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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Guaranteed Rights Are
Denied by Atty 'yGeneraI

Nakomis, Ill.-In a protest to At
torney General Palmer against the
governments coal miners injunction,
the miners at this place declare that
this writ denies the right of free
speech, free press and peaceful as
semblage.
"We individually and collectively
protest" say these miners, against
your action. Our officers are regu-
larly elected and duly constituted
spokesmen of our organization.
Therefore, freedom of speech is sus-
pended. They are not allowed to
communicate, either through the
mail or through the medium of our
trade journal, instructions to the
membership of our organization, re-
garding the conduct of the strike.
Therefore freedom of the press is sus-
pended. They are not allowed to as
semble and formulate plans and poll
cies for the purpose of carrying out
the instructions of the membership
of our union. Therefore freedom of
peaceful assembly is suspended.
"a statement attributed to you
quotes you as saying that your ac-
tion in this instance in no way in
terferes with the right of men to or
ganize, or their right to strike, while
at the same time you have tied up
our funds, suspended our constitu-
tional rights, and rendered useless
and imperative the machinery and
functions of our organization. And
you are deliberately attempting to
disorganize US, and break up our
strike by the use of government
agents and employees in various coal
producing districts of the country"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
JABS ANTI-STRIKE PLAN

New York-At the annual dinner of
the academy of political science,
Acting President Shea, of the Brother
hood of Firemen and Enginemen serv-
ed notice on anti-strike advocates that
they were starting something they
could never finish. In a straight
from-the-shoulder talk he told his
hearers that labor would not submit
to the anti-strike provisions in the
Cummins railroad bill, or other SINH
lar legislation.
The brotherhood official declared
that the same group and the same
reasoning have attempted to continue
the enslavement of the iron and steel
workers by denying them the right
of collective bargaining.
"These interests are also response
BILE for the failure of the national in
dustrial conference called by Presi-
dent Wilson. They are also the fun
damental forces against bituminous
mine workers and are at the bottom
of the conspiracy to exploit both the
miners and the consumers of coal.
Their purpose is to continue uncheck-
ed their wartime profteering and the
of wage earners and the
public in which profitable policy they
had been so successful prior to the
war. We shall resist this conspiracy
to the utmost"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05

+ constructive program suggested as an
alternative of this ruinous policy.
And the spread of the Plumb Plan
idea is regarded by astute politicians
as little short of marvellous, it is
sweeping some sections of the coun-
try like prairie fire." Thousands of
voters are daily coming to its stan
dard, and this is the best answer to
the executives propaganda.
1t is the purpose of the advocates
of the Plumb Plan to keep it before
the people until it gains their ap-
proval. The retention of the rail-
roads for two years would give a
reasonable opportunity to study this
problem, and when it becomes abso-
lutely certain that any scheme that
contemplates return of the railroads
to private control involves disaster,
the nation will turn to the Plumb
Plan as the only logical and equitable
remedy - the one way out of this
grave situation.
Great Britain has already resorted
to characterization as the solution of
its railroad problem, which has many
phases similar to those that confront
the United States.
A joint control agreement has al
ready been effected between the gov
ernment and the Railwaymen's Union,
following the general idea of the
Plumb Plan. 1t places the trans
portation system under the direction
of four representatives of the govern
ment, four of the public and four of
the workers union.
British workers gained their victory
through united effort, Mr. Burning
says, "the railwaymen's union having
the united support OF the entire trade
union movement"
The most significant development
of the struggle that is now being
waged between privilege, on one side,
and the general public on the other is
the better understanding that exists
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
WON'T LET MINERS WORK

Moundsville, w. Va. = Nearly 200
miners voted to return to work at the
mines of the Mineral State Coal COM
pany and when their committee called
at the office to notify the manage
ment to this effect gun men ordered
them off the premises. The coal
owners told the miners they would
not meet them, and miners living in
company houses are being urged to
sign individual contracts in which
they agree not to join the miners
union while in the company's employ.
This contract is similar to the one
used by the Hitchman Coal and Coke
company, this state, which was up
held by the United States supreme
court in 1917. The court sustained an
injunction by Federal Judge Dayton,
who restrained union organizers from
inducing men who signed this contract
to join the union. Judge Dayton
held, in effect, that when man,
through necessity, surrenders an
American right, this action will be
upheld on the theory of "sacredness
of contract"
The situation in this city has been
cslled to the attention of Attorney
General Palmer who is informed of
the Mineral State Coal company's in
reference with the production of coal.
AS yet no federal injunction has been
issued against the company.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
After MOIding Opinion
Press Gets From Under

After lashing the public into a
frenzy against coal miners who were
forced on strike to secure a living
wage, newspapers that cereated this
sentiment have changed front since
an injunction has been secured, the
miners funds are tied up and every
civil and military power of the gov
ernment is at the command of the in
junction Judge.
The public is beginning to sense
that coal operators have made amaz-
ing profits during the war and that
they are fighting to hold these profits
while attempting to place wage in
creases on the backs of the people.
So bouquets are being thrown at
the miners and the coal owners are
slapped on the wrist. In commenting
on Former Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo's statement regarding the
coal owners profits that ranged from
Is per cent to 1000 per cent, the New
York World illustrates the new policy.
1t affects virtuous indignation and
thunderously declares:
"Such testimony cannot be ignored.
If corroborated, it must convict the
mine owners not only of outrageous
profteering but of inhumanity. They
have underpaid their labor and they
have overcharged the public. Further
more, they have put their labor in the
wrong and they have appealed to
plundered public to make the odious
cause of monopoly its own. There
may be something meaner than that
but we do not know where it is"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Shall the Roads be Returned ?
By Charles M. Kelley

That the nation is now thoroughly
aroused to the menace of Legislation
proposing an immediate return of the
railroads to private control is proven
by a deluge of letters and kilograms
received by Senators and Congress
men protesting against precipitate
action. These letters and kilograms
are coming in constantly increasing
number, from farm and civic organ
.izations, from labor leaders and their
organizations, from leaders of thought
and popular opinion.
1t is demanded of Congress that the
railroads be retained under govern
ment control for at least two years
following declaration of peace, that
the American people may have suf-
fcient time to study the problem and
approach it from the angle of the
public welfare.
The public now realizes that if
either the Esch or Cummins bill, o.
a combination of these measures, is
enacted that its burdens will b, mea-
surably increased and it is argued
that govrnment control has not had
fair test, since it is easily proven that
many railway managers were ac no
pains to assist in making a .atis-
factory showing. Had the govern
ment had genuine cooperation the
results would have been generally
gratifying, and there would today be
no demand for a reversion to the old
regime.
Congress so far has advanced but
one solution for the vexing road prob
lem-the rewarding of private inter-
ests which so badly managed the rail-
roads that they had ceased to func-
tion when the government was forced
to intervene to save the situation.
The Plumb Plan for the democratiza-
tion of the transportation industry,
with it's tripartite control, ID the only
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
STEEL STRIKE SITUATION

Philadelphia, Pa.-The steel mills
of the country are thoroughly disor-
ganized, such of them as are able to
operate at all. Those which have any
force of employees in addition to fore
men, straw bosses, etc., have but
fraction of their normal number and
they have green men in place of ex-
perienced men. Not only are they
handicapped by fraction of their
normal forces and absence of ex-
perienced help, but the morale in the
mills borders on complete disorgan-
ization. The reason is simple; in a
strike, scabs and strike-breakers know
that they are practically immune from
discharge. Many of them are hoboes,
drifters, loafers, of one sort and an
other; large proportions of negroes
are employed in many mills-all of
these types of "workmen" are not th3
kind of guys to work any more than
necessary. Furthermore, the absence
OF an adequate number of experienced
employees, and the holes in the force
created by entire absence of all work
ers of essential crafts of one kind
and another, make it absolutely i'm
possible for the process of production
to go forward in normal, balanced
way. The result is that those work
ing in the mills are spending a huge
proportion of their loafing and daily
ing, fooling or fighting.
Orderly production cannot go ahead
under such conditions. Mills with
500 of their normal force could not
under such circumstances produce
1919 of their normal output. Further
more, interruption and delay in car
rying through their processes means
that the steel eventually will be of un-
even and defective quality. This ex-
plains the constant and frequent re-
ports of large proportions of the steel
produced being scrapped.
The following authentic informa-
tion reveals the true situation in the
Pennsylvania district:
Steubenville Investigates
Stenbenville, Ohio-The strikers in
Steubenville had read so much in the
newspapers about the failure" of
the strike that they sent delegates to
make tour of the Pittsburgh district
and find out at first hand the truth of
the situation. Here are some of the
things which they found out:
Homestead, Pa.
The mills are trying to produce and
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Metal POlishers Gain

New York-Nearly half hundred
firms have signed the wage agreement
Of Metal Polishers' unions Nos. IL
and 81. The shorter work week is
established as is an 85-cent minimum.
Cincinnati-Striking metal polish
ers employed by the Time Recording
company have secured the eight-hour
day and wage increases.
New Haven, Conn.-Metal polish
ers are included in an announcement
by the Underwood Typewriter COM
pany that the work week will be re-
duced from 81 to so hours.
Cincinnati = Officers of the Metal
Polishers' Internationl union report
that locals have been organized in
New Athens and Sterling, Ill.,; Bur
lington, Wis, and Stamford, Conn.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05

have probably about 1000 people at
work, out of a normal 10000. In
cluded among these are about 200
women, a large number of boys of 18
and under, hundreds of "1oater" and
"hobo" types, and great many
negroes, and it takes two to three of
these inexperienced negroes to do the
work of one experienced, steady steel
worker. There are $500 of the Home
stead workers who went on strike,
still out and standing like Gibraltar
Production at the Homestead mills is
about 1919 of normal and about half
the steel made is scrap.
BraddOck, Pa.
Here there are 5000 men on strike
out of 10000 1t should be recalled
that no meetings whatever are per-
mitted in Braddock. The strikers are
standing solid.
Rankin, Pa.
About 1870 of normal force is at
work in the Rankin mill. Production,
of course, is negligible.
DOnOra, Pa.
About 200 "men" are in the mills,
$500 on strike. The scrap machine in
the rod mill is the only thing working
in Donora. A count of men going over
the 9Th street bridge showed 122 men,
compared with PIG during the same
time week ago. In other words, the
mill here has lost "a scabs in the past
week.
JOhnstOwn, Pa.
The men here are more determined
than ever and say they have the Cam
bria mills licked The arrests of or
ganizers and the activities of the
"citizen's committee" driving the
leaders out of town, has solidified the
strikes. A recent count at the man
gate mill between and 6 P. M,
showed that the total coming out of
the mills comprised four trolley car
loads, two of these cars being small
ones. About 800 others walked
across the bridge, mostly girls and
white-collared men. The normal num-
Der employed about 10000.
Altoona, Pa.
The Pennsylvania Railroad shops
here have an order to make SO new
locomotives. 1t had been announced
that work would be begun on these
six weeks ago. The work has not been
started yet, because they can't get
steel.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Pressmen Make Gains

Pressmen's Home, Tenn. - 1t re-
quires six pages of the American
Pressman, official magazine of the
International Printing Pressmen and
Assistants union, to record recent ad-
vances by affiliates of this organiza-
toin. Every section of the United
States and Canada is represented and
the gains include wage increases,
shorter hours and improved working
conditions that were invariably Sc
cured through negotiations of 100 per
cent organizations.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
1000 PER CENT
HUGE COAL PROFITS EXPOSED
BY McADOO
The Former Secretary Gives Out Very
Interesting Information Regard
ing Earnings of Greedy Coal
Trust Mine Operators

New York =" Shocking and inde-
fensible" profits, ranging as high as
1000 per cent, were made by coal
owners in 1917, declared former Sec
retary of the Treasury McAdoo in a
telegram to Fuel Administrator Gar
field, who is urged not to permit the
coal owners to shift wage increases
to the public.
In referring to the Shocking and
indefensible" profits of the coal
owners, the ex-cabinet official said:
81 know this because, as secretary
of the treasury, examined in May,
1918, their income returns to the
treasury. Before deduction of ex-
cess profits taxes-which were less
in 1917 than now - these returns
showed earnings on capital stock
ranging from Is per cent to 1000
per cent. Earnings of 100 to 300 per
cent on capital stock were not un-
common.
"In report made by the treasury
in response to a senate resolution on
profteering in 1918 some striking
facts were given as to the earnings
of various companies engaged in pro-
duction of necessaries of life, includ-
ing fuel. Of course, / do not know
what the profits of the bituminous
coal operators were in 1918, since l
left the treasury in December. These
reports were not filed until March,
1919. But if they disclose any such
profits as earned by the bituminous
coal operators in 1917, it would be a
grave wrong to permit the operators
to take from the public additional
profits in the form of increased prices
for bituminous coal.
Moreover, if profits were even
measurably as great in 1913 as in
1917, the operators can well afford
to pay the increased wages to the
miners and still have perhaps
larger return upon the capital en-
ployed in the mines than they are
justly entitled to.
81 earnestly urge also that these
income tax returns be published.
They ought to be published so that
the American people can know what
the true facts are about the earnings
of the bituminous coal operators.
They are entitled to this information
and there is no reason why it should
be withheld, since the law permits it
in certain circumstances.
"It can be taken for granted that
the income tax returns of these COM
panies are more likely to understate
them than to overstate net earnings
for the purpose of taxation"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Printing Trades Gain

Printing Trades Gain
Portland, Oregon = An arbitration
board has made the following award
in the case of printing trades en-
ployes: Compositors, $40 a week;
cylinder pressmen, $40; bookbinders,
$40; stock cutters, $36; platen press
men, $36; cylinder feeders, $3.50;
platen feeders, $2250; bindery girls,
$21. These figures are based on 48-
hour week. Linotype operators were
not included. Their rates are covered
in the newspaper scale agreed to by
the Typographical union and pub
fishers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
MILLIONS OF TAXES DODGED

Washington-The treasury depart
ment is preparing to collect taxes
amounting to $2OO,OOO,OOO that have
been lodged. The drive is primarily
aimed at business concerns, but many
individuals will be included. 1t is
claimed that unlisted taxable proper
ty may total one billion dollars, or
one-fifth of the total amount to be
collected by the government this fiscal
year,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Bars Down to Women

Washington The United States
civil service commission announces
that hereafter women will be admit
ted to all examinations for federal
positions held by it. In the first six
months of this year so per cent of
the examinations conducted under the
commissions jurisdiction barred wo-
men.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Feeney is Chief Referee

Philadelphia-Frank Feeney, presi-
dent of the Elevator Constructors
International union, has been ap-
pointed supervising referee for the
state workmen's compensation bu-
reau. This position was created by
the last legislature and pays salary
of $4,000 a year.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Want 44-HOur Week

Toronto, Ont-The Jewelry Work
ers' union is preparing to ask for a
44-hour week and weekly minimum
of $45. AS very necessary prelimi-
nary these workers are enrolling nom
unionists.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
LABOR'S PROGRESS
advances Made and Better Conditions
Secured All Over the Country
Painters Join Union

Lafayette, Ind. = Officers of the
Brotherhood of Painters report that
during the month of September
membership gain of 1876 was re-
corded, making a total good standing
membership of 108,479.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
Steam Engineers Gain

New York-Steam Engineers union
No. 184 has established a new rate
of $48 a week. If a man is ordered
to report for work and is later told
there is no work he is paid $10a day.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-12-05
WAGE INCREASES
Gains in Wages Made by Organized
Labor Throughout the Nation

Raise Wages 81 A Day
New York-Organized tunnel and
subway constructors have raised
wages So day effective the first of
the year.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1919-03-31
IN MEN E)RIAM

ryy0N S--In loving remembrance g our
grandmother, Elixa II Thomas, WHO us-
narfasi thss life 0ne year ag0 kvaaS'
March 81. 1VsS
yger smiling face we see no more,
Her spirit Id at rest,
SIZE has gUns ~ be with Jesus
hi ahe land III the blessea.
~ fAIa fassh pser guide ua on.
And heal our aching hearts,
nj think nY thnt sweet time 10 come
when We shall never part
RY HER GRANDCHILDREN.
AMI
THOMAS in ead. but lovinE retIlenl.
hranee 1T our dear mother, ELIZA y
Thomas who departed this life one yeat
ago to-day. March Stat. 1913
gleel, on dear mother and tRke your rest
taod called you home. He Thought Il best
ne saw your suffering here 80 great.
AID opened Wide the Knlden gates.
From Il world 0f pain and sorrow,
10 land Of peace and rest
fs0sl has taken yoH dear mother.
Where YOU have found eternal resi-.
Al precious one from us has gone.
a voice we loved is still.
place In vacant IN 0ur home,
WhArh never cnis be tllteds
3.sI ksY HER 4lAti9sttTEItS.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1919-03-31
REsUL as THAT REMAIN
Are Apprssea 81 Annapslis people.

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Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1919-03-31
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