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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
B. & 0. 0VerWOrked Men.

Cleveland, Dec. 17.-Federal
Judge Clarke fined the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad So, 500 for seven
violati ,ns of the federal law which
provides that no train crew can be
worked more than is hours without
relief. 1t was shown that double
header crew of seven men who was
on active duty for nearly 19 hours
on Dec. 26, 1914. The company
claimed this way unavoidable" -
that it was due to an act of Pro-
vidence.
Austin, Tex, Dec. 17.-Suit has
been filed in the federal court
against the international & Great
Northern railway, which is charged
with violating the United States 16
hour law for railroad men. Twen-
ty-one train service men are named
as having been forced to work lon
ger than the specified time.
The penalties total S11 900.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Big Strike Begun By Iron
MoIders For 8-Hour Day

Pittsburg, Dec, --17.-Between
|, 100 and 1,500 iron molders EN-
ployed in foundries in Pittsburg
and vicinity are on strike as part
of nationwide movement tor an
eight hour day
The strike began Dec. IL, at in
dividual shops, where nottces were
posted announcing that the union
men would not return to work un-
less their demands were granted.
Union leaders claimed that opera
tions in between sixty and seventy
foundries would be completely tied
up.
The men demand an eight hour
day at the same rate of pay as now
received for nine hours. The strike
labor leaders declare, has the ap-
proval of the International Mol
ders' Union and the men will re-
ceive strike benefits.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Generous" Western Union.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company has
notified traffic employees that after
the first of next year those who
have been in the service of the
company two years or more will re-
ceive two weeks vacation with pay.
The United States commission
on industrial relations investigated
methods employed by the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph ana
the following conclusion are inter-
esting at this time:
These workers are not only un.
derpaid, as admitted by the highest
officials, but they are subject to
many abuses, such as the denial of
proper periods of relief while on
duty, the establishment of arbitrary
speed rules which frequently re-
suit in overstrain, the arbitrary dis
charge of employees without notice
for any cause or no cause, the EN-
plcyment of young ooys for mes
senger service under conditions
which can result only in their
moral corruption, and the employ
ment of women for telegraph ser
vice at night.
The commission also declares
that the telegraph companies are
enormously overcapitalized, and
their rates, which are graded to
pay dividends upon large amounts
of stock which do not represent the
investment of cash, are very much
higher than the cost of services
warrants"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
ROST ER
Local Organizers and Busi-
ness Agents.

Charles E. Vaughn, A. F. Of L.
Residence, 721 Buckeye Street
Home Phone 800 A.
Timothy Rowan, Internatiopa
Molders' Union, Residence, 939
Central Ave-, Bell Phore 403 x. Is
VIM. w. Finfrock, Painters
Decorators and Paper Hangers
Union, No. 1876. Residence 308 S.
Second Street. Bell Phone 1896 L.
w. R. Smith, Paper Makers I'm
ion, Residence, Hotel DeArmond.
Home Phone 81. Bell Phone 81.
Swain B. Corson, Carpenters
and Joiners' Union, No. 637, Resi-
dence 107 Brosey Ave, Bell Phone
756L.
Thomas Welsh, Business Agent
Baltenders' Union, 524 So. 5th St.
DAYTON OHIO.
Ben Closterman, Polishers.
]. F. Eichorn, Bartenders, 7
Market street.
w. ]. Gregg, Hosting Engineers
Al w. Great Miami Boulevard.
VIM Schneberger, Cigarmakers'
125 Samuel street.
George Richardson, Teamsters'
80 Wayne, Ave, Bell Phone SAL
Home Phone 2541.
Earl Nyswander, Carpenters 25
N. Main street.
Geo. Lorah. Plumbers corner
Washington and Main, street
Plumbers Hall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Sunday Papers A Necessity.

Jefferson City, Mo-. Dec. H.
Sunday newspapers are public
necessity, says the state supreme
court in the casa of the ST. Louis
Post dispatch against an advertiser
who refused to pay a contract on
the grourd that the publication of
newspaper On Sunday was a vio-
lation of the state labor law. The
supreme court ruled:
The only question presented
for determination is whether the
publication of the great daily pa
pers of the country on Sunday is a
work of necessity.
"The great service the press is
rendering humanity is performed
on Sunday as we'll as upon any
other day of the week, and its
DShChSShSS ID "OiC potSHt oh luC
former than on the latter, for the
simple reason that the toiling
masses have more time to read the
papers on Sunday and, therefore,
acquire greater knowledge and in
formation from them on that day
than upon any other day of the
week.
"Upon this state of affairs, where
is the court or jury in Christendom
which would convict the publisher
of the Post Dispatch If indicted for
publishing that paper on Sunday !?
This IS the test. Of course, they
do not exist and that is because
the former would take judicial no
tice of the fact that such publica
tions are matters of public nee
esssity."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

is exactly what the men did in
Hamilton. They know that the
shops with the war orders are get
ting their own price for these con-
tracts and that they are making
enormous profits from these war
orders, has never been disputed by
the manufacturers nor have they
said very much on this point. The
union men are of the opinion that
in all fairness to them they should
receive a portion of the profits
which they are justly entitled to.
There is hardly a business man in
our city who will not say that the
men should not receive their share
of these profits. If the men receive
their share everyone Will be bene
6ted and Hamilton will again come
back in the prosperous roll where
she belongs. BY the action of the
manufactures it is plainly seen that
they are still trying to keep the
Hamilton mechanic down to as
low a level as it is possible to keep
him. They say the mechanics are
getting as much wages as mechan,
les in other parts of the country,
we say they are not and we are in
a position to prove 1t. We say
that the mechanics in the Miami
Valley are the poorest paid in he
country and they always will DE
unless they win this strike. Are
they going to win the strike? YES
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Unique Copper Strike; Gun Men
Are Barred.

Phoenix, Ariz. Dec. IA most
unusual strike is being waged in
the big copper camps at Clifton,
Morenci and Metcalf, where 5000
employees suspended work Sept. 19
TO enforce the wage scale paid in
other parts of the state for similar
work, and for the right to organize.
Other complaints are: The com
panies deduct ST month from each
man for water; force them to pay
water rent at the house where they
live and compel single men to live
in company boarding houses.
The strike is unique in that
there has been no violence, because
the peace officers of the state have
refused to assist strikebreakers in
creating turmoil. At the last
meeting of the executive board of
the Western Federation of labor it
was stated that: "The men of
every craft and nationality are a
unit in waging this strike"
The San Francisco convention of
the A. F. of L., in indorsing an
appeal for aid on behalf of these
strikers. declared:
"The powers of the governor S
Office or those of the Office of sheriff
are not being used to demoralize
or defeat the strikers, and be it said
to the great credit of the governor
of Arizona, and the sheriff of Green
lee county, that they have jealous
ly guarded the honor and trust
placed in their keeping by the peo-
pie of that state and county"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
sary to protect it

UP TO now about forty mechan-
les have entered the Niles plant.
Most of the forty are gang bosses
who have never belonged to the
Machinists' U4ion. The factory
claims about one hundred and
eighty men have gone to work
which is the truth, but we must
say that outside of the gang bosses
and few more all are apprentices
and laborers. We would like to
ask Mr.. Woods one question, where
are the majority of our best me
chanics, in town or out of town ?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
MEN WHO DIG COAL.
Large Majority of Mine Workers Are
Natives of Foreign Lands.

Natives of Foreign Lands.
About $4,000 of the 10000 mine
workers In the anthracite coal region
Of Pennsylvania are classed as "Amer-
icans,' but this figure includes every
employee born in this country, though
many of their parents are foreign and
do not speak word of English Mine
superintendent in the region state that
Americans would rather earn $1.5O q
day at some clean collar occupation
than twice as much in the mines They
attribute this to the false pride Of the
Americans, who have come to look
down on manual labor.
1T takes more than one generation
to make miner" said an old Welsh
foreman the other day, "and yet the
second generation born In America In
variably leaves the mines. The miners
In the hard coal district of Pennsyl-
vania are probably the cleanest labor
ing men in the world. They take
thorough scrub every day, and when
you see them downtown In the after
noon in their outdoor clothes you can't
tell whether they work in the mines or
In store. But the American young
man seems to imagine that some sort
of social stigma attaches to the coal
dust and the daily bath
"Who are the men who dig your ex-
cavations and subways In the big
cities? Italians mostly. The Irish
used to be willing to do it, but they
no longer are. In the mines 1t isNthe
Slavs that are doing the bulk of the
work. Roughly speaking, we have, be-
sides the $4,000 Americans about 76,-
600 Slavs, 10000 Italians. 1900 Irish,
10000 Austro- -Hungarians, 6,50O Welsh,
5000 Germans. 5000 English and 1000
men of other nationalities. Coal Age.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Anti Restriction Theory Exploded.

Washington, Dec. 17--With the
convening of congress last Monday
the American Federation of Labor
IS preparing to renew its fight for
immigration restriction legislation,
which has been passed by success
sive congresses, only to be vetoed
by the last three presidents.
A recent document issued by the
bureau of naturalization, depart
ment of labor, answers the claim of
anti-restrictionists that all of Our
immigrants come to America for
the purpose of becoming a part of
democratic institutions. In dis
cussing its efforts to interest these
immigrants in citizenship, the bu-
reau says;
while the above figures indicate
a large number among the foreign
element of this country coming for
ward for citizenship, the number
does not appear relatively very
large when it is known that in 1910
there were nearly IA, 900, 900 for
eigners in this country, that of this
number 9 600, 600 were no citizens,
and that the foreign body has been
increased nearly 900, 900 annually
since then
By far the larger portion of the
foreign residents of this country
have retained their allegiance to the
sovereignty of their birth. Recent
ly, reports in the public press have
shown many of these are ready to
respond to the behest of these SOW.
ereignties. 1t is we'll known that
large numbers returned Immediately
upor the call of the country of
their nativity, leaving the ties,
personal, family. industrial and
others, which have grown up in
this country, for the stronger call
of allegiance to the foreign sover-
eighty. This was the case prior to
the great war of Europe, in the
lesser wars among the Balkan
states
Among the approximately A.
900, 600 foreign alien residents,
1850, 361 are classed as illiterates.
These illiterates are the natural
prey of the designing and schem-
ing foreigners and natives as we'll
at every turn. They compel them
to pay tribute, both in cash and
blood, for every service, both real
and imagined, and in the gratifca-
ton of their desires, however un-
scrupulous or unnatural
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Eight Hour Day April |.

Madison, Wis, Dec. IT, Strik-
ing machinists at the Steinle Ma
chine company's plant have re.
turned to work. The management
has promised an eight hour day
with ten hours pay after April l.
The union has increased its men,
bership nearly ten fold within the
past few months.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Ignore Unsigned Complaints.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Ifs the
unorganized street car men of this
city expect the public utilities COM
mission to relieve them from long
working hours. they must sign
their names to letters of complaint.
Or they must organize.
The commission does not express
these sentiments-they merely in
innate them by adopting an Ella
borate set of rules. The street car
men have been sending the COM
mission anony nous letters COM
planning of excessive working
hours. In an effort TO force ac-
ton, one writer threatened to take
the matter up with Samuel Com
pers. The commission has made
indirect answer by adopting rules
which include definite policy to
ignore unsigned letters.
1t has been announced in the
public press that the street car mep
could secure no relief unless their
long hours interfered with good
service. AS these workers know
they will be discharged if they sign
their names some are questioning
whether they are really free and
independent workmen." as anti
unionist INSIST.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

ALL kinds of bluffs have been
tried by the manufacturers to fool
the men in going back to work.
Up to this time the real union men
have not wavered from their posi-
ton of demanding the eight hour
day and the other demands neces
sary to protect it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Mackenzie King Under Fire.

Toronto, Canada, Dec. Nv.
L. Mackenzie King, right bower
for John D. Rockefelle, jr.. IS a
candidate for the house of commons
in an Ontario district, but his po-
litical colleagues do not consider
that his work with the Rockefeller
interests Is a vote getter, SO they
have declared that the ex- minister
of labor for Canada give up Rookie
feller or Sir Wilfred Laurier, the
party leader.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
LABOR NOTES.


The New York city girl dressmakers
won their demands for increased pay.
The number Of ablebodied men out
Of work in New York city Is smaller
than for more than year past.
Plumbers. painters and sheet metal
workers in Santa Barbara, Cal, have
secured the Saturday half holiday
without a strike.
American Federation of Labor ex
penditures for the year 1915 were
1903. .9S5.95 and receipts $271 ,625.53 as
compared with S265.73721 and $685.
1867 in 1914.
The BARRIERS union of San Antonio,
Tex, assisted by the entire trade union
movement. has succeeded in having
Sunday closing ordinance adopted by
the city council.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Violate WOmen'S Law; Fined

Atlantic City, N ]. Dec. IT,
District Court Judge Shinn has
fined several shopkeepers for vio-
lating the state law prohibiting a
work day for women in shops and
factories of more than 10 hours.
This is the first Atlantic City con-
viction under this law. Complaint
was made by Labor Commissioner
Bryant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Asks For Conference.

Toronto, Canada, Dec. 17.-Or-
ganized machinists have asked their
employers TO confer with them on
the question of wages and hours,
which these workers insist should
be revised.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

For THE machinists to go back
TO work and then arbitrate after
wards means that the fectories
would CAN every member who has
been active in the strike. The off
GERS would also be Disseminated
against and their jobs would be
worthless.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

EVERY machinist and molder
who went on strike in the factories
went out to better his condition.
1t is useless for men in large fac
tories to try and better their con-
ditiops as individuals. They are
forced to do it collectively and that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Eight Hours For Bartenders.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 1.-THE
eight hour day attracted bartenders
in this city and they began agitat-
ing the question. AS result their
employers have signed an eight
hour agreement with the Bartend-
ers' union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
L-earninu IL.

The Old Married 0ne-You will
learn, my dear. that men are most con-
trary creatures The Young Married
One-Oh. | know that already. The
Old Married One-Indeed? The Young
Married One-Yes; | cook things my
husband likes and yet he doesn't like
the things | cook.-~Life.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
Revolving Doors Barred.

Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. IT,
State Labor Commissioner Urick
has ruled that revolving doors do
not comply with the law requiring
all entrance and exit doors must
open outward. He holds that
while revolving deor opens out
ward it does not open the legal way
when one is entering.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

weeks arbitrate the differences.
There won't be anything to arbi
brate then if the men 60 back to
work without good understand
ing with the factories involved.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

SOME bushes men who pose as
friends of labor one day and de-
nounce them the next are pretty
we'll known by organized labor.
Their two faced policy will be shown
up in due time. Some of them are
squirming right now.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

JUDGE KYLE wants to be arbitra-
tor to settle the strikes. Say Judge
some men know law bit they don't t
all know the wants of the working
people.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

WE ARE more positive than ever
that the machinists and The molders
are going to win their strike for
better conditions
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

STRIKES are very ticklish pro-
positions for Judges especially when
injuncticns are in vogue. 1t keeps
some of them thinking how to keep
on the good side of big business
and also retain votes for the next
election.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the MiddIetowu Trades
and Labor Council of MiddleIown o.
Endorsed by the Labor Legislative
League of Butler, Preble 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, 1915-12-17
To Build Labor Temple.

Trade unionists have organized the
Portland (Ore.) Labor Temple Building
association for the purpose of erecting
q home of their own
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

WHO said this was a free coun-
try?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-12-17

Go TO work and then in a few
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER II, 1915.

Entered al the Posto6sce at Ha1iflfon, OHIO, as
Second Class Mail Matter.
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Go TO work or go TO Jail.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-01-19
ROSS APPEAL DISMISSED
Appeal Of Frank Ross Frrom Sentence
for Assault in Pacific County
10 Denied by Supreme
Court.

AS an outgrowth Of the North river
feud engendered by the jumping" of
a claim by Mrs. Margaret M. Ross, her
son, Frank Ross, finds himself COM
PEELED to pay the fine inflicted by the
superior court of that county or serve
1t out in jail.
Ross appealed from the decision of
the superior court, and the state au-
thorities have been pestered by his
mother with all kinds of allegations,
to the effect that the family was de-
MED justice in Pacific county. Those
who knew Mrs. Ross placed no reliance
in the charges, but she is a fluent
writer and talker. and almost succeed
ed in convincing Governor Lister and
the attorney general that she and her
sons were being numerically perse-
cuted by Pacific county authorities.
When 1t came to "show down" in the
supreme court, the falsity of the al
legations was apparent.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-01-19
Aberdeen PIONEERS
Aberdeen Pioneer Association viii
Hold Annual Banquet Next
Thursday Evening

The annual business meeting of the
Aberdeen Pioneers Association was
held last evening. in the Congrega-
tional church, when arrangements
were completed for the annual ban
quet, to be given next Thursday eve
ming, in the social hall of the Con-
gregational church. At the banquet
II. H. Carter will act toastmaster, and
Rev. Chas. McDermoth historian.
The annual memorial services of the
association will be held next Sunday
afternoon, at 3 p. m. in the Congre.
gational church, when brief biographi.
cal sketches of the members who have
passed away will be read, and Rev.
McDermoth will deliver an address
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-01-19
WHO'S TO BLAME
For inefficient or Corrupt Govern.
ment? Citizens Who are lndif-
ferent About Voting

The First Presbyterian church was
filled Friday night with an attentive
and appreciative audience. to hear
Rev. M. A. Matthews, Of Seattle. lee
ture on "Civic Righteousness" under
the auspices Of the Mems Club. ii.
DR.. Matthews placed the blame for
inefficient and corrupt government
where 1t belongs, on the shoulders Of
the Indifferent voter. Us 7s
Good government" said Matthews,
"is the result Of good people think
ing about 1t every day in the year.
The average American, however.
thinks about government only three
times year; the day he registers.
the day he votes and the day he hears
the returns. The boss politician works
365 days year. Our cities need
more civic interest and people should
devote more time to study of candi-
dates and of their actions when In
Office.
How many Of you people vote at
school election? Not many, I
guess. Yet that Is the most import
ant election of all. School teachers
have your children five days a week.
while you barely have them two. The.
influence Of the teacher on the child
is great. Do you know what kind Of
teacher is teaching your child? You
want to have the best teachers avail
able employed. Study your education
al systems. The best cannot be OBJ
tanned unless every one takes an in
terest"
Previous to the meeting at the
church, DR.. Matthews was entertained
at dinner at Hotel Washington, by
about 20 members of the Mems Club.
and several visitors from Hoquiam
and Montesano.