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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31

III you Happen 10 De so slited win
risibillties as to be able to give a
Rabelaisan guffaw every time the high.
middle or low comedian comes out
with stentorium damn then
Whats. Your Number" will delight
you, for IL Is as thick with damns
as a bootlegger is with bslf-pints on
Saturday night The play is "A farce
OF the late Ostermoor period. but i'm
stead OF using the great Broadway
Trinity OF parlor, bedroom and bath.
twin hunks mot twin beds) are the
chief attractions OF the piece.
Yes, dear reader. IL youll go down
to the Garrick this week youll sec
the heroine in a zippy suit or pajamas
and the hero In pair OF striped
pantalettes ere the curtain falls on
the second act, Now is there further
need OF going into details?
Obviously, you have been thrown
the bait. and IL you like those tender
little situations where the young un-
married man awakes TO find the
equally Juvenile miss in the bunk on
the other side or the cabin, you'll
not need any puritanical meanings
on the part of the reviewer
Act / of this piece reveals scene
at Brest, France, with a self-styled
Ai''f aoout "
America. Ships officers OF this
French boat. with Mississippi side
wheeler accents and Annapolis cadet
uniforms are rushing hither and yon.
A pair of newly-weds come aboard.
followed by an elderly married couple.
Then young man expecting his
fiancee goes up the gangplank He
is waiting for her when a French
girl reproaches him for leaving her
after six weeks OF idyllic days in
Paree. She spills lot OF A. T.. +.
French and departs.
The young mans fiancee comes aboard
little later. A drunken young man
is allowed to pay her cab fare at the
pier. since she has lost her purse.
The drunken young man gets aboard
later on. after having taken Mr..
Newlywed around the block for a
slug of cognac. He really shouldn't
have gone on the voyage.
Then the French girl rushes up to
the ships side and gains the deck
cries, "All ashore that's
going ashore" and like lightning the
is thrown back.
They're off.
In the next scene the drunken
young man, now thoroughly sober,
awakens In the stateroom of the
young mans hancee. OF course, ITS
perfectly excrutiatingly funny and
awfully hard on the girl. you know.
Everyone marries the right one or
is reconciled to the one they've AL
ready married. by the final curtain.
The blue laws answer for that.
Miss Dorothy Mortimer, as a newly
wed, carries the burden of the plot,
and carries 1T well. After they trim
the old show down there's no reason
in the world why IL shouldn't be a
success, and cause the box office to
rub its hands every night.
Out of justice to the Compagnie
General Trans-Atlantiaue they should
have at least one sailor on the boat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31

able 20 speak french. We know us
a hard reauesl but lots OF French
sailors are sbldto speak their mother
tongue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31

your Want Ads" by phone. "servics
that serves" Phone Main $3.50
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31

John Drinkwater's Portrayal
of Great Emancipation is
Well-received by Large
Audience at National-Star
Has Improved Work Since
Studying Finer Points of
Character.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31

Guests at theater-Miss Howell, MIss
Pennington, Miss March, Miss Curtlss. Miss
Hanlon, Charles Lindell. George Howard,
Edward Porter.
Much water has flowed under the
bridge since this mastery study OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31
NEWS OF ALEXANDRIA
AND NEARBY VIRGINIA
St. Mary's Academy AIumnae
Will Meet T0niQht.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 31.--A
meeting OF the alumnae of St. .Mary's
Academy will be held tonight at the
Academy building.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31

The Alexandria Lodge of Elks will
give a dance Wednesday night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31

The Old Dominion Glass Corpora
ton will soon start rebuilding it's
warehouse which was burned several
months ago.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
RENEW THE AGREEMENT

Rochester, N. Y. - The Michaels,
Stern & Co. have renewed their agree
ment with the United Garment Work
ers of America and declare it their
belief that it is "for the best inter-
ests of the workers and of the indus
try itself that the relations between
the firm and the union be continued"
"To that end" say these employ
ers, 1--WE encourage and advise our
employees to join the union, and we
urge all members to be prompt in the
payment of their dues and attend all
the meetings of the union and to take
an active part in its proceedings, in
order that the union may truly rep
resent the general attitude of the
majority of our employees.
"We are confident that a repre-
sentative organization of employees IN
which the great majority take an
active interest, and through which
their purposes and desires may be
fairly ascertained and expressed, wiz
be helpful in continuing the good will
and cooperation now existing be-
tween the firm and our employees, to
the well-being of all concerned"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
LABOR NEVER DEFEATED

Lafayette, Ind-Editor Skemp of
the Painter and Decorator makes this
comment on the recent non-partisan
political campaign of the A. F. of L.:
"The exceptions that prove the rule
sometimes become so numerous that
they cease to become exceptions and
become the rule. The victory of the
forces of reaction in the recent presi-
Dental election, while overwhelming
was not universal. There were some
striking exceptions to the rule. Con-
gressman Esch, who, with Senator
Cummins, of Iowa, drafted the trans
portation act, was retired to private
life. Senator Cummins escaped de-
feat, but his majority was 100000
less than that which President-elect
Harding carried the state.
"In these instances labor voted as
it strikes-as a unit-and accom-
plished things. Even more encorag-
ing was the defeat of the democratic
candidate for the governorship of
Tennessee. True, the state went
republican, but while Harding's major
ity was some 5000 votes, that of the
republican governor was almost 40,-
900. The defeated democrat was a
strong advocate of the anti-union
shop, the governor-elect is pro-
Lounced friend of unmnism."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
MUNSEY LIES
OPINION "MOLDER" is BLIND TO
THE REAL FACTS
Says Organized Labor is Menace to
the Country and Classes it With
BOIshevism, Socialism
and |. w. W.-ism

There are few lit
crate Americans so poorly informed" )"
writes President Gompers, in Ameri-
can Federationist, current issue, on
the charge made by Frank Munsey,
eastern newspaper publisher, that
"the growing menaces of our coun-
try" are "organized labor, bolshevism,
socialism and l. W.-ism."
"It is almost impossible to deal with
such utterances in spirit of modera-
tion," says President Gompers. "It is
difficult to resist the use of the only
kind of language that could possibly
make an impression on mind so
closed to truth and so blind to all the
great facts of the hour.
"Mr. Munsey's misstatements are
so glaring and so bold that one won
ders whether he is merely deceiving
others or whether he is only deceiving
himself.
"Can it be that he actually believes
American trade unionism, bolshevism,
socialism and 1. w. W.-ism to be iden-
tical? Can it be that he is so pro-
foundly ignorant of the differences
between the constructive and evolu-
tionary philosophy of the American
trade union movement and the revolu-
tionary and destructive theories of
fantastic aggregations which he
couples in the same breath with or
ganized labor?"
"It is gratifying at least to know
that if these are the views of Mr..
Munsey, there are few literate
Americans who are so poorly in
formed, and still fewer who make
bold to so publicly betray their lack
of information.
perhaps, since that is the case, it
may be as weel to let the public be
the judge, merely adding here that
he has now successfully carved his
niche alongside the inches occupied
by Gary and the types of reacticnary
Industrial autocrats who believe they
lave the mandate for oppression, re-
preston and mastership of the masses
cf our people.
"ihere is philosophy in the solrit
cf freedom and justice not yet UNDER
stood by Mr.. Munsey and his prn:o-
types"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Organized Capitalists
Call Labor SIaCkerS

Chicago - "Organized capitalists,
through their subsidized press" says
President Perkins, of the Cigar Max
ers' International union, shave made
strong effort to put labor in the
light of being a Stacker. They howled
all last spring and summer "that la
Dor is not producing They were
Mortified at the sight of a straw man
of their own construction and prophe-
sled dire calamity for the nation,
playing all the time to make labor
the scapegoat.
"We now find that labor was pro-
ducing, as it always does, more than
was being consumed at the prices
charged for it's product.
"What happens now? Factories
close their doors and employers alb
solutely refuse to produce. No at
tention is paid to the thousands of
idle men and women who are de-
pendent ontheir days pay for the
next days bread. The press is
strangely silent on critic''ing the
employer who refuses to produce
Labor is told it must expect 1educ-
tion in wages before we can hops to
reach 'normalcy.'
at is to be hoped that we never
reach normalcy, for that does not
mean progress, but two are going to
reach point some day where labor
will not be the the football OF capital
lists. We are going to reach point
where big business will not be allowed
to make billions by selling goods pro-
duced under low-wage conditions at
wartime prices and then close the
factory door in the face Of labor
rather than suffer the loss of q single
penny when readjustment comes"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
ChurChmen ASSaiI
"Open Shop Policy

New York-The "open" shop is
closed to members of labor unions
and is an attempt to crush organized
labor.
The above summarizes the views
of the commission on church and
special service of the Council of the
Churches of Christ in America on the
present activity of anti-union EN-
ployers. The council consists of 81
evangelical bodies, and has issued a
statement voicing "the representative
Protestant view of the open shop
drive" which, it declares, is Gin
thorough accord with the recent utter
ances of the National Catholic We'll
fare Council"
"The relation between employers
and workers throughout the United
States," says the commission, care
seriously affected at this moment by a
campaign which is being conducted
for the open shop policy-the So
called American plan of employment.
These terms are now being frequent
ly used to designate establishments
that are definitely anti-union. OBJ
viously, shop of this kind is not an
open shop, but closed shop-closed
against members of labor unions.
awe feel impelled to call public
attention to the fact that very wide
spread impression exists that the
present open shop campaign is in
spired in many quarters by this an
tagonism to union labor. Many Gisin-
terested persons are convinced that an
attempt is being made to destroy the
organized labor movement. Amy such
attempt must be viewed with appre-
hension by fair-minded people,"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
WANT GUNMEN
STATE CONSTABULARY FORCE
URGED IN ILLINOIS
Commercial Associations, Bankers
and Big Business Generally
Favor "Black and Tan"
State Police

Chicago - Business interests have
renewed their fight to establish the
cossack system in Illinois. "The pro-
posal is one of the most sinister ever
brought to the notice of the people
of this state," says the Weekly News
Letter, issued by the Illinois state
federation Of labor.
sIn chorus with the Manufacturers
association, the bankers and the COM
merce associations are loudly pro-
claiming that in seeking the estab-
lishment of a black and tam police
force in Illinois they are concerned
only in providing better police pro-
lection in rural communities and on
the country highways. The sudden
interest displayed by these city or
ganizations of big business men in
the alleged welfare of the farmers is
sufficient in itself to cause suspicion.
It is a plain case of Greeks bearing
gifts The Trojan animal in this
case is very life animal, bearing
a military force over which no local
community will have any jurisdiction
and which is to be organized primari-
ly for quick mobilization and trans
portation in large numbers into not
only industrial centers for overawing
and intimidating working people who
may be on strike but, also, into the
rural centers for service against the
farmers when they combine for the
purpose of securing adequate prices
for their products.
"The claim that the black and tan
force is desired simply to apprehend
criminals and prevent crime is proven
to be untrue when the details of the
scheme are investigated.
"Provisions for the mobilization of
this force are the main features of
the plan. Criminals do not travel in
mobs which require the mobilization
of a state force to cope with them.
Criminals always move and can best
be dealt with by police force per-
manently stationed in the various
communities, who never leave these
communities for the purpose of mobil-
izing at a great distance from their
regular stations"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
TRADE UNION WORK SHOPS

Brussels, Belgium-To check high
prices the government asked for esti-
mates for the making of national
costumes, and trade unions sent in an
order to prevent the work falling into
the hands of exploiters. The govern
ment gave the unionists a preliminary
order for 5000 costumes. The unions
will maintain their working cone;tions
and also reduce the number of un-
employed.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Would Bar Strikes

Denver-Employers in this state
will ask the legislature to pass a
"can't-strike" law along the lines OF
the Kansas act. The position of these
Colorado employers is logical. First
they demanded legislation that would
prohibit strikes until a state commits
sion Investigated. The result is the
present law.
But this has not stopped strikes
and now they are forced to reveal
their real purpose in their demand
that strikes be prohibited.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Printing Trades Gain

New York-Wage increases through
arbitration have been secured by sew
eral thousand workers in the COM
mercial printing shops in this city.
Printers and Pressmen are advanced
SIS week; press assistants and job
pressmen, 81; job feeders, sheet
straighteners, paper handlers and
mailers, So, and bindery women, $3.50
a week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Stop Wage Reduction

Rock Island, Ill.-The Iowa Plating
company announced that wages of it's
organized metal polishers would be
reduced % per cent and the work day
increased from eight hours to nine.
The workers declined to accept the
cut and demanded "their time" The
company then withdrew it's announce
ment.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
To Amend Labor Law

Seattle - Representatives of en-
ployers and employed formed a COM
mittee in this city to recommend
changes in the state industrial in
surance act to the state legislature
President Short of the state fedora
tion of labor headed the workers dele
cation. Members of the state in
dustrial commission assisted the con-
ferees.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Laundry Workers Active

Troy, N. Y.-New locals are con-
tinually being formed by the Laun-
dry Workers International union
reports Harry L. Morrison, secretary
of that organization. This interna-
tional has 129 affiliates with a total
membership of 1000. The latest locals
to be formed are in Oklahoma City
Reno, New, and Breckenridge, Texas.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
"Third Degree" Illegal

Springfield, Ill.-The state supreme
court has set aside the sentence of a
Chicago man who was convicted on
statements he made at the time of his
arrest and which he afterwards re-
pudiated. The court disapproved of
"third degredd" methods and. ordered
a new trial.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07

tions for the preservation of the in
herent right of people to SECURITY
TO LIVE, LIBERTY, and THE EN-
JOYMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF
THE GAINS of THEIR OWN IN
DUSTRY."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Carpenters Want More

Hamilton, Ontario-Organized car
penters in this district have notified
contractors that wages will be ad-
vanced from IS cents an hour to 81,
effective May /.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
TailOrs Can't Picket

New York - Journeymen tailors
have been enjoined from picketing
the Gilman company, which estab-
lished piece work in violation of an
agreement between organized tailors
and an association Of which the
offending firm is a member.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Adopt Eight-HOur Law

Birmingham, Ala.-Despite storms
of protest by manufacturing interests
the city commissioners have voted
that hereafter eight hours shall be
the basic work day for municipal en-
ployes.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Hugh Profits in Sight

Philadelphia - Financial interests
say that the Pacific Oil company,
which has taken over the Southern
Pacific oil interests in California, will
start business with prospective net
income of $13,6O0,OOO for the first
year. This estimate is declared to be
the minimum.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Retail Clerks Organize

Crookston, Minn-Retail clerks in
this city have organized an affiliate
of the Retail Clerks International
Protective association.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
GENERAL LABOR NEWS
Short Items Gathered For Benefit of
Hasty Readers

Washington-Food products to the
value of $138,949,081 were exported
from the United States during No
vember This is an increase over
November, 1919, when exports totaled
$133, ,457, ,166.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Renew Agreement

Portland, Ore.-Electrical Workers
union No. 125 has renewed it's agree
ment with the local railway and light
company.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Plasterers Gain

Harrisburg, Pa.-Through arbitra-
tion organized plasterers raised wages
1917 cents an hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Horse ShOers Unite

Florence, Ala.-Horse shoers in this
city have organized and affiliated
with the International Union of Jour
neymen Horse Shoers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
Wire Men Raise Wages

Providence, R. Electrical work
ers in this city have raised wages
from 80 cents and hour to $1.15.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07

When through hand this paper to
your neighbor.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07
WHAT LABOR IS DOING
Wage Increases and Progress Made
Throughout the Country
Button Workers Unite

Brookport, Ill.-Button workers at
this place have organized.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-08
Omaha Grocer in
Alienation Suit
Cayety Actor Wants $4,000
From Man He Says Stole
Wife's Love.

Elmer G.. Wildhaber, Omaha
wholesale grocer, was named de-
fendant in an alienation suit for $25,-
zoe damages filed in district court
yesterday by Harold F. Carr, an
actor who appeared recently at the
Gayety theater. - =. ..
The petition alleges that Wildha-
Der used presents, coaxing, flat
terry and persistency and willfully,
secretly and malicionsly connived to
aiienate Mrs. Gladys Carr's affec-
tions from her husband"
1t states that Wildhaber obtained
her love and affection by stealthy
attentions, secret meetings and love
letters.
81 know the Cars" Mr.. Wildha-
ber said yesterday. "But / haven't
seen Mrs. Carr for two years. There
is nothing to the suit | know of
nothing that | did to ALLEVIATE Mrs.
Carr's affections"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-08
Omahans Leave to Open
Court in Grand Island

Federal Judge Munger, &c. Hoyt,
clerk of the United States district
court, and United States Marshal
James Dahlman will go to Grand
Island today to open federal court
next Monday. But one case will be
heard in that city. after which the
party will return to Omaha to re-
sumo hearing of cases on the docket
here.
Federal Judge Munger adjourned
court in Omaha yesterday, following
hearing of the Claude L. Nethaway
case.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-08
The Riot
--September 29, 1919

It was a. beautiful Sunday
afternoon. Men and women pa
raded along the downtown thor
oughfares in their "Sunday's
best"
While the paraders Wended
their way along Farnam street,
a prisoner peered through the
bars of a window in the county
jail. He was charged with set-
ious crime.
During the morning, rumors
were afloat that a "lynching
party was being organized.
About d-afternoon crowd of
boys gathered around the court
house and demanded the pris-
oner. They were repelled by the
police. The crowd grew larger
and the police were helpless.
The result: An attempt was
made to hang the mayor; several
were shot; the courthouse was,
partially destroyed; the prisoner
was lynched. ~
This all happened because
only a very few of our large
population refused to pay heed
to law, order and justice.
We must always let order and
justice prevail. We must all play
fair.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-08
Lr Costs Increased Likewise

To obtain money to re pair the courthouse, the
county had to use borrowed money.
It cost them much more to borrow this money
than it did when the courthouse was first built It
costs us much more to borrow money now than it.
did in 1915. All Of this goes to make for increased
costs of operation. - 's.-. *..,
Our costs increased for the same reasons that
the costs of the county increased. -
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-08
WHY?

VI. Because of the general increase in our manu-
y featuring costs, we have had to spend s1.36 for
every one dollar our income has increased
During September, October and November,
i. our operating expenses alone, NOT including in
vestment charges, requirements and renewals, in
creased more than our income. During these
months, our income increased S128,537 and our
operating expenses increased S174485
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-08
Which Includes

The cost of replacing worn-out machinery.
The cost of replacing obsolete equipment
- Horses and buggies for instance, for reparmen
have been replaced by automobile roadsters.
= A turbine of 1000 horsepower which turns gen.
orator manufacture electricity stands practically
idle in plant and turbine Of 600 horsepower has
been installed This old turbine and others will
have to be discarded
i New boilers recently installed. One of 1,500
horsepower, is the largest of the Mississippi river
Old boilers which hundreds of thousands of dollars
and for which this will be substituted, will have
to be junked.
Poles and have to be replaced! Transformers and
meters out become obsolete and have to be
placed
j.. ALL OF THIS IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR PROP
ERTY IN THE FIRST-CLAS SERVICEABLE CONCI-
TION NECESSARY TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR ELECTRICAL CONVENIENCES IN YOUR
HOME AND FOR OMAHA'S INDUSTRIAL DE-