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VOL. XX. No. 25.
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CONVENTION
Of Ohio State Building
Trades Council Opens
October 7th
Cincinnati, Ohio, August s, 1920.
To All Building Trades and District
Councils and Local Unions in Ohio
Greeting:
We take this means to inform you
Hat the eight annual convention of
Ohio State Building Trades Coun
cil will open on Thursday, October 7,
at Building Trades headquarters,
lSS1,^ South Jefferson street, Dayton,
Ohio, at 10 a. m., and will continue
until the business of the convention is
completed.
The headquarters will be established
ar Gibbons hotel.
We are enclosing credentials and
the secretary will please fill out both
and send the duplicate to Secretary
C^as. J. Case, 31 East Twelfth street,
Cincinnati, Ohio, at once and give the
ciiginal credential to your delegate
e'.ect to be presented by him to the
credential committee.
Representation to the convention
shall be as follows:
One hundred members or less, one
delegate, one vote.
Two hundred members or majority
fraction thereof, two delegates, two
otes.
Three hundred members or major
ity -fraction thereof, three delegates,
three votes.
Four hundred members or majority
fraction thereof, four delegates, four
votes.
Five hundred members or majority
fraction thereof, five delegates, five
votes.
An additional delegate and one ad
ditional vote for every addition five
hundred members. When a local uqion
is represented by only one delegate
he shall have the power to cast the
vote to which his local union is en
titled. Building Trades Councils and
District Councils are allowed one vote
each. A Building Trades Council or
District Council may choose a dele
gate in conjunction with an affiliat
ed local union and in such case the
delegate shall have one vote for the
Euilding Trades Council or District
Council and one vote for his local
union.
The books close for the fiscal year
on September 30th and the per capita
tax as shown by the records will de
termine the voting power of each del
egate.
The Ohio State Building Trades
Council has become a very import
ant factor and has brought about a
condition whereby the building trades
aie enjoying better conditions in Ohio
than any other state in the United
States. It is our intention to have a
solid concrete organization and install
Building Trades Councils in all cities
and counties that are large enough
to support them.
Therefore, we are appealing to all
local unions that are not affiliated
with the Ohio State Building Trades
Council to please fill out enclosed ap
plication blank and become a part of
e State Building Trades Counicl.
The initiation fee is $2.00 per capita
one cent per member per month.
Hoping to see all local unions re
ptesented at the convention.
Fraternally yours,
Executive Board of the Ohio State
Building Trades Council.
Peter Hassenpflue, president Aden
E Smith, first vice-president Oliver
Myers, second vice-president A. K.
Erwin, third vice-president Harry O.
Iianna, fourth vice-president Philip
Fischer, fifth vice-president John
Kohrich, sixth vice-president N. M.
Garver, seventh vice-president Har
•*v Hill, eighth vice-president Wm.
Meyers, ninth vice-president.
Chales J. Case, secretary-treasurer,
Si East Twelfth street, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
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STOP HIGH WAGE CRY
New York.—In discussing price
cutting that has started in some in
dustries, financiers, business men and
editors have forgotten their cry that
"high wages and a lessening of pro
duction'" is responsible for high
prices.
For months the public has been
told of workers who "lay down on the
job" and who are only interested in
boosting wages. No change is possi
ble, it was declared, until the workers
accept lower wages and work harder.
Now the profiteers are forced to
acknowledge that store houses are
bulging with comodities and that
banks are refusing further credit un
til these goods are unloaded.
By cutting prices, which it is
agreed will not reach the retailer "for
some time," the profiteers have ac
knowledged their guilt.
to to wt
DUST EXPLOSIONS
COSTLY
Washington.—The unlimited need
for caution in industry is shown in a
statement issued by the department of
agriculture that grain dust explo
sions cost 80 lives and $7,000,000 in
property loss in this country in nine
months last year. Itis stated that
such an innocent thing as mill dust
will assume the rending capacity of
TNT when mixed with air in certain
proportions and ignited and that tho
strongest fireproof structure is not
proof against the resulting explosion
Explosions have been traced to such
simple causes as a spark from belt
friction, a workman's pipe, and even
the breaking of incandescent light
globes.
The department says the epidemic
of dust explosions has been checked
by its educational work among em
ployes.
In effect Senator Harding says,
"Let us return to normalcy."
Governor Cox says, "I am for pro
press."
Senator Harding does not use the
word "normal he speaks of "nor
Mjlcy." The word is obsolete and so
i- the condition to which he would
return.
Unquestionably in the mind of Sen
ator Harding a return to normal means
a return to the conditions that exist
fd before the war—a return to some
i ing that is past. Obviously it is
inr
possible to return to something that
is not past. It is clear then that in
keeping with the spirit of the repub
lican platform Senator Harding's
personal desire is to follow a course
that leads backward, and if elected to
lead the nation in such a course.
Governor Cox proclaims a desire to
go forward and a determination to
^ad the nation in a forward course if
he is elected to the presidency.
Both of these statements are ab
elra tions, and of themselves mean
nothing beyond a definition of the
general trend of thought of the can
d'dates. The important fact is, how
over, that the platforms of the par
ties upon which these candidates
Mnnd and their own personal philos
ophies lead inevitably and naturally
up to the conclusions found in those
J«
o brief utterances. Because that is
j?c it is fair to accept them as broad
though brief statements of general
jlicy.
Harding says, I am for going back
ward.
Cox says, I am for going forward.
The platforms and the speeches of
acceptance by the candidates have al
ready been analyzed by labor, but it
nv»y serve some purpose again to call
attention to the principal points at is
sue as found in these documents.
if it is Senator Harding's desire to
follow a public policy which leads
backward, and he has so expressed
hi*nself, he will but have to "go along
Tv:1h"
to the morning Sept. 23rd, the day ourt first
the declarations of the plat­
form of his party.
Insofar as concerns the issue most
From the day we received this Letter
selling out Sale Ad appeared we put forth every effort and had hopes to renew our lease, if not at one price, then at another. We
had two attorneys and several prominent business men to intercede for us, all to no avail. We felt positive that we would be able
to get located somewhere, and up to a few days ago we were receiving our Fall goods, blit npw they will $1} have to go at a big
loss, as we only have a few months to dispose of them.
Remember, all goods look alike to us now, they take room and we have none, so no matter what you may be in need of, be
it a collar, trunk, suit, hat, shoes, sweater, all are being sacrificed.
RED TRUNK, Hie s Store
246 HIGH STREET
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Urges Defeat Of Those Who have
Turned Their Backs On Labor
And The People Generally
By Samuel Gompers I vital to labor the republican party
The two leading candidates for the I plntforrr. makes no acknowledgment
presidency have defined clearly their of the right of the workers to organ
itude toward the great public is
sues of the day. In a sentence each
ha? summed up his position.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRiDAY, OCTOBER 8,1920
NORMALCY VERSUS PROGRESS
HARDING LOOKS BACKWARD COX GOES FORWARD. GOM
PERS ANALYSIS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES POSITIONS
Characterizes Senator Harding As
A Reactionary, And Governor
Cox As A Prog ressi ve
ize into trade unions and to elect their
o**n representatives for consultation
and negotiation with employers.
The republican party platform in
terests itself in the question of strikes.
The interest manifested, however, is
••learly the interest of those who are
looking backward and who would in
duce the nation to look backward
with them. There are suggestions of
tribunals, governmental investiga
tions and the "influence" of the public
cninion, the whole plank constituting
what labor has described as "a denial
of labor's demands" and contemplat
ing "the erection of government ma
chinery for the coercion of labor and
for the suppression and limitation of
its proper, lawful and normal activi
ties" Senator Harding .places him
self wholly in the spirit of such plat
form declarations when he says, "Let
us return to normalcy."
The high cost of living is an issue
felt in every home in the United
States. Step by step the cost of liv
ing has been increasing since the ar
mistice, even as it increased before
the armistice, and there is today no
l.iore promise of relief than there was
six months ago. The increasing cos
of living has been in effect a reduction
of the purchasing power of a dollar
fully one-half.
Those who earn today the same
:mber of dollars they earned in 1913
and in the early months of 1914 are
getting in real wages one-half the
amount they earned then because of
this reduction in the buying power of
the dollar. To earn the same amount
in real wages that they earned in 1913
e workers must earn tice the num
ber of dollars, and there are thousands
upon thousands who have not been
able to advance their wages to any
appreciable extent. Thus by a process
that has been subtle and gradual
thousands of Americans have had
RETIRING From BUSINESS SALE
SELLING OUT TO QUIT BUSINESS
People say they can't believe we are going out of business it is hard also for us to swallow it. We are not fak
ing, here is what happened and our exact position:
N'either does the republican party increasing importance. Reports
iatform make any provision for the
protection of the workers against
unwarrantable use of the writ of in
junction. The silence of the platform
upon which Senator Harding stands
on the question of injunctions in in
dustrial disputes is most complete and
pi ofound.
tl.oir wages reduced and their whole
standard and manner of living alter
ed.
Upon an issue so vital the republi
can party platform comes to us with
v word of hope and no promise of
relief. In the language of labor's
analysis, the republican party plat
form "evades the issue and offers no
remedy it denies the importance of
profiteering as the leading cause of
the high cost of living."
As the months pass the problem of
immigration is bound to become one
Europe are to the effect that
millions from northern, southern and
central Europe are only waiting the
ships to bring them before coming to
o-'r land. The only restriction upon
unlimited and perhaps unprecedented
in migration is the lack of sufficient
ships to bring all those who are wait
inp with eagerness to embark. No
rt of our public life can escape the
cffects of unrestricted immigration.
Yhe question is one of paramount im
portance. The platform upon which
Mr Harding is a candidate and upon
which he would have us return to
"normalcy," makes no mention of the
subject. Its silence is unmarred by
•my word that might indicate the ex
istence of an immigration problem.
No single piece of legislation enact
ed by the last "congress was more
honelessly reactionary or constituted
a more ardent defense and protection
fij' the vested interests than the
Escn-Cummins railroad law. No piece
of legislation enacted by that congress
vtruck more deeply at the heart of
labor's rights than this law. The
platform upon which Mr. Harding
is a candidate declares that "we en
dorse the transportation act of 1920
enacted by the republican congress as
it most constructive legislative
achievement." This "constructive'
achievement was described by labor's
analysis of the platform as "in real
ity a denial of the lawful right of the
workers to cease work." Taking his
stand upon this plank of the republi
can platform Senator Harding would
rrt merely return to the normal, he
would return almost to the prehistoric.
Since the overthrow of the Dictator
Diaz, the question of American rela
tions with the republic of Mexico has
b^-en one of intermittant acuteness
tnd of constant importance, 'liir
American trade-union movement has
held from the outset that the people
of Mexico have the right to work out
their own problems without interfer
ence on the part of the United States
or any other nation. The policy of
President Wilson has coincided ad-
mirably with that thought. In the
language of labor's analysis, th* Mex-!
ienn plank in the republican piriform'
clearly aims to undermine the sever
eiputy of the Mexican people and to'
inake the maintenance of order in
rI°\ico the business of the govern
.:ient of the United States." Labor's
analysis further declares that the re-I
When thousands
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publican platform "proposes the ful-.
fillwent of what have long been the
hopes and aims of those whose sole
cbject is the exploitation of the peo
ple and the boundless resources of
Mexico."
In the seclusion of his broad and
comfortable front porch at Marion
(Continued on page five)
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