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"Athena 4,074 4,043 31
Lawrence 2,632 2,457 175
Lucas ...i... .i..26,248 23,113 3,135
The effort upon the part of labor
in Ohio to enact old age pension legis
lation in 1923 by direct legislation,
provided for by the constitution of
Ohio, was not successful on Novem
ber 6. While this may be exceedingly
disappointing to some of the divisions
of labor advocating the passage of
such a law, there is in fact no real
cause for disappointment or discour
agement. In fact the result of the
balloting should prove extremely en
couraging to labor and other advo
cates of state old age pensions. Old
age pensions are, judged by th£ vote
cast, just ahead.
Labor has contended that there is a
large public sentiment in the state
favorable to the principle of old ag«:
pensions. The vote cast on the propo
sition November 6th proves the con
tention of labor to have been correct.
Never has a proposition advocated
by labor been presented to the elec
tors in an atmosphere so unfavorable
or met with such unfair and united
opposition from the daily press of the
state, the chambers of commerce, exn
ployers' organizations, the grange,
farm bureaus and numerous other or-
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OLD AGE PENSIONS
A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE THEREON
NOVEMBER
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With a Comparison of the Vote on Other Legislative
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ganizations
A Healthful Dessert
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ing Day, Nuts make an ideal as^
well as healthful light dessert.
And then have a dish full in the living room*
later for those who wish a toothsome dainty
from time to time.
Paper Sheil Georgia Pecans .......85c per lb.
Paper Shell Almonds .. 35c per lb.
Extra Fancy Polished Brazils .^.....^.......SOc per lb.
Fancy Brazils .25cperllL
Mixed Nuts .30c per lb.
Budded Walnut^ :... ..40c per lh»V
S. S. Walnuts „t »,A..35c per 1&
Jumbo Roasted Peanuts .:. .25cper
Shelled Pecans ,.,...4 $1.45 per lb.
Shelled Almond^ .. J5c per lb.
Shelled Walnut^ per lb.
French Cream Candy .. ...... «»tti*».,•«•.»• „25c per lb.
French Cream Candy, fancy
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us for fancy canned fruits and vegetables
for your Thanskgiving Dinner, and don't forget
to get some Gold Medal Coffee^
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DELIVERY SERVICE
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Notwithstanding, the
polled almost 400,000 votes out of ap
proximately 1,100,000 cast.
municipal political organizations urg
ing the sustaining of the Taft and
Albaugh laws, upon which a referen
dum election was held, the result
shows that they did not carry a single
.county one received a slightly larger
vote and one received a much smaller
vote than old age pensions. This
also in the face of the fact that both
measures received more than a three
fifths vote of the members of the
legislature on final passage.
The unofficial vote on the three
measures as given by the Cincinnati
Enquirer, Thursday, November 8, is:
Taft Law *,
TotaiVote cast theron 1,124,674
Yea i... 405,308
No ...» 719,266
Majority against, 313,968.
Albaugh Law
Total vote cast theron 984,847
Yes 239,374
No 745,473
Majority against, 506,099.
Old Age Pension Law
Total 'Vote east thereon.........113$ 509
Yes «... 384,825
.No 753,68,4.
Majority against, 368,859.
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By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—American labor
1ms mobilized its force for the com
ing session of congress and an or
ganization of fully seventy-ftve labor
legislative representatives is already
on the job.
The first meeting of the American
Federation of Labor joint legislative
conference already has been held and
before the new congress opens a sec
ond session will be held.
The joint legislative conference in
cludes the legislative committee of the
American Federation and the legisla
tive representatives of all bona fide
trade union organizations, that main
tain such representatives in Wash-
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A study of these figures shows that
approximately 15,000 more votes were
cast on the old age pension law than
on the Taft act.
In addition to the general negative
vote at the polls, caused by the issue
of increased taxation under the Taft
law, numerous propositions were be
fore the electorate in the various sub
divisions of the state for special tax
levies and bond issues. There can be
no doubt that these various proposi
tions to levy more taxes or go in debt
for public improvements militated
against the old age pension law.
The outstanding fact to be remem
bered is that the ugly gosling—the
old age pension bill—presented to the
last general assembly by initiative pe
tition, and which the house committee
on state and economic betterment
killed in committee without a record
vote of the members of the committee
thereon, did as well as the favored
child of the legislature—the Taft act
If as earnest an effort had been
made by the members of the general
assembly to work out an old age pen
sion bill as was made to formulate a
tax bill, there is little doubt that the
legislation enacted would have stood
the test of a referendum, if one had
been called on the measure
There was about a 50 per cent vote
cast on old age pensions, and studying
the matter from the standpoint of per
centage, it is safe to say that 40
per cent of the electorate are now
favorable to state old £ge pensions in
the form submitted.
Old age pensions are coming either
through enactment by the legislature
or by direct vote of the people. How
soon they will come depends upon the
determination
of
campaign for
labor to continue the
them.
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1923
TWO THANKSGIVINGS
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"When He Was ITnorgarvfZed!
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After He Joined the Union
Organized Labor Mobilizes to Protect
Interests of Toilers in Next Congress
Immigration and Child Labor Big Topics
ington. The conference represents
six million trade unionists.
Following the first session of the
conference President Gompers ex
pressed his satisfaction at the pro
gress achieved, and his hope that the
conference would be able to contribute
much to the advancement of labor's
cause during the coming session of
congress. He said:
"The entire legislative situation was
canvassed by the conference. Particu
lar attention was centered on immi
gration legislation. The present im
migration act expires on June 30 and
therefore immigration legislation
must be considered at an early date
by the incoming congress.
"Child labor also was considered,
OUT-OF-WORK
Issue in England Proving a
Serious One
London, England.—"The unemploy
ed problem has reached the point
where the pressure will be so great
that all the steps which were declar
ed to be impracticable will be solemn
ly pursued by those who have always
resisted them," declared John R.
Clynes, president of the National
Union of General Workers, member
of parliament and British food con
troller during the war.
The trade unionist shows that the
number of out-of-works are increasing
at such a rapid rate that even reac
tion and blind conservatism is be
coming alarmed at the prospects this
coming winter.
The government's boast that it has
expended over $2,000,000,0000 in un
employed relief is no remedy, said
President Clynes.
"That does credit to the heart," Ue.
said, "but it is not statesmanship. Ir.
these days a cabinet must prove that
it is more than a body of relieving offi
cers.
"The immediate problem is how to
finance internal schemes for useful
labor and organize and direct them for
the mutual benefit of the workers in
the nation. Statesmen should solve
this problem. It will not be solved
by scared or timid ministers who fear
to move in the direction of emer
gency measures to meet what is an
emergency situation.
"Every relief money changed into
wage money for work done would be
an aet of statesmanship compared
with the costly drifting and blunder
lag wbieh far we have suffered,
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the conference being pledged to work
for a constitutional amendment on
that subject. A special conference of
the permanent conference for the
abolition of child labor, consisting of
sixteen national organizations, will
help make plans in that connection.
"Fully a dozen other important
legislative questions were discussed,
and three committees were appointed
to make special studies on important
matters. The probable strength of
the forces that will favor constructive
and progressive measures was con
sidered. Members of the conference
expressed themselves as hopeful that
the session will be productive of at
least some important legislation of
benefit to the masses of the people."
we had the courage to spend in the
form of wages for work the money
now paid in relief, together with, say,
a sum equal to one-third of each day's
interest paid on the national debt, the
financial side of the question would be
to raise a substantial loan at a low
interest. Nothing would pay the com
mercial community better."
PRINTERS ENJOINED
Asheville, N, C.—An injunction that
takes from striking printers practic
ally every right has been issued by
Superior Court Judge McElroy, at the
request of the Asheville Citizen and
the Asheville Times.
The court uses the injunction
judge's favorite device of ruling that
if any legal right of the strikers in
jures the business of the employers,
such act is a conspiracy. The next
step, of course, is to enjoin this "con
spiracy."
The strike was caused by the refusal
of employers to increase wages or
submit the issue to arbitration. They
demanded a five-year contract with no
wage increase.
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\LONGSHOREMEN WIN
Norfolk, V*.^-After a month's
strike longshoremen in this city won
the union shop and secured a wage
rate of 75 cents an hour for straight
time and $1.07 an hour for overtime.
NEW RATESf OR TYPOS
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Omaha, Neb.— After six weeks' ne
gotiations, the Typographical Union
and newspaper proprietors agreed on
a rate of $46.50 a week for night
work and $43.50 for day wor
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By THOMAS J. DONNELLY
Secretary-Treasurer, Ohio State Fed-
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eration of Labor,
Most gratifying to labor
Industrial safety will be a perma
nent slogan and objective. Industrial
accidents will be reduced and minim
ized, and the cost thereby reduced to
the worker and the employer. This
will make possible in the future in­
LABOR'S OPPORTUNITY
dhio
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should be the adoption of the work
men's compensation constitutional
amendment at the election November
6th. The adoption of the amendment
preserves without question the com
pulsory law and the Ohio state in
surance fund. It removes for all
time the stock argument of the liabil
ity insurance interests against the
workmen's compensation law to the
effect that employers were not pro
tected against the "open liability" ex
isting under it and that these com
panies should be permitted to enter
the Ohio field and write compensation
insurance in competition with the
state, so that the employers could
receive from their hands protection
against the "open liability."
The law will become on January 1.
1924, a complete coverage for indus
trial accidents and deaths and occuna
tional diseases and deaths.
Employers will not have a free
hand and be permitted to wantonly
violate "lawful requirements." Like
wise will be taken from the employ
ers their opportunity to oppose "law
ful requirements." Likewise will be
aken from the employers their op
portunity to oppose "lawful require
ments" in the form of statutory laws
or general orders of the industrial
commission of Ohio on the ground that
the enactment of such laws or issu
ing of such general orders would in
crease their liability to lawsuit under
the so-called "open liability" feature
of the workmen's compensation law.
No longer will it be necessary for
abor to plead, as it has in vain in
recent years, with the legislature for
appropriations for safety work on the
part of the state. There will be avail
able, without action of the legisla
ture, funds in an adequate amount for
this work. Many a bread-winner will
be continued in industry, unmaimed,
and preserved to his family by the
operation of the constitutional amend
ment.
The New EDISON London
Upright, $100.00
FOR
price convenience, for artistic design,
for superior Re-Creating qualities, for
finish characteristic of antique furniture, the
New Edison London Upright meets every de
mand. It is a phonograph equipped with the
same superior Re-Creating devices found in
the more expensive models of the New Edison
group. It is the only phonograph that dares
the test of direct comparison with the living
artists.
ONE DOLLAR PEE TEAR
TQ PRESERVE AND STRENGTHEN THE WORK"
MEN'S COMPENSATION LAW
Was Not Neglected—The Vote on November 6 Will Give
Industrial Safety and a Better Law-
Budget terms may be arranged if you do
»0t feel like paying the full amount at onceC
Come in and talk it over today
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creased compensation awards for the
vcitims of industrial accidents and
their dependents. i
Under the new system nfr Worker
or his dependents will ever lose their
compensation, and no longer need they.
fear to set up a claim of violation of
a "lawful requirement" because of a
doubt as to the success of a suit at
law on account of such violation.
The theory of the workmen's "com•
pensation system as against suit at
law under the common "law for indus
trial accidents and deaths has novr
been carried to its logical conclusion.
Lawsuits are abolished entirely for
industrial accidents and deaths, cer
tainty of compensation, with penali*
zation of employers, gives place to un
certainty and delay, and Ohio has
thus taken another great step which
again places her in the forefront of
industrial accidents and their depend
ents, while in no way relieving em*
ployers from their duty to observe"
"lawful requirements," and punish
ing for violation of same. No other'1
state has reached the advanced posi-:
tion which Ohio will assume on Jan
uary 1, 1924.
This was brought about by the Ohior
State Federation of Labor and the
almost unanimous support and co
operation of the various labor groups
and labor press of Ohio.
TO CONSIDER
NAVAL WAGES
Washington.—The secretary of the
navy has convened the navy wage
board of review, consisting of Rear
Admiral Robinson, A. J. Berres, sec
retary-treasurer of the metal trades
department, A. F. of L., and F. S.
Curtis, chief clerk, navy department._
The board will consider recommenda
tions submitted and other evidence as
may be obtained and wi make recom
mendations as to the proper rates of
pay for each trade and occupation
under the nava estabishment, com
mencing January 1, 1924.
MOVIE OPERTORS WIN
Springfied, I.—Movie operators in
this city have broken a ockout and
secured agreements -with several of
the picture houses.
$550 Piano $305
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