The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-12-27
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CONTINUE LABOR BOARD.

Inc heVleW says.
Within the next month the War
Labor Board goes out of existence,
and with it goes the greatest stabili-
zing influence in the history of indus
trial life With absolutely no power
of itself it has revolutionized the
methods by which employer treated
with employe; has raised wages to
point where the recipients of these
benefits could live like real Americans;
has practically abolished strikes and
lockouts; has met with no real objec-
tion from either side to controversies
submitted to it for revision, and as
result of its efforts production has
been tremendously increased.
All this will be changed when the
War Labor Board ceases to function.
Wages win be lowered, strikes will re-
suit, lockouts will occur, bitterness will
be engendered, production will de-
crease, the Bolsheviki will be abroad,
and unrest will be general. All of
which is unnecessary.
BY mutual agreement between the
employers and employees, as represent
ed by the international unions of
workmen and the national association
Of employers, the Labor Board can be
continued under the supervision of the
Department Of Labor, but with no
authority to enforce its rulings.
Public opinion will attend to that. To
confer police powers upon the board
would constitute compulsory arbitra-
ton, something the American employ
er and employe will not countenance.
Through this simple and common
sense arrangement all of the loss and
waste of material and time, all of the
bitterness and strife that formerly
characterized the relations between
capital and labor can be abolished.
1t is difficult to believe that thinking
men will deliberately return to the old
order.
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There are a few machinists in Ham
ilton who are willing to work IS and
20 hours day as long as they can
hog things on overtime and constantly
criticise those trying to better their
working conditions of the craft. These
same fellows win be the first ones,
who when the shorter workday is es-
tablished and decent wages are OBJ
tained, to stand around-cuss the
bosses and tell how w-e-e--done it.
These same fellows ought to be
ashamed to draw the money they are
getting as the result of the efforts of
machinists organization. But that
class doesn't know the meaning of
the word shame The man who will
knock his own organization or its
members is worse than a scab, for
scab viii at least stand by his tribe.
The sooner the machinists organiza-
tion puts the rollers on all this kind
that they can get the goods on the
better it will be for the union and or
ganized labor in general.
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Director General McAddo's proposal
to keep the railroads under govern
ment control until 1924, so as to test
the plan of government ownership,
iicio 11SiA ACISANCA ny d SlOtIH vi pro-
test from the grafters and their min
ions who formerly robbed the roads.
1t is up to every person who favors
government ownership to write their
senators and congressman immediate
ly telling them of their attitude. Pub
lie sentiment viii do the work. Your
representative wants to know where
you stand
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The farmer who comes into town
the day before Christmas and holds
the people up for 45 cents a pound for
turkeys and $500 for an ordinary
sized chicken certainly can't know
what Christmas stands for. There
never was greater trust than that