The Butler County Press, 1913-08-01

es engaged girls by the "Job lot" and paid one of them for the entire group. In one case three sisters were paid all together $11 per week. He got a pho photograph - tograph photograph of these girls, which showed them to be bright capable looking workers. At the conferences with the manufacturers Brother Mitchell men mentioned - tioned mentioned this "Joint pay envelope" as one of the evils of the trade, and he told the story of the three sisters and produced their photographs. fc, union manufacturer who had signed up the agreement looked at the picture and suddenly exclaimed, "Why, that mid middle - dle middle girl is working for us now, and we pay her $9 a week, and she Is worth every cent of it" A new member of the Manufacturers' association sitting| at the other end of the conference ble had to admit the truth when Broth Brother - er Brother Mitchell pointed him out as thel man who had got these girls at whole wholesale - sale wholesale prices—three girls for $11. This furnished a splendid example of the way one manufacturer can undercut another in the market and the reason why workers are compelled to organ organize - ize organize to equalize wages.—Ladies' Gar Garment - ment Garment Worker.

A.n Interesting description of the hos hospitality - pitality hospitality of Eskimos is given by Vilhjal Vilhjalmar - mar Vilhjalmar Stefansson in his paper, "My Quest In the Arctic." in Harper's Mag Magazine. - azine. Magazine. At one stage of his adventures th4 writer found himself among Eski Eskimos - mos Eskimos who had never before seen white people. He says "Like our distant ancestors, no doubt, these people fear most of all things the evil spirits that are likely to appear to them at any time In any guise, and next to that they fear stran strangers. - gers. strangers. Our first greeting had been a bit doubtful and dramatic through our being fnistakeu for spirits, but now they had felt of us utid talked with us and knew we were but common men. Strangers we were, it is true, but we were only three among forty of them and were therefore uot to be feared. Besides, they told us they knew we could harbor uo guile from the free freedom - dom freedom and frankness with which we came among them for. they said, a man who plots treachery never turns his back to those whom he intends to stab from behind.

The wages and the conditions prevailing among women wage earners make evident the fact that those who have more re recently - cently recently entered the industrial field must learn the value of collec collective - tive collective action and union organiza organization. - tion. organization. Women must take their work and its problems seriously and endeavor to help themselves. Ileal and permanent betterment can only come through the ex exertions - ertions exertions of the individuals con-, cemed. The working girls of the department stores must re realize - alize realize the benefits of unionism and band themselves together for mutual protection and bet betterment. - terment. betterment. Women must take «their place in the onward march of humanity. In that work wo women - men women arjd girls will have the hearty co-operation and support of their natural ally—the organ organized - ized organized labor movement of our country.—Samuel Gompers.

When we had entered the house the boiled pieces of seal meat had already been taken out of the pot and lay steaming on a sideboard. On being as assured - sured assured that tny tastes In food were not likely to differ from theirs, my hostess picked out for me the lower joint, of a seal's foreleg, squeezed it firmly be between - tween between her hands to make sure noth ing should later drip from it and handed it to me, along with her own copper bladed knife. The next most desirable piece was similarly squeezed and hauded to her husband, and others in turn to the rest of the family. "As we ate we sat on the front edge of the bed platform, holding each his piece of meat In the left hand and the knife in the right This was my first experience with a knife of native cop copper. - per. copper. I found it more than sharp enough and v»ry serviceable. "Our meal was of two courses—the first, meat the second, soup. The soup

It turned out. however, that his wife was not a talkative person, but motherly, kindly and hospitable, like) all her countrywomen. Her first ques tions were not of the land from which I came, but of my footgear. Weren't my feet just a little damp, and might she not pull my boots off for me and dry them over the lamp? She had boiled some seal meat for me, but she had not boiled any fat. for she did not know whether I preferred the blubber boiled or raw They always cut it in small pieces and ate it raw themselves, but the pot still hung over the lamp, and anything she put into it would be cooked in a moment "When I told her that my tastes quite coincided with theirs, as in fact they did. she was delighted. People were much alike then, after all, though they came from a great distance. She would accordingly treat me exactly as if I were one of their own people come to visit them from afar.

Before the house which they Imme diately built for us was quite ready for our occupancy children came run running - ning running from the village to announce that their mothers had dinner ready. The houses were so small that it was not convenient to invite all three of us Into the same one to eat: besides, it was not etiquette to do so. as we now know. Each of us was therefore tak taken - en taken to a different place. My host was the seal hunter whom we had first ap approached - proached approached on the ice. His house would, he said, be a fitting one In which to offer me my first meal among them, for his wife had been bora farther west on the mainland coast than any one else in their village, and it was even said that her ancestors had not belonged originally to their people, but were immigrants from the westward. She would therefore like to ask me questions

The bill provides— That the employment of a child under fourteen years of a no in any mill, fac factory. - tory. factory. cannery, workshop, manufacturing or mechanical establishment of a child under sixteen years of ago in any coal mine, coal breaker, coke oven, quarry or In any establishment where poisonous or dangerous acids, gas« or dyes are used, manufactured or packed, or in any es tablishment wherein the work done or materials or equipment handled are dan dangerous - gerous dangerous to the life and limb or Injurious to the health or morals of such a child. Is hereby designated and defined as antl social child labor and as detrimental to the general welfare and debasing to com commerce. - merce. commerce.

The lieutenant governor in address ing the meeting declared that the labor element was more directly concerned in the future of the senate welfare commission than any other body of per sons. He said that the commission was practically at a standstill in its work because of a lack of funds. "We are working for better labor conditions," said Mr. O'Hara, "and you are the people who will benefit. We are practically out of funds, however, and without an additional appropria tion cannot go much further. As you who have followed the work of this| commission well know, we are direc ing our Inquiry toward those establish ments which do not staud for good clean labor conditions and a living wage."