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VOL. XXVII. No. 17
By International Labor News Service.
Chicago.—A strike of the employes
of the surface and elevated railways
of Chicago has been averted through
the diplomatic efforts of President
jW.
D. Mahon and other international
and local officers of the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employes of America. The
demands of the employes for an in
crease in wages and the counter-de
mand of the street railway companies
for a decrease are to be arbitrated.
The old scale expired May 31. Both
the surface lines and eleveated men
made a demand for an increase of 15
cents an hour. The companies an
swered by asking a cut of 5 cents an
hour. In addition to this the men em
ployed on the surface lines demanded
$1,000 life insurance and $20 a week
sick benefit, which already had been
granted the elevated employes.
Elevated Men Follow Suit
After it had been agreed to arbi
trate the dispute on the surface lines
the elevated employes signed an
agreement to abide by the decision of
the surface lines arbitrators by ac
cepting any wage scale changes thus
decided.
Surface lines employes now receive
a maximum of 75 cents an hour for
day work and 77 cents for night work.
Men operating one-man cars receive
83 cents an hour. The maximum wage
STRIKE
Brings 40-Hour Workweek
To Cap Industry
By International Labor News Service.
Arbitration Averts Strike
Of Chicago Elevated and
Surface Railway Workers
New York City.—A lock-out or
dered by association shops to halt the
introduction of the 40-hour week in the
cap industry has been defeated by the
Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work
ers' International Union, after a two
weeks' strike in this city—the center
for cloth hat and cap factories. The
lock-out order was withdrawn and the
five-day week put into effect in the
entire trade in New York, employing
5,000 workers.
The capmakers convention last May
decided to introduce the 40-hour week
generally and instructed the execu
tive officers to proceed to negotiate
an agreement with the employers on
the basis of such a change.
The independent firms conceded the
demand without a struggle. The asso
ciation shops refused and the union in
structed its members to quit promptly
at 5 P. M. instead of 5:30 P. M. Sat
urday work had been abandoned some
years ago and the extra half hour
made up for the lost time. When the
regular eight-hour day was enforced,
it reduced the total time worked to
40 hours.
The
SAN D- RAVEL-CE ENT
on the elevated lines is 77 cents an
hour.
Judge Kickham Scanlan, of the cir
cuit court, has been selected as the
arbitrator for the men, while E. J.
Mcllraith, of the engineering depart
ment of the Chicago surface line, will
represent the company. These two
gentlemen will select the third arbi
trator.
Mahon Faced Difficult Situation
W. D. Mahon, international presi
dent of the union, was in Chicago for
four weeks. The situation was a diffi
cult one, as the men had shown their
determination by voting to strike by
an overwhelming majority, and the
management of the street railways
had shown just as great a determi
nation to resist the demands.
President Mahon was ably assisted
in the negotiations by W. B. Fitzger
ald, international vice president
D. Bland, international treasurer and
editor of the Union Leader, official
publication of the Chicago street rail
way men Edward McMorrow, inter
national executive board member
William Quinlan, surface lines local
president William Taber, local secre
tary-treasurer John J. Kehoe, local
recording secretary, and Frank Law
rence and W. S. McClenathan, presi
dent and secre tary-treasurer, respect
ively, of the Chicago elevated railway
employes.
Void, Decrees Georgia High
Court
Atlanta.—The Georgia Supreme
Court has annulled an Atlanta city
ordinance which fixed a standard wage
to be paid by contractors engaged
on municipal works. The ordinance
was contested by the anti-union group
in this city.
The court held the rates fixed "tend
ed to encourage a monopoly and defeat
competition, and it also tends to put
a heavier burden on the taxpayers of
the city than free competition! would
place upon them."
Judge James K. Mines dissented
from the majority opinion. He held
that the City Council has authority
to pass the ordinance.
The ordinance provided for these
rates, which the court said tended to
ward monopoly and a burden to tax
payers:
Blacksmiths, 90 cents an hour car
penters, 80 cents bricklayers, $1.40
plumbers, $1.25 plasterers, $1.25
steam fitters, $1.25 electrical workers
$1 lathers, $1 sheet metal workers
80 cents stone cutters, $1.12 paint
ers, 80 cents.
When in doub/ try Standard, 5c.
Hamilton Gravel Co.
Phone 3708
IC. W. GATH CO.
Funeral Directors
Ambulance Service Chairs and Tables Rented
Phone 35 17 So. Street
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Saturday Specials
FRESH SHOULDER RIBS C
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SMOKED CALA 1CK
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When the agreement of a truce was
announced 400 union applications were
made by Interborough men. Union
leaders made it clear they would pro
tect all members from discharge and
that they had made no unconditional
promise not to strike.
"We agreed," they said, "to call oil'
the strike if the companies agreed
that every man discharged would be
restored to his place and no discrimi
nations would be practiced against
any employe of the companies because
of his sympathy with or his member
ship in the Amalgamated. In the
event that the companies violate the
agreement we will go directly to th*
mayor with the grievance in compli
ance with n request made by him to
do so."
Interborough on Aggressive
The Interborough had already taken
the aggressive when Mayor Walker
summoned the officials to a confer
ence. Thirteen union men had been
discharged. More than 1,500 strike
breakers had been collected from Chi
cago, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to
run the trains. Armed guards had
been enrolled. A commissary was
established in one of the barns. All
WHY WORKERS BOR
ROW
Washington.—A study of 4,000
loans made by eight credit unions
shows that illness is the most common
reason why workers are forced to bor
row. A review of the study is printed
in the Monthly Review of the United
States Bureau-of Labor Statistics.
The next important reasons why
workers borrow is the winter supply
of coal, family expenses and an ac
cumulation of debts. Nearly three
fourths of the male borrowers were
married and 85 per cent had depend
ents. More than three-fifths of the
borrowers earned $40 a week or less.
The largest number of loans were for
amounts between $50 and $100.
STATE UNIONS TO MEET
Keene, N. H.—The annual conven
tion of the New Hampshire Federa
tion of Labor will meet in this city
on Tuesday, September 20.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
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Truce as Traction
Interests Prepare for War
itional
New York City. Three hours of
conciliation by Mayor Walker result
ed in the establishment of an armed
truce between the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street and Electrical
Railway Employes and the Interbor
ough Rapid Transit Company. The
lockout-strike was on the eve of be
ing ordered when the compromise was
effected. Union men are jubilant.
The company, which had already be
gun to discharge union members, was
truculent, defying the union to organ
ize in the period of the truce.
"Our victoi*y is fundamental. We
have gained the right to organize the
lines of the Interborough," was the
conclusion on the mayor's settlement
reached by the union organizers,
James H. Coleman and Patrick Shea.
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were defeated cpiMtedi
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companies' aid while \n, s
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letitle prosecutor,
myer, who has alie n
of high officials fo
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strike.
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liscriminatioi
Of the 13 men, five were discharge*
for attending a union mass meeting
The rest were dismissed for refusinj
to instruct strikebreakers. Amoin
them was the oldest motorman in tb
employ of the Interborough. It wa
GUNS FOR OAL
OWNERS TO LOWER
LABOR'S WAG*
Columbus, Ohio. President Le
Hall, of the Ohio district, United Min
Workers, together with other official?
have been enjoined from picketim
the plant of the Luhrig Coilerie
Company at Luhrig.
The court order is part of the coti
owners' campaign to open mines wit
non-union labor. They have not oi
fered the 1917 scale or $5 a day, bu
the miners are asked to accept reduc
tions from 25 cents to $1 a day les
than $5.
From Steubenville come report
that officials of the Rose Valley an
Goodyear Rubber Company mines ac
mit ordering machine guns and an
munition. The miners are willing t»
confer with owners, but the latter re
fuse unless the meeting is based on
an acceptance of lower rates.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
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forced
Men Hail Victory
a.-t am of Mayor Walker and
•a.norary truce based on restor
discharged men was hailed as
a: victory at a mass meeting in
klyn Labor Lyceum. Hugh
ireneral oriranizer of th
i w federation of Labor James
man, ".eneral organizer of the
and l' J. Shea, vice president
iai-amated, were the three
'•uoliiiti.r who were success
'..'•a'aa'' 1 he mayor to intervene
•'•'ding S" city officials, no prom
union i e..ignition has beei
li i implied that the labor
A uti i do best to wait until the
hy Kua its unification of the
lines and eliminated the anti
-•orporation- from the picture.
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By International Labor News Service.
Chicago.—Negotiations for a new
agreement between commercial tele
graphers and the Canadian National
Telegraphs, affecting over 1,500 em
ployes, were begun in Toronto, July
11. When the general committee of
the Commercial Telegraphers' Union
of America, headed by Calvin McMa
hon, met General Manager Barber,
one more chapter of the long and bit
ter struggle of the communistic ele
ment to wreck C. N. T. Division No.
43 was closed.
The "reds," however, have not yet
given up their efforts to thwart the
interests of the majority. Although
discredited in March of this year by
the overwhelming majority of 1,013
out of a total of 1,500 employes, cast
in favor of the C. T. U. A. general
committee, they arc now seeking to in
terest the labor department in grant
ing them a board of conciliation to
"force the management to deal with
a committee."
^TheJurniiw
ofJlappitiess
Communists Fail in Effort
To Represent Telegraphers
In Parley With Employers
The C. T. U. A. launched into a fight
to drive communism from the ranks in
1925, by expelling two of the ringlead
ers and driving ex-Vice President
Paul F. Schnur into the open as a
"left-winger" and "borer from with
in.''
'We believe we were the first to
actually go to the mat with these
borers from within," declared Inter
national Secretary-Treasurer Frank
I Powers. "Other organizations tri
ed to clean house, but the commun
ists under suspicion always denied
their affiliation and squirmed and
wriggled out of the net. The move
ment now being directed by President
Green in New York city is driving
the truth home to the labor move
ment that no half-way measures can
be taken with these people.
"Either they must be driven out, or
tin y will wreck the trade union move
ment. They have no thought of im
proving the conditions of the work
ers, for right now they are trying to
obstruct our C. N. T. negotiations
They will lie, promise anythig, carry
water on both shoulder at the same
time.
"But never do you find them orgar
izing in an unorganized field always
boring into organized territory.
"Their slogans vary with condition
and circumstances. For instance, in
Canada it was 'Canada for Canadians'
—a policy diametrically opposed to all
Going through our stocks we've discovered a motley collection of reed,
willow, fibre, rattan and hickory pieces of furniture. They're odd pieces,
part of broken suites, every piece is new and perfect. Many of them of the
finest type, beautifully hand-decorated and upholstered. Others of the more
homely type. Chairs, comfortable and decorative that will add much to the
beauty of any room or porch. And all of them are at such cut prices that
they will ho ?old almost immediately. We advise you to shop early.
K-R-E-B-S
Third and Court, Streets
EVERYTHING MARKED IN PLAIN FfOTTRES
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socialistic principles, but manufactur
ed for its effect on patriotic Canadian
workers.
"Our thanks and appreciation go out
to the great Trades and Labor Con
gress of Canada, headed by Tom
Moore, and the railroad trades, par
ticularly the Order of Railroad Tele
graphers and Railway Department
No. 4, under the direction of Third
Vice President G. D. Robertson and
President R. J. Tallon, respectively,
for their assistance in our fight. These
organizations have also had their
troubles with the borers from within,
but have ever been free with advice
and help."
Washington.—"Scarcity of domestic
servants," is an old cry, says the
Monthly Labor Review, issued by the
United States Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics.
The cry is periodically raised, and
at this time the immigration law is
blamed, but the Monthy Review says:
"Conclusive evidence on this subject
is not available, but the information
accessible indicates that the difficulty
complained of is due to persistent eco
nomic and social causes having little
or no relation to immigration or im
migration policies."
The bureau quotes records to show
that women are unwilling to enter do
mestic service and that the problem is
a perennial one and is wholly apart
from immigration restrictions.
"During the decade just preceding
the beginning of the World War in
1914," the bureau states, "immigra
tion into the United States reached its
maximum, in some years exceeding a
million a year. Yet, in 1915, with
this great mass of accumulated alien
labor of all classes, the same com
plaints about the difficulties of secur
ing efficient domestic servants were
made."
SMI 'i
SERVANT SCARCITY,
Immigration Law Result
RAISE DEATH BENEFIT
Atlantic City.—The death benefit to
widows of deceased members has
been raised from $300 to $500 by the
annual convention of the Sheet Metal
Workers' International Association.
at All
future
Broken
Suites of
Summer
Furniture
Marked
To Clear
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Is
Ancient Complaint