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WOMEN'S UNION
LABEL LEAGUE
eld Interesting Business
and Soeial Session
The Women's Union Label League
held an interesting meeting last Fri
day. The league is one of the most
active organizations in the city today.
At the meeting last Friday several
candidates initiated and^ a number of
new applications for membership
were read. It was with regret that
the members learned that Mrs. Emma
George, the press secretary of the
league, is seriously ill at her home
on Fair avenue.
Immediately after the meeting a
social session was had, and a delight
ful lunch was served, after which
dancing was indulged in to a late
hour. The league believes in com
bining pleasure with business, and it
is for this reason that the organiza
tion is on the boom these days
"something doing every minute"
.seems to' be its slogan.
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LET US DEVELOP
YOUR PICTURES
Students
Watch Your
Eyesight
Oo«6 Application to study it a
constant tax on your vision.
At
the slightest indication of undus
•train* com* to us for a thorough
«xaxnlu*don of your eye*.
W* am qaickiy tall whmthvr
JULIUS WOLFF
OPTOMETRIST and OPTICIAN
Jefferson Theatre Bldtf.
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at
u price that will be uaututlly le&sooablc in the long run.
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WORKERS NEEDED
ON FARMS
Given as Excuse of Employ:
ers for Opposing Labor
legislation
Fredericton, N. B., Canada.—If the
legislative program of New Brunn
wick trade unionists is adopted it will
lure workers to the city, and this con
dition should not exist, declare local
business men at a conference
which the workers' proposed legisla
tion was opposed. In its appeal to
the government to reject these de
mands, the employers say:
"One feature we would particularly
remind you of, when considering the
enactment of so-called labor legisla
tion is, that all enactments o which
tend to make the conditions surround
ing the employment in industrial cen
ters more attractive and favorable to
wage earners employed in these cen
ters, in comparison with these employ
ed in agricultural and rural districts
tend to intensify the migration from
these districts to the industrial cen
ters. Ways and means should be con
sidered toward alleviating this serious
condition of migration rather than to
wards aggravating it."
The objectionable legislation in
eludes compensation amendments, re
striction of child labor and the eight
hour day.
Greater educational facilities de
manded by the workers is airily set
aside by the employers with the
claim that this is a matter of "pub
lie policy."
DON'T WANT PEACE
Hartford, Conn.—The state legisla
ture has rejected a bill that wouid
create a commission of employers and
employed, with the state labor com
missioner, -to investigate dispute
and attempt to adjust same before
employes suspend work. Employers
refused to accept the olive branch.
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108 N. Third St. Phone 426
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San Francisco.—The Cracker Bak
ers' Union has asked employers to re
duce the work day from nine to eight
and increr.se wages cents
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Unusually Good Paint
com&s in sealed cans all ready mixed and ready for use.
Every can bears our label and our guarantee. Eveiy
gallon, every quart, every pint, every brush full is what
its name implies—unusually good. It is made of the
very highest quality materials, pure Lead and Zinc and
Lmseed Oil shaded with pure pigments pure Turpentine,
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Eastern and Canadian pointa. Railroad ticket*
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Chicago. "The power of Wall
street" is not litcion but grim fact
according to a 125,000-wora document
filed with the railway labor board by
W. Jett Lauck, economist for the rail
way trade unions.
Mr. Lauck names 12 New York
financial institutions that control
majority of the country"s basic raw
materials. This is accomplished
through 100 directors of these banks
who have interlocked their interests
in 92 class 1 railroads, in 20 rairoad
equipment companies and 24 coal rail
roads and coal companies. Through
non-banking directors tfiis com hint
is still further interlocked.
"Tho evidence shows," says the
survey, "that there is a capital com
bine consisting of the major banks
the railroads and the industries con
trolling baste materials, and that this
combine has and exercises a power
over the economic destiny of the
the identical capitalist group lies the
United States. It shows that within
power to adjust or misadjust relative
prices in a manner that will stimu
late or suppress industrial activity.
"It points out that this focal cap
italist group has deliberately main
tained high prices of steel, coal, ce
inent and other basic materials, and
that the railroads financed by the
same interests have refused to place
the orders for plant maintenance or
even the orders necessary to prevent
plant and equipment deterioration
"Tne exhibit shows that the great
er factors in American industry—the
KEPT
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Under Old Convention Sys
tem, Says Beverage
Cleveland.—Agitation to abolish
the direct primary and return to the
convention system is an attempt to
nullify women's votes, declared Al
bert J. Beverage, former United
States senator from Indiana, in
speech before the national league of
women voters.
•'The convention system," said the
speaker, "is a politician's primary
autocratic, 'framed,' anu gives the
average citizen no voice. Under its
operation only 7 per cent of voters,
male, took part in the direct primary
60 per cent have taken part. Its ob
stacles to popular participation so
eliminated the decent male citizen
that women scarcely could be expect
ed to have a part at all n the con
vention system. The convention has
proved its dishonesty the primary has
proved it is the only check on party
crookedness."
In reply to the charge that the
primary system is costly the speaker
referred to the recent senatorial race
in Michigan, which received so much
publicity.
'The Michigan case is a survival
of the old-time practice and is certain
rot to happen again in view of the
prompt legal action in that case. But
under the convention system such de
bauchery was the rule it seldom was
exposed and was never punished.
''Every selfish interest in the land
that seeks special privileges at the
expense of the people is against the
primary—and was against votes for
women.
'Substantially all the men and
forces which, through the convention
system, once ruled political parties,
are against the primary system—and
were against votes for women.
'Why did not those who hate the
direct nominating primary become
militant against it previous to tho
ratification of the nineteenth amend
ment Why was their hostility to
the primary galvanized into practical
effort to repeal the primary every
where only after women everywhere
became voters—and immediately after
that historic event?"
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DITCH ANTI-LABOR LAW
Columbus —Amid a roar of cheers
the legislature voted" that the Burns
1' 11 be laid on the table. The act was
intended to permit private liability
companies t. do^business in this state,
and it one of the many attempts
against state-controlled compensation
insurance.
-BUY A BUILDING BOND
fHE BUTLER COUNTY PrtESS.
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"WALL STREET CONTROL"
Is Grim Fact and Not Fiction, Declares Economist For
Trade Unions in Document to Railway
Labor
Hoard
railway equipment producers—all are
closely bound together by intercapital
directories, con-ing to focus in the
house of Morgan.
"The industrial paralysis, which
has staggered Amcrica, is 'capital on
strike against society.' And capital
national and concentrated, takes the
stand that the 'capital strike' shall
go on until labor comes to its knees
and consents to sweeping reductions
of wages, and also consents to sur
render it? right to bargain collective
ly on a scale co-extensive with the
organization of the employers."
It is shown that while agricultural
basic raw materials have dropped in
price the combine has maintained
prices for the mineral products, and
that the combine controls the mineral
products. It is also stated that "the
combine is holding up the prices o
steel and other railway supplies with
a view of accentuating the depression
and then persuading the public that
the railways cannot agree with the
equipment companies over prices
although the railways and equipment
companies are controlled by the same
combine.
Of the 12 iNew York banks that are
in this combine, the Guaranty Trust
Company leads with directorships in
50 railroads, The National city bank
is next with 48 directors.
The directors are named and the
report states that a number of them
"belong to the inner banking circle
centering around the house of Morgan
and the National city bank."
WAGES ARE NOT 'HIGH
Chicago.—By a vote of 3,742 to 84
*he Bricklayers and Stone Masons
Union rejected the bosses' plan to cut
wages "to stimulate building."
Officers of this union show that
the bricklayers' wage of $10 a day is
not high, when it is considered that
100 days a year Ib the average work
time.
"Most of our men have more than
four in their families. Where do they
get off with a wage of $1,000 a year?"
these unionists ask.
In reply to the claim that labor
gets 61 per cent of the money that
goes into a building the bricklayers
say that the labor cost in a $6,000
building of six rooms, 24x46,
$1,749, or 29 per cent. The labor for
carpenters costs $515 mason work
$440 concrete and sidewalk, $250
plasterers, $144 painting, $180
plumbing, $80, and electrical and
shingling, $20 each.
COSSACUILL
Rejected By Minnesota Law
Kodv
St. Paul, Minn.—By a vote of 68
to 53 the house of representatives re
jected a bill that would establish the
cossack system in this state. The bill
was drawn along the usual lines
take all police authority from com
munities in the state and place it in
the hands of a few men appointed by
the governor.
Representatives Miner dared the
authors of tha bill to call -it by its
right name. The claim that the bill
would establish a bureau of identifi
cation for the benefit of farmers was
ridiculed by the lawmaker, who asked
his farmer colleagues if they expect
ed this bureau, when established,
would detect the criminals who have
stolen $4,000,000,000 from the farm
ers by driving down the prices of
their products. He declared that it
was not the petty thief who takes a
sheep or a bushel of corn now and
then that the farmer feared most, but
the master criminals who charge far
mers high interest rate3 when they
borrowed money and forced the far
mer to sell his crop at a losing price.
These were the criminals that the far
mer was after, said the speaker, who
declared that this bill would not
bring the real criminals to justice be
cause the bill was backed by this
element.
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AGAINST REDUCTIONS
Albany, N. Y.—Reports received at
the office of the International Brother
hood of Paper Makers indicates an
almost unanimous rejection of a pro
posed 3*0 per cent wage cut and an
extension of one hour on the eight
hour day.^
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"COMPANY" UNION
PAYS
Danville,Va.—The company "union
operating in the Dan river textile
mills has voted for wage reductions.
This *tenion" has been widely adver
tised in the public press as "indus
trial democracy," It is formed along
the lines of the national government,
with a house, senate and cabinet. The
workers have a voice in the house, but
the higher up they go the less voice
they have. The cabinet, composed of
entirely representatives of the man
agement, has the last word on all
questions. The workers are conferred
with, but they have no part in the
final orders. This scheme has been
touted as the last word in disputes
between capitalists and laborers.
"ONE BIG UNION"
BLOWS UP
Crafty Political Schemers
Unmasked
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.—"Thr
death knell of the one big union ha*
been tolled," says the Alberta Labor
News, which refers to the withdrawal
from th£ o. b. u. of lumber worker
who are declared to be "the on'v
section of the one big union that hi
ever functioned."
The lumber workers have set Up
an independent union and are no-,
denouncing their former colleagues 5
"political leaders and orators."
Secretary Berg, of the new organ i
zation of lumber workers, says: "T11
membership were blindly ied into tl
trap that had been carefully laid by
these would-be leaders and as a result
the one big union is only a one bk
union in name,"
The Alberta Labor News says .th"
great mass of workei's who joined
the one big union were sincere, but
they were ignorant of history am i
the theory of those who posed as then
"leaders."
"They could not," says the Labo:
News, "have understood the philoso
phy of the men who launched th
movement or they would have knowi.
that the move was political and not
industrial. They must also ha\
been ignorant of the history of work
ing class organization, its failure an
successes, or they would have seen
the impotence of the thing they weir
being led into."
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LET DIVIDENDS BE CUT
London, England.—Why should em
ployers demand reduction of living
standards of workers while refusing
to accept lower standards for them
selves? asks J. R. Clynes, tracu
unionist and British food controller
during the war.
"It would be a monstrous thing,"
he 3aid, "for employers to insist on
wage reductions without also agree
ing to some reduction in the cost of
management, in dividends and profits,
and in those heavy charges which
trade and commerce incur because of
big salaries to the men at the top
and the exactions of land owners and
men who levy rent. If the workers'
standard of life is to be limited, the
life standard of others should not be
without limit."
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The Dime
215 HIGH STREET
In an address to the convention
President Gompers declared that the
anti-labor legislation, passed by the
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York Labor Body
Albany, N. Y.—At a special con
version of the New York State Feder
ation of Labor, plans* were perfected
to war on the state machine of the
dominant political party, which was
declared to be a "capitalistic consipr
aey to. destroy the American labor
union and reduce the American wage
worker to a condition of peonage."
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New York state- legislature, is "ample
proof of an attempt to establish' an
industrial autocracy in our country."
He declared that this attempt would
be defeated by organized labor, as
the militaristic autocracy of Europe
had been destroyed in the great war.
The convention also declared in fa
vor of a state-wide campaign against
the abuse of the .injunction power that
has been assumed by courts.
to to to
JAIL PETTY PROFITEER
New York.—If a barber can be jail
ed in this city for five days because
of overcharge, how long would a mil
lionaire profiteer have to £tay behind
the bars?
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