things, inanimate things, material
things, things which can be sold and
bought, things which are subject to
barter and sale capital invested for
the production of still more capital,
more inanimate things, material
things.
And what is labor Labor is the
men and the women, erroneously and
intentionally coined in the terminology
as labor. It is laborers, workers, hu
man beings, men and women and
children, and when it comes to the
question of determining what is of
greater importance as to men and
women and little children and dollars
and things, the soul of mankind goes
out to men and women and children
rather than to capital—the regulation
of capital, the material things of life
and the regulation of men and women
and children.
If the old concept of labor and capi
tal had prevailed we should still find
our children, thre, four or five years
of age, going into the mines and work
ing underground for twelve, fourteen
and sixteen hours a day. If the old
concept of labor and capital still pre
vailed you would find children in the
textile mills of America working
twelve, fourteen and sixteen hours a
day.
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Talk of labor and capital, and regu
lating both by the same yardstick and
the same rule! Why this anxiousness
to have the unions of labor incorpor
ated So that the same condition of
affairs might be established as in the
times, under the guilds, when the gov
ernment stepped in and robbed the
workers of the funds that they had
accumulated to serve them for illness,
for death, for the burial of the wife
and the child as it might occur.
Whether you like it or not the
working men and women have at last
found the ability to articulate. If you
want to deny that right today you
should have denied their fathers and
grandfathers the public school.
Frank Morrison on the Open Shop
I desire to direct attention to one
of the twelve principles proposed by
the Capital Group to this Industrial
Conference, which declares that there
should be no interference with the
''open shop" and concludes "no em
ployer should be required to deal with
men or groups of men who are not
his employes or chosen by and from
or among them."
The principle there enunciated vio
lates established and prevailing cus
toms in industry in the civilized world
It nullifies the good faith of al! the
other principles advanced in its pro
gram by the Capital Group.
In practice it would result, first, in
trade union disintegration, and finally,
in the economic slavery of tne indus
trial wage workers of the country.
Every one of the 113 International
Trade Unions composing the American
Federation of Labor has developed a
method of collective bargaining by
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Shoe Store
which representatives of the unions
treat with employers individually or
collectively. The United States War
Labor Board, soon after its creation,
announced: "The right of workers to
organize in trade unions, to bargain
collectively and through chosen repre
sentatives is recognized and affirmed.
This right shall not be denied or
abridged or interfered with by em
ployers in any manner whatever."
The Director-General of Railroads,
in Order No. 53, issued in January,
1919, provided for the creation of a
Railroad Board of Adjustment to set
tle disputes affecting members of four
railway trade unions. The American
Federation of Labor, by reason of its
existence was enabled when our coun
try entered the war, to present to thi
government practical methods for col
lective bargaining for the establish
mten of uniform wages, hours and
conditions in the various war indus
tries, an econmie situation resulting
in incalculable benefit to the govern
ment in its capacity of employer and
to the entire nation as a decisive fac
tor in the war.
A commission of six employers
appointed by the United States Secre
tary of Labor, on returning from a
tour of investigation in Great Britain
generally recognized the desirability
of bargaining collectively with labor.
The assertion made by the capital
group that, "principles of individual
liberty and freedom of contract
require that there should be no inter
ference with the 'open shop,' is an
offense to the human understanding as
it is language which contradicts
thought. "Individual liberty" is mock
ery of the wage-worker, who, forced
by his necessities to find work, is not
free to make a contract just to him
self. No sophist, no causist, no de
fender of privilege, can use this ar
gument of the capital gi'oup before
court or conference and carry convic
tion to hearers who have reasoned out
its inconsistencies. It is now rejected
in every branch of society which has
seriously studied the economics of la­
Walk the stairs and take advantage of the
opportunity offered you.
We can fit all members of the family.
Neff's Shoes can not be excelled for continued
comfort, endurance and economy.
We carry a good selection in natty and chic
fashions for women of the most fastidious
taste, also a good variety of school and work
shoes.
Our Men's Shoes will surprise the most ex
pert shoe critic. With styles in abundance
and widths from A to EE, we can fit the hard to fit, and give foot comfort
to those who have tenderfeet.
Our combination last, which runs small through the instep and wide
across the ball, will help adjust a large percentage of foot ills.
You will find our prices surprisingly low for the quality of footwear
we offer.
Don't forget our RENT is less than
one-fourth that is paid by merchants
on the ground floor, and our buying for
a number of stores gives us GREAT
BUYING ADVANTAGE.
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in the bank.
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bor contracts, except the one branch
bent on the restoration of a feudal
domination by barons of capital over
serfs of labor.
"Open shop" is a deliberate nega
tion of the unavoidable necessity of
the organization of labor. When wage
workers are not united, employers play
one worker against another in compe
tition. They quote a tenth man, unem
ployed, as a menace to nine men in
their employment. They take advan
tage of dull seasons, when unemploy
ment is at its worst, to establish per
manently wages and conditions to
which the most needy workers must
then give their consent. The more
liberal employers, themselves, are
finally obliged by low wage paying
competitors to '•educe wages in order
to meet the price of products in the
market reached through the cheapest
labor costs.
That muvuuDic tendency in finance
by which the worst currency drives out
the better—Gresham's law—is equally
true in its application to labor. The
employers of sweat-shop labor, prison
labor, child labor, non-union, women's
labor and cheap foreign labor in var
ious industries have repeatedly cap
tured markets from employers con
scientiously endeavoring to uphold
recognized American standards. The
sole effective antidote to this social
disease has been the trade union.
The confederations of employing
class managers of colossal corpora
tions bent on paying dividends on bil
lions of capital, largely fictitious, rep
resented in this industrial conference,
have challenged the common sense of
the American people in demanding the
dissolution of the solidarity of the
workers. The union shop is the sole
practical obstacle to that de-Ameri
canization of labor which for years has
been the policy of the economic olig
archy governing the basic industries of
this country. That the conspirators
aiming at the ruin of trade unionism
should embody their propositions in
program placed before this confer-
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