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VOL. XXVIU. No. 32
Guelph, Ontario (I. L. N. S.)—The
successful conclusion of the strike at
the full fashioned plant here of Lan
ders Brothers, Inc., during the past
week has established for a group of
some forty knitters and girl workers
the right to belong to the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers.
Less than six months ago the hos
iery workers' organization, at the ur
gent request of a group of young
people employed in about a dozen
scattered plants in the province of
Ontario, started an educational cam
paign. Various organizers and offi
cers of the federation paid brief
visits to Canada and met with the
knitters and girls working in different
shops throughout the province.
Charter Granted in Guelph
Three months ago a charter was
grunted to a local in Guelph. Almost
the entire force of the Landers Broth
ers' mill joined the organization de
spite efforts by the company to pre
vent them from so doing. No effort
was made by workers to force recog
nition of the union or to secure con
cessions from the company, the mem
bers simply devoted themselves at
the outset to learning the principles
and history of the labor movement
and of the knitters' organization.
Various Canadian trade unionists co
operated splendidly in the work of or
ganizing this local and in holding it
together.
No publicity was given to this or
ganization work being carried on in
Canada for various reasons and every
effort was made to carry on the wotk
in such a manner that no trouble
would result immediately in mills
where the knitters or women workers
joined the union. The mills are widely
separated and most of them afle Stn&ll
and were recently established. How
ever, the type of worker employed in
these plants was most sympathetic to
ward the idea of labor unionism and
collective bargaining. A high stand
ard of education prevails among these
workers, and particularly fine spirit
of fraternity is found among groups
of young people employed in the in
dustrial establishments here.
Workers Walk Out
A spontaneous walkout took place
in the Landers mill October 15, as a
result of the discharge of a union
member. The employes regarded the
WOMEN ARE AF
FECTED BY PRES*
ENT-DAY LIFE
Washington.—Our fast social and
industrial life threatens the health of
women, according to the United
States Public Health Service.
Young women, especially, are
warned to apply the brakes to their
activities or face physical and nerv
ous breakdown.
"Thrills and excitements of fast
night life, wild parties, allurements
of business activity, the drive for
supremacy in school life and many
other abnormalities keep the body and
mind functioning—temporarily only,"
said an official of the Public Health
Service. "But they are temporary
and unless the essential rudiments of
good health are observed the human
machines can't stand the wear and
tear."
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Ontario Strike Wins Workers
Right to Join Hosiery Union
Organization Work Gains
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dismissal of this individual as an af
for to destroy the union and prompt
ly all quit work despite contrary in
struction from federation headquar
ters.
The strike lasted only two weeks,
however. Through the good offices of
T. A. Riggs, representing the Domin
ion ministry of labor, the mayor of
Guelph and other officials together
with the local trade unionists, an
agreements was reached with the Lan
ders Companw not to discriminate
against any persons on account of un
ion membership and to take back all
of those employed when the walk-out
occurred.
This settlement has been hailed as
a great victory not only by the group
in Guelph but by other full fashioned
workers throughout the province.
Organizer E. F. Callaghan will return
to Ontario for a time to assist the
newly established local to find its
feet and to meet with the workers
from other mills now clamoring to
join the federation."
BOSSES
In Cloak and Suit Industry
Would Evade Agree
ment
New York.—Raymond V. Ingersoll,
impartial chairman for the cloak and
suit industry, has ruled that & jobbing
firm must abide by its unio* agree
ment not to purchase non-union made
garments.
The agreement was signed by the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union and the Merchants' Ladies'
Garment Association. The purpose Of
the agreement is to stabilize the in
dustry. The union complained to the
impai-tial chairman that the jobber
had been dealing with non-union shops
and the association declined to in
struct him to discontinue this prac
tice.
The association did not deny the
charge, but claimed that the garments
were purchased outright rather than
from material furnished by tile job
ber.
Chairman Ingersoll rejected the em
ployers' plea. He showed that the
agreement provides: "No member of
the association shall employ or con
tinue employing a manufacturer
whose name is not included in the
latest corrected list of 'union shops'
furnished by the union, and shall not
have garments produced or supplied
by such manufacturer."
The chairman declared that "neither
the testimony offered by the associa
tion nor any common-sense interpre
tation of the language in the present
agreemen would permit a basis for
legalizing the giving of advance or
ders to a non-uion manufacturer to
make up garments out of his own
goods. Such a process would involve
the actual initiation by a jobber of
work in a non-union shop."
OLD AGE PENSIONS
FAVORED IN CANADA
Toronto, Canada.—This province
will accept the Dominion old-age pen
sion system, said Premier Ferguson,
in a speech in this city. The cafc!
net official said this action will be
taken by the next legislature.
Demand the United Garment
Workers of America Label
When buying a suit, and we are headquarters for this Label in Hamilton.
Union Men, give us a trial on that next garment.
ALSO
Ready-to-Wear Hand Tailored Topcoats and
Overcoats $19.75—Real Values
235 Court Street Hamilton's Leading Tailors 25 Years
PLEASE MENTION THIS PAPER WHEN BUYING
Washington, D. C. (I. L. N. S.)«-»
Labor's paramount concern in the
next four years lies in the direction
of the United States supreme court,
according to Frank Morrison, secre
tary of the American Federation of
Labor, who today discussed the elec
tion results. President Green has not
returned to his office from a western
trip which took him to his Ohio home
to vote.
As to congress Secretary Morrison
said: "Ih my opinion the new con
gress will be the best congress since
the one that enacted the Clayton act
under Woodrow WHaCk"
"Appointments which will be made
within the next four or eight years
to the supreme court are of the ut
most importance," said Mr. Morrison.
"Whatever changes are made will
affect labor.
"With a progressive congress," Mr.
Morrison continued, "it is our hope to
secure legislation helpful to labor and
to prevent confirmation of reaction
ary men, if such men are appointed."
Labor's point of view, as expressed
by the secretary, is that whatever leg
islation may be enacted to meet la
bor's requirements will have to pass
the supreme court. If a supreme
court stands in the roadway with neg
ative decisions progress will be dif
ficult.
Union Tailored
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A. F. of L. Secretary Points
To Ages of Justices For
Indication of Possibilities
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PI {ESS.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1928
Now That That's Over With
U. S. Supreme Court Paramount
Issue Now Best Congress
In Years, Says Morrison
An idea of possibilities in connec
tion with the highest court in the land
may be had from observing ages of
the justices. Chief Justice T*ft la
71 Associate Justice Holmes will be
88 in March, the oldest man on the
supreme bench. Associate Justice
Van Devanter is 69. Associate Jus
tice McReynolds is 66 and so is As
sociate Justice Sutherland. The oth
ers are: Sanford, 63 Butler, 62
Stone, the last appointee and the
youngest man in the group, 56.
FAULTY METHODS
Of Out-of-Date Textile Man
agers Harm Industrv
Greenville, S. C.—-Many textile
manufacturers are out of date and
depend on low wages to "muddle
through," declared students of this
industry at a banquet here.
James W. Cox, Jr., chairman of the
textile division of the American Soci
ety of Mechanical Engineers, said
that the average textile mill has been
operated "in a rather haphazard, slip
shod, careless manner, as compared
to modern industries. We have been
governed a great deal by precedent
and custom, not by reason," he said.
"With present keen competition a
textile mill can not be profitably op
erated by old-fashioned so-called
'practical' methods, or on new 'the
ories,' but must be operated on facts
in a definitely controlled, Scientific
manner. Other industries have done
this and so can we. Some mills are
doing it, most of them are not."
J. E. Sirrine, mill engineer of this
city, deplored the low-wage system
that has been fastened on this indus
try.
"While many improvements have
been made in machinery," he said,
"we have not heard much about the
output per person. This country has
not grown rich on low wages. The
policy of thrift, if carried too far,
would bankrupt the United States. Is
it wise to think we should have low
wages to succeed? I don't know how
much we can increase wages, but
why don't we start with the idea and
see if we can not raise general pros
perity by increasing the product per
person."
Mr. Sirrine declared that cotton
manufacturers use their machinery
too long. They could afford to scrap
their equipment much quicker than
they do they lack courage, he said.
MINERS' OFFICIAL DIES
Fort Smith, Ark.—Andrew Steele,
international board member United
Mine Workers of America, died in a
local hospital following a short ill
ness. He was a union official for
many yeara.
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FARM ILLS HIT
LABOR, U. S. SENA
TOR DECLARES
New York.—"The farmer's condi
tion is of interest to the city dweller,
and especially to urban workers," said
Senator Copeland.
"If the farmer fails he goes to the
city and increases the number of
workers there. Overcrowding in the
great industrial centers means undue
competition and lower wages.
"It is a sad commetnary to learn
that farmers last year received $7,
500,000,000 for their crops, but whfBl
theso crops came to the consumers,
the latter paid $22,500,000,000."
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Kenosha, Wis. (I. L. N. S.) —Amid
scenes resembling a college football
celebration twenty-six Allen-A hos
iery strikers, including eight girls,
left here October 31 to start jail sen
tences of indeterminate terms in the
Milwaukee house of correction.
These 26 workers were found guilty
of civil contempt of court in violating
the terms of a federal injunction
handed down last spring by United
States Judge Geiger at the instance
of the Allen-A Company. Fines of
$100.00 each were imposed on the 26
defendants, but on discovering that
this money would be turned over to
the Allen-A Company all of them re
fused to pay these penalties and chose
jail instead. The American Federa
tion of Full Fashioned Hosiery Work
ers would undertake to raise money
to pay these fines but has not done
so up till now because of the urgen
demand of the strikers that this
course should not be followed. There
are actually 27 persons involved in
this case, but one girl striker, Pauline
Conrad, was taken to the hospital
here with an attack of appendicitis
the day before the group went to
jail, and will join the others in prison
later.
Appeal Is Taken
The attorneys in the case are doubt
ful as to the length of time the 27
strikers will have to spend in the
house of correction. An appeal has
been taken by Judge Joseph Padway,
attornye for the strikers, against the
decision of Judge Geiger, but some
time must elapse before the United
States circuit court can hear this
case.
A big demonstration and parade
was held in Kenosha with thousands
of citizens lining the streets to cheer
the 26 heroic workers going to jail
for a principle. The next morning a
procession consisting of 12 cars
GAS DANGER IN HOMES
Washington.—With the approach of
winter, the bureau of mines warns
the public that defective gas-heating
appliances constitute a hazard to life
and health.
Persons suffer from headache and
nausea without suspecting the calse
to ecarbon monoxide arising from
the improper funetlun!ng of gas ap
pliances, the bureau states.
Your Home Should Come First
Scene of softly shad
ed lights gleaming on
bright crystal echo
ing to happy laughter
and pleasant little
spurts of talk. Just as
a man, ensconsed in
his favorite easy
chair, is at peace with
the world and iti
work, so a woman,
glancing proudly around a circle of happ facta at her
HANISGIVING
ROOMS
glow of inward satisfaction—reward of merit to the successful home-maker.
In the group of dining room suites the young bride will find just that one
dear to her heart and kind to her purse. For as little as $195 one may have a
nine-piece suite of walnut and gumwood. At $225 is another nine-piece suite.
And for the family where many young faces bob into the dining room, there
are great suites of walnut or mahogany. The same good savings obtained,
however, whether you buy a suite at $195 or one at $375.
BE PREPARED FOR THANKSGIVING!
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-Six Strike Pickets
Go to Jail on Charges of
Violating Kenosha Injunction
carried the 26 defendants, together
with their sympathizers to the house
of correction in Milwaukee. The 26
marched to the jail singing "The
Prisoner's Song" and "We May Be
Gone for a Long, Long Time," and
cheering lustily for the union. News
paper accounts of the demonstration
stress the jubilant manner of the
strikers and the high-hearted enthus
iasm which all of them showed.
Newly Weds in Jail Group
Included among the 26 now serving
jail sentences are two middle aged
men not members of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers but simply strike sympathiz
ers who happened to be near the mill
on the day when the alleged viola
tions of the injunction took place.
One young couple were married just
five days before entering jail and will
have to postpone their honeymoon un
til being released.
Another married pair, Arthur Gloss
and his wife, brought their three
young children with them to jail but
it was discovered that no nursery fa
cilities were available at the house of
correction. Only at the last minute
Was a relative found who could take
care of the youngsters, the oldest of
whom is three years old and the
youngest twins of 16 months.
Before leaving Kenosha all the 26
defendants cast absentee ballots at
the county court house.
CO-OPERATIVES MEET
ANNUAL SALES LARGE
Waukegan, 111.—The sixth bien
nial congress of the Co-Operative
League of the United States includ
ed fraternal delegates from labor and
farmer organizations. The 81 dele
gates represented 97 consumers' co
operative store, restraurant, housing
bakery, credit and insurance socie
ties. Discussion centered around co
operative insurance, chain store com
petition, credit versus cash trading
and creating new centers of co-oper
ative interest.
The secretary's report showed that
at the end of last year there were
155 societies with 77,826 shareholders
affiliated to the league. Annual sales
totaled $14,000,000 for 120 societies
reporting.
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