VOL. XX. No. 8.
The wisdom of President Gompers,
and other leaders of labor, in not
starting a third party, but advising
their followers to select men in either
Old party who were friendly to fair
play, is beginning to bear fruit, ac
cording to the recent report of the
Pennsylvania political situation. The
yoport reads as follows:
"Politicians who are called practic
al, because they have long practiced
politics, no doubt are considerably dis
turbed by some things that have been
happening throughout the nation.
They cannot quite comprehend the
motivating force of the movement
which has completely upset all their
best laid plans. On the eve of the
presidential nominating conventions,
nobody seems to know with any degree
of certainty just what is going to
happen at Chicago and San Francisco.
"In every state where presidential
primaries have been held and con
tests have been made a material ele
ment of the electorate has manifested
independence that first surprised and
then .stunned the Old Guard politi
eians. Nothing like it has ever oc
curred before, and, therefore, there
Were no precedents to guide those wh
attempt to dope out strange political
manifestations. The very best they
could get out of these uprisings and
over-turnings is that the people are
no longer responsive to party lashes,
and that many of them arc doing a lot
of thinking that is being reflected in
intelligent and well-directed political
effort.
The recent primary in Pennsylvania
is typical of many other primaries.
Here Attorney General Palmer, who
two years ago was the recognized
authoritative democratic leader, was
UNION
Oar StorMrill close
A. F. OF L. POLICY IS WORKING
It is Evident That People Arc Thinking For Themselves
In Political Matters
KNOCKING the PROPS
FROM UNDER the
PROFITEERS
There is no Letting Up to this Great
John Wanamaker, the merchant prince, has
started to hammer down prices, and this is in line
with our NO PROFIT SALE. We appeal to the met
chants and manufacturers to join in our efforts t«
keep prices low. It will save them the disgrace o!
admitting later that they had been profiteering.
With a dozen reasons why, each one of which would
be sufficient enough, we present you with but one
reason why you should buy here, that is economy.
"saving to you." After all is said and done, that i
the one you choose by any way. Where lives the mas 1
who cares to pay more when he can buy for less?
We are offering every item in our store at just suf
ficient above cost to pay actual expenses.
One fellow said this No Profit Salte reminded him of
schooners and $2.00 shoes.
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a candidate for the presidential nomi
nation. He had his name printed on
the ballot. It was as easy to vote for
him as to fall off a log. It was natur
ally assumed that he would get a.i
endorsement by a large and satisfy
ing majority.
"But the voters had another idea in
view. They didn't vote for the print
ed name in any substantial numbers.
On the contrary, they went to the
trouble of writing in the name of
other presidential possibilities. For
instance Mr. McAdoo received nearly
as many votes as did Palmer, and
every vote for McAdoo was written
by a voter who intended that it should
stick.
"If anything were needed to prow
the hopelessness of the Palmer can
didacy, it ,was supplied by Pennsyl
\ania voters. They wrote a veto into
their ballots that will not, be disre
garded by the assembled hosts at San
Francisco.
"Then Senator Penrose, the high
mogul of the 1'epublican Old Guard,
came out with a statement adovcating
the endorsement of Senator Knox for
the presidency. The republican vot
ers listened attentively and then turn
ed about and voted for Senator John
son. They voted for him in large
numbers—almost double the number
that voted for Mr. Knox. That ought
to definitely settle everything so far
as the Pennsylvania senators are con
cerned.
"A number of reactionary congress
men were eliminated in the initial
struggle, and those who came through
with reduced majorities and scant
pluralities are not so sanguine that
they can repeat the trick in November.
(Continued on page two)
THE OLD RELIABLE
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»oon every Wednesday during Junet July,
UNION
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Declares "If Compulsory abor
Right We Shall Be Compelled
To Labor For Society"
New York.—The presence iii a long
low against the stage of Carnegie hall
of nearly fifty reporters and corres
pondents of newspapers in many parts
of the country attested as well as any
fact the immense interest which the
i*.ation took in the debate between
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Henry .J. Allen, governor of Kansas.
It was an odd debate in that no
question was announced by the chair
man, Allen B. Parker, or mentioned
by the disputants. The general sub
ject, although nobody said so, was the
compulsory settlement of labor dis
putes. The issue was not joined as
precisely as some of the variously ap
plauding listeners might wish, but it
was close enough to make the contro
versy exciting in its substance and
thrilling in its presentation.
Mr. Gompers, who began and closed
the debate, restricted himself to up
holding and defending the right of la
bor to strike.
He pictured this as an inalienable
right, a fundamental human right,
which could not be taken away from
any man except at the price of liberty
—the right to work or not to work
belonging solely to man and not to be
interfered with by government, state
or courts. That, said the president of
the American Federation of Labor, is
tending and will contend no matter
the principle for which labor is con
what may come.
"The men and the women of labor of
America are sovereign citizens with
all of you," he said, "and if it should
come to pass that you can make labor
compulsory for the working people
there is no reason why they should not
turn upon all and say:
"Well, if compulsory labor is right,
then we shall be compelled to labor
for society."
This was his climax. As he walked
to his seat amid wild cheering from
his friends, a representative of a com
mittee of whom thrust a great boquet
of flowers into his arms.
They gave Mr. Gompers a roaring,
standup greeting when he rose in front
of a water pitcher to start the conflict,
after the chairman, Alton B. Parker,
had predicted that what the two
speakers would say would command at
the outset wider consideration by the
press and the people than the Lincoln- i
Douglass debates. Each of the
speakers had forty-five minutes for
his main effort, then had thirty min
utes, then Mr. Gompers ten, then the
governor fifteen, and finally Mr. Gom
pers five to close. Thus each talked an
iiour and a half, Mr. Gompers said in
part:
"We are now at the parting of the
ways in the great controversies which
are now occupying the minds of our
people and the time is at hand when
there must be determined whether the
eternal principles of freedom, of
justice and democracy shall hold away
or be supplanted by the tyranny and
the injustice as of old.
"There is a common error in the
minds of a large number of our peo
ple, and peoples of the whole world
who confuse the term labor and capi
tal as being in exactly equal positions
toward each other. The fact of the
matter is that capital is the fruit of
labor and could have no existence
except for labor, labor is entitled to
the first consideration.
"I have no feeling in my heart
against those who are trying to make
strikes, cessations of labor, unlawful
and criminal. I can see in them as I
have seen and as you have seen, men
who tired and impatient of the strug
gle of the human family, want to find
a royal road to the goal of tranquility
and peace.
"I have seen In my more than
GOMPERS ROUTS ALLEN IN DEBATE
GOVERNOR OF KANSAS IS BESTED BY LABOR'S LEADER
IN ARGUMENT ON RIGHT OF THE WORKERS TO STRIKE
Compulsory Arbitration Would Be
Intolerable To Workers Says
Veteran Leader Of Ameri
can Labor flovement
Is
fifty years of service to my fellows
many, many nostrums proposed.
:trree thqt strikes and cessations ot
work are uncomfortable, make for in
convenience, but there an- some things
worse than strikes, there are some
things worse than cessations of labor,
and among them is a degraded man
hood.
"The cause for which the colonist
declared the independence of the thir
teen colonies was the inalienable right
to life, to liberty, and yet, after 140
years and more, there rise up men
who in their impatience with mankind
want seriously and by law to make it
a criminal offense to exercise liberty
on the part of the working people.'
Mr. Gompers then cited the consti
tution of the United States and an
opinion of the then associate justice of
the supreme court, Mr. Hughes, "in
which the principle is set forth clearly
that no man is free, that involuntary
servitude exists when a man must
work against his will/ Mr. Gompers
went on:
"If any one should attempt to try
and portray to you violence in connec
tion with a strike, that if violences
in the form of any attack upon life,
body or property, I will agree in ad
vance to say that that must be pun
ished and wiped out of the affairs of
our republic. But the right of sov
ereign free men in the republic of the
United States can omy be maintained
when men shall have the right, as Lin
coln said: 'Thank God, we live in a
country where, at the last point, the
workmen may stop work.'
"I prefer to align myself with the
patriotism and the far-seeing justice,
and the vision, of the martyred Lin
coln, than with any reactionary who
wants to enforce compulsory labor.
Defending strikes for the good they
had done and would do, Mr. Gompers
continued:
"There is but one ground upon
which any justification may be assum
ed to tie men to their jobs and make
rtrikes unlawful that is the confession
that our republican institutions and
our democracy have ceased. Admit
that and I have no word to debate ex
cept that I combat it every moment of
my life.
"It was the strike of the textile
workers that took the children from
cut of the mills and nut them into the
schoolroom and in the playground,
where they could imbibe Gods sun
shine and grow into manhood and the
womanhood of the future, upon whic i
the perpetuity of our republic must
depend. It was the strike of the men
and the women in needle trades that
broke up the sweatshop when all the
laws of the states could not prohibit
it or prevent it.
"There are some things which are
Henry Allen, on the other hand, did
not deny the right of labor to strike,
but did—and this was the burden of
his speech—insist that the right of
the public, the public welfare, was su
preme over the rights of any individ
ual or individuals.
Mr. Gompers went to Carnegie hall
as the representative of organized la
bor. Governor Allen went there, he
said, "as a representative of the gen
eral public. And as the man speaking
there for that public, he shot a lot of
barbed arrows at Mr. Gompers. This
was one of them:
"We have not forbiddeg to anyman
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COUNTY PRESS.
the right to quit work (Governor Al
len was speaking of Kansas and her
industrial law). We have not taken
away from any man his divine right
lo quit work. We have merely taker
away from Mr. Gompers his divine
right to order a man to quit, work."
Quick applause for this flared up n
the hall, then groans and boos got
niKed up with the cheering.
lie said that government has the
right, backed by public sentiment, to
protect the public, even to the poin:
of forbidding strikes and setting up
other ways of settling labor quarrels.
Carnegie hall, which seats 2,800 per
sons, was filled. Others who wanted
to get in were kept moving by the po
lice. The tickets seem to have gone
impartially to supporters of Mr. Gom
pers or Henry Allen. At least, th^
applause for the governor seemed
come from about as many men an.i
women as at other times found tl
Federationists points agreeable.
times nearly everybody seemed to
Rock Island, 111.—The 1,200 unii
carpenters composing the Carpentei
District Council of this city, Molir.
and Davenport discontinue work wh
the Quade City Builders' Associate
refused to concede an increase to
an hour. The work under contract
that association is completely tied
An effort is being made by the co
tractors .to lead the public to belie
that the union carpenters have vi
a verbal agreement that h.
been made previously, but with litt
SUC
axiomatic. Water runs downhill de- called for in writing was given
spite the force pump, lightning strikes
in spite of the lightning rod the sun
shines in spite of awnings and para
sols, and so with the labor movement,
it has done so much, it has brought
light and hope and opportunity to the
masses of labor that, make what laws
you will to outlaw strikes, depend
upon it, your law will be futile, and
you will simply make criminals and
lawbreakers of workmen who are hon
est, patriotic citizens.
cess. The three months' noti,
February 15 to terminate May
When no adjustment could be reach
the carpenters terminated their woi
The hod carriesr and building labe
ers are also on strike, being refus
pn advance.
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 11,1920. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
IA
for one man or the other. In fac
the great majority of the audien.
seemed to be interested at least
the point of wanting to hear and weif
what each man had to say, except
those not very frequent occasio:
when labor found it necessary to
the Kansan.
Warren S. Stone, Frank Morriso:
Matthew Woll, James P. Hollan
llugh Frayne and many other leade
of the American Federation of Lab
were prominent on the stage. Othe
listed there were George Gordon Ba'
tie, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, He
bert Hoover, James W. Gerard, W:
liam Fellowes Morgan, Henry
Davison, George Foster Peabod'
Adolph Lewisohn, George W. Wicker
f.ham, Mrs. John T. Pratt and Mi
Mary Garrett Hay.
Before the debating started
Gompers sat in his "corner"—at
table on the stage—with Peter
Brady. Mr. Allen sat at a table at tl
other side of the chairman's desk wi
the chairman of the delegation of 1
Kansas "boosters for Henry," wl
reached New York on a special tra
with their governor.
CARPENTERS3 STRIKE
Hundreds of Illinois Work
ers Quit When Refused
Increase
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LEVER ACT IS DENTE!
Indianapolis.—Federal Judge A
derson has ruled against several s
tions of the Lever food control a
?nd has upheld section 9. When
Lever act was before congress it w
agreed that it did not apply to str
ers, but since then section 9 has be
used against strikers.
The sections of the law that Jud
Anderson rejects include section
which makes the wilful destructi
of necessities for the purpose of
hancing prices unlawful. The coi
held that section 4 was faulty 1
cause it did not contain any pena''
for violation.
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This is but another manifestation! (Continued on page two)
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