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THE LABOR ADVOCATE
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INDEPENDENT
sa'N
A PAPER FOR ALL WHO TOIL
Oniclal Orsnn of Tlio liuiidiiig Trades Council of Clnclnnnti and Vicinity
Issued Weekly
W. E. MYERS
Business Office, 20-21 Thorns
Communications should he
on hand not later than Wed
nesday to insure publication
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE
CINCINNATI, O.,
iu:mi;mim:u
The friendly business linns who aiu pntroiii.itiK the Labor Advo
onto nud endeavoring to show their good will and sincerity through
tin; columns of this paper, the ollieial journal, deserve the patron-
iiK f loyal members of oi'Kanicd
by them on every shopping trip.
ASK LUKE
Can Witt bundle Uiijelow?
WE NEED THE MONEY.
Come on, Nick, he a good fellow and 1 mi.
ONLY ONE WAY.
If the machinists want to yet even for the police heating tlieni
tip, they should light the Traction Company, which controls those
who control our city government.
HE WILL LOSE HIS MEDAL.
(iov. Willis, the champion gihlet eater of Ohio, cleaned up at a
banquet of railroad men last Monday at Mansfield. The giblets must
have been on the road a long time, as they made the Governor sick,
but he is resting easy.
A BAD PLACE TO GET A GOOD START.
Peter Witt, who is employed by Kesley Schoepf, to convince the
people that the Traction Compatn is all right, picked out a bad place
to get a good start, b appearing before the People's Power League.
If lie can "bull" that gang, who are opposed to everything, even
tliunsclves, he has clear sailing
ONE MORE COMING.
Gov. Willis said "lie was suipriscd as the unusual activities of
organized labor tluougliotit Ohio."
Theie's another sui prise in store for him next November thiough
the unusual activities of organized labor.
THEY HELP ONE ANOTHER.
Last Monday our la-loved Major had nearly a hundred police
. i round his fiiend (ieiei's plant at Oakley.
Not to pioteel it, as theie had heeu no disturbance.
I'.ut the police weie asking the strikeis to yo back to woik a
new tiling in police duty.
'I lie police themselves ueie voikin twelve bonis a day for
icier, when the law calls for eifjht
Puchta, iM-iedlander and (ieier all belong to the .same union, The
Metal Trades' Association, and it's lawful for them to help one
.mother.
WHAT WILL AMERICANS DO?
Herman I;cllmj;cr, piesident of the deiinan Alliance of Ohio,
telegraphed to John Schuaab, who represents the Kaiser in Cin
cinnati, and who believe that we should be governed from Berlin,
tlut the hyphenated Americans of Nut them Ohio aie appalled at
tin news that the Hamilton Counts Machine is joiny toendoise
Mvron T. Ilerrick foi United States Senator.
lie slates that Ilerrick worked in the inteiest of the Allies This
l- a plain, ordinary lie
Ilerrick, as Ambassador to France for the United States, became
the representative of Ciennany when the wai began and used his
n private purse to help the Germans in Paiis.
We are not tfoiiij,' to suppoit Ilerrick, but we believe in fair pin ,
and do not think that every man in Ohio should be judged 1 his
allegiance to Ceiinam. If it is coming to thai, the Ameiicans should
organise a union for sclf-piotcction.
As far as the Republican Campaign Committee is concerned the
majority of the members are trimmers, i'.ut there is one man with
the lottrage of his toinictimis, and if he is in favor of Ilerrick he
will tell Schwaab where to net off.
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the first utien of ( nu.n.i.iti
NONPARTISAN
Editor
Building. Phone, Canal 5511
Entered at the postofficc at
Cincinnati, Ohio, as second
class mail matter.
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labor, and will he remembered t
McLUKE.
and that man is lohn i. llnlnicsJ
CHARITY COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS.
A few mouths ago a big campaign was conducted in the interest
of a scheme called the Social Agency, to which our citizens sub
scribed $150,000. It was organized by a gentleman from Cleveland
in order to get a good job for himself. The campaign was adver
tised as a charity one, when, as a matter of fact, there is not a
real charity connected with it, unless we call the Y. W. C. A. a
charity, where you pay for what you get, or the Smoke Abatement
League or Associated Charities, whom Mike Mullen has shown to
be only charitable to those who work for it, and out of whom they
make a profit. If you cut wood for a week you get a basket of
groceries.
Charity and social work is now a regular trade. On this sub
ject the New York World, editorially, says:
"Further light on the growth of organized charity as a gainful
occupation is furnished by the report of investigators for the New
York School of Philanthropy. They find that more than 4,000 men
and women in New York city make a living in social work sup
ported by private philanthropy. One social worker is paid $10,000
a year, eight receive $5,000 or more, and the salaries of 758 subordi
nates aggregate $859,000 annually. Altogether the salaried workers
in the private charities of the city arc as numerous as authors,
editors, reporters, civil engineers and surveyors, and they form a
larger group than clergymen, architects, dentists or chemists.
"Surely an excellent record of development for a comparatively
young indu-tr. Conceived of as a white-collar charity for the sup
port of deserving persons looking for an occupation that is entirely
respectable and not arduous, organized social work is an admirable
institution. It is something to provide for the financial needs of
4,000 citiens annualh. Tested by results in the way of direct social
service and uplift of economy and efficiency in humanitarian relief,
after the due disbursements have been made for rents, furnishings,
salaries for managers, supervisors, .agents, inspectors, stenographers,
expenses for stationery, postage and what not estimates of the net
profit to socictj of the lavish expenditure for social work arc not
so easy.
"It is clear that the middleman furnishes the same problem for
philanthropy as for regular forms of industry. Here again the point
is to bring the producer in closer touch with the consumer and effect
economies of distribution which are impossible under the present
wasteful methods. Private charity in particular has much to gain
in efficiency from the abolition of sinecures and the elimination of
extravagance. I laving become a business, it should be administered
on the same condition of strict accountability as any other business."
WHY USE IT NOW?
I!j Tin K wim l k.
I'rom the first outbreak of the Mexi
can i l olution, lli.it had driven the pow
erful Diaz and the ( luin.li off of the
lucks of the Mcs.ic.in peons, to their
presiut refusal to lav down their arms
in riioKuitiou of C arr.in.i's infamous
plot to bitrav the best interests of a
stiiiKKh'iK peopk, and turn the land wit
with then life blood back lo the limb
linaiiiicr of Wall Stmt no when is the
class stiuncrli koiiik on with as clear a
loiiiiptiou of the class interest of the
disinherited as in Mexico
'I be crocodile te.irs shed oei the deal
American lives lost m the .Mtsicin
border hau wlii)ll ohliurat.-d the diar
Atiiciieau hes lost on the i usitaiua
ina aione s amis out as me monster
upon whom incr.ca must vent liei
vengeance ,,
hvciv thinking human being mav well
ask the icas.m whv Ana. lean hus lost
on the MesK.m border an of so much
mow .ilui to merican national honor
than the American lives lost on the
Lusilauia, oi within our own national
dokiiis, :u .uiiiinv. loio, west ii-
Kiiua. and Mailman, wliire the mUuiis
were helpless women and little children?
In no instance has there appealed ill
the lolunins of the capitalist press,
under the licitlitiK ','f "",t"' ,'
on account of illas atiocit.es, which
has hieu as outr.iKimis as those perpe-
t.ated upon the iniiocillt v.etims of the
strike 7oms ol iuenea
rc we to iKheve that death hv Anic-
ican hullits is in some form
supinoi lo
eath from a hullct at the hands of the
.leican, il a
Is a not ahsurd to think that a man
who is not louiaeecius inoimh to aveilK-
. , , , , , .
the death of tho-e who are moM dear
,i a1 .
lo him (wives, niolhe.s, sweethearts and
daimhtcrs) is uoiiil' to lush lo the di-
,
e e , , . . Ml fUl llll. UlMVlllun to lin Mivmn
fense of a national lionoi vvhuh is icp- pt.()duetion, representatives of our i.ldus
reseuted hj the h.Kh liiia.ic.ers of that rRS alR, n)tl:rs f ()llr ,rruiCs We
nation, espeeiallv wliin he sees that
these same liuanciers are too cow anil v
lo protect tluir mleie-ts hv the sacrihee
of their own lives, hut lather that thev
call upon the people to do so for tlieni5
Win does the Xinerieau nation,
wluih lioasts the same as all novem
nunts do to the Koverned people, of
liK.il defense and paper laws upon the
statute hooks of the nation' Win, wc
ask aj;aiii, should it call like an anar
chist upon its people's phvsie.d power
to enforce and prolict its propertv
i mills
Where is vour law supiemacv, our
iliKiut) of courts, before which jou have
t.uiKlit the people to how in meek sub
mission' Wlij, we ask all of a sudden,
the ueeessit of these aciohatic somer
saults upon the part of the Govern
ment
Win chop tin? legal mask indiciarv
foigottcn law hook rihgiouslv closed
whmever the interests ,.f private prop-
crt and capital are scriouslj jeopar
dized '
It is then that jou call on the luuiRrj
and ragged people, who arc greater than
courts, more powerful than law, to pro
tect llicni, on who l.uifdi in scorn at
the ignorant working class. You now
hud ourself compelled to recognize
their supreme power You call on the
people foi protection.
Win should not the woikmn clas
rciojjnie their power, and saj to the
Lpiurnment (IIikIi Finance)
We are a violence that join courts
denounce i our prisons are tilled with
uetims of jour rule of legal paper de
cisions where ou denounced direct ac
tion as a uolincc, and .is a result we
1iUt. ixtr stlffLmi whenever we have,
,1CC(1 , ,mr ,mn lntcrest The
,,lMsn..il force that von nou call upon
as a ,lilllolul defense is a violence. You
,mc U)l, l()1lK 1R,, JOU ,iUt. llsui
I to suppress us S on .ire a government,
,,.iCKel In the hiains of vour wonderful
R , la,jlt ,,, I)r(K.ulufe, and ul jou
I ., ,R, ,),., f()r protection on
,1L, , ;uul disfranchised w)rkinK
ldiss ,,, MN0 otr c,N))1()ltu and
i )(.rstalU.,l fr support 1 h who.
throiiKli llic diKuit ofvom courts, have
I ,n,ltLR., ,i,t. fnoil" from the lips of our
, children ) on who. In paper
,c deeds, have wrested the clothes from
,r, Um1 ()f a k. ,()st r ,
are now forced in iccomuc
Wl lM) (m h lal as we wm.
)()l illl(Wtd to k0 tl,.tt phvsiial force
m , stni,Kit. , Mtim :md iiKini;i,
()K (( .irflUa N(H1, j,, ,,u ,mw turn
,() mr k , defense and coiuts
r. ,. , .,.l l,r. ,,,.1 ,l,tfi.ui
,1, turn to the points of produetion-
,() ,c ,c(s tlc ttncs an, f,lctrll..k.
,cre ,ics (mr ,r
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IIIII:iiwim-i I1IMI iivifitti.iii,J v im ...
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(Ml 1IIV- IMIIUCIIVIII, lliv.l " ' ' "( -..
IMI lilt. llillUv.IIV.IU, II IIIV1 Tiriiv-it.(i'ni
,,R, ork),r ta s ls ()ppsed to violence
... ... ,i, ...... r .,( ,un ,n.,t l
now refuse to use direct action or vio
lence in vour interest J 11 Mi vi u.
;.-, ooo o. stkiki:.
New York, May I Miout d'l.oim work
irs on vvoinen's k.u mints are striking
tod.i), with no prospeits of immediate
sitllenient. The union leaders sav that
U,:il7 shops have hi en ilosid and that
the strike is the largest in the Instorj of
the industrv I he strikers have appoint
id a .Settlement Committee, which is re
iciviiiir offers of settlement from some
of tlie manufacturers who are not mem
bers of the Manufactuiers' Protective
ssociatiou
Willies' I'lillosophj.
"Willie when did ou wash vour face
last'"
"Mother, don't let's bruit; up the past."
JuiIkc
We have at
MODEST PRICES
Pianos and Player-Pianos
which are thoroughly
well made and guar
anteed to be entirely
satisfactory in the
HOME
healDwtniano (forapany
Manufacturers
142 West Fourth Street
HEILEMANN'S SHOES
Are Always Best
UNION
STAMP
, c 112-114 Elder St., Findlay Market
iilaTei 2137 Weit Eighth Street
Build Homes for the Working Man
Wc Build and Sell on
Easy Term
EDWARD McCLURE
4904 Whelsel Aienue.
MADISONVltlE, CINCINNATI,
Phone, Mad. 349
Phone, Mad. 337-1
Ferdinand Doepke
FURNACE REPAIRS
HARDWARE and ROOFING
2904 Vine St., Phone, Avon 1622
THE EIGHT -HOUR
TOBACCO CO.
Is owned and operated by Cincinnati peo
ple. All its brands are made by members
of Tobacco Workers Local No. 25.
It is the only Tobacco Company
in the United States which has
adopted the eight-hour d ny.
8 -HOUR UNION SCRAP
ALL DAY SCRAP
HOME RUN SCRAP
BECKER BROS. CO.
INCORl'OIUTFD
Main Store und Office: !M2 Monmouth
Street, Newport, Ky.
I'lioncs: South 2017, 1109
Manu
facturers of
all Kinds
of
COVINGTON STORE:
1048 Madison A.c Phone, Soulh 3644
NEWPORT BRANCH:
S E Cor 7 th and Palltnon SlJ I'hone, Soulh 2G-19 Y
203 W. 6th Street CINCINNATI, O.
l'liouo, Cainl 6011, 5013
-
Iclephones, Cunul AVJ5 anil 43V6
RICHTER & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OP
SUPERIOR BRASS GOODS
210 E. Ninth St. Cincinnati, 0.
Union-Made HATS
Rielag
1120 Main Street
USH JOHNSTON'S DVhh KOTK
PAINT. It dries perfectly flat without
lustre, washed and cleaned like tile.
Color folder free, liny it from your
dealer, or
Tim It. 1 JOHNSTON PAINT CO.,
IVnrl nud .Main Sts., Cincinnati, O.
Be ThanKful
FOR
HEEKIN'S TEA
.MTa'Alj POIilSIIIOKS STItllvi:.
Athol, Mass. Metal pohshcis emploj
id at the L. S. Starrett tool shop sus
pended work after the company re-
i fused to readjust wage rates. The pol
1 ishers held several conferences with the
I inanaKeiiieiit, hut were linallj notified
Ithat no advance would he jjiven.
Dealers dBSP
In flmlMtf
Choice raKpL Sau
Meats Kpr sages