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VOL. XX. No. 23.
WAGE
RE-HEARING
REFUSED
By President Wilson In
Case of Anthracite
Miners
Washington.—President Wilson has
tefused the request of representatives
of the anthracite coal miners to re
convene the joint scale committee of
coal owners and miners for the pur
pose of considering inequalities in the
recent award by the anthracite coal
commission. The president thanked
the trade unionists for their declara
tion in favor of contract observance,
but in sisted that he "could not yield
one iota to the men in the anthracite
coal fields who are violating the con
tract so recently entered into between
themselves, the coal operators and the
government of the United States."
"I appreciate the earnestness of
your efforts to get the men to return
to work and commend your stand in
support of the obligations of your
contracts, which all men must honor,'
but for the reasons stated above, I
i egret that I cannot grant your re
quest to reconvene the joint scale
committee of the operators and the
miners."
In reply to the strikers' claim that
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CIRCUMSTANCES
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they are talcing a "Vacation," the
president said:
"When a body of men collectively
refrain from working by mutual un
derstanding, however arrived at, it is
a strike, no matter what name may be
given to it."
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ALIENS FLOCK TO U. S.
Washington.—Immigration is in
creasing by leaps and bounds and
government officials predict that all
pre-war records will be broken dur
ing 1920. It is stilted that the rush
is so great in New York that immi
gration officials are swamped. As is
usual the arrivals are seeking the
eatstern industrial centers. Less than
25 per cent of the August arrivals
went far from the Atlantic coast.
This condition is increasing housing
perplexities in New York, Philadel
phia and other east coast cities.
Will
NEW STATE FEDERA
TION
Huron, S. D.—The South Dakota
Federation of Labor was launched in
this city by nearly 200 delegates rep-
alter cases and the cir­
cumstances under which our new Fall
Stocks were bought has produced great sav
ings that we're passing on to you—the values
are considerably better than you've met in a
long time.
You know the clothes, their reliability and
our reliability in selling them. You're sure,
therefore, to want them more than ever when
the value inducements are stronger than ever.
New Fall Suits and Top Coats
at $30, $35, $37.50, $40, $45 and $50.
MAX-E-EPH
flSJ&CILUJSI"VE CLOTHIER FOR MEBT
HAMILTON HOTEL BLD&
The house of Kuppenheimer clothes
The Labor
Viewpoint
Washington.—In a pamphlet entitl
ed, "For President—Harding or Cox?
Read! Think! Choose!" the labor at
titude and social viewpoints of these
presidential candidates are presented
by Samuel Gompers, Matthew Woll
and Frank Morrison, platform com
mittee of the A. F. of L. national
non-partisan political campaign com
mittee.
icsenting every section of the state. .. ..
The convention condemned the
anti
union declaration of the chamber of
commerce of the United States.
The platform committee ..•alls at
tention to Senator Hardener's advocacy
ir. his speech of acceptance, to collect
ive bargaining and to his "unalter
i able irisistence" that .t& exercise
must not destroy what the senator
I describes as "the equally sacred right
of the individual in his necessary
pursuit of livelihood."
"No definition of this exception to
the senator's approval of collective
I bargaining," says the platform com
ni'ttee, "has been found romirj from
him, and his meaning is necessarily
left open to conjecture
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RED TRUNK,
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The committee quote* a speech
I made by Senator Harding at San
Antonio, Texas, January 15, 1915. In
I which he said:
"The magnificent resources of Mex
ieo will never be given to mankind
and that country will never come into
its own until it is brought under the
civilizing influence of the American
flag. How and when that condition
will be brought about is not for me
to say at this time, but it is coming."
"The value of this quotation," says
the committee, "lies in the fact that
'With The Workers Of America
Rests The Right Of Deciding For
Which Candidate They Shal! Vote"
Senator Harding's record in con- connection with 59 legislative meas
ures* shows 10 votes unfavorable to ures of interest to labor, no adverse
i ^bor, seven favorable and once pa.red, act.on was taken by turn in a smSle
unfavorable. The unfavorable list in-, instance
eludes: Voted for the anti-strike! The platform committee quotes
section of the Cummins railroad bill, lrom Governor Cox's speech of ac
voted for the Cummins-Esch railroad ceptance, in which he said:
bill, voted against extending federal "The writ of injunction should not
control of railroads for two years be abused. Intended as a safeguard
that a test might be made of this to person and property, it could easily,
theory under normal conditions, voted by abuse, cease to be the protective
on four occasions for stop-watch and device it was intended to be.
speeding-up systems in government "Collective bargaining, thru the
plants, voted for the Borland amend
ment that would lengthen the work
day of government clerks nnd voted
for an amendment to the *ivil ser
vice retirement bill which would
practically nullify this legislation.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1920
FOR PRESIDENT-HARDING OR COXP
NATIONAL NON-PARTISAN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN COM
MITTEE ADVISES WORKERS-READ! THINK! CHOOSE!
tial Candidates Are Set Forth
In A Pamphlet Issued
1915 to have been entirely in harmony
with the republican platform declara
tions written in 1920."
Senator Harding's record as a
member of the seventy-fifth Ohio gen
eral assembly shows ho vote unfavor
able to labor.
Governor Cox's record, as governor
of Ohio (compiled by the Ohio State
i Federation of Labor) shows that in
means of representatives selected by
the employer and employe, respective
ly, will be helpful rather than harm
ful to the general interest."
Governor Cox's record as a member
of the sixty-second congress shows
no vote unfavorable to labor.
In its summary of these two records
of presidential candidates, the plat
form committee says:
"There can be but one conclusion
based upon a careful and impartial
survey of the actions and declarations
of the candidates. Governor Cox has
shown himself possessed of a fuller
understanding of the needs of the
working people, a readier response to
their needs and to their proposals,
and a broader statesmanship in his
public discussions of the problems of
the industrial world.
"It must be exasperating to' the
whole American public that political
parties, bidding for the suffrage of
the whole citizenship, cannot state in
definite terms what are their pro
posals and what are their pledges.
The same exasperation must be felt
regarding many of the utterances of
candidates. However, the viewpoint
of Governor Cox is, we find, more
clearly expressed and less open to the
criticism of lack of clarity.
"Moreover, and as an argument that
$100,000 Stock Men's and Boys' Clothing/Furnish
ings, Shoes and Hats Must be Sold
Attitude And Social
Of These Presiden­
it shows Senator Harding's views in of the great masses of the people that
admits of no qualifying or denial,
there is Governor Cox's record as gov
ernor of Ohio during which he acted
upon 5J measures of interest to labor
[without acting on a single one ad-
i
versely to labor.
I "This is a record of fidelity to hu
manity, of understanding of the needs
has few equals in American political
life.
"The American labor movement asks
from no man or woman a pledge of
political conduct. It seeks to dictate
to none. Its field is limited, and prop
erly so, to furnishing to the rank and
file the information upon which it
may'base conclusions."
EIGHT-HOUR' REPORT
Of Health Board
ished by Bii
Not Rel
Biz"
New York.—The national industrial
conference board does not like tlx.
eight-hour report recently issued
the United States public health
by
ser­
vice, and which stated that its investi
gation of a 10-hour and an eight-hour
plant showed that the eight-hour
sys­
tem is the best. The national indus
trial conference board represents a
score of employers' associations. It
has issued statements to the efl'oci
that a 54-hour week is just about a
Mirmal week day.
The public health service report is
naturally resented by the employers'
investigators, who talk about "un
scientific statements."
The board's insistence for "scien
tific" statements was not maintained
in its recent probe of the cost of liv
ing for wage earners in the mill town
of Lawrence, Mass. The investigators
rtated that the minimum standard for
a family of five—father, mother and
three children under 14 years of age
—calls for three tons of coal a year.
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PRESSMEN MAKE GAINS
Pressmen's Home, Tenn.—Continu
ed wages and working conditions
gains are reported by officers of the
International Printing Pressmen and
Assistants' Union. The list includes
affiliates in the United States and
Canada.
The local at Marshall, Texas, char
tered last June, reported wage in
creases that range from $3 to $10
a week.
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REPRESSION IS
l.OGICAL
Seattle.—"There is nothing phe
nomenal in the hysterical demand for
the repression of labor to be heard
on every hand, from the powers in
control, throughout the nation," says
Wm. M. Short, president of the Wash
ington State Federation of Labor.
"Every attempt at change in the
existing order of things has had to
contend with the forces of repression.
This has been true since the begin
ning of time. It seems to be a law of
nature that the power that awakens
the evolutionary instincts that impel
us forward also arouse the instincts
of self-preservation in those whose
power will be weakened by the change,
and explains why progress has always
had to battle with repression."
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PAINTERS WANT MORE
Yonkers, N. Y. The Painters'
Union has prepared a new wage scale,
which raises the rates from $8 a day
to $9.
Bought for cash and offered you tomorrow, Satur­
day, at most unusual low prices
Greatest Shopping
Opportunity in Years
WOMEN'S FALL BOOTS
Special Prices Newest Models
Black and Brown Leathers High and Low Heels
Values up to
it 10.00.
Every size and width
Men's High Shoes
$7.00 to $10.00 Values
$4.99and $5.99
Tan and brown calf, gunmetal
and kid English and round toe
styles. Every pair Goodyear
welts.
246 High Street
w.s.s.
REFUSE TO OBEY
GOVERNMENT
And o a O w n e s a e
Strike of Miners
Birmingham, Ala.—The strike of
coal miners in this state is because
the Alabama Coal Operator's Asso
ciation believes it is bigger than the
government.
Miners have been forced, under
threats of jail for contempt, to abide
by the terms of the Lever act, while
the coal owners refuse to obey Judge
Anderson's injunction and in many
cases will not employ officers of
miners' unions. The coal owners also
refuse to accept the scale agreed to
last fall by the coal owners, coal min
ers and the government.
About half a hundred coal opera
tors have accepted the scale,b ut the
sabotage coal owners want to operate
on a non-union basis.
$5 99 $6 99
For Girls and Boys
GIRLS' gunmetal calf shoes
made for service good d»0 4Q
wearing shoes
BOYS' all-leather shoes made
of fine gunmetal good wearing
soles made on English last or
round toe blucher models:
up to 5Vfs. QQ
$4.00 values ..... ............
The Dan Cohen Co.
242 High Street Bell 704-X
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