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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06

that he goes to will II 1t wants pro
lection" call up the secretary on the
phone and state his bid and ask for
protection. When the customer re-
oeives bids from other concerns they
are all higher or else they are just
alike.
Sometimes one member of the boss
es union makes mistake" and gets
the job-Tthen the others get sore" at
him.
Yet these Typothetae people have
the nerve TO attempt to destroy the
printing trade unions and to tell the
public what undesirable people the
wage working printers are.
When a union had scale of s0.479
an hour i'm 1918 aud the scale was
raised until in 1920 it Is $0.S75 an hour,
much ado is made about the enormous
raise granted to labor.
But when we look at the Typothe-
tae practice and see that they were
charging for time at the rate of $50
per hour in 1918 and are now charging
for the same time on the same opera
tion al the rate of $3.00 an hour, we
can see that they have increased their
prices three times the amount which
the wage earners receive.
On top of this 1t Is ethical to
charge % per cent profit, which makes
$1.95 for the employer against 40
cents for the worker
On linotypes they charge $3.50 per
hour and add 20 per cent profit, or
S4 so to pay an operator 81 IL cents
TO a dollar an hour.
On monotype, key and caster. the
charge will be S490 per hour plus rs
per cent, which makes S6.12 charged
in order to pay the operator his 80
cents or dollar per hour.
The cylinder pressman increases his
wage II IL cents an hour and the boss
increases his charge S1.l5 per hour
The pressman runs two presses for
81 1-2 cents per hour. The charge for
the two presses is $3.50 per hour plus
25 per cent, which makes $3.50 per
hour. OF course, this includes power
and the wages OF feeder, which
amounts to rs cents TO 80 cents per
hour.
When platen pressmen get from 65
cents to II cents per hour the charge
for make ready is $3.50 per hour and
the running charge. varying with the
size of the press, is from SLIGO to $3.50
per hour which pays for the high
wages of a girl feeder who gets may
be % cents per hour. And to this, Of
course, is added the 25 per cent profit.
On mechanical feed, with one press
man looking after four machines at
II cents per hour. the charge is $3.50
per press, or $500 per hour for four.
The pressman's charge per press is
~ Ia cents, 25 per cent profit on
$3.50 means 81. 80 per hour on four
presses.
Well, these charges include power,
oil. depreciation, unproductiYe time,
overhead, rent etc. Yes. but we are
showing that the worker is not getting
i. Ec j. not responsible.
A paper stock cutter gets so cents
per hour; the charge is So.
Bookbinders' handiwork without the
aid of heavy and expensive machinery
is charged for at from $3.50 TO 50 per
hour and the worker gets So cents
per hour. Materials are charged for
at 25 per cent profit.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
WAGE
CUT DID NOT
MATERIALIZE

The Wholesale May.day wage re
dueiion plan of the building contract
ors of the Twin Cities has fizzied out.
and when the final showdown came
laat Monday morning, members Of the
building trades went 10 work as usual
and under conditions prevailing for
the past year
II will be remembered that two or
three weeks ago. all crafts IN the
building trades we're notified by the
contractors association that they were
to BIZ subjected To go per cent raduc.
ton beginning May |. This proposi-
tlon Was thoroughly discussed by the
unions. all OF which voted 10 reject
the proposed eui and to "stand pat
upon their insiatence for last years
wages aud conditions, United action
OF these unions has been the cause. II
is said. OF the failure Of the contract
ors 10 enforce their demand for the 20
per cent reduction
An exception 10 the above In the
case of the union electricians, thirty
eight of whom are out for the reason
that their employers refuse 10 sign
new agreements that are satisfactory
10 the union. II is understood the
master electricians demand the Eiec-
trieal Workers Union break off all
affillatlon with the Bliidlng Trades
Council and the Twin City Federation
OF Labor. which the union refuses 10
do, claiming II they did so. they would
be forced 10 work soD the same Job
with non-union men Of other trades.
Some members are inclined 10 take
the optimistic view OF the situation,
and are confident that matters viii be
adjusted satisfactorily TO both sides
within the Doar future.
Al the present time there are but
two electric concerns under the juris.
dletion OF the local union employing
union men They are Guy James. l0S
r. Clark street, and the Howell Elec.
tric Company of Ranioul
Electricians at the University are
still working. these men being under
civil service regulations, and no con
tract can be signed. Union wages
and conditions prevail.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
PRINTERS EDUCATIONAL
PICTURES DRAW GOOD
CROWDS AT THREE SHOWS

Three well.filled houses saw the
educational pictures presented by the
Typographical Union Sunday at the
Prsk theatre, Champaign, and the Co
lonial theatre In Urbana. The FIRST
picture. entitled "A Curable Disease"
depicted the great foe OF the printing
fraternity tuberculosis, being success.
fully subdued al the printers home In
Colorado Springs. Colo. This home is
maintained by the union printers, and
has been the means Of saving the
lives OF hundreds OF printers who have
fallen victim Of the great white
plague.
THE Making OF Newspaper" fol-
lowed. In this picture the audience
was taken through the plant OF the
Detroit News, the most up.to-date in
the world, and shown step by step the
processes required 70 manufacture q
great newspaper
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06

Girls In binderies get from 25 cents
TO 40 cents per hour and their time
is charged for AT 81 per hour on hand
work to $3.50 per hour when light ma.
ehinery is used. The usual 2b per
cent profit is tackled on here, too.
On all paper stock and materials at
10 2-3 per cent handling charge III
made on the price of the paper or
materials. delivered at the plant
Rates OF profit of from 25 per cent
on 800 worth OF paper stock to 20
percent on $500 worth or over are
charged. When a customer furnishes
the stock charge of l6 % per cent
Is made for handling.
From all of the foregoing II ought
to be patent that the wage workers
in the printing industry are not re-
sponsible for the alleged excessive
costs.
The printing trade worker muddled
through the World War without equi.
table readjustment OF wage scales:
some OF the scales have not as yet
been readjusted and the employers
are clamoring for reduction in wages
long before the printer has had time
to liquidate his debts accumulated by
long years of insufficient compensa.
tien.
Due to the economic and technical
development of the printing industry,
he knows that "A hours is a reason.
able and sufficient period OF time for
weeks work.
Some of the employers have agreed
TO the same view but a larger mum.
Der have determined TO fight and de-
stroy the organizations that have
meant so much TO the printing trade
workers In the past.
The Tpothetae also claims that the
federal trade commission indorsed Its
cost finding system.
II is a known fact that the hour
costs include every item OF expense
that can possibly occur in the entire
business. II is a further fact that
printing can be produced and sold on
these costs and still be a money max
ing business, but the appetite Of the
Typothetae members for profit Is In.
satiable.
They collect profit upon their salar-
les. profit upon their investment. pro-
1T upon interest upon the investment.
profit upon commissions. profit upon
depreciation, profit upon obsolescence,
profit upon spoiled work, profit upon
unproductive time. profit upon wages.
profit upon anything and everything
that can possibly be padded into the
overhead.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
$4,000 TOPUT
OYER COSSACKS
In THE EAST
nv The Federated rress)

bosfoN. Mass. TIN nurl There
d grave danger of \ state Sanstahulars
heiag feisted upon the working poo
pie nt Massachusetts. despite appasi
tton hs labor Sists-three Thousand
dollars i heing raised anleng he on,
plasine interests To Jam the eenssahu
lar, hill through the I.eeaalasure
This money l. helnK collected hy the
publicity hunean Of the state police"
which nuhltehes monthly periodical
termed The State Police Magazine:
a journal OF Law aud Order Each
manufacturer or other capitalist ap.
preached ~ asked 10 pay for loo sub.
serlptlons for the propaganda ofRan.
which Is being sent To ss.no0 farmers
Ia an effort to win them over 10 the
alleged virtues of mounted police for
the highways These farmers are
members of the State Grange and
they arr counted ON 20 urge their log
isiatnfe io vote yes.
eal Alfred W roote, state commiA
sioner of Public Safety. declares the
publicity bureau has no connection
with his office. HUI nevertheless the
hurean and Foote are working toward
the same end foote aud Adjuiani.
General Jesse stosens iourneyed 20
the Pennsylvania steel regions 10 In
speet the workings of the state cunsia.
huiafs there, and the big forward
march nf The Massachusetts eons,ahu
larry advocates started with rush.
The bill has already been reported
favorably by the Legislatures com.
mitiss on state administration. Char.
les J. Hodson, legislative agent for
the A. y, OF L.. attacked the measure
In hearing before the Legislatures
ways and means committee. He do.
acrihed the brutalliles perpelrated up.
on women and children by The Penn
sylvania constabulary during the steel
strike. Under the enlistment system.
he declared, only hardened characters
would seek employment In the mount.
I'D police forces.
Cost Of conutahulary here for one
year Ia estimated al sss0,oo0.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
STOCK YARDS
EMPLOYEES ARE
LOCKED OUT

CHICAGO Building trades employ
ees have heea locked eut aud the live
stock handlers IN the stuck Yards are
on strike. The lockout involves 10.
600 craftsmen or ahoat 20 percent nt
TIE army o. unemployed. the latter
iaee, The lockout y the result Of an
oltimatnm served by the contractors
~ body that wage reductions frnm
Sl.sS 90 81 an hour Ia the case Of un.
sk lied would be made. The refusal
OF the building Trades Council tn en.
tertain any pay cuts prompted the
contractors IN close down all opera.
tioGs At noon Saturday The livestock
handlers went oal Al midnight Sstur.
day when The Union stoekyards Com.
pany announced flat wage deerrasc
Of eight cente an honf. Under the
old rate stock handlers received n
minimum n siii mouth aud afisf
flse years OF service. when ther hc.
came known az yiudmasiers, attained
a maximum waEe of slsa.
Chicago also IL faced with strikes
or loekeuts of the bread milk and
meat teamstera.
Huilding trades union officials painl
out that some independent contractors
viii keep going aud tho material men
have stated that yards will remain
open
Strikehreakers already have been
employed 10 fill the places of the hand
lers
The employment of atrikebreakera.
however, viii help the packers little.
according To officials of the Amaiga.
mated Meatcntiers and Butcher Work.
era Union. as butchers will not be al.
lowed 10 slaughter cattle that pass
through non.union hands.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
WE DON'T PATRoNIzE

F. X. Robson Department Store.
Gehrig's Cafeteria.
Champaign Plumbing & Heating Co.
Twin City Electric Co.
Frank Jones Transfer Line.
Chester & 0'Byrne.
y. NJ Sims.
Roberts & Grant Meat Market.
c. ID. Merry Meat Market.
Main street; Glen Johnson, First
National Bank Building; r. j.
Jordan. 3s Main street; George Cabel.
212 ". Walnut street; Starks & Mont
gomery. 126 N. Neil street; Blaisdell
Bros, Robson building; Busy Bee,
Taylor street, Triplett & Graves, N.
Walnut street
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
Give .. to a Friend

Read this issue of The Review care
fully. Then kindly hand It to friend
who is not member of a union. so
that. he may become acquainted With
tbe union uioSemsnt-
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
PROMINENT DENTIST LOCATES
HERE.

Dr. F. b. Olwin one Of the State
Dental examiners. has become associ.
ate with DR.. b. A. Smith in the Ro-
besor plags III IL ge4stioc - 1eals.
trV
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06

to his regular dues, sum equal 10
over a million dollars month which
will be used to carry on the strike, and
to pay benefits to those out of em-
ployment.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-04
Hart Realty Co.

MAN to work this city refinishing
chandeliers, brass beds, automobiles,
by new method. $40 daily without
capital or experience Write Gun
metal Co. 81 Elm. Decatur, I'll.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-04
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
wANTED-RELP-MALE

MAN wanted to learn automobile
business. repairing and driving dur
ing spare time or evenings; experience
not necessary. Address Box B-4e
Chieftain.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-04

WANTED-First class carpente
finishers. Call Ais w 18th.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
WORLDS CHIEF JUSTICES

throne the king. In Persia the same post
Chief Justice-is divided among many "Imams.'
Imam is the Arabic word meaning leader or
guide, or pattern--ouc whose example is to
be followed, whether just or unjust. He is
the lieutenant or Caliph of the Prophet his
business is to guard the faith and govern
the state. IYnams are chosen by their
"divine appointment Baber, one of the
greatest of all Persian Justices had his life
expressed very fully in the picture where ne
is acting as Judge and ruler. When an Imam
rises to the position of Chief Judge he does
so purely upon his merits. There is presi-
dent to appoint, no congress to confirm. If
he can do the things he processes to do he is
elevated to the coveted position
In the Moslem State of Turkey the laws
of the empire rest in principle on the basis
of the Koran, the Hadith, or traditions of
Mohammed, and the reported sayings of his
successors, all of which are binding upon the
sovereign of the state as upon all Moslems.
Each successive Sultan, however, has enacted
statutes as suited his individual purpose and,
by virtue of his absolute authority his laws
have stood until others have swept them away.
The nearest approach to Supreme Court
Justice is the Sultan. interprets (?) the
law as he thinks best for his people.
A population of 100000 persons, scat
tered over 1,250,oo0 square miles, are the
Mongolians, whose justices are Buddhist
priests, the chief of these justices being the
Pope. called the Dalai-lama, or "Ocean
Priest" One whose authority is as wide as
the ocean.
Scattered throughout India the High
Courts of Judicature, constituted by the
Indian High Courts Act of 1861. Bengal,
Bombay and Madras were the first centers
renresented These new High Courts
sunerseded the old "Sudder" courts and all
others. The judges ara appointed by the
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
THE SIMPLE HOME LIFE


ances she is still "a dear little home body!"
The "Im just like you-it's what you have
that I want theme is played over and over
again, and her audiences, like those of the
other stars, can sit by conlplacently and enjoy
her work, with the feeling that they have
something that she hasn't; that no matter how
interesting her life may be, they have some
thing on her.
The male star must love the great outdoors
and understand women. He-that is, his Sec
retary, of course-must balance neatly on the
fence of platonic friendship and write letters
that are never incriminating, but between the
lines of which anybody can read anything she
pleases The secretary of a man whose smile,
through the cameras lens, has often and ad-
vantageously looked straight into the heart
Of the public had an inspiration while ago.
She wrote form letter, which began safely
with "Dear Friend of Nine" and filed ex-
actly one page of the stars monogramlned
single sheet stationery. She found that for
exactly half his mail she could use this form
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
DON'T WRITE FOR MOVIES

movie" will give. Once sold to magazine
it can later be sold better to the movies: the
full story shows its dramatic values and
sale to the movies" means double pay. Fur
thernlore, story sent to a magazine is almost
certain to be read and considered.
The only exception to these remarks is the
professional scenario writers employed by the
motion picture companies The existence of
these highly trained experts within the studios
is a natural result of the evolution of the
movies. It is their duty to take stories,
novels, or plays which the companies have pur-
chased and pick out the episodes that can be
photographed, write explanatory titles and
generally arrange the material for screen pro-
duction.
When story writers attempt these arrange
ments, or continuity" as it is called, they
compete with these specialists. 1t is not worth
doing. And the expert continuity writers in
general find that il is waste of their time To
try to invent plots or write stories. For one
thing, they are too busy, and their mastery Of
continuity IS no guarantee of eheir knowing
anything at all about creative writing.
Let the story writer stick to his craft If
his work possesses motion picture possibili-
ties, the movies" win find him oct. He can
give his idea a real run for the money Only
IN story form. He should ccncenrraf= sn TIE
laborlous mastery of character and plot. and
ignore synopses. "The storys the thing" In
the domain OF high art, no man can serve two
masters. The salvation of the transcendent
art of the movies" depends largely upon
general recognition Of this fact.
The greatest need of the movies today is
better creative art. This need orr hest stnrv
writers must and will supply. The best judges
in the movie" world to-day are all saying that
yesterday was the day of the star; to-day is
the day of the director and tomorrow viii be
the day Of the author,
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

From the time of Menelik I the sovereigns of
this little empire of Abyssinia have acted as
the chief justices of the land. Empress Zou-
dltu, not to be outdone by her hale forebears,
sits alone en- the throne Of the Meneliks-
WELDING both the scepter of royalty and the
ward of judicial supremacy Her DEGREES of
state are couched in more infallble phrase
ology than are her judicial mandates. 1t is
still the Tribunal Court of Our Fathers
Father, the Great King Solomon" that stands
for the prestige Of her legal decisions. A bet
ter background no court may claim.
Still another ruler claims the right Of act
ing as chief justice of his domain-a king who
wrote his own Declaration of Independence.
Mecca, chief and holy city Of Islam, has from
time immemorial been under the Grand She
reef. A few years ago, when all the world
was running amuck, the Turks, not to be out
done by other and more respectable races OF
fgh-t,s, attempted to wipe out goodly num-
Der of Bedouin tribes of that "land of ancient
violence" Arabia. Ell Hassain Ibu Ali, the
then Shereef, rebelled. announced himself
'sHassan l. King of Hedjaz," and not only sat
upon the kingly throne CT these six million
scattered outlaws but claimed the right to adj
iudicate upon their rights as citizens and good
neshbors, calling himself Judge and Chier
Judge" of the people.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

sonality is created by mail for star. For
instance, every female star must be a little
homebody. She must adore getting right
out into her own kitchen-even though every
body knows that she lives in hotel. She
must believe firmly in loves young dream, no
matter how many of loves young dreamers
she has accompanied to the altar. She must
frequently express the desire to be just like
other girls, and have little home somewhere
in tiny little town, and do her own work and
have lots of "kiddies," never any children. A
year or SO ago a clever young actress outgrew
herself and had difficulty in getting parts. Her
ss-agent-secretary had brilliant idea, and
made a new personality for her, an exotic
one. She was photographed against back
grounds that would have done credit to
harem, in trailing draperies that left little
to the imagination. She became siren,
photographically, and the producers followed
her secretary's lead and created the roles of
many sirens for her to play
But in her mail and in her published utter
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

crown. In Bengal, Sir Launcelot sanderson
is the Justice. His two right hand associates
are Honorable Nawab Sir Seyd Shamsul-
Huda, and Honorable Sir Asutosh Chadhuri.
He has twelve other associate justices.
Chief Justice DR.. Shawn Wetzen Hsu of
China has the honor of being at the head of
the court having the largest clientele in the
world. young man, just turned forty, he
has the very best of training for his high posi-
ton. From the Nanyang College of Shanghai
he was sent to the United States; in 1909 the
degree of LII. D. was given him, and in the
following year he was called back home to
begin his life work He went rapidly from
the legal adviser in the counsellor's depart
ment of the ministry to Minister Of Finance,
and in 1919 up to the chief justice of the High
Court of the Shansi Province.
King Solomon's swarthy mate, the Queen OF
Sheba, was 10 less renowned for her equitable
administration of justice than for her COM
pelling beauty. The wisdom of the King of
Israel was mingled with her own in their son.
who was crowned ''Menelik l. King Of Kings
Curionsly enough, one took this name OF
'sMenelik" until, in 1885, Prince of Shoa an
nounced himself "Menelik H." To-day his
daughter, Princess Zouditu. reigns EN-
press Of Ethiopia" and "Queen of Queens"