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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
JEFFERSON THEATRE
Music Troubles Are AT
An End.

All is peace and harmony once
more at the Jefferson Theatre, music
less for just one week. Last week a
slight difference arose between the
musicians union and the management
of this theatre as to the number of
men that should compose the orches-
ira The musicians demanded that
four men be used to which the man
agement demurred as resul of
which the musicians playing were
called out by the union, leaving the
theatre musicless.
Tuesday night the matter was laid
before Trades Council Just to show
how easy little affair like this can
be Strengthened out, the old timers OF
the central body had committee ap-
pointed to wait on Mr.. Broomhail
manager of the Jefferson Theatre, al
once and report back 1t seemed that
the committee was hardly gone wher
they returned with compromise pro.
position that was acceptable to the
musicians and the matter settled
Under the terms of the agreement
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
UNCLE SAM GOUCED
BY N. Y. Boat Owners Dor
ing War And Now.

New York At the national war
labor boards hearing in the case of
boat owners and marine workers the
latter presented evidence that the
rates charged by towing companies
to the government have jumped from
an average of $12 before the war to
$33 at the present time. 1t was also
charged that one towing company
manipulated its craft to take on coal
and water on government time while
doing government work The work
ers explained that it took between 45
minutes and one hour to coal and wa
ter, and that by doing it on govern
ment time the owner saved approx
mately SIS.
The marine workers are demanding
higher wages and an eight-hour day
and will accept the award of the ma
tional war labor board, which was
instructed by President Wilson to act
in the case The boat owners have
refused to recognize the board and
have declined to arbitrate, but the
board is proceeding with its instruc-
tions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
Eight Hour Day
Awarded BY Labor Board Um-
pire At Warren, Ohio.

Washington.-A Acting as umpire for
the national war labor board, Julian
w Mack has ordered three large
plants ir Warren, Ohio, to establish
the eight-hour day for their molders
and apprentices, with the same wages
paid for nine hours.
''It is to be noted" says the um-
pire, that at the hearings the em-
ployes expressly stated their desire
for the straight, not the basic eight
hour day"
The workers originally asked for
increased wages for a nine-hour day,
but later changed this to an eight
hour day. The employers insisted
that some of the workers voted for
the change without understanding the
situation, and to this claim, the UNI
pire replied:
Il would feel impelled to concur in
the result unless were clearly salts
fled that it was entirely unreasonable
or illegal"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
Retail
Clerks S
Hold Enthusiastic M Getting
And Take In New Members.
Hamilton Merchants Are Co,
operating With Organiza
ton On Membership.

Retail Clerks Union No 119, held
a real live meeting in Trades Council
hall on Monday night. More members
were present at this meeting than
have attended any one meeting in
many moons.
At the last meeting held two weeks
ago the secretary was instructed to
notify several merchants to the effect
that they were employing clerks who
hadn't made application for member
ship into the union. From the num-
ber of applications submitted it was
readily seen that the merchants had
given the matter quick attention.
Three candidates were initiated into
membership. They were: Ada May
Long, Christine Hecker and Frank
Rind, ali of the Dan Cohen Shoe Co.
Two old-timers were reinstated: Sam
Schwartz and Walter Beinkemper, of
the Strauss Clothing and Shoe Co. Ev-
cry one was glad to see these two
y
welcome. Both young men went out
to help Uncle Sam lick the Kaiser,
via war work in the shops, but after
cleaning up that job they decided to
answer the call of their first love-
the Strauss store and the clerks un-
ion, so that they are once more back
in the fold, and welcome.
A North Third street merchant,
whose attention was called to the fact
that his clerk was not a member of
the union, Immediately instructed his
employe to join 1t seems that he
refused to do so-neither is he work
ing. Nuf ced If all the merchants
would act in this manner, much need
less wrangling would be avoided. The
clerks appreciate very much the
their cooperation in this matter. The
names of all the non union clerks en-
ployed in stores where the union card
is displayed were reported and the
secretary instructed to notify the mer-
chants employing them that their APP
plications must be submitted not later
than the next meeting night or the
store cards will be taken out.
The secretary was instructed to no
tify all members to be present at the
next meeting when the yearly agree
ment with the merchants will be taken
up and discussed. This is matter
of such Importance to all members
that none should be absent next meet
ing night.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31

the measure, same shall become the
law without being subject to annul-
ment by any court
Political policy of the A. F. of L.
endorsed. 1t is declared that this
phase of our movement is still in
its infancy and that "it should be
continued and developed to its logi-
cal conclusion"
Public and semi-public utilities
should be owned, operated or regu-
lated by the government in the inter
est of the public"
Whatever final disposition is made
of the railroads, in ownership, man
agement of regulation, the right of
workers to organize must be conceded
The government should own and
operate all wharves and docks con-
nected with public harbors which are
used for commerce or transportation.
The American merchant marine
should be encouraged and developed
under governmental .eontrol, with
seamen assured every right exercised
by the workers in all other employ
ments, public and private.
The water power of the nation,
created by nature, must not be per-
mitted to pass into private hands for
private exploitation The federal
government and states should own
and operate all water power over
which they have jurisdiction and the
power thus generated should be
supplied to citizens at rates based
upon cost.
To overcome private monopoly of
land transportation, a system of
canals should connect our navigable
rivers and lakes with the sea to the
end that inland production may be
more effectively fostered.
A graduated tax upon usable lands
above the acreage which is cultivated
by the owner. 1t is stated that "the
private ownership of large tracts of
usable land is not conductive to the
best interests of democratic
people. "
Municipalities and states should be
empowered to erect residential build
ings (which they may use or dispose
of under equitable terms"
Federal and state regulations OF
corporations.
The complete removal of all re-
strictions on freedom of speech, press
public assembly, association and
travel, individuals and groups being
responsible for their utterances"
Workmen's compensation operated
by the state
immigration prohibited for at least
two years that foreigners now in this
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31

Schlesinger, of the international un-
ion. When we presented our de
mands to the Dress and Waist Man
ufacturers' association for a 44-hour
week and for an increase of wages,
we announced that we were ready to
submit all questions in dispute to ar
bitration The manufacturers de-
clined to accept our offer and began
discharging workers
During the last four days from
10000 to 10000 workers have been
locked out, and this action made the
strike unavoidable
THE responsibility for this strike
falls squarely upon the manufactur-
ers' association which has refused ar
bitration at the behest of the law
yer who made his way into this asso-
citation few months ago
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
Would Prohibit immigration To This
Country For Period of Two Years
After Proclamation of Peace.

Washington,-The A. f. of L.
executive council has endorsed the re-
port of the committee on reconstruc-
tion, appointed under instructions of
the last convention The report is
printed in pamphlet form.
This program was presented to
the Senate Committee on Education
and Labor at Washington last week
by the reconstruction committee of
the American Federation of Labor
consisting of John P. Frey, B. M
Jewell, John Moor, G. w. Perkins and
Mathew Woll.
Demands of the organized workers
is summarized as follows:
Democracy in Industry is as
inconceivable that the workers as
free citizens should remain under
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS law within in
dustry and commerce as it is that the
nation could remain a democracy
while certain individuals or groups
exercise autocratic powers"
Right of workers to join trade
unions; legislation that will make il
a criminal offense to interfere with
the rights or the legitimate activities
of trade unions.
Unemployment is due to under CON
sumption. Under consumption is
caused by low or insufficient wages
The employment of idle workmen or
public work will not permanently rex
move the cause of unemployment II
is an expedient at best.
A living wage for all wage earners
skilled or unskilled. A living wage
is "a wage which will enable the work
er and his family to live in health
and comfort, provide competence
for illness and old age, and afford
to all the opportunity of cultivatine
the best that is within mankind"
A work day of not more than eight
hours, with a work week of not more
than five and one-half days.
Same pay for women as paid mer
for equal work performed
Through legislation stop employ.
ment of children under 16 years Of
age; restrict employment of children
of less than 18 years of age to not
more than 20 hours in any one weel
and with not less than 20 hours
schooling within the same period
Public employees must not be denied
right to organize or limit any rights
enjoyed by other citizens.
Cooperation is favored, as this sys
tenn protects the wage earners from
the profteer."
Practice-of courts vetoing legisla
tion should be remedied by provid
! ing that when legislature re-enacts
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
Ours Is Be st.
Ohio's Compensation L w
Commended BY Illinois
Workers.

Chicago, Ill.-While tons of expen-
sive paper have been used to defend
the theory of private controlled work
mems compensation, organized bridge
and structural iron workers in this
city publish this clinching argument
in favor of state controlled insur-
ance
"A Chicago contractor, doing steel
erection work in Ohio in the early
part of the year 1917, paid $6.37 to
the Ohio state insurance fund (Which
is a public institution operated by
the state of Ohio for every 500
on his pay roll Out of this fund is
paid compensation for industrial ac-
cidenls in Ohio.
"In Illinois this same contractor
was compelled to pay the privately
owned liability insurance companies
many of them being foreign corpora
tions, $3.50 for each 500 on his pay
roll for the same class of work and
the same period in 1917
THE employees in case of accidents
received about twenty-six per cent
more benefit under the Ohio plan witt
the lower rates than in Illinois with
the higher rate.
"Ohio at that time paid employees
one-half of their wages after sever
days of disability, the amount not tc
exceed SIS a week
"The Illinois law at that time com
PEELED the liability insurance compan
les in Illinois to pay not to exceed
S12 week.
Since July l, 1917, the Ohio rat,
has been reduced to Sc and the liza
bihty insurance companies operating
in Illinois have boosted their rate!
to $1974 up 10 the present time, No
vember 1918"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
ORGANIZED LABOR PRESENTS PROGRAM TO CONGRESS-
FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS ARISING FROM WAR
PROFITEERINC
By Organized Workers De-
MED By Labor Sec'y Post.

Washington The fippant charge
wage earners indulge in extortion
and profteering is denied by Assis-
tant Secretary of Labor Post, who
discusses this question in a local
newspaper
The federal official says wage
workers do not get what they earn
and that the real extortioners must
be found "in circles where idleness
pays better than working"
Men whose annual wages would
hardly pay the annual theatre ex-
penses of a gentleman of leisure
can not be accused of extortion, y
said Mr. Post.
What possible powers of extortion
do wage workers have? morgan
lied, they have none at ALL These
workers can not get even what are
called fair wages, except as their
organized fellow workers standardize
wages. And organized wage workers
can standardize wages only by quit
ting work in bodies or threatening to
do SO if fair wages are refused. Who
has the temerity to call this com
pulsion 'extortion'? 1t is an abuse OF
language to so denounce even the
highest wages that labor organiza-
tions have ever been able to exact.
Wage workers engaged in pro-
duction do not get what they earn
and when it comes to extortion
what about highway corporations
and their watered stock? What
about water power monopolies
What about timber barons What
about monopolizers of natural de-
posits coal, iron, oil, copper? What
about the vast acreas of land over
the country and the almost number.
less building lots in cities which car
not be used by productive business
and productive labor except upon
payment of eXtortionate premiums
in rent or purchase price?
"Let useful business men who are
all too easily angered by the demands
of their own best customers-t the
wage earners of the country-let
those business men think bit wher
tempted to denounce wage workers
as eXtortioners, or to join in any
hue and cry for putting wages dowr
or keeping them down Wages are
the purchasing power of labor Low
wages mean poor markets; high
wages means good markets"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
Commission Appears Before Sen
ate With Carefully Prepared Re-
port On Union LabOr's Idea
Of Needs OF Nation.

country may be assimilated and
Americanized, and that at no time
shall immigration be permitted when
there exists an abnormal degree of
unemployment
A tax on profits which will not dis
courage business enterprise. A pro-
gressive increase of taxes upon in
comes and tax upon land values to
such an extent that the holding of
land without putting it to use would
be Improbable
Education for all the people and
not for the few; popular and demo-
cratic education and the right of the
teachers to organize
Private employment agencies op-
Grated for profit should not be per-
mitted to exist.
On the question of housing it is
declared that the ownership of homes
free from the grasp of exploitive and
speculative interests, makes for bet
ter citizens, and that IF need should
arise to expend public funds to re-
lieve unemployment the building of
wholesome houses would best serve
the public interests"
"Millitarism" is denounced as an
influence that strangles the finer ell
ements of humanity and brutalizes
those influenced by the spirit of
"militarism" 1t is urged that the
state militia be organized and con
trolled on democratic principles, so
that this voluntary force of soldiery
may never be diverted from its true
purpose and used to jeopardize or
infringe upon the rights and liber-
ties of our people" 1t is stated that
large standing armies threaten the
existence of civil liberty"
The government is urged to pay the
expenses of discharged soldiers and
sailors to their homes and the month
ly wage previously paid not to exceed
II months if employment is not Sc
cured within that time. Attention is
called to the injustice of removing
the worker from his position by the
government, placing him in the mill
tary service and then discharge him
without assisting him to secure en-
ployment or provide sustenance until
employment is secured.
Federal and state employment bu-
reaus should be directed to cooperate
with trade union agencies in securing
employment for discharged soldiers
and sailors and no government agen-
cy should request or require returned
military men to accept employment
where trade dispute exists or is
threatened The prevailing wage in
various industries should be recog
nized and legislation passed which
would give the nations defenders
easy access to the land, with the gov
ernment supplying the necessary
capital for the development and
cultivation of said land
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
DHHHn

vember requested the establishment
of an eight-hour day in that plant
The company refused the request and
the men declined to work under the
old conditions After four days, the
men not working, upon the request
of Government Coneiliator James j.
Barrett, both sides agreed to submit
their grievances to the National War
Labor Board for adjustment.
1t is likely that much evidence will
be submitted and it may take several
days to complete the hearing, but just
when the board will render decision
or make ruling is hard to tell.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31

the orchestra in the Jefferson Thea
tre, for picture purposes, viii consist
of two men in the afternoon and four
men at night
This means that this always pop
ular playhouse, with the splendid
music to be furnished by a larger
orchestra, viii prove even more pop
ular in the future
The musicians are happy, the man
agement is happy the thousands of
patrons are pleased, the pictures look
brighter, all is harmony and "The
band playes on" at the Jefferson
Theatre
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
$4,000 Strike For Al Hour
Week And Wage Increase.

New York.-Over $4,000 garment
workers, affiliated with the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers un-
ion, are on strike in this city for a
44-hour week and wage increases.
Manufacturers have refused to ar
bitrate and this attitude has precipi-
tated strike that affects thousands
of citizens.
s'We have done all within our power
to avert this strike" said President
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
" H H
FISHERMEN UNITE.

Bellingham, Wash, In less than
two months fishermen in this city
have perfected 100 per cent trade
union. These workers together with
other northwest fishermen, are de-
manding that the intolerable working
conditions in Alaskan waters be
remedied
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
WAR LABOR
BOARD
Will Be In Hamilton Next Thursday To Hear Criey
ances of Machinists.
Business Agent Ted Smith Notified That Board Will
Hold Hearing In Court House

The National War Labor Board will
hold examiners hearings in the case
of the Machinists vs.. The Hooven-
Owens Rentschler Company, begin
ming at 10 O'Clock next Thursday
morning in the Court House.
Ted Smith, business agent of she
local machinists union, received a
telegram to this effect on Wednesday
from W. Jett Lauck, secretary of the
War Labor Board
The hearing will deal with the
grievances of the machinists employ
ed at the Hooven plant who in No
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
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WORKERS MAKE CLAIM.
BY staff Correspondent

By Staff COrfrespOhdent
Brooklyn, N. Y.-Employes of the
Gem Metal Products corporation
have received wage increase of $5,
closed shop conditions and forty
eight-hour week by decision of the
War Labor Board
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
WORK ERs ENJOINED.

St. Louis, Mo.,-Federal Judge
Dyer has issued permanent injunc-
ton against organized retail clerks,
who are charged by the Kroger Gro
Gerry and Baking company with in
juring its business because of strike
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-01-31
Garment Workers Out

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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-01-09
ORDER OF COUNTY BOARD OF
PUBLIC HEALTH

It is hereby ordered by the county
board of health of Trego County,
Kansas, that a strict quarantine be
maintained OF all contagious diseases
within the county of Trego and state
of Kansas, including Spanish infu-
enza. That all persons knowing them
selves inflicted with conta gious
disease included as above noted Sc
c1ude themselves from the public and
not leave their premises without the
permission of the county health
officer, and it shall be the duty of the
attending physician to place the reg
ular red card showing the prevalence
of said conta gious disease at or on
said premises and report the same to
the county health officer and if there
be no attending physician it shall be
the duty of the person in charge of
such premises to place such red card
upon the front door of said premises
OF building and no person shall Ell ter
or leave said premises without the
consent or permission of the county
health officer.
Given under my hand this 7th day
of January 1919.
A H Hamm,
Chairman
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-01-09
RED CROSS HOME SERVICE

t@To whom does home service apply 2
Home service applies to the families
of men in all branches of the ser
vice-to those in the regular army
to sailors, marines, men of the avia-
ton corps, engineers, and to the fam
lilies of men and women attached to
hospital units as nurses, doctors, or
deries, ambulance drivers"
''The field is a vast one and home.
service responsibility will be CORES
pondingly great. In realizing this re-
spohsibilty, it is necessary also to re-
alize the proper limitations of the
work The Red Cross has no desire
to shirk and no desire to intrude. As.
already said, many families will not
need home service and our volunteer
workers will go to none without a.
definite introduction"
when does a family properly come
under the care of a home service sta
ton ? This question cannot be an
swered finally and in word, for there
will be border-ine instances that Will
require careful consideration with a
view to discovering the rights and
duties of other agencies, and those of
individuals already interested in a
family. Home service applies, how
ever, to the families of men in all
branches of the service
Repeatedly, it should be emphas-
lied that no home should be entered
in the name of Home Service without
a definite invitation from the family
or from some responsible person com
petent to speak for Them
The foregoing paragraphs are ex-
tracts from the Manual of Home
Service" compiled for the govern
ment of Civilian Relief committees
They are reproduced here for the in
formation of the general public by or
der of the executive committee of the
local chapter, A. R. G.