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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1923
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton!
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
baaed Weekly at 826 Mark# Street
Hamilton, Ohio.
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Btfdorsed by the Trades" and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
MACHINSTS WAKING UP
It seems that the local machinists
are at last waking from a long, deep
sleep. They are waking up to the fact
if they want to receive as much
money for their week's work as do
the teamster, and in many cases as
much as common laborers are receiv
ing, they will have to get together,
organize and collectively ask for
what they want. Machinists today,
everywhere, are the lowest paid skill
ed mechanics in the industrial field
They look with longing on the jobs
of the building trades craftsmen who
are averaging more than a dollar an
hour, on the molders and others who
are getting more than 90 cents an
hour, and then wonder why they, most
everyone of whom is a skilled artist
receives at the very highest, and
these in rare instances, 65 cents an
hour. The answer is plain—and sim
pie—lack of organization. For some
reason or other it has always been
hard to get the members of this craft
really interested in unionism—in or
ganization. They all like to receive
the benefits accruing from organiza
tion, but many of them don't seem
to like the idea of joining the union
and paying its dues.
But they are beginning to wake up
as stated before, that they must get
together and act collectively as the
only means to get their just dues
A- nation-wide membership campaign
luts been started in the ranks, and
many are coming in. Local Lodge
No. 241, Machinsts, is getting active
Ijt is planned for ninety days there
will be open meetings held every Sat
urday afternoon at the labor temple
and during which time members will
be taken in at a reduced initiation fee
Ail unorganized machinists are in
vited and urged to attend these meet
ings and learn what is being done
for the future benefit of the mem
bers of the craft. It is hoped that
within a short time the membership
will have grown to such proportions
throughout the country that their de
mands can no longer be ignored by
the employers.
Every machinist should attend
e*ery one of these weekly meetings.
A monster open meeting is being ar­
ranged for Saturday, December 8th, at
which Chas. T. Nicholson, member of
the international executive board E.
C. Davison, general secretary of the
international union, and others will
deliver addresses.
THE BALANCE OF POWER
Jtf the race could take itself con
sciously in hand, with something like
a united super-mind, it could today
play the qiost fascinating game off all
time.
Our demand for luxury, for leisure
and the trappings of leisure, for fun
and the equipment of fun, for that
multitude of things which we demand
in ever increasing quantities, yet
which do not fall within the cate
gory of things necessary to sustain
life, has drawn thousands upon thou
sands out of the industries that pro
duce life-sustaining things.
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Who among you work in the pro
duction of food, clothes, houses
A minority work at the business of
providing the plain, elemental neces
sities of life. The refinements and
luxuries of life call more and more
to their creation each day.
As matters stand we have about
achieved a balance of power between
luxi^ries and necessities. If much
more of our productive capacity is
withdrawn we shall go short/of neces
sities.
The human desire grows apace. The
willingness to drive our bodies beyond
the fatigue line is not with us.
Invention, which led us into this
beautiful, enticing, adventurous trap,
must get us free. More invention.
Better use of what we have. Elimi
nation of faulty processes. Make ma
chinery work—but don't pinch labor
in the process.
The motor car displaced the horse
and there was no other place for the
horse. There must be a place for the
man. We are delicately balanced
upon a pinnacle. Beypnd lies glory
and life, or destruction. We depend
upon our selection of greed or intel
ligence as our guide.—Chester
Wright.
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KELLOGG GETS FINE JOB
The announcement that ex-Senator
Kellogg has been chosen ambassador
to England will be gratifying to those
political leaders who look forward in
stead of backward.
Mr. Kellogg, when first elected to
the senate, was considered a progres
sive, one who thought more of the in
terest of the whole people than the
financial advantages of special inter
ests. But he soon took his place with
the deep-dyed reactionaries and the
Minnesota voters promptly retired
him to private life.
His removal from the United States
will take away an experienced manip
ulator of Wall street political wires
and for this the country should be
thankful.—Zanesville Tribune.
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STEEL'S EXTRA DIVIDEND
Judge Gary sees prosperity for
steel. This seems to be the infer
ence drawn from the United States
steel corporation's declaration of an
unexpected extra dividend on its com
mon stock.
Yet it was only a few months ago
that Judge Gary was dolefully inti
mating that ruin stared steel in the
face if the eight-hour workday was
introduced in the industry.
Evidently the judge has changed his
mind, as he wouldn't sanction an extra
dividend if he thought that the eight
hour day, now being established
the steel mills, was really menacing
steel profits.
True, the judge showed a flash of
his old pessimism regarding the eight
hour workday when he told the re
porters that probably the abolishing
of the 12-hour day was responsible
to some extent for a reduction of the
Steel corporation's earnings in Sep
tember. But that he was not seriously
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alarmed was shown by his full ap
proval of the declaration of the extra
dividend.
Very likely it won't be many months
before the judge begins to sing the
praises of the eight-hour day. For
gotten will be his many years of op
position to the eight-hour day and his
assertion that the shorter day would
n't work in the steel industry. The
probabilities are that he'll join in ap
proving the eight-hour shift and will
testify, as does the Post-Tribune of
the steel town of Gary, Ind., that
since the coming of the shorter day
in Gary, "thousands of workingmen
now have an opportunity to get bet
ter acquainted with their families and
to live normal lives." v.
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HAMILTON NOW GOOD TOWN
Isn't .this a nice, quiet, peaceable
respectable town to live in since the
mud-slinging campaign for the recent
election has passed. Why, we don't
hear a thing about our rottenness and
wide-opentowninsm any longer. It
leads one to wonder if Hamilton is
such a really bad city, after all! Won
der if all that campaign jargon could
really have been for political purposes
only? Especially is it a good town
since the selling of the electric light
distributing system has been agreed
upon. My, what a nice man Mayor
Koehler is since then—with some who
thought before then that Mayor Koeh
ler and all who thought like him were
absolutely no good and shameless
Well—so it is.
to to to to to
POLITICAL ACTION
Politics booming on every hand.
Candidates out fixing fences.
Party organizations hunting cam
paign material.
Labor's got to be on the job the
early days are the days that count
The American Federation of Labor
convention directed that the national
non-partisan political campaign pol
icy be continued, stronger than ever
That means organization every
where in your community, as well
as in every other community.
Let no grass grow under your feet
let no weeds clutter up your corner.
Labor's victories in the last cam
paign were tremendous and inspiring.
Labor's victories in the next cam
paign must fee more sweeping, more
complete.
Friends of labor, true, and earliest,
must be elected.
Enemies, faithless ones, must be
defeated.
You can't blame anybody for the
results, unless YOU get busy and
your share from now on!
RED CROSS ROLL CALL
The annual roll call of the Hamil
ton Chapter Red Cross takes place
Friday and Saturday of this week.
Because of the great work of this
wonderful organization every man
and woman should consider it an
honor and privilege to be enrolled in
its membership. Your membership
makes it possible for the fine work
of this great relief organization tu
continue.
Wonderful Work has been dofie dur
»g the past year by the American
Red Cross, both at home and abroad,
rite American Red Cross draws no line
of race, creed or color, to it they all
look alike, it goes wherever humanity
is suffering—it is truly the GREAT
EST MOTHER to all the needy and
helpless in ail the world.
It costs but a dollar to enroll JBe
sure to answer the call. If you should
read this after Saturday without hav
ing heard or answered the call don't
think because the drive was called for
Friday and Saturday that it is too late
for you to get in, that you are shut
out. Send in your dollar any time,
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remember, it is better to be late than
not ie be at all. DO IT NOW.
EAGLES' INDOOR
.COUNTY FAIR
The time is past for county fairs
for this season, that is for those con
ducted in the open, but the local lodge
of Eagles are going to stage one on
the inside. The Eagles' big annual
indoor county fair is an established
institution eagerly looked forward to
each year by the real fun lovers with
pleasurable anticipation. There is al
ways something doing at^these affairs
and this year is to be no exception.
As usual the fair will run for three
nights, Saturday, Monday and Tues
day nights, November 24, 26, 27.
Everything necessary to make up a
real Thanksgiving dinner will be
found at the big fair together with
all sorts of amusements. Everybody
welcome admission free is the an
nouncement of the committee.
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UNSKILED LABOR
EXODUS GOOD
THING FOR SOUTH
"The South, we are told, is losing
thousands of its common laborers, the
majority of whom are inefficient, ac
customed to long hours of slow inef
fective work, unsanitary conditions
and low standards of living," says the
American Pressman, the official organ
of the International Printing Press
men and Assistants' Union of North
America, in an article on the •so
called shortage of labor.
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"It is well for the South, but some
short-sighted capitalists anu loud
mouthed, cunning politicians are pub
licly bemoaning the loss of this crude,
inferior labor.
"The time is shortly coming when
it will be generally recognized that
the loss of such labor is the South's
gain. And so it is with crude labor
and low standards—the sooner we get
rid of both the better off we will be."
ANTI-UNION EM
PLOYERS SIGN t*P
FOR UNIONISM
Bakersfield, Calif.—The Bakersfield
Plumbers and Gasfitters' Union and
the other building trades here have
made splendid progress in their fight
against anti-union shop employers,
according to Organizer James H.
Shields, in a report in the Plumbers,
Gas and Steamfitters' Journal.
"The merchants of Bakersfield have
learned a bitter lesson as to the folly
of destroying the conditions working
men and women made by organized
labor," says Sheehe. "In passing
through the principal business streets
it was amusing to see the way the
merchants are displaying union shop
cards of the clerks and other crafts,
and without doubt it will be a long
time before they let any other Moses
lead them into another effort to es
tablish their so-called 'American'
plan."
PROFITS BREAK REC
ORD
New York.—Large gains in the pro
fits of industrial corporations the
past year are reported in Wall street.
The Studebaker Motor Company re
ports profits available for common
dividends of over $17,000,006. The
National Biscuit Company's surplus is
double what it was in the first nine
months of last year.
Ten industrial companies for the
nine months ended September 30 have
a combined balance available for com
mon dividends of $164,539,971, com
pared with $90,272,730 in the 1922
period. This is a gain of $74,267,241,
or 82 per cent.
The American Locomotive Company
will report record profits for the year
1923. The amount is placed at $13,
000,000. The previous record was a
little over $12,000,000.
UNION MEN
AND
FRIENDS!
The following are
NON-UNION STORES
Act Accordingly
Liberty Clothing Co 24 So. 3rd St.
Eagle Clothing Co ..26 High St.
Reliable Clothing Co ....36 High St.
Army and Navy Store 30 High St.
B. & C. Clothing Co.. ..!.31-33 High St.
Army and Navy Store
RAILROAD SHOPMEN
DITCH BOSSES'
COMPANY UNION
The shopmen on the Chicago & Al
ton railroad have ditched the railroad
management's company union which
was forced upon them, with the
check off applied by deducting dues
from the pay envelopes over the men's
protest, according to Vice President
Barry, of the International Brother
hood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers
and Helpers.
The men asked the management to
abolish the company union. The man
agement refused. The men then ap
pealed the matter to the railroad la
bor board, which still has the matter
under advisement.
"We are holding mass meetings at
all points on the system," declares
Barry, "and we find the men 100 per
cent against the company organiza
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Miami, Fla. The Typographical
Union has secured a two-year agree
ment with' arbitration provisions.
Commercial shop rates are: Day
work, 44 hours, $44 a week night
work, 44 hours, $47 a week. The
newspaper rate is $47 a Week for day
work.
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Lipmaii Schmaman XI High St.
Retail Clerks' Union
LOCAL 119
Excelsior NON-SKID TRUSSES
If you have never worn a NON
SKID Truss you don't know what
you are missing that is, if you
want comfort. Free trial given.
Lady attendant to wait on ladies.
Abdominal Supporters and Ma
ternity Belts made special to meas
ure at $5.00 and up elastic stock
ings, arch support*.
JOHN DARGUE AND SON
242 High St.
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DON'T FAIL TO ATTEND
Grand Bazaar
Given By
ST. VERONICAS CHURCH
Nov. 23-24-25
Turkey Raffle and Good Time for All
SUNDAY AT 3 P. M.
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Stephen Easton & Son Co.
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AUTOMOBILES
Washed and Polished
The Largest Wholesalers and Retailers
In the City
OFFICE AND PLANT
120-128 Pershing Ave.
Phone No. 4265
LINDENWALD STORE
2269 Pleasant Avenue
Phone No. 4274-L
MAIN STREET STORE
Have Your Clothing Cleaned For Thanksgiving
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Dinner Ware
Pictures
Plaques (Reproductions of old masters)
Mirrors
Decorated Baskets
v Xmas Cards
Stationery
Draperies
Candles
Tea Sets
Desk Sets
Comfort Sets.
Sconces \v
We invite inspection. Spend your leisure time here,
Come in and browse around—and get an idea of the ART
SHOPPE the city of Hamilton is bound to .be proud* of.
We're going to grow
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DRY CLEANING
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Clothing1
CARPETS
Upholstered Furniture
Draperies, Etc.
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