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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22
ACCEPT. PEACEPOINTS
Pope's Spokesman. Surprises Europe
With statement-British Hand in
Reply.
s+.a ~

Ronih, Aug. 22.-Pope Bened'ct's
spokesman, Cardinal Gasparri, secre-
tary of state of the Vatican, sur
prised Europe today by stating that
the five chief belligerents already
have subscribed to four fundamental
principles upon which peace must be
based. If there is foundation in fact
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22
Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company.

Every day in the year for Fortress
Monroe, Norfolk, Newport News and
points south, via superb, powerful
steel palace steamers.
Through connections made at Nor
folk with steamers of the Old Domin.
ion Steamship Company for New
York and Merchants and Miners
- -nspips for Bostos
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22
Maryland, Delaware and
virginia Railway Co.

Steamers of this line leave Alex
andria every Monday, Wednesday,
and Saturday. at 4:45 p. m.
FOR BALTIMORE AND ALL THE
USUAL RIVER LANDINGS
Cuisine and appointments unexceI-
led.
freight for Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York solicited and
handled with care. Through rates
and bills of lading issued.
Single fare to Baltimore, 1925 re-
turn trip $3.50. State rooms one
way $500 and up.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22

January i has been tentatively set
for the second draft; the number of
men to be called will be approximate
Il " 100000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22
Pale I.
Children.

Made over to your liking.
with rosy cheeks. hearty ap-
petites, vigorous digestion and ro-
bust health. Give them a glass OF
this delicious digestant with meals
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22
THE WASHINGTON VIR-
GINA RAILWAY co.
In effect June Fl. 1915.

In effect June Fl. 1915.
Subject to ChnnEe Without Notice.
Leave Alexandria For Wnshfncton-
Daily Except Sundays and Holidays.
y. M.----5 90. 5 80. 90. 20, 6 40,
81, 10, 20. 80. 40. so, s co..
TO- s 20. s 40, 9 90, . 20, 40: 10 90,
20 90. 10 40. II 90. IL 20. IL 40. Noon
~ 90.
90, 9 30, 40, 3 90. 2 20, 3 40, CO.
30. 10. s 90. 5 30. 40, 90. 40
{ 90, 20. 35. s co. 30, 90. 80,
10 90. 10 80. II 10. II So
Sunday and Holidays, same as above
except trains OF 90. 40, 90. 20,
6 40. 10. 80, so. and 10 a. n
and II 55 F. NJ.
Leave Alexandria For VT. Vernon.
A M.---Weck Days--5 IS. 50. 55,
8 IS, 10 30. Bop. ME- 80. ! 80,
9 80, 80. 4 80. 35. 40, I IS, 81.
10 90. II so.
Sunday as above except 6 80 and
9 55 A. M. and IL so "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22
To the Stockholders of the
Ho1uard Lumber COmpan

I q LlIE OIUIfAlIUiAIc4S VI VtAS
Howard Lumber Company, Inc.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Howard Lumber Com
pany, Incorporated, will be held at
the principal Office of the company,
No. Ill S. Fairfax Street, Alexan-
dria, Virginia, at l1:0G a. m. Tues
day, September A, 1917, to elect Di-
rectors for the ensuing year, and
for the transaction Of such other
business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting.
JAY P. FELT. Secretary.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-22
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Bottled and guaranteed by the eele.
brated Shivar Mineral Spring, Shell
ton, S. c. If your regular dealer
cannot supply you telephone
F.S. HARPER, INC.
Wholesale Distributors for Alexandria
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26

the opponents of the literacy test
are opposed to any real check upon
immigration.
"Those who believe, as the Tri
bune does, that the republic needs
a long period of undisturbed diges-
ton, are anxious to shut the doors
upon the alien influx which may
come after the war. Sentimental
lists internationalists and more sell
fish forces that profit by immigra-
tion in one way or another seem to
have the greater influence at Wash
ington. They are better organ
lied. 1t is one of the serious weak
nesses of our national psychology
that it still fails to grasp this phase
of national defense. An intense
and inspiring nationality exists
among every great people except
our own. We are the clay pot
amony the metal ones"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Compensation Law Upheld
BY Court,

Columbus, O., Jan. 26. The
Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the
coastitutionality of Section q of
the workmen's compensation act
which provides that where a person
is injured and his employer is not
insured in the state fund, the State
Industrial Commission may fix the
award This section also author
ICES the Prosecuting Attorney and
Attorney General to bring suit to
recover the award on behalf Of the
injured employee when the employ
er refused 10 pay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Approves Trade UniOniSm.

Little Rock, Ark Jan. 26 II
These statistics show organized
labor to he more prosperous and
enjoying shorter hours of labor and
better wages than the unorganized"
says Commissioner Clary in his
biennial report on labor conditions
in the state.
He says that al least 80 per cent
OF the unorganized are receiving as
low as 81 80 a day, and some even
less, and one-half of these workers
are men Of families
1t seems to us, continued the
stale official, impossible for a man
to support his family and educate
his children on 81 so a day, yet
these conditions exist. To better
these conditions we heartily indorse
organized labor Labor organiza-
tlons have become a part of our
latter day civilization and the
right of the working man TO bar
gain through his labor organiza.
tion with his employer must he up
held. AS an indivi !ual, the wage
Garner has little chance to deter
mine the wage he is 10 receive. vet
he IS compelled to purchase the
product of his own labor and paw
whatever is demanded from him
tor It, and his only opportunity for
Dettering his conditions is to com |
oine with his fellow workmen |
Organized labor has done much for
he wage earners of Arkansas. InI
TACT it is through their efforts that
We bave the labor laws we now
lave on our statutes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
A Farewell To Carlson.

Denver, Jan. 26 On the retire
ment of Governor Carlson to pri-
vate life, because of the expiration
of his term of office, the Denver
post said:
He will soon sink to the l,,w
level from which by accident he
was elevated and pass out unwept,
unhonoted, unsung and unremem-
bered, except as the very worsi
governor that Colorado ever had,
and we have had some bum ones
The above sentiment will te
agreed to by Colorodo trade lnion-
lists who protested times without
pumber against Carlson's atti 'ude
during the miners strike in the
southern section of the state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
How To Enforce AdamSon Law.

Washington, Jan. 26.-Ia a sup
lemental brief filed in the United
States Supreme court in the case oi
the Adamson law, the government
makes suggestions for machinery
to put the law into effect. Under
existing railroad wage contracts,
the brief declares, the phrases
days work" and days wage"
have well recognized meaning in
most freight service contracts to be
100 miles or less at 10 miles an
hour" By substituting a 12l
mile per hour speed basis for the
existing l00-mile, 10 mile day scale
the brief asserted, the Adamson
eight-hour standard can be geuer-
ally put into practical operation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Oppose Court Change.

New York, Jan. 26.-At the for.
tieth meeting of the New York
State Bar association it was called
astounding" that there was in the
United States senate a man who
holds such views on the United
States supreme court as does Sen
ator Owen, who has presented a
JOINT resolution in the senate which
provides that any federal Judge
who declares an act of congress an
constitutional shall be declared an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
WORLD OF LABOR

About $50 negro Iongshoremen
at Savannah, affiliated to the Inter
national Longshoremen' Associa-
ton, suspended work when they
were refused wage increases. They
ask 20 cents an hour and % cents
for overtime. They have been paid
1917 to Is cents and p cents for
overtime. A Federal Employers
union has been formed of the men
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Ohio MaChiniStS Strike.


Tifin, Ohio, Jan 26. Machin-
lists employed by the Webster Man
ufacturing company suspended
work to enforce demands for a nine
hour day, time and one half for
overtime and double time for Sun
days and holidays. This concern
had a strike with its iron molders
recently which was marked by
much disaster because of the com
pany s imported gunmen and strike
breakers who attempted to terrify
the city.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Workers Takes Photo; Cited
For Contempt.

Toledo. Ohio, Jan. 26. Federal
Judge Killetes' Injunction against
striking electrical workers has been
violated, and International Vice
President Bugniazet of the Brother
hood of Electrical Workers has
been cited for contempt of court.
The trade unionist took pictures
of strikehreakers at work and his
honor holds that this Is viole ton
of his order against violent picket
ing or interference with the com
pany' s property.
The telephone girls suspended
work to enforce living wage scale
and the electrical workers struck
in sympathy. Judge Killets is most
insistent that strikers have the right
to picket IN peaceful manner, but
he has the notion, apparently, that
there Is no police statutes govern
| ing violence, so he has protected
society against this oversight of
lawmakers.
Attorneys for the strikers are de
manding that Judge Killets define
peaceful picketing, but the court
| pleads not to crowd him too far lest
he may be forced to pass on the
constitutionality of the Clayton law
which, he hints, creates a favored
class in this country. The court
is most insistent that telephone
service be continued for he benefit
of the public, bat when his atten-
tion is called to the cause of the
strike, the struggle of working girls
for a wage in excess of 50 a week
his answer Is that the court has
nothing to do with this phase of
the question.
Judge Killets attitude toward
trade unionism was illustrated last
May while delegate to the confer
ence Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Saratoga Springs, when
committee, after laundering the
work of organized lab II, reported
that "a preference should be shown
to It, in the church's printing Of
fees. This recommendation was
stricken out by the conference after
a lengthy discussion. The opposi-
ton was led by Judge Killets,
whose denunciation of organized
labor could not be excelled by the
most avowed anti-unionist. While
no scholar or thinker uses the term
open shop" in connection with
economic questions, Judge Killets'
repeated use of these words indi-
cate that he is yet unacquainted
with the purposes of a trick term
that has been invented by trade
union opponents in an effort to garb
union hostility with the cloak of
frothy patriotism.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26

working in the Custom and Immi
grafton Departments at Niagara
Falls, N. Y. 1t will be affiliated to
the A. F. of L. There are a num-
Der of questions coming before the
next session of Congress that will
be of direct interest to all Federal
employees. Among these will be
the employees pension bill, the re-
tirement bill aud the minimum
wage bill
The State Federation of Labor of
Idaho is urging these features for
State Workmen's Compensation
law: First aid to the injured; 30
per cent. of earning capacity for
total disability; care for those who
have contracted occupational dis
eases; burial IN case of accidental
death and a pension of $40 to $25
per month to the widow. The
Safe Legislature passed compen-
sation law two years ago, but 1t
was vetoed by the governor.
At the coming session of the
Alaska Legislature, bills will be
formulated to carry out the will OF
the voters, who, by large majorities
favored an eight-hour day for all
classes of labor and also a law pro-
hitting the liquor traffic. Strong
interest is manifested in the char.
acter of the measure that will be
drawn. Alaska, since It's Legisla.
ture first convened on March 8,
1918, his been active In the con
sideration of reform measures AT
the first session the first act passed
was one giving the suffrage tc
women. The Legislature meets
every two years, and the referen
dums on prohibition and the eight
hour day plan were ordered at the
last session.
The strike of $50 employees oi
the Hoover Steel Ball COOPERATION
at AIN Arbor, Mich, is still on.
The workers, mainly girls, demand
an increase in wages. A renatk
able thing about this strike is tht
fact that two professors, DR.. L B
Garfield and DR.. L. P. Hall of the
University of Michigan, are on The
boa, d Of directors of the company
sharing in the exploitation f the
poorly paid workers who were fiual
ly driven TO revolt. Another direc
tor is r. F. Dobson, owner of the
Daily Times News. The strike
was not reported in that paper. Al
a recent stockholders meeting il
was brought out that the compa
ny's sales for the past year would
be we'll above the three millior
dollar mark. The girls receive al
average of IA cents an hour, which
for a 50 hour week would make
their earnings S7.35. The de-
mands are for four cent an hour
increase for these girls.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26

workers employed by the National
Carton company are IN strike for
wage increase of 81 a week. The
old rates were $13 and $14. The
strikers places were filled with
young girls. Work at this plant
is of the most laborious kind.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Artificial Opinion Created
In Strikes" Says A. F.
Of |. Chief.

Washington, Jan. 26-"It Is not
yet understood how perfectly safe
freedom is, declared President Com
pers In opposition to compulsion in
industrial disputes. at a hearing
before the senate committee on in
terstate commerce.
The thought underlying all this
species of legislation, said the A.
F. of L. executive, is how TO tie
men to their tasks, how to take
from men som= of their new found
freedom. For ages and ages en-
ployers of the world were masters S
of all their surveyed. Government
has always been on the side of the
employers, but the workers,
through organization and educa-
ton, have established new concepts
and have insisted upon new rela
tions. Now it is proposed that the
government step in to in some way
revert back to old orders.
"If this legislation, in its mildest
form, is passed, it is only the fore
runner of what is to come"
Senator Newlands chairman OF
the com mittee and an advocate of
compulsion, suggested that pub-
lie opinion would be possible if the
facts in industrial disputes were
known. President Gompers re
piled that public opinion IN these
cases is manufacture" by news
papers and magazines that are prac
tically all owned by opponents OF
the workers. He cited the repeal
of the Missouri railroad full crew
law, by referendum vote recently
when newspapers made no pretense
of presenting both sizes. A SINH
liar campaign to repeal the Penn
sylvania full crew law was also re
ferred to by the trade unionist, who
explained the differencA between a
referendum vot on an industrial
question, on which newspapers line
up against the workers and a re-
ferendum vote on a bond issue, for
instance, where the economic in
terests of all newspapers owners are
not identical. In the latter case,
the unionist stated, 1t is possible
for both sides Ct the question to be
presented in complete manner for
the voters enlightenment.
President Gompers said that il
congress did not pass an eight hour
law last September and a general
railroad strike was called, an ad
justment would be reached in "a
hours.
I'm my judgment, with the in
formation | have on the subject,
this would be the extent OF the
strike" he said.
Il am pleading more than l am
arguing" he concluded, "that yor
do not introduce into our system oi
government any form of compul
sio1 in the relations of man and
man, OF employer and employe. II
thai step be taken it will be fol
lowed by others to strengthen the
law 1t would be wiped out in
time, but I am fearful how it would
be wiped out. 1t might be by a
revulsion of feeling; it might be by
a revolt. "
4
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
LitsraCy Test Is Bsst Plan.

Chicago. Jan. 26 In an edi-
torial favoring the literacy test in
the pending immigration restric-
tion bill, the Chicago tribune calls
attention to the fact that friends
of the test agree it is not ideal, but
that opponents fail to offer better
one.
"If a better check can be de-
vised" said this paper, ut will be
welcomed, but as a matter of fact
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26

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.
4. 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 Workmens Compensation
Act, prohibiting self-insurers under
the act from transferring their insur-
ance risks to liability insurance COM
panies.
5. Eight Hours for women work.
ers.
g. Providing for the Australian
ballot system at primaries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26

usurper and that his office shall be
declared vacant.
In the resolution Senator Owen
called attention to the historical
fact that the convention which
drew up the present federal consti-
tuition refused en- three different oc
casicns to empower federal judges
to review acts of congress
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
A tuberculosis Enemy.

Washington. Jan. rs. In a bull
letin issued by the federal public
health service this question is asked
"Do you know that the full pay
envelope Is the great enemy of tu-
berculosis ?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Oppose ''Cant-Strike" Law.

Denver, Jan. 26.-At a meeting
of the joint legislative comm ttee
of the state federation of labor and
the railroad brotherhoods it was
unanimously agreed that the repeal
of Colorado can't strike" law is
of first Importance to the wage
workers and that all other legisla-
ton shall be secondary.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
News Letter No. z From
Lancaster, Pa.

The locked out Cinco cigarmak-
~rs OF Lancaster, Pa, since the be-
ginning of this year are waging the
strongest fight ever against their
former employers Otto Eisenlohr
Bros, Inc for decent humane con
ditions. The firm just a short
while before their inhuman treat
ment of their cigaimakers formed a
corporation capitalized at nine mil
lion dollars. Tactics untbought of
before has been extorted TO not
only at their Lancaster factory but
IN their other nineteen factories in
the First and Ninth Internal re-
venue 'istricts of Pennsylvania.
Victimization for the slightest pro-
vocatio" seems TO be their weapon
to drive their employees into sub
lection for cheaper wages or un-
scrupulous conditions. Six cigar
makers al Reading, Pa, and eight
at York, Pa working in their fac
tories were discharged for merely
speaking to their fellow workmen
about what was a beneficial matter
concerning their trade. This ac-
ton has brought about monthly
conferences composed of delegates
from each local union where an
Eisenlohr factory is located. By
this plan many movements are be-
ing inaugurated to bring this firm
10 their senses to cause settlement
with their grieved and ill-treated
cigarmakers at Lancaster Pa. Two
organizers have been placed in the
field, public meetings are being
held mig htly somewhere in the dis
tricts with good results.
Many cigarmakers have joined
the Union. Letters and cards of
sympathy are being sent out to the
twenty eight thousand Local IN
ions soliciting co operation from
every Union member throughout
the United States and Canada.
This much misued power by this
concern can be attributed to their
chain factory system. T his method
is operated in this manper. They
select some town for a location to
establish factory the best induce
ments are offered in the way of
steady work, good working ma
terial and liberal rules, till they
have a permanently situated fac
tory, These were the first condi-
tiors given at Lancaster the last
were short stock, stringent rules
with threats that The factory would
be moved from the town if the
bosses imposi;ions were not adhered
too which was carried out. Such
is the situation in most towns in
Eastern Pennsylvania, where large
manufacturers operate their indus
trial plants the fear of losing town
industry, also their job keeps the
workers at the mercy Of their EN-
ployers to exploit as they see fit.
The cigarmakers of Lancaster have
taken the first step against this ne
farious system, believing the chain
factories are one of the biggest
problems that confronts organized
labor to solve. Upon this assump-
ton the entire movement is being
to for cooperation and
assistance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Dock Workers Raise Wages.

Galveston, Texas, Jan. 26. -
Dock workers employed by the
Southern Pacific railroad have rais-
ed wages 5 cents an hour for
straight time, overtime and Sun
days. The new scale is 35, so and
90 cents respectively.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26
Set A S24 Scale

Rochester, N. Y. Jan. 20 Steam
Engineers union No, "A has adcp.
ted wage scale of S24 a week fer
an eight hour day, six days a week.
Overtime will be time and one half
and double time for holidays and
Sunday work
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26

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insure regular delivery of paper.
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Market Street, Hamilton, Ohio.
The publishers reserve the right to reject any
advertisements at ary time.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-01-26

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the MiddIetown 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, 1917-01-26

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