The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-05-01
workmen's compensation act is a
real one.
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been long time since local No IA
saw herself in print. We have had
so much to discourage US in the.
last few months if ii had not been
for the righteousness of our cause,
we think we would have laid down
our armor. and give up in disgust.
A few unprincipled men harm or
injure cause, but they cannot rob
it of its principles, which will go
on living when the men who would
besmirch it are forgotten. AL
though our town is not an indus
trial center, yet we had one of the
most progressive labor movements
in the "Hoosier State" Every
effort was put forth to educate our
women on the power of the union
label, every encouragement was
given local No. rs, nothing was
ever done in the name of labor in
this community, that she was not
factor. We think we can say with
out boasting that through the con-
nections of the members of Local
"a AID the untiring efforts of a few
real and true unionists, our central
body the Trades Assembly was
placed on the basis where it com
manded the highest respect in Lo-
gansport by all classes. Even
those who are counted as against
unionism were forced to admit that
the local movement was a credit to
Its membership.
II is quite different now; man
whose conduct and moral character
is a stencil in the nostrils of every
decent man aud women in the city
has crept or rather crawled like the
cur that he is, into the local move
ment and strange to relate has be-
come leader? with certain fac
tons whom his black mailing
tongue seem to have hypnotized
otherwise good men. BIT of course
such men as this Skunk" have
their followers, and in this case
regret to say that the better class
of trade unionists become disheart-
ened at the actions of such men as
the one / refer TO, and make the
mistake of staying away from the
meetings of the Trades Assembly
AT the last meeting of the central
body our delegates were denied the
right to vote and although we have
appealed to the chairman calling
his attention to tho fact that we
have been paying per capita tax to
the Trades Assembly for ten years,
aud were paying at this time more
money (per capita) than was the
union that this man who caused all
the trouble paid. Herepresents II
members and the union drew out
of the Union Label Trades Depart
ment, and this fellow mas rep lated
ly patronized scab made products.
Of course we could go to law and
force the trades assem- bly, to accord
or delegates all privileges and
rights that any other body affiliated
did, but we thought it beneath our
dignity to 60 into a court and as
sociating the good name of The w.
|. u. L. L., with that of the dis
rupter who is trying to disrupt
every union in the city and the
trades assembly also. So we drew
out and secured another hall to
meet in and will hold our next
meeting in Moose hall among
friends, and not snakes-in-the-
grass. The sad feature of this
whole matter is the fact that the
President of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has placed weapon
in the hands of the narrow minded
men who are trying to drive the
w. [. U. L. L. out of the labor
movement. Mr.. Gompers may not
know that he is aiding a lot of
elastic union imposters and half
baked members of organized labor,
who are trying to drive lot of self
sacrificing women (and mem out
of the union cause. If we are not
accorded all the privileges in GENITAL
and etate bodies and not permitted
to affiliate on an equal basis with
others when we pay the same as