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The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
VANDERBILT SHOWS WHY WE
 CANNOT F7AV VE UNENPLO YzNEN7

Frank vanderp who recently back from Europe has Mr. vandep group nanciers told them that in his opinion industrial unrest in Europe something seriously to be- reckoned with Mr. NanderP d not paint rosy picture
 interviewed by the and several statements secured the effect that Mr. Vanderp seeing things in far too dark light.
 happened that following the publication of these inter views Mr. Vanderlp found opportunity to make another speech things he said in his second speech
 relation between capital and labor
 Discussing the question of European unrest and it's he
 altogether hunger and because find the order of society questioned and questioned by minority in every European country including England There has to be suspicion of the efficacy of high wages in the minds of and they find they have not more comfort than they had before The living rising rapidly than the great body legrdeman there something by which you can apparently hand them high wages but so Manp who them and with that suspicion in the minds of men, there
 Vanderip point that today steel being made the United States $2o ton cheaper than He due to dferena in He believes that recent % in England M have % the % odm @ @ and 1 the %sHS of the & Htqr He PaTd 7 ear ER EITHER Mr. vanderp industrial only in industrial
 justice and he evidence that his conception of other industrial magnates
 rapidly than the rapidly rising and suggests that great workers look this with suspicion hinges around the relation between and the cost living The today stopped thinking about of dollars buy that relative and his real income the amount he buy for his and not simply the
 advise all employers give serious consideration Mr. that nation which most speedily brings about harmonious relations beween employers T and wokHfS @ m he & @ nhGn @ nd pe establishes social justice.
 Every loyal American the hope that the United in this direction the fuure loyal American believes she has lead in the past
 Mr. Vandep statements have lost of their value because his resignation from the presidency of the National City Bank
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
TOM BLANTON OF TEXAS
 DENNONSTRA TIES HE LEARNS NOTHING
Tom Blanton has broken loose again.


 Representative Thomas Banton of speech the day which beyond dispute
  weeks
 Tom Blanon that the 'Fanarch find harbor and the labor of the United The although the labor
  thousands of loyal Americans even who belong the unions what Banton driving clear. Since few declared that the labor be urmised that friendship for the labor his the
 eater outbreak, all of his emphasis declaration that anarchists find and protection in unions If this anything clearly that Banons that the of America knowingly shelter those whose philosophy contempaes the destruction of American democracy.
 Tom Blanon the floor of the House. that President Gomper purge anarchy 
 I have warned Congress heretofore that how there the the that this harbor and and protecton.'
 While there may well be- here anarch belief tendency labor knowingly shelters destroy the institutions of the islander made either ignorance in malice
 further evidence, will allow classification which he should be
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
OLE HANSON SAYS l. W. W. HATES
 GOMPERS MORE THAN IT DOES HIM

Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle, gave an address at the closing session of the National Manufacturers Association convention in New York. He reviewed the hist of the Russian revolution and used the circumstance of the over throw of the Romanoff dynasty and the subsequent fall of Kerensky as the basis for the policies he advocated in dealing with the anarchist element.
 Mayor Hanson said that he looked to- ward labor to live up to it's traditions and to become eventually the chief fac tor of insurance against the spread of Bo1shevisn. In this connection he con- tinued:
 Labor will form the main guard against the red menace in this country, if labor is true to its traditions. Some Bolshevik leaders such as number in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash, have proved traitors to the A. F. of L., but over the whole land, of course, these Judases are very few.
 The international reds saw the ne- cessity of securing some already urgan- ized force in this land of ours, and they chose the l. w. WIS to do their work and carry ort their policies i'll America.
 The first doctrine new member is taught is the doctrine of cowardlce. He is taught to destroy what he can, but to protect himself in all emergencies, and thus it is that this organization has in it's membership ccwardly assass'ns and destroyers of life and property.
 "'The I. w. w. decided long ago, after consultation and under the direc- ton of Bolshevists from foreign lands, that the best way to overthrow our fO Ot the labor movement in this country. l might say that 1 am not particularly popular with the I. w. w., but the head of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, is very much more hated"
 On the problems of reconstruction, Mayor Hanson advocated a policy that would provide for the inauguration of a comprehensive programme ot pubic works, development of water power and reforms i'll the immigration laws. With respect to the latter, he said:
 "As to the immigration, it seems to me that we should be more careful i'll the future than we have i'll the past :: that the intending immigrant should first sign questionra1re before leaV- ing foreign soil and submit it to our representative prior to his being allowed to board ship for thl5 land Ot the free and if found questionable, admission should be refused We must not allow entrance of folks to our country who will become dangerous to the public safety. All men in this country should learn English. If they will not learn English and do not like our language, they should go back to where they came from.
 AS for those aliens who would de- strov our government, who are against all government, they must and shall be deported from the United States, and if
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
BUCKEYE SHOPS
 ARE UNIONIZED
Semi-Annual Meeting of State District Council of Sheet Metal
 Workers Is Encouraging.

The State District Council of the Sheet Metal Workers Union held its semi-annual meeting in Trades Council Hall, New Haven, last Sunday. Will jam H. Partridge the state business agent, reported that business was very good and constantly improving. He said that he had cleaned up about SC buckeye shops in Hartford and had unionized them. Buckeye shops in :he lingo of the sheet metal workers means small concerns that are not unionized.
 It was reported that one firm in Greenwich had started what it called an efficiency system. According to the dope of this plan if man goes to work at o'clock and finishes the job at 9 o'clock, he is paid for one hour and gets nothing until he starts on another job It is the custom III the union shops for man to get at least half-day's pay if he starts small job
 The International Union and the Locals of the state have each paid 50 per cent of the expense for the state business agent and this agreement runs
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
TO SPEAK,
 VANDERBILT COMING
Former Secretary of Treasury to Speak in Bridgeport, Wander
 lip in Hartford for Suffrage,

Former Secretary of the Treasury William c. McAdoo and Frank A. Vanderlip who has just resigned as president of the National City Bank, New York, have joined the force of speakers who are helping the statewide fund campaign that is being conducted from June 9 to IS to raise by public subscriptions in Connecticut $1OO,OOO for an educational program to help to better prepare the 350,0O0 women of voting age in the state for the ballot, Mrs. Samuel Russell, jr the state campaign chairman, announced.
 Both MT. McAdo and MT. Vanderlip sent word they are deeply interested in the campaign, and the citizenship pro- gram, and are coming to Connecticut on the earliest dates their engagements permit,
 MT McAdoo will speak ir Bridgeport on Monday, June 16, at 5 o'clock The meeting will be in the ballroom of the Stratfe1d Hotel.
 MT. VanderliD will speak in Hartford at Foot Guard hall.
 As previous engagements prevent his coming to Hartford prior to June 16 it is thought fitting climax to the campaign to have him speak on Wednes- day evening. June 18-
 The first campaign teas at which re- ports of subscriptions obtained by the volunteer workers were male were held throughout the state Tuesday, and speakers were heard at a number ot meetings Dr. Allan MacRossie, twice Red Cross commissioner to Europe, spoke at the campaign headquarters ill New Haven, and Capt Frank Hanscomrn, chaplain with the American Expedi- tionary Forces, spoke in Hartford.
 Early reports from the workers indi- cate that the men are subscribing as generously as the women, Mrs Russell said
 Some of OUT workers are having amusing experiences with men who are supposed to be conservative" Mrs RIs- sell said They offer reasons why women don't need the hallot but admit the need for citizenship work now that ballot is on the way and wind up by subscribing just as freely as those who have always been pronounced suftra- gists."
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
SAMUEL UNTERMYER ON THE
 HOUSING PROBLEM SOLUTION

Every in whie Samuel Unermyer of New York, dis closes something.
 Every while he has something to
 Sometimes something worth listening and sometimes he bunk.
 His that the housing he abuses of ntrenched wealth
 Untermyer makes the further interesting of trouble the fact that the life other their practice of making improved housing problem.
 said that the end of 1918 there 15 suranc companies they total of OO
 railroads and other and bonds reached appalling aggregate of 65OO which than times their holdings in real estate mortgages
 Untermyers and his figures should be of working people of the fact that the insurance labor which builds all the houses
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
SCHUYLER MERRITT
 FAVORS CAMPAIGN
Congressman From Fourth Con- necticut District Writes to Mrs.
 Samuel Russell, IT,, on Suffrage.

Seconding United States Senator George P. Mclean of Connecticut. who declared, in reference to the statewide $100,000 fund campaign i'll Connecticut for citizenship work and other public services in connection with the coming of complete enfranchisement, "I must consistently favor any effort that will induce them (the women of America) to take an intelligent and active inter est in politics and public questions" Congressman Schuyler Merritt of the dated June 10 to Mrs. Samuel Russell, ir., chairman of the campaign commit tee, declared that he is thoroughly i'll favor of the plan to take measures for educating x women who will soon have the vote, so that they may vote intell1gentlv. Congressman Merr1tt's letter follows:
 My Dear Mrs. Russell:
 "I am thoroughly in favor of the plan of the Connecticut Woman Suf- frage association to take measures for educating the women who will soon have the vote, so that they may vote intelligently.
 ''As your association appreciates, it is not enough that man or a woman should be generally intelligent in order lO NOlC Dul IL AS SSoNA1lldA that the voter should have a clear idea of the fundamental principles of the government of the United States upon which the whole structure of its pOliti- cal and economic life has been built.
 We hear constantly of people glib1y suggesting changes in the Constitution or doing away with the Constitution who have no conception of why the Constitution was written as it is and why it is that the Constitution has been essential to the very life of the United States and to the freedom of all the | people in it.
 Among other reasons, l have always favored the suffrage for women because believe they will add a useful con- servative force and that they will do | their duty as voters with that same con- scientiousness with which they perform their other duties. They will perceive that the real unit of our society is the | family and that there is no such thing as liberty without order and without | law.
 Il hope therefore that the effort to raise an educational fund will be suc- cessful and that in that education they will give due prominence to the funda- mental principles of government with out which this country could not have existed and cannot now exist. "Yours faithfully,
 SCHUYLER MERRITT"
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

out in Jtdv. after trial of six months. This experiment has been so satisfac- tory that the state locals want to have it continued for another six months.
 The business agent reported that he expected to soon unionize the shops in Bristol and New London.
 Local No. 225 of New Haven met on Tuesday night and an interesting re- port of the meeting of the State Dis trict Council was made by the delegate, Frank ShanIey. This local now meets each month. MT. Cobey, one of the influential members, is on the famous Chamber of Commerce committee of the Building Trades Council.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
BUILDING TRADES.

At the regular meeting of the New Haven Building Trades Council on Wednesday night nearly all organiza- tions reported work in a fourishing condition.
 A recommendation came from the board of business agents requesting that a general meeting be held among the building crafts, to discuss the carrying of the universal working card of the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, after September 1. The matter was referred to the board of business agents.
 Secretary R. BeadIe was appointed as press agent for the Council.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
COMMON LABORERS
 WANTED IN BRISTOL

Hartford, June 13.-"We have just received request from one of the large manufacturing concerns n Bristol offer ing 45 cents an hour for l5O common 1aborers, and the demand for workers of all grades is becoming very pro spector at the local United States Elm plovment Service Station, said yester- day. Within the last 10 days we have received a large number of calls and are finding jobs for all capahle appli- cants. Even during the past few months
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

there was a steady demand for tool makers, pattern makers, die sinkers and other machine experts, but now local concerns are sending requests fer ma chine hands, clerks and other compara- lively unsk1lled workers"
 The Bristol concern referred to also offers to refund transportation to workers remaining three months and in addition the contractors supervising thu new construction work are supplying quarters at 75 cents a week. Other concerns are said to be holding out in ducements to laDorers. A few days ago Robert Fox of T. R. Fox & Son of this cltv told about the demand existing for common labor and other contractors and builders say that they find the de- mand greater than the supply.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

The Cumberland (hy) Telepnone & Telegraph company has given an advance ranging from 10 to 20 per cent in the wages of wire employees and $1 a week in wages of its opera tors. It's wire men were receiving S6O to $95 per month and its operators SIP to $22 Q week.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

the present administration does not see it to perform this necessary duty, the time will soon come when the sovereign people of this country will elect new servants who will obey the expressed wish of the people.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

Demand the union label, shop card and working button at all times, for no trade unionist has any more moral right to purchase non-union and sweat shop goods than he mas to take the place of a fe1low-worker on strike for better conditions.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

You should receive your Labor Press every Saturday morning if you are a subscriber. If delayed write us or phone Colony 1O82
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

It's a wise merchant who has the union label placed on his printed mat ter.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
sEMON's ICE CREAM

John Semon can't make all the Ice Cream so he makes the Best at 11e Bristol St.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14

"Aw gee~ drowned Jimmy. "It's game!'
 Go ahead, we can manage" 'Yeh! You can manage but I can't l! My pockets bid me stay away!" Broke. Jimmy"
 Yep! Busted!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-03-21

the first of the year in which some
craft in the capital city has not "seen
the light" and organized under the
banner of the American Federation
of Labor, and a number of new un-
ions are now in the embryo stage
Organization fever among the work
ers here was never at higher pitch,
and the thermometer is steadily going
up, regardless of the fact that Boise
is not a large industrial center.
"The fever is caused by wage re-
ductions and other reactionary tactics
being practiced by the profiteers," !"
says the president of the Boise Trades
and Labor Council, "but after the
delirium has subsided, it is a certain
ty that organized labor in this city
will be stronger than before, and in
a much more healthy condition"
No wage reductions have occurred
in the ranks of organized labor here,
and it is safe prediction that none
will occur. However, several crafts
have secured increases recently.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-03-21
UNIVERSAL E|GHT-H0UR W0RKDAY
AND SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY THROUGHOUT WORLD,
DEMANDS OF INTERNAT TI0NAL LABOR COMMISSION
@HHHH

and time alike wall him hopelessly in.
"The man who can not read sees
only to the limit of his horizon, or
at most to such distant parts of the
world as may be explained or de-
scribed to him in the spoken word by
some returning traveller. Except for
accidental glimpses caught from oral
tradition the past is as black as the
night into which it was submerged
when it passed. There are for him
no broad illumined fields thronged
with the busy millions of his ances-
tors, and no sunlit heights across
which march the great events of the
age-old struggle for freedom and for
power over the forces of nature Night
shuts him in on all sides. Darkness
lies on all the horizon of his senses
and bars the doors of his imagina-
tior !"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-03-21
Uniorlislll BOonls.
As Employers Combine To
Force Down Wage Scale
In Idaho.

Boise, Idaho.-The report that or
ganized employers all over the coun-
try are making a gigantic effort to
reduce wages seems to have verifica-
tion in this vicinity.
The capital city of Idaho is not a
large industrial center, but no less
than dozen different firms have been
reported within two weeks as having
reduced the wages of their employees,
reductions ranging all the way from
25 cents to 25 per cent per day.
Among other institutions partici-
pating in this readjustment profiteer-
ing is the local gas light and coke
company, a privately. owned institu-
ton having a monopoly upon the
municipal gas business. This private
| ly controlled public utility Shaved"
it's employees to the tune of 35 cents
each per diem, but no reduction in
the price of it's product to consumers
has manifested itself. The gas rates
in Boise are almost prohibitive, but
no reduction is promised or even
hoped for under the present monopoly.
1t cannot be charged that the gas
company wage shave is due to labor
having boosted wages during the war,
as is being unfairly alleged, because
no union has jurisdiction over any of
the men affected. In fact, none of
the many wage reductions reported in
this vicinity have occurred among or
ganized workers.
However, "it is an i'll wind that
blows nobody good" for during a
period of one week in February no
less than two vigorous and active un-
ions were born in Boise, one of these
organizations starting with mem
bership of more than 100 enthusias-
tic workers, and both organizations
affiliating with the city central body.
Scarcely q week has passed since
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-03-21
Nh ~ n
EAGLES.
PLAN FOR BIG 4th OF
JULY OUTING.

Butler Aerie No, 407, Fraternal
Order of Eagles, started this week
the preliminary plans for the big
annual 4th of July outing. The COM
mittee to have charge was named by
Worthy President Lou j. Whitman
en- Monday night. The committee
met on Wednesday night and organiz-
ed with Edw Wiegand, chairman;
Carl Lehmkuhl, secretary; VIM. Will
mer treasurer. 1t was decided to
meet every Thursday night at 7:30.
The committee says that the people
of Butler County can look for cele-
bration on the 9TH of July such as was
never dreamed of before in this vici-
nifty. They say now that the war is
over and much to rejoice over, joy
viii be turned loose unrestrained and
there will be no limit to the big do
ings on the 4th.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-03-21
DESTROY ILLITERACY
That Men May Live, Writes
Claxton

Washington. Destroy illiteracy
that men may actually live, writes
p P. Claxton, United States commits
sioner of education, in stirring ap-
peal that this drag on Americanism
may be removed through legislative
action
Beyond the distance over which
the human voice carries" says the
federal educator, "the man who can
not read is deaf to human speech,
nor can he hear when the speaker
ceases to speak Except as he by
chance may be read to by another he
might as well have lived before the
alphabets were invented. For him
there is no record even of his own
life. For him the voice speaks across
the centuries, the years, or the days.
For him there is no literature of song
or story, of art or science, of informa-
tion or inspiration For him the books
are dumb as blocks of wood. The
daily papers with their burden of the
news of the world are silent as the
blank sheets on which the news is
printed For him letters from dis
tant relatives and friends have no
meaning unless by chance they are
interpreted to him by one who knows
the art he has never learned. Space
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-03-21
Equal Representation Of Employers
And Workers On Wage Boards
Some OF The Features.

Paris, France-The Commission on
international Labor Legislation at
the Peace Conference has issued its
report, and, by the pen of NJ. Justin
GODDARD, reporter for the president
of the commission, demands that
what amounts to an international la
Dor charter shall be included in the
peace treaty.
1t appears that the draft as adopt
ed by the commission, is principally
that of the British delegates. 1t is of
far-reaching nature and, if adopted
by the conference, will change, as is
already being remarked, the whole as
pect not only of the labor problem
in the countries of the world, but will
also relieve the export trade Difficult
ties, which are dangerously and con
tinually enhanced by higher wage and
shorter hour demands. Lancashire
cotton trade provides one example Of
this.
The commissions report demands
the adherence of the powers sigma
tory of the treaty of peace, to the
Berne 1906 international conventions s
resolution forbidding night work for
women employed in industry, and the
use of white phosphorus in the match
industry; it promulgates the reforms
adopted at the Berne 1913 conference,
and intrusts the international labor
conference, provided for in the report,
! with the realization of series of re-
forms, namely:
No children under Is years of age
to be employed in industry.
Young peoples employment to be
subject to number of other regula-
tions mentioned.
Limitation of the working day for
workers to eight hours in factories
and mines.
Saturday half-holiday to be intro
duced into all countries.
Weekly rest of at least SO hours,