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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
Brewers To Ask Increases.

Cincinnati, Dec. 3.-Unions OF
brewery workers In this city are
preparing scale of higher wages,
which will be presented to employ
ers. It is proposed that the scale
run for period of four years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
Garwood, N. J.

Garwood, N. J.
Bell Electric Co. 40 machinists
Hyatt Roller & Bearing Co. rs ma
chinists and 1900 others benefited.
Camden. N. J.
Victor Talking Machine Co. 500
machinists and 1000 other bene-
fitted.
New Haven, Conn.
The Geometric Tool Co. 200
employed.
Toledo, Ohio.
Book Bearing Co. $50 men.
American Can Co. 90 men.
O'Neil Machine Co. 35 men.
City Machine Tool Co. Il men.
Consolidated Mfg. Co. $50 men
Springfield, Mass.
Rider Bagg Co. 5 men.
United States Saw Co. 6 men.
Stacey Machine Co. II men.
Russell Machine Co. 18 men.
Blake Machine Co. II men.
Barley Machine Co. 20 men.
Knox Automobile Co. 200 men.
Barney & Berry Skate Co. IS men
Duckworth Chain Co. 65 men.
925 others benefited.
In the last four months 8 hours
has been granted to over 200, 900
men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
Little Bits.

Hamilton. Ohio, has a man that
says that he is going to drive all
the unions out of that city. He
can come about as near doing that
as a turtle can accomplish the feat
of growing ostrich feathers. Rich
mond Labor Herald.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

Stop and think you Mr.. Clerk
who is doing to much to protect
the few men who are working in
the shops, you will get eight-hours
If the men do, why not help the
strikers? that's the way to better
your position.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
Minimum Wage Fixed.

Aberdeen, Wash, Dec. 3.-The
city council has passed an ordin-
ance which fixes the minimum
wage of all city employees at $3.50
for an eight-hour day. Municipal
contractors and sub-contractors
must pay this rate, also.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
Lawson Admitted 70 Bail.

The Colorado supreme court has ad-
mitted John Il. Lawson to bail in the
sum of $4,000 Lawson was sen
fenced to life Imprisonment on a
charge of numbering John Nimmo, a
deputy sheriff killed in a riot near Lud-
low In October, 1913.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
WORLD OF LABOR

A minimum wage amendment to
the Cleveland city charter was
adopted at the recent election by
a majority approx.mating so, 900.
The act applies to all work done by
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

TEE eight-hour day is coming,
not only in the machine shops and
foundries but in evey industry, the
time is short and the manufacturer
may as we'll make up his mind now,
for she is coming fast.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
Unions Won't AnnaInamate

The international Molders' Journal
reports that the referendum vote of
iron molders on the plan to amalga-
mate unions in the iron industry re-
sulted as follows: Against, 1O.75s; in
favor, 1,04R.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

the municipality and provides that
where craft is organized, the rate
of that union must prevail. In
trades and callings where no unions
exist a minimum of 81 80 per day
shall be the rule.
A. F. of L. Vice President
0 Connell, member of the United
States Commission on Industrial
Relations, recently talked on La
Dor and Industrial Unrest" at a
mass meeting in Pittsburg, Pa. The
visitor was inclined to let the Work
OF the commission speak for itself,
but he made this point: IF it did
not accomplish anything more, it
made John D. Rockefeller, Jr., pay
a visit to the Colorado mines for
the first time in eleven years "
Secretary Harry Morrison, of the
International Union of Laundry
Workers, reports that new union
he's been organized at Davenport,
Iowa, and that trade conditions
throughout the country show q
general Improvement. Laundry
workers at Oskaloosa, Iowa, have
secured an agreement in which
hours are reduced from 10 TO 9 pei
day, ard a new contract, which IN
cludes betterments, has been sue
cessfully negotiated at East St
Louis III. At Coffeyville, Kan {
Eve days strike secured the sigma
ture of large laundry proprieto
to a contract.
Details of the manner in which
the Pennsylvania child labor Law
will be enforced after January |
and the plan for the continuation
schools, are announced in a bullets
issued by the division of vocationa
education Considerable attention
is given to standards Of physica
fitness for guidance of physician
in the examination of applicant
for certificates. Minors sufferin
from tuberculosis, organic heart
Graves and kidney diseases, an
having circulatory disturbances an
defective vision may not receiv
certificates. Certificates may b
refused until defects in teeth an
vision, nasal chs ructions, malnu
triton, defective hearing, nervou
weakness and marked stoope
shoulders are corrected or durin
contagious diseases. Certificate
also may be refused for work abor
power driven machinery in case
of loss of arm, leg or eye, or i
cases of epilepsy.
The criminal court of appeals {
Oklahoma has reversed the distric
court of Oklahoma County and al
nulled the law making it misdt
! meanor for all employer to Tequi1
employees to sign contract not
become members of labor unior
The district court fined Manage
Bemis of the Oklahoma Railwa
Company $500 for coercion of Il
horers. He threatened to discha <
them if they joined the street Ca
Mems Union, On appeal this de
cision was reversed. In his epinio
Judge Anderson followed the deci
sion OF the United States Suprem
Court, January 25, 1915, when
majority of the Supreme Justice
aunulled similar law, passed b
the Kansas Legislature Sine
then the Ohio Supreme Court, O
May 5, annulled the anti-coercio
law of that State. Summed up
these tribunals take the positio,
that the worker has the right t
quit work for any cause, and tn
employer has the same right.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

HAMILTON will have Unions as
long as we have the conditions
which exist in the city at the
present time, and then for few
more years
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03
Ohio State Building Trades
Council.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Dec. 8, 1915.


To all Local Building Trades
Councils and Local Building Trades
Unions of Ohio, Greeting:-
Under separate cover l am send
Ing you the proceedings of the
third annual convention of the Ohio
State Building Trades Council, held
at Mansfield, Ohio, October 7 and
Is, 1915.
While the number of locals rep
resented was not as large as it
should be, the convention made up
in enthusiasm and interest what it
lacked in numbers, and the small
number of resolutions introduced
was due to the fact that the legis-
lature does net convene next year
and we have another convention
meeting in 1916, when we can de-
termine upon fixed policy to pur
sue, and what remedial legislation
will be necessary to protect the In
terest of the various building trades
of Ohio.
On instruction of the Mansfield
convention, l have made applica
tion for affiliation with the Build
ings Trades Department of the
American Federation of Labor and
the application has been acted upon
favorably and we are now affiliated
with the Building Trades Depart
ment. This is one of the most i'm
portant steps taken by the State
body, and should result in great
good for the Building Trades of
Ohio.
The convention, realizing the
need for more thorough and com
plete organization of our crafts,
made the office of Secretary Treas
urer permanent and added the title
of General Organizer to it at a
salary of $4,000 a month and ex-
penses. 1t shall be his duty to or
ganize the uuorganized workmen
of our various crafts, assist during
strikes and lockeuts, help settle,
: by arbitration, controversies be
tween employers and our unions,
organize a local Building Trades
Council in every city in Ohio where
there are sufficient locals to main
tain one, for we feel that through
our local Building Trades Councils
the greatest amount of good can be
accomplished, for 1t is too often
that our common enemy will not
hesitate to attack us individually
but will consider carefully before
) he attacks a local union affiliated
with the Building Trades Council,
for he we'll knows from past ex-
perieuce that the interests of one
are the concern of all, and realiz,
ing that by organization alone car
we secure the hours and wages tc
which we are entitled, this position
was created.
And in order to secure these es-
sential things it is necessary and
right that every local should do its
part by afhliating with the Ohio
State Building Trades Council.
Afiliation fee, $2 dues, one cent a
member per month, within reach of
all; Building Trades Councils, IS
a year. And in conclusion we
want you to feel that we are at
your service and at any time we
can do any good we want you to be
free to write us at any time, and
if possible, will render the best that
Is In US by a personal visit to your
city.
Find enclosed application for af-
filiation, and looking to favorable
reply.
Fraternally yours,
Thes. H. Mugavin,
Secretary Treasurer and General
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

The New Year will soon be here,
let's make it better town, and
enjoy better conditions, it makes
good citizens.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

STRIKES will come.
And strikes may go
But that name-hangs on for.
ever.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddieIown o.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, PrebIe and Mont
gomery Counties.
Endorsed by Metal Trades Council
of Hamilton ohio.
Endorsed by the United Trades and
Labor Council, Dayton, Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-03

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1915
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-29
"WOMEN.READY FOR EMER-
GENCY.

In the October Woman's Home Com
panion Ida M. Tarbell writes a wonder
full article .about women, in which she
shows in. part as follows, why women
are able to meet emergencies so won
derfully:
"In these latter years the world has
picked up a fashion of estimating at a
very low value the contributions which
women have made in the past to its ac-
Invites and progress.
Zone of undergraduates of this fash
ion is the surprise which greets reports
of women doing well things which or
dinarily have been done by men. Let
a women establish a shop and the
news travels across the continent; as if
one of the..greatest shops on earth had
not been built up and managed by a
womenl Let a woman win a law suit
and there is wonder, as if there had
never been a Portia! Ever since the
war began there has been almost a
worldwide chorus of amazement over
the exhibits of women in the countries
involved. 1t began back in August of
1914, when travellers suddenly dis
coveredlthe subways, the tramways and
the taxis ofiParis to be run by women.
1.-The change was made in a night,
without fuss or feathers or exclama-
tisn, but the observers who had lived
in the beliefIof the general unfitness of
women stared in astonishment-a revo-
luton! It's always a revolution, you
know, when things occur of which you
have never happened to hear! There
was no revolution about the appear
ance of theswomen in Paris transporta-
ton; MOI was it a revolution which led
women to take up the street cleaning
of provincial French towns, or which
set them to acting as trolley conductors
in England. or acting as bank clerks
and a hundred other unusual things in
Germany;1and in doing many things so
well that their employers are talking
of keeping them after the war-if they
can.
I'm taking up these tasks they were
doing what they had been doing all
their lives turning their hands to the
next thing; meeting emergencies; fill
ing sudden gaps: stepping into vacant
places. The ordinary daily life of
m fits, as no other school on earth,
for rising to occasions.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-29
Vergennes, VT.
FREE UNTIL 1916.
JACKSON BROTHERS.

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Youths Companion for 1916? Now is
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-29
Estate of
Mrs. Mary T.. Blanchard,
late of NIiddIebury
.TATE OF VERMONT


0DISTRIcT OF ADDISON, SS.)
The Honorable Probate Court for the District
of Addison:
To all persons Interested in the estate of Mrs.
Mary E. Blanchard. late of Middlebury. in said
District deceased, GREETING
At a Probate Court. holden at Middlebury, with
in and for said District on the 10th day of Octo-
Der. 1915 an instrument purporting to be the last
will and testament of Mrs. Mary f. Blanchard.
late of Middlebury. in said District. deceased. was
presented to the Court aforesaid, for Probate.
And it is ordered by said Court that the Sth day
of November, 1915, at ten o'clock a. M, at the
Probate Office in said Middlebury, be assigned for
proving said instrument; and that notice thereof
be given to all persons concerned. by publishing
this order three weeks successfully in the Middle
bury Register, a newspaper circulating in that
vicinity. in said District, previous to the time APP
pointed.
Therefore. you are hereby notified to appear be-
fore said Court. at the time and place aforesaid,
and contest the probate of said will. if you have
cause.
Given under my hand at Middlebury, in said
District, this 18th day of October. 1915.
az Charles l. Button, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-29
STATE FAIR POLICY.
Paterson, N. j.

lin the report of the Morgan horse
show at the State fair by our well-known
Morgan horse breeder, E. C. Ryder, he
said it was a shame that there is not
more cattle, sheep and horses shown
from the west side of the State. The
following article taken from the New
England Homestead and written by the
Jackson Bros. of Addison county, bears
on this situation. Ed.
With the closing of the gates of the
Vermont State fair this year l believe
the officials fully realize they have the
material here at home for a State fair
without going to New York, Pennsyl-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-29
THOMAS DOBSON


Lucy NJ. POTTER EFT All. Addison County,
Whereas. Thomas Dobson of Middlebury in said
County of Addison has brought his petition to the
Court of Chancery within and for the County of
Addison against Lucy M. Potter. now or formerly
of Crown Point. County Of Essex. State OF New
York. Vergil M. Benedict of New Haven, County
of Addison aforesaid. and Manley w. Morey and
Charles Lee Jr. of Troy. County of Rensselaer,
State of New York. therein setting forth ipl
That on or about the 10th day of January; l9O5l
the said Lucy M. Potter obtained by fraud an6J
through false representations a mortgage deed Of
the nome place OF said orator located in the villag
OF Middlebury in said Addison County. in favor c
said defendant. Potter. and subject to a prio
mortgage of said decided premises to Phillip II
Cloyces of said Middlebury; that on the 10th dat
OF January, 1908, said Lucy M. Potter executed
Nergil M. Benedict aforesaid a second MORTGAGE
said premises conditioned for the payment of tv
promissory notes; that on September ], 1903. sa
Benedict assigned and transferred said mortgai
ard the Indebtedness secured thereby for a val
able consideration TO the above named defendant
Morey and Lee.
And praying that the said defendants fully a
swer the allegations of said petition and that {
Court will order and decree that said deed fro
the orator TO said Lucy M. Potter be set aside a
reeinded and that said premises be ordered recq
veyed TO said orator: that said mortgage 10 5
Benedict be ordered set aside and discharged
record as we'll as the assignment thereof and
if any Indebtedness exists by reason of said
ond mortgage that said defendant Potter be
dered to pay the same and discharge said q
from all liability therefrom and that all 81
PENDANTS be restrained by injunction frof
veylng the said real estate until further Oh
Court.
And it appearing that the said defendant
ter. Morey and Lee. are without the State g
mont so that this petition cannot be serve
them personally, therefore,
1t is ordered that they be summoned to
and answer the foregoing petition on or bel
srd day of December !. ID. 1915. by the
ton of substance of said petition, togeth'
the order therefor. in the Middlebury Res
public newspaper. published at Middlebury
said, three weeks successfully, the last of
publications to be at least twenty days p
said 3rd day of December. 1915.
Dated at Middlebury aforesaid this 9th
October. 1915.
Rufus Wainwright, {
Button & Sturtevant. Solicitors.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-29
COMMUNICATIONS
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN NEW
JERSEY.

Editor of the Middlebury Register :
AS equal suffrage is a live question in
Vermont, it may be worth while to re-
view briefly the New Jersey vote on
that issue as shown by last Tuesdays
election.
1t had been feared by some, opposed
to equal suffrage, that should the mat
ter be thrown open to the electorate,
that the large labor vote of our cities
would go overwhelmingly for it and
thereby win for themselves toe large a
voice in the management of municipal
affairs. But the election has shown
this fear to be ~groundless. The big vote
for the women came largely from the
country and the best residential districts
of our cities. 1t was the farmers, pro-
fessional men, merchants, manufac-
turers and better paid workmen, who
made up the bulk of the vote in favor
Of the amendment while the congested
and foreign districts turned up the ma
%jorities against it. 1t almost seemed to
some in favor of the movement as
though many of our foreign born voters
still regard their women in the light of
personal chattels as is the case in many
regions of Europe.
Personal prominence seemed to count
for little in winning votes either for or
against. Governor Fielder, who lives
in the "silk stocking section of Jersey
City and opposed equal suffrage, found
his district giving a majority in favor
of it. On the other hand, President
Wilson who publicly declared himself
in favor of equal suffrage and came all
the way from Washington to Princeton
to vote, found his district giving a ma
jority against it, although it was said
this was caused by the solid opposition
of the negroes living in one end of the
district. In their opposition they
seemed to forget the position of their
own race less than fifty years ago.
The women also had to meet the OPP
position of Chairman Groscup of the
Democratic state committee and of
Chairman Bugbee of the Republican
state committee. Perhaps the most
active foe of the movement was the
Essex County machine which fought
Pi esident Wilson so fercely when he
was governor. 1t is also said that the
liquor interests financed the opposion
and conducted a systematic, well organ
lied campaign beneath the surface.
The large vote against the amendment
in certain wards of our cities is given as
proof of this. | am unable to say from
personal knowledge whether this charge
is true or false. However, / do know
that the opposition had plenty of money
to cover the state with large display
advertisements in the newspapers cir
culating as true statements afterwards
shown to be false.
The women do not look on the result
as a defeat but claim it was no mean
showing that they were able to poll over
1901 900 votes especially when you
consider what the men who cast that
vote represent and that included in it
were such men as President Wilson,
Senator Hughes, Secretary of War Gar
rison, President Hibben, Priceton Uni
versity, Col. George Harvey, Thomas
A. Edison, Everett Colby and George l..
Record.
IDE G. S~ARGEANT.
Paterson, N. j.