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••> VOL. II NEWARK, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1018 No. 4 President is In Doubt POMERENESAYS NO NOT SATISFACTORY After-War Problems Basil M, Manly Victory Jub’dce Are Mainly Economic On future R. R. Plun ------■ . •• < t & GOVERNMENT AGE PENSIONS A LIFE SENTENCE DOES NOT THE WORKER’S FREEDOM MUST MEET OPPOSITION AFFECT ISSUE JOINT CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL Washington—In his address to con­ Washington. — In announcing his WAR LABOR BOARD BE OBTAINED proposed visit to Europe at a joint gress on his visit to Europe, President Wilson indicated that our reconstruc­ meeting of the senate and house, Civil Service Retirement Opposed in The Commutation of Mooney’s Death President Wilson, discussing the ques­ tion problems are more of an econo­ Senate and Bill Defeated Sentence Does Not Meet Says Pres. Samuel Gompers at Recent tion of what to do with the railroads mic nature than legislative, and that President Appoints the Man Selected By 31 to 26 Vote Labor’s Approval now under government control, said: while legislative action may be ne­ By Labor Representatives to Victory Celebration Held “I have no confident judgment of cessary in some cases, the general welfare would be served best by per­ Walsh’s Position In New York City my own,” and “1 frankly turn to you Washington. — Answering a news­ Washington—The bill providing old- mitting the people themselves to ad­ for counsel upon it.” paper request for a statement on Gov. age pensions for Government em­ just their affairs without dictation. The president expressed a hope “for Stephens’ commutation of Thomas J. the formal conclusion of the war by ployes has encountered hard sledding He favored the resumption of pub­ New York. — Speaking at a labor­ Mooney’s death sentence to life im­ Washington—President Wilson has treaty by the time spring has come.” in the Senate. Senator McKellar’s lic works, equal suffrage for women accepted the resignation of Frank P. victory jubilee meeting, held for the prisonment, A. F. of L. Secretary As the law permits government rail­ measure, which is advocated by the and the application of the plan of Walsh, joint chairman of the Na­ purpose of celebrating labor’s share Morrison said: Secretary of the Interior Lane, who road control for 21 months after the American Federation of Labor, the “Organized labor will be in full tional War Labor Board, and has ap­ in winning the war, President Gom­ peace proclamation is issued, this National Federation of Federal Em­ urges the reclamation of unused and accord with Gov. Stephens’ state­ pointed Basil M. Manly as Mr. Walsh’s pers declared that the workers will would mean that the government ployees, the national organizations of swamp lands by the government, ment that: successor. Mr. Manly has been as­ resist any attempt of industrial barons must release the roads not later- than postal clerks, letter carriers, and rail­ which would assist soldiers and other to ride on horseback over the masses “ ‘Jt is, of course, unnecessary to sistant to the joint chairmen, Mr. the early months of 1921. way mail clerks, printers, machinists, citizens in a back-to-the-land move­ Taft and Mr. Walsh. of the people. and all other organized trades in the argue the point that whatever ment. At the present time, the president Mooney’s character or his past rec­ While the appointment was made The meeting was . held under the classified Government service, has Regarding the many reconstruction stated, the railr oad administration has ord might have been, this particular by the President, as was the appoint­ auspices of the American alliance for plans for the full equipment of the been displaced by a substitute bill plans that have been urged and the labor and democracy. case must be determined upon its ment of the other members of the railroads. Under- the law these plans offered by Senator Pomerene of Ohio. necessity for legislation, the president board, Mr. Manly, like Mr. Walsh, “It might as well be understood that merits.’ said: must be indorsed by the board of The McKellar bill calls-for a sys­ “In my judgment,” continued Sec­ was chosen for the place by unanim­ in fighting political autocracy we do tem of annuities for superannuated “So far as our domestic affairs are directors of the various properties. retary Morrison, “the commutation ous vote of the representatives of la­ not want and won’t consent to have Some of the boards have given their employees under which the employees concerned the problem of our return an industrial autocracy take its does not in any way settle this bor on the War Labor Board. Five consent and others have not. With and the Government each pay half the to peace is a problem of economic and members of the board represent, and place,” said President Gompers. case. industrial readjustment. That prob­ the war over, the situation has become cost, amounting to 2^ per cent of the “It must be recalled that the trade werp chosen by, employers; five rep­ “1 know of no more dangerous ut­ employees’ salary. The Pomerene lem is less serious for us than it may complicated and the president gives union movement, in urging a new resent labor; and the chairmen, rep­ terance made during this entire war, substitute would put the cost entirely turn out to be for the nations which notice—in diplomatic terms—that if trial for Mooney, takes the position resenting the public, are selected, one dangerous to the very safety and peace upon the employees, at a maximum of have suffered the disarrangements there is no agitation by the public for- that the charges of perjury in con­ by labor and one by the employers. and progress of our people and of our continued government control or for 8 per cent of their salaries. and the losses of war longer than we. republic, than was uttered by Mr. nection with his conviction make a William Harmon Black, Mr. Walsh’s government ownership or regulation, Following the vote on the Pomerene Our people, moreover, do not wait to alternate on the board, resigned with Barr about two weeks ago. It was new trial imperative. This posi­ be coached and led. They know their which will result in possible congress­ substitute Senator Sutherland of West tion is identical with that of Su­ Mr. Walsh. Mr. Manly, upon being said of the French Bourbons that they ional action, that he will return the Virginia moved to reconsider, but be­ own business, are quick and resource­ never forgot anything, and that they perior Court Judge Griffin, who con­ appointed to Mr. Walsh’s office, named roads to their owners, even before the fore action was taken adjourned. Im­ ful at every readjustment, definite in Mr. Black as his alternate. never learned anything. And it is ducted Mooney’s trial and sentenced purpose and self reliant in action. time designated by law. mediately upon reconvening the reve­ him to death. In a letter to State Mr. Walsh, while retaining his true of this type of men in America. The president said: nue bill will come up for considera­ “Any leading strings we might seek Industrially they want to live in the Attorney General Webb, on April 25, citizenship at Kansas City, Mo., will “The only thing that is perfectly tion. This situation, it is believed, to put them in would speedily become practice law in New York. year of 1918-1919, but mentally they last year, Judge Griffin, in urging a clear to me is that it is not fair especially in view of the determined hopelessly tangled because they would Mr. Manly has devoted his time to are living in the sixteenth century. new trial, said that if the perjury pay no attention to them and go their either to the public or to the owners opposition of several influential sen­ evidence was presented to him be­ national, industrial and economic “The time has gone by when the of the railroads to leave the ques­ ators of both parties, will prevent own way. All that we can do as their working people of America can again fore the case left his hands he problems since 1908. A graduate of tion unanswered, and that it will further consideration of the retire­ legislative and executive servants is Washington Lee University, he was be put in the shackles. We have would ‘unhesitatingly’ have granted presently become my duty to relin­ ment question in the Senate in the to mediate the process of change here, later a fellow at the University of now upon the statute books the princi­ a new trial. On November 21 of this quish control of the roads, even be­ near future. The advocates of the there, and elsewhere as we may. I Chicago, becoming a special agent for plein law and in fact that the labor year Judge Griffin renewed his re­ fore the expiration of the statutory McKellar bill will therefore transfer have heard much counsel as to the the Bureau of Labor Statistics, (De­ of a human being is not a commodity quest in a letter to Gov. Stephens. period, unless there should appear their efforts to the House for the plans that should be formed and per­ partment of Labor) in 1908. During or article of commerce, and that, as “Under the circumstances the trade sonally conducted to a happy con­ some clear prospect in the meantime present, where the same measure has union movement has urged that his tenure of this office, from 1908 to well as being laborers or workers, we of a legislative solution. Their re­ been introduced by Representative summation, but from no quarter have 1913, he directed an investigation and are human, with the same rights of Mooney be given a new trial. This lease would at least produce one ele­ Keating of Colorado. I seen any general scheme of ‘recon­ wrote the four-volume report entitled sovereignty before the law as well as could be accomplished by the gover­ struction’ emerge which I thought ment of a solution, namely, certainty, The McKellar bill was vigorously nor pardoning him and have him im­ “The Iron and Steel Industry,” which to lead our everyday lives. A prin­ and a quick stimulation of private opposed during the debate by Senator it likely we could force our spirited was the first complete survey of an ciple of this character is now too mediately arrested on one of the other business men and self-reliant laborers initiative.” John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, murder indictments as a result of the American industry. After the report sacred to be bartered away to the and Senator Reed of Missouri. Sen­ to accept with due pliancy and obe­ was completed Congress appropriated reactionaries who may desire to stem bomb explosion. dience.” ator Pomerene spoke at length in sup­ “As the matter now stands Mooney $50,000 for its publication. the tide of democracy the world over. WAGE INCREASES port of his substitute. Mr. Manly, in 1913, was in charge “We have secured the freedom of is to serve a life imprisonment on The vote on the substitute was 31 evidence that the trial judge says laborTprogress of an investigation for the bureau of the seamen, the right of the seamen yeas; 26 nays. anthracite coal prices, which stated to own themselves when their ships Gains in Wages Made by Organized ‘bear directly upon the credibility of the witness and go to the very foun­ that the coal operators had increased are in safe harbor. Oppressed labor Labor Throughout the Nation Franklin, Pa.—A war bonus of $2 prices for 1912 $13,000,000 above dation of the truth of the story told Advances Made and Better Conditions where the flag of the United States a week has been secured by Electro­ wage increases awarded to the miners flies is abolished, and we are not going by Oxman (the state’s chief witness) Secured All Over the Country City Employes Gain typers’ union No. 79 of this city . on the witness stand.’ ” that year. Mr. Manly, was economic to permit any coterie of men to barter Wilmington, N. C.—The city coucil adviser to the arbitration board that away the freedom we have gained MOVIES UTILIZED MEN BEING RELEASED fixed wages in the cloak and suit in­ has raised wages of policemen, fire­ City Firemen Unite after so many years.” men and street employes $10 a month. dustry in New York in 1913. He was Rome, N. Y. — Municipal firemen To Urge Released Men to Hustle for War Contract Cancellations Throws have formed a union and affiliated director of research and investigation DON’T FEAR LABOR SURPLUS Job at Once Many Out of Work for the United States Industrial Rela­ Painters Raise Wages with the International Association of San Francisco.—House painters and tions Commission, and in 1915 wrote Fire Fighters. New York. —The Annalist, a maga­ paper hangers have raised wages $1 Camp Sherman, Ohio—Here’s what Columbus, O.—Curtailment of war what is known as the “Manly report” zine of finance, commerce and eco­ a day. Organized contractors and the movies at Camp Sherman and at work in Ohio is proceeding rapidly on the work of the commission, 250,- Firemen Organize nomics, expresses the opinion that Chillicothe are telling the soldiers but systematically, reports to the U. 000 copies of which were published. employing painters have accepted the Davenport, la.—Stationary firemen there is “little danger of labor con­ daily in an effort to help them get a S. Employment Service indicate. new $7-a-day rate. in the tri-cites have organized. These gestion through demobilization,” and line on work before they are dis­ Two dozen or more contracts of localities are this city and Rock Island LABOR PAPER PROVES WORTH that “the decrease in immigration, as Compromise Ends Strike charged and start for home. this kind have been cancelled within shown by census fig ires, offset the San Antonio, Tex.—Striking plum­ “The Long, Long Trail Now Leads the past two weeks. Work of this and Moline, Ill. Jackson, Mich.—The Square Deal’s number of returning soldiers seeking bers and their employers compromised to Home—But Before You Go, Get kind in a dozen Ohio cities has been publicity of the tarring and feather­ Freight Handlers Unite employment.” differences and the former have re­ On The Trail of A Job.” stopped—Akron, Dayton, Lima, Mans­ ing in thsi city of Organizer Craw­ Dubuque, Iowa.—Freight handlers The Annalist acknowledges that turned to work. Wages are increased “Dad Will Feed You For A While field, Elyria, East Palestine, Cincin­ ford of the Machinist’s union has employed by railroads in this city large numbers of men will drift into 50 cents a day until June 1 next year, When You Get Home—But Eventually nati, Troy, Cleveland, Warren, and awakened organized labor to the value have organized and are affiliated with new occupations and many changes when the rate will be $8 a day if this You’ll Have To Have A Job To Have Newark. of the labor press. This exhibition of the trade union movement. will take place, but taking the propo­ wage is paid in any one city in the The Eats.” Akron which had more contracts mob law was given the barest men­ sition as a whole the editor does not state. “Good Bye, Hikes! Hello, Home!— cancelled to date than any of others tion by the Jackson daily newspapers, Want Better Conditions accept the theory that there will be a But You’ll Needing A Job When You switched all war workers over to but Editor Henley of the Square Deal, New York.—Efforts of trade union condition which is referred to as a Street Car Men Gain Get There.” peace work without delay and im­ official organ of the trades council, officials to secure better working con­ “glutted labor market.” Trenton, N. J.—Street Car Men’s “It’ll Take Coal To Keep The Home mediately sent out calls for several told the story in big type on the first ditions in the white goods industry The federal bureau of census is union No. 540, whose members are Fires Burning When You Get Home— thousand 'more men for permanent page. The Machinists’ union secured were indorsed at a mass meeting at­ quoted in defense of this position. It employed by the Trenton and Mercer Coal Takes Money, Money Takes A work. tended by 3,000 of these workers. It 16 automobiles and plastered the town is shown that the total immigration county traction corporation, have Job.” In every instance, excepting the two with copies of the labor paper. was charged that employers are using during 1915, 1916 and 1917 was far raised wages of motormen and con­ “It’s Nice To Get Up In the Morn­ nitrate construction jobs at Toledo The daily press is now cautiously women workers to reduce standards. less than in 1914 alone. In the latter ductors from 38 cents to 42 cents an ing, But It’s Nicer To Lie In Your and Cincinnati, the bulk of released coming out of its hole. The American year there were 1,218,480 arrivals, hour for straight time and to 45 cents Bed! No More Reveille! Boy, Howdy! war workers have been promptly ab­ Steel Workers Unite Patriotic league is charged with being while the grand total for the other an hour for overtime. The union se­ But You’ll Have To Have Work Back sorbed by industries in the same com­ Pittsburg, Pa. — Officers of the behind the outrage and the Jackson three years was just under 921,000. cured wage increases from 2 to 11 Home* munity. Workers from the nitrate Amalgamated Association of Iron, News fears that this mob “patriot­ “As unfamiliar as they were with cents an hour for other employes. “The Kiddies Will. Be Waitin’— jobs were transferred to construction ism” will hurt business. It says: Steel and Tin Workers report that the language and customs of the Happy?—You’ll Need A Job To Keep work at the Chillicothe cantonment, locals have been organized in Gary, “In order to be of service to the country, hundreds of thousands of im­ Paper Men Win Another Everybody Happy.” and to nearby points where they were Ind.; South Chicago, Ill., and Reading, community its (the league’s) leaders migrants in normal times were ab­ Steilacoin, Wash. — The Cascade Each of these messages which are needed. must exercise caution and not permit sorbed annually into the nation’s in­ Paper company has signed a union­ flashed on the screen end by directing and Harrisburg, Pa. The first two unions comprise employes of the mistakes to be made, such as the re­ dustrial life, with comparatively little shop agreement with the Interna­ the men to the U. S. Employment Of­ RETURNING TO PEACE BASIS cent tarring, if class hatreds are to friction,” it is stated. “Returning tional Brotherhood of Paper Makers. fice, Sec. G-U, which is helping con­ powerful Illinois Steel company and the Reading union is composed of em­ be avoided. soldiers and sailors, knowing the life Wages range from $4.50 to $6.36 for nect the man leaving the army, with Washington—Reorganization of the “Be careful, boys, and do not place and tongue of the country, and being men and a $3-a-day minimum for work in their home town. department of labor from a war to ployes of the Bethlehem steel corpo­ ration. the business and manufacturing in­ set down in sections with which they women is established. Arbitration is a peace basis has been undertaken by terests in a false light through mis­ a) agreed to, with Secretary of Labor Secretary of Labor Wilson by his are most familiar, should disturb the Ford Asks Pay Increase guided loyalty.” J economic balance of the nation even Wilson empowered to name the third appointment of an advisory committee $250,000 Back Pay Washington.—The national war la­ less.” arbitrator if the parties fail to agree. Washington.—In his annual report to work out the details of the read­ bor board has ruled that, the $250,000 Meat Men Organize The editor predicts that “at least to congress Public Printer Ford says justment. Louis F. Post, assistant 1,000,000 men will be retained abroad Electrotypers Gain secretary of labor, is chairman of this back pay in dispute between the In­ the government printing office is los­ ternational Railway company, Buffalo, San Antonio, Tex.—Butcher work­ indefinitely in order to cope with any Boston. — Electrotypers’ union No. ing some of its most skilled employes committee. The other members are: emergency that may arise.” 11 has raised wages $1.80 a week fol­ A. W. Parker, chief law officer, bureau N. Y., and its organized motormen men and meat cutters have each or­ who leave to get' higher wages else­ and conductors shall be paid not later ganized a union and affiliated with The question of women who have ks molder and finisher members and where. He recommends substantial of immigration; Roger W. Babson, than April 1 next. If the company is the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and been employed in munitions plants at $1 a week for other branches. salary increases and a retirement law. director of the information and educa­ from 35 to 45 ecnts an hour, is con­ tion service; Miss Mary Van Kleeck, permitted to increase fares it shall be Butcher Workmen. ceded to be a problem. South Bend, Ind.—A general'wage director of the woman in industry allowed 60 days in which to make the increase of $2 a week has been se­ The best boost you can give the service, and Grant Hamilton, director payments after the increase goes into The best boost you can give the BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS cured by organized electrotypers. Leader is to patronize its advertisers. of the working conditions service. effect. Leader is to patronize its advertisers.