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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1925
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, aa Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 26 Market Street
Telephone 12M Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
PRIMARY DAY
Next Tuesday is primary day when
both political parties will select can
didates to represent them at the reg
ular election in November. Candi
dates for all municipal offices will
be selected. It is the duty of every
voter, democrat and republican, to go
to the polls Tuesday and vote for
those whom you think would best
serve the city's interests if elected in
November. Don't let personal feel
ing or bias enter into your selection
of those whom you think will serve
best the people as a whole. What
ever you do, vote! Don't wait until
it is all over, then complain that
neither party has a strong ticket,
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STANLEY OGG
Among other offices for which can
didates will be nominated next Tues
day is that of city council. Stanley
Ogg
is a candidate on the democratic
ticket for councilman-at-large. Stan
leg Ogg is a union man, not a card
man or just a member of the union
but a real honest-to-goodness union
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ROY HORD
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Councilman at Large
Democratic Primaries, Aug. 11, 1925
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man. He has been a leader of local
organized labor for years, and his
whole heart is wrapped up in the
work. He has been president, and is
now, of the Molders' Union No. 68,
for years. Served as president of
Trades Council a number of terms
and is now secretary of that body.
His worth as a faithful, true con
scientious union man has been recog
nized by the State Federation of La
bor by his rise to fourth vice presi
dent of that organization, which posi
tion he now holds as well as general
organizer of the A. F. of L. for this
district.
He was solicited and urged to
stand as a candidate for council
man-at-large, and this gives local
organized labor a fine opportunity to
reward good and faithful service. It
is important that organized labor
have a good, live representative in
that body, and Stanley Ogg ideally
fills the bill. If Stanley Ogg is nomi
nated and elected it is assured that
organized labor's interests wil 1 be
protected and cared for in all trans
actions of the city council.
Every union man and woman vot
ing the democratic ticket next Tues
day should vote for Stanley Ogg as
one of the three to be nominated for
city Qouncilman-at-large.
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THAT MEXICAN INCIDENT
"The Mexican incident is closed
say the daily papers. A lot of bad
feeling toward the United States has
been created and the incident is
closed.
If that is the idealism of American
diplomacy, then it is time the Va-
stead act was repealed «ad sqrasbody
passed the alcohol.
The Mexican incident will not be
closed until American good sense,
good manners and common decency is
restored to its former standing.
About ten years of effort were de
stroyed at one swoop, and the inci
dent is "closed."
If the state department regards the
incident as closed, the state depart
ment has made another blunder and
somebody needs a jolt.
American workers are deeply inter
ested in this so-called closed inci
dent, because the American labor
movement has done more than the
state department ever dreamed of
doing to beget understanding of the
American people in Mexico.
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MINERS DESERVE TO WIN
It is an unpleasant commentary
upon industrial progress that a basic
industry is among those most badly
managed. Nor is this true of the
United States alone. In Great Britain
and Germany the coal industry is
facing crucial situations. Extraordi
nary difficulties have attended the de
velopment of the industry. Location
of mines are determined geologically
and transportation facilities ar^ es
sential. Mining is a calling hazard
ous to life and limb. It is unclean,
laborious work, but it has a sort of
luring appeal that attracts the ad
venturous. For causes inherent in
the industry, miners have had to con
tend against feudal control of mine
operators. The industry has been
managed in accord with free-booting
ethics that utilized industrial dis
turbances as a pretext for raising
coal rates.
The world war brought tremendous
expansion of the industry and no well
directed readjustment has followed
While the miners' unions have been
standing firmly for American stand
ards and stabilization of the indus
try, certain of the mine operators
have been trying to precipitate
greater evils of fluctuation and low
standards. In the bituminous field
operators have been evading the
Jacksonville agreement to which they
are parties and have been extending
an already over-developed industry
In the anthracite industry where the
same degree of mismanagement is im
possible because the industry is a
natural monopoly, miners are poorly
paid in comparison with the value of
the service they render and the haz
ards they risk.
The frequency with which our
press carries headlines of mining dis
asters discloses the dangers that con
stantly hover over the miner and his
family. In addition to this hazard
there is a meagerness and barren
ness of life in mining villages that
is absolutely without justification or
excuse.
The president of the United Mine
Workers stated that out of a total
of 45,678 outside day men employed
at the anthracite mines 43,822 earned
less than $2,000 a year, and only
1,856 earned more than $2,000. How
can American standards of living be
achieved on such an income?
This situation is not one that earns
praise for American business ability
The average citizen thinks little about
the coal unless a strike is imminent
or in progress, and then he thinks
emotionally and from a selfish point
of view. But the coal industry needs
technical ability and economic states
manship.
The miners deserve the better con
ditions for which they contend. Their
demands are in harmony with Amer
ican ideals of life and business.—Edi
torial, August American Federation
ist.
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WISDOM
No lasting gain has ever come from
compulsion. If we seek to force
we but tear apart that which
united, is invincible. There
no way whereby our labor movement
may be assured sustained progress in
determining its policies and its plans
other than by sincere democratic de
liberation until a unanimous decision
is reached. This may seem a cum
brous, slow method to the impatient
but the impatient are more concerned
for immediate triumph than for the
education of constructive develop
ment.—Samuel Gompera.
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Read the Press.
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LABOR IN LIFE INSURANCE
Some folks laughed when labor
atarte«jl to organize banks. Others
thought something Worth watching
was coming along. Today there are
labor banks all over the country,
flourishing, well managed, profitable
—towers of strength for labor.
Now labor is going to organize a
big life insurance company.
Some folks laugh. But others
think here is something new worth
watching.
Life insurance companies have
been enormously profitable. They
have piled up millions in profits. They
have brought great strength" to great
financial interests.
Life insurance companies are tied
up with almost all kinds
6f
industrial
enterprises. All this, as matters
stand, makes for the strength of
those who frequently oppose labor.
Now labor is to start its- own life
insurance company. It is not going
to be just a little bit of a company,
but a great big company, doing busi
ness all over the country, making life
insurance mean more to wage earn
ers, adding strength to labor's organ
izations and safety to its members.
This is also something new in the
world. But it is not going to be
any reckless adventure. It is not
going to be an experience. It is go
ing to be a sound institution, built
on scientific principles, for LABOR.
Some folks say the American labor
movement is just an old fogy. Once
more, let it be said that such critics
had better go easy. American labor
has a way of arriving at its destina
tion. It has a way of doing things.
American labor will make a success
of the life insurance business.
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OHIO WILL DO IT
"By The Way," in the International
Labor News Service, says:
Out in Ohio the fight against the
yellow dog contract goes on. From
now until the next legislature meets
there will be a steady campaign to
educate the people on this important
subject.
Ohio has started a lot of things. It
is a vigorous state. It is a prolific
and a progressive state. If it can
put the yellow dog contract out of
business it will add to its laurels.
It will be good if other state feder
ations of labor will find out from the
Ohio State Federation how this fight
is progressing and then get into the
battle themselves.
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Albany, N. Y.—In June there
were 171 industrial fatalities report
ed to the state workmen's compensa
tion bureau.
FOR MOOSE, THERE FAMILIES AND FltlENDS
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BANNER YEAR
Six Months' Production of
Autos Best in Industry's
History
Benjamin F. Primmer
ATTORNEY
Candidate for Republican Nomination
For Mayor of Hamilton, Ohio
PRIMARY, AUGUST 11,1925
I favor rebuilding the City Electric plant, making a contract
with The Hamilton Furnace Company for artificial gas.
If nominated and elected will keep expenditures down as low
as possible, and prevent waste of taxpayers' money. Will
stand for clean, honest administration free from graft.
JOHN A. FEW
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By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—The present
year on the basis of present promises
may surpass all records for automo
bile production. For the first six
months of the year the production of
pfcssenger cars in this country and
Canada has surpassed all records for
similar months of previous years.
The total production of passenger
care for the first half of the year
was 1,936,700, according to the figures
of the commerce department. For
the first six months last year total
production was 1,852,137. This was
slightly greater than in the first half
of 1923.
The record of the first half of 1925
has been made despite a comparative
ly poor start. In January, 1924, for
instonce, production was 293,824 cars,
while in January, 1925, it was only
212,921. February, 1924, production
was nearly 100,000 cars ahead of Feb
ruary, 1925.
However, after March the produc
tion of 1924 began to fall off. This
year production did not reach its full
height until April. The output of May
and June did not quite equal the rec
ord April figure, but they were so far
ahead of the similar months in 1924
that the six months' total this year
was carried above last.
Because of the decline ^n the latter
half of 1924 the total production for
the full year was below the previous
12 months. Production now is holding
up better.
HIGH WAGE THEORY
Supported By Farm Press
as Helpful to Ruralites
Washington: The agricultural
press is accepting the theory that low
wages of industrial workers affect the
farmer and' commerce, through a les
sened consuming pewer, says Elbert
Stewart, commissioner of the United
States bureau of labor statistics.
"The agricultural press," said Mr.
Stewart, "is showing a greater appre
ciation of the position always taken
by the bureau of labor statistics that
the earnings of the workers, who con
stitute the largest numerical element
of our population, can not be de
pressed, nor the volume of employ
ment in industry decreased, without it
reacting upon the whole range of
business in the shape of decreased con
sumption and hence a forced lowering
of prices to a point where industry
and commerce are hit just as hard as
the workers themselves are hit."
Kindly solicits your Vote and
Support for
Mr. Stewort illustrates this point
by showing that the consumption of
creamery butter is related to the vol
ume of employment.
CLERK OF THE
MUNICIPAL COURT
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At the Democratic Primary Election, to be hel«t
Tuesday, August U, 1925
ANTI-UNION SHOP
PERS USE TRADE
UNION PLAN
Chicago. Anti-union printing
bosses of this city condemn trade
unions for appealing for union shop
patronage, but this does not deter the
free and indepedents" from adopt
ing the same tactics.
In a circular issued by the anti
union employing printers' associa
tion, a list of the anti-union shops are
included in this plea:
'Every time you place an order for
work to be done in a union trade
plant you are indirectly supporting
and strengthening union labor and at
the same time you are directly work
ing against the anti-union shop trade
plants that exist mainly for your
benefit and protection."
LOWER
For Unorganized Workers
of Big Woolen Trust
Lawrence, Mass.—Unorganized em
ployes of the American Woolen Com
pany have received another slice of
the prosperity promised them in the
form of a 10 per cent wage reduc
tion. About 40,000 employes in this
city are Effected.
"The reduction is made necessary
by present "business conditions," the
announcement said. It is intimated
that other mills will likewise "read
just" wgaes.
Until recently the woolen trust
maintained a paternal attitude toward
its employes. On the occasion of one
visit to this city, President Wood, of
the trust, was wildly acclaimed by the
inhabitants. His costly ventures
however, resulted in a reorganization
of the board of directors and his re
tirement. The welfare plans were
abandoned, and now these workers
face a 10 per cent wage cut for de
pending upon others rather than upon
themselves.
PHONE 48
142 High Street
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David Webb
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
We have made
unusual efforts to
please mothers
on Value and the
boys on Style in
the new School
Suits for Fall.
The styles reflect
the boys' own ideas
they fit into the spirit
of active boyhood the
fabrics are worth
while for long, hard
wear.
Every suit a good example of
our Nation-Wide Values. Low
priced at—
$5.90, $7.90, $9.90, $12.50
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Be aft "early bird" in
money saving.
A lot of people teft us they
would like to save money but
there is never anything left.
We'll tell you how the suc
cessful savers work it. They
take the savings out FIRST
and then make the jest do
until next pay day.
Make up your mind what
you want to save, reckoned
weekly or monthly according
to the way your income is re
ceived. Put that amount
aside at once—let your Thrift
Account be the "early bird
that gets the worm." You'll
get along without serious
trouble on the balance.
For highest earnings and
for safety, invest your sav
ings in our strong institution.
The Peoples Deposit
Improvement and Loan Co.
Rentschler BIdg.
WARNDORF, Secretary
WANTED
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Knee Caps, Leggings, full length
elastic stockings fitted properly.
Dargue's Cut Rate Store, 242 High
street. tf
The most modern Limousine
and Ambulance in the city
219 MAIN ST.
EDWARD J. GARDNER
Solicits Your Support for
President of
Council
Subject to the Democratic Pri
maries, Tuesday, August
11,1925
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