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THE LABOR ADVOCATE The American Federation of Labor Thru Its Labor Representation Committee, Gives the Record of Wood row Wilson and Chas. E. Hughes. Read This, It May Be the Means of Keeping You At Work. Washington, D. C, Aug. 28, 1U10. Mr. II. O. McClurg, Secretary, Labor's Volunteer Co-operative Citizenship ami Educational Committee, I'. O. Box -tT9, Birmingham, Alabama. Deak Sik and ISkotuek Your favors of July 17 and July L'O addressed to Mr. Krank Morrison, Secretary of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, have been turned over to us for reply. In your favor of July 17 you ask: "Will you kindly give us the labor record of the candidates who are offer ing for the Presidency of the United States. Our committee investigates the record of all men who offer for public office in which Labor is interested. These records are all compiled and then given to the membership of organized Labor without comment whatever, al lowing the members to select according to the record that the various candidates have made themselves." Replying to the above cjucry and state ment, we feel it is due you and the mem bers of your organization to say that in our opinion you have taken the cor rect attitude and if you maintain your service on a rigid non-partisan basis, such as you describe, you will find that Telephone Wett HOG FRED. WIETHE FINE SHOES LS&m,!n UNION-MADE SIIORS 1214 Linn Street CINCINNATI, O. Telephone Wett 110G-X Clcanlnc, Dyeing, Repairing and Pressing at Reasonable Trices N. SIEGEL & SON Only UNION MERCHANT TAILORS in Brighton Suit! or Overcoats Made to Order $18 and up 2172 Central Avenue, Brighton I PEDRETTI & SON Freico Artists and Decorators Tinting and Painting 10 West Ninth St. CINCINNATI, O. Telephone Canal 254 I'hone Canal 4198 FRIEMAN TAILORING CO. D. FK1EMAN, Prop. 138 East Court St. CINCINNATI, O. Residence, 831 Richmond St. STRICTLY UNION TAILORING I'hone C. 1024-X I'hont Ordttl frompllr Res. 1024-X AllcnJtdh Where Jo you lluy your Flower ? JAMES TIERNAN n"fcp FLORIST Enrjlhlnj In the Llni of flootri anil Decofalloni, funeral Ouiini, 1221 MAIN ST. Weddlne Bouauds. - . Telephone North 1185-X JOHN SCHWARZ Wholnslr anil Itrtail Dcslrr in FINE SHOES Union ShoeM Cxctutively 752 md 751 MeMilIu St. WALNU V HILLS Telephone Canal 531 A. J. BIRR TAILOR I 1123 Walnut Street CINCINNATI, O. BOEDEKER'S Old Reserve Bourbon or Rye Whisky 8 Years Old $1.00 FULL QUART H. Boedeker 508-10 Mair. Street IWiirlicr's 71 .! Ml" Smr povaben ",fPlulrj the influence of your organization will always prove helpful to the best in terests of all the people. The legislative record of the Honor able Woodrow Wilson, Democratic nominee for President in regard to la bor measures that have come before him for action during his incumbency in the office of President, since March I, 19i:i, is as follows : President Wilson's Kccord. One of the first acts of the Presi denton March 4, l'Jia was to appoint a member in good standing of the trade union movement, Honorable William B. Wilson, a member and former Secre tary of the United Mine Workers of America, Secretary of thc Department of Labor, thereby making him a member of the President's Cabinet. This is the first instance in the history of the United States where the President of the United States selected a bona fide good stand ing member of the organized labor movement to become a member of his Cabinet. At tlfe request of the Executive Coun cil of the American Federation of La bor President Wilson appointed, on Sep tember 10, 1U1H, representatives of the American Federation of Labor and the Kailroad Brotherhoods as members of the Industrial Relations Commission, Mr. James O'Connell, Vice-President of the American Federation of Labor; Mr. John 15. Lcnnon, Treasurer of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, and Mr. Aus tin 11. Garretson, Grand Chief Conduc tor of the Order of Kailroad Conduc tors. On October 15, l'JM, President Wilson approved the law which takes the or ganizations of Labor and the Farmers' organizations from the purview of the Antitrust Act; limits the use and pre vents the abuse of the writ of injunc tion hi labor disputes; defines and re stricts punishment for alleged contempts of injunction writs and provides jury trial in contempt cases. On June 'j:i, llilli, the law prohibiting the Department of Justice from using antitrust appropriation funds to prose cute Labor and Farmers' Organizations under the Antitrust Act, was approved. On August 1, l!)ll, the same was again approved. On March I), 1DIG, the same was ap proved. On March I, 1015, the President ap proved the Seamen's law, which abol ishes involuntary servitude, provides bet ter treatment of seamen and improves the life-saving provisions on vessels at sea. On July in, l'.IKI, the old conciliation, mediation and arbitration act was re pealed, and t h c new law enacted with permanent ollicials appointed to admin ister it in behalf of railroad employes engaged in operating service. On February U, l'Jll, the eight-hour law was enacted for women and child workers of the District of Columbia. (Decided Constitutional March III, l!)in, by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.) On October ao, I'.lll, the eight-hour provision was approved for employes under the Alaska Coal Land Act, On March ID, Hill, the law providing for public construction of the Alaska railroad. On May 8, I'.MI, Industrial Education provided with appropriations for farm ers and rural residents under the Agri cultural Extension Act. On March I, 10 IS, the Taylor System, stop-watch and speeding-up methods in the United Stales arsenals prohibited. On March :i, IMS, Taylor System, stop-watch and speeding-up methods in the United Slates Navy Yards, gun fac tories and torpedo stations prohibited. On March 0, 1011, piecework was pro hibited in the Post Office Department, Washington, I). C. On March !, 1015, public construction of battleships, transports and other ves sels in U. S. Navy Yards extended. Re pairs to vessels of the Navy to bo made in governmental instead of private yards. Steadier work assured to employes of K eminent navy yards. On March II, 1015, licensed officers, such as masters, males and pilots, guar anteed right to quit, and protected when reporting defects of their vessels to gov ernment inspectors. On March :t, 1015, Bureau of Mines Act extended and strengthened. Ten new experiment stations and seven new safety stations provided. On May as. 10i:i, Senatorial investiga tion of industrial dispute in the coal hcltls of West Virginia, whereby peace Miller's Park and Summer Resort Cabaret Every Evening Come out and try our Famous Fish Frys and Bakes End of Scdarruville Car Line Phone, Warsaw 212 was restored; the eight-hour day se cured; check weighmen provided, and 10 per cent increase in wages gained right of organization guaranteed and other improved working conditions in cluded. On March 0, 1014, Compensation foi Injuries Act extended to Post Office employees. On March I, 1015, Post Office employ ees, annual promotion maintained, not withstanding the Postmaster General's efforts to substitute biennial for annual promotions. On March 4, 1015, eight-hour law for Post Office clerks and carriers retained, notwithstanding the effort of the Post master General to change radically. On March 4, 1015, letter carriers' sal aries restored, notwithstanding the effort of the Postmaster General to reduce the pay of letter carriers, known as collec tors, from $1,200 to $1,000 per year. On March 4, 1015, locomotive boiler inspection act extended to cover locomo tive engines and tenders. On March I, 1015, leave of absence with pay to employes of Government Printing Office extended from 20 to :i0 days per year. On January 28, 1014, special Congres sional investigation of industrial dis putes in the Colorado coal fields and the Michigan copper region, wherein all of the complaints and charges made by the men of labor against the mining com panies and the alliance of these com panies with the political and military powers of the States were officially veri fied and substantiated. On March :i, 1015, an additional an nual appropriation of $240,000 for the years 1014-15 was provided for the pay roll of the metal trades mechanics em ployed at the Washington, D. C, Navy Yard. This was equivalent to a 7.81 per cent increase in wages. On December 17, 1011, the statutory enactment of an income tax in conform ity with the recent United States con stitutional amendment. On July 10, 1014, an additional appro priation of $1:10,000 for the work of the Children's Bureau. On July 10, 1014, more adequate ap propriations for the Department of La bor to carry on us work-. On Tune 15. 1011, prevented a rcduc tion in wages and installation and collec tion of rents for employes on the l'ana' ma Canal Zone. On May I, 1010, the President approv ed the amendment to the Hours of Ser vice Act (the sixtecn-hour law for rail .road men), containing a minimum and maximum penalty for violation of same bv railroad companies. 'On May 10, 1010, the President ap proved the Legislative Appropriations Bill after the objectionable Borland Amendment, which was for the pur pose of lengthening the workday of Government employes without extra compensation and without arranging for overtime rates, had been stricken Irom the bill. On July 1, 1010, the President ap proved the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill which carries with it the Anti-Taylor Svstem proviso. On July 0. 1010, President Wilson ap proved the Fortifications' bill which car ries with it the important provision which prohibits the use of the inhuman Taylor System in government workshops. On Tuly 17. 1010, an act to provide capital for agricultural development, to create standard forms of investment based upon farm mortgage, lo equalize rates of interest upon farm loans, to furnish a market for United States bonds, to create Government depositar ies and luianciai agents lor me unucu States, and for other purposes. On July US. 101(1, the Post Office Ap propriation bill was approved. This bill contains provisions improving the con ditions of letter carriers, clerks and oth er Post Office employes. There are several other important la bor measures upon the calendars of both Iloiircs, which, if passed, it is con fidently expected he will also approve. On July 4, IIHfi, on the occasion of the dedication of the American Federation of Labor office building in Washington, D. C, President Wilson delivered an in spiring address from which 1 quote in part, as follows : "N'o man ought to suffer injustice in America. No man ought in America to fail to see the deep dictates of humanity- "Mr. Gompcrs was referring just now to the sixth section of the Clayton An titrust law, the section in which the nliviniis is stated, namclv. that a man's labor is not a commodity, but a part of his life, and that, therefore, the courts must not treat it as it it were a commod ity, hut must treat it as if it were a part of his life. I am sorry that there were any judges in the United States who had to be told that. It is so ob vious that it seems to me, that that sec tion of the Clayton Act were a return to the primer ot iiunian nucrty; uut 11 judges have to have the primer opened before them, I am willing to open it". Students of history may search wide and deep, they may spend many years of keen research and nowhere in the pages of American history will they find a clearer and more definite pronounce ment in behalf of real, human liberty than the above expression by President Woodrow Wilson on July 4, 101G. Justice Hughes' Itccoi-il. You may also ask for the record of the Honorable Charles Evans Hughes, Republican nominee for President, as to labor measures, and particularly as to the Danbury Hatters' case. lhc Danbury Hatters case lias an His torical place in Labor's struggle for free dom. It was in the course of the trial of this case that the workers of our country finally succeeded in securing a declaration from the highest court of the land as to the application of anti trust legislation to associations of wage earners. The decision of the court in this case involved a principle of fundamental im portance to workers. It was the same principle involved in the abuse of the writ of injunction which, under the per version by judges who had no under standing of industrial conditions and the labor of human beings, had been trans formed into an agency at the service of employers who wished lo restrict the industrial freedom of their employes and to prevent their using legitimate methods of securing their demands and promoting their velfare. The theory upon which courts have held that Antitrust legislation applied to associations of wage-earners and that inunctions could be used to regulate in dustrial relations, which arc personal relations, was the assumption that the labor of a human being was an article or a commodity and, therefore, properly. This assumption recognizes no distinc tion between the creative labor power of a human being which is inseparable from his living body and the articles which he produces. In 1008 the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a decision in the Hatters' Case when the initial appeal was made. In 1014 the United States Supreme Court delivered their final decision in the case and sustained the contentions of thc lawyers of the Anti-Boycott Asso ciation which instigated suit against the Continued on page 11) Reiters Home for Quality For UNION-MADE Work Shirts, Overalls, Suspenders 1437 MAIN STREET, Neil Door to Main Theatre HENRY REITER, Prop. GEO. STEIN TAILOR 1231 Main St., Bel. 12lh and 13lhSts. Telephone Cioal 4825 CiDciDoati, Ohio Kyes Tested ly Fine Watch ami Cracluatu Optician Jewelry Repairing M. MORRIS JEWELER and OPTICIAN Dealer In Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry ami Fancy floods 1217 Main Street, I'liotic Canal 7.11 Cincinnati, O. FERDINAND D0EPKE HARDWARE and ROOFING Furnaces Cleaned and Repaired Phone, Avon 1622 2904 VINE ST. THE HERANCOURT Brewing Co. Strictly Union LAGER COAL The Most Economical Fuel at the Right Price THE QUEEN CITY COAL CO. 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