Liberty Loan and Labor Federation Meet in Cincinnati
The article outlines a planned October gathering in Cincinnati for the Building Trades State Convention and the Ohio State Federation of Labor. It describes the choice between taxes or bonds for war funding, schedules for sessions from October 4 to 13, key figures, and a series of events including banquets, social gatherings, tours, and theater parties.
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Liberty Loan Building Trades
Ohio State Primer
Cincinnati
Bro. Fischer
Bro. Frank Smith
The
Ohio Building Trades Council
Olympic
Deportation Probers Named By President
President Wilson appoints a commission to study deportation issues and labor relations in the mountain region and Pacific coast. Members include William B. Wilson, E. P. Marsh, J. H. Walker, J. L. Spangler, and Werner Reed. The group will engage with governors, employers, and workers to foster conciliation and better understanding between labor and management.
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Washington
Gowers
Wilson
Pacific Coast
William B. Wilson
E.P. Marsh
Washington State Federation of Labor
John H. Walker
Illinois
Hamilton Delegates To Convention
Thirteen delegates representing Hamilton unions will depart next Sunday and Monday for Cincinnati to attend the Ohio State Federation of Labor convention. Delegates include Textile Workers, Magedelane Hynes, Meat Cutters and Butchers Robert Jacobs, Molders 65 and 243 Walter Price, Brewers Albert Brown, and others from Stationery Firemen Sam Hilpelsteiner, Teamsters John Gradolph, Carpenters A E Eggleston, Trades Council A K Eggleston, Typographical Union Edward E Weiss, Machinists Robert Puthoff, Plumbers Wm J Ballett, Retail Clerks Robert Fallert, City Firemen Duke Brannon, and Bartenders Fred Bruck.
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Burset House
Thore
Eagle's Hall
Thomas Magavin
Central Labor Council
Organized Labor
Henry Or
George Puchta
Cincinnati
Queen City
West
James Cox
Ohio
Hiro
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Hamilton
Textile Workers
Magedelane Hynes
Meat Cutters and Butchers
Rob
Brewers’ Union
Albert
Union Slacker Explored In Labor Column
A column condemns union slackers who take raises and avoid duties while praising workers who contribute. It cites a member who attended a single meeting to oppose an assessment, illustrating the dangers of hypocritical “wise guys” within organized labor and urging members to stay active and true to the cause.
Trade unionist as it is to be a card carrier
The fragment presents a question posed by John Walton asking whether one should align with union membership or claim the label of a junior slacker. The text contrasts loyalty to a trade union with personal work ethic in a brief, dated voice.
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John Walton
The Eggest Guns The Sixteen Inch Monsters at Sandy Hook
A primer on how giant naval and land guns are built. From pig iron to steel, wire wound or built up tubes, the process covers open hearth furnaces to rifling and breech assemblies. Also notes Allied and U.S. weapon expertise and defenses at Sandy Hook and Panama.
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Sandy Hook
Panama
United States
New York
Popular Science Monthly
Poorly Paid Girls in New York Strike for Suffrage
Mary Dreier, a leader in the New York Industrial section, notes that 10 cents a week covers only room and board for working women. She cites wages between 8 and 74 dollars weekly, asking what the remaining expenses such as meals, clothing, doctors, and amusements cost. The piece argues these conditions underpin the push for universal suffrage.
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New York
Mary Bi
Dreler
Bonus for War Workers at Winchester Arms Company
Winchester Arms Company in New Haven announces wage increases and shorter hours following a $100,000,000 U S munition contract. Ten thousand more workers will be added to the existing sixteen thousand. Almost every employee gets at least a one percent bonus. Women workers will have shorter shifts.
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Winch R Arms Company
Winchester Arms Company
New Haven
Coun
Lis
United States
Plumbers Union No 108 to Mark Tenth Anniversary Banquet
Local Plumbers Union No 108 plans a banquet next Monday night at Sauer's Ball Corner Third and Maple. The event marks ten years of union unity, wage gains, shorter hours, and better conditions for city plumbers. A five member committee handles arrangements. speeches and toastmaster duties are to be decided.
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Plumbers’ Union
No. 108
Weare
Sauer's Ball Corner
Third
Maple Avenue
Plumbers
Winchester Plant Schedules Shift to Ten Eleven Hours
The Winchester plant plans sweeping changes to working hours in response to the wartime push for increased output. Most employees will face longer shifts with ten hours on day shifts and eleven on night shifts, five nights weekly. Night workers will receive extra pay and a ten percent wartime bonus. plant officials claim this ensures stability, protection for workers and plant security.
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United States
Hila Pengon
Starenwnt
Winchester Lant
Hift
Wessune
Alelt
Shortening the Day Raises Pay and Production in Philadelphia Plant
A Philadelphia tool maker reports that cutting the workweek from fifty seven and a half to fifty two and a half hours with no pay loss boosted morale and hiring. Production rose in a worst department by 18.4 percent and across the plant by 10 percent, despite shorter hours. The change followed an Employment Department study and was implemented December 4, 1916.
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Philadelphia
John M. Williams
Yelte T. Plumb, Inc
Philadel
Firm Manufacturing Tools
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State Building Trades’ Council
Hock's Hall
Twelfth
Walnut Streets
Oain Trae Union Liberty League
Turner Hall
Oho State Federation of Labor
Walnut St
Twelfth Street
Meury Ott
Frank I. Rist Lary
Charles Stalf
A. Jones
Charles Gallagher
Joseph Cullen
Joseph Meyung
George Schark
Charles Towner
Edward Kirsch
Charles Wirmel
William Prout
Roy Herbert
James Boyle
Walnut Street
Mia. m
Organized Building Trades
Henry Olt
Bautiful Inwood Park
United Brewery Workmen
Keith's
Chester Park
Sagle’s Hall
Central
Lyric Theater
Alt Heidelberg
Vine St
Eagle’s Hall
Ceavor
Commission
OF US
Ert Jacobs
Walter Price
al.’ Thins
Ays
Eggest Guns
Coast Defense Giants
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fort Wayne
Ind
Arizona
Globe-Miami
George W. T. Hunt
Carpenters
Carpenters’ Unions
Milwaukee
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