davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
DANCE WITH UNION LABOR
AT CRYSTAL LAKE PARK
LABOR DAY AND EVENING

One of the most enjoyable social
events of the season among organized
labor is sure to be the dance to be
given by the Twin City Federation of
Labor at the new pavilion at Crystal
Lake park Labor day afternoon and
evening
This dance is open to all friends of
labor. The best in music will be pro-
vided by the Musicians Association
union orchestra, and especial care
will be taken to provide all the details
that go to make an affair of this kind
a success,
Situated on the shore of balmy Crys.
tai Lake, the site of the pavilion Is
ideal for occasion of this kind Cool,
refreshing breezes waited through the
open structure of the pavilion elimin.
ates the hot, oppressive atmosphere
of the city, and affords the dancers all
the comforts enjoyed during the regu.
lar dancing season of the year. These
natural advantages are sure to be
taken advantage of by a large number
of our younger set
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
NOTES FROM CENTRAL
STATES COOPERATIVE
NEWS SERVICE BUREAU

T
Belleville, H.. has six cooperative
grocery stores. all of which are well
patronized by the workers. There Ia
a live bunch of boosters at Belleville
and they are planning to strengthen
the movement with vigorous finan-
eial campaign in the near future.
There are other cooperative enter
prses in view as soon as the grocery
business of the town is we'll in hand.
] II. Walker, president of the Cen
trail States Cooperative Wholesale So.
ciety, has sent out call for the an
nual convention of the Society to be
held on Sunday, September II, 1921.
ut 10 A. NJ, in the Metropolitan Build
ing. East st. Louis, Ill. Delegates
will comprise individual stockholders
and representatives from labor or.
CARNATIONS which have invested in the
society. Fraternal delegates, having
voice on the floor of the convention
but no vote, will be in attendance
from other cooperative societies
throughout the country and from the
labor movement generally. The Cen.
trail States Society is made up of some
sixty odd American plan cooperative
retail stores and over fifty original
Roci dale stores. The Twin City Co
operative Society will not be repre-
sented directly at the convention.
Among the important questions to be
taken up at the convention is the mat
ter of cooperative production and
manufacture. Negotiations are being
had with view of taking over certain
manufacturing establishments. The
further development of the education
al department of the Society will also
be considered.
The attention of the workers every
where is being attracted to the fact
that Ii is just as necessary that they
he able TO get the full value of their
dollar when they spend II as ii is to
get reasonable wages in the first
place. The only way this can be done
surely and permanently is through the
establishment and upbuilding of the
cooperative movement. The conven.
ton will do much to stimulate the
movement in the central states.
+. The union teachers of St Paul have
established cooperative tailoring es.
adjustment This ought to mean a
large saving to the thousand or more
teachers of the city.
The Finnish Cooperative Society
maintains a workers college at Su.
perior. Wis. In addition to the regu.
lar work done in the common
branches, courses OF instruction are
given In economies. cooperation, So
GEOLOGY, and kindred subjects.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
Closed All Day Labor Day
OPEN STOP BLAckLisTlNG
CAMPAIGN STARTS COOP
ERATiVE CIGAR FACTORY

For ten months the cigar workers
of Tampa, Fla, fought an heroic bat
tie for the recognition of the Cigar
Makers International Union of Amer
lea At last, financially unable to con-
tinue the fight against the profit
gorged Cigar Manufacturers Associa-
ton of Tampa, the union called the
strike off But the manufacturers an
nounced that they had adopted the
American open shop. and did not
want labor agitators" around. And
In accordance with the un-American
despotism of the American plan,"
the Cigar Manufacturers Association
began a merciless blacklisting against
all active union members, preventing
them from earning a living either in
Tampa or the adjacent towns where
the Havana tobacco industry is cen
tralized.
Instead of retiring to the nearest
undertaken and asking for a burial
permit, the Cigar Workers Union sue
cessfully appealed to their brother
workers for funds, and organized the
Tampa Cigar Company, Inc, CO.
operative factory owned to the last
penny by organized labor. The work
ers are now turning out the best real
Havana cigars that skilled workman
ship can produce at prices from 80
TO 80 per cent less than which you
pay the tobacco trust for non-union
cigar of uncertain quality. The Tam.
pa cooperators are anxious to sell
their product direct at wholesale
prices to all organized workers and
farmers who can tell a blue label
from yellow scab. 1t should not
take intelligent incense burners very
long to do themselves the favor of
sending in trial order.
The past week also saw cooperative
action by the men who raise tobacco
to market their product for a fairer
price than the powerful tobacco trust
will pay them. Over $4,000 of the
$4,000 tobacco growers in Virginia
have signed a iive-year contract for
the cooperative marketing of their
crops through the Virginia Tobacco
Growers Association; and the farmers
of North and South Carolina are en-
gagged in a similar campaign. If CO.
operation In the tobacco industry goes
much further, 1t may yet be possible
to trim the profits of the American
Tobacco company down to something
less than 100 per cent
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS
MADE At EXPENSE OF
TWIN CITY WORKERS
Nv II CARAVAN

When the Champaign hrm "hlel
vas awarded the contract for paving
Sixth street was myster0usly BFahteu
perm ission by the city commissioners
TO sunlet the work to bloomington
firm sotorious for its opposition 10 or
ganized labor, local labor leaders eA'
pected trouble, and they have not De
disappointed.
Tic first act of the Bloomington
firm vas to cut wages rom thify 70
forty per cent below the union scal2
which was paid by other local paving
contractors and IS foHequ3E
scores of local labos.ng men nave Deeh
thrown on. of employment, ana L
Bloomington firm has placed ltset q -
family in open unfair competition win
local contractors.
These facts are keenly felt amoa
laboring men whose places nave Ut
taken on the Sixth street JOB Dy "a e
sient laborers and emigrants ITO
other cities, who like their einploye. .
haze no interest In Champaign and
Urbana except for the money they can
make here and will spend elsewhere.
In opposing any reduction In wag IS
at this time, local labor leaders quote
Judge Alschuler of Chicago who re.
Gently refused petition from TN
stock yards to reduce wages, because,
he said, he was not convinced that Nv
ing costs had dropped enough To war
rant II; and they also point to reports
of the Government Bureau or Labor
Statistics. showing steady increase
In commodity prices for the past two
months Attention Is also called to
the fact that the wages OF unskilied
labor especially, did not increase in
equal pace with other wages In the
past two or three years.
Last but not least IL Is the general
opinion In labor circles that when
the cost of the Sixth street pavement
was estimated and the assessment
made on opsrty owners. it was con
templated that union labor should be
employed and union wages paid. and
the fact that there Is profit enough
In the Job for two big contracting firms
is sighted in support of this opinion
Certainly there can be no doubt but
that the difference between union and
non-union wages goes into the pockets
of the contracting firms, and the cost
to the tax payers of paving the street
with outside non-union labor is just
as much as il local union labor had
been employed.
The situation with regard to local
paving contractors is equally serious.
Thoy cannot continue to compete with
out side contractors who pay lower
wages. They must either break with
the local labor organizations and en-
pioy outside labor at lower wages or
they must become victim of the ur.
fair competition of the Bloomington
firm. Experience has shown local la
boring men to be thoroughly depend
able and efficient. and local contrac
tors who have paid them union wages
seem to be. entirely satisfied with
these men and willing to continue to
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02

pay The wages which III = ask. In
view of these facts. local laboring men
and citizens should familiarize them
selves with these conditions and
should demand that our local i'm
provements should go forward with
local labor and that wages should be
paid which are fair and in accordance
with the cost Of living, and outside
contractors should not be permitted
to come into our community and drive
down wages by employing transient
labor for the benefit OF themselves
and other contractors cooperating with
them
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02

Buy Union Made cigars.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
The : unman's Paradise.

Indianapo.i3.--The United Mine
Workers Journal makes this refer.
ence to Mcdowell county, West Vir-
ginia, where Sid Hatfield was muir.
dered.
Mcdowell county, West Virginia, is
the place where the life of union
miner Is worth nothing. Thugs and
gunner, whose salaries are paid by
coal companies while they serve as
deputy sheriffs, run wild over this
country, assaulting and numbering
whom they please. They have no re-
gard for law or common decency.
Their soe mission is to fight the
United Mine Workers of America
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
HANDFUL OF WORKERS
ORGANIZED IN 1892, is
NOW GIGANTIC UNION

Atlanta, Ga-On September 10,
1892. AT 10 n. m. President Gompers
addressed handful of street car men
In tbs r 10 gathered from various
SECT = % .Be country to launch the
Ar al. mated Association OF Street
ard Electric Railway Men OF America.
.uring the intervening 20 years this
organization has reduced hours In.
creased wage, ), improved working con.
ditions and established a system Of
benefits
On September 10 next, at 10 o'clock
In the morn ag. In this city. President
Gompers WI address the annual con.
yention of this organization, now
grown to immense influence and nu.
merieal strength throughout the North
American continent.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
cossacks at Old Game.

Charlestown. w. Va. "Tricked
again" moar citizens who favored the
establishment of cossacks in West
Virginia. These citizens believed the
fairy tale that state police system
would end detectives and private ar.
mics maintained by the coal owners.
Trade unionists warned these citi.
zens that they were legalizing the
thug system, and that instead Of the
private armies being withdrawn, they
would be aided by the cossacks.
This prophecy has been fulfilled,
and the aforesaid citizens are trying
to get satisfaction for being du2ed by
calling the coal owners hard names.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
San Diego to Have Labor Daily.
(By the Federated Press)

San Diego, Cal.-Local unionists are
enthusiastic over the announcement
that California is to have a great new
labor daily newspaper at Sacramento.
the states capital. The Federated
Trades Council. electricians, letter
carriers and other unions have sub
seribed for shares in the new enter
prise. The Sacramento Tribune will
make its appearance as a daily on La
Dor day, ii has been announced here.
and will have The Federated Press
daily service
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
A. =. OF /. Membership.

The present membership of the
American Federation of Labor Is rep
resented or divided into 941 local
trade and federal labor unions, 10 ma
tional and international unions; 973
central bodies: > general depart.
ments: 40 state declarations: 1888 local
department councils and 36.247 local
unions.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
Strike Breaker Assaults Pressman.
(By The Federated pressN

Oklahoma City-The second attack
on unionists within a week has occur.
red here. Following the shooting of
Floyd Kirby, striking picket. Claude
Van, a union pressman. was assaulted
by L. B. Davis. strikebreaker In the
Warden Printing company shops.
Witnesses assert that there was not
the slightest provocation for the at
tack
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02
To Hold unemploxed Parade.

Cincinnati Ohio unemployed OF
Cincinnati. under the leadership OF
Joseph Haering, business representa-
tive OF the Machinists' union, will
hold an unemployed parade on Satur.
day, August 81.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02

Be sure your sin viii find you out
II you do not give preference to the
union label, shop card and working
button.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-09-02

Whenever the work week has been
reduced there has followed period
of greater prospl .Fity and production.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Suspends lnsurance Certificate.

Cheyenne, WyO.-State Insurance Commissioner Don NJ. Forsyth an- nOunced the revocation of the certifi- cate of authority of the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont to do business in Wyoming, for the reason that it had refused to pay the state tax for dividends paid to pOlicy-hOld- CTS on reduction of premiums. The National has been carrying on it's bus mess in this state since 1896 and has one of the largest fOllowings of any of the big eastern concerns. Its officers indicated today they would carry the matter into the courts.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
shopmen Decide Against Strike.

Philadelphia. - ShOpmen of the Pennsylvania railroad will not strike to force the company to comply with the order of the United States Rail- road Labor Board to meet with their union employees and draw up new schedule of working agreements. The last threat of a strike disappeared when the chairman of the advisory board of the shop craft unions of Phil adelphia-C district announced the unions would rely on American patriotism to force the road to obey the transportation act.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Seeks chanoe in Policy.

New YOrk.-FOrmatiOn of the Loyal Labor Legion of New York City, de- signed ito entirely change the tradi- tiOnal concept of the American Feder- ation of LabOr's attitude toward em- plOyerS, the general public and the or ganized wage earners," was announced by F. P. A. Vacaralli, former vice pres ident of the International LOngshOre- mems Association and new head of the legion. He said that the constitution alOpted included the following points: ''The right of men and women to work regardless of membership or nOn-mem- bership in trade unions. The settling of difficulties between employers and wage earners without intervention by persons not personally affected or by direct parties to the matters in con- trOyersy."
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
RuiIdino Boom startino.

New YOrk-Preliminary returns on July building indicate that the long expected expansion in the building in- dustry is close at hand. Reports from 147 cities, it was stated, showed the value of structures for which per mitS were granted in that month was $141 ,635,5 a gain of 32.5 per cent over July year ago and Az per cent in excess of the total in the same cities in June this year The report said the July aggregate will at least be the sixth largest in the last sixteen years.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
HoIdup Was Joke.

Williston, N. D.-Six cowboys, wear ing chaps, spurs and firing .45-caliber revOlvers, "held up" sixty motorists who are making a tour of the ROOse- welt National highway from Duluth to Glacier park, near here. John Heffer man, 63-yeaT-Old cowboy, led the group. The cowboys then passed the hat and told trembling men and women that it was all a joke and returned the $1.76 they collected from their first victim.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
INCREASE IN EXEMPTION FOR FAMILY HEADS ALSO CON-
 SlDERED BY COMMITTEE.
BIG CUT IN LUXURY TAX
WILL REPEAL LEVIES ON BOTH FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
 RAIL RATES.
Cwesteru Newspaper Union News ssrrioeD

WashingtOn.-Even more extensive changes in tax levieS than were agreed upon at the White House conference between President Harding and Re- publican leaders of the House of Rep resentativeS were voted tentatively by means committee. AS summarized in a formal statement, the committee ac- tiOn included: Repeal of the excess profits sax, effective Jan. l, 1921.
 An increase of the income tax on corporations from 10 per cent to 15 per cent, with the 5000 exemption retained, effective Jan. 1, 1921.
 Repeal of all taxes on the transpOr- tatiOn of freight and passengers and on seats and berthS, effective Jan. 1, 1922.
 An increase in the exemptions to heads of families on account of depend ents to $40O for each dependent, in- stead of $200, as at present, effective Jan. 1, 1921.
 Repeal of the So-called luxury taxes on clothing apparel, effective Jan. 1, 1922.
 Exemption from income tax of the first $500 of income from stock held in building and loan associations.
 RevisiOnS of existing taxes in- cluded:
 Repeal of the tax on fountain drinks and ice cream and the substitution of flat tax of 10 cents a gallon on all fountain syrups, to be paid direct by the manufacturer or maker.
 Repeal of the stamp taxes on per fumes, extracts, tooth paste and Oth- or toilet preparations and proprietary medicines and substitution of a manu- lecturers tax of per cent on the price.
 Removal of the 15 per cent manufac- turers' tax of cents a gallon for the present 10 per cent on the sale price of unfermented juice beverages and carbOnated waters or beverages or Oth- CT soft drinks sold in containers.
 It was also agreed to levy , cents pound on carbonic acid gas sold t, manufacturers of carbOnated gases.
 Members of the committee estimat- ed roughly that these changes would result in a net reduction of $555, 100000 in the total yearly tax bill. This is $45,000,000 below the estimate reached at the White House conference, but it was explained that the estimated rev enue from corporations would be $45,- 100000 greater than heretofore reck- Oned by reason of the repeal of the ex- cess profits exemption of $3,000 plus an amount equal to the per cent of the invested capital for the taxable year.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Demonstrated on Spot.

Miss K. sends us the story of a clergyman who was attending the com mencement exercises at a certain col lege for girls. The reverend gentle man said with great unctiOn to an interested group, T approve of the higher education for women because of the refinement, the culture, it in- evitably fosters in our young women, and which is so manifest today in all the exercises"
 Just then a sweet girl graduate came rushing across the campus. waving her diploma frantically aloft and shouting, Through, by gosh !'- Boston Transcript.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Auto Guided by Radio.

Dayton, OhiO.-DaytOn traffic pO- licemen rubbed their eyes when a miniature automobile sailed past all semaphOres. There wasn't a soul in it. It was a driverless radio automO- bile from McCOOk field, controlled by a radio in a car 100 feet behind it. The automobile itself contained no wireless and is said to be the first of its kind publicly exhibited by the radio air service.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Woman Auto Driver Convicted

Los Angeles, Calif.-Miss Edna C.. Duvall, a music teacher, was con victed of manslaughter in the Superior Court here by a jury composed of nine women and three men. She was charged with having caused the death of Richard A. Spann, mechanic, last January, by running him down with her automobile as he alighted from street car. Miss Duvall, who had been at liberty on bond, was placed in jail. The penalty imposed by law is from one to ten years imprisOn- ment.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
DENVER LIVE STOCK.
Cattle.


 Prices on the majority of the sales of beef cattle were from 15 to 25 cents higher, while before the closing of the market prices on part of the offering advanced as high as 50 cents a hun dred pounds.
 Top steers sold at ST. while a car load of light mixed yearlings brought from Laramie, Wyo.. topped the market at $5.65. Three carloads of good cows brought $5.45. Calves were more plen- tiful than at the close of the week and sold at prices ranging from $7.50 to $7.75.
 Good stock steers brought from $5.65 to $5.75. Fair and medium kinds sold at $4.5O to $5.25.
 Hogs.
 Top hogs, selling at Il cents a pound were purchased by both packers and small killers. The bulk went over the scales at 39.35 to s10.35. Sixty-eight choice 2O7-pOund Poland China hogs were called the best quality on the market this season and sold at $11. Several loads sold at $1O.75 and S1O.85. Few pigs were offered on the market. Good stock pigs are quoted at $9.50 to $9.65. Butcher prices might reach $10 on this market.
 Sheep.
 Three carloads of 75-pound lambs sold at 1925 flat. while four carloads of lambs of similar quality brought the same price through another source. Four carloads of good lambs sold at S9.10 flat. Two carloads of fair quail ity ewes sold at $40. A good portion of the offering was from Pando. Colo; the rest being from Idaho and Utah. Practically no Geeding lambs were in the market Buyers are offering prices in line with eastern markets for this kind.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Embarrassing.

"I wish you would send some one else to talk with this man about this deal," said the head salesman to the president.
 What's the idea? This is an im- pOrtant matter and you are supposed to take care of it."
 q know; but it will be terribly em- barrassing to both of us. You see, this man is the former husband of my pres ent wife"
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Reindeer Increasing.

Seattle, Wash.-Alaska's reindeer herds will in ten years double those of Norway, Sweden and Finland com bined, according to Carl J. LOmen of Nome, Alaska, pioneer in the reindeer industry in the territory, who has re- turned from Washington, D. C., on his way north, after seeking an increase in the annual appropriation for the bio logical survey of Alaska.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Man Falls Between Walls.

San Francisco, Calf. - Benjamin KOen stepped out of a third story apartment house window while asleep here and it took the San Francisco fire department half an hour to extri- cate him from between two walls where he was tightly wedged by the force of his plunge At the emer- gency hospital, it was said, KOen's in- juries might prove fatOI
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
8OYearSOId Was Sick Now Feels Young After Taking EatOnic for
 Sour Stomach

'sI had sour stomach ever since had the grip and it bothered me badly Have taken Eatonic only a week and am much better. Am 30 years Old," says Mrs. John Hill.
 EatOnic quickly relieves sour stOm- ach, indigestion. heartburn, blOating and distress after eating because it takes up and carries out the excess acidity and gases which cause most stomach ailments. If you have "tried everything" and still suffer, do not give up hope. EatOnic has brought relief to tens of thousands like you. A big box costs but a triie with your druggists guarantee.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-25
Mexicans Want Protection.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Mexicans at Bartlesville, Okla, have appealed for protection, following the posting on their homes of anonymous notices or dering them to leave town within twenty-four hours or their homes would be burned, Jose Montenegro, Mexican consul here, announced.