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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Business OligarChS
Must Change Tactics

New York.-Industry can no longer
be ruled as an oligarchy, and demo-
cratic principles must be applied, de-
clared R. W. Caldwell, business man
of this city and member of the en-
ployers' industrial reconstruction in
vestigating commission, appointed by
the department of labor to make a
survey of the European industrial
situation.
"We rule our industry as an dig
archy," said Mr. Caldwell owe re-
gulate wages arbitrarily-save where
labor unions are able to intervene.
We refuse to consult with the work.
ers about their own working condi-
tions.
what harm can it do to extend
the application of democratic prin-
ciples to industry? They have proved
themselves in government. Is it not
reasonable to suppose that they will
prove equally applicable to industry?
Labor can not longer be regarded
as a commodity, which, like rubber
and wheat, can be stored on the shelf
or in the bin in slack season for times
of greater demand. Working men and
women are living souls-hungry in
times of famine as in times of plenty
and they have come to realize that
they are souls, and not merchandise,
and must be treated accordingly.
every business must in times of
plenty provide an insurance fund for
times of famine, and every business
must govern all of it's members by
the consent of the governed"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
INJUNCTION IN OPERATION

Kansas City, Mo.-A score of trade
unionists have been arrested on the
charge of violating the injunction
issued by Federal Judge Pollock at
the request of the street car company.
This concern refused to abode by a
decision of the national war labor
board and its employees suspended
work. The unionists are charged with
conspiring to hinder interstate traf-
fic, between this city and Kansas City,
Kan.
The company has imported such an
especially incompetent crew of strike
breakers that collisions have demol-
ished tenders on many of the cars.
Several months ago the company
forced its employees on strike and the
strikebreakers at that time aroused
such opposition on the part of citizens
that the chief of police was forced to
run the thugs out of. town.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Labor Has New Status
Says English Editor

London, England-Reynold's News
paper, one of Enland's leading liberal
publications, prints an editorial on
after-the-war problems, in which the
editor makes this significant state
ment:
eff there is one lesson which has
been gained from the war, it is that
the value of labor was always under
estimated, and the value of capital
always over-estimated. In the first
week of the war, the whole banking
system of this country would have
crashed into ruin, only for the fact
that the government supported the
money market with the national
credit. And that credit, it has been
clearly shown lay not so much in
banks and capitalists, as had been
supposed, as in the power of the
people to use their energy and their
skill to do the work that was re-
quired if we were to win the war.
Labor has got, through the war, a
new status. 1t has been clearly de-
monstrated that only those who work,
whether with hand or brain, count;
the rest matter little or nothing.
And that fact having been demon
strated, it is likely to be made the
center of the economic discussions of
the future.
owe in this country have shown
that, despite the fact that 100000
men have been taken from industry,
and millions more men and women
have been diverted into making
things that kill instead of things that
give life, the workers. have been on
the whole better fed, and better off
generally, than before. When those
millions of men and women are
again established in the arts of peace,
are they all going back to the same
old stage as before we learnt the
great lesson? We think not"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
NEED FOR EDUCATION is VIVID
LY PICTURED

Washington.-In a publication is
sued by the United States bureau of
education, the need for education in
this country is vividly pictured.
"What should be said of a world
leading democracy wherein 10 per
cent of the adult population can not
read the laws which they are pre-
sumed to know" is asked.
"What should be said of a democ-
racy which sends an army to preach
democracy wherein there was drafted
out of the first 100000 men a total
of 100000 men who could not read
their orders or understand them when
delivered, or read the letters sent,
them from home?
"What should be said of a democ-
racy which calls upon it's citizens to
consider the wisdom of forming a
league of nations, of passing judg-
ment upon a code which will insure
the freedom of the seas, or of sacri-
ficing the daily stint of wheat or
meat for the benefit of Roumanians
or the Jugo-Slavs when 18 per cent
of the coming citizens of that democ-
racy do not go to school?
"What should be said of a democ-
racy in which one of it's sovereign
states expends a grand total of $6
per year per child for sustaining it's
public school system?
What should be said of a democ-
racy which is challenged by the world
to prove the superiority of its system
of government over those discarded,
and yet is compelled to reach many
millions of its people through papers
printed in some foreign language?
"Yet, this is all true of the United
States of America in the year of
grace, 1918, wherein was fought the
second battle of the Marne and the
battle of the Argonne forest"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
GETS $2S,70O FOR AN ARM

New York.-John P. Parry, winch
man employed by the Cricket Steam
ship company was awarded $28,7OO in
a federal court for injuries received
when he was drawn into the winch
of vessel. He was injured internal
ly and his right arm smashed so that
its amputation was necessary. The
jury was out only few minutes,
The accident happened in a Mexican
port.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Biggest Railway Union

Kansas City, Mo.-The Brotherhood
Railway Car Men of America reports
membership of 1925. on the first
of the year.
"Ours is the largest railroad or
ganization in America" said Presi-
dent Ryan, who declares the car men
"have just struck their stride. We
have raised wages, shortened hours,
improved conditions and developed a
lasting trade union morale among the
men in our calling," he said.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Printers Raise Wages

Pittsburg.-About 800 members of
Typographical union No. are bene-
fitted by new wage scale. Day news
paper workers will be paid IT cents
an hour and night men 80 cents with
back pay averaging $50 man. The
commercial shop rates are advanced
SIS to 81 week, the new scale being
$29 a week for hand men and $33 a
week for machine operators.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
NATIONAL DISGRACE
ALASKAN CANNERIES EXPLOIT
MANY WORKERS
Employees Are Tricked into Signing
COntract.-WOrk in Slime and
Filth.-POorly Paid and
Only Half Fed

San Francisco.-The labor council
has called on the federal department
of labor to investigate conditions in
the Alaska fisheries and canning in
dustry. which is operated by Chinese
who secure contracts from the COM
panies.
1t is stated that the government an
nually propagates millions of fish and
turns them loose in the waters of the
territory of Alaska and the contract
ors exploit workers who are recruited
by glowing advertisements in Pacific
coast towns from the lowest strata of
all nationalities. The police courts
aid the contractors by giving prison
ers the option of going to Jail or to
Alaska to can fish.
When the employe steps on boat
bound for the Alaska fishing grounds
there is little chance for him to leave
until the boat returns. The employe
signs contract-which few under
oCc1ANJ IL CI1Sy Sdll 1Cdu-CO ICAAAnAh
through the season. Practically all
of the provisions of this contract are
against the worker, and when the
season is over he generally receives
one-half the of wages he was engaged
for. The good American food"
proves to be of the Chinese standard
and the worker is compelled to pay
for decent food.
Employees work in fish slime, acid,
lye, and steam, which causes sores to
break out. If the company physician
reports the employe able to work and
he refuses he is fined So, which is de-
Quoted from his wages. Employees are
promised free transportation to the
point of sailing, but when they return,
the transportation is taken from
them. Business men who aid in the
recruiting campaign are permitted to
visit the vessels and sell shoddy goods
at profteering prices.
1t is charged that there is no in
spection Of fish canning and condi-
tions are menace to the workers and
to the public.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
EIectrOtVDers Gain

Philadelphia. - Electrotypers and
Finishers' union No. 72 has signed an
agreement with employers. The wage
provision is retroactive to the first of
the year, and rates are advanced as
follows: Molders and finishers, from
$26 week to $33.60; branchmen, $24
to $50, with an increase of $1.2O a
week annually until wages of molders
and fnishers are reached. Employees
will wash up on the employers time,
which establishes a 46-hour week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Railway Clerks Unite

Peoria, Ill.-Railway clerks in this
city have organized and are affiliated
with the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks.
Jackson, Mich.-Two locals of-rail-
way clerks have been organized in
this city. Michigan Central railroad
employees form one, and New York
Central and Grand Trunk employees
the other.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07

war conditions, we may expect more
rather than less in the future.
But still we -gravely question
whether these should be settled by
the appeal to force-or whether they
can be so settled.
Is settlement forced by guns and
mounted men going to be permanent?
Are We going to enter deliberately
on a policy of cowing labor and capi-
tai by force of bayonets into settle
ment of their various difficulties? We
do not say of course that in any given
dispute the employees are always
right, any more than we would assert
that the employers are always right.
But we do say that settlement worth
anything must be foundationed on
both sides by justice and fair deal
ing and logic and fair play and
reasonableness.
The state has the right to interfere
and should interfere when the two
parties to an industrial quarrel can't
agree, and resort to clubs and stones
and gun play and riot and dynamite
and destruction and death. But when
you come to think of it, labor has no
more to gain by this resort to force
than has capital. The sanest leaders
of labor vigorously oppose the appeal
to force. They are aware that perma-
nent progress cannot be made in this
way, that the better conditions of
living which they seek for their as
sociates cannot gain, but can only lose
by violence and rioting. This sort of
thing has gone out Of fashion, not
merely because it is wrong, but be-
cause it is in the long run, ineffective,
and reacts against the cause of all
labor.
Labor itself then outside the hot
heads who are in the minority stands
opposed to any such condition of
rioting and violence as should neces-
state the calling in of troops of
armed men.
We may say further that it is much
better for a town or county to settle
its own difficulties than to call in out
side help.
We can recall but two or three
cases in the last decade where troops
have been called out and in these in
stances their mere presence restored
order, without their having to shoot
anybody.
Are We now under the state con-
stabulary plan to keep couple of
hundred able bodied men lying around
waiting for the emergency that may
develop only once in five years? 1t
doesn't seem like good business
exactly.
Another consideration stands out
Nobody knows exactly now what our
future military policy as a nation is
to be. If the universal training ad-
vocates have their way, and after we
have so adjusted the affairs of the
world that wars in the future are for
ever impossible, we shall still have a
standing army of young men under
training at all times to preserve the
peace of the world, it doesn't seem
just reasonable that we shall need
any additional military protection.
If the universal military training
plans do not succeed, it is very like
ly that We shall still have some form
at least of state militia which will
be available in the emergency that we
should be prepared for to see that
order is preserved.
We can wait while before estab-
fishing this state constabulary.
Akron Paacon JOurna1
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
LABOR HAS NEW OUTLOOK

London, England. = Discussing the
causes for unrest among British
workers, J. R. Clines, trade unionist
and former food controller, said that
employers have failed wholly to rec
ognize the changed outlook of the
British worker who demands a SHIRE
in the amenities of civilization won by
the war and he will not have the door
shut to him"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Street Car Men Gain

Augusta, Ga.-Organized street car
men have renewed an agreement with
the local traction company. The wage
schedule dates back to the first of the
year, with a minimum of 36 cents an
hour and maximum of 40 cents. The
men refused to accept long-term
contract, and have signed for IL
months.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Painters Smash Lockout

Houston, Tex.-Painters' union No.
130 has smashed lockout of en-
ployers, who have accepted a union
shop agreement, which calls for 81
a day for painters and So for paper
hangers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
The State COnStabu|ary

Out of the great bulk of mail mat
ter-some of it not from the various
branches of government-that come
daily to the newspaper offices we ex-
tracted the other day many-paged
publication devoted to the proposition
that the present Ohio Legislature
should create a state constabulary,
patterned generally on the one which
has attracted considerable attention
in one way and another in our neigh
boring state of Pennsylvania.
The state constabulary, it is set
out, is kind to children and hell on
horse thieves; it finds runaway girls
and boys and escorts them home to
mother, and at the same time sends
chill of terror through the law vio-
lators who range through our rich
rural districts now wholly unprotect-
ed, or almost so, and generally con-
stitutes a force that makes law abid-
ing citizens sleep comfortably at
night knowing that their chickens and
their daughters and their gold watches
are safe.
This particular sort of propaganda,
we think, will fall on barren ground,
along with other propaganda that is
not wholly sincere or wholly ingenious.
The state constabulary plan, however,
should not be condemned merely be-
cause of the absurdities perpetrated
by some of it's proponents, and despite
these inanities should be considered
on it's merits. If it affects the well
fare and the pocketbooks of the peo-
pie Of the state, it should be brought
out in the open and looked over, with
all the cards laid on the table.
Perhaps We are wrong about the
thing, but we are inclined to believe
when any thoroughgoing examination
of the plan is made, it will be dis
covered that the basic notion of it is
that the state constabulary is to be
created largely to subdue labor dis
orders and to break up strikes.
This may be wrong conception,
yet if you should ask any proponent
of the plan if he is willing that pro-
vision should be made in the law for
bidding their use in labor disturb
ances, you will find he will at once
lose interest in the plan with any
such provision added.
The notion that the rural districts
need protection from the state of
Ohio won't hold water. The rich
pickings for the law violator are in
cities. Why should an ambitious
burglar waste his time in the coun-
try robbing the farmer of a couple
of hundred dollars hidden under his
pillow or crack in the floor, then
have to make his getaway through
territory where any stranger is a sub
ject for notice and inquiry, and where
the points of rapid escape may be
easily guarded, when he may go to
Cleveland and hold up the paymaster
of a factory and get $4,000 or $780,
900 and get away undiscovered? We
should credit the gentlemen of the
road with more intelligence than that.
If we discard the camoufage then
IL i IL
labor difficulties, we must still look
facts fairly and impartially in the
face.
There is no discounting the fact
that we may expect more or less ose-
rious labor troubles in Ohio in the
future. We have had them in the
past. For certain obvious reasons
growing out of re-adjustment from
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Secure S-HOur Day

Indianapolis, Ind.-Metal Polishers'
union No. III has secured a union
shop, eight-hour agreement with the
Indianapolis stove works. Wages are
increased approximately 25 per cent
and shop committee will adjust diff
ferences with the management.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Can't ShelYe Safety Laws

Harrisburg, Pa.-The Pennsylvania
railroad has been notified by public
Service Commissioner Brecht that
safety laws are not shelved just be-
cause the road is controlled by Uncle
Sam.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Lennon for Mayor

Bloomington, Ill.-John B. Lennon,
for years treasurer of the American
Federation of Labor, has been nomi-
mated for mayor by the labor party
of this city.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
State Painters Convene

Bakersfield, Cal. = The California
organized painters held a well attend
ed conference in this city. Delegates
declared it was the most successful
meet since the conference was organ
lied.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Photo Engrayers Strike

Denver, Col.-Photo Engravers en-
ployed in local commercial shops have
suspended work to enforce a new
wage scale.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
EngineerS Gaining

Denver, Col.-Stationary Engineers
union No. 1 reports that it is es-
tablishing new wage scale without
serious difficulty. Rates have been
substantially raised.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
Raise Wages 81 a Week

Denver. - Organized photographers
have secured a one-year contract,
with wage increase of Sd week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07

New York.-The Alaska Packers
association has declored an extra
dividend of 25 per cent. A previous
dividend of 10 per cent makes total
disbursement of 35 per cent for the
year ending February.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
LABOR'S PROGRESS
Advances Made and Better Conditions
Secured All Over the Country
Lumber Men Uniting

Vancouver, B. Col.-Loggers and
timber workers in this city are organ
izing.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07
WAGE INCREASES
Gains in Wages Made by Organized
Labor Throughout the Nation
Bricklayers Gain

London, Ont.-The Bricklayers and
Masons' union has raised wages sc
an hour, making the minimum 72c.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07

The Leader for your job printing.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-02-07

Official Organ of Organized Labor
LOCAL VOICE OF THE AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR
Subscription price, $1.OO per year
Single copies cents
INVEST IN THRIFT STAMPS
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DZIEWCZYNY Tub kobiety do do
mowej roboty ma stale. 1436 w. Su-
perior ul. 8
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PRACA.
BIUROWEJ RAG

dziewczat i mlodych kobiet.
Sta}a praca, z dobra sposobnosci4
do awansu, teraz So ofiarowane ola
Gziewczat / kobiet do naszychs off,
SOW W naszych departar- e1tach blu
rowych.
Jezeli mozesz kaligraficznie pisac
operowac maszyna do pisania, obra
chowaniu towarow po Genie kosztu,
czekowaniu rachunk6w, albo do in.
nych lekkich obrachunkow, dobre
p}atne zajecia.
Doswiadczenie ME konieczne, pia-
ca co do 7dolnoSci doSwiadczonym;
godziny cd 500 do 4:45; W soboty
do po1udnia.
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SPRZEDAZ f~ortepian $3.50 -
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POTRZEBA mezczyzn dobra zapia-
ia. ]. NJ. and V. We'll, 1867 North
Rockwell VI. 8
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BARGAIN.

IA BENCEN.
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fowy 'garpitur ~najnowszej. mody,,-.
kosztowai 5000 uzywany tylko Is
dni bedzie %sprzedany "a ~najlepsza
oferte. $125 iadny duzy gramofon,
jak nowy z IL rekordami IA dwie
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Take dywany. Zglo$cie sic zaraz -
FOUTH SIDE FURNITURE STO-
RAGE. 21O2 w. 35 IT,, E6g Archer
ave. Otwarte cd 9 do 9tej wieczorem.
W nieiziele Cd 10tej do 4tej.
0-l2-l8
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Kupie urzadzcnie ~(fixtures) do bu-
czerni 1 cash register, cd centa. -
zglosic sic listownie 1887 w. Dr.
vision ul. T.. Kuzner, Hotel Bristol.
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BARGAIN 4 pokojowy budynek -
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woda ogrzewany / wegle. $4,000.
Got6wka $500. = 1913 Elston ay,
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MA SPRZEDAZ bardzo tanio W A
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bra byznesowa okolica, zawsze wy
rentowane, sprzedam ma iatwe warun
XII. Wlasciciel MichaloVe, 323S No.
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Deering Works
1884 Fullerton ave.
DZIEWCZAT I KOBIET
l6 do 30 lat.

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l6 do 30 lat.
Widna, czysta pracownia.
Fabryce farb,
Fabryce pudei ~papieroWych,
Fabryee kufrow,
W introligatorni.
Dobra zaplata ma poczatek. Doora
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POTRZEBA kobiety do bawienfa
dziecka. Dobra zapiata / wiki. As w.
Alma ul. Rockwell 1865. o
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POTRZEBA dziewczat do ~zbierania
&c stc}6w. 1907 N. Dearborn III. 6
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POTRZEBA ZARAZ ROBOTNIKOW
I OGRODNIKOW - DOBRA STA
la PRACA. ZGLOsIC SIE DO OFF.
81 CMENTARZA SW. WOJCIECHA,
xxx

POTRZEBA kobiet i dZiewczat do
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tydzieh. Zglosic sic 6te. pietro. John
R. Thompson Co., $50 N. Clark u.
q
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MeZCZHZn

Robotnikow silpych,
i do magazynu.
Praca ma ~wewnatrz.
Sta1a praca.
Dobra zapiata ma poczatek.
SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO.,
Godziny cd 500 do 4:45.
Soboty do poludnia.
Holman ave. / Arlington ul. 5
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DEPARTMENT. WYSYLEK
DziewcZat i kobiet.

DziewcZat i kobiet.
Dotre pozycye SO teraz ofiaroWa'
ne dziewczetom i kobietom, ktore
So chetne nauczyG sic piracy, po-.
trzebnej W naszym departamencie
wysyiek. Praea skiada sic z zawija-
MIA i ro3ienia paczek, wazenia parcel
post zam6wienia ste. D~oswiadcze--
ME ME %potrzebne. Dobra zaplata. -
Dobra sposobnoSG do awansu. Co.
dziny Cd Sci do 4:45; W soboty do
poludnia.
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Potrzeba Molderow

Plate bench i maszynowych, PREY
malleable i grey iron do production
work. Obszerna fabryka, niema ro-
boczych nieporozumten.
Dobra zaplata, staia praca. DU-
brs warunki piracy. Piszcie listow-
ME, lub zgloScie sic do departamen-
tn piracy.
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POTRZEBA samotnego starego me-
czyzny do palenia W bojlerze. Pok6j
wiki i pensya. ]. Wall, 3235 No.
Springfield ave-, blisko Milwaukee
ave. o
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Sprzedawacze

DoSwiadczenie ME potrzebne, "a
dziwiajaca p~ropozycya, duze pie
Made, przyjdzcie natyehmiast. Try
majcie waszs obecns posade j te tez.
Zobaczcie Sales Manazera.