26 Sep 1913
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Newspaper
Butler County Press
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1913
Page
1
A chain of fame barrier was erected across the Hudson in Washington, spanning river access points and symbolizing a milestone. The event drew regional officials and onlookers, highlighting community effort and historical tribute. Local historians noted the barrier as a public memory project.
The Hudson River chain from Fort Montgomery to Anthony's Nose and later West Point to Constitution Island stymied British ships. Arnold secretly removed a link, delaying repair as Clinton planned to pressure Burgoyne, while Sterling Iron Works forged the massive 15 ton obstacle with Welsh miners and Connecticut teams. Parts remain in museums and riverbed sites, with a plate at West Point marking the forging date and place.
The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes a student arguing against leaving, humorously noting the landlord as the source of the claim. The piece pivots to a quotation about self control as the key moral attribute, presenting a reflective, opinionated angle on personal responsibility.
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art basement lies a complete armorer's shop with over 600 tools, including nearly 100 stakes and many hammers. The collection, once owned by Daniel Tachaux who brought it from Paris, shows aging yet well preserved craft from water to man through generations.
The Victoria Colonist notes that the Muir glacier is disintegrating and several Atlantic coast glaciers have markedly receded over the last century. It cites uncertain causes, suggesting gradual warming of the north Pacific climate, with snowfall or temperature changes driving glacier retreat.
A traveler arrives in Kansas City in severe pain and asks for a doctor. The messenger queries the doctor type, and the sufferer replies that any path will do, lamenting that all paths lead to the grave. The remark frames a grim joke about medical options.
A reminiscence notes a four language quartet in the play Martha with Clara Louise Kellogg in English Brignoli in Italian a German singer in German and a French performer in French. Audiences failed to notice the linguistic mix amid the music.
A tourist asks about the phrase Beating the sword into a plow share while at a door. The energetic blacksmith replies that he makes weapons rather than plows, noting Beating a plowshare into a sword as his trade.
The union label is praised as the greatest advocate of peace between employer and employee. It guides collective action, signals proper settlement bases, and stands for freedom and improved conditions. It embodies efforts toward higher education, sanitary workplaces, abolition of child labor, and mutual benefit for workers and employers.
W L Mackenzie King explains Canada's strike law in World's Work. The act requires bargaining parties to seek board settlement before strikes or lockouts, with government notice, board composition, and nonbinding outcomes. From 1907 to 1913, 145 board applications saw only eighteen strikes occur, showing the act often prevented conflict.
The copper miners federation mobilizes support with 100000 dollars from Tilmos Mine Workers 25000 from United Brewery Workers and 36000 from the Western Federation of Miners to back a prolonged strike. An emergency assessment of 2 dollars from 90000 members for September will add 180000 dollars. The strike faces a months long standstill unless a settlement occurs.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen approves higher pay for its top officers effective January 1, 1914. President to receive 8000 dollars annually, assistant president 5000, six vice presidents 4000 each, general secretary and treasurer 6000, Firemen's Magazine editor and manager 4000, general counsel 5000, and medical examiner 4000, with travel expenses covered.
Rev Herbert B Smith argues churches must lead social reform, praising trade unions for temperance, limited hours, child protection, and immigrant integration. He cites Jesus and Gompers, noting unity of church and labor to curb drunkenness, promote peace, and apply brotherhood beyond race.
A court decision urges union members to attend meetings and speak on the floor. With cooler weather, attendance should rise, ensuring members can voice views and influence union policy and direction. Nonattendance is framed as shirking responsibility and faulty union governance.
T M Daly, international president of the Metal Polishers Union, announces 28 percent membership growth in the last year and wage increases. He cites reduced hours from 54 to 50 per week in several cities without pay cuts, rising death benefits, strike benefits, and plans for improved widows and orphans’ pensions. Per capita tax raised to 10 cents with support for further increases.
Cincinnati area iron molders ended a six week strike with a wage increase to 8.50 per day minimum and 9.25 for many, after negotiations led by International President Valentine and the local strike committee. About twenty foundries in Cincinnati Newport and Covington were affected. no disorder occurred.
The Massachusetts legislature enacted two key laws effective Sept 1. One restricts child labor, banning work after 10 pm for boys under 18 and girls under 21, and limits work hours, with stricter limits for those under 16 after 6 pm. The other supports widowed or deserted mothers with dependent children by enabling overseers of the poor to pay benefits matching their current earnings.
Charles Deacon resigned after fifteen years as superintendent of the Union Printers home in Colorado Springs President Lynch appointed John Daley as his successor Daley long member and former president of Syracuse Typographical union No 55 for nearly twenty four years He served as a delegate to the Detroit and Minneapolis conventions and to the laws committee and has nine years represented the International Typographical union
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