The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-10-09
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nothing more inspiring to a higher and
| better life, in my opinion, than music,
and there should be music in the home
There should be books; Ingersoll said
| that a bookcase was an arsenal. and that
| if we would establish more of them in
the homes there would be less prisons,
and believe it. There should be whole
some food for the family; there should
be wage to enable the worker to keep
his children at home and in school until
they reach at least eighteen years Of
age, so that they could be properly edu-
Gated and equipped for life The family
should be so surrounded that they could
enjoy some of the amusements and en-
tcrtainments of life; they should be en-
abled to go to a theatcr and get some
Of the ideas of a higher and better life.
They should have respectable clothing
then they could go out to the enter
tainments, to church and to school. I'm
my opinion, one of the things that is
doing more harm in the world today
than anything else is the fact that there
is not wage sufficient to enable the
parent to clothe and equip his children
properly Children are kept from the
school today and from the church and
Sunday school because of their clothes
and conditions and that in my opinion,
and from my observation, is doing more
to demoralize and drive the children
away on. the downward road than any
thing else can do, and due to the fact
that there is not a sufficient wage TO
enable the father to properly support and
care for the children Our juvenile
courts and institutions i'll their reports
all reflect that very strongly, that the
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direction are the children of parents
who have to neglect them the mothers
neglect them to become breadwinners, TO
help support the family, 90 out to work.
They have to neglect the children and
leave them to grow up at home alone
and the environment that they are placed
under makes them ashamed to 90 to
school and to church and other places.
That is one of the things that is doing
more to demoralize the society of the
world today, in my opinion, than any
other thing, and my opinion is that there
should be wage to overcome that and
to place every workman in that position.
II know it will be argued that all will
not do that, but thousands today would
be glad of the opportunity to do it, and
would do it, and that is my notion of a
living wage. | could never bring myself
to believe that the only thing that man
was created for was to work, simply to
toll in order to exist. | think he would
be better off if he would die right quick
than to have to continue under that CON
ditlon merely to exist AS some of our
Socialist friends put it, all he is here
tor is to propagate his species and then
pass away.
$50 my opinion, Mr.. LeBosky, on that
matter of living wage, is one that
would enable a man to live in that
manner of life.
20. Now, should that manner of life
be such as to enable man to provide
for his approximation?
"A. Oh, he should be enabled to pro-
vide for his children until they reach an
age to send them out into life fully
equipped to battle for life and to pro-
vide for himself in the winter Of his
HE. AS | said some time ago, he should
have a wage sufficient. We create in
business sinking funds to take care of
everything that wears out, and we should
have the same for men, the most impor-
| tant factor, at least in the production
of things should be provided for in old
age You do not even now dare, under
certain circumstances, to kill animals ;
they must be provided for and looked
after in their old age in places made to
care for them, and it really seems to me
/ that man ought at least to come into
that class
J Based upon this position, the arbitra-
ton was fought through until all evi-
dence and contentious of both sides was
submitted and left in the hands of the
arbitrators.
The wage prevailing at the time the
arbitration took place for motormen and
conductors was as follows:
Twenty-thrce cents per hour for the
. first three months.
twenty-five cents per hour for the
second three months.
| 1wcnty-SiN cents per hour for the
second six months OF the first year.
Iwenty-Seven cents per hour for the
first six months of the second year
Twenty eight cents per hour for the
second six months OF the second year.
/ Twenty-nine cents per hour for the
third year.
Thirty cents per hour for the fourth
year,
ThirW-onc cents per hour for the fifth
/ year.
ThirW-two cents per hour after five