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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-20
Hope Eden Will
Answer Questions
\ at the Columbia

The program ut the Columbia for
(tasc0ming week 10 one Of unusual
tAfit and bears the guarantee Of
the management rs to its class and
WITHDRAWING possibilities. Booked
Tor the entire week is the most
lhystifying and unusual mind read
ting act, that has ever been present.
led to the public through the me-
dunn OF the vaudeville stage. Miss
Hope Eden. young lady Of 20 will
answer all questions, will tell your
llame. your thoughts. will locate
lost articles and will give an exit
.bition Of experimentation of
thought or what might be called a
perfected silent wireless. Miss Hope
Eden IL supported by Norman r.
T.escott known as the master mind,
find'the originator Of this act. which
10 has named mentelepathy. Miss
Ellen will make shopping tour OF
tte city visiting the various sores.
Sac will also be pleased to answer
questions that may be deposited in
4he box OF the Columbia theatre
libby. Supporting this wonderful
henGline act will be Stafford De-
Ross & Co. presenting an ALA
Carte Revue; Harry Kahne e. Co.
viii feature a demonstration OF
cuintuple mind concentration. He
does Ave different and distinct
xhings at the same time: reading.
writing. spelling, talking and add
arg a column<of figures: Jim and
Nary Harkins presenting a comedy
&c Talking About Their Neigh
bors"; Phyllis Gilmore & Co. pre-
senting a surprising little comedy
entitled "Blackmail' and the Cab
herts. Americas ingenious athletes.
l. The last half Of the week the
management Is pleased to announce
Z holiday bill opening Thanksgiv-
ing day, which In addition to the
hcadliners Hope Eden and Pres
cpts," will include the strongest ag-
Eregation of acts seen on the Co
itmbia stage this season. Lillian
bernard ard her FIVE jazz clowns
q syncopation: Buddy Walter will
present cycle Of songs by special
arrangement with that great artist.
Miss Nan Halperin: McDevitt. Kelly
and Quinn. have hilarious comedy
&c entitled 1.-The Piano Movers and
the Actress" Lawton will present |
q few new ideas In juggling and
one other Orpheum act yet TO be !
,1ecured will complete the bill.
On Thursday, Nov. Is. Thanksgiv-
t4ssd day. three complete perform |
ances will be given: ct 2:4S. 1880
ana 1:16. Although the offerings
~ the coming week will bs way
lkyund the usual programs. no ad-
'{knce In admiseion will be charged
: n With the d1nlV kion Of Thanks-
y4ng day. ~ us1Al psrtormancss
fGsG1VQuA ~ ~ -
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-20
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chic daughter Of the polite under
world added another to her already
long list OF successes. Wyndham
Standing, who won his fame as a
leading man in many roles on both
sides Of the water, as lawyer was
lover to win the heart OF even
a, coldly calculating girl Of the
crook colony. Others in the sup
porting cast we're Florence Turner,
Alfred Allen, Edward Cecil, Lydia
Knott, Fred Kelsey and Jack Roi.
A. S. Levine made the screen
adaptation and Dallas M. Fitzger-
aid was director. John Arnold was
cameraman. A. R. Mantz designed
the special art interiors.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-20

Thsfs are two reasons Why wom-
en- hunger fpe luxury: the Afst that
they hays bssn brought up amid
the surrounds d wealth and %
ind the hack a them . hardship;
and the sscond that. having pad
died during their youth IN the
ankls-dssp waters Of poverty. hey
long fot the plunge into fathomless
golden dspths.
And 20 Of one Of these two
classes was Olivia Sherwood, en-
dowed with beauty and charm and
with two thousand dollars . year
which Vas not . months pin
money to the ret she moved in.
Tho result was Inevitable; and
because Of Olfvia's youth and IN
geniousness accomplished quickly
she accepted fayors. not realis-
ing fully what return was ex-
pected.
It was Characteristic Of her. too,
to keep promises; but when real
love came, Olivia felt heart and
conscience - two kinds Of coz
science within her.
A tremendous, startling and al
ways human drama is Clothes"
by Avery Hopwood and Claiming
Pollock, to be presented 1t the Ma
Jestic. starting Sunday. with the
magnificence expected Of q Metro
special production, and enacted by
an all-star cast including Olive
Tell, Crawford Kent. Cyril Chad
wick, Frank Currier and Mary Bea-
ton.
"Blackmail," q screen version Of
Lucia Chamberlain's Saturday Eve
ming Post story Of the skillful
workings of the crook world, will
be shown at the Majestic Thursday
and Friday, with Viola Dana in
the star role. The film, which is a
Metro special production, deals
with that strata Of society always
Of fascinating interest to q large
percentage of humanity and the
special worry Of the police.
Miss, Dana appears in the role OF
Flossie Golden. the beautiful daugh-
ter of q famous crook who is urged
by her dying father not to let the
The labor world., 1920-07-17

Of getting out one ton Of COAL He
showed that official figures varied
from $.125 to $3.50 ton, and he
save in detail the basis of his own
calculations as practical miner that
the miner gets 50 cents for each ton
he mines. When this coal sells at
sl2.75 ton,. or even as high as
'$14:50, both miners and consumers
justly become suspicious of the whole
industry. and accordingly he. suggest
ed that the government should take
over four anthracite mines and one
coal washery, in order that a practi-
cal experiment can be conducted to
ascertain the exact costs Of producing
and marketing a ton Of coal in small,
medium and large veins. I add to
that the suggestion that a like expert
ment be made in the bituminous coal
industry, Both the United Mine
Workers Of America and the oper-
ators should be Represented in the
management Of such experimental
mines, but absolute control should.
lie in the xovernme ment so that thsrss
The labor world., 1920-07-17
WILL NOT TURN
:MURhIAN: DOWN
Commissioner Voss, unswayed
by the Prejudice Of Moment, :
viii Stand by MurnIan.

The stock Of Fred Voss, commits
sloner Of finance, went up consider
ably in the estimate of union labor
when he came to the defence Of Com
missioner Murnian following the
grand jury report. While there were
hundreds to jump on the censured
official, Mr.. Voss kept his head, re-
membered the long list of grand jury
seedlings that have been given to pub
lie officials in his time, and cour-
ageously defended Mr.. Murnian.
Mr.. Voss is entitled to honorary
membership in what former secretary
Of the interior, Franklin Lane, is
pleased to call the League of Ap:
preciation." -.
Mr.. Voss said he has great deal
of sympathy for Mr.. Murnian and is
opposed to making any change; that
Mr.. Murnian is a man Of high prin-
ciple who has done the best he could.
1T Is easy to say after q thini has
been done. what should have been
done, but it is hard to say what we
would ave done under like circum-
stances, declared Mr.. Voss. eve all
make mistakes and the man who is
worth while profits by them. There
Is no question in my mind that what
mr.: Murnian has gone through will
help him in the future I do not
oeheve in hitting a man when he is
down. and I certainly do not intend
to vote to remove Mr.. Murnian from
his present office'
The labor world., 1920-07-17

could be no question as to the I'M
rartiality and reliability Of the results
reported from time. to time.
There is ample precedent for the
governments doing what we ask, for
the government, through the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, conducts expert
mental farms and builds experimental
roads, and, during the war we learned
that the government can do anything
and everything in any and every line
Of industry. The Ferry plan would
cost the government nothing. for the
money invested would be returned to
the treasury in profits on the coal
produced and marketed. .-...s.
! Lest the objection be raised that
this proposal is but an entering
wedge toward the naturalization Of
all the mines. may say that in my
Judgment the operators would find It
the best insurance against nationali-
zation, provided they sco-operated
fully in the experiment and learned.
applied and proated by the lessons
il would teach. q S.
The labor world., 1920-07-17
Miners UNION ASKS UNCLE SAM TO ACQUIRE EXPERIMENTAL MINES

Governmental acquisition and op-
GRAFTON of experimental coal mines.
both anthracite and bituminous, is
urged in proposal laid before the
Anthracite Coal Commission, now sit,
ting at Scranton, by Thomas Ken
nedy, president of District No. 7.
United Nine Workers of America. AS
precedents for this departure Mr..
Kennedy cited the operation of ex-
perimental farms and the building Of
experim entail roads by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and as his
strongest argument in support of his
suggestion he declared that the time
had come to let the public know the
exact truth about the basic facts
about mining--managemen equip
n:ent, costs and profits.
Mr.. Kennedys suggestion is known
as the FERRY Plan" taking it's name
from Neal Ferry, chosen by President
Wilson to represent the miners on
The Anthracite Coal Commission, who
first proposed it at the recent tri-
district convention OF .anthracits
The labor world., 1920-07-17

miners held at Wilkesbarre. That con-
Sention approved and adopted the
Ferry plan. and the Anthracite Coal
Commission is now asked to incor-
porate in its decision in the present
case a Recommendation to President
Wilson that. the government go into
the coal mining business. Lest the.
operators fear that this would mean
step toward the naturalization of
all the mines Mr.. Kennedy said he
believed the adoption of the plan
would be the best insurance against
naturalization, provided the opera
tors co-operated in the experiment
and prof1ted by the lessons learned
therefrom. His statement to the COM
mission was as follows:
THE controversy in this case ~
to the character of evidence properly
to be laid before the commission and
as to the reliability Of data and sta
t'stics submitted by either side tmpels
me to call the commission . attention
Eto. the Fsrrx plan Tor governmental
The labor world., 1920-07-17

acquisition and operation of expert
mental mines. and to urge that the
commission incorporate in it's deci-
sion a recommendation to the presi-
dent of the United States that the
government adopt and carry out the
Ferry plan.
1.-The time has come when the pub
lie must know the exact truth about
the basic facts Of mining-manage-
ment, equipment, costs and profits
II we are to hope for stability in the
industry and assquare dea, for the
mine workers and the consumers of
coal. The Ferry plan takes it's name
from our distinguished and respected
representative on this commission,
Mr., Neal Ferry, who first proposed
it at the tri-district convention of
anthracite mine workers held recent
ly at Wilkes-Barre.
c"'Ae Mr.. Ferry told our convention,
after thirty years Of investigator
the government itself does not know
the frst thing ABOUT minink the cost
The labor world., 1920-07-17
bb GBUS|NESS WOULD DESTROY
MTERCHuRCH WORLD MOVEMENT
ch Program Ran Counter to Wishes and Interests Of Fat
Boys and Contributions Were withheld Six Million Dollars
In Debit Made Attempt to Find Cause Of Industrial Unrest.
By CHARLES NJ. ~ELLEY.

WASHINGTON, July 16-FaD "tor he Interchurch World
Movement the most ambitious cdertaken by the
America attention Can ination Of
large business interests to dominate chan% and
action in this country. ~. 'a,
1nerchurch World Movements industrial
the wishes and the interests of Big Business its end
inevitable survey Of the steel industry undertaken during
the strike and against the protest Of officials the rock
which the movement broke
1t reported that when they could report of the
by purchase their agent attempted to steal it. That falling
word sent to the fellows destroy the
mnt by withholding from funds that had been pledged which
to the carrying out Of the Inerchurch program
Churches Recognized Right of Collective Bargaining.
AS long 1908 the Federal Council of Churches
in America which the active force back Of the ntercuch
mnt adopted industrial which recognized the right
collective bargaining demanded the of
that civilization and contrary the teachings
of Jesus Christi declared that the industrial
trial. and favored reforms that ultimately would establish
racy in industry
It pursuant to the declaration that the
department OF the nterchurc made it's steel
and coal industries and about to extend its Investigations
other fields when the became Forty dollars
that had been promised by friends withheld
nothing to do but wind the affairs the organization
The labor world., 1920-07-17
Plenty /! OF SuGARF0R
SPECuLATlVE1PuRP0SES

NEW YORK, July 1e.-mere
appears to be plenty of sugar for
speculative purposes, according to
a statement, by Mrs. Louis Reed
Weizmtller, deputy commissioner
Of public markets. She said:
~Housewives have been left I'm
the. lurch while speculators held
sugar for profit and concessions
have been made to the Gamers and
preservers whereby they have even
obtained special service from rail-
roads and a special price.
samuel A. Berger of the depart
.ment OF JUSTICE" the deputy COM
missioner said, '1s authority for
the statement that 5000, ,OOO, 900 has
been loaned to finance q specula-
tive condition, or, in other words,
to finance or promote speculation
in sugar. 1t is claimed this sugar
is in Cuba"
The labor world., 1920-07-17
AGAINST
cUN:MAN RULE.
West Virginia Miners Endure Il
No Longer and Make Effective
Protest.

WILLIAMSON, w. Va, July &c.
Coal miners in this vicinity have sus-
pended work rather than endure gun
man rule and non-union conditions.
The coal owners have refused to dis
cuss a settlement of the strike with
representatives of. the United States
department of labor and the wives
and children of victimized miners are
living in tent colonies as g. result
These families have been evicted
from company houses.
The miners are backed by the
trade union movement OF West Vir-
ginia. These workers have made re-
peated. appeals to the state authori-
ties and to the public conscience
against the rule Of murderous private
armies maintained by the coal own
ers, but to no avail. Killings are fire.
!quent, working conditions are unbear-
able and discharge awaits any miner
known to favor organization.
The miners have been forced to
accept the challenge Of these indus
trial bandits. Governor Cornwall re-
mains blind to the coal owners an
archy and is devoting his time to
perfecting the American Constitu-
tional association, of which he is
president.
In recent circular to its members
this association denounced the union
shop and declared: 1.-THE American
Constitutional association is organized
to preserve reverence for law
The labor world., 1920-07-17
Minimum
WACEF0R WOMEN
California Commission Makes
Legal Scale for Women and
Minors In Stores.

= SAN FRANCISCO, July 1e.-A
minimum wage ranging from $40 to
SIG a week for women and minors
employed in California stores is an
nounced by the state industrial well
fare commission. More than 10000
workers are affected.
Apprentices under 1S years of age
must be paid SO and 1S or over $12
a week. The SO wage must be raised
to $12 at the end of the first six
months and $14 at the end Of a year.
The workers under the $12 initial
wage must be raised to $14 at the
end of the first three months and to
SIG at the end Of the next three
months.
No employer may employ as ap-
prentices more than one-third of the
total number of his women and fe-
male minor workers. The appren-
tees must be registered with the
commission within two weeks after
employment.
The labor world., 1920-07-17

FEDERATED TRADES ASSEMBLY VOTES TO HOLD Big
PARADE on LABOR DAY and APPEALS FOR SUPPORT

is in
estonnare
or
IN paraeh be A few
e duin
countof the
E. oca1a of
parade and getting 100 This
will
affiliated rand
OOOunon enand
of reandt
hand
the
full turnout on Labor Day will them
Georgia. and other patriotic
labor oft
o
let US all get Each should take the
attend
held Owls get
will be in
kersh
will be
be the big parade and sacrifice All aboard
The labor world., 1920-07-17
MEXIC0'S WEALTH
CAUSE0F STRIFE
New York Banker Tells Of Trou.
bic There and Real Cause
Of L.

NEW YORK, July 1e.-Mexico's
wealth is responsible for continuous
trouble in that country, according to
William H. Ellis, banker, on his re-
turn from visit to the southern re-
public.
"A country that is poor nobody
fights for and nobody cares about"
he said, in calling attention to these
sources Of Mexican wealth:
A country that can produce three
crops Of corn a year, that averaged
ir 1913 more than 12h per cent Of
the production Of the oil Of the en-
tire world, that can produce gola.
silver, copper, lead. timber, coal and
fruits of both the torrid and tenn
perate zones.
(; There are today in Mexico lands
selling from $1,000 up to $4,000 an
acre in oil regions which 80 years
age I could have bought for so cents
an acre, American money"
The labor world., 1920-07-17
NOTHING IN SC0L DING REPORT.
ToWS1|FY SCoRCHMG ROAST
Murah Stands Pat and VIII Not Resign Friends Back Him Up;
Popular Opinion Is He Did Right Thing on Night Of Lynehng;
Grand jury Is Poor judge Its Charge Does Not Make it So.

No. Commissioner Of Public Safety William F. Mrnan will not
He not that the thousands Of labor people
and others Duluth who believe did the thing that
night three taken from the city enragd
mob and unlawfuly executed.
There nothing in the scoldng report Of the grand jury
such action by Murnian The grand jury brought in
indictment against him. not declared that he
and only the opinion Of the majority of the that he
incompetent
Anybody might hold such an opinion of Mr. Murnan or any
other Indeed know of lot of Republicans who have been
making such charge against Woodrow Wilson for the
Four they said he incompetent but the people
thought otherwise, and they reelected him.
Grand Jury Men Just Like Other Men After ALL
does not necessarily follow that because grand jury says
public official not competent that it is true. Jury
ordinary like the rest Of the folks They make mistakes
have bias and prejudces They have likes des they
have about much difficulty in getting from them
folks have.
Then to white grand uries supposed be free from
side influence always outsiders reach individuals
the ry unlikely that such instance
for rumoed about the city that only last Friday grand
had agreed Of Mr. Saturday
some one got busy and when the jury met Monday changed
position.
When the report given Tuesday sensation
feope devoured contents with
The labor world., 1920-07-17
TEXAS HAS GOVERNOR
4 JUST like BURNoUISI

GALVESTON, Texas, July 1e.-
Military troops in control of this eli ty
stopped meeting Of the Galveston
labor council. The meeting was dis
cussing the election Of officers at
the time.
The troops have been in this city
for several weeks because Of a water
front strike. Protests have been made
against the presence Of the troops
as there has been no violence. The
governor is charged with aiding
cheap labor employers.
The labor world., 1920-07-17
UNION CIGARMLKERS.
p: MkY:DRoP PlECE::WoRk

CHICAGO, July 16.-Officers OF the
Cigar Makers International union
are calling attention to production
changes in this industry that makes
it necessary for these workers to give
thought to the idea Of changing the
rate Of pay from a piece work to a.
day or week rate.
It is stated that with the intro
duction Of machines the cigar maker
is becoming specialist and under
this system he rarely learns the trade
in it's entirety.
The labor world., 1920-07-17
URGES UNIONS TO ABANDON
USE OF Term open SHOP

CLINTON, Iowa, July 16.-In an
address to the Tri-city labor congress
President Garfield of the Iowa state
federation of labor called upon union
lists to abandon the use of the term
'open' shop, so widely favored by
cheap labor employers.
He declared that the term "open''
shop was a misnomer and it's use
misleading. In theory and practice
it meant the non-union shop with
the workers at the mercy of unfair
employers, who could take advantage
of the necessities and conditions OF
employees to impose any condition on
them.
The labor world., 1920-07-17

guaranteed by large industrial inter-
ests
While Big Business has not yet
gained control of the conscience of
the nation, it has a strangle hold on
the pocketbook, and. without ample
funds it was impossible to continue
a scheme as ambitious and compre-
hensive as the coordination Of the
activities of all evangelical churches.
Y. w. c. A. Stands Pat.
Warning came to the religious lead
ers through the official publications
OF the Manufacturers Association that
unless they abandoned their "med-
dlh ing" in industrial matters they
would find it difficult to maintain
their collections.
I The first definite statement of the
lease was handed to the annual con-
vocation Of the Young Women's
Christian Association, at Cleveland,
Ohio, in April, this year, when In
dustry," official organ Of the Manu-
facturers, declared that business men
took exceptions to it's industrial plat
form, and that If it were not ratified
retaliatory measures would be adopt-
ed by them.
The Y. w. c. A. reaffirmed it's plat
form and Mrs Helen Gould Shep-
pard, owner of stocks and bonds re-
signed ias president. Whether the or
ganization will suffer from lack of
funds Us for the future to determine.
Big Business, in plain words, has told
1t that it need expect neither SYM
pathy inor support from that quarter.
I Rip EollOxre Dvor,,3eod
The| leaders of the 1nterchurch
moved Hnent, progressive and far-seeing
men Aand women, would not recant
their industrial heresy' and were
prepAring to extend their work when
the foundations were pulled from un-
der (their organization by large in
dust}rial interests. Early in the year
Jchin u. Rockefeller, Jr., Stephen H.
Docfge, and some lesser financiers had
promised to supply funds with which
to 1maintain the organizations activ-
1t!efs, but none of this money was
fortthcoming and there remained only
on4e course open to the religious lead
erys
They have taken it, reluctantly, to
e sure, but not until the public had
peen made aware of the sinister and
hsuasive methods that are employed
fby Big Business to dominate even
Htloe churches of the country.
j Report Is Suppressed.
The steel report is document of
more than 10000 words, with ex-
hibits that bring it up to 100000
words the public being advised that
the complete document is too long
for general reading"
Ihls action was taken after two
agents of the steel trust made an
earnest appeal to the general COM
mlttee to withhold publication of the
report. They represented that the
church was making a serious error in
taxing sides in industrial disputes and
stated emphatically that it's business
was with the hereafter and not with
MOI and here.
1T is an interesting issue, and its
hral determination will show whether
ISHaterial forces are stronger than
@p:ritual forces.