Niles guards and textile strike loom large at fair week
Private police hired by Niles Tool Works patrol streets with six dollar daily pay and lodging, while textile workers press their strike with support from Cincinnati unions. The Butler County Fair opens next Tuesday featuring Ruth Law, four daily races, and a big Red Cross day, plus a celebrated drill by Fort Bunyan’s Company E.
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Niles
Niles Tool Works Company
Law and Order League
North Second
North Third
Black
Cmpany
Fourth and
Maple Avenue
Third and High
First National Bank
Third Street
Butler County
Murray Urmston
Court House
Ruth Law
Fair
Miss Law
Ellim
Red Cross
Earl McCreary
W. K. McCreary
Fair Board
Fort Bunyan
Lebanon
Urmston
Textile workers in contempt proceedings at Linden mill
Contempt actions were filed by The Shuler & Benninghofen Co. against textile workers including Myrtle Hall and Thos E Regan alleging violation of a court injunction. Workers deny any breach and note protests at Pleasant and Williams avenues. Hearing set before Judge Clarence Murphy next Tuesday. defense by Harrie Wonnell.
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Thos. E. Regan
United Textile Workers of America
Myrtle Hall
Alice Bremnan
Ruth Frieberg
Larm Kessler
Mary Williamson
Blanche Johnson
Jessie Howard
Mary Donavan
Chas. KE. Vaughn
Shuler & Benninghofen Co
Lindenwall
Pleasant and
Williams
Bill Shuler
Law and Order League
Duty with knife and fork fuels national effort
A wartime exhortation urges daily frugal meals to aid the country. Eat one slice of bread and one potato each day, perform simple duties at table, and leave larger sacrifices to soldiers with rifles and entrenching tools. The message frames ordinary tasks as patriotic support and discipline.
Robert Fallert To Represent Clerks at Ohio State Federation of Labor
The Retail Clerks held a meeting in Trades Council hall. They continued publicity on McCrory stores on the unfair list and decided the local would be represented at the Ohio State Federation of Labor convention in Cincinnati the week of October 1. Robert Fallert was elected delegate and Henry B. Suedkamp as alternate.
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Trades Council Hall
McCrory
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Cincinnati
Robert Fallert
Henry B. Suedkamp
Plumbers in Casper Establish 7 Dollar Day Wage Scale
Organized Casper plumbers respond to rising living costs by setting a new wage scale of 7 dollars per day. They had previously raised wages to 6 dollars earlier last July.
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Casper
Wyo
Labor Strikes Hit Multiple Industries Across Regions
Labor briefs report four thousand metal polishers at Memington Arms in Dridgeport Iona striking for pay and work changes. New York waiters demand a ten percent raise. Camp Dix carpenters protest food quality. Toronto builders seek shorter hours and a 10 cent raise. Several New Jersey plants face pressure as Thuleteco beer plants near large sale. Railroads suspend actions as mediation eyed by Secretary Wilken. lines affected include Atlantic Coast Line Central of Georgia Chesapeake and Ohio Norfolk and Western Seaboard Air Line Southern and more with tentative settlement pending.
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New York
Camp Dix
Wrightstown
N. J
Signck
Toronto
New Jersey
Thuleteco
Eimetion
Whekaritha Sil Shotreen
Wimberoe LM
Southeastern
Department of Labor
Sil
Secretary of Labor
Wilken
Labor Department
Atlantic Coast Line
Central of Georgia
Chesapeake and Ohio
S. and
Appeal for Safer War Industry Supervision
A letter from William U Redfield urges employers to supervise workers closely as war production expands. It warns of injuries as inexperienced labor, including women, enters factories and calls for vigilant safeguards, stronger laws, and active leadership to reduce deaths and accidents in industry. It also notes Dr Winthrop Talbot’s appointment to industrial education advisory roles and his prior work in Bayonne and employment settings.
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Seorttatt
Commberce
Frantis Woster
Safety Engineering
New York
Kay
Finuneler
Nurée
de Ddetor
Sereeniny
Lamis
Bin
Commons
William U, Redpield
Henry D. Sayer
New York State Bureau of Industries and Immigration
Winthrop Talbot
Mlushing
Tn Allent Industrial Education
Marian K. Clark
Bureau
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Niles Company
Hamilton
Central Labor Council
Textle Workers’ Union of Hamilton
Central Labor Council of Cincinnati
Shuler & Benninghofen
Shulers
Garment Workers
Textile Workers’ Union
G. A. R. Day
The
Shuler & Beninghofen Co
Harry Wonnell
Clarence Murphy
America
Wen
Ohio State’ Federation of Labor
Textile Workers
OF US
Memington Arms Company
Dridgeport
Iona
Boston
Portia
Redfield
Aviatrix
State Fair Circuit
Ohio
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