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TRADESCOUNCIt
The Co-Operative Trades and Labor
Council met Tuesday night in regular
.session. President Jack Scheaf pre
sided, and forty delegates were pres
ent.
Fred Woodrey, recording secretary,
being absent, George Brandel acted
as secretary.
Earl Schweinfest, a member of
Grocery Clerks' Union 159, was ad
mitted to the meeting as a visitor.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
The union label trades department
of the A. F. of L., in a communication
to the council states that they have
decided to make a nation-wide cam
paign for union labels, store cards
and buttons. They also urge the
council to appoint a committee to as
sist in the campaign. The letter was
received and ordered complied with.
The chair appointed Sims, Service and
Jarrett on the committee.
A communication was read from
the United Hatters of New York, in
which they inform the council that
the firm of F. Berg & Company, of
Orange, N. J., have decided that they
will no longer use the label in their
hats. This firm, they say, has pros
pered by the use of the label, but
now they decide to turn down the
label which has been greatly instru
mental in building up their business.
The hatters request that the trades
unionists of this city buy hats, felts
and straws, bearing the label. Re
ceived and ordered complied with.
The Worcester Central Labor
Union, of Worcester, Mass., in a
communication informs the council
that they have been stung by the
sneers, insults and attacks of the most
arrogant group of l#bor-haters in
America. They have resolved to
make reply, and the fight to organize
Worcester is on. They also send a
package of pocket combs which they
are selling at 25 cents each. This
money is to be used to defray the
organizing expense. All of the
combs were purchased by the dele
gates.
All bills read by the secretary were
allowed.
The credentials of ,B. W. Tyree to
represent Barbers' Local Union, were
read, received and delegate seated.
Delegates from local Barbers'
Union reported that their members
employed in the Mehas shops at
Third and High and South Second
streets, went on strike Tuesday
morning. They asked that the two
shops be placed on the unfair list.
The council voted to appoint a com
mittee to make an investigation first.
Whittlesey, Mooar and Betscher were
appointed on the committee and will
call on the proprietor.
The delegates of the Grocery
Sash-Doors-Windows
When you put up a house or any
other kind of structure you want
material that will give entire satis
faction. The stock of millwork
which we sell is guaranteed to give
the best of service —because it is
made right.
Clerks' Union reported that they have
placed the Kroger Company, the A.
& P. stores and Logston on the un
fair list. The clerks state that they
are meeting with success, and they
want the trades unionists and their
friends to purchase their groceries in
stores that display the card and
where the clerks wear the button.
Painters report having placed the
Grandpa Dry Cleaning Company and
the Cut Rate fruit store on High
street on the unfair list.
Molders again reported the Holland
and Williamson furnaces unfair to
them.
The committee to write the Kroger
Company and the A. & P. stores re
ported that they wrote them, but up
to this time have not received any
replies. The request of the grocery
clerks was granted, and they will re
ceive the support of the council and
the affiliated unions.
The trustees offered their report on
the audit of the books for the past
three months. The report was receiv
ed and ordered spread on the min
utes. The council is in fine shape
and much better than a few years
back.
John Denzler, a member of Molders'
Union, presented the council with a
$5.00 building bond. The usual course
of extending thanks to the donor was
voted.
When You Buy From Us
A committee from the Barbers'
Union paid the council a visit and
asked information regarding their
strike. The necessary information
was given. The committee consisted
of Adam Westrick and Clifton
Ilogans.
A motion was offered and carried
that the delegates take back to their
organizations not to patronize clerks
unless they display their button, and
to notify the Retail Merchants Asso
ciation.
GROCERY CLERKS
STILL OUT
you are assured of high quality at a
fair price. Tell us your building plans
and we'll tell you how to secure the
most for your money and avoid waste.
Our Business Methods Make
New Friends Every Day
The Butler County Lumber Co.
Factory and Yards
The union grocery clerks in the
Kroger stores, who walked out last
week, are still out. The reason given
for the walk-out is that the manager
of the stores has been showing dis
crimination against the union em
ployes, laying them off under the ex
cuse of slack business and refusing
to hire any clerks belonging to the
union. Every effort to meet with the
company officials has been repulsed.
The A. & P. Company also refuses
to negotiate with representatives of
the trade unionists, and both con
cerns have been placed on the "We
do not patronize" list of organized
labor.
At the meeting of Trades Council,
Tuesday evening, the committee ap
West Main Street
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pointed by council to investigate and
endeavor to bring about an adjust
ment, reported having tried several
times to meet with the compan's offi
cials, but that their advances were
ignored. Trades Council has sanc
tioned the Grocey Clerks' Union's ac
tion in placing the concerns on the
unfair list, and will lend every sup
port in bringing home to the stores
the injustice being accorded their
union employes. The Logsdon gro
cery, at 1709 Kahn avenue, is also
considered unfair to organized labor.
Union men and women and their
friends are asked to take notice of
the situation and act accordingly.
PAINTERS DECLARE
FIRMSUNFAIR
Painters' Union No. 235 has placed
Grandpa's Dry Cleaning Company and
the Cut Rate fruit store, High street,
on the unfair list. The painters
charge that these firms have been
having their "work done by non-union
painters. In taking this action the
union painters have the sanction of
Trades Council, and they ask that all
trade unionists and their friends act
accordingly.
TANKERSLEY NOW
WITH S. & S. SHOP
Lou Tankersley, the well known and
popular barber, who formerly con
ducted the barber shop in the Arcade
building which is being remodeled for
a garage, has taken a position with
the Stitsinger & Schick shop at 9
South Front street, where he will be
pleased to have his old friends and
customers call on him. Lou has many
friends who will wish for him every
success in his new position.
ELECTRICIANS GAIN
WAGE INCREASE
A quiet strike of short duration was
on in Hamilton last week, affecting
the members of the local Electrical
Workers' Union and a number of con
tracting firms. Some time back the
trade unionists submitted a new
agreement which called for a 25 cents
an hour increase, to take effect May
1st. Immediately the Middletown
contractors, which is in the jurisdic
tion of the union, signed the agree
ment, as did a number of the Hamil
ton contractors. However, some of
the Hamilton contractors refused to
atcede to the demand for the increase.
The result was that the employes of
those firms, last week, laid down their
tools and refused longer to work un
der the old scale of wages. After
several days' negotiation, an agree
ment of 12% cents increase was
reached, satisfactory to both parties,
and the men returned to work. All
is now serene with the union elec
trical workers and employers, both in
Hamilton and Middletown.
CHESTER OPENS
SATURDAY
The regular summer season at
Chester Park will be inaugurated this
Saturday with a number of new feat
ures to add to the pleasure and enter
tainment of patrons to the Winton
Place amusement resort this year.
Five acts of vaudeville will be feat
ured in the Chester theatre beginning
Sunday afternoon. Performances will
be given afternoon a.nd night, and no
admission will be charged to the
theatre.
In the'ttance palace social dancing
will be featured every night during
the summer season, and on Sunday
afternoon. Novelty dances galore
have been scheduled by the manage
ment for the inaugural week.
Chester's rides, concessions and
fun producers, renewed this year and
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the Employees' school, conducted by
the management before the "first
look" days, will insure park patrons
efficient and courteous treatment.
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
By
I.
C. McCUMBER
James A. White resigned a very
lucrative office in the army of the
easy /money"—prohibitionist officials,
to try for the Ohio governorship. He
fell by the wayside and the coroner
attended to details. Now it is rumor
ed that the United States government
will go straight to hell if Jimmy
White is not placed upon the payroll
of Uncle Sam as a chief pay voucher
signer. If President Coolidge per
mits this salary leech to connect with
the legitimate tax money of the peo
ple, he will have demonstrated that
he is in favor of relieving the nutmeg
shortage by riring Wheeler to make
wooden ones.
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In a letter that old McCumber re
ceived from a friend from Toronto,
Canada, it stated that there were
pleasant times in store for us should
we again come that way this summer.
But, and here the writer underscored,
Pussyfoot Johnson and those of his
ilk, including the prohibition officials
who cluttered up our penitentiaries,
have no need to come this way again
with their hypocrisy. We have had
enough of their fallacies and devil
ment." Oh, yes, some of the GREAT
AMERICANS have a reputation a
few miles from where they suck pap.
In all the devilment raised by so
called law enforcers, there is a
strange aspect. It takes on the form
of "Who's Who?" From public
officials all the way down to village
mayors (advisedly) some of those
men are honest, no member of organ
ized labor has been given free board
in a penitentiary. Church deacons,
and lesser satellites, have accepted
the graft route, but men with the
union principle failed to fall for the
petty things that attract the holier
than thou buzzards.
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Keep your hand clean. But if you
want to smut up get into the good
graces of those whose forefathers
were witch-burners in the early days
when it was not safe to kiss your wife
more than once, and that when you
lay upon your deathbed.
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This "bungler" of the law carries
no brief for Burton K. Wheeler, the
senator who found where ex-Attorney
General Harry M. Daugherty tied his
goat and proceeded to get it. Senator
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9—Three-toed sloth
10—Auditory organ
12—Color
18—Each (abbr.)
15—Obliterate
18—Guarantees
20—Mound of earth
21—Animal
23—Small particl*
24—Chopper
26—Bind
27—Unity
28—Rap
80—Expire
81—Beam
32—Companion
83—Aged
85—Humans
87—To peep
88—Pine tree
40—Remnant
42—Snake
48—Burdened
46—A marker
47—A train (slang)
49—Flesh of the de«r
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68—Small particle
64—Also
55—Month of Hebrew calendar
66—Sharp decline
68—Insect
60—Article
61—Roadway (abbr.)
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE No. 5
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TO THE PUBLIC
The Houses Being Built by J. I. GR1ESMER ON WEST MAIN ST. With Paul Hunter In charge of work, and Also The Houses Being Built in other
Parts of Hamilton By J. I. GRIESMER, ARE NOT BEING BUILT BY UNION CARPENTERS.
CARPENTERS LOCAL UNION No. 637
Wheeler was indicted by some of the
essayers of Blackstone, and then they
were kicked in the slats by a jury
out in Montana. If any business con
cern displayed quite so little brains
in purveying a square deal as that
by the department of justice, they
would have to have a fire instanter to
get money from the fire insurance
companies. We are mighty glad that
we are a "bungler."
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"Yes," replied one man to another,
"our concern came across with over
twenty thousand dollars to the Com
munity Chest." "Fine," came back
the other business man. "It will only
take half a cent on your sales for
six months to get that back and the
other six months will be velvet."
o
We have been writing for labor
papers for several suns, moons, years,
and decades. We have had occasion
to speak of how some men became
millionaires. Notably railroad build
ers. It now is shown that Uncle Sam
gave the Great Northern stockholders,
including the empire builder, James
J. Hill, some two hundred million
dollars worth of land, besides lending
its credit to finance hte enterprise.
And then there are some who say
that lawyers, like Jim Hill, did his
work because he loved unborn gener
ations. It is to weep with a polecat.
That is at least stimulating.
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Attorney General Crabbe avers
that in the passage of the automobile
tax on gasoline, it does not mean that
licenses will have a graduated reduc
tion, and that honesty prevails in
laws. Not at all, he states that he is
still a prohibitionist, and that he has
Anderson's perspective—get all you
can, while the getting hinges upon
decisions and opinions. Poor little
sparrow. A hawk saw him when he
was in the open. Now the sparrow is
nc more.
PAY ROUS
For March in New York
State Behind Last Year
By International Labor News Service
Albany, N. Y.—Wages paid out to
factory workers in New York state
totalled $36,300,000 for the week of
March 15th, according to an estimate
based on reports covering 40 per cent
of the employes of the state. This is
$1,200,000 less than in March, 1924,
the month before the last phase of
the recession in industry. The 2 per
cent gain over February followed the
holiday in that month. Seasonal in
creases were the other factors in the
improvements, chiefly in automobiles,
clothing and building materials. This
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Real
4—Part of verb "to be"
6—Course of nourishment
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7—Motorfuel
8—Observed
9—Commercial announcement
(abbr
11—Steal
15—An exploslv*
14—Like
16—Ocean
17—Still
11—Suffix meaning make late
19—Fish eggs
22—To feel bad
25—In plenty of time
27—Device for provldl&ff lubrica
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38—Speech
84—Invitation
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87—Container
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42— Ring
48—Boy i name
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48—Cut off
60—Wooden block elae of a fcrlok
61—Take notice
67—Sun god
69—Preposition
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statement was issued by Industrial
Commissioner James A. Hamilton.
Average earnings show an increase
in the year to year comparison, how
ever, as the loss in employment was
proportionally greater. Weekly
earnings for March averaged $28.45,
30 cents more than a year ago, and
are above January and February when
inventory and holidays cut into the
amount received by the workers. Men
received $31,.45 .Avhile \^omen were
paid an average of $17.50. Average
earnings are computed by dividing
weekly payrolls in the reporting fac
tories by the number at work and are
used to relate payrolls to employes.
They do not represent the wages act
ually received by factory workers.
NOT CHARITY
But Justice, World's Great
Need, Declares Professor
Nashville, Tenn.—In an address to
the Tennessee conference of social
work, at the First Baptist Church,
Dr. J. L. Kesler, professor of re
ligious education at Vanderbilt Uni
versity, declared that men want jus
tice, not charity.
'Industrial war will never end un
til there is industrial justice," he
said. "To rob a thousand men of
their just wage because we can, and
pay a tenth into the church treasury
as God's part of the graft, is the last
deformity of pious fraud.
"Dues, long overdue, we owe to our
sorely wronged brother, whom we can
only partially repay in attempting to
repay the long lost years for which
we, his brothers, are in part respon
ible. Big business and modem in
dustrial conditions have left him
stranded upon a silent sea."
Dr. Kesler insisted that the
churches 'must redeem business and
industry from this method of human
wreckage to the golden rule, which is
the greatest single preventative meas
ure of human ills that now harass
human life."
CONTINUOUS PEACE
IN
BRITISH STEEL
London, England.—Machinery for
adjusting disputes has resulted in
continuous peace in the British steel
industry for 30 years, said Sir Wil
liam Lake, director of the National
Federation of Iron and Steel Manu
facturers.
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During these three decades, Sir
William pointed out, there has been
no serious stoppage and there ha .5
never been an instance of either side
breaking an agreement. He depre
cated state regulation of wages and
compulsory arbitration in every
form.
During the recent nation-wide strike
of steel workers in the United States
for the right to have representatives
present grievances to employers, tho
organized steel workers of* Great
Britain cabled their well wishes to
the strikers, who were told that this
system has been in vogue in England
more than 30 years.
GRANITE CUTTERS
GAIN
Quincy, Mass.—A long controversy
between the Granite Cutters' Inter
national Association and organized
employers has ended by both parties
signing a three-year agreement. Cut
ters, polishers and tool sharpeners
will receive a minimum of $1 an hour,
and quarry workers 65 cents an hour.
Paving block cutters, who work by
the piece, are increased $2 per 1,000
blocks.
PRAISE FROM THE
I .T. 0.
In the labor press field the Inter
national Labor News Service of
Washington, D. C., has been of great
assistance to the publicity campaign
of the International Typographical
Union. This service reaches nearly
all of the large labor papers of the
country and provides them with feat
ure articles and pictures on labor
affairs that serve to "brighten up"
their pages. The Typographical
Journal for April.
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