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ANNUAL OUTING OF LOCAL No. 14, I. U. E. C.

Of Buffalo, N. Y

June 17, 1916

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money began to change hands; Mr. Briggs, of the Otis Elevator Company's office, was cleaned out of $11.00 so quick that he didn't know the game was started. "Hereafter," he said, "I will play penny-ante." Mr. Wilson and Spang also were hit so hard that they would have had to walk home only for their friends giving them carfare.

Then the afternoon ball game was called by Umpire Schell, between the Otis Elevator Company and the C. W. Smith bunch; this was a game worth

J. Reichard

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PORTLAND, ORE.

To the Editor:

My term as correspondent is just about up and I haven't written once, but it was not through unwillingness, but because I did not think I had anything to write about, as work here is and has been so slack that most all the Brothers have left for other parts and I hope they have all bettered their conditions.

Brother Jack Smith is in Akron, O.; J. D. McDonald is in Connecticut, and I think Wm. Boyer is there, too; W. E. Hubbard is in 'Frisco; J. J. Erickson is in 'Frisco, and others who started out I do not know where they landed.

Brother J. H. Geil is in Walla Walla, Wash., for the Otis.

The Portland Elevator Company has a job in Oregon City which will start in a few days, and that is the only new work I know of just now. There is some repair and change work to keep things moving, but we are hoping for better times soon.

I am sure many besides myself were pleased to see Brother Ed. Poole's optimistic articles take their place in the Journal again, and we all hope he has fully recovered from that accident.

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Who attend to their duties, and visit the sick

These are the men the crank calls "The Clique.'

"We all should be proud of members like these

They call them "The Clique,' or whatever they please,

They never attempt any duties to dodge

These are The Clique' that runs most every lodge.

"But there are some people who always find fault,

And most of this kind are not worth their salt;

They like to start trouble, but seldom will stick

They like to put all the work on 'The Clique.'"

-Calumet Progress. Will close with best wishes to all our Brothers from Local 23. Local No. 23.

R. V. CLARK.

COLUMBUS, O.

To the Editor:

As this is July the Fourth, and having just finished reading the Declaration of Independence, I am moved to say that I hope that we will never see the day when America's sons of toil will allow their rights to be abridged by those who are doing their utmost to do so. We have combines of men who would to-day practice the same despotism that the King of England practiced against our people in its early history, and which they so earnestly opposed, the result of which resulted in our glorious freedom from tyranny. Did I say

our freedom? Yes! from crowned heads. But I fear that if the workers of this country do not each one become organized scouts and workers for their rights and stand as firmly and four square for them as those of seventeen hundred and we seventy-six did, will be wrecked on the rocks of wealth combinations. They are laying in wait for us, and when the opportunity comes rest assured all advantage will be taken. Speaking directly for the I. U.

of E. C., let me also say that our great Supreme Court of labor, the A. F. of L., has told us what our part is in the great body of organized labor. Our jurisdiction of work has been invaded more than once by those who have sworn that they would not injure a brother if in their power to prevent it. If all crafts would exemplify this oath we would not have these disgusting disputes about jurisdiction. If we are true men, as required for admittance into labor unions, suppose we come clear cut and then if any one desires to invade the shores of our jurisdiction give them what the original thirteen colonies gave their oppressor. Mr. Editor, I know we have members who are Englishmen, and I hope they will not take offense at my referring to our struggle for freedom from their country; but if they do, may God save the mark. I am American and stand on the foundation laid, and am ready to support its government. I am also an American trades unionist who wishes justice, and if our trades unionist supreme officers sustain us in the rights given us as elevator constructors and never entertain the idea of giving some other craft part of the work that has been given us, I stand ready to support it always, and I am sure that all brother I. U. of E. C. feel the same way. We realize that other crafts are entitled to more delegates at the A. F. of L. convention than we, and, sorry to say, some of their members would either break up our craft or absorb us so completely that we would have no organization. Let us hang to the bull's horns, no matter how much he shakes his head.

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Coming to matters here in Columbus, I will say that everything is of a military appearance. Flags flying, soldiers by the thousands are quartered here just now at a camp in a suburb of Columbus named Upper Arlington. Most of them are anxious, they say, to show Mexico. A few so far have refused to take the Federal oath, so I suppose they will be shown something, too.

Well, they have nothing on us,

as elevator constructors for Washington Local, No. 10, say they are going to have the same kind of doings for us, and I hope that we can at least have one of our number there to see and hear. I have been in their beautiful city and know there is much to see and I know that a local located in such historic surroundings would not do their duty as hosts if they did not show us. The most of our boys are working yet and prospects are fair for some time. Our Brother H. F. Taylor, former recording secretary, is laid up with a crushed toe, caused by a two by ten plank falling several stories endways at the Overland Company plant in Toledo, where he was installing machines. We are anxious to have him on the firing line again. The others are either firing or getting fired, so you see it is hot here. We have had fine treatment so far from the firms employing us, and hope we can always honestly say we deserve it. Local No. 37. J. D. BOYLE.

WHEN STARS ARE ADDED TO OUR FLAG.

We have met the opinion that a star was added immediately upon the proclamation of the President that a State was admitted to the Union. To make certain of the fact we referred the question to the Librarian of the War Department and have received from him a reference to the law upon the subject. It is found in U. S. Statutes at Large, 3:415, act of April 4, 1818, and enacts that the star for a new State shall be added to the flag upon the fourth of July succeeding the admission of the State. In accordance with this law two stars have been added to the flag on July 4, 1912, making 48 stars. They have been placed in six rows of eight stars each. The last States to be admitted to the Union were Arizona and New Mexico. Their Statehood bill was signed by the President on August 21, 1911, subject to certain changes in their constitutions. The proclamation of the President has been made admitting these States and their stars became part of the flag on July 4, 1912.

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Detroit, Mich.-At the annual meeting of the American Medical Association Surgeon General Blue, United States public health service, said that the lower-paid workmen were not receiving sufficient wage to permit the necessarily higher plane of living and surroundings demanded for perfect health and hygienic conditions. He declared that the losses of the economic world through disease were being recognized more and more, and that the physician found poverty, ignorance, intemperance and greed his greatest enemies. Medical education of the public is beginning to have its effect, but a great struggle is still ahead before the public generally would accept all that was required, he said.

Government establishment of model counties and the upbuilding of sanitary towns, in which hygiene should rule supreme and form a model for other communities when the good results of public health became apparent, was advocated by Assistant Surgeon General Rucker, of the public health service.

Speaking on insanity Dr. Richard H. Hutchins, of Ogdensburg, superintendent of the New York State Hospital, said the reports of the great increase in insanity, due to the "high tension" of American life of today, was a myth. He said that twenty-five years of observation had convinced him that "if there is any increase in insanity among Americans it is very small, and that the greater proportion of insanity is found among foreign-born residents." The speaker declared that insanity is not hereditary in the true sense of the word, as has long been the belief, and that it is subject to preventive measures, just as tuberculosis is.

Dr. Helen Sumner, of the Children's

Bureau, Federal Department of Labor, urged that physicians demand scientific data on child labor.

"We talk of preparedness," she said, "but the greatest preparedness will be to see to it that we raise healthy, normal citizens, generation after generation, who will be able to pass the army examination if needed by their country."

HIGHER WAGES CHECKS DISEASE.

"Pay the worker more and he will live better, and his family will escape much of the danger from disease," said Surgeon General Gorgas, of the United States Army, in an address to churchmen in Washington.

"In the treatment of tropical diseases," he said, "poverty must always be considered as one of the most important evils to be eradicated. Doubling the wages of workmen in Havanna raised them from their former impecunious state and enabled them to live more sanitary than before."

General Gorgas reviewed the work of his fifteen years spent in the tropics; told how he and his co-workers eradicated the mosquitoes from the canal zone, and how before that he had directed the scientific work that made the city of Havanna a place in which to live instead of one in which to die.

"Great sanitation is possible only where one is able to make the people understand the necessity of right living," he said. "In my experience I have found that a higher rate of pay is the most effective way of alleviating their former condition."

A small boy's idea of forgiving an injury inflicted by another boy is to lick him first and forgive him afterward.

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