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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
SEEK CHEAP LABOR
The employers' attempt to secure
cheap labor that need not be natural
ized is a departure from the theory
that every immigrant admitted should
be considered as a prospective citi
zen, says the New York World.
"This principle the national asso
ciation of manufacturers proposes to
destroy by an amendment which
would pass workers fit for "rough
labor" but not for naturalization
It would admit a laboring class to
factories and mines which it would
not admit to citizenship.
"The object is frankly to increase
the supply of common labor in order
to keep down the wages of common
labor. It is a plea for the treatment
of common labor as a commodity us
ed in manufacturing. It is an argu
ment that labor is one of the raw
materials of industry and should be
put on a free-trade basis. It pro
poses, therefore, to create in these
United States a class of proletarian
robots who are to be registered, dis
tributed, educated, and otherwise
supervised by the government.
"The proposers of the scheme hav|
wandered very far from the ideas on
which this republic was founded
Congress has not, we trust, wandered
quite so far into the jungle of class
government as to adopt any such
principle as this.
"For no matter whether the pres
ent quota law is wise or unwise, one
thing is certain: The test of any im
migration policy is the citizens it pro
duces and not the convenience or the
profits of the employers of unskilled
labor."
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NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITY
Why are labor men and women so
neglectful of the opportunity to state
labor's case and correct false state
ments about labor in the "Letters to
the Editor" columns of the daily
newspapers 1
The freedom with which newspapers
are permitted to make unchallenged
statements about labor indicates that
labor men and women deliberately
permit this opportunity to waste.
What other group is so neglectful?
Practically none.
Take the Christian Scientists, °#er
example. In every community there
is a "committee on publication" which
watches for and probably answers
criticisms of Christian Science. No
newspaper in America can get away
with any criticism of these alert
committees. The letters to editors
written by these committees are cour
teous, but very firm, stating the case
simply and clearly.
Many other organizations are al
most as wide awake.
AGAIN FAIR!
This is to notify Organized Labor and Friends
that the NEWARK SHOE STORE has adjusted its
differences with our organization and is entitled to
the patronage of our friends.
RETAIL CLERKS' UNION,
Loral
No.
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Don't think these letters are use
less. Many of them do not get print
ed, but the editor always knows about
them and it has to be a pretty "hard
boiled" individual that can forget re
peated challenges as to accuracy.
Many letters do get printed and
there are always many who read
them.
No labor man who can write the
English language should permit a
false statement to "get by" in any
paper in America. Whoever knows
the facts should write them in a let
ter form and. mail them to the editor
Such letters should not be ugly in
temper and they should not be ex
travagant in statement. They should
tell the facts in simple, clear, moder
ate language. Their purpose is not
to start a fight, but to get the truth
into print and to act as a caution
against further mis-statement,.
v
If a commitee of one or more can
be designated for this watch tower
job in every community, that is the
ideal method, but if this is not done
then every man and woman in the
labor movement should be a self
elected committee, watching the
papers and correcting in polite, but
firm language all misstatements
Don't write long letters. Don't jam
wind. Don't get wild. Get to the
point, stick to the point, state facts
and facts only. Write neatly, legi
bly, or with a typewriter. Sign your
name and give your address. Watch
regular.
Why let every Tom, Dick and Harry
get away with careless or malicious
work in the news and editorial col
umns of the daily newspapers of the
land?
Why don't the labor men, including
labor officials, come to life and show
a little energy instead of merely
howling about the "lying news
papers"? Maybe some of them will
never print the truth and maybe many
of them will print only a little truth,
but make the effort. Nobody listens
to the oyster because it has nothing
to say. EVERYBODY LOOKS UP
WHEN THE NOON EXPRESS
FLASHES PAST!
Ri tel MB
STEEL AND EIGHT HOURS
It is a difficult role that Judge El
bert H. Gary has to fill as head of the
United States steel corporation. On
matters concerning the economical
production of steel and the relation
of the price of steel to general busi
ness prosperity there are few who
can speak with the authority which
properly attaches to his utterances.
For thesS reasons, both because of
the responsibility of his position and
because of its recognition of the ex
act nature of his information, the
Christian Science Monitor hesitates
to take issue with the reasons he
gives for maintaining the present
12-hour work-day in the steel indus-
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try. Yet every reason he cites may
be correct, while the conclusion he
reaches is absolutely indefensible.
The 12-hour day in any industry is
wholly out of accord with the accepted
ideas of humanity and of civilization
today. It is repugnant to the con
science of the world. If conditions
in the steel industry compel it, those
conditions are wrongful and intoler
able and must be changed.
Judge Gary, in pronouncing against
any immediate adoption of the eight
hour day, declares that under it the
price of steel would be so high that
business would not pay it. Precisely
the same argument, has been raised
against every effort to ameliorate the
condition of the working classes at
any time or in any land. Always
the world is told that better working
conditions will make for increased
costs and that "business"—the god
of the materialist—will not stand it.
And never yet has this fear proved
well founded when courageous re
formers grappled with evil methods
of labor and corrected them. Time
was that English coal magnates
thought the supremacy of English
coal, and therewith that of British
shipping, would be sacrificed if they
were no longer permitted to employ
women and young children in the
depths of the mines. Once the south
ern states of the American union be
lieved that without slavery the cotton
of the United, States would fail to
hold its place in the markets of the
world. Not so long ago all the
states of the union thought that un
restricted child labor was essential
to their manufacturing industries
All these evil conditions have been
corrected, and in all the industries
affected nothing save a wider exten
sion of business and a greater meas
vre of prosperity has resulted.
It is admittedly the duty of Judge
Gary to look after the interests of his
stockholders. But today there is wide
recognition of the fact that men are
not to be sacrificed to money. Divi
dends earned by the subjection of tens
of thousands of workingmen to con
ditions that wreck the body and ex
tinguish the fires of the mind are
dishonest dividends. The opinion of
the worker on this subject is set forth
emphatically by one of the characters
in Charles Rumford Walker's convinc
ing book, "Steel," recently published,
which gives a graphic picture of life
in the great steel plants.
"To hell with the money no can
live" says the giant Pole with whom
Mr. Walker worked in one of the
mills of the steel corporation.
Judge Gary!s pronouncement against
the eight-hour day is the more unfor
tunate because he admits that because
of it the same inhuman and brutaliz
ing system may be forced upon other
nations at present in advance of the
United States. "Germany and France
are getting back to the 12-hour day,"
he says, "because they must produce
and compete with us, and there is
agitation in England to the same end."
It is a sorry thing if the United
States, which has in so many ways
led in all that makes for the uplifting
of man and the improvement of the
lot of the working classes, should in
this matter become the leading reac
tionary force in the world. It seems
incredible that war-worn Europe
should have to abandon humane and
civilized conditions of employment in
order to compete with those enforced
in the United States, the most pros
perous of nations today.—Christian
Science Monitor.
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Holbrock 3d, St Shoe Man
TRADE UNIONS ON GUARD
A survey of trade union opinion
regarding the proposal to license
and subject them to bureaucratic
control shows that the labor organi
zations are aware of the sinister
character of this proposal. The pro
test made against the proposal to
license unions stresses two objections
that are pertinent. That the power
of unions may be abused just as are
the power of other organizations, may
be conceded. The same may be said
of free speech and free assembly, but
thorp is no reason for licensing' dis
AAA-I A/ W A UAJAV V V V 41 A A' A IVJU^JU
cu-si' n n-j no w u ibg a or
brand a bar of soap. The trade
unions would cease to be free and
voluntary organizations of wage
workers if they came under the regu
lation of state bureaucrats. They no
longer would serve the workers. Their
rules and regulations would be made
by outsiders. Their decisions would
be subject to review and veto by bu
reaucrats. The unions would have to
satisfy the bureaucrats rather than
their members before they could func
tion. The second objection is that
the power to license unions carries
with it the power to revoke a license
when a union fails to comply with
some decision of the bureaucrats.
The power to withhold a license
means that the workers' is an indus
try which has not the approval of
state authorities and would face pen
alties should they organize in defiance
of the state officials. The policy is
an entering wedge to outlaw unions
that will not submit to regulations
made by political appointees. Expe
rience also teaches that when these bu
reaucrats are created by law, they itch
to use their power. They are more
likely to abuse or even exceed their
power than organizations which they
but seek to regulate and control. Ow
ing their power, not to the voters,
but to appointment by an executive,
they feel removed from any expres
sion of popular resentment and tend
to run amuck. Finally, there has
never been any state interference in
the regulation of unions in any coun
try that has not worked harm and
proved a failure in the end. The pro
posal will be fought to the end, and
no compromise should be conceded on
such a vicious measure.
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SUPPOSE THEY LABORED
"The railroad labor board, whose
members draw a salary of $10,000
per annum from the United States
government, declares that a living
wage is 'a bit of melliffuous phraseol
ogy well calculated to deceive the un
thinking, says the Seamen's Jour
nal.
"We wonder what would happen if
these illustrious gentlemen, with
their silver-toned and euphonious
language, were personally subjected
to a wage of 23 cents an hour, and
from such meager pay had to raise
a family Everybody is entitled to
one guess.
'But assuming that they themselves
could be made to work for a starva
tion wage, it's a cinch that they would
not long remain among those classi-
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'deceived' as to the rottenness of the
wage decisions which they have tried
to force upon American workers, with
the enthusiastic support of Mr.
Daugherty and a flock of injunction
judges."
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