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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
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CANT TRikE" LAW
HAS ROCKY TRAVELLING
IN ITS "NATlvE" STATE

Topeka, Kan, Feb. 3-The tinsel
has worn off Aliens "can't-strike' law
and its supporters have abandoned
their cock-sure attitude to the ancient
policy of Handwriting workers to their
jobs.
The governor is conscious that he
Is slipping, but that Is the extent OF
his knowledge on this subject. He
has recommended that the industrial
court, which enforces the law, turn
over the management of public utili.
ties to some other commission and
permit the court to handle strikes.
Last year the industrial court handled
2S disputes and there are some mem
bers of the legislature SO hard headed
that they ask IL 1t is not high price
to pay three men $4,000 a piece to
handle about two disputes a month.
There has been so much politics
connected with the board, and such
friendship to corporations when they
asked for increased rates, that the
hard-headed Legislators, above refer
red to, declare that the whole outfit
should be probed.
There has been a complete change
OF sentiment in this state toward the
governors legislation. Less than a
year ago he was hailed as the savior
of the country, and was given much
publicity in his nationwide campaign
for this handcuff legislation, while he
hoped that the presidential nom.
nation. or possibly president, would
be handed him.
Kansas was surely on the map those
days, but now many persons who
would not listen to trade unionists
agree that the toy balloon has burst.
ed. Business men are disgruntled be-
cause telephone rates have been
raised and they and other citizens are
growing because gas rates are higher,
while nothing is being done to curb
the protiteers.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
oUT-oF-WoRkS TOTAL
3,473,446 OVER LAST
YEARS UNEMPLOYED

Washington, ID. j., Feb. 3.-The first
| of this year there were 3.473,446 less
workers employed in industry than in
January, 1920, according to reports
published by the United States de.
partment of labor as a result of a
nationwide survey This estimate ap-
plies only to industry"
Michigan reports the largest out-of.
work army with reduction of SO per
cent in employment over last year.
Ohio and Indiana follow with so per
cent reduction, Illinois is next with
"A per cent reduction, Connecticut
with 43 per cent reduction, Massa.
chusetts SO per cent. New York % per
cent, Wisconsin 80 per cent, and New
Jersey % per cent.
The largest number of unemployed
is in the automobile industry, which
reports % per cent unemployed over
year ago. This industry employs
about per cent of the total number
employed in all industry. Second in
rank in unemployment is the building
trades with about SO per cent reduc.
ton. In January, 1920, the building
trades employed about IL per cent
OF the total number employed in in
dustry.
Textiles report a 3515 per cent re,
duction in unemployment over last
year; leather and boots and shoes, So
per cent reduction; lumber and wood
products, S2 per cent; metals, machin-
cry and electric goods, S01a per cent;
clay, glass, cement and stone prod
ucts, 19 per cent; packing and food
products, 10 per cent.
This report should Indicate why or.
ganized labor is urging congress to
prohibit immigration for two years.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
ACTION OF CLOTHING
MANUFACTURERS HURTS
EA8TERN "OPENS SHOPPER RS"

The fact that the Henry Somehow
Company in Baltimore has renewed
it's agreement with the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers has been a sad blow
to the ''open-shop" profiteers, and
the fact that Hart Schaffner 4 Marx
In Chicago have refused to break
with the union hurts still more. In
deed, appearances are that these two
circumstances have served to block
the effort to make the fight on the
Amalgamated nationwide affair.
and that II will be localized in New
York. Under these circumstances. a
settlement on the union terms ap-
pears to be only matter of time. for
the Amalgamated Is one of the liyest
and most militant labor organizations
in the United States, an organization
that is not easily brought into sub
lection. II will not be forgtten that
IL was the Amalgamated that came
forward with donation of hundred
thousand dollars at critical period
of the steel strike.
The Somehow settlement hurt so
much that newspapers In the East
Immediately began to misrepresent
the facts. With every opportunity to
learn the truth, two New York dailies,
the New York Times and the Daily
News Record, the latter trade paper
Of the clothing industry. announced
that the Somehow settlement was on
the basis of the open shop, but the
next day. both papers printed re-
traction. after emphatic statements
had been made by Boris Emmett, la.
k>v m (xr tbn
pany. who repudiated the statement
that the new agreement eliminted the
closed shop, and declared that any
contrary statement must have been
due to the misunderstanding or
imagination of some reporter"
The misunderstanding or magma
ton of some reporter is responsible
for many injustices and many sins.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
"oPEN-sHoP" THEORY OF
BIG BUSINESS REJECTED
BY CHURCH ASSOCIATIONS

washington, ID. c., Feb. 3.-"The So
called open shop is supported by the
bench, the bar, politicians and prac-
tically all of the daily newspapers,
but 1t is significant that the greatest
moral force In the country stands with
labor on this question" writes Frank
Morrison, secretary of the A. +. OF L.,
to Philadelphia newspaper.
THE theory of big business is re-
iected by the church." says the trade
unionist. THE representative or the
church, regardless of creed, denounee
the so-called open shop and declare
1t is an attempt to crush organized Ia
Dor. The commission on church ana
social service OF the Council OF
Churches of Christ In America. rep
resenting 81 Protestant denominations
with a membership of 1S,620aS6 in.
$4,000 churches. has taken this posi-
ton, and the National Catholic Well
fare Council, composed OF representa-
tive bishops of that church. declare
that the open shop is mask for
non.unionism and Is not only men
ace to wage earners, but threatens the
whole structure of Industrial peace.
These church men have probed the
open shop. They have treated this
subject from the standpoint of prina
ciple rather than terms. They find
that the open shop is non-union, both
in practice and intent.
''The keystone of trade unionism Is
collective bargaining through repre-
sentatives of the workers choosing
The open shopper demands that each
individual worker treat with en-
ployers.
ITO state this case would seem suf-
ficient to prove the ineffectiveness OF
individual bargaining in an age OF 81
gantic corporations whose owners
never see the plant. do not even know
where II is located, and are only inter
ested in dividends.
stripped of its pretense, the open
shop is antiunion because 1t denies
workers they very thing that forces
them to unite. The fact that trade
unionism exists is proof that indi-
vidual bargaining has failed. Work
ers Join trade unions because economic
necessity forces them to unite. When
they fail as individuals to secure JUS
tiee, they unite with their fellows.
Our opponents refuse to recognize this
fact.
1.-THE open shop agitation will run
its course. Organized workers are
too we'll acquainted with history. with
anti.conspiracy laws and other at
tempts to stop organization, to be dis
couraged at this later day antagonism
that is based on such selfeyident de-
ceit"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
To Hun, for Bic oraftsrs.

THE masses are growing tired OF
the little grafters and are ready to
hunt out the big men behind the big
graft" said Rabbi Wise of New York
City. in speech In Chicago.
THE fight for good government in
American cities.' he said. us losing
ground because the masses are
wearied OF the futility of anti.graft
negation and unsatistied even by the
technique OF improved city admins
tration. They are out after bigger
game, for the powerful. privileged,
corrupt. outwardly respectable who ar
rogantly pose as leaders of the city's
life."
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
INDIVIDUAL BARGAINING
WEIGHED AND FOUND
WANTING

Individual bargaining has been
weighed and found wanting"
For centuries employers dealt with
workers as individuals, while organi.
cations of laborers we're declared con.
spiracies and treated as such by the
state.
During all this period, down to but
a comparatively few years ago. the
power OF these employers to apply
their individual bargaining theory was
unchallenged
Who is responsible for the change?
Why have 100000 wage earners re.
jected the free and independent"
status favored by employers?
At one time these employers had
individual bargaining In their plants.
They alone set wages and hours. They
dictated working conditions. They
were as complete masters OF their EN-.
ployes as is Garyism In the steel
trusts mills.
II this was an ideal condition, what
changed IL?
Could a few "agitators" or labor
leaders" overthrow Q system sup
ported by the state and every other
power at the command OF the mas.
ter?
Or did the system collapse because
it rested on greed?
The history OF production and dis.
tribution In every country convicts the
Notwithstanding employer. He
had a free hand in dealing with free
and Independent" workers and these
semployes were driven into unions like
wild horses on the prairies, who are
forced to form a circle. with heads In
and heels out, to protect themselves
from the wolves.
When wage earners had no voice In
working conditions they were ground
down as are the steel trusts IL and
13hour serfs In 1921.
If individual bargaining means Jus.
tice to the workers. why must II be
protected by spies. gunner and the
injunction Judge?
Why does II succumb to trade
unionism when workers are permitted
free choice?
Workers unite because Of necessity.
They unite when they find that fairy
tales, broken promises. injustice and
deceit are poor substitutes for eco
nomic need,
The employer who talks Of individu-
al bargaining has had his day In court.
He had individual bargaining and his
employees were compelled to organ.
ize.
He feudalized his employees once. now
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04
SUGAR coatlna the piIl.

In Minnesota. the privileged inter.
ests are trying to get over their state
.eossack bill by sugar.eoating it with
a provision that the cossacks shall not
interfere in strikes; but labor refuses
10 fall for the bait The labor men
know that after the cossacks get 20.
ing, and police powers have been
taken from the local communities and
given TO the state, it will not be hard
for the interests to have the law
amended to give the cossacks juris.
diction over anything and everything
in sight
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-04

he wants to feudalize them again.
Does he imagine that workers for
get when he talks of the "glories" OF
individual bargaining?
"A burnt child breads the fire"
Agitate, Edueatei ORGANIZED
The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-12
BONNETS ARE ADORNED
 WITH STEWED PRUNES

By International News ServIce)
 LONDON, July 12.-Rare and re freshing fruits, real and artificial transparent and opaque, are the lat est fancy in women's hat decoration.
 Fruiterres, horticulturists, market gardeners. street barrow men, how ever, would fail to recognize the strange grows which women are now Haunting on their heads here.
 Paris is said to be the home of these unknown fruits. We have passed the stage of red entrants and carrots. The designer is filling the shop win dows with fruits that have never been known to grow except in fairy books and in the transformation scenes of the Christmas pantomime.
 A woman passing along Bond street was seen to be wearing a red hat decorated with a hybrid cluster of stewed prunes and pomegranates. Another hat was trimmed with small red cocoanuts
 Tn the fashionable hat designers salons there are new creations in glass and celluloid fruits resembling crystal preserves.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-12
COST OF LIVING HITS
 TEACHERS IN FRANCE
urv international Nuws Service,

,l'v International Nuws S"ryirop
 PARIS. July 12.-m these days when in France the high cost of liy- ing does not appear to have reached its maximum. numerous cases of hard ship could be recorded. Magistrates, lawyers, teachers, and even workmen have all been hit hard by the cost Of food and clothes. One of the most pit iful cases. however, is possibly that of professor at the University of Paris whose net earnings ayergcd 32 francs C$6.4O at the normal rate Of eXchange) a day. On this he has to feed and cloth nine persons-a wife and eight children.
 Unable to find flat Ee recently had to live Q, ..,tyl with his large family. This cost him 1000 francs and all he received from the univers- ity as indemnity of high cost of liv- ing was 400 francs. Today his wife is sick and he lives on a country farm which kind friends put at his dis posal. Furthermore, he has had to appeal to the press for help. A letter containing the above information has been circulated in Paris newspapers and it is usually accompanied by a few cyptic words of comment. What a shame for France" say most of the newspapers.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-12

[ with any new problem.
 Most of the refugees wish to return to Russia. They will do so with the first opportunity and with one idea only-to help build up their country in the best and most efficacious way which offers.
 WANTS ADVICE AS
 WELL AS CAPITAL
 Perhaps the greatest problem which the outside world must solve is the exact method which shall be used in helping Russia The Russians psy- chology is perhaps little intricate and only Russians can deal with it sue .cessfully and efficiently. A certain freedom must be accorded to Rus sians to administer the capital which will be invested in Russia by other nationalities.
 Russia is normally the worlds greatest producer Of footstuffs and raw materials. She Is also the worlds most important consumer of manu- factured goods and a potential mar ket with unlimited possibilities.
 The new Russia, which, believe will come into being very soon, will undertake a strong economic advance almost immediately. The new Russia will aim at one, and for that 1t will aim to develop it's farming possi. bilities at once. and for that it will need a whole new equipment of farm ing machinery. Much of this will be manufactured in Russia and Russia will provide the engineers and work CTS, asking only for advice and capital from abroad.
 The things which New Russina will need for her economic reconstruction will come mainly from America or from Germany But all Russians would prefer American goods and American cooperation The American govern. ment of all the new models for the gov ernments of all the new republics of the world. and 1t becomes thereby, whether or not it wishes, a sort of godfather to these new republics.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-12
PEOPLE OF RUSSIA
 HAVE THEIR VIRTUES

Study the Russian character, and you will learn to love the Russian. He has his faults, but he has great vir- tues as well. And they are the faults and virtues of a virile race which seeks and is worthy of your friendship and help
 Our relief organization is a continu- ation of movement started early in the war to aid our soldiers. The or. ganization now embraces all the lead CTS among the two million Russian refugues who are scattered through out Europe. We do not concern our selves with politics. for we are com posed of men of all parties and all schools of political thought. Our committee is composed of thirty mem. bers, half of them living in Paris. the rest in London and in the Balkins. They include Constitutional Demo. crats, Social Revolutionaries, Social ist Populists. Mensheviks and many other groups. We are joined together with one thought-to help Russia through the preserving and succoring of the miserable emigeres who are now scattered throughout Europe.
 We have been watching events in Petrograd and have been hoping that some opportunity would come that would enable us to help the thousands that are suffering from hunger and desease and privation there. Our re- sources are limited but we are ready to go with help and counsel wherever We can do good and wherever the necessity arises. No one can predict when that will be, but we are organ ized so that we can do emergency re- lief instantly. We have men taking care of refugees fin Europe for so long
The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-12
RUSSIANS HAIL
 UNITED STATES
 AS GODFATHER
BY PRINCE G. LVOFF Former Prime Minister of Russia Written Especially for International
 News Service.)

Written Especially for International
 News Service.)
 PARIS. July III believe that the situation in Russia is now .apidly clearing and that the time is not far distant when we Russians shall see our vast country again at work, help ing in the reorganization of the world Thousands of Russians everywhere, exiles. as well as those at home. are bending all their energies to a single end, without regard for political creed. We all realize, think, that at a time as protentous as this, all lag gling over differences of politics must cease if we do not wish to obscure our aim. It is time when the world needs Russia and when Russia needs the world
 News which received from the in terior of Russia is encouraging Think ing men everywhere are doing their utmost. In many cares, no doubt, there zeal is poor guide for their eff forts, but there is encouragement in the fact that at least they are try ing for the achievement of the same ends. The result will surely be good. AMERICAN MONEY
 NEEDED BY RUSSIA
 My message to Americans at the present moment is to urge them to study Russia, to get better acquaint- ed with it's possibilities, to cherish the friendship which already exists between the two peoples, to continue the bonds Of sympathy and faith and good will The friendship and kind. ly interest of America is in itself great encouragement to us. May that friendship continue and grow!
 Then. when the time comes-as come it will ere long we shall count on America to help gloriously. as she has always helped those who struggle yuliantly for the right. The new Ras- sia will need many things from Amer .ca-it win need great gifts of charity; it will need the utmost credits of Am. arican banking groups; it will need American brains and energy and or ganizing ability.
 Meanwhile, if Americans will set their minds to an intensive study of Russian problems and Russian psy- chology, We shall be able in the future to avoid much waste motion. much loss of time and effort
 The whole world is Convalescing from a long illness. and each national- ity feels the weakness of the long struggle. We must all put our shoul- ders to the wheel if we wish a speedy and thorough recovery. To move that wheel will require enormous effort, and the help that Russia can give is no small item
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-18
MARCH Is, 1921
Amusement Calendar
A DAILY FEATURE

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  Allison All 2:1O $40, 5:25 75 m 15 Nuscd e by a1 in Down Home" of Feature at and 15.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-18
A Wild Woody Westerner- N Yawk
Bv HIDA BEDEIL.

Where you're born doesn't always cut the most ice Harry Carey was born right down h.a-e in City Island, New York, and yet he makes a real wild and woody Westerner look like a false alarm.
 Wherever Harry is there's action, real. red-blooded Americanism that snacl1s of frontier times and pioneer periods. And that's why Harry is so popular-there's never. an off note in his work
 Has Ranch-and Wife.
 He's a real man, is Harry, with "a stage past behind him. He never intends | o return to the spoken drama, he likes the silent one, too well, he says.
 Sharing his interest in motion pie lures is his ranch, a beautiful stretch of nearly 500 acres, just outside Uni versal City. Oh, and we musn't for married not so long ago to Olive Fuller Golden. and while they kept the big event a secret for a while, the news finally leaked out, ana didi
 Harry's father was a well-known judge during the Tammany regime. He was terribly upset when his son decided that the gFeam of the foot lights carried a greater attraction for him than the dusty tonnes of legal Hfe But the son won out in the~battle that followed, tried stock, then emerged as ''Simon Legree'' in road company, playing Uncle Tom" The director found that Uncle Tom'' suited him better, however, so he finished the season in that. role, thus proving Hary's versa tility.
 \ Playwright. Too.
 Not satisfied with being a mere actor. Carey's ambition aspired to writing plays, and he wrote Mon tana." This he peddled all over town and couldn't sell it. Finally @ partner and himself succeeded in getting enough money together to prouce it themselves and it made a hit, run ing more than eight years.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-18
Scrapbo ok Club Member
 Writes A Letter

Got letter from a little Scrapbook Club member this morning:
 m working so hard on my Scrap book and DO hope I'll win the $1o prize. My mother thinks it is a. fine Idea, and my father does, too, There's another little girl right up the street from me who is making a scrapbook, too, but think mine looks better than hers.
 'One night last week, my father came home from work and lost his Times on the jitney, so ran down to the corner and got another one. I would have felt terrible if I hadn't got 1t because I haven't missed one since the contest started
 All the members of the Times scra.pbook club are working hard on their books, getting them ready to be handed in on April 4. Both boys as well as girls are enthusiastic over this contest, and they're all buying the Times every night and clipping from the Amusement Page those items and pictures that they think will make an interesting scrapbook.
 If there are any questions you want to ask, or any point you're not sure about, write in to the Amusement Ed itor, or come in and see her. She'll help you with all your problems.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-18
MONTAGU LOVE

' Montagu Love, big, strong and red headed, is a prime favorite with matinee girls for one req son, more than any other. Mon tagu Love, how you can love!" chorus the fappers, and all other ages join in. Montagu has been rather quiet lately, his last. ap- pearance in the movies being with Geraldine Farrar in 'The Riddle: Woman
 And when he finally decided to leave the movies flat and, go on the stage, all his '<public''-and that means all over the world gasped in dismay. Just now Monty is playing in New York in e.'The Survival of the Fittest," a Shaw play. which is being pro- duced at the Park theater-or will be soon. In that play, it is said, he is quite living up to his screen reputation of being wonderful lover."
 It will probably be news to many film fans that Montagu was born in Calcutta, India, and was educated in England. Which, both together, of course, make him a British subject, although the writer isn't sure about his -Americanization papers But we don't care what nationality he isb do we? For he sure can make love like an Am eTican!