The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-17
To Talk New Party.

An echo of the Chicago political
conference last summer, at which
formation Of new national party was
proposed, to be established by q conf
bination of members of the old Pro-
hibition party, unattached Progress
ives and layal Socialists, will be heard
in Ohio.
Members of the Ohio Prohibition
party are to hold convention in Co
lumbus to consider the advisability Of
electing delegates to a national con-
vention to be held next summer by
the proponents of the new party
movement, and, perhaps. to suggest
names of Ohio candidates for con-
gress to run on the new party's plat
form in the event the coalition is per-
fected.
The Chicago conference in adopting
tentative platform, declared a need
for a new party existed because none
of the old major parties seemed fitted
TO face the new issues" q the day.
particularly prohibition and woman
suffrage.
Virgil G. Hinshaw of Chicago,
chairman Of the National Prohibition
party; John Spargo, who forsook the
old Socialist party because of itE stand
on the war, and Mathew Hale, New
England Progressive, were among the
leaders at the Chicago conference. Ira
Landrith of Tennessee, vice presiden-
tial candidate of the Prohibitionists in
1916, is national executive chairman
of the new tentative organization.
Governor confers With Mayors.
Gov. James NJ. Cox told the mayors
Of Cleveland and Cincinnati that in
event of a special session of the gen
eral assembly he will consider their
request that legislation be proposed
to relieve Ohio municipalities financi-
ally.
The governor said he did not know
whether there would be special ses-
sion and that he did not want to call
one unless absolutely necessary.
The mayors of the two largest Ohio
cities brought directly to the attention
of the state administration the finan-
cial distress which is cramping every
municipality of the state.
They made no specific suggestions
of remedies and got only qualified
assurance.
That was the sum and substance OF
the conference, which was not long.
and which was held behind closed
doors in the governors office.
The two mayors said their object
in calling on the governor was to ex-
plain the financial conditions of their
cities and ask the states cooperation
in solving the problem. Mayor Davis
asked outright that special session
be called. Both mayors, however, said
they did not regard it within their
province to suggest measures to the
governor, but that that should be left
to him.
The situation confronting Cleveland
was described when Mayor Davis and
Finance Director Clarence Neal told
the governor the Sixth City's deficit
this year will be approximately
100000.
Mayor John F. Calvin and Safety
Director Charles Hornberger of Gin
cinnati informed the governor Cincin-
natl estimates it will have a deficit Of
$800,00O
Safeguard Women and Children,
Not only are the labor and woman'S
committees of the Ohio Defense Coun.
Gil opposed to any general movement
to substitute women for men in indus
tries at this time, but it became
known the women are making a state
wide canvass to establish how many
women are entering the idustrial field
and under what conditions they are
working.
At a meeting of the state defense
councils committee on industrial re-
lations, attended by representative
Of the woman's committee, a unani-
nous vote was taken against author
izing any suspension of the protective
labor law, despite request by the
National Defense Council and con-
trary to an example set by California
and other states.
The vote made certain the commit
tee was in earnest, when, at the time
of organization, its members ex-
pressed themselves as against any
general movement to employ women
in industries where the work is heavy,
or any general substitution of women
for men as engineers, street car con-
ductors, and in other lines Of work.
A decision was made to aid the ma
tional boys working reserve and
United States public service reserve
movements by enlistments through
the state bureau exchanges.
The committee, of which Food Ad-
ministrator Fred c. Croxton is chair
man, not only voted negatively on the
proposal to suspend labor laws, but
took affirmative action by recon-
mending to the Ohio Industrial COM
mission that strict enforcement of the
laws relating to the safeguarding OF
women and children in industry be
continued.
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