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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05
LABOR AGENCIES REGULATED.

Nashville, Tenn Legislation passed
by the last state assembly will go far
toward regulating the evils of private
employment agencies. Hereafter agen-
cies must tell applicants the exact nature
of the employment, what is required and
about working conditions. The agencies
are under the jurisdiction of the depart
ment of factory and workshop inspec-
ton and they must keep record of all
transactions. If an applicant fails to Sc
cure the employment sought, the fee
must be returned to him.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05
The Ohio Board of administration,
Columbus Ohm

The Ohio Board of administration,
Columbus, Ohio:
Gentlemen-Under date of January
81, 1917, you addressed the following in
quiry to this department.
Referring to the question of prison.
made brick: Will you please render
us an opinion as to whether or not we
are at liberty to sell these brick in the
open market provided the same are con-
spcuously marked Prison Made in ac-
cordance with the Constitution of the
State of Ohio"
In considering this matter, let us re-
verse the usual order of proceeding and
look first at the statutes and afterwards
at the Constitution, for the reason that
III this instance the natural order is re-
versed and the Constitution made from
the statutes instead of the latter being
made to conform to the requirements of
the former.
When the sentiment of organizd la
Dor first revolted against competition of
convict labor it found expression in an
act of the legislature, now General Code
Section 6213 to Section 6216, having
reference to resolution to such COM
petition and providing regulations and
restrictions of the sale of convict-made
products, the principal feature of which
was to give notoriety or publicity in
each case that the products offered for
sale were produced by such labor, and
required that where articles were the
product of such labor, whether local OF
imported from another State, they
should be branded, labeled or marked
Convict Made" This act is found ir
80 O. L., 319, 800.
A few years later, when this senti-
ment became more pronounced, or wher
its influence on legislation became
stronger, much more sweeping provision
was enacted, which is found in 9S O. l.
TT, and is now found in Sections 1926
ct seq. of the General Code, which en-
tirey prohibit such competition, with {
certain exception hereinafter noted.
Section 1928 of the General Code i:
as follows:
"The board of managers of the Ohio
penitentiary, the board of managers Of
the Ohio State reformatory, or othel
authority, shall make no contract by
which the labor or time of a prisoner
in the penitentiary or reformatory, OF
the product or profit of this work, shal
be let, farmed out, given or sold to an,
person, firm, association or corporation
Convicts in such institution may worl
for, and the products of their labor ma,
be disposed of, to the State or politica
division thereof, or for or to public
institution owned or managed and un
der the control of the State or a politica
division thereof, for the purposes ant
according to the provisions of thi
chapter"
The germ of exception alluded to il
the original act was found in Sectiol
$780, to which certain sub-sections hav
been added by way of amplificatior
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05
HOW THE "OPEN SHOP" WORKS

Vancouver, British Columbia Ma
chinists employed at the Letson K Bur
Dee shops were discharged because they
belong to the Machinists' union. The
management announced it favors the
"oren" shop.
Officers of the union asked the man
agement to distinguish between the
"onen" and the non-union shop and to
define their declaration that the open
shop makes no difference between union
and non-union men, The management
has failed to comply with these requests
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05
WOULD ENCOURAGE STRIKES.

Stratford, Ont.-The Grand Trunk
railway seems to be looking for trouble
by attempting to check organization
among its low-waged machnists. Sew
eral of these workers have been dis
charged. They include officers of the
Machinists union and the management
refuses to discuss the matter, even
though the Canadian industrial disputes
act prohibits public utilities from pre-
cipitating lockout until 30 days notice
has been given the government.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05
UNORGANIZED WANT 8 HOURS

East st. Louis, Ill.-Several months
ago the Aluminium Ore Company prom
ised an eight-hour day and Is per cent
wage increases to 1,700 employees. These
workers are unorganzed and the COM
pany forgot its promise until its en-
ployes suspended work The strikers say
they will organize union and affiliate
with the American Federation of Labor,
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05
5000 BABES DIE EVERY YEAR.

Philadelphia.-The death of 5000 chill
dren under years old in this city ev-
cry year can be traced, in most cases
to insanitary homes or failure to OBJ
serve some elemental law OF health
saws Director Kursen of the health and
charities department.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05
BUTCHER SHOPS CLOSE
SUNDAY.

Denison, Tex-Union butcher work
men have stopped Sunday work, as
these shops have agreed to close. on
Sunday-after the employees organized
and started vigorous agitation against
the practice.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05

Marinette, Wis. - Wages have been
increased to 35 cents an hour by or
ganized painters and paperhangers IN
the twin cities-Marinette, WIS, and
Menominee, Mich.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-05

Toledo, Ohio.-An increase of cents
an hour has been secured by Painters
union No. without strike. The mini
mum wage is now so cents.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
CAMPAIGN ON To
TAX IDLE ACRES
Missouri to Vote on Project to
Get Public Funds By Levy
on Lands. Values.

NEW YORK, July ia cam
paign is on in Missouri to open a.
900 900 idle acres in that state to AGO.
900 landless men.
Two measures to this end will go on
the ballot by initiative at the 1918
election. The first provides that all
public revenue for state and local pur-
poses shall be raised from a tax on
the value of land, exclusive of i'm
provements. The second provides that
from the revenues thus provided a
fund shall be established to be known
as the homestead loan fund, to as
sist willing men to acquire land and
improve it.
Frank p. Walsh, chairman of the
committee on industrial relations, in
statement in Land and Labor, the
organ Of the Missouri movement, says
that the taxes on used lands under
the proposed amendment would be
less than now, while the taxes on land
held for speculation would be in
creased to care for the difference. He
asserts that 70 per cent of the city
property in Kansas City is vacant lots
held for speculation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
SEEKING THE LIFE
OF A BRAVE WOMAN

(From The Irish World d Ameri-
can Industrial laboratory
A statement made by Thomas j..
straub, an attorney for the Pacific
Gas and Electric com, any, throws a
lurid light upon the villainous meth
DDS employed to secure the conviction
Thomas Mo : on the charge of
having caused the explosion tina I
killed 10 persons in San Francisco on
the occasion of 'ht prepared. ,ss pa
rade last -aly. The district attorney
of San Francisco having ca led that
MI. Straub wa; personal friend of a
sister of Thomas Moneys wife, who
is also on trial for :. life, asked Mr..
Straub to delivor a message to
Thomas Moneys sistcr-in-law The
character of the message is made evil
t.~nt by this ext act fl m Mr.. Straub's
statement: Il have message for you
from the district attorney. l will 81 e
it to you as he save it to me and you
can do as you like. If you will change
your story as to the time you got to
the roof of Eller's building they will
let Rena (Thomas MONEYS wife) go
Free Here was good woman's an
sWe- to the suggestion that she com :
init perjury to save her sisters life:
II have told the truth. If they hang
Tom they will have to hang Rena
too"
We have here a sample of the tao
tics adopted to bri g Thomas Mooney
to the gallOWs. Re had earned the
litter enmity of the enemies of labor
by the manner in which he had
championed the cause of wage-work-
ers. Hence the conspiracy against his
life, which was backed by blood
money! drawn D. esumably from the
million dollar fund raised by the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce to
crush organized labor. Vile wretches,
like the fellow 'xnlal whose false
swearing has brought him within the
testify to anything their pay-masters
wanted to cove. Such was the testi-
money that secured the condemna-
ton of Thomas Mooney to an igno-
minious death.
For the last three weeks the trial of
Mrs. Rena- Mooney has been attract
ing the attention of the whole coun-
try. The imam Gus metkoCs resorted
to at the trial If her husband have
been duplicated. She will share her
husbands fate. if the jurymen who
have her life in their hands accept as
true perjured testimony.
The jury Rena Mooney has been
facing these hot summer days is not
the only one that is forming it's judg-
ment on her case. In every state Of
the Union, in every city and town and
village men and women have been
following with the deepest interest
the details of her trial. Everywhere
the conviction that she and her hus-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
PROGRESSIVE DENMARK

Denmark has been experimenting
for many years with the plan of build
ing UP class Of small landed proprie-
tors by a system similar to rural cred
its in the United States. The plan has
resulted, as might have been foreseen.
1t has doomed land values. Pur-
ehasers who were. given loans at in
terest below the market rate, found
they had to pay so much higher prices
for land, as to absorb all advantage
of low interest.
But Danish lawmakers are pecu-
liar. They learn from experience.
They now see the need of striking at
land speculation by taxing land val
ues, and the small land owning work.
ing farmers are backing them up. So
bill has been introduced in the Dam
ish parliament, with the support of
the ministry, to institute leasehold
system for government assistance in
purchasing. The government will &C
quire the land itself and rent it to
farmers. The rent is to be equivalent
to current interest rates on the value
of the holding.
Denmark is getting on the right
road to settlement of the land ques-
ton. The United States must hurry,
or it will be at the rear of the pro-
cession.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
CIRCULATING COUNTY
OPTION PETITIONS
st Louis Voters Will Pass On the
Liquor Question Monday,
Sept. 10.

VIRGINIA, Mimi, July 1o.-Peti-
tons calling for the county option
election are now in circulation in most
of the towns in St. Louis county and
the Dry County Committee will bend
every effort in the next ten days to
secure as many names as possible to
file with County Auditor Halden in
order that the election may take place
Sept. 10.
The petition merely asks that the
people of the entire county be given
the right to vote on the wet and dry
question at special election If the
majority vote wet, then the wet dis
tricts remain wet; if the majority
should vote dry, then the county be-
comes all dry. So the question be-
fore the people is not whether they
are for or against the saloons The
question is not whether one drinks or
does not drink. Voters are asked to
sign the petition to give the sovereign
citizens of the county the right of
franchise on an important issue.
If the people decide in the affirma-
tive at the election, the liquor dealers
will have six months in which to wind
up their business. If the majority
should vote against the traffic, the
manufacture, sale and giving away of
liquor would have to stop. Alcohol
could still be used for legitimate and
necessary purposes, such as the man.
ufacture of medicine and chemicals,
as we'll as in scientific work and for
sacramento purposes.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
ROOT OUT CHILD LABOR

in factories, in industries, in stores,
upon our streets and in all manner of
so-called gainful occupations. The
child is helpless; it does not know; it
can not protect itself; it must spend
it's growing time and its play time in
hours of physical toll. breaking down
its muscles with early fatigue, deaden-
ing its bones and soaring it's very
heart and mind with an intense feel
ing of the injustice of the world. There
is not child that does not want and
need the time to grow and the time to
play: and yet we shut them away from
the sunshine and all Of outdoors with
its growing things, and make their
little shoulders stoop from the dreary
task. and wear their little fingers with
incessant toll
Child labor is wicked practice
one totally a6horrent to all ideals Of
intelligence md devoid of heart un-
I derstandng. There is nothing in
later life than cans ever compensate a
neglected or abused child for the
losses which were part of it's child
hood. AS the human body, the hu-
maA mind. and the human personality
may develop they remain fundament-
ally unchanged. There is a time to
grow and time to develop. which
never returns. The fundamental prob
lens which confront our nation are
those of child labor and education.
For years an adequate child labor bill
has been under consideration by the
United States congress. Such
law barring the products of child
labor from interstate commerce would
have a far-reaching effect in making
use of child labor improbable in
states where it now prevails because
without regulation. The workers are
those who appreciate most fully and
wildly the consequences Of child
labor. They themselves and their own
children have been made to suffer
through the barbarous practice.
Therefore, their demands for the regu-
lation and the limitation of child labor
have the urgency and persistency of
personal experience and personal con-
viction.
The enactment of a federal child
labor law is one that stands first on
the legislative program of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor And this is
not selfish demand that concerns
the workers only, for any neglect or
harm done to any child-to any of the
nations children-is blow at the
heart of the nation.-American Fed
erationist.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

Present conditions have aroused
the whole world to an investigation
of the fundamentals concerned in
national organization and the best
development and conservation of our
people. Such an Investigation in
wolves consideration of the agencies
and influences that deal with life
forces. That which is the foundation
for all national development and
progress is the physical well-being of
the citizens of the nation. Physical
well-being does not happen. 1t fol-
lows from knowledge of the funda-
mental principles of life and health
and definite sustained efforts to apply
this knowledge to the affairs Of daily
life and work. Material and intellect
ual progress and growth of the nation
are dependent directly on the physical
Lack of virility, arrested physical de-
velopment show themselves in a ma
tional weakness at some great crisis
and inability to make the sustained
effort necessary to realize ideals
Every plan for national conserva-
tom and development must be based
upon appreciation of the significance
and the Importance of the child-the
child of the poor man as we'll as the
child of the wealthy. There is wrapped
up in every child born into the world
an infinite potentiality. Into what a
child may develop no one can say, but
we all know we'll that the develop
ment is conditioned upon assuring to
that child the protection and condi-
tions that make for healthful physical
development and opportunities for de-
veloping it's mental, powers. The whole
physical structure is a delicate me-
| chanism rejecting every influence
that comes into the life and environ
! ment of the child, and all of these in
fluences, whether material or spir-
| itual, are reflected directly in person.
atty and life.
There is a very direct connection
between the nourishment of the body,
adequate clothing, pleasant surround
ings and untrammeled mental and
physical development of the powers of
! the individual. Unless it's life is to
be perverted or dWarfed in some de-
gree each child must be assured from
the beginning chance to live and
grow and opportunities for develop
ment. Each child has an important
significance in the life Of the whole
nation, for national development is
| conditioned by individual develop
! ment There is no greater crime and
! no more fundamental mistake that a
nation can make than to neglect its
| children. Yet in many parts of our
nation we permit little children to toll
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

SIS Saved on Every Suit.
$40 buys the SIS suits.
SIS buys the $50 suits.
$50 buys the SIS suits.
Big suit sale, The Big Duluth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
COMPANY COMEDIES
ADVANCE IN WAGES

DENVER, Colo, July 12.-After the
newly formed union Of street railway
employees was betrayed by the commit
tee appointed to conduct negotiations
with the manager of the company, the
management offered to advance wages
Of the men 2 cents per hour as war
bonus and one cent an hour for the
maintenance of certain coasting av-
erages on the various divisions The
men rejected this offer, asserting that
it had strings attached. The company
finally conceded lie cents per hour
advance. The union was betrayed,
but the influence of it's short life made
an impression on the company which
IS historic in all such situations.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
FIVE DOLL AIRS A WEEK
Thus it Is down on Beelzebub's books:
august the seventeenth-Isabel Brooks:

Thus it is down on Beelzebub's books
august the seventeenth-Isabel Brooks;
Blonde; splendid fgure> big, violet eyes;
Dmples; fair coloring feet of small size:
Home In the country;' her parents quite poor;
Character excellent; morals still pure;
Came to the city today and found
Wages five dollars; department clerk"
Wages five dollars To last seven days:
Three for miserable hall room she pays;
Two nickles daily the street receives:
One dollar forty for eating that leaves,
One-orty has such long to reach
Twenty-one banquets at cents each.
There! Every penny of wages has been spent
squandered for feastng and riding and rent,
Spendthrift! She doesn't remember lfe's ills!
How In the world will she pay doctors bills?
What if she's furoughed (theres always chance);
Isabel ought to save up in advance
Hold! We've not mentioned her clothes; must
dresses. hats, shoes, stockings, ribbons for hair
How did she get them? Suppose that stop;
Perhaps 1t is well If we let the matter drop
You good math 'maticlans may figure 1t out;
It's matter of figures figure, no doubt. : :
Carry this picture, it's better I'm sure: 4s w.
character excellent, morals still pure?"
What else is written won't try to see; {;
Beezebub thinks much the way as we
Why, as live! There's tear in his eye! 81
what in He'll can make Beelzebub cry? S..
Surely the devil is feeling his age; a#=z
Look what he's writing Isabe1's page:
Virtues luxury hard to afford E%"' 5.G.z. -"
When girl hasn't money enough for her board" :
49,: Herbert Kaufman, u Woman's World.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
PAYMENT OF LIVING
WAGE CAUSESPANIC

GREENV1LLE, S. c., July H.
Employers who have been paying II
and Is cents an hour for a 1O-hour
|day are panicky because the govern
, j1nent is payi-.g living wages in the
reconstruction of army lamps through
gut the South. The Daily News OF
tthis city voices emplo 'ers' sentiments
1when it whimpers:
II While it is only reasonable to con-
fcentrate all labor on the hurried COM
pletlon of these cal pc. it is not justi-
liable to disregard vases nor deprive
the cities of their availa bic labor
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
Sound Advice.

4 good way for card men to
appreciate what the labor mOve-
mcnt has done for them in the
way Of improved working cOndi-
tiCn$ IL to attend regularly their
1abcr matters recently said that n
man cannot possibly he a good.
consistent unf"nist and not at
tend the meeting. Of his local
union. by missing the meetings..
he said. n member loses track of
important matters WHICH con-
stantIy come up for action and
consequently cannot keep in
torch with those things that nre
"f utmost interest to his and his
-brOthcrS' welfare.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
SHgPYARDL ABORERS.'
GET AGREEMENT

LLElIA, Cal, July 12.-The new
union of ship yard laborers affiliated
with the A. F. of L., secured the
eight-hour day and minimum wage
of $2.75 after one-day's strike. The
agreement recognizes the union and
provides time and one-half for over
time and double time for Sundays and
holidays,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14
The Right Way to
Use the Telephone

The Right Way to
Use the Telephone
There is a right and a
wrong way to use the tele-
phone. Much time is wasted
by the wrong method.
THE RIGHT METHOD.
/. Person calling re-
moves the telephone re-
ceiver.
2. Operator says, Mum
Der. please?"
3. Person calling, MEL
rose one (pause) two three"
4. Oper tor repeats,
"Melrose one (pause) two
three"
S. Person calling says,
Fright.
6. Someone answers, doe
and Company"
I. Person calling. MAY
I speak to Mr.. Doe, please?"
s. P err son answering,
Hes here, I'll call him"
8. Mr.. Doe answers, "Mr.
Doe"
10. Person calling, This
Is Mr.. Blank" and proceeds
with the conversation.
The right way in answer
Ing your telephone saves
your time and the time of
the person to whom you are
speaking.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

band are the victims of the hatred
they have drawn down upon them
selves by their championship of
Labor, in general. Everywhere the
question is asked, shall the life of
woman be sacrificed because her
Womanly sympathies went vut in un-
stinted measures to the unfortunate
victims of wage system that would
sacrifice human: t, filthy lucre?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-14

Seems like unnatural cruelty to tell
an old man to shut his mouth, but
might be justified when done for the
good Of the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES
ARE SHIPPED IN BOXES

Three large electric locomotives,
weighing 120 tons each, were ship
ped recently from Erie, Pa, to
Chile, South America, in knock down
form, being boxed for convenience
of shipment, according to the Pop
ular Mechanics Magazine. They are
intended for use in transporting iron
ore from the mines of an American
steel company at TOTO. Chile, 2,200
feet above the sea level, to Cruz
Grande, the nearest shipping port
For a while the problem of getting
the engines to Chile baffled the trae-
fic men, as they were too big and
too heavy to be taken aboard ship
intact. The only alternative was to
take them apart for shipment. When
this was done and the parts were
boxed 1t was found that each of the
locomotives occupied eight freight
cars and weighed 100000 POUNDS.
There were So separate boxes, rang
ing in size from so feet to only a
few inches in length, the largest
weighing more than 2 ton before be-
Ing packed.