02 Jul 1915
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Newspaper
Butler County Press
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1915
Page
1
Nova Scotia enacts a modern workmen's compensation law introducing collective liability, a state insurance fund, and a compensation board. It abolishes litigation for workers, sets temporary and total disability payments, and provides dependents' benefits with caps. The act shifts rights from workers to quicker, group-based employer coverage and imposes group payroll-based assessments.
Chairman Walsh receives praise amid efforts to discredit him within the industrial relations council. The article notes support from colleagues and mentions ongoing debates over policy direction and leadership legitimacy.
In New York two thousand department store girls earn under three dollars weekly. Colorado expands lawmakers labor compensation laws. Chicago street car strike involves about fourteen thousand five hundred workers mostly motormen and conductors. J B Butler of the Bessemer Pig Iron Association warns of a looming iron and steel labor shortage. Boston union plasterers push for forty five cents an hour plus car fare, weekly board allowance, and time-and-a-half for overtime. The edgy observation notes fertile soil turning barren.
The piece envisions a future where nations renounce war and unite as a European fraternity. It predicts ballots replacing bullets, a sovereign European senate, and flourishing exchange between the United States of America and Europe. Hugo calls for love among French, English, German, Italian, and American peoples to hasten this peaceful dawn.
A historic anecdote tells how King George II desired to link Green Park with palace grounds in London but faced public discontent. His minister reportedly asked about the cost and received the reply a matter of three crowns. The tale ends with the park remaining for the people and the crown maintaining its status.
A century old item notes Dublin’s Red Haired Club banning non auburn hair and requiring initiation washing with hot soda and water to prevent dye. It shares a farmer lawyer joke where a farmer asks to train his son as a lawyer, offered exchange for farming work.
Singapore, a major world port, ranks among the top eight. It serves as an entrepot for Malay peninsula and archipelago merchandise and also handles substantial transshipments for Siam and Indo China.
Secretary of Labor William B Wilson says postwar economic and legal changes abroad will sharply cut immigration for decades. He cites higher domestic wages, stricter admission laws, and governments repairing war damage as factors boosting U.S. labor demand while reducing foreign labor influx.
Samuel Gompers denounces John Lawson as unjustly doomed to life in prison for union activity. The case framed as an employer plot to crush organized labor reflects tensions over wage-earner power and industrial reform. Court rulings on liability and free speech are reviewed by Theodore Schroeder before the industrial relations commission.
Trade unionists in Rochester New York are arranging a Labor Day dedication for a new labor temple. The modern three story structure features a basement with a 67 by 150 feet footprint and includes assembly rooms offices a banquet hall and an auditorium to seat around a thousand.
The article explains how storms form from unequally charged vapor, the role of clouds and air, and how lightning and thunder arise. It describes cloud charges, air resistance, and how opposite electricity draws clouds together before discharge. It also notes lightning’s paths, speeds of light and sound, and crude timing methods using a heartbeat.
A humorous exchange cites a young woman's reason to marry a man as their nearly matching fingerprints. The quip appears in Yonkers Statesman with a moral nod to justice from Cleero.
Amos Pinchot urged government ownership of railroads as the only solution to industrial problems and criticized private ownership and federal regulation. He said railrebating is resurging and private railroading hampers industry. In Ohio, Cleveland streetcar workers gain two cents an hour, with city and company approving $150,000 extra for operating costs to cover the raise. Federal agents in Wilmington arrested four draftsmen under the alien contract labor law amid months of inquiry into alien workers. Colorado unionists question policy shifts after the acquittal of Robert Uhlich, union official charged with murder, while miners face indictments and two guilty verdicts against John R. Lawson and Louis Zancanelli. Uhlich’s dismissal follows exposure of Rockefeller methods and is seen as signaling protests bearing fruit. Governor Brumbaugh signed six bills creating a workmen’s compensation and state insurance system, effective next year, extending to miners. Chicago union carpenters faced a demand for a secret ballot from employers amid wage talks, prompting remarks by Business Agent De Young about internal democracy. Great Lakes vessel workers oppose the sea men’s law, warning it could drive the American flag from the lakes, a claim echoed in past debates over lifesaving equipment.
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