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INDEPENDENT
NONPARTISAN
Official Organ of the Building Trades Council of Cincinnati and Vicinity
CINCINNATI, OHIO, NOVEMBER 6, 1915
Vol. HI. No. 29
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"If I am Elected Union
Will Have No
The Above Promise of
Been Accented hv
Almost to a Man.
The Election Shows that Union Labor Want a Business Administration and that
Bigelowism or Socialism Does Not Control the Labor Vote.
On May 21st, a representative of the,
Lahor Advocate called on Geo. Puchta, ,
the Republican candidate for Mavor, and ,
asked him how he stood on union labor.
Mr. Puchta replied:
"I am in favor of organization not
only among workingmen, hut among'
.msiuessand professional men. Results'
in any line of human endeavor can be
secured only by organization.
"I am and always have been friendly I
-o union labor. I believe in unions ; they '
have done much for the betterment of
'aboring conditions. j
"Should I be elected Mayor of Cin
cinnati, union labor will get nothing but
a square deal from me."
A rumor was started that he was un- I
fair to the teamsters' union, so on Oc
tober 1st he sent word to the Building
Trades Council "that if he was elected
that union labor would have no com
plaint." He also stated that his trouble
with the teamsters was not of his mak
ing and that he had no objections to his
employes joining the union. "The men
who caused the trouble at the time of
the teamsters strike are no longer in hi
employ and that the new ones have
never spoken to him on the subject. The
matter is up to the teamsters' union to
him;"-,'',-J'i,!'
This statement was accepted by or
ganized labor as a sufficient guarantee
that he would be fair with them and
that was all they wanted. From that time
to the day of election he was received
with greater favor by the working
classes. His speeches were fair and
business-like, lie did not make any
promise that he could not fulfil. He real
ized, as many other bu-iness men do,
that this community has enough indus
trial unrest at present; so much so that
the working man is nervous about his
job. When you start to radically upset
the commercial conditions of a big city
like Cincinnati you hit everybody, hence
labor saw that be was much safer than
to have Migelowisni here for the next
two years.
The great majority given to him and
all the Republican candidates speaks for
itself, and union labor will do its share
to make his administration a big suc
cess. That organized labor played a big
part in the success of the Republican
ticket is demonstrated by the fact that
Richard Ii. Witt, Win. Leiinaun, and
Martin Daly, led the ticket in the above
order; they are employers of union la
bor and have treated their employes
with so much' kindness and considera
tion that it was a pleasure for organized
labor to make an extra effort in their
interest.
PAINTERS TURN DOWN
CONTRACTORS' DEMAND
The Painters' District Council No. 12,
Thursday night refused to recognize all
the demands of the contracting painters
in their ultimatum sent out yesterday
that unless all striking painters return
to work by Saturday noon they will de
clare a lockout.
The council decided it will handle the
sheet glass for the contractors if the
bosses purchase it from the glass houses
themselves. The strikers will not alter
their demands of the glass houses that
they employ union glaziers.
The painters will continue to strike on
jobs wdiere non-union glaziers are em
ployed. President Louis II. Stitzel of
the council explained the painters will
put in the sheet glass for the contracting
painters, but they will not cease in their
demands of the glass-houses.
The decision of the council will be
sent to the contractors this morning.
ITJUJKK KAICIjV CLOSIXU.
Newark, N, J. Trade unionists are
urging earlier Saturday night closing of
department stores in this city. The Fs
sex Trades Council has appointed a com
mittee to assist in the agitation.
Geo. Puchta, Mayor
OrtxanWed Lahnr and
HON. GEORGE PUCHTA
Mayor-Elecl of Cincinnati
PREDICTS ONLY TWO
PARTIES IN 1916
Republicans mid Democrats Kvpecl
to Klfiht Aloiit (i. (). I'. Victor
ies Have Practically I'.limlnnlcd
Mull Miiiisi Knot .Still in Linie
liitht as Presidential Candidate.
Xew York. It is the opinion of Re-
publican national leaders here that the
... ... r i . -e i
Republican victories ol last 1 ucsuay
have definitely obliterated the Progres
sive party and restored the Republican
party almost entirely to the strength it
enjoyed before 1!H2. They argue, there
fore, that the national campaign of next
year will be fought out between the Re
publican and Democratic parties alone.
Particularly is this the opinion exprcs -
ed by Republican National Chairman
Charles D. I lilies and Democratic Na
tional Chairman William J McCombs.
It is evident to everyone, they say, that
the Bull .Moose party has been swallow
ed up by the Republican party and that cd three weeks, is at an end so far as
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, live large plants are concerned.
Ohio, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and , Men who unit work at the Warner
Minnesota may reasonably be considered Swascy, Peerless Motor Car, Bardous
Republican apain. This, according to jt Oliver National, Acme Manufactur
Republicau calculation, leaves only In-, ing and the Standard Tool Company are
diana still in the Democratic column, returning to work under the conditions
ami a desperate campaign for control existing when they went on strike,
ther: is said to be under way. It is said The employers say they have won a
that Democrats believe Mr. Wilson their strike which never should have been in
strongest candidate for the nomination augurated, and which it was claimed
fur president and certain New York fruin the beginning was a part of tie
politicians believe that former Senator Dumba scheme.
Labor
Complaint"
-elect of Cincinnati, has
Thev Sunoorted Him
Klihu Root has been eliminated as a
presidential possibility by defeat of the
proposed New York Constitution. The
Xew York Herald carries a dispatch
from Columbus, O., in which it is stated
that Mr. Root's nomination would not
be affected by the defeat of the measure
for which he stood sponser, but, because
Ohio would have a favorite son in the
next Republican national convention,
there was some hesitation on the part
of leading Ohio Republicans to further
discuss the matter. According to some
! '- w Vrk leaders it appears that
if Air. Root should persist in his refusal
to be a candidate for the nomination,
that fact would be of great advantage
to former United States Senator Theo
dore K. Burton of Ohio.
BIG MACHINISTS' STRIKE
In Five Dili
Factories ol' Cleveland
Is lOiuled.
Cleveland. The machinists' strike
here, which affected ,1.(0) men and last
Slaughter of Willis
as Vindication of
Political Leaders in the Capital Are Puzzled Over Results
f Election in the Buckeye State Former Governor
Expected to Lnter Campaign Harmon Believed To
Be Eliminated.
Washington. Results of the election
in Ohio have given Administration poli-1
tical leaders a new puzzle. The defeat
of the McUermott act and the congres-1
sional gerrymander are accepted as vin
dication of the measures put into effect
by Governor Cox and his candidacy lor
the Democratic nomination lor Gover- j
nor of the state confidently is expected.
With Cox a potential candidate as a re- j
suit of the election, the puzzle begins.
Results in Ohio and elsewhere did
nothing to hearten Arministration man-1
agers. They will go over every state
with a fine-tuoth comb to find local can
didates who will aid the national ticket
next year.
The retention of Governor Cox's
liquor and apportionment law mav indi
cate that he has been returned to favor
and would aid in replacing Ohio in the
Democratic column next year, but the
dministratiun managers have not for
gutteu that he was defeated last year,
and that some of the trouble-makers in
the Deriocratic party wdio were active
then are still able to sit up and take
nourishment.
If the eairli lacy of Mr. Cox means
nternal dissension in the party the pros
pects of the national ticket may be af
fected. Postmaster-General Burleson, political
ELIOT denies. rerortjg ' Building
That Willis Administration Is Hos
tile to Workmen's Compensation.
C olumbus, Ohio. Following the ex
ample of Governor Frank B. Willis, one
of his State Industrial Commissioners
today came out with a statement that
the charge that the present administra
tion is hostile to workmen's compensa
tion is "utterly untrue and entirely
false "
In deleu-e of numerous dismissals oi
classified service employes by the State
Imhstrial Cmimission, Commissioner
Herbert L. Flint asserted that some of
them l'.ad been inefficient. He cited an
instance as proof where a check for
more than S2()i) was left undeposited lor
several months.
His statement dealing with the liabil
ity insurance question follows:
"The Industrial Commission is not
called upon to defend the ruling of
Judge Taggart. The Insurance Depart
ment is amply able to back up its own
finding on the law as it was passed by
former Governor Cox and his legisla
ture. The "good faith' of the department
is shown by the fact that 'quo warranto'
proceedings are about to be instituted in
j the Supreme Court to test the questions
' raised ; certainly no administration can
i do more than this.
"With the effect of the decision upon
the work of the commission, however,
it is concerned. The facts are that the
decision has made no change whatever
in the practice of the commission with
reference to such companies. The rec
ords of the commission show that since
June, 1014, representative; of liability
companies have appeared every week be
fore the commission to present claims
in which their companies were interest
ed exactly the same procedure that
they have followed since the ruling.
"The report of the Insurance Depart
ment of I ill I shows that at the very
time partisan statements were being
made that liability companies had been
driven out of the state, private com
panies wrote more than 12.1 times as
much compensation insurance as in l'.ilH,
The records also show that since the
ruling only four companies have chang
ed from state to private insurance, whib
four have changed from private to stat
insurance, demonstrating completely the
falsity of the charges that this ruling
would destroy state insurance."
DK.MAXD KHMIT-llOUt DAY.
Baltimore. Machinists employed by
the Dctrkk & Harvey Machine Company
are on strike for an eight-hour day and
time and one-half for overtime. It i
claimed this concern is connected with
the Bethlehem Steel Cmr-pany
Statutes Viewed
Cox's Measures
manager for the White House, is said
to be in a receptive mood for ideas and
suggestions about the Ohio situation.
During the last few weeks a number
of Ohio politicians, most of whom car
ried a special brand of weapons for Mr.
Cox, have called on Burleson to tell him
that the Administration would go far
ther and do worse than to place its in
fluence back of Judson Harmon. It is
believed here that Mr. Harmon would
not accept the nomination unless it were
obtained without opposition, and under
these circumstances it is presumed that
he is eliminated frorii the race.
Hut the elimination of Mr. Harmon
would not settle the problem, because
the support accorded him by Mr. Burle
son's visitors indicates that echoes of the
1!)H row arc still reverberating in Ohi.
No one here cherishes an idea that Mr
Cox's opponents could select their own
candidate, but with affairs drifting to
ward the Republicans it is feared that a
fight within the party might again turn
the state over to the Republicans.
Connected with the fate of the Mc
Dcrmott and gerrymander acts comes
the srggestion that the Republicans, with
an eye to a mutually strong national
and state ticket, may place another Rc
pvblican in the field against Mr. Willis.
Trades Council
Regular Meeting Only
Routine Business Trans
acted. 'I he Building Trades Council meeting
was called to order with President fal
len in the chair. The minutes of the pre
vious meeting were read an J adopted
A communication from the Painters'
District Council No. 12. requested that
1 all delegates from the painters' council
' be excused until further notice.
One from the Painters, Decorators
and Paper Hangers' Local IIOS was read
and received.
I Business Agent McEwen's report was
i read and adopted. All trades reported
! business fair.
j 'I here being no further business, the
Council adjourned until next Thursday
1 evening.
! BULLETS FLYING IN STRIKE
RIOTS IN WILKESBARRE
Wilkesharre. Pa. Three men were
shot and slightly woun led in a riot to
day at the car barn of the Wilkesharre
Street Railway Company, whose nmtor
meii and conductors have been on strike
for three weeks over a dispute on the
' question of an increase in wages. A spe-
jcial troop of the Pennsylvania State po
lice was called out and dispersed the
mob which had gathered at the barn
during the noon hour.
i The railway company has announced
that it would start some of its cars at
10 a. in., but Mayor Kosek persuaded
the officials not to operate tliem until lie
had a sufficient force of men on hand
The riot started when the employes of
several industrial plants and an anthra
cite coal breaker in the neighborhood
congregated and inarched on the barn.
The crowd attacked the building, and,
it is alleged, strike breakers, who were
housed within the barn , started the
shooting.
KKillT-HOnt DAY NOT COSTLY.
Camden, N. J. In a statement ex
plaining why it has decided to establish
the eight-hour day for its 7..100 cni-
.1.i,..,o tin. Victor 1 rilU'int
ploves. the Victor talking Alacmne
Company states that while losing $1,
COWO the first year, certain adjust
ments and improvements will gradually
restore profits to normal in about three