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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
COPPER EMPLOYERS BLAMED

Woshin0tnn CnvcrnOr Hunt of Ar;-
zona has written a Iet,nr 70 the Commit
tee on industrial relat;ors amswer;n" w r'''t :,
rem,cst for ;nformat;nn On ,hn str;lies of +
: GOO conner emnlovcs in that state who
have been refused waar increases aces He
saws.
"Jn discouraoiuo ,he ;onor,o,;o, Of
srril[cbrrakrrs h,vn w hnan 'p'' '"r,Um 'c,na,od o
chiefly Inv thc desire to ,yer, hl"odshnd
tn safeouard lie and nrnnert" U'0ouo'eu, nnh ~
keen in view thc nn.s;h;l;,r ~ on,;nahi,'
arbitration of d;fcromrn" hctu"am W ',a,,'an a,,
nInynrs anL or,,In"oas NI i, ."uI" ',,! eur
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
STEAMFITTERS ENTERTAIN

The Steam Filters and Helpers Local
1892, held its installation Of officers Fri
day night, January nth, at Cosmopolitan
Hall, giving a big smoker and cabaret
show which was one of the most elabor-
ate entertainments of the kind ever given
by any local in this city There was an
abundance of everything to eat, smoke
and drink. The entertainment was fur
nishcd by Guy Hecker. the Steam Fit
ters' Quartettc and Bishops Entertain
ers, whose efforts proved highly enter
tanning.
The Steam Filters heavyweight dane
ers, Archie Lowric, Pat OIIearn, and
"IIeavy' Bloebaum-Sc Scotch Irish and
Dutch-did Highland fling which was
enjoyed by everybody, but the next day
the proprietor of Cosmopolitan Hall sent
a bill for for the ceiling knocked down
by these light-toed gentlemen, in their
fantastic acts
The smoker lasted until the small
hours OF the morning, and the members
and visitors pronounced it the biggest
success of its kind ever attempted in
this city.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
PROTECT SENIORITY RIGHTS.

St. Louis Mo.-President Perham, of
the Order Of Railroad Telegraphers, has
secured decision from Secretary of
Labor Wilson which will protect the in
tercsts of Canadian members of the va
rous railroad brotherhoods. Secretary
Wilson rules.
Persons employed in the transporta-
ton divisions of railroads crossing the
boundary line between Canada and the
United States, who come to the United
States for the purpose of accepting posi-
tons growing out OF seniority regula-
tions connected with their employment
on such roads, shall not be considered
as alien contract laborcrs.'
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
UNION DEMANDS INCREASE.

lphia.-The Shirt Waist Max
ers' union has asked employers to grant
a general Is per cent wage increase, a
maximum of so hours week and union
recognition. Manufacturers have been
notified by mail and reply is requested
not later than January 10. Included in
the circular is letter by President
Schlesinger, of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union, in which en-
ployers are invited to enter into a gen.
eral agreement.
This is what the Public Ledger in
a leading editorial thinks of the work.
ers demands:
"A working girl cannot feed and
clothc herself and live decently on $4
a week; and it is rather unchivalrous,
to say the least, of a garment manu-
facturer to compel his workers to con-
tribute their health as well as their
labor to the increase of his profits"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
MINIMUM WAGE IN EFFECT FOR
"ORDINARl ABILITY"

Boston.-Thc decree of the state mini
mum wage commission, establishing a
standard of minimum wages for women
employed in all retail stores in Massa-
chusetts, went into effect the first of the
year.
1t is provided that mo experienced fe-
male employe Of ordinary ability shall
be employed in retail stores in Massa-
chusetts at rate of wages less than
$3.50 a week and that mo other female
employc OF ordinary ability shall be
paid at a rate of wages less than S5 a
week.
The provisions of the law are not
mandatory
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
Flynn, General Organizer
American Federation of Labor Issues a Sensational
Statement Relative to the Youngstown Strike

Thomas II. Flynn, general organizer
American Federation of Labor, issued
sensational statement in which he says
he has evidence which he regards as
conclusive that the entire trouble was
caused by paid sluggers brought to East
Youngstown by the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company. He said:
"Deputizcd by Sheriff."
These sluggers working for the COM
pany conducted deliberate campaign
of liquor buying on Friday to get as
many as possible of the workers intox-
icated. A hall hired by the Roumanian
workers for our use was taken away by
the company so we could not use it.
The gunmen who did the shooting were
residents of Pittsburgh. We understand
that these gunner, 25 in number, were
deputized by Sheriff ]. c. Umstead. If
this is so the Sheriff violated the law
Only citizens of Ohio could be deputized
legally. Perhaps the Sheriff didn't in
tend to do wrong, but that is what hap
pened.
81 do not think there was any foreign
influence involved. | think 1t was a
financial scheme rugged UP as the last
desperate resort to depress the value of
tube works stock so that interests that
are trying to form a great half-billion-
dollar merger could get the control that
they wanted. Strangely enough control
of tube works stock is held by local men.
They did not want to sell. They figure
that stock worth $500 to others was
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15

worth that to them, and they wanted to
keep the control in Youngstown.
"Reminder of Trinidad"
The proposed merger was to include
Colorado Fuel and Iron. Cambria Steel,
Youngstown Sheet and Tube and the
Lackawanna Steel Company. Colorado
Fuel and Iron means John ID. Rockefel-
Ter and John ID. Rockefeller's name
brings up strangely familiar remem-
brances of Trinidad.
I'VE do not know who is going to pay
for the burning of the buildings. and we
cannot absolutely prove at this time that
men were paid to use the torches, but
our men did see men setting fire to
buildings. and they were not molested
by the police. These things are ugly
facts.
81 have seen sluggers here that l can
identify as sluggers that have operated
in other places. | know these men were
brought here for this job. The whole
thing was engineered by 6nanciers.
President James A. Campbell, of the
tube works, is stated to head the merger.
Organized labor demands that this rot
ten thing be Investigated to the finish'
After reading Flynn's statement con-
tanning among other insnuations, that
the rioting at East Youngstown was in
stigated by the Sheet and Tube Com
pany as a stock depressing mode to
help along the proposed steel merger
Prosecutor Henderson announced:
Il will summon Mr.. Flynn to repeat
his statement under oath before the
grand jury.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
WELFARE WORK DEFINED.

Des Moines, Ia.-Prof Pierce Of the
state university is not impressed with
the kind of welfare work that provides
spotlcss kitchens for workers to eat
their lunches while these same employees
are forced to labor under dangerous con-
ditions.
"Welfare work. he says, Consists not
merely in equipment and organization;
its success or failure depends upon the
spirit which pervades it. 1t is not
substitute for wages, unions or legisla-
ton"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
TAKE REFERENDUM VOTE.

Chicago.-Nearly 100000 employees in
the transportation and yard service be-
gan voting Monday on two demands to
be made upon all railroads in the United
States. These call for the cight-hour
day and time and one-half for over
time, If adopted as proposed by joint
committee of representatives of the four
brothcrhoods the demand will be pre-
sentcd to the railroads in March.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
PAY OF wEAvERs BOOSTED.

WoonSocket, X. l.-SiN mills in this
city engaged in wooden and worsted
weaving, and employing 1000 operatives,
announced a ) per cent increase in wag-
cs, effective January 3. Scarcity of help
rather than prosperity was given as the
rcasnn for the increase
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
NEW IMMIGRATION fLAN
DOES NOT REACH CAUSES

Philadelphia.-The National Ameri-
canization Committee has opened head
quarters in this city and is preparing
details for statewide campaign to
Americanize the thousands of immi-
grants that have been poured into this
commonwealth by the steel and coal
trusts, the railroads and the shipping
combine. 1t is announced that nation
al conference will be held in Philadel-
phia, January 10 and 20, under the aus
pices of the committee.
The National Americanization Com
mittee was recently organized in New
York by the Astors, the Nanderbilts,
railroad officials and other influences
whose swollen fortunes have been made
possible by the exploitation of immi-
grants and the lowering of American
workmen's living Standards These in
fuences are alive to the danger of in
creasing agitation against immigration
and the committee is preparing the
stage for general movement which it
terms, "Americanize the immigrant"
while totally ignoring the evils of stimu-
ulated immigration so necessary to cheap
labor advocates.
These evils are referred to in a spe-
Ni"i iNDDlt " lllt ltNlCl dl department OF
labor in 1914 by w. w. Husband. who
made this declaration after six months
study of immigration in eastern Europe.
he difficulty in the situation, how
ever, arises chiefly from the fact that
the economic law is constantly inter
tered with by artificial influences, back
OF which is the desire for gain on the
part OF those who profit through the
movement. Chief among these influ-
enccs are the army of steamship agents
and brokers operating in Europe and to
some extent in the United States; the
trans atlantic transportation companies,
and the railways and lesser steamship
lines which serve as feeders for them,
and employers in the United States who
demand an eXhaustess supply of cheap
labor"
Despite the praiseworthy declarations
of the National Americanization Com
mittee, trade unionists and other advo-
Gates of immigration restriction are
skeptical of the announced purposes of
the hackers OF this organization, who, it
is shown, make no reference to closing
the Hood gates of eastern and southern
European immigration. 1t is also point
ed out that the railroad and steamship
companies, together with cheap labor en-
ployers will assist any educational move
ment OF this character if they are per
mitted TO swamp the labor market with
their hordes Of illiteratcs through stimu-
lated immigration
1t is said that the men who gave
large financial support last year to the
National Liberal immigration League
have transferred their allegiance to the
National Americanizaton
Committee because of the publication by
President Gompers, January 30 1918, of
the contributions various trusts and en-
ploycrs Of cheap labor made to the
league. This expose destroyed the
leagues usefulness and change Of tao
tics was necessary in the fight to main
tain what Federal Investigator Husband
terms IAN cNhaustless supply of cheap
labor"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK.

New Norli-rhe 80 men who struck
last week at the Jersey City plant of
the Crucible Steel Company OF America
returned to work, on the promise of the
management that their demands would
be considered, Negotiations will begin
It once.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
I. W. W. TO INVADE HAMILTON

Hamilton, O-lndustriaI Workers of
the World leaders have threatened to
invade hamilton. IIandbils circulated
about the city declared that William
Haywood, CoNto I.arinSky and Bruno
Schultz would speak January -, Pre-
pare Tor the working class war; the
bills warn Officials are uneasy because
OF the recent strike disturbances.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
PLAN ADVANCE IN WAGES.

Harrisburg, Pem,-A readjustment Of
wages which will amount to an approx
innate increase of 10 per cent will be put
IN effect on February by the Pcnnsyl-
vania Steel Company, it was learned
here. About 1000 men will figure in the
advance, but the salaries of those which
were adjusted recently will not be rails
ed.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
STEEL WORKERS WALK OUT.

Sharon, Penn.-One hundred mechan-
les, electricians and batterymen. employ
ed at the coke plant OF the Carnegie
Steel Company at Farrell, struck recent
ly, because they were dissatisfied with
the 10 per cent in wages promised for
February to all employees of the
United States Steel Corporation.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
STRIKERS GIVEN INCREASE.

Pawtuclct, X. Lit is announced that
the Potter & Johnson Machine Company
has conceded a ) per cent increase to
its 800 employees. These workers struck
last August for wage increases and a
shorter work day
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15
LABORERS GET MORE MONEY.

Steubcnvillc, Ohio-One thousand la
borcrS at the Labellc Iron Works here
are to get an increase i'll wages. An
nounccmcnt to this effect was made by
X. c. Kirk, its president.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15

worth that to them, and they wanted to
keep the control in Youngstown.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-01-15

President !. \. Cullen, OF the Build
ing Trades Council, made the following
reply on behalf OF the Council
THE foregoing complaint Of Mr.. Ed
ward i Stcphany is the same as all
complaints from people who hire scab
labor and are caught in the act. They
claim not to have been treated right
and that the business agent was either
drunk rough or impolitc, and that alibi
for this class OF people has stood for
years.
The fact is, that Stcphany ought to
be the last man in Cincinnati to require
a business agent TO call upon him at all,
Tor the simple reason that he conducted
saloon next door to the Building
Trades Council for years and is thor
oughly familiar with conditions: but.
according TO his letter it requires an
expert business agent 10 show him why
he should hire union labor
IT Stcphany would stop and think
minute, that il everybody treated
union labor as he has in this case,
that hc, himself, would not have
any money to build the present
building with sCab labor.
Stephany has evidently been misin-
formed. This is not a personal fight Of
mine at all, but he has been declared
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-12
CONFEREES ON ARMY
 MEASURE DISAGREE
RESERVE AND Nl. TRATE PLANT WERE THE
 OBSTACLES.

Washington. Conferees on the army reorganization bill disagreed on several important features of the measure and adjourned until matters in disagreement can be taken up in the House. The rocks on which the committee broke were the federal volunteer army reserve and the $15,- 000,000 government nitrate plant amendments adopted by the Senate.
 Notwithstanding the disagreement, Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate coDferees, said he had hopes that a good bill eventually would be worked out
 "The House corferees would not yield to the Senate provisions for the volunteer army or the government n1- trate plant said Ghe senator eThere are number of minor points in the bill also which are in disagreement But the main points seemed thus far to be the only irreconcilable features
 Representative Hay has promised to return the nitrate plant amendment to the House for further instructions He fatly stated, however, that the House would not accept the volunteer army and the Senate conferees would not recede. In view of the apparent impasse, the conference adjourned, not to meet again until an effort is made to get further instructions from the House. We do not expect to take up the disputed points in the Senate unanimous and the Senate has already passed on the subjects in contro- versy."
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-12

Elsie Van Nugent had never mar ried because she had taken care of her father until his death, when she was thirty-seven. No opportunities came after that. Opportunities for marriage are few in New England among women whom birth has made superior to the rest of the community. And, besides, Elsie was already grow ing into a typical old maid. She was becoming angular and thin, there were gray streaks in her hair, and she knew quite well that whatever beauty she had ever possessed was already gone beyond recovery.
 Her life had been utterly cramped Her bookish learning had never been modified by contact with the world, for her father had always been a re- cluse, and, in his last days, a fretful invalid. When she met the drummer she thought him typical man of the world.
 The acquaintance was a wonderful thing to her. She felt guilty in steal ing down to the garden gate when Dick was coming that way-'Thursdays he always appeared in Bourne End. She invented little excuses at first to account for her presence there. Wist. fully she thought how she would like to ask him ill. But she never dared. It was not only fear of what the neigh bors would say, but fear of what he would think of her
 It was odd that the uncouth drum. mer should exercise SC strange fasci. nation over the old maid, but it was equally strange that he should find in hei his iGeai of womanhood Two or
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-12
V|[L|STAS MAKE 3
 RAIDS OVER BORDER
BOQUILLAS ALSO RAIDED, PROS ABLY BY SAME BAND-MER-
 CHANT CARRIED OFF.
BANDITS LOOT THE TOWN
Three American Troopers Wounded at Glen Springs-One Civilian Miss ing-NeW Expedition Will Start
 From EI Paso For Bandits,

Marathon, Texas.-The Columbus raid was repeated by former Carran- zlsta soldiers at Glen Springs, 85 miles south of Marathon, Texas, and miles north of the border. Three members of Troop A, Fourteenth cav ,2lry: and oEe civilian boy are known to have been killed Three members of Troop A, which constituted the re- mainder of the cavalry detachment, were wounded.
 A number of American civilians are said to be missing from the district
 Practically the same band of Mexi- cans appeared at the store of J.. Deemer, which is the source of sup plies for small mining settlement 25 miles to the north. The store was footed. Deemer and his clerk, l.. Me Coy, were made prisoners and carried back towards the border. They are both reported to have been killed.
 The raiders appeared again at Bo- quillas, on the American side of the border, IS miles north of the Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen. The seven employees of the International Mines Company sought refuge in the mine tunnels and were defending themselves against great odds when last heard from.
 The first report of the raids reach ed Maj.-Gen. Funston at Fl Paso tbroupb tho ronrocopto+iyoo of +l,o I ternational Mines Company. An ef- fort to get details was immediatelv started and later a complete report was received from John P. Denny. manager of the mines company.
 This stated that the three dead sol diers and the one dead civilian boy had been brought to Marathon on a motor truck by two of the troopers who had been morta1ly wounded themselves. The soldiers killed were Privates Cohen, Coloe and Rodgers.
 Within an hour after the receipt of the report from Denny, Gen. Funston. with the approval of Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, issued order for a new expedi- ton to start rom El PaSo. The train got away at 6 p. m. It carried Troops and B of the Eighth Cavalry, com. manded by Maj, George T. Langhorne Capt. George w. Kirkpatrick and Capt. James c. Rhea.
 Gen. Funston has issued orders that the Mexicans responsible for the ra'd must be captured or killed No off cial statement has been given out, but it is known Col Sibleys orders do not contemplate that he end the pursuit when the border is reached.
 The circumstances of this raid have | already nullified any possible effec the tentative agreement made be tween Gen. Hugh L. Scott and Mexi can Minister of War Obregon coult have on the situation.
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-12
PASTEURIZED MILK IS BEs
Low Temperature Does Not AHs Nutritives Value or Digestibllity
 of the Product.

When milk is held at 145 degrees E for 30 minutes, all the disease-prOdf ing bacteria, so far as can be ascs tained, are completely destroyed, 7 the same time larger percentage ' the bacteria that cause milk to S' and a smaller percentage of tho' that cause it to rot are left than Wna higher temperature is employa Pasteurized at low temperature, np undergoes no change which affects Y nutritive value or it's digestibility Su jection to temperature of 15O degfea F. or more, however, does result certain chemical changes. The uD' is coming when virtually all marh' milk sold at retail in cities will pasteurized.
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-12
PREVENT GROWTH OF H0R@
In Using Caustic Potash the Appl" tion Must Be Made Before Can
 Is One Week Old.

Caustic potash is the chemical usa Tor preventing the growth of horn u young calves. The application mu, De made before the calf is one we' old, in order to be effective.
 The hair is clipped away from ~, small buttons which may be felt a~ which are the future horns. A stlo or caustic potash is then moistel~ and rubbed on the spot until the shD bleeds slightly.
 The calves. must not be permi''r' to run out in the rain for sever" oays after the application of the cau' tlc, as the water is likely to wash 'p' caustic down into the eyes with daD aging results.
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-12
AMERICAN FORCES
 KILL 42 BANDITS
THE BANDIT FORGE WAS MUCH LARGER THAN AMERICAN
 COLUMNS.
Field Headquarters, Near Namiqui-

Field Headquarters, Near Namiqui- pa, by wireless to Columbus, N, M A full squadron of 230 men of the Eleventh Cavalry surprised and routed a much larger force of Villa bandits at Ojo-Azules, 17 miles south of Cus1- huirachic Fortytwo Mexicans were killed and a number wounded. There were no American casualties.
 The American command, under Maj. Robert L. Howze, had been pur- suing, the bandits under Gems. Cruz Dominguez and Julio Acosta, for sev- eral days when they encountered them encamped in the huddled adobe huts of Ojo-Azules.
 The Mexiqans were completely sur prised and lprang from their pallets ,aa z! +h rpss of Louiey began flight, each man
 ounda for his own safety. Some of
 m were able to seize their horses, already jaded from hard days ride previously, but others fled into the hills afoot.
 MdJ. iOWZ0 I6pOrleu He SlllI Was pursuing the scattered remnant of the band. which is the largest remain ing under the Villa standard. It IS believed the band is the same as that defeated at Temochic April P by Col. Dodd's command
 Further reports from Maj. Howze stated that Gen. Antonio Angeles was killed. He was a relative of Felipe Angeles, the former confidant of Villa, wRo was once mentioned for the pres idency of Mexico, and who is now living near Fl Paso.
 The Howze column struck the band of Mexicans near Ojo-Azules after an all-night cross-country ride, at 5:45 o'clock in the morning. More than 50 of the fugitives were rounded up by Americans after the engagement.
 The column had marched 36 miles through the mountains during the night and attacked without resting either men or horses. It consisted of six picked troops of the Eleventh Cav airy and one machine gun detachment.