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The labor world., 1921-12-10
WANTS BRADY TO
HOLD TO PLEDGE
California State Federation Of
Labor Asks District Attorney
TO Make Promise Good.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. S.-The
convention Of the California State
Federation of Labor has called upon
District Attorney Brady Of this city
to Immediately carry out his publicly
made promise to assemble all of the
new facts revealed in the Mooney and
Billings cases and submit same to the
governor:
The convention declared: 1.-THE
position taken by the federation has
been more than confirmed by events
Of the past year; namely, the con-
fession OF perjury by John McDon-
aid, the confessions of Draper Hand,
detective Of the notorious bomb bu-
reau'; the testimony of Hatcher of
Woodland to the perjuries Of F.
c. Oxman, and the admissions Of
James Brennan, former assistant dis
trict attorney, as to the insufficiency
Of evidence.
'These men have now been i'm
prisoned for five years for crime
which they are palpably guiltless,
and upon evidence which is now dem
cnstrated to have constituted a delib-
crate frame uO''
The labor world., 1921-12-10
LABOR COST OF
SHOES NO AL|bI
FOR HIGH PRICE
Editor Shoe. Workers Journal
Tells Of Wages Paid TO-
Workers on Each Pair.

BOSTON, Dec. S.-Editor Blaine,
of the Shoe Workers Journal, con-
tinues his attack on those manu-
facturers who demand lower wages,
and who insist that high labor COSTS
are responsible for present shoe prices.
The labor editor says:
"A very large retailer, operating
a number Of first-class shoe stores.
has been handling large quantities
of a certain well-known make Of
mems shoes for many years. This
year this well-known make is
priced to him. at $3.50. He is re-
ported as dropping the line and re-
placing it with another line at IS,
which seems to him to be of equal
intrinsic value. though perhaps not
quite equal in finish or snap
''This dealer is reported to be re-
gretfu1 to make this change, but
The labor world., 1921-12-10
WEST VIRGINIA COAL OPERATORS
HOPE TO STARvE union MINERS

powerful in the country. are telling
their employees that if they will ac-
cept reduction of 30 to so per cent
in their wages and withdraw from
the union they will give them some
work, but they do not promise steady
work. With their families actually
accept the offer.
""Only a few days ago, two small
children in school in Fayette. county
tainted, and physicians said it was
due to their weakness because of lack
of food. They were children of a coal
miner. And this is not an isolated
case.
"At o'clock one morning recently
a woman, living In the coal camp at
WicRham, called at my home in Beck
ley. She carried a coal oil can. This
poor woman asked me if 1 would let
her have little oil. She said the
family had spent the night in dark
room, and that her baby had died
at midnight. The family had no money
with which to buy coal oil to light
the hovel home in which her baby
lay dead.
1.-The manager of one coal company
that is attempting to starve its en-
ployes into acceptance of a wage re-
duction told the men recently that
he was acting solely in their behalf
in offering theq work if they would
take lower wages and withdraw from
the union. He said he knew their
families were suffering for food and
that he wanted to do everything he
could for them. The next day a min
or whose family was without food
went to the store of that company
and asked the store manager to give
him credit for a small sack of flour,
promising that he would pay for 1t
out Of the first money he earned when
he got back to work. But the store
manager refused to let him have the
flour unless he gave some kind Of
security for the debt. All that the
man had was the few pieces of fur
niture in his house, and the store man
ager told him to bring a dresser to
the store and leave it as security.
| The miner went home, and he and his
| son carried the dresser to the store
and left it as security for the price
of a 12-pound sack Of flour. This in
cident shows the extremity to which
| the miners are reduced in the New
River district. and it is this condition
that the coal companies are utilizing
to starve and beat the men into SUBJ
mission.
II say to you that it is the height
Of cruelty for these coal companies
to enforce starvation of men, women
| and children as a means of forcing
| down wages to a point where the men
cannot make a living for their fami-
] lies"
The labor world., 1921-12-10
CHRISTMAS SLIPPERS

Best assortment at The Big Duluth.
The labor world., 1921-12-10

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. g.
''Scarvation is the instrument that is
being used by coal operators in the
New River field Of West Virginia to
torture the union miners into SUBJ
mission to a wholesale reduction in
their wages and destruction of the
union" Lawrence Dwyer of Beckley.
w. Va, told the International eXecu-
tive board Of the United Mine Work.
ers Of America. meeting in Indianap-
oils: Dwyer is the member of the
board from that field.
The board was hearing reports of
conditions in the various coal mining
districts of the country when DWyer
made his statement From practically
every section of the country there
came heart-rending tales Of the de-
plorable condition Of coal miners and
their families. due to the long-cOn-
tinued wave Of unemployment and the
determined effort of coal operators to
reduce wages and wipe out the United
Mine Workers Of America. But the
story told by Dwyer was, perhaps, the
most narrowing Of all.
"Pcople who live in other parts OF
the country do not know the actual
conditions under which coal miners
and their families lie in some parts
Of West Virginia" Dwyer said. I'VE
have the finest soft coal in the world.
1t sells for a higher price than any
other coal. and. usually, it has steady
market. But for year past there
has been little or no work In the
mines Of the New River field. Some
mines have not operated a single day
in 1871. Others have been idle for
four, six or eight months.
1--WE have loyal lot of union min
ers in that district, men who have
fought hard for years to sustain the
union against the interests that would
kill it. The union has helped them
to improve their working and living
conditions and to obtain better wages.
But it is apparent that the operators
have decided that they are going to
destroy the union in that district and
reduce the miners wages to the old
time low level. which will not afford
living for the miner and his fam
ily.
These operators are taking advan-
tage Of the terrible depression to car
~ OuL tIlS pldu. OuE lIlctl nave UcSA
out of work so long that they have
used every cent that they had earned
and they are in debt as deeply as
they can go. Hundreds, I may say
thousands, of families of coal miners
are without a cent and without food.
How they exist God only knows. Com
pany stores have refused to supply
them with more food. There is no
other place for them to find employ
ment. This situation gives the opera
tor his opportunity. Coal companies,
some of the largest, richest and most
The labor world., 1921-12-10

feels that q difference Of $1.e3 in
factory price Of shoes of equal value
in materials can not be defended
and that he cannot merchandise that
difference to the public. The volume
Of this business Is said to be over
100000 annually.
"Now the shoe at $6.SS is made in
a center that is claiming q reduction
in wages, while the IS shoe is made
in a center that has made no sug-
gestion Of a. reduction in wages and
where shoe workers are fully employ
ed.
But some one says that the busy
center has lower labor costs and 30
is able to sell the shoe.' This is not
the. explanation. On some parts of
the work the busy center has q higher
labor cost. The difference in the
total labor cost is not large.
1.-The total labor cost of the shoe
at $6.83 Is approximately $1.20. II
the shoe workers donated the labor
on this shoe, it. would still be 63 cents
higher than the other shoe at IS, and
there would be no assurance that the
shoe could be sold. even If the help
were willing to work for nothing.
But the $6.S3 center is asking for
a reduction Of 20 per cent: II they
secure the whole 20 per cent, which
sc ms highly improbable, it, would
amount to "a cent pair, which, taken
from $1.53, would leave the $3.50
shoe still $3.50 above the IS shoe,
made in the center where wages have
not been reduced"
The labor world., 1921-12-10

affairs Of either organization includ-
ing both the glorious history as we'll
as the aspirations for the future that
should cause any man or woman. ELI
gible to membership in these organi7
cations, to hesitate in associating with
both of these great American insti-
tutiOns. I am proud to be able 10
occupy this very desirable dual posi-
ton.
GAS the messenger for the Am erican
Federation of Labor and speaking as
the proxy Of hepresident, Mr.. Sam
uel Gompers, it is my pleasure and
privilege to transmit the fluctuations
and good wishes Of the American Ia
Dor movement. as represented by the
American Federation Of Labor, to this
convention and to the Membership of
the American Legion"
The labor world., 1921-12-10
MINNES0TA0NLY
STATE THUS FAR
TO SEND TROOPS
Governor Preus Lost No Time to
Accommodate Anti-Unionists
and Meat Packers.
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was commended by the majority Of
the people of this state.
When Knute Nelson was governor
he complied with every request of
employers for troops. When he left
office his successors, one after the
other, refused to use the military
army of the government tocrush la
bor. Not until 'Burnquist's time was
the militia again used to break strikes.
and now comes Preus with his readi-
ness to serve class interest at the
expense Of another class, while at the
same time he is strutting about the
country declaring that there is no
room for class government in Ameri-
ca.
First Refused Troops.
Adjutant General Rhinow refused
to send troops to South St. Paul when
they were first demanded Of him. He
changed his mind after the st. Paul
Association Of Commerce got busy
with the governor by wire. It is
costing the state $1,750 a day to keep
the militia at South St. Paul. That
cost will increase as additional troops
are brought here.
One of the first orders issued by
General Rhinow after he had brought
his troops to South st. Paul was, ac-
cording to the Minneapolis Daily
News: Don't shoot unless necessary,
but if you do shoot, shoot to kill"
Employers may bring in gunmen
and other law breakers, the toughest
that can be recruited from the depths
of the large cities of the country, but
such will not be shot by the militia.
Only the workers will be shot, if there
is any shooting done.
For claw and Order"
And yet they say that all this dis
play is made in the interest Of claw
and order" No, not at all, it is
made for the purpose of assisting the
packers to humble and defeat their
striking employees. Then We wonder
why patriotism is at a low ebb in the
country, and why working folks do
not get enthusiastic about movements
organized to create interest in Ameri-
ca and it's institutions.
There is a deep seated reason for
labor unrest. 1t is deeper than is
manifest from wage reductions and
from fights on union labor. It owes
it's origin to the denial Of the ordi-
nary liberties Of the workers, liber-
ties that governors and state militias
should protect rather than destroy.
The labor world., 1921-12-10
GREETINGS OF GONPERS
To LEGION CONVENTION
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discovered this fact as result Of their
legislative efforts to promote social
justice. We can well do without the
politician, the statesman is essential.
There is a common interest between
the nen Of the Legion and the men
of the American Federation of Labor
in the essential drive to- unhorse the
politician and commend, support and
encourage the statesman. :
'As member of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and as a member
of the American Legion I desire to
reiterate that there is nothing in the
The labor world., 1921-12-10
OPPOSE LIVE STOCK ACT.

CHICAGO, Dec. s.-Traders and
commission. men at the stockyards
are opposing the new federal live
stock act. They say they are not
engaged in interstate commerce, but
do an interstate business, and the
law: therefore. does not apply. to
them,
The labor world., 1921-12-10
KILLED BY-sAIOKhgG

UTICA, N. T. Dec. s.-+Edw'
,Bubrey died at his home in Qlayl
near here. He was an 1nces3
smoker and was 1o5 years oN att
time of his DEATH. M
The labor world., 1921-12-10
CHRISTMAS BATH ROBES
Lowest prices at The Big Duluth.

The taxpayers think our streets are
paved with gold.
The labor world., 1921-12-10

Some movie actresses marry
ideal and some good deal.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
BIG LIQUOR RAIDS
 DOWN IN KENTUCKY
Federal Agents Make Coup and Bandits Also Get Away With
 Quantity of Booze.

Louisville. Decf. 9.-Prohibition agents in Kentucky have completed one of the most extensive raids in this history of prohibition enforcement in the state.
 Whiskey bandits likewise have just completed one of the most successful distilery raids ever made in Ken lucky.
 Instead of a breathing spell today, after a busy week in three Kentucky counties. federal agents are off in search for the upward of a score Of whiskey bandits who last night got away with 194 cases of bottled in bond. and ten barrels of whiskey from the T. B. Rippcy Distillery at Tyrone, Ky.
 Early in the week, 30 prohibition agents invaded Nelson, Washington and Marion counties When the agents came out late yesterday the raid had yielded seven prisoners, ten stills, SS foundations were broken up and 30, O0O gallons of beer and 62 gallons of moonshine destroyed Warrants for a number of other alleged viola tors have been issued
 The bandits in raiding the Rippey distilery captured four guards and three passersby and after handcuifing them put them in a vault in the dis tilery office while they loaded the whiskey into motor trucks and auto mobiles and drove off.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
WALL ST. EXPLOSION
 SUSPECT ARRESTED
Omaha Police Arrest Mike Stine- Given "Tip" in an Unsigned
 Communication.

Omaha, Dec. 9.-Police last night arrested a man whose name was glV- en as Mike Stine, as a suspect in con nection with the Wall street eXplo- sion September 16, 1920, when large number of persons were killed, An unsigned communication to the police led to the arrest.
 The communication directed the police to go to a certain point and find a man with long black hair and to ask him if he drove the one horse wagon of dynamite in Wall street." The note was delivered to police headquarters by a messenger boy.
 Police went to hot"l in the Ni- Cinity described in the note and ar rested Stine, and later notified New York police of the arrest. Stnes wife appeared later and said that he had not been in New York since their marriage six years ago.
 Chief of Detectives Charles Van Deusen of the Omaha police depart ment today said that he was satisfied that Stine was in Omaha on Septem- Der 16, 1920, and that he was the same man who engaged in a wrestling match during a carnival here on that date. Stine. police say, is a profes- sional wrestler.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
ELM CITY MOTION PICTURE
 HOUSES ORDERED TOCLOSE
 DOWN WITHIN NEXT 48 HRS.
EAR ,.,To'E'EMENT
 AMONu,@ z" ,>1s,';n'1rS Some Delegates EXP -ct Final Settlement Next
 Week at Washington

Washington. Dec. o. (3y Associated Press) So encouraging q situation has developed in the arms negotia- tions that some of the delegates be- Iieve an open session of the confer ence will be called early next week 10 announce agreement on the 5-5-S naval ratio and quadruple arrange ment proposed as a substitute for the Anglo-Japauese alliance.
 There are intimations that the ne gotiations are so close to settle ment that some conference officials have expected an open session today or tomorrow
 While the exact nature Ut the forth coming announcement cannot be fore cast, it seems probable that in addi- ton to the naval ratio and the four power plan it may embody some for nal announcement of the principles on which the conference expects to limit Notifications and naval bases in the Pacific.
 The Japanese frankly say that while it is difficult to determine, even from the standpoint of an expert, when a naval base ceases to be deien- sive and begins to be offensive in strength, they do not believe that the existing bases at the Philippines and Guam are of sufficient capacity and power to serve as adequate concentra~ ton stations for the entire American navy. The Japanese, therefore, seek it is thought. some definite assurance that there will be no strengthening of the present bases.
 The conversations over the four power treaty again were at stand- still today pending receipt of definite replies from Tokio and Paris, but there was a general feeling Of contl- dence that the delay would not be long.
 Unofficial advices both from the Japanese and French capitals seems to forecast acceptance of the four power plan, provided such other questions as the naval ratio and the fortihcations are solved satisfactorily
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
Mayor FitzGerald Issues 0fdel-Places May Then Seek Licenses Under City Ordinances
Already State Authorities Have Closed Up Six Movie Theaters in Vari- Ous Places.

New Haven, Dec. a-Mayor David E. Fitzgerald today sent a letter to Chief of Police Philip T. Smith in- structing him to recall the licenses of every moving pie ture theater in the city The man. agements of each place will be given AS hours grace to comply. Thereafter each place may apply for new H. cense to give moving pictures under the city ordinances.
 Thinks All Are Violators.
 The mayor expresses the opinion that there is not a moving picture house in the city and possibly not in the state which actually has compiled with the city and state laws govern- ing the construction and safety re- quirements
 Mayor Fitzgerald heard much of the evidence presented at the inquest by Coroner Mix into the Rialto the- ater fire. In his letter to Chief Smith the mayor makes no reference to the theater fire. He does say how ever, that theater arrangements ap- plying for new license will have to come under the laws as they are now in force.
 In this city there was a revised building code and during the fire in- quiry evidence was offered, 1t Is un- derstood showing that theaters had not compiled fully with the provisions of that code. A controversy arose also between Building Inspector Aus tin and others as to whether the new code was retroactive in its require- ments.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
SALVATION ARMY
 ASKS FOR $5,0o0
For 1922 Budget-Former Mayor Quigley Heads
 Committee

A drive for s5,OG0 for the Salvation Army budget in this city for the coming year vii! be launched within the next few days. following action taken at a conference between of- ficers of the Salvation Army and prominent local people yesterday af- ternoon. Among those who are on the committee for the drive are former Mayor George A. Quigley, Mrs. w. H. Booth and Mrs. Arthur Kim ball. Ad- iutant James Ashar, of Boston, who is campaign director of the Salvation Army in New England was present at the conference, as were Staff Cap tains Anna Johnson and rom" Ga briel, Colonel Ben" Nelson, and Ad- jutant Axel Backman.
 Final details of the drive will he worked out at a meeting to be held in the army barracks this evening at which time it is expected to have representatives of the American Lc- zion present. The drive probably will be conducted during the next two weeks, beginning Monday morning. Mr. Quigley was elected chairman of the general committee.
 The work of the Salvation Army is little known in this city, not because of it's being idle, but because the army as a rule goes about it's work quietly and usually does it work among peo- pie who do not ask aid from the of- tcial charitable organizations, be- cause they do not care to go on record as asking aid at all. In fact Captain Anna Johnson, who is in charge of the local barracks, although working in cooperation with the Vel fare Workers AssociatiYH handles many cases where no aifis asked.
 One of the recent cases taken care of by Captain Johnson was in q home where only the son, the sole support of a widowed mother was ill in bed The house was bitter cold, no coal in the cellar and little or no food in the house. The Salvation Army captain immediately purchased half a ton of coal, provided sufficient food to staVe off the wolf from the door and prac- ticaly took care of the little family until the sick boy was able to go about and earn some money.
 This is just sample of many of the cases handled by the army, Money collected in the city is used to defray expenses in the city in just this way. Many instances are recorded where the army has been required from sheer necessity to provide coal and food for people where actual suffering has been found.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
NOT TO'EXHUME BODY
State Police Have No Intention of Probing in Dr. Radon Case in That Way.

Hartford, Dec. 9.-No move to ex- hume the body of Dr. Elizabeth Ra- dom is contemplated by the state po- lice, Superintendent Robert T. Hur- ley said today. Mir. Hurley said that he had not attached great deal of importance to the various rumors that have been going around regard ing mysterious sedans and that he thought the reports that had come to him on the case indicated suicide. The body is buried in the Zion Hill cemetery.
 Robert Radon, brother of Dr. Ra- dom told Times reporter today that the family had no theory regarding his sisters death in Bridgeport. All we know is that she is gone," said Mir. Radon. He said that the family certainly would be opposed to the ex- huming of the body at this time.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
VA ZyON 7IHREA TENS TOHIT
 ARMY OFFICER CALLED W
 TO TESTIFY DURING PROBE
GRIFFITH TO ASK
 FOR 0. K. OF PACT
Will Seek It's Passage in Dali Eireann Despite
 De Valera.

Dublin, Dec. g OBy Associnted Press )-The ratification of the treaty between Ireland and Great Britain will be moved at Dail Eireann meet ing next Wednesday by Arthur Griffith as chairman of the plenipo- tentaries it was announced by prcsi- dent De Valera in statement issued by the Dali publicity department.
 It would not be moved as u cahi- net decision, added the1statement be- cause the views of the delegates differed from those of certain mem- bers of the cabinet.
 The extent to which Dublin was surprised by Ramon De Naleras statement of last night in opposition to the terms of the Irish agreement cannot easily be exaggerated. AL though his sentiments were generally known it was not believed he would openly differ at the last moment with the decisions of the Sim Fein's aC- credited plenipotentiaries
 The protraCted nature of Yestcr- days cabinet meeting which had the agreement in hand indicated to all observers that the question was not being settled, but those who looked for anything but a unanimous de cision of the cabinet favorifS the Agreement were few.
 In political quarters here the gen eral feeling today seemed to be that the Dali Eireann at it's meeting next Wednesday would support Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, who stood by their signatures or the agreement against all the arguments of the opposition and it is stated that if plenipotentialies were again needed in London the same men would go a pa in.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-09
PAY REDUCTIONS
Mayor Curtis Explains His Side of the Cut in SaIariCs-Misundcrsta He Claims.

Mayor Curtis, when asked concern ing the denial which he made of his stating that he was in favor of a cut in the pay of the city officials, said that he was misunderstood yesterday He has made no positive statement that he is in favor of cut in salary, because he believes that that question cannot be decided until the commit tee Investigating the different offices of the city government has made re- port is his contention. He knows of d few cases in which he is satisfied that the salaries should not be cut but thus far he has not been inform ed of any office where the salary should be cut. He says that he will not make a positive statement until the committee reports to the common council.