22 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
Butler County Press
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1915
Page
1
A Los Angeles Citizen inspired piece argues organized labor must unite to promote its own interests and public concerns. It warns against demoralization and stresses solidarity as essential to improving labor, noting workers must cultivate change themselves.
The department of labor serves all wage workers, organized or not, and unions have benefited every worker in the industry. Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson says the department will use all effective agencies, prioritizing those that improve workers’ conditions, including trade unions.
The article describes Australian sheep dog trials as a premier rural spectacle, noting the Maltese cross test and eight six foot burdies guiding three unfamiliar sheep through arrowed paths. It praises small yet swift Australian sheep dogs and claims one dog can do the work of many men on vast merino flocks.
The Incas taxed by labor and produce rather than money, with provinces supplying clothing footwear and arms. No beggary was allowed as everyone was provided for, and idleness led to punishment. The system ensured land and seeds for cultivation and minimal hardship for all citizens.
The U S Supreme Court upholds a $252000 penalty against 186 Danbury Hatters strikers and affiliates for a 1902 boycott against Dietrich Loewe Co The ruling triples damages under Sherman Act but excludes some earlier judgments The case traces unionization efforts and the firm’s losses across years with broader labor law implications.
A veteran unions editor argues that wage earners must unite or face disunion and extinction trade by trade. He cites New Orleans typographers lockout, calls disunity treason, notes federal intervention in Ohio coal strikes, indictments of labor men in Chicago, and a Boston John Hancock composing room moving to full union operation.
The statement argues that organized labor seeks a living wage and safe work conditions not as a gift but as a right. It advocates family support, poverty protection, and collective bargaining for shorter hours and fair pay, hoping future reforms lift the “well” and redirect opposition funds toward workers’ aims.
A group of ironworkers, convicted in Indianapolis dynamite conspiracy cases, appeared before the federal parole board arguing their swift Leavenworth west cell house completion justifies parole after serving one third of their sentences. Frank M. Ryan was not eligible.
The piece notes an $18,000,000 Colorado strike cost and Ohio expands worker sue rights beyond the compensation act. It reports The General Fire Extinguishers Company recognizing plumbers and steamfitters at multiple plants, warns mining and metallurgical injuries totals, and mentions a Pacific coast labor federation of about 25,000 with other groups. Frederick Howe criticizes surplus labor and wage depression.
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