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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Trade Unionism Is Based
On Partnership.

Trades unions are frequently re.
ferred to as business concern in
which every member is an equal
partner. And this is absolutely
true. The trade union IS CO part
nership affair aud is the antithesis
of corporation. The latter is
based upon an autocracy wherein
the management and control is del
egated to board of directors who
possess autocratic power, is re-
served to the individual members
comprising it.
The success of corporation de-
Pc ds upon the successful selection
of directing head while the sue
cess of a co-partnership depends
upon the intelligence and activity
of each Individual member consti
tuting the CO partnership harmo-
niously blended and directed to-
wards a given end. Without In
telligent direction and harmony of
effort democracy is failure.
Trade unions are based upon de-
mocracy. They are voluntary as
sociations of individuals having
common interests. The success of
trade union depends upon the
amount of energy put forth by
each member, and TO the same ex
tent that one member shirks his
duty or fails to do his part, to that
extent the whole union suffers.
The union man who thinks be has
fulfilled his obligation TO his union
when he pays his dues, never at
tends meetings or assists in the ac-
tive work of his organization fails
to get all there is in uni nism.
No matter how good or how eff
cient the officers of union may be,
unless they have the hearty sup
port and fullest co operation of all
the members, they cannot possibly
secure for tt cir union all the bene-
fits that might be secured. 1t re.
quiles the active cooperation and
united effort OF all the members ol
union to bring it to its highest
possible efficiency Railway Fed
erationist.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Mothers TO Thank Wilson.

New York, Sept 90 "A delega
ton Of East side mothers will in
social workers in journey to the
summer residence Of President Will
son, Shadow Lawn, to thank him
for the passage of social legislation
during the session of the last Con-
gress. The delegation Of mothers
goes with the express purpose of
thanking him personally for the
passage of the child labor law and
to emphasize the importantance of
that law,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Labor'S Economic Platform,

Following is the Economic Plat
form adopted by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor:
/. The abolition of all forms of
involuntary servitude, except as
punishment for crime
?. Free schools, free text books
and compulsory education
3 Unreleuting protest against
the issuance and abuse of injuuc,
ton process in labor disputes.
4. A work day of not more than
eight hours iuAthe twenty four hour
day.
5. A strict recognition OF not
over eight hours pr day on all
Federal, State or municipal work,
and not less than the prevailing per
diem wage rate of The class cf en-
ployment in the vicinity where the
work is performed
s. Release from employment
one dav in seven.
7 The abolition of the contract
system on public work.
s The municipal ownership of
public utilities
8. The abolition of the sweat
shop system.
10. Sanitary inspection of fac
tory, workshop, mine and home.
H. Liability of employers fot
injury to body or loss of life.
y. The naturalization of tele
gragh and telephone.
-. The passage Of anti-child
labor laws in States where they do
not exist and rigid defense of them
where they have been enacted into
law.
IA Woman suffrage CO equaI
with man suffrage
Is. Suitable and plentiful play
grounds for chiljre in all cities.
l6. The Initiative and Referen-
DUN and the Imperative Mandate
and right Of Recall.
II. Continued agitation for the
public bath system in all cities.
Is 9 ratification in permits to
build Of all cities ard towns, that
there shall be bathroom and bath
room attchmeuts in all houses or
| Compartments used for habitation.
19 We favor a system Of fl
nance whereby money shall be is.
sued exclusively BY tre Govern
ment, with such regulations and re
strictions as will protect it from
MAJ ipulation by The banking inter
ess 5 for their own private gain.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Demand Wage Increase.

Reading, Pa. Sept. % AT a
meeting here Of organized cigar
makers, representing all the to-
bacco districts of Pennsylvania, it
was decided to make unanimous
demand taking effect October Is,
for s. more yer l 900 cigars made.
Eighty FIVE per cent Of the cigar
makers voted in favor of the new
rate.
Otto Eisenlohr & Bros, and
Myers 8 Adams company, two of
the largest cigar manufacturing
firms IN York, Pa, announced an
increase in wages of so cents per
thousand for their workmen, evil
IDENTIFY attempting to anticipate the
demand for the increase decided
upon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Gals Making Laws For Mice
BY Pres Gompers, In Aneri-
can Federatlonists.

When the land question was un-
dr. consideration in the British
parliament which consisted wholly
Of land owners, John Bright thus
characterized the situation. We
are now in the parliament Of the
cats making laws for the mice ?
The same characterization applies
exactly 10 the solution which Mr.
John D Rockefeller jr. has worked
out far the labor problem The in
dusaial war which existed fo-
months in the nlines Of the Colora
10 Fuel and Iron company stirred
the conscience Of John D Rookie
feller, jr. who felt compelled to do
something TO better the situation
in Colorado He had publicly
announced that re preferred to lose
every cent he had invested in Colo.
RADIO rather than recognize the I'M
ion aud permit the mines TO estab-
lish better conditions in accord with
their own deals.
As Mr. Rockefeller would not re
can't be was compelled 10 devise a
ne system. He secured the ad
vice Of professional humanitarians
and then advertised that he had
solved" the labor problem and
would est sblish industrial democra,
cy His plan provides for maze
of committees each Of which are
assigned to deal with some matter
that affects conditions Of work
The miners are to 'elect" repre-
ssntatives to serve on these com
N ttees. The committees meet
with the representatives Of the
company and consider all griev-
ances that shall refer to them.
An appeal may be taken from the
decision Of the committee and may
be carried through a succession Of
committees An adjustment"
may come alter many committees
and many months. Specifically
the plan provides for the adjust
ment Of any complaint or misunder-
standing that may arise. It pro-
vjdes everything for the workers
except that which is essential for
influence in industrial affairs,
power.
Like the parliament of cats max
ing law for the mice, Mr.. John d. |
Rockefeller and his advisers have
formulated solution that protects
He presumes to say
that the miners can secure justice
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Hamilton Delegates To Ohio
State Federation Of Labor,

The Hamilton delegation to the
Ohio State Federation of Labor
convention which meets in Toledo,
Ohio the week of October Och, will
leave on the special car coming up
from Cincinnati, Ohio with the
trades unionists Of that city. The
special car will be attached to tbs
train which leaves for Toledo at
1:29 p. IN, c. H. & D. r. r. The
convention headquarters will be at
the Hotel Navaree.
The delegates from Hamilton
who will represent their organiza-
tions at the convention will be:
Edw, Weiss, Cooperative Trades
aud Labor Council and Typogra-
phical Union, No. 290; Albert
Brown, Brewers; Henry Betcher,
Plumbers; John Gfroerer, Barten-
ders; Frank Crawford, .Teansters;
Walter Price, Iron Molders 90 and
283 and Tim Rowan Molders I'M
ion.
With the increase in new locals
becoming affiliated with the state
organization, Thos. Donnelly, Sec
retary states that this convention
will be the largest ever held.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Oppose Controlled Labor

indianapolis, Sept. 29.-The
United Mine Workers Journal op
poses legislation that would COM
pei employees to work pending in
vestigation of grievances. The
Canadian industrial disputes inves
tigation act, which prohibits strikes
and lockoats in public utilities be-
fore government board is appoin-
ted, is referred to as follows:
"Our experience with the Cana
dian law has been that it is general
ly effective in curbiug the workers
from exercising their economic
power through organized resistance
while ii is utterly helpless to curb
the employers when they seek to
oppress, even by denying the fun.
damental rights of the workers.
"A case in point, the Vancouver
Island strike, in spite of the fact
that the board appointed under the
trades dispute act fully justified
the position of the miners, the
managers FUSED to abide oy the
decision and were furnished every
legal and extra legal aid to break
the resistance Of the workers
IN cases where the decision of
such an arbitrary constituted board
went against the workers, and they
refused 70 abide by such decision,
even the commone st safeguards,
the right to free speech, free as
sembly, have beeI arbitrarily de
MED them, and the decision of the
board Aeld as a judgment in law,
and eventually forced upon the
workers.
Above all, we bold that com
pulsory arbitration includes invol
urlary servitude, and any effort on
the part of state or nation to enact
law which in effect would deny
us our right to Withhold our labor
power, as individuals or collective
ly, must be regarded as a reversion
to the time When a workingman
was considered as the properly of
the owners of the land and OF the
industries, and must be resisted by
the workers to the last ditch.
A law that might specify only
these who are engaged in interstate
transportation could easily be
amended to include those engaged
in other industries once Ire prin
ciple was established. To safe
guard the libert es we have won
through centuries of unceasing
struggle, it behooves US tc jealousy
guard against any attempt to enact
a law for compulsory arbitration,
for in the end such law would in
clude involuntary servitude.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29

The Mansfield Convention of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor,
1915, outlined the legislative de-
mands Of the Trade Union Move
meut in Ohio when it unanimously
adopted the final report and recon
mendation of its committee on Leg
islation. Those recommendations
provided
/. Regulating and limiting the use
of the Injunction.
Z. Prohibiting the importation Of
strike breakers.
3. Prohibiting the exercise OF police
authority by others than those in con-
troll of the State.
That the incoming executive
board and the legislative agent be in
structed to prepare and introduce in
the next general assembly a bill to
amend the Workmen S Compensation
Act, prohibiting self-insurers under
the act from transferring their nsur-
ance risks to liability insurance conn
panIes.
5. Eight Hours for women work.
ers.
Q. Providing for the Australian
ballot system at primaries
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29

Machinists of Dayton have
made a demand for the 8-hour
day Monday, August Fl, 1916
All Machinists, Toolmakers,
Screwmakers and other ma
chine shop employees Stay
Away.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
naChinists

Stay away from Hamilton, Ohio,
strike still on at the Black & Claw
son Co., unfair conditions. STAY
AWAY.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29
Pay=UpW

Through the suggestion made by
the PRESS few months ago, the
merchants of Hamilton have set
next week beginning with Monday
October 2nd as Pay up week The
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council OF Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the MiddIetown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddielOwn 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, 1916-09-29

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29

LNTERING this building, visitors inspect points Of
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tunnels
In the factory complete model registers in
the making, and some mighty interesting departments
visited.
If you have visited the ~ c. R., trip will be well
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ful Hills and Dales in the days pleasure,
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daily. We close at Saturdays.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-09-29

the company's special detectives,
one of them said, 4 think the thing
to do with these men (the pickets)
is to crack their heads open.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-08-18
THE ARIZONA PRIMARY
Douglas InternationaD


 The more one sees of the Arizona primary election law the more he is liable to become d1sgusted with this system of choosing party candidates. The law is cumbersome and filled with red tape requirements that are meaningless, as, for instance, the re- quired candidates petition. There is not man in Cochise county who could not secure enough signers to petition to authorize the placing of his name on the primary ballot. In addition to the nomination petition, the candidate is required to file his declaration of candidacy. This should be all that is required from a candi- date, unless a petition was required that would be real expression of a desire to place candidate in the field. The petition required now is a nuisance.
 Such a primary election law as we have in Arizona is destructive of party organization and party responsibility. It requires the nomination of candi- dates before there is any conference or declaration of principles upon which party candidates will be eX- pected to stand during the campaign. To our mind, when party responsi- bility and party organization has been eliminated the government has been weakened.
 In Arizona candidates may be nomi- mated by a very small minority of the party voters who participate in the primary election when there are three, four and five or more candi- dates in the primary race. When a man secures nomination by minor ity vote, then the majority may with propriety disclaim any responsibility for him or his acts after election to the office sought.
 V is to be hoped that the present disgust with the primary election law will continue to grow until some fu- ture legislature will wipe it from the statute books and replace it with a law that will require majority of all the votes cast by his party and
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-08-18
THE OTHER WAY (PhoeniX Republican,

So long as liquor can be brought in- to the state for personal use. prohi- bition in Arizona will not prohibit. That has been made very clear. Our prohibition law as it was drawn and as it has been interpreted, and we do correct, fails to put the state under the protection of the Webb-Kenyon law, without which prohibition was not completely successful anywhere. It where rigid state legislation reinforc- ed the simple prohibition enactment.
 It is true that we have been rid of the open saloon, and that temptation has, to that extent, been removed from hundreds, perhaps generally, from those who could the least afford to spend their money for booze. But we sometimes think that more hard li- quor" has been consumed in Arizona within the last six months than during any six months of the open saloon. Certainly liquor has been more widely distributed than it was before. It is more easily procured by minors, young boys and girls, than during the saloon, regime
 We find that in seeking prohibition we have made the mistake of not go- ing far enough. But we do not want to turn back. On the contrary, we want to go ahead until we have brought the state under the provisions of the Webb-Kenyon law. That is pro- posed in the amendment offered by the state temperance federation. It is to be done very simply by making it unlawful for one to possess liquor Then it will be unlawful under the Webb-Kenyon law to bring it into the state except for such purposes as are designated in the amendment.
 But it is uncertain whether the amendment can be adopted. It could he, no doubt, if full expression oi the people could be secured. It would be if as vigorous a campaign as that of two years ago were possible. But anyway the friends of prohibition without relaxing their efforts in be half of the amendment have another surer and easier way of arriving al the same end and that is by using influence to elect members of the legislature pledged to enact a law making the possession of liquor in the state unlawful The Webb-Kenyor act would then apply.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-08-18

Where lies the responsibility for this de- plorable state of affairs in our state govern nent as pictured in the Governors official an- nouncement?
 Is this the record of achievement that the Governor presents to the Democratic party of Arizona and upon which he seeks vind cation and endorsement?
 If SO, he comes with his hands filled with ashes, and for record of achievement pre- sents his party with public crisis.
 Search as we will, however, we can find no public crisis where the human liberty of the people of Arizona IS at stake. We can- not take the Governor seriously but view his doleful pronuncamento in the light of sel- fish politician at loss for issue. He has set up a bogey man in order to knockit down
 The average Arzonan is not easily stam- peded. He is gifted with keen eye of dis cernment. He takes especial delight in call ing ''four-husher' and when the Governor comes crying: ''Prevenr a public Crisis! Preserve human liberty! Elect ME Cover nor the third time p the voter just naturally re- fuses to be scared.
 The demagogic cry of the Governor has gone unheeded.
 It sounds more like an excerpt from soap box harangue by "Mother" Jones the stormy petrel.'
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-08-18
HUNT AT TUCSON
(GaZette)

It is surely most unusual thing for the governor of a great state, the chosen representative of ALL the people, to make formal announcement that he does not pretend to represent the entire commonwealth but only a single portion thereof.
 Construe his remarks as charitably as one may, the naked and startling fact remains that, in his address be- fore the Federation of Labor meeting at Tucson, the governor of Arizona declared himself in precisely this way and to this effect.
 If his remarks were correctly re- ported by the Associated Press and by the local Tucson papers, he as- sured the representatives of labor that he proposed to fight their battles and to aid, by every means in his power, in securing the enforcement of such demands as they might see fit to make. In other words, he pro- poses to be, not the governor of Ari- zona and the representative of the people, the electors of the state, but of one section of the people as against all the others, of one set of rights to the exclusion of all others, no matter how just.
 This is demagogy pure and simple.
 It is a bid for the so-called labor vote by means of bribe which every decent laboring man or woman will resent.
 If the history of the man who pos. es as the friend of labor bore out his claims, they would not, perhaps, be so ridiculous. Labor men and wo men will not forget how this same governor, when a member of the ter ritorial council slipped little joker in the exemptions statute by which all exemptions from seizure under executions were cancelled in the case of debts contracted in Arizona fol the necessities of life.
 They will remember that, at that time, Hunt was not the friends oi labor" but the manager of a com | pany store with debts to collect and with a showing to make to his em ployers.
 His change of heart is too sudden to- be of any real value of perma hence. His role of labor's friend is too palbably assumed. With the aid of Mother Jones, he proposes to cloud the issues of the campaign and to pull the wool over the eyes of his dupes by a series of vapid frothings
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-08-18
GOVERNMENT TOO COSTLY
Arizona Gazette )

The single claim is urged by Gov. election for a fourth term, on the grounds that HE has been instru- mental in securing a large raise in the valuation of the mining properties of the state, for the purpose of tax ation, and that George A. Olney rep resents the copper companies and if elected would release them from the rayment of their just proportion of taxes.
 They studiously avoid any mention of the fact that MT. Olney was one of the very first officials in Arizona raise in the assessed valuation of 1he properties of the mining com panies of the then territory, but also advocated a raise in the valuation of the properties of the railroad con- 1 panies as we'll for the purpose of taxation.
 Neither do they make any mention of the further fact that under the ad- ministration of Governor Hunt the assessed values of properties of all kinds have been raised-not in pro- portion of the mining companies, it is true, but raised to such an extent that in many instances they are pay ing double or more taxes than prior to his going into office, in spite of the added revenues received from the other sources.
 They cajole the taxpayer by saying that his rate of taxation has been greatly reduced and this may be a ! fact. The rate may be reduced, BUT the total amount does not show any l decrease. With an increase in the valuation of property for taxable pur- poses of 336 per cent their greatest claim is a reduction of 5.S per cent
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-08-18

in the rate.
 Of course the average taxpayer is more or less interested in the rate of taxation and prospective invest CT, either in business or in agricul- tural pursuits, will investigate that feature of governmental affairs, but the more important question is as to the total amount of taxes one is pay ing on his property.
 With a tax rate of from four to five per cent under territorial rule the av- craze property was in reality paying less to maintain the state, county and city governments than they are now with a very much less rate.
 MT. Olney believes that govern ment is costing too much. He is not alone in this belief. Bushes men and farmers believe the same thing and are rallying to his support for the purpose of securing if possible reduction of this excessive cost, by the practice of just ordinary business economy.
 In his candidacy he makes no at- tempt to cater to ar
 people or interests, but proposes to treat all with equal fairness.