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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17,1928
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MORE FIVE-DAY-WEEK LOGIC
One hundred Southern cotton mills
have shut down because of over-pro
duction of narrow sheetings.
The American Bar Association
wants congress to exempt oil pro
ducers from anti-trust law penalties
when they agree to limit production
Dr. George Otis Smith, director
United States Geological Survey
again declares that this country is
"over-engined" and that "supply is
ever ahead of demand with little hope
and expectation of capacity orders
Three years ago the Wall Street
Journal, a financial authority, stated
(September 1, 1925, issue):
"The country today can turn out
more steel, more coal,^ more copper,
more oil, more automobiles, etc., than
the demand calls for. If all of these
industries permitted capacity produc
tion, prosperity would be short lived."
Revolutionary changes have been
wrought since 1925. More automatic
machinery, new processes, increased
efficiency of labor and a scientific
management that includes the small
est economics are all unanswerable
proof that the five-day week is neces
sary.
Employers who deny this claim dare
not operate their plants 100 per cent
capacity.
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LABOR'S TWO STRONG ARMS
The body of labor has two strong
arms—the industrial and the political
Failure to use either of these arms
brings on the weakness of a one-armed
man. Whenever Labor forgets this
absolute fact it pays a heavy penalty
The hand that casts a wrong ballet is
an enemy of the hand that holds the
right union card.
A victory for Labor on the indus
trial fiejd is often turned into defeat
by the enemies of Labor holding po
litical power. Big business knows
this. That is why it is keeping a pow
erful lobby at the national capitol.
That is why it spends its millions
(made by Labor and paid by the pub
lic) to influence legislation, control
the press, mislead public thought, es
cape investigation, infect the schools
with anti-labor propaganda and pre
vail over the courts to issue anti-la
bor injunctions, eviction writs and an
ti-picketing orders.
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TRUTH WILL OUT
The British government announces
that at least 200,000 jobless must eith
er be moved out of that country or
starve.
The report should be read by crack
er-barrel economists and penny-a-liner
writers in the United States who
would solve the British out-of-work
problem by the flippant declaration
CHRIST FOR ALL**ALL FOR CHRIRT
Mt« a* bM.aW li(kt utt
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IN PLEASANT PLACES:-The
Lord is the portion of mine inheri
tance and of my cup thou maintainest
nay lot. The lines are fallen unto me
in pleasant places yea, I have a good
ly heritage.—Psalm 16:5, 6.
PRAYER:—Lord, Thou makest me
to lie down in green pastures. Thou
restorest my soul.
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OLD KWOSICEfL
that the "dole" is responsible. They
refer to the unemployment insurance
act, and they would create the impres
sion that workers shirk employmenc
because they have access to the na
tional treasury.
The British report refutes this claim
as "wholly without foundation," and
states that "the body of unemployed
is not a standing army of vagrants."
The situation is traceable wholly to
economic conditions, it is said.
The British unemployment insur
ance act is in no sense a charity, and
it is not called the "dole" in Britain.
The fund is maintained by joint
contributions by employers, employed
and the government. For male work
ers, the weekly contribution is 8 pence
(16 lents) by the employer, 7 pence
by the worker and 3 pence by the gov
ernment.
Stringent rules govern distribution
of funds. No striker can receive bene
fits, and if a worker who draws this
insurance refuses employment his in
surance ceases. A worker is limited
to the number/ of weeks he may draw
this insurance.
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OUR MOVEMENT IS WIDE
Halifax workers who handle dry and
pickled fish have organized.
The new union calls attention to
the scope of the American Federation
of Labor, which recognizes wage earn
ers in every craft and calling.
Skilled and so-called "unskilled" are
in this great trade union family. The
teacher and street laborer, the printer
and bootblack, machinist and house
maid, painter, carpenter, steel work
er, library employe, bank clerk, gas
house worker, fire fighter, freight
handler, paver, plumber and seaman
all are united to raise living standards
and establish social justice.
The trade union movement is not
"narrow." Every wage worker is eli
gible. He is welcomed. He is not lured
by golden promises. None shall con
trol his internal affairs.
This independence and self-help is
distasteful to those who would "lead"
and own the workers.
The trade union is the naturally de
veloped labor movement of our time
clime and conditions. It is the out
growth of American characteristics
and American background.
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HE'^RIGHT
The union man who attends his lo
cal union regularly and issists in hand
ling the business of the organization
can say with some degree of pride
that he is a union man and not a card
man. The hustling unionist has little
regard for the card man, because he
believes that the latter carries a card
only for the sake of high wages which
it brings him. He's right. If any
workman joins a union merely to get
a bigger pay envelope, he is in the
wrong pew. There never was "a time
when a professional strikebreaker
couldn't obtain higher wages than the
best unionist. Unionism means more
than big wages. Working for a living
never was a cinch, but conditions are
better for both organized and unor
ganized workers today than ever be
fore. This is no accident. Thirty years
ago in free America the average work
day was twelve hours long. Forty
years ago workmen toiled fourteen to
sixteen hours. The courage and sac
rifice of the early trade„unionists made
the ten-hour day possible. The uniting
of labor the last twenty years has
brought the eight and nine-hour day
into general use. In those days strikes
plodded steadily on with their organi
zations, and the great unions of the
present are the result.
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LABOR NEWS
The best place to get real labor
news is in and from the labor press.
News is of many kinds chief, and
ranking first is constructive news that
is educational and of material, phys
ical and mental benefit. This can be
found in the labor press.
Second—news that is general can
be found in the daily press. We con
sult it for the weather forecast, base
ball scores, prize fights and other
sporting events marriages, divorces,
aviation flights and accidents. In
daily and hourly the world happenings,
short, the daily press brings to us
We could not very well get along
without the daily press for general
news.
Some of the things we read in the
daily press* concerning labor may be
true then again, they may not be true.
Labor news can be given the silent
treatment, a favorite method in some
daily papers. It can, and often does,
tell only half of the news and, by
omitting the other half, create con
fusion and twisted information that
is misleading. We cannot get along
without the daily press and do not
want to.
Our real bread and butter news is
found in the labor press.
If you have not .got time to read
both, be sure always to read the la
bor press, anyway.
What labor most needs is better and
more education on economics relating
to our everyday welfare, and we can
best get this kind of news and infor
mation from the labor press.
TRADES COUNCIL
The Co-Operative Trades and Labor
Council met Tuesday night with a
very good attendance. President
Lester Long presided over the meet
ing.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved. A com
munication was read from the Stove
Mounters' Union of South Pittsburgh,
Tenn., in which the secretary states
that the mounters of that city have
been locked out. The communication
as read was received.
The convention call of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor as sumit
ted by the executive board was read
and on motion received and complied
with.
The regular monthly bills were al
lowed as read.
Under the head of reports of dele
gates the following reported: Bakers
reported all members working and
that Krug, Ward's and National prod
ucts are unfair.
Carpenters reported everybody
working.
Firemen report every member at
work.
Molders 68 report conditions fair
and that the Williamson and Holland
products continue to be unfair to
them.
Metal polishers report few members
out of employment.
Painters report every member
working.
Plumbers report conditions O.K. and
all working.
Retail clerks report conditions satis
factory.
Printers report members working
and that the News is soliciting sub
scriptions on strength of employing
union printers.
Milk" wagon drivers report same
firms unfair.
Stage employes report conditions
somewhat brighter.
Pattern makers moving along as
well as can be expected.
Brewery workers, O.K.
Electrical workers report member
ship working and some firms unfair
to them.
Molders 283 report all members
busy and working day and night.
Label League taking in a few mem
bers occasionally.
George. Brandel, secretary of the
last bazaar, reported receipts and ex
penditures which resulted in a hand
some profit for the council. The re
port jon motion was received and ap
proved. It was also moved and sec
onded that the balance be transferred
to the council's general fund.
Stanley Ogg was nominated and
elected delegate to represent the
council at the coming convention nf
the Ohio State Federation of Labor
which will be held in Columbus, Sep
tember 17th. He will also represent
the molders' organization.
Ogg also reported the final action
of the non-partisan political cam
paign committee before the primaries
The report was received.
The meeting adjourned at 9:30.
CITIES CROWDED
MUST SPREAD
New York.—The huddling of apart
ments in closely arranged phalanx has
reached its climax, according to W.
Burke Harmon, president of one of the
largest real eBtate concerns in the
country. The next generation will see
cities expanded over territory now re
garded as strictly suburban, he said.
"Centralization of development,
whether it be apartment houses, com
mercial construction or some other
type of development, can not be con
tinued because of the great influx of
population and growth of cities gen
erally. The individual house will be
popular as a consequence. People are
pouring in from rural sections in a
stream undreamed of, with the result
that the bulk of the country's popula
tion will be urban rather than rural
in a few decades."
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
A. F. OF COUNCIL
BANS BROOKWOOD
Policy and Faculty "Red"
Onions Asked to With*
draw Support
Atlantic City, N. J. (I. L. N"
8.)
The American Federation of Labor
executive council has just struck its
first hard blow at the "intellectual"
interlopers who have sought positions
of influence and leadership by the
'back door route."
The council put the ba« on Brook
wood college at Katonah, N. Y., ask
ing all unions to cease all relations
with that institution.
This action was taken following
submission of a report by Matthew
Woll, chairman of the Federation's
standing committee on education. The
report and the investigation upon
which it was based followed instruc
tions given by President Green.
International unions and all other
organizations of labor are asked to
cease giving funds to Brookwood, to
cease establishing scholarships, to
cease sending scholars and to revoke
all endorsements. Some eighteen in
ternationals have at various times en
dorsed Brookwood, under the impres
sion that it was a worthy labor coJ
lege.
Brookwood is headed by A. J. Muste.
Another principal member of its facul
ty is David J. Saposs.
The reason given for the council's
action is that Brookwood teaches the
ories contrary to the principles of the
American Federation of Labor, which
means that the council regards Brook
wood as red. Three of its lecturers,
according to Mr. Woll's report, are
lecturers in a New York Communist
school. The report also declares that
Brookwood's instruction in sociology
•elates chiefly to sex.
"We have advised all unions to dis
associate with Brookwood," said Pres
ident Green. "Members of its faculty
and its policy are not in accord with
the American Federation of Labor."
STREETCAR
Workers Organize in Dur
ham
Durham, N. C. (I. L. N. S.)—Dur
ham's street car workers are now or
ganized, having jufjt formed Division
No. 984 of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Street and Electric Rail
way Employes of America. Organi
zation work was directed by J.
Lawson, member of the executive
board of the Amalgamated Associa
tion, assisted by members of the
Durham Central Labor Union
Though only a month old, the union
has nearly a hundred per cent organ
ization.
The Durham Public Service Com
pany, which operates the street car
system, is trying to wreck the union
with spies and "stool pigeons" but is
not getting anywhere. The company
is part of a company that has 'the
street car workers' organization on
its properties in Toledo, Ohio, and
other cities.
MECHANICAL POWER
REPLACES HAND LABOR
Washjrf&ton.—Substitution of me
chanical power for hand labor is the
greatest factor in the increased pro
ductivity of American industry, ac
cording to the United States Geolog
ical Survey.
A study shows that from 1849 to
1923 the horsepower per wage earner
increased from 1.44 to 5.31, and from
1909 to 1923 from 2.96 to 5.31. The
least use of mechanical power was
found in agriculture.
A writer says: "As long as there
are two women and man on earth
there will be war." Why the man?
MACHINE CALLED
MENACE TO SOUL
New York.—We no longer have hu
man slavery, buf the machine threat
ens to dominate the soul and to mold
it after its own machanistic pattern,
declared Rev. Henry D. Frost of Hu
genot Memorial Church, Staten Island.
"In this age of the machine ancr the
factory," said the clergyman," the
shadow of this Frankenstein that we
have made falls across the upward
reaching pathway of the race. We
are all classified, standardized, regi
menter, while our human life and in
dividuality are stifled and dwarfed.
The power of indepeffdent thought and
richness of personality are lost, as
the age that tends and guides the ma
chine becomes more and more pat
terned atfer its image.
"We are tempted to measure human
achievement in terms of speed and
power, that are properly to be used
only by our slaves, the material tools
that serve the needs of oar physical
existence."
TO HONOR GOMPERS
Atlantic City, N. J.—Next January
has been decided by the A. F. of L.
Executive Council as the month in
which a call will be made for contribu
tions from A. F. of L. affiliates to the
Gompers memorial fund.
The last congress passed legislation
setting aside a park for the monu
ment, near the A. F. of L. building,
in Washington.
PICNIC COMMITTEE
DARGUE'S CUT RATE
21 NORTH SECOND ST.
Trussses and Abdominal
Supporters
If you sutr«-r from painful knees, legs or feet, come in as hun
dreds of others have be fitted with the elastic knee caps, stockings
and anklets. This compression frees you from needless pain and
suffering. Mrs. Dargue tells you how and why. ^he'u glad to help
you and answer your questions.
DargueVCut Rate Store
21 North Second St.
The Labor Day picnic committee
met Tuesday night immediately after
the Trades Council meeting. The
different sub-committees imported the
arrangements that have so far been
made. From these reports the com
mittees are leaving nothing stand in
the way of making the 1928 celebra
tion a wonderful day.
The amusements of course will be
the horse racing, which will be the
big feature. EJamie (Rube) Smithran
old time Hamilton boy and his wife
have been engaged for one of the free
attractions on the grounds. Smith
has been at Chester Park for eight
weeks, and if the management of
that amusement park can stand for
Earnie that length of time, the La
bor Day committee can surely take
him on fo^ one -day.
Instead of dancing in the old dance
hall on the fair grounds that has been
used ,for the past several years, thf
committee in charge have been in
structed to dicker with somebody in
Overpeck, Ohio, for an outdoor plat
form. An outdoor platform will be
more satisfactory to the dancing1 pub
lie.
A ten-piece orchestra has also been
engaged for the dance music.
The fireworks and other features of
the outing will be all contracted for
before the next meeting.
UNION'S PLEA
UPHELD
Des Moines, Ifwa.—Congress should
prohibit contractors on Federal build
ings from importing cheap labor to
bieak down living standards, declared
Governor Hammill's board of arbitra
tion in the dispute between local trade
unionists and A. C. Samford, eontrac
tor on the new Federal court building.
The award upholds the unionists'
charge that Samford took advantage
of depressed business conditions and
imported cheap labor.
The arbitrators call on the Federal
government to adopt a rule under
which a contractor on government con
struction be made to comply with lo
cal labor conditions. Failure to com
ply with such rule shall bar the of
fending party from future contracts.
MRS. VENA BRADEN
Reduces 16 Pounds
Mrs. Vena Braden of 223 E.
MeCarty St., said: "In 5 weeks
I reduced 16 pound* and my
Waistline has reduced several
inches by wearing a Brooklyn
Bridge abdominal support. I
am convinced they will relieve
the pressure on the back and
remove the surplus fat, giving
one an athletic posture. They
are comfortable to wear at all
times." Now selling
to Western Union Telegraph Exchange
$98,000,000 HELD
BY 28 Labor Banks
Princeton, N. J.—Twenty-eight la
bor banks in the United,States had a
total capitalization of $7,437,F00 last
June. The figures were compiled by
the Industrial Relations Section of
Princeton University. Deposits in the
banks were $98,166,834, and total re
sources were $114,717,673^
The largest resources—$21,168,585
were reported by the Federation
Bank and Trust Company, New York.
Peter J. Brady, a member of the Pho
to-Engravers' Union and well known
member of organized labor, is presi
dent of this banlc.
The Engineers' National Bank of
Cleveland reported the next largest
sources, $20,154,680.
GLOSS OFF
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All Comforts for Long Distance Trips
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Men's Pants
H^ROUSERS from our regular stock of sep
a rate pants trousers from fine two-pants
Suits trousers that represent the very utmost
in value-giving. You will find pants of all
colors^and patterns—just the trousers to har
monize with that odd coat and vest.
This sale starts Thursday morning. There
are hundreds to choose from, and your size
is here in the pattern you like best.
THE COLUMBIA SAVINGS
rH & LOAN CO.
tu 4M rentschlm MDb
Fine Norway Mackerel
35c Pound
FRANK X. HILZ
Thp Pure Food (Jrorer 3rd &
Rupture
Improperly treated may cause
more injury than benefit. Prop
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every reason to believe many
cases will be cured. The most
comfortable truss to wear ever
invented. No leg straps to
chafe. We not only fit them cor
rectly, but will give you service
that insures comfort and the
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Wt also fit Elastic Stockings,
Shoulder Braces and Abdominal
Belts of all kinds.
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