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"" 12 THE LABOR ADVOCATE R. W. Archer A Labor Leader and a Good Treasurer, Candidate for Re-election. R. V. Arclicr, tlic Ucpitblicnii candi date for State Treasurer, lias been a leader of organized labor in Ohio for many years. lie was born in Ilcllnirc, llclmont County, Ohio, September L'U, ISO!). His mother died when he was a year old His father died when he was aged ten Started to work in ;lass factory shortly following the death of his father and worked in one factory for '(' years Learned the jj'ass trade, and served in every capacity in his local union, from inner unard to president. He attended many conventions and served on all important committees. Was elected in 1JI03 County Treasurer of llclmont County, in which capacity he served live years, with much credit to himself and his many friends. Archer was nominated for State Treasurer in lilll and was elected by a most substantial majority. Since as suming the office of State Treasurer, he has discharged the duties in such a man ner as to re!lect credit to himself and his co-laborers, as is evidenced by the fact that there has been nothing said but words of commendation, and praise for the manner in which he has conducted his office. The Republicans claim for him the best treasurer Ohio has ever had, and It. V. Aielicr State Treasurer and Republican Candi date for Re-election. JUDGE JAMES G. JOHNSON Of Springfield, Ohio, Is n Cniidldntc For Ke-ICIectlon on the Non Partisan Judicial Ticket. Judge Johnson's services on the State's Supreme Court for the last six years has been highly satisfactory to the people. Aft? the Democratic party does not deny it. Coming from the ranks of labor, he is their friend and stands now and has always stood for their advancement. His associations with the A. V. G. V. U. is an open book, to which he points with pride. Gompers Defends Railroad Eight-Hour Movement A Strong Speech Delivered Before the Wilson 8-Hour League, at a Mass Meeting in New York. lion. .Ins. '. Johnson. At a mass mectiiiK held under the auspices of the Wilson Kiejit-llour League in Washington, I). (.'.. on Octo ber III, President Gompers accepted an invitation to speak, lie said he was "an eight-hour leaguer from way back," ami recalled the successive eight-hour gains made by the trade union movement. "Some how or other, in my life of 0(1 years," he said, "and of more than -15 years of activity in the cause of labor, justice, freedom and humanity, I have escaped being called a politicaii until very recently. And recently f have been called a partisan politician by no less a person than a United Slates Senator from the great State of Illinois." The speaker stated that he had accept ed an invitation by Secretary Olnnder of the Illinois State Federation of Labor and Secretary Nockels of the Chicago Federation of Labor to reply to Senator Sherman in Chicago on Sunday, Octo ber ill). President Gompers made this reference to the eight-hour movement of employes in the railroad train service : "1 want to say a word or two in regard to the Adaiusou law, and then I want to refer to some other instances, some oth er facts involved in this campaign. 1. declare here and now, from my own knowledge, that the railroad men and their brotherhoods did not ask for th5 Adamson law. They had declared that the time had come that they would no longer fool and fritter away their time wnli the quarreling mauauers who were Joing to prolong the agony and to frit ter away the continence of the rank anil file with the leadership in the organiza tion. I do not know how often you travel on the railroads. 1 have consid erable traveling to do, and have found that in nearly even railroad station there were bulletins. I found in every diumg-car bulletins. You found on ever) bill of fare when you wanted a cheese sandwich, 'ou found the argu ments of the companies against the eight hour day. You found full-page adver tisements in tlic newspapers every day, and trying to wean away the respect and the public sympathy from the railroa.il men in their demand. "The railroad men represent the poor. They represent the workers. The have not the tnonc) to expend in such a cam paign, and they depend upon the infor mation and the sympathy that these men . mutually have for each other, and can't you understand how it became necessary for these chiefs of the railroad brother hoods to tell tjte railroads, 'the time had come when monkeying must be stopped, and if ou do not give us the eight-hour day, kv will submit this question to the men most vitally affected, and they will give you that answer.' What answer would have come? 1 will tell you very candidly my opinion. I really do not be lieve that the railroad managers and presidents would have held out IK hours against the united demands of the rail road men for the eight-hour day if the strike had gone on. My judgment is this. I submit it to your judgment for your thoughtful consideration. "The railroads '.Ave been demanding from the government and governmental agencies for years an increase in freight rate. They knew, as they know now, and as I am satisfied will be demonstrated to them beyond cavil that the eight-hour workday will mean not one penn of an increase in the course of years. Not one penny increase caused by operation as per unit. I am willing to trust whatever reputation I may have as an economist upon that statement being demonstrated in the future. "Rut they were willing that the strike should come. They were willing that the public attention of the people should be invited to that question, and that they were supposedly acting under duress and thai necessity compelled them to concede, and with a flourish of trumpets declar ing that they must have increased freight rates. That was the thing. "The President of the United States called the representatives of the broth erhoods into conference and counselled with them, sympathized with them in their great struggles. And if there lie but one thing that 1 shall longingly cherish in my heart, it is the great rev erence for the man who can feel for his fellow men. He expressed the idea and the thought and the feeling that the men were justified in demanding an eight hour workday, and he hoped to prevail upon them they they might give him an opportunity of working out an agree ment, an understanding, .some relations that would not break and stop the com merce of our country. "lie then went to the railroad man agers and spoke with them, argued with them, and asked them lo consider the eight-hour day, to grant it, and that all other tilings might lie submitted to arbi tration, lie failed in that and then was confronted, then the country was con fronted, wtli the mandate of the great rank and file of the men who operate the railroads of our country, that unless they were guaranteed the ei.-ht-hour day. they would stop work. I "In passing, I want to say a word or 1 two upon this question of stopping work. j I know the consequences of stopping i work. Hut, my friends, there are some ! people who would lake away from the i toilers of our country the right lo stop work. I beg of you to remember the fart that the one difference between a slave and a freeman is that a freeman has the right to stop work. No man has the right to commit crime, or make as sault, destroy property, but he has the right to fold lus arms and say nothing j and do nothing. It is the great economic j power of the workers in their freedom to withhold their labor power, and bring I unwililng employers to an understanding j of their responsibilities anil duties to their workers, as well as the responsi bilities of workers to their employers. "The president found that tense con dition, and then appealed to the con gress of the United States to take cog nizance of what was involved. Now I am not one who believes in doing so many things by law. I think that the action of the president of the United States in going before the congress of the United States, helping to secure vol untarily, not forced, as the enemies of labor would have the people believe, but voluntarily to meet a situation, was one of the greatest acts committed and per formed by any president of the United States in the history of the nation. The man who occupies the great position of president of the United States today, The Ohio State Journal, in its edition of October 15th, said this of Judge John sou : "Thousands of workmen's families in Ohio and elsewhere have come to know the workmen's compensation principles as a safeguard and pledge against the calamity that used to face them when accident or death befell the bread win ner. "James G. Johnson, Judge of the Su preme Court of Ohio, as much as any other man, deserves their gratitude. "When the 'interest' fought Ohio's compensation act after its passage in 1!)1J, they were backed by a decision of the New York Supreme Court, declaring such .1 law unconstitutional. Judge John son upheld the Ohio act. The United States' Supreme Court confirmed his de cision, and so the way -was blazed for similar acts in other slates. "Judge Johnson is respected for his knowledge of law but he is loved for his devotion to justice, progress and hu manity. Only last summer he was in vited to address the Iowa liar Associa tion a recognition of his success in up holding progressive legislation, includ ing not only the compensation act but the blind pensions act, the new civil serv ice law, the n 1-hour law. for women workers, etc." Ol'I'OSK PRISON MAPN (JOOI)S. Boston. Teamsters' union No. 149, has asked Mayor Curley to end the practice of the municipal purchasing de partment buying brooms manufactured in the house of correction of Middlesex county. IX TilXK WITH IMIOCIHKSS. Binghamton, N. Y. Announcement of an eight-hour day, effective November 1, has been posted in the shops of the International Time Recorder company at Endicott. The new schedule affects several hundred employes. Sherman Applegate BRICKLAYER CONTRACTOR BUILDER ' LOTS FOR SALE Houses Built to Suit Owner Satisfied Customers Arc My Best Advertisement STRICTLY UNION LABOR USED CHEVIOT. -- OHIO Where do you Buy your Flowers ? JAMES TIERNAN THE MAIN FLOWER SHOP Funeral Designs Wedding Bouquets Every tiling In the lino of Flowers and Decorations Phone C. 1624-X Phone Orders Res. C. 1624-X Promptly Attended to FLORIST 1221 MAIN STREET Corns, Bunions and Ingrown Nails Treated Painless Office Phone Main 1896 Residence South 41S6-Y LICENSED BY STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS JOSEPH W. DAVIS, D. C. CHIROPODIST (Instruments Sterilized) Room 403, Ncave Bldg. N. W. Cor, Fourth and Dace Sis. Fourth Floor CINCINNATI, O Office Hourt 8 A. M. o 6 P. M. Newport Office, S. W. Cor. 10th and Monmouth Sis. 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Eighth St. 1215 Linn St. Elm and Green n .00 We Call and Deliver 3K-Phone NORTH 27 during die period of his holding that po sition, from the moment when he look the oath of allegiance at the capitol steps and gave forth that wondrous document, his congress, his every address to con gress, his every puhlic utterance have heen full of the spirit of humanity, full of that patriotism, full of human kind ness, full of ureal philosophy and under- ! standing, ami if the people of our United States fail lo do him the justice, to no ' themselves the justice of ;i vote of con fidence, it will he the greatest Mow that a people have inflicted upon themselves in any other lime. "1 ask you, my friends, to consider the reverse side of this jiositiou. I '"or Mr Hughes I have the greatest personal re-, spect. I think that he 'is a high-minded, I intelligent man, a great jurist, hut I ask you, whether it is not true that as a rule the judiciary which has invaded hu man rights and human freedom have not generally heen respectahle, high-1 minded, capable jurists? Evidently hy learning, ly environment, by hopes and aspirations, Mr. Hughes is out of touch with the great movement for the uplift of the toilers, the masses of our country. "Last Monday evening 1 registered to entitle me to vote in my legal home State. 1 did not enroll myself in any political party. I want to he free to support or oppose any man or any part who acts freely, faithfully and friendly, or foully ami antagonistically to the cause of humanity. I want lo say to you, my friends, I have hut one vote 1 east. I have no right to command, to order, even to urge men how they should vote. 1 have the right as a man and as a citizen to present the cause of labor and justice to the people, my fellow citi zens, as I see it. I f they do not believe with me, thev have the right la reject my philosophy and my advice, hut I have the right to urge, as I do urge, 1 have the right to advise, as I do advise, 1 have the right to appeal, as I do appeal to the manhood and the citizenship of this great republic of ours to see to it that they go to the polls and in accordance with tlie light given them, and the hope they have for the perpetuation of the principles of institutions in this republic of ours, vote in accord with the dicta tion of their conscience, their hopes for themselves, their wives, their children, their fellow citizens, not only for today but for tomorrow and tomorrow's' to morrow, that this repuhlie of ours shall he handed down to our children with a new freedom',- a new light, and new as pirations for the ushering in of that great day when we shall be not only the great workshop of the world, hut the hope in political freedom, religious lib ertv and industrial democracy." CHAS. W. RATTERMANN, President F. D. RATTERMANN, Secretary F. B. POHLMEYER, Vice-President A. LASANCE, Treas. and Mgr. CHAS. F. HARDING, PH. B PH. CH. Consultine Chemist THE SUPERIOR BRANDS Best olisK on Earth (In Black, White or Tan) Boy Scout Oil Friction Polish (In Dlack or Tan) Colonial Dame Gloss Dressing Superior White Shoe Dressing "'omu.s.r'- IM'0lft THE OHIO UNION MFG. CO. 1513 PLUM STREET Phone, West 4147 CINCINNATI, OHID VOTE FOR Dr. Arthur C. Bauer Republican Candidate FOR - CORONER Election: November 7, 1916 j Vote for A. LEE BEATTY Republican Candidate for the Legislature Election, November 7 -o