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VOL. XXI. No. 34
Washington.—Let organized labor
everywhere tell the story of contract
breaking by employing printers, who
have forced a nationwide strike of
femployes in this industry, recom
mends the A. P. of L. executive coun
cil in a statement signed by President
Gompers and Secretary Morrison.
Trade unionists are urged to form
committees to acquaint the public
with the treachery of these business
men who would establish chaos and
broken promises for the pledged word
between men. The statement is as
follows:
"To All Organized Labor:
"The printing trades unions have
been forced into a struggle not of
their own making. After the em
ploying printers of the country had
made a solemn contract to inaugurate
the 44-hour week on May 1, 1921, they
began an insidious campaign to break
it. They demanded reduction in
wages, the establishment of the so
called 'open' shop, and used every
other method to force the printing
trades in the book and job offices to
cease work before May 1, 1921. This
was part of the hostile campaign of
various interests to destroy all the
printing trades unions. When May 1
arrived the employers absolutely re
fused to grant the 44-hour week and
the members of the printing trades
unions were compelled to cease work
They were locked out by the contract
breakers.
Every state and city central body,
and all local unions, should come to
the support of the printing trades in
a practical way. They should resent
in a most emphatic: manner the vio
lation by the employing printers of
the contract to establish the 44-hour
week. This can be done by,urging all
Sympathizers of labor, and those who
are opposed to the action of the em
ploying printers in breaking their
contract, to require the allied printing
trades label upon all matter printed
for them.
"Committees should be appointed to
wait upon the fair-minded business
men and acquaint them with the in
justice done the printers. As much
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IN THE PRINTING INDUSTRY?—A. F. OF L. EX
ECUTIVE COUNCIL URGES ORGANIZED LABOR
TO ACT AGAINST CONTRACT-BREAKING
EMPLOYERS
Publicity Will Aid Printing Trades in the Fight to Make
Men Keep Their Pledged Word
Overcoat
MEN'S SUITS or GO A OC
OVERCOATS OO
Worth $40
Wonderful
SWEATER VALUES
$2.00 Men's or Boy.s' Grey
Sweaters, big collar, Q7i»
two pockets vIC
Boys' Wool Sweater Coats—
$1.97 $2.47 $2.97 $3.97
Men's Wool Sweaters—
$4.97 $6.47 $7.97 $9.97
Pure
Silk Sox Oi/C
Men's 75c Fibre
Silk Sox f45JC
$2.00
publicity as possible Should be giv^n
the campaign.
"It should be pointed out that if
the contract-tJreaking employers are
successful it will place a premium on
contract-breaking. The trade union
movement believes in the maintenance
of contracts. It has no patience with
those who break them. The union
label will therefore be the most ef
fective weapon that can be used
against those who have paralyzed the
printing industry fpr purposes of
greed and to establish autocratic
methods of treating the workers.
"This is a matter of great moment.
Every union man in America should
aid the printers. Victory for the
printers will establish the fact that
contract-breaking is a disreputable
act and should receive the odium it
deserves."
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San Francisco.—The convention of
the California state federation of la
bor has called upon District Attorney
Brady of this city to immediately
carry out his publicly made promise
to assemble all of the new facts re
vealed in the Mooney and Billings
cases and submit same to the gov
ernor.
The convention declared: "The po
sition taken by the federation has
been more than confirmed by events
of the past year namely, the con
fession of perjury by John McDonald,
the confessions of Draper Hand, de
tective of the notorious 'bomb bu
reau' the testimony of Hatcher of
Woodland as to the perjuries of F.
Oxman, and the admissions of James
Brennan, former assistant district at
torney, as to the insufficiency of evi
dence.
"These men have now been impris
oned for five years for a crime which
they are palpably guiltless, and upon
evidence which is now demonstrated
to have constituted a deliberate 'frame
up.'"
Did You Get Your FREE PRESENT
AT THE
Red Trunk 7th Anniversary Sale?
WE Will Admit Last Saturday We Expected a Rush, But Not a Riot
a Beautiful
Present FREE
SUITS or (tJOQ OC
OVERCOATS VLV.OO
Worth $50
Men's
7th Anniversary SHOE SALE
Offers Bargains that make your Pocketbook *ppy
Men's Tan Dress Shoes. Worth flC
$5.00 of any body's money
Men's Solid Leather Shoes, in brown d»0 QC
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XMAS GLOVES
Men's and Boys' Wool Gloves—
29c, 49c, 87c 97c, $1.47
Men's and Boys' Velour Gaunt
lets—-
73c, $1.23, $1.47, $1.67
Boys'
Men's and Boys' Wool Gloves—
29c, 49c, 87c 97c, $1.47
Men's and Boys' Velour Gaunt
lets—-
73c, $1.23, $1.47, $1.67
Boys'
Leather Gauntlets, fleece
lined $1.23
Boys' Kid Gloves, lined—
$1.23
and
Leather Gauntlets, fleece
lined $1.23
Boys' Kid Gloves, lined—
$1.23
and
Kid Gloves—
$1.97, $2.39, $2.97, $3.23
Men's
Kid Gloves—
$1.97, $2.39, $2.97, $3.23
Men's Kid
MEN'S ODD PANTS SALE
Men's Work Pants—.
$2.85 $3.35
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$30.00 SUIT or AK
OVERCOAT $10-40
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Men's Flannelette d»"J Q»7
Night Shirts
Men's Flannelette
Men's
Men's
Gloves, lined—
$1.67, $1.97, $2.97
Men's Kid
Gloves, lined—
$1.67, $1.97, $2.97
$7.50
Mr. Workingman, You don't need a Pencil to Figure your Savings at the Anniversary Sale
THE. OLD RELIABLE
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The Workingman's Store Rentschler Building
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The Cincinnati Post in its issue of
Friday December 2nd, contained a
first page article on the Open Shop
that has attracted wide-spread atten
tion of all classes. Accompanying the
article was a cartoon by Stanlay
showing the world upheld and sup
ported on the shoulders of Labor. The
fiartooft ftjTther--8hws-the dark hand
of the Open Shop reaching out with
sharp pointed claws to' pull down from
under the world its main support—
Labor. The cartoon would picture the
world sinking into the dark depths of
despair should the deep plot and big
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Silk Lisle
Dress Sox
REMEMBER—Our Presents are FREE.
We would like to give you one. Ask the
Clerk for it.
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Men's Brown
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WAR FOR THE "OPEN SHOP"
TO BE WAGED VIGOROUSLY BY ANTI-UNIONISTS WITH OHIO
AS MAIN BATTLEGROUND, DECLARES CINCINNATI
POST IN STRONG ARTICLE
fight of the anti-unionists to estab
ish the Open Shop throughout the
country be successful.
The article as it appeared in the
Post follows:
Ohio has become a main battle
ground of the open shop war, now be
ing waged in various industries by
employers' associations throughout
the land.
Fifty thousand Ohio workers have
been involved this year in struggles
in which the open shop has been an
issue.
Open shop strikes or lockouts now
in progress in Ohio affect the follow
ing crafts: Job printing trades in
every large city in the state, the milk
drivers and pattern makers in Cleve
land, the electrical workers in Toledo,
building trades in Toledo, building
trades in Youngstown and Elyria,
molders in Alliance and Massillon,
street railway workers in Dayton,
Erie Railroad shop workers in Ma
rion, enginemen in Nelsonville brick
plants. Attempts earlier in the year
were made to force the open shop,
with partial success, in various crafts
in Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Spring
field.
man or woman, not a member of
a labor union, is likely to say, "Well
what about it? What do I care about
the unions? It won't make any dif
ference to me if the unions are
smashed."
But it will make a difference to you
It will make a difference to all of us
If the open shop triumphs generally
followed as eventually it must be by
reductions in wages and increases in
working hours, the prosperity of the
entire community will be affected.
The merchant will suffer because
low wages can't buy as often or as
much as high wages.
The money shortage will operate all
along the line until it hits the pro
fessional man, none harder than the
doctor, the dentist, the lawyer.
The unorganized worker, whether
in shop or office, suffers because it
is impossible to injure one part of the
economic body without affecting the
body as a whole.
We are of two groups, we Ameri
cans—those who can live without
working and those who can't. All of
the latter group will be affected by
the success or failure of the open shop
movement and a good many of the
former group, whether they realize it
now or not.
Hence the open shop movement be
comes something more than a dispute
between corporations and unions,
is a matter of vast public concern
meriting the sober, analytical atten
tion of every believer in fair play and
the maintenance of American stand
ards.
The open shop almost always means
the closed shop—closed to all men
who believe that in union there is
strength and that only by organizing
as their employers are organized, can
they obtain and maintain recognition
of tneir rights.
There are employers who say they
want the open shop merely because
they dislike to deal with the unions
They say they are for high wages and
good working conditions. Doubtlesi
many of these men are sincere, and.
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9,1921 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
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aid Upon Unions Anc
This Time
indeed there are today in Ohio fac
tories in which union and nonunion
men work side by side at a wage rate
and under conditions compatible with
the union standards. But the em
pi oyer hasn't always the full say. He
is subject to circumstances and the
conditions' of competition. Standing
together, workers can resist unfair
ness. Fighting single-handedly
which is the only kind of fighting they
can do under the open shop, they can
accomplish nothing. For instance, un
der the open shop there is nothing to
prevent an employer from taking ad
vantage of the present wide-spread
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Melbourne, Australia.—The tinsel
of Australian "can't-strike" laws is
exposed as employers discover that
this scheme does not make workers
"contented."
No longer is compulsory arbitration
praised. No longer is this country
referred to as "the land without
strikes."
Instead, employers are openly an
tagonistic to the plan, and this senti
ment is being voiced by reaction's
agents in the lawmaking bodies.
Premier Bardwell, of New South
Wales, has declared in favor of wip
ing out the entire federal and state
compulsory arbitration system.
Under the wage-fixing powers of
the federal arbitration court, Justice
Higgins endeavored to carry out the
wage intent of the law, but he has
been driven from office.
Bargains In Shoes
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"CAN'T-STRIKE" LAWS
Recently the federal government
appointed a basic wage commission,
and Premier Hughes agreed to abide
by its decision. The government has
since rejected the award, and Justice
Powers, of the arbitration board, de
clares that the industries of Australia
OF AUSTRALIA NO LONGER PRAISED BY THE BIG
INTERESTS AS IDEAI,—"NOT EVEN GOOD
FOR US," THEY SAY
unemployment, driving bargains with
hungry men—individually, not collec
tively, playing off one man against
another, whipping them one at a time.
Let only one employer in an industry
adopt this policy and all other em
ployers in that industry would be
compelled to follow suit. They would
have to or competition would put them
out of business.
Labor Newspapers of the Country Voice the Workers*
Belief That Employers Want Free Hand
in Wage Reductions
It is an undeniable fact that under
the open shop an employer CAN re
duce wages and upset working condi
tions and however fair-minded and
humane, he WILL do this rather than
be put out of business by competition.
Little of the effect of the open shop
can be seen at this stage of the war in
Ohio. It will be years before the full
crop of the open shop sowing will be
ripe, but the harvest is certain and
the fruit will be bitter.
Collective bargaining goes by the
board under the open shop. Without
collective bargaining down go wages
and up go hours back to the dark
ages of industrialism for the worker
When The Fit-Rite Says—
OVERSTOCK
ill we ask. We'll make it worth your while, we'll give you bargains you never -liad
aefore—and prove it, too. Dunlap shoes for men, known the world over—never sell for
iess than $8.00, go at $6.90. May Manton, the premier of all creations in women's
style. Leading shoes of quality, never sell for less than $8.00. During this sale will
*o as low as $6.50.
We Guarantee Every Pair to Give Absolute Satisfaction
We Guarantee You'll Never Buy Them This Low Again
These Dunlap and May Manton shoes can't be sold at these prices forever—We are
losing money on every pair we sell. When our stock is reduced enough we will stop.
Fit-Rite shoes are sold on a close margin anyway, and when you can buy them at this
price, MAN! If you're wise youH GET IN EARLY.
EVERYTHING REDUCED! NOTHING RESERVED!
CHILDREN'S SHOES
Our entire stock of boys' and girls' and little children's shoes sold way below
cost. Here is your opportunity to get good, sturdy, solid leather shoes which are
positively guaranteed to wear, at the lowest price you have paid or will pay for
some time. Remember that as soon as our stock is sufficiently reduced these
shoes will be sold for more money, as shoes have not come down but this is
merely a Fit-Rite overstocked sale and these ahoes must be disposed of.
FIT-RITE SHOE STORE
218 S. THIRD STREET OPP. PALACE THEATRE
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cannot afford to meet these rates. It
has now developed that he arrived at
this conclusion through figures that
the trade unions were not permitted
to see. Labor members in the federal
parliament demanded that the figures
be made public, but the government
replied: "It is a confidential com
munication."
The Australian Worker declares
that this "is a scandalous reversion of
all principles of equity that a court's
decision should be influenced by secret
testimony."
Other Australian labor newspapers
voice the workers' belief that em
ployers want a free hand in wage re
ductions, and will smash the very
thing that they praised but a few
years ago.
The Daily Herald, of Adelaide,
South Australia, says: "If the arbi
tration courts are to go it will not
very much matted to the rank and
file of the workers so long as they
determine to stick together. In fact,
the attitude of the capitalists, as per
sonified by Premier Bardwell, may be,
indeed, a blessing in disguise."
The bosses being organized and the
workers being unorganized, disorgan
ized really, the bosses fix the work
ers' pay as they will and tell them
how many hours they must put in for
it. It is a "take it or leave it" atti
tude, with all the advantage on the
side of the boss.
In the old days, before men organ
ized, the condition of the workers was
little better than that of serfs. The
12-hour and 14-hour workday were
common and the wage paid was only
enough to keep body and soul to
gether. Only by organization has la
bor brought atout its present stand
ards.
In this fight against the open shop,
a big responsibility is laid upon the
unions and particularly upon the
union leaders. Violence, intimidation,
high-handed methods—these, deplored
and condemned by the great mass of
union men, never have helped the
cause of labor and never can. Sober,
intelligent leadership, honesty and
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