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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
MOB CHIEF ARRESTED

Jackson, Mich. - William Faupel,
sergeant of the state constabulary,
has been placed under $500 bonds for
leading the mob that tarred and
feathered Herbert Crawford, organ
izer of the Machinists' union. The
mob was according the same treat
ment to another man whom they be-
lieved was a trade union organizer,
but discovered that their victim was a
travelling man.
The outrage was committed on No
vember 2, last, and on December 4
the Saulte Ste Marie trades and labor
council protested to Gov. Sleeper, who
seems we'll named. He replied:
"This is the first intimation / have
had in the matter of Jackson. For
some reason l had not heard of it.
However, We are investigating it and
will do so thoroughly, and hope it is
not as bad as represented"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
UNEXPECTED REACTION
The "Frame-Up' on Mooney and His Co-Defend
ants Now Worldwide Issue
Action of the "Law and Order Committee" Has But More
Firmly Cemented the Bonds Uniting Labor's Broth
erhood---Voice From MONEYS Living Tomb
Reaches Through the World

by the exercise of the royal preroga-
tive of a pardon.
The governor of California COM
muted death sentence to life imprison-
ment, a crowning act of stupidity and
injustice.
Little did the corporate interests
of California realize that Mooney in
his living tomb speaks now with a
thousand voices where he had but one
before.
Little did they realize that Labor
for it's own protection must prevent
the establishment of legal precedents,
which if allowed to remain, will cause
unsafe the life and liberty of any
champion of Labor's cause, as long
as unscrupulous men with money
enough to hire perjurers can get away
with a frame up.
While labor papers may educate
one man to use his ballot intelligent
| ly, the millionaire-owned big dailies
will miseducate ten.
But Labor's economic power is alb
solutely unquestionable. 1t is in the
hands of labor itself. If organized
on definite clear-cut lines, voicing as
in trade movement for hours, wages
| or shop-conditions the opinion of the
rank and file, coordinating their &C.
tivities through the instrumentality
of central and national bodies, there
can be no doubt of it's efficacy.
Labor must at once devise plans t
successfully combat the new peri
that confronts it through the judicia
approval or indulgence in the Moone!
frame-up.
The "call" has gone forth to loca
unions, central labor councils, state
federations and internationals. NJ
Labor man with his ears to the
ground, listening to the approach o.
coming events, can afford to ignore
the most democratic movement evel
conceived in the history of America
He should insist upon having his owl
voice heard, through instructed dele
gates if need be, thus picking up thu
gauntlet of big business and flingint
it back in their teeth.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
World Labor League
Can't Set Standards

Washington. - A proposed world
labor league, credited to the British
war cabinet, will not be acceptable to
American workers, who will insist on
setting their own standards, declared
A. F. of L. secretary Frank Morrison,
replying to a newspaper agency's re-
quest for an opinion on this project.
Dispatches from London state that
the peace conference will be asked to
appoint a commission to inquire into
the question of an international ad-
iustment of conditions of employ
ment "to prepare the way for inter-
national regulation of conditions of
employment, which would be death
blow to sweating"
"No one will object" said Secretary
Morrison, "to dealing death blow to
sweating" but l question if Ameri-
can labor will turn its affairs over to
an international committee.
'Under such system, iron workers
in America could not improve condl-
tions if their present standards are
in excess of the Belgium iron work
ers, for instance. This would be q
good system-for the employers in
America and England, whose workers
are better conditioned than those OF
the continent.
"The best way to internationalizt
standards of working people is tc
first establish American standards
Any other system of internationaliza
ton means that the American work
er must surrender gains made or the
American worker must postpone fur
ther gains until workers in continent
al Europe reach his present standards
"The American worker will accep
no such principle, regardless of an!
decision that may be made at the
peace conference"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Nolan Indictments
Quashed by Court

San Franciso. = Superior Court
Judge Griffin has dismissed three in
Hctments against Edward D. Nolan,
charged with manufacturing the
bomb used in the alleged Mooney
bomb outrage during the prepared
ness parade on July %, 1916.
Nolan was in jail nine months, but
after the Oxman perjury expose he
was admitted to bail, when Captain
of Detectives Matheson acknowledged
that the police had no evidence to
hold the union machinist.
District Attorney Fickert, through
one of his assistants, agreed to the
dismissal of the indictments. There
are still pending against Nolan three
indictments in Judge Dunne's court
and two in Judge Cabannis' court.
When Nolan was arrested District
Attorney Fickert famed the flames
of a hostile public opinion by charg-
ing that "the ingredients of high
explosive" were found in the home
of the accused. The defense showed
that the explosive" was ordinary
Epson salts. Fickert then found "a
expert" who claimed that this medi-
cine could be used in the manufacture
of bombs.
The dismissal of the indictments is
another one of the many reverses re-
ceived by the prosecution since the
Oxman perjury discovery. Before
that Warren K. Billings was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment and
Thomas ]. Mooney was sentenced to
death, which has since been changed
to life Imprisonment by Governor
Stephens. Following the Oxman ex-
pose Mrs. Mooney and Israel Vein
berg were acquitted at their first
trials. In these cases the prosecu-
tion did not use Oxman, the principa
witness against Mooney.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
WORKERS SICKNESS CAUSES
MOST POVERTY

Philadelphia. - The Pennsylvania
health insurance commission finds that
sickness is the largest single factor
toward poverty.
The commission was created by the
1917 legislature to investigate sick
ness and the various health insurance
plans in this and other countries and
make its report to the legislature.
1t is stated that more than 10000
employees in Pennsylvania are i'll every
day in the year, or on an average of
six days per year for each wage
worker, and that upward of $35,000,-
900 is lost in wages each year on ac-
count of sickness.
Sickness, the commission has learn
ed, is the largest single factor toward
destitution and pauperism. In SO per
cent of the cases handled by the
united Hebrew charities of this city
in 1917 and 1918, sickness was the
main factor. In 81 per cent of the
cases handled by the local bureau of
Jewish charities in 1916 and 1917,
sickness of parents was given as the
reason for the application.
From 40 to so per cent of cases of
dependency in the state, the primary
cause is sickness, according to figures
gathered throughout the state in the
last two years.
In an investigation in the bitu-
minous coal region it was found that
health conditions among the miners
and their families were poor, and
that prenatal care was almost un-
known. In Fayette county the infant
death rate was 100 per 1000.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
LOW WAGES AND HIGH DEATH
RATE OF BABES

Washington. = Every trade union
argument against low wages and their
effect upon society is packed into
chart that is part of the annual report
of Miss Julia c. Lathrop, chief of the
children's bureau, department of labor
The chart shows that the death rate
for babies whose fathers earned less
than $3.50 was 1913 per 1000 births,
or more than one in every six. When
the fathers earned $3.50 or more,
the death rate for their babies was
64.3 per 1000 births, or one in 16.
The Indictment against the evils of
low wages that effects not only the
family, but society as a whole, was
made possible by an investigation in
eight cities. 1t is based upon inter-
views with mothers of nearly 25,OOO
live-born babies.
The report says that since these
figures have been gathered, wages are
probably increased, but
'"The figures recently published by
the bureau of labor statistics of this
department, however, showing gen.
eral increases in the cost of living,
afford no indication that the ad-
vantage to infant life can be at this
time in propotion to the presumable
increase in fathers cash earnings"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

Little did the San Francisco Cham
Der of Commerce suspect that the
desperate efforts of their million dol
lar claw and Order Committee" or
ganized in 1916 to destroy the Labor
Movement of San Franciso, would re-
suit in cementing the solidarity of
Labor's forces far beyond the boun-
daries of California, even of the
United States, aye, to the ends of the
earth.
The "frame-up" on Mooney and his
co-defendants has become a world is
sue, and the insistent demands for
justice has become rallying point
around which surges the flowing tide
of Labor's growing voice. Not alone
in the great industrial centers of the
world, but on the very frontiers of
civilization where the white man min
giles with other races, "The Mooney
Case" stalks like an ominous Franken-
stein threatening to destroy belief in
IIlS COuIIS, CuOSS SOlSlIlIl lISCIIuCAOIlS
which the overlords of society have
chosen to surround with a halo of
semi-sacredness, in order that the
masses of men may not scrutinize
their inner workings too closely.
Time moves and we move with
them! w
Americans, that is, those Americans
who think and feel like human beings,
who are not satisfied merely to browse
like cattle on straws from the capital
istic threshing machine, find them
selves to adopt their own means to
establish justice where courts have
declared themselves bankrupt.
The trial court presided over by
Judge Franklin A. Griffin, the only
court that heard the evidence, has de-
clared that the court was imposed
upon by fraud and perjury and there
fore the Mooney verdict should not
stand. The Appellate Court, the Su-
preme Court of California and the Su-
preme Court of the United States dc
not deny that there may have been
fraud or perjury used, but it is THEN
contention that as long as none of the
sacred rules of the law books were
violated relief could not be afforded
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Demands Eight Hour Day

Boston.-A demand for the eight
hour day was the feature of Speaker
Warmers address at the opening of
the state legislature.
"No state" he said, "should permit
transgression of the eight-hour day
when the transgression assails and
impairs the health of its people. We
can afford to lose from our borders
those industries whose greed and
selfishness outweigh the physical
we'll being and nourishment of
mothers and future citizens.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
LABORITES CAPTURE OFFICES.

The laborites of Winnipeg made a
clean sweep of all the offices in the
city, including the entire municipal, in
the December elections. The mayor
is member of the International As
sociation of Machinists, as are four
of the eight councillors. The other
four are members, respectively, of the
Sheet Metal Workers, the Brother
hood of Blacksmiths, the Carpenters
and Joiners and of Painters and Paper
Hangers. Among the aldermen are a
teamster, member of the Typopraph-
ical Union and the secretary of the
local Trades Union and Labor Assem-
bly,.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
NOT FOOLED
ROCKEFELhER'S PLAN WOULD
DODGE ISSUE
Opposed to Principles of Organized
LabOr-The EmplOye Can Only
Accept the Decision of
The Employer

INDIANAPOLIS. - The United Mine
Workers Journal is not fooled by the
phrases of John D. Rockefeller, jr.,
and Chas. M. Schwab, who discussed
the labor question before conference
of business men at Atlantic City re-
Gently.
Rockefeller told the business men
about his Colorado "union," which
permits the worker to present griev-
ances to foremen and clear up to the
general manager.
"In each instance" says the United
Mine Workers Journal, at is the boss
and the representative of the en-
ployer who makes the decision. The
employe merely has the right to ac-
cept the decision Of the employer.
at will be noted that Rockefeller
named the Consolidation Coal COM
panyas one of the corporations that
had adopted the Rockefeller industrial
plan. But he failed to tell his audi
ence that, after trying that plan, the
company abandoned it and dumped
it in the discard and in it's place en-
tered into a working and wage agree
ment with the United Mine Workers
of America on union basis.
Rockefeller said that there shOulc
be closer cooperation between en-
ployer and employe and that there
should be a community of interest
But his plan contemplates that the
employer shall have the final wore
in the decision of all complaints ant
grievances.
at seemed to dawn on the employ
ers at this conference that labor wa!
a powerful factor in the industrial life
of the nation. There was much tall
about capital and labor going hant
in hand in the reconstruction periot
in American industry, and there were
those who said a good word for or
ganized labor.
"But on the final show down thu
conference approved the Rockefelle
plan, which is ultra opposed to tn
principles of organized labor. There
fore it becomes evident that organ
lied labor has got to fight for every
thing that it gets from now on.
Acceptance of the Rockefeller in
dustrial plan would mean that labor
ing men would be compelled to throw
aside all of the hopes that they hav
built up on the foundation of the la
Dor movement. This will not do. En-
ployers must find something beside
the Rockefeller plan as basis TO
meeting the labor problem"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
JanitOrs Raise Wages

Chicago.-With an almost 100 per
cent organization, janitors in this city
succeeded in winning their strike for
higher wages. Rates are doubled in
some cases. Under the new agree
ment janitor must be given Is days
notice before he can be discharged.
If he lives inSthe building he must
have Is days to move. The workers
must give Is days notice if they in
tend quitting their employment. Wives
of janitors can not be hired for jani-
tor work. This stops the practice of
an entire family working to secure a
bare living.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
TeIegraphers Gain

Washington.-Wage increases of 5
and 10 per cent to all employees of
telegraph systems under government
control have been announced by Post
master General Burleson. The 5 per
cent applies to employees who have
been in the service continuously for
six months and not more than one
and one-half years. The 10 per cent
applies to employees who have been
in the service continuously for more
than one and one-half years. These
rates shall not apply to premium
rates nor to premium earnings and
the advance cannot raise wages more
than 5000 a month.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Better Housing Urged

Sioux City, Iowa.-A movement to
secure the building of better homes
for working people in this state is
gaining strength through the activity
of the Iowa State Housing associa-
ton, which was organized for this
purpose. The proposed law would
regulate window openings, floor areas,
sanitation, ventilation, fire protection,
privacy, and the height of dwellings.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Printers Raise Wages

Dubuque, Iowa. : The Typograph-
ical union has secured a fve-year
agreement with employers which
raises rates to $26 and $28 a week.
The contract may be reopened the
first of every year by either party on
60-days' notice.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Electricians Gain

Tacoma, Wash.-Municipal electric
ians and the city council have ad-
justed wage differences. The new
rates are: Line men, journeymen,
$6.40 day; foremen, $7.40 a day;
superintendent, 5000 a month.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

San Franciso. - According to an
agreement between the Franklin
Printing Trade association and Typo
graphical union No. FL a raise in
wages of So per week for job printers
became effective January 1, making
the basic wage $50 per week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

MISUNDERSTANDING the month of
December 618 new members joined
the International Brotherhood of
Bookbinders. The brotherhood has
issued charter to the men and wom-
en- employed in the Kansas City paper
box industry, cutters, gluing machine
operators and assistants.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Railway Clerks Uniting

Stockton, Cal.-Railway clerks in
this city are awakening to the ad-
vantages of organization and are act
ing accordingly.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Active in Wheeling

Wheeling, w. Va.-The trade union
movement is enthusiastic in the cam
paign to organize the iron and steel
mills in this vicinity.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

Read the advertisements in the
Leader-they contain information for
everything you need.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
WAGE INCREASES
Gains in Wages Made by Organized
Labor Throughout the Nation
COOpers Raise Wages

Houston, Tex-Organized coopers
have raised wages from 571a to 70
cents an hour and secured one-year
contract.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
Paper Rulers Unite

Boston.-Paper rulers in this city
have organized and affiliated with the
International Brotherhood of Book
binders.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17
LABOR'S PROGRESS
Advances Made and Better Conditions
Secured All Over the Country
ColOred Workers Unite

New Orleans.-Colored box makers
have formed a union and affiliated
with the A. F. of l..
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

The business men whose ads appear
in the Leader are entitled to your
support.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

WE SELL THRIFT STAMPS
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-01-17

Official Organ of Organized Labor
LOCAL VOICE OF THE AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR
Subscription price, $1.OO per year
Single copies cents
INVEST IN THRIFT STAMPS
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-06-28
THE SPOILERS

Spoil if you will but don't waste.
This advice as curious as it may ap-
pear is daily given to classes of smart
women who are interesting themselves
in domestic science as applied to eV-
ery-day kitchen problems.
Today, housewives whether rich or
poor are equally concerned in the
worldwide service of eliminating
waste. Not only at their clubs but in
their daily practices at home, each
woman is busy reducing the little loss
es here and there in order to increase
the purchasing power of her dollar or
dime as the case may be.
Every housewife will quickly det1t
any inferiority of her matches. The
warning wartime quality is not nee
essary in order for her detection, but
it is not so easy with baking powder
Too often she judges its quality by
the price or the size of the package.
Perhaps it would be better to say that
she misiudges by these methods.
Take concrete example-a 10-cent
can of highest quality baking powder
such as Calumet, of which it is only
necessary to use one level spoonful to
the cup of -four, represents real econ
omy as compared with the Big Can,
fully double the size containing mostly
some cheap filler which is used chiefly
for the purpose of satisfying those
who want lot for their money and
who practice the false economy of
overlooking the real service that quail
ity goods give. Just as a bottle OF
cream is worth more than a bottle OF
milk, twice it's size, so is a box of
quality matches or bar of good soap
worth two of poor grade.-Adv.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-06-28
NORTH CAROLINA WAS FIRST
Published Declaration of independence
Long Before the One Which Has
Become Immortal.

North Carolina not only disputes
with New England the honor of the
first battle of the Revolution, and the
credit of holding the first "tea party"
but points with pride to It's Mecklen-
burg Declaration of Independence, an
tedating that Of Philadelphia by two
months. The battle of Alamance was
fought in 1771. admitted by at least
one New England historian, Bancroft,
rs being the first of the Revolution.
The tea party was held in front of the
governors palace at least eighty years
before Boston dumped her tea in the
harbOr.
Therefore, all North Carolinians
have right to consider themselves
descendants of the real and original
founders Of liberty"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-06-28

heaven. and prayed, in words and
tones which thrilled every heart. For
bid it, Almighty God! He then
turned toward the timid loyalists of
the house, who were quaking with ter
ror at the idea Of the consequences Of
participating in proceedings which
would be visited with the penalties Of
treason by the British crown; and he
slowly bent his form yet nearer to the
earth, and said: 4 know not what
course others may take and he ac-
companied the words with his hands
still crossed, while he seemed to be
weighted down with his emotion.
continuing. he lifted one hand firm
~, as if holding dagger with the
point aimed at his breast He stood
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-06-28
WHEN PATRIOT SPOKE
Rinqing Words of Patrick Henry
Are Enshrined in Hearts of 7
All Free Men. /

~ know not what course others may
take, but as for me, give me liberty
or give me DEATH"
THESE were the ringing, closing
words of Patrick Henry on
Il March %, 1875, as he delivered
His immortal and eloquent address In
support of the resolutions passed by the
second revolutionary convention OF
Virginia, Of which he was an honored
delegate.
For six months the various colonies
had been making military prepare
tions. Lord Dunmore in Virginia wrote
IN December, 1874, TO the earl Of Dart
mouth:
Every county is now arming COM
many of men, whom they call an In
dependent company for the avowed
purpose of protecting their committees
and to be employed against the govern
meht If occasion require"
Ayhpn the movement for a Nell-reg
Mated militia, referred to above, was
I introduced in the revolutionary con-
cress in Virginia, it met some oppO-
sition, not because it was premature.
but because Patrick Henry came out
more boldly for war than anyone in
the colonies had done before that time.
Nearly fifty years later Thomas JEFF
ferson said after all, it must be al
lowed that Patrick Henry was our
leader in the measures of the resOlu-
tons in Virginia, and in that respect
more IS due to him than to any other
person. He left us all be-
hind"
John Roane, who heard Patrick Hen
rvs famous speech described it to
Edward Fontaine in 1884, and this
manuscript is in the library of Cornell
university:
"You remember, sir, the conclusion
of the speech, so often detained in
various ways by schoolboys-Ts life
so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be
purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
know not what course others may
take, but as for me, give me liberty,
or give me DEATH He gave each of
these words a meaning which is not
conveyed by the reading or delivery
of them in the ordinary way.
after a solemn pause, he raised
his eyes and chained hands toward
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-06-28

Revolutionary times has been recon-
structed ct Broadway and Two Hun
is built of stones eXcavated from the
ruins of some 40 of the barracks that
have of late been uncovered on the east
slope of the historical ridge, and of
timbers of Long Island barn erected
in the latter part of the eighteenth GEN.
fury. 1t contains many of the relics
that have been recovered during the
excavating, which has been carried on
for several years.-Popular Mechanics
Magazine