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THE LABOR ADVOCATE
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BUSINESS BAD AT
Mayor PucliUi in his address to the City Council last week had
the following to say about the convict labor conducted by Col. Wm.
B. Meh'sh, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and it looks
as if organized labor having compelled penal institutions to work the
prisoners only eight hours (the same as free men on the outside),
will prove a loss to the Colonel. The mayor's statement as follows:
"The workhouse was self-sustaining last year, but no such pros
pects are held out for the current year because of the introduction
of the eight-hour law. Attention also is called to the fact that
as soon as the present contract for prison labor expires, in 1918,
the institution's present source of revenue will cease entirely, and
the cost of maintaining the prisoners will devolve upon the tax
payers." We expect when the street car men present their new contract
this year, Kesley Schoepf will say that he cannot grant it on account
of Bigelow's agitation of 10-eent fare ; and at that time the gallant
Col. Mulish will be appointing what he calls an unbiased committee
of the Chamber of Commerce to arbitrate the situation.
JOHN V. CAMPBELL
As we go to press, the trial of Vincent Doty for the shooting
of Miller is in the hands of the jury.
Doty was tried upon this charge before, but upon appeal he was
granted a new trial.
We believe he never would have been tried if the police had not
endeavored to connect him with the Shall murder; then Prosecutor
John V. Campbell made his speech in Mecklenburg's saloon that he
would put all the indicted painters in the penitentiary if he had to
devote the rest of his term to it.
He started by resurrecting the old Doty case.
John V. Campbell is making good.
THE MAYOR SEEMS TO BE FAIR.
Mayor Puchta advised the committee from the Central Labor
Council that they would receive fair treatment from him during
his administration. If the police have been over-zealous in arrest
ing the pickets of the machinists' strike, it was not due to any
order received from either Mayor Puchta or Safety Director Fried
lander. Both of these gentlemen state that their connection with the
Metal Trades Association would not interfere with their duties
as officials of Cincinnati, and this statement must be accepted as
true until evidence to the contrary has been produced.
THE BREWERY WORKERS' DEMANDS ARE FAIR.
No labor organization made fairer demands for a small increase
of wages and better conditions than the brewery workers. A great
many things have to be taken into consideration of which the public
know very little. Some of these men only get two and three days'
employment in a week at $2 or $2.50 a day, which, with the fact
that they are forced to subscribe to the fights against prohibition,
and the fact that they are the only men connected with the brewery
inercsts who spend any money in the saloon at all, makes their
demands appear absolutely fair.
It must be remembered that the brewery workers do not make
;.ny profit out of the brewery business except their daily wages.
They have been among the leaders in the fight against prohibition,
and they have been the ones who have induced organized labor to
enter the fray in order to save their jobs. And union labor is only
interested in the wet movement through the fact that they want to
see the brewery worker treated fairly by the bosses. If not, the wets
will lose a good many votes at the next election.
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THE WORKHOUSE.
IS MAKING GOOD,
William Howard laft
Old-Time Enemy of Organized Labor, Says "Boss-Ridden
Conventions Furnish Better Candidates Than Prim
aries" Which Shows How Far Out of Touch He
Is With Progressive Ideas.
Providence, R. I. "Boss-ridden politi
cal conventions can furnish better can
didates' than the primaries. Labor un
ions have gained control of our legisla
tures and should be made to appreciate
the spirit of the constitution. Labor has
made a special class of itself. Thcboy
cott is unfair and should he abolished
by law. Our railroads arc being ground
between the upcr and nether stones of
the legislative mills."
These were some of the declarations
made by William Howard Taft Satur
day in a speech delivered at the dinner
of tlie Southern New England Textile
Club at the Narragansctt Hotel.
Speaking on the question of primaries,
Taft said they were a "fraud" and
should be driven into the "eternal."
Of the principle of the initiative and
referendum he said it was "foolish" to
allow the people to vote on complex
legislation, and that, while he had been
spoken of an enemy of the people, he
believed in speaking the plain truth to
the people.
Everybody knows that Taft was never
big enough to be president of this coun
try, and it was the personality of Roose
velt who forced his nomination and the
endorsement of Teddy which elected
him. Sam Blythe, in the Saturday Even
ing Post, has this to say on the subject:
"The Colonel had kindly set forth for
the suffrages and support of the Repub
lican party his secretary of war, Mr.
William Howard Taft, and had decreed
that all pother over the nomination for
the presidency should cease ; had reliev
ed the party and its leaders of the strain
and duty of selecting a candidate, by the
simple expedient of selecting one him
self, and handing that candidate to lead
ers and party neatly wrapped ir tissue
paper and tied with red ribbon red be
ing a martial color and bearing a card
AlthKUKU "INOIIKASK"
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Meridcn, Conn. Silver workers on
strike against the International Silver
Company have again rejected a lifty-five-hour
week and a 10 per cent wage in
crease. This is the second time the strik
ers have taken this position. Concilia
tors Smith and Reeves, representing the
Federal Department of Labor, told the
strikers that this was the company's ulti
matum. The workers show that the so
called "efficiency" scheme enforced in
the factories has reduced wages in many
cases from $." to $( a week, and the offer,
therefore, would only return from $l.f()
to $!J of the money taken from them.
MCIOSS MAKKItS STItlKI).
Xew York. Several thousand chil
dren's dress makers, affiliated to the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union, are on strike because employers
refuse to arbitrate the following de
mands : Wages for cutlers, $:.':.' a week ;
men pressers, $IS; women pressers, $lfi;
minimum of :io cents an hour; sanitary
conditions : forty-nine-hour week and
shop chairman and price committees in
all shops. The pickets are wearing a
white card, with these instructions:
"Don't argue with an officer. Try by
peaceful means to' persuade all workers
to join jour ranks. Avoid disputes."
INTKItPICKT WA(.'I-: HATK b.WV.
Albany, X. Y. llecaue of a decision
by the Corporation Counsel, city authori
ties hae rejected the hid of a printing
firm of t'ooperstowu, this State, to do
the city printing. Trade unionists were
sustained in their position that the eight
hour and prevailing rate of wages fea
tures of the law under which the con
tract was let were not complied with. A
court decision and an opinion by the
State Attorney General held that .the
prevailing rate of wages in the law
meant the rate obtaining in the locality
where the work is to be used.
wo.miox ck.ui: .m.ki:ics sticiki-:.
Newark, X. J. Nearly I, noil women
cigar packers employed by the American
Cigar Company and other concerns in
this city are striking for wage increases
and better working conditions.
I'OWKItS r "STIIAW" IIOKKKS.
Xew York, X. Y. Secretary Shillady,
secretary of the major's committee on
imemplojmeiit. states that it has been
the practice of certain linns to allow
under bosses In hire and discharge em
ployes at their pleasure. In one instance
it was found that Il.iiDO workers bad been
engaged and dismissed within twelve
months from a firm which employs 1,000
persons. "This sort of thing is against
a linn's best interests, as well as a
danger to the cnmnumit ." said Secre
tar Shillaih.
on which was the inscription : 'Compli
ments of T. R.'
"Observing some hesitancy among the
leaders of the party over accepting so
important a gift from a man, who, to
the leaders, was almost an entire strang
er, so far as social and political rela
tions went, the Colonel intimated, as has
been set forth, that if the leaders and
the party did not care for the gift he
so kindly set before them, they would
get him in its stead, thereby accomplish
ing two things, to wit: He secured the
nomination of Mr. Taft, and he estab
lished himself as the Grand Alternative
of American Politics. You see, it was
this way : Much as the leaders depre
cated the accession of Mr. Taft, they
depiecated the continuance of Mr.
Roosevelt still more, and they took the
Taftian horn of the dilemma.
Wat eh the Dust.
"Pour years later another situation
arose demanding attention from Mr.
Roosevelt. It appears that Mr. Taft had
not obeyed orders from his creator, or
had obeyed them, or something, and the
Colonel felt it incumbent on him to cor
rect this state of affairs by proposing
himself again as an Alternative, but
whimsically putting a twist to it by say
ing, "If they don't take me they 11 get
Taft." So they took Taft, and thereup
on the Colonel saw to it that they
meaning the leaders of the Republicans
and the rank and file got neither him
self or Taft, and became, m fact, the
Grand Alterative as well as the Grand
Alterative, for while an alterative, in
scientific jargon, is intended to bring
back a body to a normal state, an alter
native in politics works with increased
effect and brings a body to a subnormal
state which, indeed, is the present con
dition of the Republicans.
COIjOltAIH) STItlKIO WON,
WALSH TKIiliS MINKHS
Indianapolis, hid. "The strike in the
coal fields of Colorado was won, he
cause you compelled John D. Rockefeller
to accept the responsibility for every
thing that occurred in the State of Colo
rado," said Frank P. Walsh, in an ad
dress before the convention of the
United Mine Workers of America.
"The strike was won again, because
j on have compelled him to publicly ac
knowledge facts that underlie the right
of collective bargaining on the part of
workers. You won the fight because you
compelled him to get up a bogus organi
zation, but one that will teach the work
ers the first principle, at least, of getting
together, and one that when you begin
to get action in the intelligent way that
you have heretofore done in other coal
fields of the United States will establish
real collective bargaining under the
United Mine Workers of America in the
field of Colorado. It has taught les
sons, my friends, far beyond the nar
row field in Colorado. It received the
background of the testimony of hundreds
of employers who have dealt with their
employes collectively for more than a
score of years."
STItlKIO AIMUSTKI).
Boston J Mass. The New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad and its
striking freight handlers have reached
an agreement. These workers, together
with Boston & Maine and Boston & Al
bany freight handlers, struck last Octo
ber for wage increases and pay for holi
days. The New I laven road was the last
1 10 seme.
it. it. MA..ji:its coiumxi:.
New York, N. V. It is stated that
officials of leading railroads of this cotin-
i try are considering plans to organize a
general conference of railway managers
I to negotiate with representatives of the
j brotherhoods of conductors, engineers
I firemen and trainmen, whose members
are now voting on an eight-hour day.
If this proposed plan is successful it will
be the first time that the railroads have
1 united to this extent.
IXCItlOASK KOIt tU MUX.
Mt. Vernon, X. Y. Street car men's
j division. No. IDS, has raised wages 1
j cent an hour. The rates are now 2."
cents for the first year and 2S cents
I thereafter.
Detroit, Mich. Street Car Men's Un
j ion has presented a new wage scale to
I the local company. It provides for IIS
cents an Hour tlie lirst year and -in cents
an hour thereafter. llettcr working
conditions are also included.
Springfield, Mo. Motormen and con
ductors employed by the Springfield
Traction company have again organized
after several years of non-union conditions
OPPOSKS PKOPOSHI) JJAHOH I,AV
Grand Rapids, Mich. Trade unionists
arc calling attention to the last-century
viewpoint of State Senator Vcrdicr, who
announced his opposition to proposed
State compensation law amendments in
a speech before a convention of con
tractors. The organized workers arc asking that
this law be changed so that occupational
diseases are included and that the time
before benefits can be paid shall be re
duced from two weeks to one week. The
latter proposal has aroused Senator Vcr
dicr's wrath. He says it will permit
"soldiering," and that it is not the in
tention of the law "to pay for slight in
juries." The law-maker professes a won
derful insight into the minds of workers
and intimates that they will deliberately
injure themselves to secure an extra
week's benefit. The plan to pay for the
I loss of a nose or an car is looked upon
by senator Vcruier asa scheme to pay
compensation for spoiled beauty." He
makes this reference to the proposed oc
cupational disease amendment:
"What seems to me the most ridiculous
and foolish amendment is one to require
compensation for disability or death
caused by so-called occupational dis
eases ; that is, diseases contracted from
and on account of the nature of a man's
work."
PKHILS OF COATj MIXING.
Charlcroi, Pa. Two miners were kill
ed and two others badly injured when
caught under a fall of coal in the Globe
mine of the Vesta Coal Company. The
injured were rescued by fellow work
ers who dug them from a perilous posi
tion beneath eight tons of coal.
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