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A German "alien enemy" walked into
one of onr banks last Wednesday and
purchased a $50 Liberty Loan bond.
When it came his turn to see. the bank
official, he aroused the lattcr's suspicion
by carefully asking three or four times
if there were any people who could not
buy the bonds if they had the money.
He also wanted to know, when a person
bought a bond if his name became pub
lic in any way. The banker thought he
was dealing with a demented person
until he questioned him more closely,
and then it developed that he was Ger
man born, still a subject of the Kaiser,
and a reservist. He came to this coun
try and to Cincinnati three years ao,
and has been working in one of the big
soap factories. He wife and all his rela
tives reside in southern Germany.
His caution and his insistant ques
tions, it developed, were because he
feared if his identity became known he
might be subject to danger at the hands
of the thousands of German agents in
Cincinnati.
He went on to say that, in various
ways, he had been able to send money
to Germany to his mother and his wife
until the last few weeks. He had saved
since, and he wanted to put these sav
ings into a Liberty Loan bond. He
was asked how he thought he could con
sistently do this, and he replied, in
rather broken English :
"My woman and my mother are
starving in Germany because the Kaiser
wants the world. I can't send them
any more money, so I will save my
money and buy bonds to help the
United States, which is going to end the
war and make Germany a republic. I
was scared. They told me if the United
States went to war Americans would
take all my money and send me away to
Mexico to starve, or put me to prison.
But I am working here and I get my
pay, and nobody bothers me. I am a
German, but I like the way America
docs, and I buy a bond. When I get
more money I buy another."
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HAD MONEV TO liREAK STRIKE.
ASIATICS XOT NEEDED.
Los Angeles, Cal. "Beware lest we
usher into this State a problem equal
to the colored problem of the South,"
warned Mrs. Frances N. Noel, a mem
ber of the Los Angeles Industrial Com
mission, in opposing the plan to import
Asiatic labor.
"As a cosmopolitan," she said, "I
have no less respect for other races, but
history has proven the tr.-ieic .conse
quences when immigration and the
mingling of races is forced abnormally
and forced for the profit-making of a
few.
"We arc told that Oriental labor will
have to be imported to fill the gaps
made by men who enlist. On the other
hand we arc assured by government au
thorities that there are enough work
ers, but what is really needed isa wage
for them in keeping with the high cost
of living."
New York. When the New York
Railways Company was attempting to
smash the Street Car Men's Union, last
fall, its officers made this public boast :
"We foresaw a strike and prepared
for it. We have plenty of money to fight
the strike on the surface lines and there
is no fear of bankruptcy proceedings,
despite the statements of the labor or
ganizers." This company is now pleading with
the Public Service Commission to per
mit it to raise rates, and its officers
whimper:
"Our purpose in taking this step is
to prevent, if possible, bankruptcy of
company and thereby avoid any possi
ble disintegration of our unified service."
DOLLARS XOT PATRIOTISM.
FOOD GAMIIL1NG IS PROBLEM.
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GEORGE WELLER CO.
Wholesale and Retail
Wall Paper and Paints, Wall Burlaps, Lincruita, Room Mouldings
1314-1316 Main St. Phone, Canal 75 O
Miller's Park and Summer Resort
Cabaret Every Evening
Come out and try our Famous Fish Frys and Bakes
End of Sedamsville Car Line Phone, Warsaw 212
IIARIlOlt MKX RAISE WAGES.
New York. Members of the Long
shoremen's unions employed on harbor
work for the Savannah line, the Clyde
Malory line and the Southern Pacific
have secured the following wage in
creases : Mates and oilers, from $80 to
$85 a month; firemen, deckhands and
cooks, $75 to $80 a month.
Knoxville, Tenu. Employers in this
city arc, taking out Liberty Loan bonds
for their employes, who will pay for
same in installments, and Editor Keith
of the Plain Dealer says:
"This is fine, but how does it happen
that after a man has worked for some
of these firms for years he is now un
able to raise $50 off hand?
"Workmen have gone into the jaws of
hell jn this industrial age, and they will
continue to do so, but patriotism is not
and can not be measured by dollars.
Workmen will do their duty."
FIGHT FOR TREE SPEECH.
The Brooklyn Shoe Store
All Kinds of Sample Shoes, Union
Made, at Reasonable Prices.
Also Shoe Repairing at Lowest Prices
The Best Leather Used
S. RAFPArORT, Prop.
1 1 21 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI, O.
GEORGE DECKER
Ladles' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Dry
Goods, Notions, Etc.
1550 ELM ST., Near Liberty Telephone Canal 46B1-B
Best Goods at Lowest Prices. Cut out
this coupon, bring it to our store on
Tuesday and you will receive 20 extra
stamps with a purchase of one dollar.
HARRY E. RUEVE
Phone, C. 1634-R
THE HAT SHOP
QUALITY AND STYLE
Union Label
Men's and Boys' 1206 Vine Street
Hats and Caps CINCINNATI. O.
Norwich, Conn. At the coming mu
nicipal election trade unionists in this
city will make free speech the leading
issue. City officials have attempted to
prevent labor unions from holding pub
lic meetings.
Bridgeport trade unionists are also
objecting to infringement of their
rights. An ordinance makes it neces
sary to secure a permit from public au
thorities before a public meeting can
be held.
OPPOSE CHEAP WOMEN LABOR.
San Francisco. "The hysteria howll
mat coolie labor is needed lierc to har
vest the crops and produce food is as
hollow as it is hypocritical," says Or
ganized Labor, official paper of the Cal
ifornia State Building Trades Council.
"According to the authorities who
have made a study of this question, and
the statement of President Lubin of the
California Housing and Immigration
Commission, there is a sufficient supply
of labor in the country to take ample
care of the food production problem.
In fact, the production is not the prob
lem which is confronting the country,
but to keep the food after it is pro
duced away from the speculators and
gamblers. This is the problem.
"Give the farm laborer better wages
and better conditions; organize and mo
bilize them as required by the different
season in various parts of the country;
conserve the food products and keep
them out of the hands of the specula
tors and scoundrels who take advan
tage of the war to starve the people.
Let the federal and state govciimcnts
bend tneir best cilorts m tiiat direction;
let them call a halt on the harmful hys
teria which is rooted in greed and
which is trying to tear down all that
union labor has built in the last 50
years ; then the officials will be able to
meet every crisis and incidentally help
to popularize and win this great world's
war for democracy. That can not be
done by opening the flood gates to mil
lions of Asiatic coolies.
"England, Australia and Canada, aft
er nearly three years of active war,
have neither permitted nor found it
necessary to import Oriental coolie la
bor for the purpose of producing food
stuffs. "Why should the United States of
America do so?"
THE
HERANCOURT
Brewing Co.
Strictly
Union
LAGER s
Strictly
nion
Tacoma, Wash. -At a mass-meeting
of trade unionists and sympathisers
resolutions were adopted against Ori
ental labor and the employment of wo
men at rates lower than prevailing
standards. It was charged that capital
ists are attempting to use women and
Asiatics to "break the back of labor or
ganizations," and that women are being
employed in railroad shops in this city
at a wage less than is paid men.
SHEET METAL- WORKERS WIN.
St. Louis, Mo. Organized sheet
metal workers have defeated the Schlue
tcr Manufacturing Company in its at
tempt o victimize trade unionists. A
strike of 150 men and women secured
the reinstatement of discharged employes.
THE FELDMAN MILK & CREAM GO.
Makers and Distributors of
CREAMA-LAC
THE BETTER BUTTERMILK
Phone S. 1533
Chas. Moeves
Manufacturer of the
IMPROVED EXTENSION SHOE
Shoei made to fit all deformities
14 E. lOlhSt , Newport, Ky. Tel. South 574-L
TRICKY TERMS CONFUSE.
Chicago. The term "compulsory ar
bitration," which is as tricky as the
term "open shop," is placed in its prop
er relation by A. A. Graham, writing in
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen's Magazine.
" 'Compulsory arbitration,' like the
'forced choice,' 'restrained liberty' or
'black-white,' " he says, "is a misuse of
terms, a contradiction, an impossible
thing, a nonentity, for the reason that,
whenever you undertake to make it
compulsory, you no longer have arbitra
tion. "Arbitration is entered upon by mu
tual agreement and not otherwise. Com
pulsion divests it of every element of
arbitration. While you can have this
conditions and call it 'compulsory arbi
tration,' yet you have something alto
gether outside and beyond arbitration.
You then have litigation, the function
of a court. One person may sue an
other, and compel him to come into
court and defend himself or his rights,
if he have any, or judgment will be
taken against him by default, on which
execution will be issued. This is pre
cisely 'compulsory arbitration.' "
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