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FRIDAY, AUGUST 19,1927
AMERICA IS NO PLACE FOR
LOW WAGE INDUSTRY
Reports credited to the United
States department of labor detail the
low wages paid to the unorganized
workers in certain lines of work no
torious for their lack of organization.
It does not require statistics to back
the assertion that wages in these
unorganized, or largely unorganized,
occupations are too low. Everyone
knows they are too low.
The marvel is that workers, so long
and so grieviously underpaid, con
tinue to shun organization, with its
great material and ethical benefits.
The so-called unskilled trades have
in years past been burdened with the
inertia of an unassimilable mass of
immigrants. Immigration restriction
has reduced this inertia to a point
where it is rapidly disappearing. But
the heritage of years seems still to
deaden the senses of the masses in
these occupations.
Be that as it may, the lesson of or
ganization stands out with ttemen
dous force. Where there is organiza
tion there is at least an approxima
tion of decent pay, and greater still,
there is a sense of manhood and free
dom that makes for better life and
better citizenship.
The %w wage occupations are a
disgrace, not only to those occupa
tions and to the management under
which they labor their tortuous way
along, but to the nation itself, a na
tion that prides itself upon its mar
velous productivity, its inventive
ness and its general industrial pro
gressiveuess.
The victims of low wages can help
themselves through organization in
trade unions, but the obligation to
bring these workers out of the slough
rests equally upon the management of
those occupations and upon the whole
industrial fabric of the country.
There is a certain definite stigma
that attaches to a low wage industry
and the employers in that industry
ought to be made to feel that stigma
What sort of management, what sort
of ailing genius is it that in America
can starve and subdue its workers
and still hold up its head in this civil
ization of mechanical marvels and
productive miracles? What excuse
can it offer an outraged .sense of de
cency
America is no place for low wage
industry.
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KIDDIES' CAMP—BEST EVER
"The best equipped camp in Ohio,
such was the comment of three mem
ber? of the Ohio Public Health Asso
ciation who visited the Kiddies' Camp
on waterworks hill Tuesday after
noon. The visitors also stated the
camp is the most complete of any
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they have visited and they have seen
most all of them in the state. This
comment is most gratifying and ac
cepted with much pride by all Hamil
ton organized labor. The Kiddies'
Camp, as it stands today, is an organ
ized labor product: that is, so far as
the erection of the buildings and
much of the building materials and
equipment is concerned. Hamilton
union men contributed their labor
many Sundays and many hours in the
evenings during the week to construct
the buildings. They gave, and s^ll
give, annual benefits to help pay for
the building materials and their
equipment. Of course others have
helped too, to make the camp what
it is—that would bring forth such
favorable comment from the state
health association members. Organ
ized labor doesn't want all the credit,
in fact, doesn't want any. Organized
labor feels well enough repaid for its
efforts in the knowledge of the great
good the camp is doing for the unfor
tunate children it benefits. Let the
other fellow have the credit and the
glory if he so wills, but let's all of us
help to make it even a better camp.
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ARE YOU IN?
PRAYER:—We will say of the
Lord, He is our Refuge and' our|moviil£ this 'black sjx?t' at the next
Portress: our God in Him we trust. Isession,"
The Labor Day committee has sent
out the S. O, S. call for help af the
big picnic on Labor Day. With the
agreement arrived at with Hamilton
Jockey Clitf) the finest attraction ever
staged at the Labor Day outing at
the fairgrounds is arranged for and
the biggest is expected. The com
mittee sees a fine opportunity for
putting a big crimp in the labor tem
ple debt if it can only secure enough
help to handle the concessions on the
big day. For once, brother, line up
and help. Offer your services to the
committee and help make it the big
gest ever. Help make hay for the
temple debt. Get in on the cuttin'.
May we count on you?
HOW.ABOUT "NATURAL LAWS"?
Trade unionists hear much about
the natural law of supply find demand
and the need to protect this law
against "agitators who would monopo
lize the labor market."
Present financial conditions, how
ever, is causing plain talk about
bankers. They even hint that this
natural law is being violated by ite
protectors.
The nation's banking is under con
trol of the Federal Reserve System,
created by congress, with the aproval
of bankers.
Here is what the latest news serv
ice, issued by the financial house of
Spencer Trask & Co., New York,
says:
"We have previously pointed out
that the operations of our banking
system has, in effect, led to what
amounts to artificial hoarding of gold
without allowing this money to flow
freely into natural channels. This
has been proving an obstacle to the
more rapid recovery of Europe and
perhaps our banking authorities feel
that the time has now come to let
down the bars and to allow the more
unrestricted flow of credit to bring
about, through the natural course of
trade relations, an improved situa
tion in foreign countries."
If the natural course of trade rela
tions are permitted, world conditions
will improve, "which eventually
means a more permanent prosperity
for this nation as well," this news
service says,
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FLORIDA'S "BLACK SPOT"
Commenting-on the failure of the
Florida legislature to adopt a "mod
ern state program for dealing with
occupational accidents," the American
Labor Legislation Review poihts out
that Florida holds an unenviable po
sition as a "black spot" on the work
men's compensation map.
"Florida, the most conspicuous
'black spot' still remaining on the
workmen's compensation map," says
the Review, "was aroused this year
sufficiently to consider an accident
compensation bilL Two measures
were introduced in the legislature
The first one met with so many ob
jections that here was little chance
of its adoption. When the end of
the session drew near, the substitute
bill was introduced and many of the
serious objections raised against the
earlier bill were overcome. The
measure was reported favorably by
the committee, but was defeated in
the house, 47 to 34.
"Forward-looking citizens of Flor
ida have the chagrin of finding their
state, in the year 1927, still unwilling
to adopt the modern plan of protec
tion against occupational injuries
which is in effect ih all the states
except five—all in the South. Efforts
will be continued with a view to re-
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HIGH WAGES DUE TO UNIONISM
Employers who favor welfare work
and the company "union" are not jus
tified in claiming credit for initiating
the American wage policy, writes
William Green in the current issue of
the American Federationist.
Those who know American busi
ness executives," said Mr. Green, "may
well ask these questions:
"If there had been no trade unions,
would American industries be paying
the present high-wage rates?
"If there had been no trade tinions,
would industries have devised employe
representation plans?
'If there had been noJtrade unions
would companies have established
employe ownership plans, old-age
pensions, group insurance, etc.?
'The trade union remains as before
the era of industrial welfare, the one
agency with authority and competence
to set standards for wage earners. It
is the only agency free enough to
give management the benefit- of work
experience that management needs in
order to know production progress."
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PRIEST AND "EQUAL RIGHTS
The Press gets the following news
item from Rapid City, South Dakota,
near which is the summer home of
President Coolidge:
Reverend William Boyd, Catholic
priest, has joined Western trade union
women in their fight against the na
tional woman's party plan to annul
protective legislation for working
women by securing an "equal rights
amendment to the federal constitution.
The national woman's party called
on the president at his summer home
"The hardest work that some of
these feminists do," said the clergy
man, "is to sit upon the plush cush
ions of-their limousines. You may
well take note of the fact that none
of the women who work for a living
in the factories and stores, and who
carry union labor cards, were pres
ent in the delegation which called on
the president and pretended to be so
much interested in the 'welfare of the
working women.' It was because the
women who do the real work that the
'equal rights' movement would destroy
the wage and labor laws that have
been enacted for their protection."
WH^N WILL THEY LEARN?
When will American coal owners
profit by the experience' of British
coal owners?
The former is attempting to smash
the Mine Workers' Union, lower wages
and lengthen hours, as did the Brit
ish coal owners last year. The lat
ter drove the miners back to the pits
and then flooded European markets
with tWeir low-cost commodity.
France checked this coal deluge by
placing an embargo on the British
product, and now a correspondent
from Cardiff, Wales, writing to Ste
wards Coal Journal, spokesman for
American coal owners, says "British
coal owners are just as badly off as
they were before."
American coal owners are asking
union employes to base rates on non
union standards—if such a thing ex
ists. The unionists show that the un
organized fields will immediately meet
this competition with another cut
One does not have to be a prophet
to predict the outcome of this disas
trous policy in an industry that de
mands co-operation of all parties if
it is to be rescued from disaster,
to to -to to to
MEXICO'S GOOD EXAMPLE
Word comes from Mexico that in
terest on the Mexican public debt is
now being paid for the first half of
1927. Most other nations are get
ting into debt as fast and as deeply
as they can.
When Calles took office he announc
ed that he intended to resume inter
est payments on the public debt. The
country was just emerging from
more than a decade of civil strife
Obstacles were enormous.
But the obstacles were somehow
overcome. Interest for the first half
of 1926 was paid. Then it was pai
for the second half. Many person
were surprised. Now comes the news
that the record is being maintained
Surely this is a notable achieve
ment.
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LET US HONOR LABOR DAY
Do not let the first Monday in Sep
tember drop back into just a day
amusement keep it growing bigger
in vision for the labor movement that
has given so much to us. Should you
have neglected to put forth any effort
last year make up for it in 1927 and
keep it in mind for the years to come
—Daniel J. Tobin, treasurer, A.
FIREMEN WILL ARBITRATE
Chicago. Locomotive firemen and
helpers on 55 Western roads will ar
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
bitrate their demands for a wage in
crease of $1 a day. More than 55,000
employes are involved. An agreement
could not be reached by the Federal
Board of Mediation. Under the new
railroad act, both parties will resort to
arbitration.
WILL YOU HELP?
From all appearances the Labor
Day outing at the Fair Grounds this
year will be the largest attended cele
bration evrt* held by the Hamilton la
bor unions. The outings have always
been a big factor in the way of reve
nue for the central body, and the
affiliated crganizations. Through the
arrangement entered into by the cen
tral body and the Hamilton Jockey
Club, both the races and the Labor
Day celebration will be held on the
fairgrounds that day. The only thing
that stands in the way of the central
body making a large amount of cash
on September 5th is HELP. The
Labor Day committee is taking this
means to appeal to you as a trades
unionist, to volunteer your services
on that day. For the past several
years a mere handful of union men
and women have worked hard to make
the outing a success, and so far have
never failed in their efforts. This
year it is going to take more help, and
if you are reading this appeal, will
you please hand in your name as one
who will help this year to make the
outing a big success? WILL YOU
HELP?
UNION LABEL DRIVE
WILL COVER NATION
Washington. The Union Label
Trades Department of the A. F. of L,
has arranged for a nation-wide label
campaign from August 22 to Septem
ber 10. This movemerit will be the
most extensive yet launched by the
department and will be conducted so
that all national and international un
ions, State Federations of Labor, cen
tral bodies and local unions are
benefitted.
In a letter to trade unions, John J.
Manning, secretary of the department,
asks that each local appoint commit
tees to aid in this movement. Unions
in affiliation to the department are
urged to prepare and distribute liter
ature without cost to their locals and
to central bodies. The department
will furnish literature free of cost in
unlimited quantities during the drive,
or at any other time.
Local committees will make a sur
vey of all business in their respective
communities to ascertain the extent
of union label goods of all descrip
tions. Firms employing members of
the building and metal trades' unions
and other various callings should also
be visited in an effort to benefit these
trades.
"Do not expect two or three per
sons to carry the whole burden of this
campaign," said Secretary Manning
"Let each member of organized labor
do something."
WHAT'S THIS!
Has League of Nations Lost L&ding
Friend?
Washington. Has Hon. John
Clarke, former associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court, aban
doned faith in the League of Nations?
He resigned from the Supreme
Court to urge this cause, and now is
quoted by the Associated Press as
making this statement at a public
forum held by the University of Vir
ginia at Charlottesville:
"Former Justice John H. Clarke
today visioned world peace achieved
by many international alliances, in
stead of a single universal treaty like
the League of Nations. Mr. Clarke
spoke on 'The Present Status of the
League of Nations,' and said it had
been found impossible to formulate a
treaty of world-wide scope, suitable
to all nations, leading to the develop
ment of separate treaties like the Lo
carno pact, which ultimately will
serve to establish world peace through
individual agreements betyeen na
tions."
GREEN'S LABOR TALK
TO BE NATION WIDE
New York. The ideal Central
Trades and Laboi^ Council has ar
ranged for a nation-wide radio talk on
Labor Day by William Green, presi
dent of the A. F. of L. The broadcast
station is WEAF, and the speech will
be delivered between 7 and 8 p.
but newspapers will announce the ex
act time. Other national stations
throughout the country will tune in.
REASON FOR DICTATORS
Williamsport, Mass.—Dictators ex
ist only when the people are "tempo
rarily careless of liberty," said Prof
Henry R. Spencer, of Ohio University
at the Institute of Politics here.
FRUIT PEDDLERS UNITE
Detroit.—This city of flivvers, low
wages and unemployment is becoming
aesthetic, and the city council has
passed an ordinance that prohibits
truit peddlers from crying their
wares. The peddlers concluded their
only hope is in organization and 250
of them have affiliated to the Brother
hood of Teamsters.
FORCED TO
WAGE SCALE CUT
Nonunion Miners of West
Virginia Completely at
Operators' Mercy.
?Plie announcement from West Vir
ginia that another wage cut will
shortly ft® made affecting most of the
nonunion miners of that field Is taken
by union miners as another great les
son In the fight now being made by
the United Mine Workers to continue
the Jacksonville wage agreement In
the organized fields. The tactics of
the "union-busting" operators of West
Virginia cannot be resisted by the
unorganized men and they" are placed
entirely at the mercy of their em
ployers. At the present wages being*
paid these men they earn between
$2 to $4 ti day and In addition are
subjected to short-weight outrages by
those who weigh the coal. Under the
unorganized rule, miners of West Vir
ginia are compelled to accept anything
the operators offer.
Despite the Injunctions and other
lega! processes maintained against the
officials of the United Mine Workers
In West Virginia the work of organ
izing the miners Is proceeding. The
appeal to the United States Supreme
court of some 12 rulings of West Vir
ginia courts and federal courts of that
district In respect to organization
work Is expected to be of great help
to the union if the higher court's
decision Is favorable, officials of the
mine workers say.—International La
bor News Service.
GENERAL LABOR NEWS
Carl Berstrom, president of the
^Paving Cutters' Union of the United
States and Canada, Is dead.
The first labor contract under
the
Fascist charter of labor, has been con
cluded between the miners and mine
owners of the Island of Elba.
There is no shortage of ftrm labor
this year, the Department of Agricul
ture announces, declaring the supply
to be 100.4 per cent of the demand.
The board of directors of the Order
of Railway Conductors selected Jack
sonville, Fla., for the next triennial
convention of the order, to
be
heUJ
In May, 1928.
President Green of A. F. of L.
pledged undivided support of organ
ized labor to effort to unionize em
ployees of subway and elevated lines
in New York city.
Last year the pig iron output of
Germany increased 13.8 per cent,
thanks to the beginning of the reor
ganization. Germany's steel and iron
exports in 192G were 4114,000,000, rep
resenting 42 per cent of all German
exports.
The last hope of immediate amica
ble settlement of the coal mine wage
controversy In any part of Ohio was
blasted when miners of the Hocking
district refused to meet with operat
ors In an attempt to agree upon
a
wage scale.
The Ohio coal operators' association
meeting definitely declined to accept
the proposal of the Ohio miners' un
ion for a reconvening of the Miami,
Fla., Joint wage conference to con
I'der a wage scale for
trie
entire
In outlining the attitude of the Pan
American Federation of Labor toward
the peoples in the South American
republics, President Green of the
American Federation of Labor said
it was not the purpose of the feder
ation to interfere in the political or
domestic affairs of any country.
The Pennsylvania railroad has or
dered 50,000 tons of rails, of which
25,000 tons went to United States
Steel, 22,500 to Bethlehem Steel and
2,500 to Inland SteeL The Great
Northern also placed orders for 15,000
tons with United States Steel, 7,000
with Bethlehem and 3,000 with Inland.
Expenses of illness are shown as
the most common cause of financial
stress among workers, according to a
study of 4,000 credit unions loans
mad& by Mildred John, fellow In the
research department of the Women's
Educational and Industrial union
Boston, Mass., and made public by the
bureau of labor statistics, Department
of Labor, in the monthly labor review
Foochow, China, a city of about
600,000, first to record a somewhat
reliable census of its women workers
reports that all save a few hundred
women in wealthy families are em
ployed regularly at some kind of
"gainful occupation at wages that av
erage less thau 50 cents a day, Chi
nese money, or about 29 c$nts in
American coin.
Demands for wage increases of from
$1 to $1.50 are made by 30,000 firemen
and enginemen employed on 45 west
ern railways in a document served on
the Western Managers' association of
Railroad Executives by D. B. Robert
son, president of the Brotherhood of
Railway Firemen and Enginemen. The
Increase in wages asked for is est!
mated at $10,000,000 annually, and Is
another of the demands on the 201
class 1 railroads of the United States
for wage increases by nearly 2,000,000
employees.
Something Like Long U§9
When Napoleon retreated from
Moscow in 1812, was the last time
Ivan Shapkov, of Lahti, Russia, got
drunk, he told census takers recent
ly when he gave them proof that he
had been bom in 1782. As a young
soldier of thirty yearf of age, ht
helped repel Napoleon's invasion of
Russia. He is now one hundrec
forty-five yean old and enjoying
life and good health with his sixth
wife, who is eighty-eight jpars old.
LET CHINESE ALONE
ADVICE TO POWERS!
Williamstown, *Mass.—Bribing and
wire-pulling has been the policy of|
western nations in China, said Dr.
Harold S. Quigley of the University I
of Minnesota in discussing Chinese af-|
fairs at the Institute of Politics.
"Every winner so far picked hasl
failed," said Dr. Quigley. "No leader
could succeed permanently without
loyal Chinese supporters and these he
could not hold if it. were discovered
that he was in foreign pay. It is
time these foreign states ceased to|
pick, a winner."
WIN EIGHT-HOUR DAY
Qlllespie, 111.—Auto mechanics have!
unionized all garages here and estab-|
lished the eight-hour day and a weekly
minimum of $40.
Keep Your Eye
on
SECOND & HIGH
COLUMBUS
Aug. 29- Sept. 3
A Million-Dollar Live Stock
Show.
World's First Aeronautical
Exposition
cen­
tral competitive field.
A strike of 1,200 employees of the
United States Gypsum company at
Oakfleld, N. Y., was called off when
the company agreed to restore an
eight-hour day and the employees to
accept a 12% per cent Instead
ot a
25 per cent cut in wages.
Old-time Dancing and Old'
time Fiddling Contests.
World's Greatest Cattle,
Sheep and Horse Show,
A Half-Million Dollar Dog
Show.
Farm Machinery Exhibit.
Huge Exhibits of Farm and
Factory Products.
International Rodeo and
Stampede.
Five Day of Horse Racing.
America's Greatest Labor
Day Celebration.
Aug. 26-— RODBO—Sept.
WORLD'S
GREATEST
AGRICULTURAL
EXPOSITION
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Ladies' and Gents' garments.
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
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Main and Streets
Rupture
The Labor Temple Auditorium. For dances, bazaars, parties, «?te.
Inquire of the Trustees, or phone 1296 for dates.
-NOTICE-
Grand Slam Golf Clubs and Louisville Slugger Baseball
Bats, made by the Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Louisville, Ky.,
are unfair to the Polishers' Union.
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