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FRIDAY, MARCH 17. 1922
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio as Second Class M.ail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 826 Market Street.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1296
Endorsed by the 'lrafles a.id Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown i'radte
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WHAT UNIONS HAVE DONE
The next time someone asks you
"what you have unions for/' don't
pity his ignorance, but take the un
informed gentlemen in hand and en
lighten his mind to the greatest force
for good that tho world's workers
have ever known.
Compare the long workday of
thirty years ago to that to today.
Explain to him how that at the be
ginning of the union labor movement
all of the different mechanics were
working from twelve to sixteen hours
per day, and now that the eight-hour
day is a fact in all organized callings,
and that many of them are discussing
the seven-hour day that they may en
joy to a greater ilogree the good
things of life.
If the union's successful efforts in
reducing the workday are not suffi
cient excuse for our existence, show
your friend how the workers' agita
tion secured our free school system
and its free school books. How we
have rasied wages and established a
vast chain of benefits. How we have
forced employers to safeguard life
and limb. How shop conditions are
bettered by workers standing together
and protecting from blacklisting the
fellow who has gone to the front.
Tell him that all these gains have
been made in the last fifty years.
Before that time men were even de
nied the right to organize. Existing
laws at that time declared that three
workers gathered together in one
place constituted a conspiracy. But
despite obstacles men united. They
formed debating societies and estab
lished labor papers. Slowly but sure
ly they one at a time toppled over
old ideas maintained by lawmakers,
professors, economists and students.
Upward they have climbed out of
slavery and bondage, over 1,000,000
strong.
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The Print-Shop Pest bothers the
Printers. Gets In the lload, Pies Type,
asks Foolish Questions, puts bis Fee*
on the Office Desk. Scatters the Ex
changes all over, Smokes a Nawful
Pipe, Spits on th® Floor, Snatches the
First
Paper off'n the Press and com
mits Other Crimes too Numerous to
Mention.
VARIOUS SPECIES OF THE HOG
There are all kinds. There is the
greedy employer. There is the greedy
employe. There is the road hog and
a good many others in the various
walks of life. There is the hog that
has control over the various foods,
for instance, like the different foods
which were sold as high as 80 cents
per pound. How far did these various
hogs get How far are they getting
now? How far will they get? Give
us the man, whether he is employer
or employe, that has interests of
others besides himself at heart. How
many persons are there who donate
to everything where their name ap
pears in print and who would not
give one cent to anything which
might not give them some notoriety,
The old saying and a true one, "The
Lord loveth a cheerful giver."
Have you ever noticed in riding
around in the city in your auto or
over a country load "the road hog"
(ient»rally he is the cause of acci
dents. He wants the whole road and
part of
the
next road to himself, as
you pass him. lie has that "what
care I for your rights" expression
and if you don't like it get out in the
mud. But put the shoe on the other
foot and see the difference.
Then you have the "rent hog," o
in other words the landlord hog. He
doesn't figure where his tenants get
the money to pay the rent, just so he
gets it. If you can't pay the rent,
get out, even though we know some
of these landlords are making as high
as 20 per cent on their investment.
These landlords are generally the
first to kick about their taxes. The
majority of these rent hogs would
like to charge tenants the high rent
they now are paying and make them
pay the taxes besides.
Let us not have the word hog ap
plied to us. Let us go along and con
sider the other fellow and we will
surely feel n whole lot better in the
end.
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NO TIME TO QUIT
No greater mistake can be made
by a workingman than to quit fight
ing for his own interests.
Every time an active member of
organized labor lays down on the job
the anti-union forces rush into the
gap thus formed and immediately pro
ceed to intrench themselves for fu
tine attack.
At the first
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and the tailoring are in keeping with the very'
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that comes, crash go the wages and
working conditions which it took
years to establish, and then when it
is too late the quitters give vent
to wails of despair.
If the suffering could be confined
to the quitters so that they alone
would pay the penalty of their folly
their quitting could be viewed as good
riddance and the penalty as well de
served punishment, but in the nature
of things the entire labor movement
must suffer just as it is always suf
fering because there are so many blind
and indifferent workers who never
raise a finger to help the good fight
along but are always eternally clam
oring for being helped and having
what others fought for handed them
on a platter.
It is always a few upon whom falls
the brunt of taking the initiative. It
is to these few that the rank and file
of the labor movement owe nearly
everything they have thus far gained
The headway made has, of course
also been due to the support and co
operation given by the rank and file
in the background, but it is the active
members who have taken the lead
and formulated the plans that have
netted the gains of the past.
At no time in the history of the
labor movement has activity been
more necessary than at the present
time. To lay down now will not
avert future attacks on labor condi
tions but will invite and hasten the
day when additional wage-cuts will
be slapped on without mercy.
From all parts of the world comes
abundant evidence that it is the quit
ters who get slashed the soonest, the
deepest and most frequently, while
those who put up an active and intel
ligent scrap for their wages and work
ing conditions are cut the least and
the seldomest even in times of depres
sion such as we have been having the
past year and a half.
For this reason no union man can
afford to lay down on the job of his
union activity. His entire future is
at stake and his only hope lies in
putting up organized resistance to
the efforts being put forth to drag
him and his fellow workers down.
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THE REAL PROFITEERS
There still lingers in the mind of
many well-meaning Americans a no
tion that the high cost of commodi
ties is somehow due to "labor's in
ordinate greed." They have been fed
up on stories on overall pockets bulg
ing with bank rolls, of silk shirts and
flivvers, and cannot be blamed if they
tiro prejudiced.
Take building, for instance. The
nation is a million homes short be
cause, the papers said, the workers
wouldn't be "reasonable." But the
Literary Digest has published a table
based upon actual statistics describ
ing the curve of building costs since
1918 that places the blame where it
belongs.
Selecting 1913 as normal and fixing
the cost of building in that year as
100 per cent, the table shows that dur
ing the war years from 1915 building
material climbed from normal to 300
per cent above. At the same time
wages of labor rose from normal to
180 per cent above.
This is not all the story. While
building material was going skyward
more than 100 per cent above all other
commodities, as the table indicates
labor was 100 per cent below the cost
of all other commodities.
The facts are not as picturesque as
romance, but they tell their story.
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NO USE FOR BAl) EGGS
Jack Dempsey, champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world, who has
bought a magnificent home on West
ern avenue, Los Angeles, endeared
himself to the hearts of all union
building trades mechanics the other
day when he notified an electrical
contractor to discharge all non-union
electrical workers engaged in rear
ranging the lighting system in the
Dempsey home and to employ union
men only. Champion Jack said:
'I want nothing but union men on
this job. Give all the bad eggs the
air."
Los Angeles has four citizens of
world-wide fame who refuse to em
ploy non-union building trades me
chanics—Mary Pickford, Douglas
Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Jack
Dempsey.
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The union label is an inspiration,
a guide post and a rallying point for
the energetic and conscientious wo
man in every community, and for this
reason the Woman's Union Label
League came into being.
1HE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
THE COMPANY UNIONS
Just as predicted at the time
company unions were being formed
for the benefit of workers employed
under the so-called American plan
open shop industries, there is every
indication that these unions are go
ing on the rocks. They are about on
a par with the business house that
has nothing to commend it, and is
simply waiting until it drifts into the
hands of the receiver. Its liabilities
are large enough, but its assets—
well, those who have been forced into
these company unions can vouch that
everything is going in and nothing
coming out. The new game of "put
and take" was invented about the
time the employers' unions were be
ing formed, and it looks like this lit
tle game has a close affiliation with
them. Of course, these mushroom
unions were supposed to be the re
serve force required to break up the
established labor organizations of the
country.
What chance of equal rights with
their employers in arranging wage
scales and working conditions could
men of such affiliations expect? There
could be no enforcement of any de
mands for the reason that would be
classed as coming from the individ
ual and its value to the worker is
usually considered nil. There would
be no body of workers to back up any
proposition, even if allowed to go be
fore these bosses' unions, there would
bo no consideration for such ideas if
it was not in keeping with the^policy
of the company and for such imper
tinance a man's job would surely be
jeopardized.
Most union men are conversant
with the methods used by employers
in the organization campaign for the
open shop. Every man that joined
these unions willingly or otherwise
merely added to the temporary
strength which enabled the employer
for the time being to force where
possible the conditions he desired
Stagnation ,was the opportune time
for this work and he took advantage
of it. There is just as much reason
to expect a reaction from the slash
ing of wages, and when business gets
going right there will be many offer
ings of bonuses to work for certain
employers if they need the men.
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WHEN MILADY BREWED
Back in A. D. 1212, when King
John, he of Runnymede, was on the
English throne, there was a very de
structive fire in London. So the com
mon council decreed that "no ale-wife
brew by night with reeds or straw,
but permitted these ladies who were
gladdening the homes of London, to
brew with wood. It is one of those
intimate touches that bring far-off
history down to us. It affords us a
"close-up," even across the centur
ies. The ale-wife, with her reeds, or
straw or wood under her boiling ket
tle, tasting or testing that her home
coming husband might have a deep
draught of "home-brew," would have
been to us, a few years ago, a remote,
grotesque picture. But today this
lady of eight hundred years ago seem&
verily a lineal ancestor. It was about
a century and ahalf ago that this ale
wife disappeared before the factory
system. The brewery, which was
nothing more than the factory system
applied to the making of ale or beer,
took the job off the ale-wife's hands
Prohibition has now handed the job
back to her. And it is doubtful that
the brewery ever made beer such as
the ale-wife made. It was her stuff
that made men burst into song about
"brown October ale." Probably never
again will she cause men to burst
into lusty song. There is much home
brew, but the ale-wife has not handed
down her magic recipe across the cen
turies.—Times-Star.
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Economy Shoe Store Made" SHOES, 215 Court St.
DRUGGING PUBLIC OPINION
The American Association of Teach
ers of Journalism has directed atten
tion of the public to the low ebb of
editorial opinion of American news
papers.
"Why is the editorial the weak sis
ter in modern journalism? News
interest, advertising interest and gen
eral interest in the executive of pro
ducing the paper at present smother
the interest in editorials. This ap
plies not only to the outside public
but within the office itself," the asso
ciation was told.
The answer is simple. Editorials
have been drained of their power be
cause it pays.
It pays somebody to drug public
opinion. It pays nobody to be the
advocate of public interest.
It is a strange ironical fact that
organs of public opinion" have be­
come instruments of private interests.
It is material for the humorist as
well as the sociologist that the public
is the orphan of American life.
The steel interests, the flour inter
ests, the railroad interests, the coal
industries, the banking interests, the
meat interests, the lumber interests,!
the cotton interests, the water power
interests and the gas interests are
all favored children. They are pant
pered and coddled by high tariffs, and
benevolent legislation, by the courts)
and by the administration.
But the public—who wants to he|
the devil's advocate?
The union label signifies the appli
cation in industrial life of those rule:
which every good citizen applies in|
individual life.
All that is needed is closer organi-|
zation and co-operation, and a sane,
conservative use of our power, and
we will accomplish our ends peace
ably.
SALES TAX
Opposed as Vicious By Or-|
ganized Workers
Washington. "Organized labor
stands 100 per cent for the soldiers'
bonus, but is opposed to a sales tax
as a means of raising revenue for the
bonus, just as it is opposed to a sal
tax to pay any debt contracted by the
government," said President Gom
pers, in a public statement.
"Labor recognizes in the proposal
to attach the sales tax to the soldiers
adjusted compensation bill a subtet
fuge intended either to defeat the bo
nus or to create a feeling of resent
ment against the veterans of tin
world war by placing the burden upon
those least able to bear it and by per
mitting the escape of those who pr
fiteered so relentlessly during the pe
riod of the war and since the war.
"The bonus should have the ap
proval of congress, but to create a
sales tax would be to turn a measui
of justice into an imposition and an
injustice upon the whole people. Tht
position of labor upon the sales tax
is stated officially in the following
resolution:
"Resolved, That the A. F. of L., in
convention assembled, declares against
the imposition of a retail tax on
consumption, and demands that the
highest rate of taxation levied during
the war upon incomes and excess pro
fits be retained until the full money
cost of the war has been paid.'
"Congress refused to adopt the sales
tax as a part of the general reveriu
provisions. That proposal should i o
now be used to becloud the merits
a measure intended to do justice
those who patriotically defended tin
country in its hour of need."
To Killing of Workers Is|
Shown Bv Public
Pittsburgh, Pa.—The public is
different to the killing of work»
who dare to stand for justice, says I
i
Amalgamated Journal, in reviewing
recent outrages on workers in W«
Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.
Journal is the official magazine
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the Amalgamated Association of Ir
Steel and Tin Workers.
"The tragic scenes that are taki
place in America's industrial cente
such as have been enacted in Newport,
Ky., and Yorkville, Ohio, during the
past two weeks, and which have been
transpiring in Mingo county, West
Virginia, for the past year, prove
conclusively that America today
i
heartless toward workers who ha'
the spirit to stand out collective i
against unjust and oppressive employ
ers.
"The American public today wm
ships money. The justice of any cc
test between a corporation and
employes is given scant considerate
The American public of today
pharasaic. It permits workers to
killed indiscriminately without pi
test. The American public is exp-•
iencing no feeling of horror when
reads of corporations shooting
towns, caring not who is shot, n
whose property is riddled with built
from machine guns.
"Corporations have become revolu
tionary industrial kingdoms that re
gard no law nor social restraint."
TURKISH LIVING COSTS
Washington.—In a report to th.
department of commerce from a trade
commissioner in Constantinople it
stated that the cost of living in that
city on October 1, last year, was 9»
per cent higher than in pre-war daj
Rent and lodging, however, increase
some 1,200 per cent over July, 1911
These figures are for the working and
poorer classes of the city for Amen
can and European residents the i:
crease, including rent, is nearer 2,41)0
per cent. One of the reasons for the
present costs is the large number of
Russian refugees in that city whi
is declared to be one of the most e:
pensive in the world.
CHUCKLE. LAUGH AND ROAR!
These punctuate the "Connecticut Yankee" from
start to finish.
It's a film supreme.
A gigantic spectacle.
A superb satire.
A comedy of highest hilarity.
The story that made the whole world laugh.
Mr!
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