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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
STRIKE OF LABORERS ENDS.

Boston-The strike of 5000 members
of the Building Laborers and Hod Car
riers union, which has tied up building
operations in this city since June 1, has
been settled and questions in dispute
will be submitted to arbitration. Ma
waiting laborers, 30 cents. The ques-
ton of a further increase and the wage
of other classes of laborers will be de-
cided by an arbitration board. The un-
ions original demand was flat wage
of 42E cents an hour for all workers
with time and one-half forovcrtime.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
WHERE is THE MONEY GOING?

Boston.-The Boston Journal makes
this query in connection with the eight
hour demand of trainmen in the rail
road freight service;
"But as this railroad controversy
stands now, it appears that the railroads
should devote themselves not to show
ing how liberal railroad wages already
are, for that is the affair of the wage
Garner; but to showing just how and
which the present rich revenues of this
busy shipping period are going?"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01

Bunker recalls an incident that took place
during the administration of Mayor
Spiegel. One afternoon Safety Director
Holmes sent for the chief and asked
for his resignation. The chief said he
would hand it in the next morning.
When Mr.. Holmes arrived the next day
Chief Bunker submitted his resignation.
Mr. Holmes gave it back to him, saying
81 have reconsidered the matter" and
the incident was closed.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
TO URGE COMPENSATION.

Chattanooga Tenn,-The Central La
Dor Union has appointed committee to
interest unionists of this State in the
question of workmens compensation and
to have such measure included in the
new Constitution or written into the
statutes of the State.
1t is proposed to invite a member
of the Ohio Workmens Compensation
Board to tour the State and explain the
workings and benefits of the Ohio COM
pensation law.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
WIRE MEN MAKE GAINS.

Chattanooga, Tenn-The Electrical
Workers union has signed five years
agreement with employers During the
first year, rates shall be SO a day with
an increase of 25 cents per day each
year until the amount reaches 81 day.
The present nine-hour workday will be
continued until January l, 1917, when
the eight-hour day will be established.
These fine gains were made possible
because the electrical workers were
nearly 100 per cent organized.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
WILL ENTERTAIN DELEGATES.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Union No.
1O1 has appointed a committee of 35 to
act with the executive committee to ar
range for a day of entertainment in
honor of delegates and visitors to the
Baltimore convention of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union who will
visit the nations capital an entire day.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
MUGAVIN'S CASE CONTINUED

Thomas H. Mugavin, President of the
Central Labor Council, who was arrested
by Chief Carter, of Columbus, for max
ing a speech to striking machinists some
time ago, was called to trial last Thurs
day on the charge of lettering. His at
torney attacked the constitutionality of
the ordinance, but was overruled by
Judge Auth, who ordered Mugavin to
trial July 6.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
PUSHING THE UNION LABEL.

Portsmouth, Ohio.-Trades unionists
in this city are actively engaged in a
label forward" movement and the de-
mand for labeled goods has increased.
The organization of a Women's Union
Label League has resulted in additional
agitation.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
DOTY VERDICT STANDS.

The conviction Of Vincent Doty on a
charge of shooting to kill was affirmed
last Monday by the Court of Appeals.
Doty was convicted of shooting Fred +.
Miller, former Business Agent of the
Painters Union, January %, 1913. Doty
was convicted at his first trial, but. was
granted another hearing. That ended in
disagreement. The third hearing re-
suited in conviction.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
MACHINISTS CONVENE.

Baltimore-The international Associa-
ton of Machinists opened its fifteenth
convention in this city last Monday.
This is the first convention held by these
workers since 1911. The Machinists'
constitution provides for referendum
vote on the question of conventions.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
PLUMBERS RAISE WAGES.

New Britain, Conn-Union plumbers
and their employers have adjusted wage
differences. The new scale will be post
poned until August ], that contracts may
be fulfilled under the old rates. After
August 1 wages will be So cents an hour,
or an increase of Z cents.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
SINGLE WEAVERS WINNING.

Grays Harbor, Wash-Practically ev-
cry single mill in this locality has re-
established old rates and abandoned the
attempt to reduce wages. Many strikes
have been called by the Shingle Weav-
ers' Union throughout the northwest for
this reason, and the solidity of the work.
ers is proving effective.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
POLISH BAKERS STRIKE.

Detroit, Mich.-Nearly 200 Polish
bakers, affiliated to the International Un-
ion of Bakery and Confectionery Work
ers, struck to reduce hours and raise
wages About a score of shops have
settled with the union.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
CADDIES' STRIKE AVERTED.

A strike, involving thirty caddies at
the Cincinnati Golf Club, was averted,
last Monday after Mounted Patroman
Miles arbitrated the trouble, which arose
when outside caddies appeared on the
links, The threatened strike would have
delayed opening the Ohio State Cham
pionship Golf Tournament,
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01

He has been hurt number of times,
most serious at the Royer Wheel Co
fire, in 1884 The resignation of Chief
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01
BREWERS STANDING FIRM.

Wilmington, Del. - If brewery pro-
prietors in this section were ever hope
ful that the attack against the Whining
ton Brewery Workers union would
prove successful this thought has long
since been dispelled. On May s, 1915,
the Wilmington unonists were locked
out. The clause providing for the un-
ion shop and union material wherever
possible has been a thorn in the side of
brewery proprietors. This city is the
only one throughout the brewery work
ers' jurisdiction where long hours pre-
vail.
The strikers are as militant as the day
they were put on the streets, and they
are receiving the support they deserve,
not only from the Wilmington trade un-
ion movement, but their international as
well.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-07-01

Jersey City, N. 1.-The Brewery
Workers unions have secured a three
years agreement with the breweries of
Hudson county Wages are increased
$2 week and improved working condi-
tiOnS are secured
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25

Red Cross Bag Blue makes the auudss
happy, makes clothes whittier than nov.
AL good grocers. Adv.
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25
CHAPTER ~.

Mr.. Vertrees, having watched their
departure with the air of man who
had something at hazard upon the ex-
petition. turned from the window
and began to pace the library thought
f'illy, pending their return. He was
about sixty; a small man, withered
and dry and fine, trim little sketch
CT the elderly dandy. His lambre-
qu1n mustache, like his smooth hair,
was approaching an equally sheer
Whiteness; and though his clothes were
old, they had shapeliness and a favor
of mode.
Ihe room was cheerful and hideous.
Under mantel of imitation black
marble a merry little coal fire beamed
forth upon high and narrow "Eastlake"
bookcases with long glass doors, COM
Portable, incongruous furniture, half a
dozen Lnndseer ensravings which Mr..
and Mrs. Nertrees sometimes men
toned to each other, after thirty years
OF possession, as very fine things"
They had been the first people in town
to possess Landseer engravings, and
there' in art. they had rested, but they
sui had a feeling that in all such mat
| ters they were in the van.
The growth of the city, which might
easily have made Mr.. yertrees a mil.
| lionaire, had ruined him because he
mad failed to understand it. When
towns begin to grow they have whims,
and the whims Of town always ruin
somebody. The dainty little man was
one Of the first to fall down and wor-
ship Bigness. He was a true prophet
OF the prodigious growth, but he had o
fatal gift for selling good and buying
bad. He sold his Inherited Office build.
ing and house in town to buy lots
then he sold his farm, except the house
and the ground about 1t, to pay taxes
! on the lots. But he had to do some.
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CHAPTER ii-continued.

'tOh. he's a friend of the whole fam
fly" she returned. with a petulance
which she made no effor. to disguise.
"Roscoe and he got acquainted some
where. and they take him to the the
ater about every night. Sibyl has him
to lunch, too, and keeps She
broke off with an angry little jerk of
the head. 1--WE can see the new house
from the second corner ahead. Roscoe
has built straight across the street
from us, you know. Honestly, Sibyl
makes me think of a snake, sometimes
the way she pulls the wool over
peoples eyes! She honeys up to papa
and gets anything in the world she
wants out of him. and then makes fun
of him behind his back-yes, and to
his face. but he can't see it! She got
him to give her a twelve-thousand-
dollar porch for their house after it
was"
Good heavens" said Bibbs, staring
ahead as they reached the corner and
the car swung to the right. following
a bend in the street. SIS that the new
house?"
"Yes. What do you think of it?"
WELL" he drawled, "I'm pretty sure
the sanitarium's about half size big
ger; can't be certain till 1 measure"
And a moment later, as they entered
the driveway, he added, seriously:
But it's beautiful
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window and paid himself the dubious
tribute of a thorough inspection
Throughout this cryptic seance his
manner was profoundly impersonal
but finally he appeared to become pes
simistic He shook his head solemnly
then gazed again and shook his head
again. and continued to shake 1t slow
ly, in complete disapprovai.
You certainly are one horrible
sightw he said, aloud
And at that he was instantly aware
Of an observer. Turning quickly. he
was vouchsafed the picture of charm
ing lady. framed in a rustic aperture
| of the summer house" and staring full
into his window-stralght into his eyes,
| too, for the infinitesimnl fraction of n
second before the fiashingly censorious
| withdrawal of her own. Composcdly.
she pulled several dead twigs from n
| vine. her action conveying a procla-
nation to the effect that she was In
the summer house for the sole purpose
Of suchlike pruning and tending.
Having pulled enough twigs to en-
phasize her unconsciousness-an at
the same time her disapproval-of ev-
erything in the nature Of Sheridan
or belonging to a Sheridan, she de-
scended the knoll with maintained
composure, and sauntered toward
side door Of the country mansion of
the Nertreeses. An elderly lady. bon
neted and cloaked, opened the door and
came to meet her.
looking for you. What were you do
ing?"
Nothing. Just looking into one Of
Sheridans' windows" said Mary Yer
trees. II got caught at it"
"Maryw cried her mother. "Just as
we were going to call! Good heavens"
well so, just the same," the daugh-
ter returned. II suppose those women
would be glad to have US II we'd
burned their house to the ground"
But who saw you?" insisted Mrs.
Vertrees.
"One of the sons, l suppose he was.
l believe he's insane, or something. At
least l hear they keep him in sanl-
tarium somewhere. and never talk
about him. He was staring ut himself
In a mirror and talking to himself.
Then he looked out and caught me-"
How did he look?'
Like n ghost in a blue suit" said
Miss Vertrees, moving toward the
street and waving n white-gloved hand
IN farewell to her father, who was OBJ
serving them from the window of his
library. Rather tragic and altogether
impossible. Do come on, mother, and
et's get it overt
And Mrs. Vertrees, with many mis-
yivings, set forth with her daughter
for the gracious assault upon the new
house next door.
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but i want to see how you seem. Edith
said"
Poor Edith" ne murmured. "she
couldn't look at me. She"
Nonsense" Mrs. Sheridan, having
let in the light at window, came back
to the bedside. You look great
deal better than what you did before
you went to the -anitarium, anyway.
It's done you good: body can see that
right away. You need fatting up, of
course, and you haven't got much
color
mo- he said, IT haven't much
COLOR
you look great deal better than
what I expected"
Edith must have a great yocabu-
larry" he chuckled.
"She's too sensitive" said Mrs. Sher-
idan, ''and 1t makes her exaggerate a
little. What about your diet?"
That's all right. They told me to
eat anything"
That's good" she said, nodding.
They mean for you Just to build up
your strength. That's what they told
me the last time I went to see you at
the sanitarium. You look better than
what you did then, and that's only a
little time ago. How long was it7''
Eight months. think"
NO, ft cuuldnst bo.SsI know It amt
tlsAt icngs ~ Y ~ longer y
I fl :9 ~ 4
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25
What Impressed Her.

Shortly after VIII Crooks, the labo,
leader. was elected to parliament, SAYS
mn English weekly, he took his little
daughter to Westminster. She wa,
evidently awed at the splcndors around
her, and maintained profound and
wondering silence nll the time. Nj.
Crooks was much impressed.
"Well." said he to her at last "wbat
are you thinking SO deeply about,
dear?"
II was thinking daddy" answered
the little girl, that you're big man In
our kitchen, but you aren't very much
here"
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25

The room to which he conducted his
| tagging charge was furnished in every
particular like room in a new hotel
and Bibbs found it pleasant-thoush
indeed. any room with good bed
would have seemed pleasant to him
after his journey he stretched him.
self fat Immediately, and having re
piled Not now" to the attendants
offer to unpack the bag, closed his eyes
wearily.
White-jacket. racially sympathetic,
an exit on tiptoe, encounterins the
other white jacket-the harassed over
seer-in the hall without. Said the
emerging one:
He mighty shaky. Mist Jackson.
Drop right down an shet his eyes,
Eyelids all black. Rich folks gotta go
same as anybody else. Anybody asst
me If l change 18th at ole boy-No
sub! Lem keep is money; l keep my
black skin an keep out the ground"
Mr.. Jackson expressed the same
preference. .Yessuh, he look tub me
like somebody awready laid out
He fell silent at a rustling of skirts
in the corridor. 1t was Mrs. Sheridan
hurrying to greet her son.
She was one of those fat, pink people
who fade and contract with age like
drying fruit; and her outside was
true portrait of her. Her husband and
her daughter had long ago absorbed
her. Edith lived all day with her
mother, as daughters do; and Sheridan
so held his wife to her unity with him
that she had long ago become uncon-
scious of her existence as thing sep
arate from his.
Mrs. Sheridan's manner was hurried
and inconsequent; her clothes rustled
more than other women's clothes; she |
seemed to wear too many at a time |
and to be vaguely troubled by them. |
and she was patting a skirt down over
some unruly internal dissension at the |
she opened Bibbs' door.
At sight of the recumbent figure she
began to close the door softly. with
lrawing. but the young man had heard
he turning of the knob and the rus
ling Of skirts. and he opened his eyes.
Don't go, mother he said. I'm
rot asleep" He swung his long legs
,ver the side OF the bed to rise. but
she set a hand on his shoulder. re-
;training him; and he lay fat again.
NO." she said, bending over to kiss
lis cheek, 81 just come for a minute,
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25
Staring Full Into His Window.

age somehow" according to his concep-
ton Of his position in life'-one of his
own old-fashioned phrases. Mr.. Ver-
trees had discovered, too. that there
was no salary for him in all the buz-
zing city-he could do nothing.
1t may be said that he was at the
end Of his string. Such times do come
in all their bitterness. finally, to the
man with no trade or craft, If his
feeble clutch on that slippery ghost,
Property, shall fall.
The windows grew black while he
paced the fan-shaped zone of freight.
But as the mantel clock struck Wheel
lily six there was the rattle OF an outer
door, and Mary Vertrees came rushing
into the library and threw herself into
deep chair by the hearth, laughing
so uncontrollably that tears were in
her eyes. Mrs. vertrees followed de-
corously, no mirth about her; on the
contrary, she looked vaguely disturbed,
as II she had eaten something not quite
certain to agree with her, and regret
ted it.
Papa! Oh, ohr' And Miss ver-
trees was fain to apply handkerchief
upon her eyes. "Tm SO glad you made
us go! I wouldn't have missed it"
Mrs. Vertrees shook her head. I
suppose I'm very dull" she said,
gently. II didn't see anything anus
ing. They're most ordinary, and the
house is altogether in bad taste, but we
anticipated that, and
apanov Nory or;o1 I,roa,,;,,-
"They asked us to dinner!'
"What!'
"And I'm golngw she shouted, and
was seized with fresh paroxysms.
| Think of it! Never in their house be.
fore; never met any of them but the
daughter-and just barely met her"
What about your Interrupted Mr..
Vertrees, turning sharply upon his
wife.
She made little face as IL positive
now that what she had eaten would
not agree with her. 81 couldn'tw she
said. "I-"
Yes. that's just-just the way She
she looked when they asked herg' cried
Mary, choking. "And then she-she
realized 1t. and tried to turn it into a
cough, and she didn't know how, and IL
sounded like-like a squealw
Il suppose" said Mrs. Vertrees
much injured, "that Mary will have
an uproarious time at my funeral, she
makes fun Of"
Mary jumped up instantly and kissed
her; then she went to the mantel and,
leaning an elbow upon 1t, eazed
thoughtfully at the buckle of her shoe.
twinkling in the freight.
"They didn't notice anything" she
said. 80 far as they were concerned,
mamma. 1t was one Of the finest coughs
you ever coughed." N.
"Who were 'they'T asked her father.
Whom did you seeT'
Only the mother and daughter. /.
Mary answered. Mrs. Sheridan n
dumpy and rusty; and Miss Sheridan
= pretty and pushdnG dresses ~ the
fashion maBaxines and tslks sbouf
Nsw York peopls mat hive ti,elr uic.
tqzse r. ssns ~ fatuts ~ nofSSf.
Il egs I! +: =. y M y
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25
CHAPTER III.

1t was gray stone, with long roofs
of thick green slate. An architect who
loved the milder Gothic motives" had
built what he liked: 1t was to be seen
at once that be had been left unha m
pered, and he had wrought a picture
out Of his head into a noble and ex-
uitant reality. At the same time a
landscape designer had played so good
second, with ready made accessories
Of screen. approach and vista, that al
ready whatever look of newness re-
mained upon the place was to its ad-
vantage, as showing at least one thing
yet clean under the grimy sky.
Altogether, the new house was a sue
cess. 1t was one of those architects
successes which leave the owners
yelled in privacy: 1t revealed nothing
OF the people who lived in it save that
they were rich. In our swelling cities
rich families, one after another, take
title and occupy such houses as for
tunes rise and fall-they mark the
high tide. It was impossible to imag-
Inc child's toy wagon left upon a
walk or driveway of the new house.
and yet it was-as Bibbs rightly called
ft-"beautiful."
What the architect thought of the
"Golfo di Napoli," which hung in its
vast gold revel of rocco frame against
the gray wood of the hall. is to be con-
1ectured-perhaps he had not seen it.
Edith, did you say only eleven
feet?" Bibbs painted. staring at it, as
kkn 60.
porter helped him to get out of his
overcoat.
"Eleven without the frame she ex-
planned. Its splendid, don't you
think? It lightens things up so. The
hall was kind Of gloomy before"
mo gloom now.'' said Bibbs.
This statue in the corner is pretty,
too" she remarked. Mamma and |
bought that" And Bibbs turned at
her direction to behold. amid. grove
of tubbed palms, '.life-size," black.
bearded Moor. of plastic composition
painted with unappeasable gloss and
br1lliancy. Upon his chocolate head he
wore a gold turban; in his hand he
held a gold-tipped spear; and for the
rest, he was red and yellow and black
and silver.
"Hallelujahv was the sole comment
of the returned wanderer, and Edith,
saying she would find mamma" left
him blinking at the Moor. Presently.
after she had disappeared, he turned
to the colored man who stood waiting,
Bibbs' travelling bag in his hand.
"What do you think Of ttYs Bibbs
asked, solemnly.
"Gran'r' replied the servitor. "she
mighty hard to dus'. Dus' git in all
'em wrinkles. Yessuh, she mighty hard
to dus'.
II expect she must be-" said Bibbs,
his glance returning refectively to the
black full beard for a moment. ais
there place anywhere could lie
downf"
'sYessuh. We got one nem spare
rooms all NJ up TO- you, sub. Right
mp staihs, sub. Nice ROOM
He led the way, and Bibbs followed
slowly, stopping at intervals to rest,
and noting d heavy increase in the
eta6 Of service since the exodus from
tAe 0ld" house. Maid and scrub.
v1omen were at work nnder the pa
atly nominal direction OF another
1!l1nan porter, who was profoundly
t16g ~ own ntFectatton Of being
~ Mn eAke.
y ~ eot. look spick m span
Il Aglh'e f1niEfts 4 Bibhe
svIu
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The Story
of a Big
Man in a
Big Town

thing to keep himself and his family
up. so In despair he sold the lots
(which went up beautifully the next
year, for TRACTION stock" that was
paying dividends; and disappeared al
together from the commercial surface
Mt about the time James Sheridan
came out securely on top.
But there came day when three
servitors of Bigness in Philadelphia
took greedy counsel with four fellow
worshipers from New York, and not
long after that there were no more
dividends for Mr.. Vertrees. In fact,
there was nothing for Mr.. Vertrees, be-
cause the TRACTION stock" henceforth
was no stock at all, and he had mort
gagged his house long ago to help "man-
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25

Beware of the man who has ND
mia for offering apologies.
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25
OF Course Not.

A somewhat befuddled individual
who had evidently been lunchlng
trlne too freely. climbed on board the
car with difficulty.
whats the matter?" he asked. mild
ly, ns he observed the conductors ir-
patience. "Ain't this car the one !
want"
"How do l know whether II Is @
not?" growled the conductor.
"Oh, you must have known 1t, or you
wouldn't have stopped to let me catch
It," said the befuddlcd one.
Beware of the man who has ns
The Ordway new era., 1916-08-25

Is W ell and who
has never suffered
to realize how these
poor, suffering wo-
men feel when re-
stored to h e alth;
their keen desire to
help other women
who are suffering as
they did.