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VOL.. XXIII. No. 28
By InternaUoi. i', Labor News Service.
Portland, Ore. Portland trade
unionism ok ihe "open shop" move
ment and swall' ved it at one gulp.
Associate 1 in., jf^rios came to fight
and t-tayed to ay. Employers band
ed together una that name here, as
they did la some other cities, and
there was great ado about lighting
the unions and "restoring" the alleged
right of a man to work under what
ever terms and conditions the boss
might see fit to impose.
But Associated industries today
works with labor in fairly good spirit.
There isn't any talk of union smashing.
And the old bozos who hope for yes
terday's return can tie to that.
The Central Labor Council here is
sound and solid and growing steadily.
Local unions are in the same condi
tion.
Only one organization has felt much
of any wallop and that wasn't dealt
by the employers. The Longshoremen
had a strike and the "Wobblies" flood
ed into town and took the places of
the strikers. This they did with police
protection. The legitimate union
hasn't yet fully recovered. The case
is a fine example of I. W. YV. tactics.
The Portland labor temple is one
of the finest in the country and it is
one of the finest buildings in this
city. It is operating on a paying
basis.
"Open shoppers" have made many
boasts about what they have done on
the Pacific coast, but if they have ac
complished anything anywhere it
wasn't in Portland. They are scarcely
trying any more. The whole thing
was a complete failure and illustrates
perfectly the foolishness into which
employers are sometimes lead by those
REPUBLICAN WOMEN
HIT CHILD
LABOR CURB
New York.—The Women's Republi
can Club, Inc., has put itself on rec
ord* as opposed to an amendment to
the federal constitution conferring
power upon congress to regulate
amendment is made necessary for ade
quate protection of children
action of the supreme court in de
claring that under the constitution as
it now stands congress is without
authority to wrest from employers
the power to turn the health and lives
of children into orofits.
"Open Shoppers" Failed
To Even Dent Armor of
Portland Trade Unions
Starts
Men's Suits and
Overcoats
Hand Tailored Suits
and Overcoats
veryom' guaranteed virgin
wool any style QC
or color
Ask the Clerk for your I'le-ent
Ml Wool Suits
and Overcoats
$20.00
Ask the Clerk tor your Present|
A Heal Birthday Special
SUITS and
OVERCOATS
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$16.45
Don't forget to ask the Sales
man lor your Present
.Men's Heavy Cordu- O
roy Coats
.Men's Heavy Cordu- O
roy Coats
$1.00 Blue Work 7Qrf»
Shirts 1 J/v
$1.00 Blue Work 7Qrf»
Shirts 1 J/v $l..r»0 Domet
Boys' Union Suits—
73c, 97c, $1.23
whose occupation is the organization
of "movements" out o£ wh'ch they
may later draw salaries.
Portland is a good union town.
There are shop c.a in many of the
store windows, including some of the
largest, stores, and there ire union
buttons on the waiter and v/ailresscs
in many restaurants. That
The Crowell Company prints the
following magazines: American Mag
azine, known to the "talent" as a
monthly "mug book," devoted to the
exploitation of rich mediocrities who
crave flattering publicity the Worn
nil's Home Compannion, Farm and
Fireside, and the Mentor. The com
pany also owns Collier's Weekly.
When members of Typographical
Union No. 117 appeared for work at
the Crowell plant, October 1, they
found their jobs filled by "rats," re
cruited by Vollmer and McCone,
strike-breakers. The union has voted
an assessment of five per cent to
carry on a nation-wide fight against
the Crowell publications, whose large
circulations are due in a large degree
to the support of honest union men
and women.
University of Michigan announces
that George W. Wickersham, attor
ney general under President Taft,
will not be permitted to speak on the
League of Nations in any university
buildimr.
Our 9th Anniversary Sale
Tomorrow
8 O'clock Sharp
Thousands of Beautiful Presents to be Given Away Free. Pep, Class and Bar
gains are displayed all over this store
Thousands of Beautiful
Presents Will be Given
Away
E E E E
w it every purchase of $10.00
or more
Look in our windows
—Rogers' Guaranteed Silver
Knives and Forks, Tablespoons,
Teaspoons, Large Flash Lights,
Ivory Toilet Sets, Lunch Kits
with vacuum bottle, Electric
Boudoir Lamps and thousands
of others absolutely FREE. Ask
the clerk.
MEN! DON'T MISS THIS ODD PANTS
$1.95 $2.45 $2.95 $3.45 $6.45
Ask the Salesman for your Present FREE
A THOUSAND
WARM
Men's, Boys' Girls'
and Infants'
Corduroy
Vests
Corduroy Vests
with sleeves
Men's Heavy Rib
Union Suits
s
is
always
a good indication of the si rength of
unionism.
Portland unionism, moreover, has
done itself proud in the entertainment
of the American Federation of Labor
convention.
GONE "RAT"
Magazine Printing Com
pany at Springfield
Running With
Strikebreakers
Indianapolis, lnd. Announcement
has been made at headquarters of the
International Typographical Union
that the Crowell Publishing Company,
of Springfield, Ohio, has gone "rat,"
and staunch union men everywhere
are being asked to bear in mind that
a number of nationally known publi
cations may hereafter be regarded as
foes of organized labor.
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Union Is Now Framing
National
Washington, D. C.—Another na
tion-wide coal strike in the bitumi
nous field April 1 next is fast taking
form as a development which only
a modern miracle can prevent.
Operators and miners, confidently
believing that it will come, are squar
ing oif for the fight. The operators,
in addition to their national associa
tion, are maintaining a standing
committee hei*e, termed the "bitumi
nous operators' special committee"
while the miners, within the next 30
to 00 days will be in the full swing
of electing members to the next na
tional convention which will frame de-
Morning
at
Men's New Fall and
Winter
SHOES and OXFORDS
h-u's
(in a ran teed Solid
fc THE BUTLER COUNT Y PRESS.
Leather
$3.95
SHOES and
(\l ORl)S ..
Men's Heavy Work Shoes—
$2.45 $2.95
Men's Scout Shoes—
&
$.195
$2.45
$2.29
$2.65
$2.95
Boys' Dress Shoes
U to "13
Boys' Dress Shoes
1 to 6
Boys' Heavy School
or Pre., ShK-s
SWEATERS
97c
to
$9.97
$2.95
$3.95
Sheep Lined Coats-
99c
Join thousands of far-sighted Working Men who will do all their buying Now
at our 9th Anniversary Sale
THE, OLD RELIABLE
E U N K
THE WORKINGMAN'S STORE
$9.85 $11.45
-53.50 Wool Khaki
Shirts
97c
$2.47
Men's Rib Shirts
or Drawers
83c
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1923
O e o n e e
WWk
ANOTHER STRUGGLE LOOMS
THIS TIME IN THE BITUMINOUS COAL FIELD- OPERATORS
EXPECT MINERS TO STRIKE NEXT APRIL AT WHICH
TIME PRESENT CONTRACT EXPIRES
mands on behalf of the workers upon
the coal owners.
The present agreement in the soft
coal fields expires April 1. The na
tional convention of the United Mine
Workers, composed of delegates rep
resenting approximately 4,000 local
unions, will be held at Indianapolis,
January 22. The convention will for
mulate its idea of the next wage
sc#de »«d seme time between Febru
ary I and April 1 miners and opera
tors again will meet in joint confer
ence to bargain.
Wage Rise Demand Likely
It seems almost certain at this
writing that the miners will demand
sizeable wage increase and that
the operators will reject the demand.
Almost four years have passed since
the bituminous miners obtained an
advance in wages. Throughout the
fields, where curtailed working time
has held annual income so far less
than the miners' expectations, there
is an almost universal feeling that
wages should be increased.
The existing wage scales, on full
time work, probably would give the
miners what they regard as an ade
quate living wage. But in many
fields the miners work only three
days a week. In some fields, due to
lack of «'rders and inadequate car
supply, the miners have worked only
one day week. The average for
the entire industry is less than live
days a week.
Bilter reeling Exists
A feeliii et unusual bitterness be
tween capita!
and
Non-Union Operators Hit
"Three non-union operators
mainly responsible for the strike ol
1922 and the same reason that actu
ated them on that occasion actuates
them now. They are at this time
carrying on a vigorous campaign
against the union by advocating a
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DETOORtNG
Demand For Wage Increase To Come Before
ne Workers Convention
In January
reduction, arbitration of wage fixing
and elimination of the check off.
They know full well that the union
will never agree to any of these
propositions and that by making this
fight they may be able to force a
strike."
The likelihood of
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labor in the bitu­
minous industry appears to be man
ifest this year. The miners claim
the operators are out to reduce
wages an,! wreck the union. They
charge that this aim is part and
parcel of the program of the non
union mine operators and that those
operators are in control of the in
dustry at the present time, although
numerically non-union operators are
in the minority. The feeling is thus
summed up by Ellie Searles, spokes
man for the United Mine Workers of
America, in the following statment
to this correspondent:
"The non-union operators who are
in control and managing the national
coal association are doing everything
in their power to bring about a sus
pension of operations in the bitumi
nous industry next April. The pres
ent wage agreement between miners
and operators expires March 31, and
it is the hope of these non-union oper
ators to prevent the making of a new
agreement.
"They have two purposes in car
rying out this policy: The first is,
if possible to wreck and destroy the
United Mine Workers of America
second, if the non-union operators can
force a suspension in the union fields
of the country they will then be in a
position to control all the market
and sell all their coal at the same
outrageous, profiteering prices which
they charged during the suspension of
1922.
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By International Labor News Service.
Cincinnati, O.—How the workers
in a certain dining room and kitchen
collected facts and figures that show
ed the employer was in a position to
pay better wages, is told by Jere L.
Sullivan, general secretary-treasurer
of the Hotel and Restaurant Employ
es' International Alliance and the
Bartenders' International League of
America.
Writing in the Mixer and Server,
Mr. Sullivan says that one of the lo
cal unions of his organization, in
preparation for the annual wage con
ference with an employer, one of the
"hard boiled" variety, made a quiet
investigation of the employer's profits.
The men in the dining room, as well
as in the kitchen, kept track of the
number of persons served the amount
received for each meal, cost of mate
rial- and quantity of materials used,
liny kni'w tnry would be confronted
.itit tin- id riaiiii that the employer
was losing money and that he eouM
not. afford to pay higher wages, and
they determined to refute the claim.
The employer had been making this
elaim for years arid had I'-een 'Vet ting
away" with it
"After the snr\ ey had been made,"
writes Mr. Sullivan, "and all die data
given proper consideration,
urveyt
a strike next
pring has been brought to the large
industrial consumers of soft coal.
They are taking few tipon
the repetition of the strike of two
years ago. To that end, these con
sumers are accumulating vast hold
ings of coal. The size of the present
stock pile of soft coal, accordnig to
the result of a canvass by the bu-
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5Serf
jRQom
Imagine being able to furnish your new home complete at such
greatly reduced prices The money you have intended to use will
go farther, will buy more real, actual furniture value than you
ever expected. Remember, too, that when you buy here you not
only can choose from a stock that is unmatchable in variety of
styles shown, but in addition, you will secure honest advice and
helpful counsel—that conscientious service which has made this
store the recognized headquarters for the making of Better
Homes.
These are days when values count, when thoughtful people
compare quality and prices carefully. That's why this big sale,
with furniture of the finest quality at such sensational reduc
tions, provides the outstanding opportunity of the season for
those who intend to furnish a home complete.
See Davo Suite In Display Window
$145.00
K-R-E-B-S
Workers Gathered Facts
Refuting Employer's Claim
He Couldn't Raise Wages
it
was dis­
closed that in-iead of losing money
that employer ua- drawing down sev
eral times per ent on his invest
ment. He wa Knocked galley west
v hon the facts uetc laid before him,
and instead of crediting his employes
rean of tin- i-ensus and the geologi
cal
i- unusual. It: dimen­
sion. ha\e lieen exceeded only on
tu.i »ecaions apparently—armistice
day and the eve of the five months'
strike of 1922.
Accumulation of stocks is increase
ing and the prospect is that when
the strike comes the country's indus
tries will have on hand sufficient fuel
to last them months—a greater sup
ply than ever before.
Approximately 400,000 soft coal
miners are members of the union,
which is the largest single labor or
ganization in the United States.
Since the last strike the union has
greatly strengthened its position, fi
nancially and otherwise. It will be
in lighting fettle when the fight
comes, and the indications are that
this time the result will be decisive.
I u n i s Y o u Home Now
While Prices Are Reduced
Don't Fail to Visit Our Sixteenth Anniversary Sale
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
with sense enough to gather the data,
he cussed his bookkeeper for supply
ing the information this, too, despite
the admission made by the committee
that the data had been supplied by his
kitchen and dining room employes.
"A moment's reflection should con
vince any member that, unless we
know what our city contains both as
-regards number of houses, employes,
wages paid and cost of edibles or bev
erages, we are handicapped and find
ourselves faced with the necessity of
taking what is offered or else engage
in a strike to secure concessions.
When you show the employer that
you have an inside knowledge of the
business, he may disagree with you,
but he will respect you for being a
live one and knowing something more
about the business than that you are
getting so many dollars a week and
your board, and possess sense enough
to stop at the cashier's desk and col
lect
wages."
STATE EMPLOYES
Of New Zealand Start Co
Operative Insurance
Wellington, New Zealand. The
state employes' organizations of New
Zealand have organized the Dominion
Co-Operative Insurance Company to
provide fire insurance without com
mercial profit to all persons in the
public service. At an early date the
company will add personal accident
and sickness insurance.
The outrageous profiteering policy
of the private insurance companies
operated solely for profit is illus trat
ed by the fact that out of the 700,000
pounds sterling paid up capital of
one New Zealand company the stock
holders originally paid in but 100,000
pounds, the remaining 600,000 pounds
having been accumulated from profits.
Moreover, once every three years this
company has paid in dividends an
amount equal to its original capital.
The purpose of the Dominion Co
operative Insurance Company is to
save for the public service employes
and their families the excess charges
extorted from them by the New Zea
land private insurance highbinders.
David Lloyd George, former pre
mier of Great Britain, telis Canadians
Europe is arming for another war.
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