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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01

out of this state. Stay right here, be- long to your organization here in Ala have been driven out of this state can come back and work in Alabama; that is the thing for you to do.
 If they had ever started to drive the organizers out of Alabama, there Is lot of coal operators who would pever have lived to read about 1t in the newspapers the next morning. We would have got few of them in the fight. We are going to stay here just as long as you want us to stay here. T think there Is enough good, strong union men to make the weak fellows fight, whether they want to or not. think we have reached that stage here in Blocton and everywhere else.
 Your duty to the organization is to get your jobs back any way you can get them. These are your jobs, don't forget that. These scabs have no more right to take these jobs from you than you would have to take these prop critics from the coal operators. These are your jobs, don't forget that. See that you get your job; that is the first thing. Now, they may compel you to sign some sort of yellow dog, but it won't amount to any more than yellow dog would amount to. If all the men who sign these yellow dogs are union men, what is the difference These coal companies will get to know these yellow dogs don't amount to d hlame thing. They will throw them away themselves. If l wanted to get back in the mines why, I would sign anything they wanted me to sign, and would keep paying my union dues. If all of them do that, they are not going to discharge anybody, are they? Certainly not, because they want to run these mines. They are just bluffing along to see whether you men will quit or not, that is all they are doing They are just going to see whether you will persuade these scabs to leave or not Every man has d different method of persuasion. You should persuade these scabs to leave Alabama my friends, and may your conscience be your guide. The thing for you to do is to pay your union dues just as diligently as you have drawn your relief every week.
 GIVE YOU ONE YEAR
 We want you to make the mine. 100 per cent union; we are going to give you until March 31. 1922. to do this. If you don't do it we are going to build a fence around this infernal state and let you fellows down here scab and live in slavery all the rest of your days.
 Some fellow talks about selling you
 
 nothing to sell.
 "It is a reflection on the miners of Alabama. for us to have to come down here to organize you. The thing for you to do is to have to organize your selves. You are going to have your opportunity Next week is the last week you are going to get any re- lief. If you are cowardly enough to leave.any of these Dal operators throw you out of the houses you live in. you will have to get house of your own somewhere. Don't let any of these operators throw you out of these homes. The strike is over. they can't say they are throwing you out be cause you won't go to work. You are ready to work. Stay in those houses. 1 If you men have not courage enough to stay in them. let the women put uy the fight. That is the thing for you to do.
 We didn't ston the relief because
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01
Euents of Today
 In Birmingham
Resoureex.
Cavitnn club luncheon at 1 o'clock

cNyitnp club luncheon at 1 o'clock Southern club. Semicentennial comnAftee meet %15 o'cIock--SOuthern club.
 ANU USENIENTS Jefferson Theater.-D. w. Grifflths sway Down East" photoplay. Lyric-keith vaudeville and pie tures.
 Loew's Bijou--yaudeville and pie lures. Devil"
 AIcazar--"Once To Every Woman" Strand-sThe Inside of The Cup.' GaIax--WiIIiam s. Hart. in ''O'Malicy Of The Mounted.'
 RiaIto--"Yes or Mo-" with Norma Talmadge.
 Odeon-Comedy and serial drama. Princess--C0mcdy and serial drama Edgewood Park-Dancing. Miles School of Dancins-Dancins from to IF.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01
VAN BITTNER SENDS FORMAL WARNING
 AGAINST VIOLENCE
Apparently New Strike Has Been Called to Enforce Demands for Rein
 statement of Men

Van A. Bittner, international rep resentative of the United Mine Work CTS. last night issued a statement to members of Alabama unions urging them to abstain from violence and to violate no laws.
 The document, whie-1 IS addressed to the officers and members of local unions, District 20, United Mine Work CTS of America. is as follows:
 Greeting: According to newspaper reports the coal operators are attempt ing to alleviate their guilty consciences by trying to create the impression that the United Mine Workers ot America is advocating violence ami violation of law,
 tenent of democracy. It is for labor and laboring men and women to uphold America and American principles Of government. Powerful corporations. many of them, attempt to destroy gov ornment of the people, for the people and by the people by buying those whose duty 1t is to make and admin ister the law
 "The laws may have been violated when Conrad Austin chief of the law enforcement squad ordered his men to beat hell out of the organizers and chase them out of the state. The laws may have been violated when General Steiner took away your liberties by preventing the right of assemblage and free speech The laws may have been violated when Governor Kilby told the coal operators they didn't have to give you back your jobs after the strike was called off, and thus starve you and your wives and little children into a condition of industrial slavery; but, despite all this, abstain from using violence. Violate no laws.
 "rhe American government is our government Don't let anybody de- stroy 1t. Yours very respectfully,
 IVAN A. BITTNER. Chief Representative. International
 Union."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01
D. E. DIMICK

D. E. DIMICK
 q was shocked at the speech made by Van Bittner, and in my opinion it is the most dangerous propaganda ever turned loose in Birmingham, said D. B. Dimick. T was returning from Savannah this, morning and got an Age-Herald about 100 miles from here on the Central of Georgia rail- road. It evidently is his swan song and if he knows the Birmingham public 1 am sure he should have had his railroad ticket in his pocket before he made that speech
 ROBERT JEMISON, JR.
 If the report of Van Bttners speech at Blocton is true, the people charged with upholding the majesty of the law will not long stand for such utterances," said Robert Jenl1- son, Jr Outsiders or any one inside the state will not be allowed to preach such doctrines.
 ''I am confident the law will be up- held and order maintained We can depend upon the governor. the na- tional guard and city and county of- ficers to squelch any violent out breaks in decisive manner. feel sure every good citizen of Alabama will stand behind the forces of law and order in substantial fashion if the occasion should arise"
 W. B. LEEDY
 Not being an attorney. l don't know so very much about the laws of the state of Alabama, but l do believe there should be law some where that will give the governor and the state the power to put Van A. Bittner in prison because of the re- cent speech he made in which he urged the miners to use whatever means they saw fit to get their jobs back, declared Col W. B. Leedy of the W. B. Leedy Real Estate and Insurance company. yesterday.
 "I think it is the most outrageous statement of any kind that I have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01
STENOGRAPHER MAKES OFFICIAL
 REPORT OF VAN BTTTNER,.S SPEECH
We'll Known Citizens Condemn Utterances Of
 Van Bittner Qf BZocton

Representative citizens of Birmingham who yesterday asked their opinion of the Wednesday speech of Van Bner Bon expressed them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01
STATIONERS ID HOLD
 CONVENTION HERE
Delegates From Eight States to Attend First Annual
 Meeting

The southeastern division of the National Stationery association will hold it's first annual convention ill Birmingham next Monday and Tuesday at the Tutwiler hotel. Approximately so delegates are expected from the states of Alabama, North and South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi those states being included in the southeastern dt- vision.
 The first business session will be held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon on the second floor ballroom of the Tutwiler. Another business session will be held at 8 o'clock Monday night and another Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.
 Luncheon will be held in the cafe of the Birmingham Civic Association at noon Tuesday and that afternoon the delegation will make an automobile trip through the industrial districts of the city. A banquet in the ballroom of the hotel Tuesday night will close the convention.
 The Birmingham committee in charge of the arrangements is com posed of R. H. Pogue. w. J. Douglas, B. c. Mccoy and J. F. Maura.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-01
HOUSE OF WHITE
 MINER DYNAM|TED.
No Clue tto Perpetrators of Outrage at CoaImont.
 Posse Organized

At late hour last night no clues had bep found as to the identity of the per sons who dynamted the house of a white miner employed by the Brookside- Pratt Mining company at Coalmont, near Helena, in Shelby county, early yesterday morning.
 The explosion under the house caused considerable excitement in the neghbor- hood, and the miners organized search ing parties immediately afterward and secured the country for several miles around in an effort to find the guilty parties.
 The house which was dynamited was occupied by a white miner and his fam fly The explosive however, was placed on the opposite side of the house from where the members of the family were sleeping, and they escaped uninjured. James Bonnyman, president of the Brcokside-Pratt Mining company, whose office is at Birmingham, yesterday stated that special officers of the com pary, besides the deputies from Shelby county, were working continually on the matter, but that so far no results had been obtained. However. he stated special guards were being put around the camp so that the outrage could not occur again
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
SIMMONS CLUB T O P R E $ ENT
 POPULAR MOVIE

On Saturday, Jan. 8, at 10 a. m., and again at 2 p. m., the Fairfield County Simmons club will present fAlice in Wonderland" the six reel feature film of the Eskay Harris Fea- ture Film Co. in the auditorium of the Bridgeport High school. A small fee will be charged for admis- sion.
 The local Simmons club is under taking this presentation under the chairmanship of Miss Katherine Fall to earn part of it's share for the Simmons College Endowment drive for $3,000,000. This animated picture production of childhood dream world will be a treat to all grown-ups as we'll as kindergarteners, for no one can help enjoying 9 sight of Alice and Humpty Dumpty, the Great Duchess, the Cheshire Cat, and the other quaint characters of Lewis Carroll s classic.
 The purpose of Simmons College was set forth in the will of John Simmons, it's founder, to establish a college for women 'that shall teach those branches of art, science, and industry best calculated to enable the livelihood" From the idea of this man has grown Simmons, the first owe ational college for komen, and the third largest wonan's college in the United States.
 A special meeting of the Simmons Club will be held with Miss Maria w. Bates at SPA Lafayette street, on plans for the presentation of Alice in Wonderland"
 Watch for Alice on Main street, Friday afternoon.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05

ness of Him who said s'not even a sparrow shall fall to the ground, ,' but the law somehow comes into the scheme of things and inevitably will come the day when she must take Elwood Wade's place at the bar of Justice and pay for her part in this dreadful tragedy.
 To me this trial yesterday was a dreadful scene-a scene where wom- ems souls were being sorely tried in the excruciatinp ordeal of the court room; scene where women fought and pleaded for places of vantage that they might better view the sufferings Of mother, a wife and a sister, and what was a sweeter morsel to them to gloat over the spectacle of their fallen sister. Oh. better might they be at home, and. if they have time to spare, read in the words of the Master If there be she among you who is without sin. let her cast the first stone.'
 The metropolitan dailies have sent their best staff writers and artists that the whole story may be fully told by word and picture in all it's shocking details.
 In front seats sat the wives and mothers who had secured favored places. During all the hours of the afternoon young wife stood up in her place, hat off and hair dishevef- ed mouth agape and eyes fastened on
 
 fear she would miss some of the re- volting story that was necessary to be told by an officer who was familiar with it. When he was compelled, to tell some of the most shocking things about the affair, she never hinched. Oh how do women cheapen them selves at times. And I am offering no apology for the, men.
 With the women in the front seats sat a little girl scarcely out of her pinafores, hair bobbed in childish style and in her juvenile excitement almost beside herself, for isn't she to be a star witness.
 It was this child who, wise beyond her years and burning for more knowledge of the forbidden. was the little Bopko girl, who boasts of how she watched Elwood Wade and Ethel Mott during the development of the adulterous intimacy which brought about this crime.
 And if all reports be true. this child learned a lot. She is the for tunate one-getting her early educa- ton first-handed, for the other girls of her age will have to pet their knowledge of such things from hs- tening to their elders discuss it, or by the process of reading the newspap- CTS which are just now specializing in this line of journalism.
 Surely it is a great education foi little girls and young women-in moral depravity and how to secure and practice it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
MORE VICTORY MEDALS.

During the past two weeks the Vic tory Medal rush was so great at the local Army Recruiting Station that it was necessary to have another large shipment of the Victory Medals rush. ed to the local office in order to meet the demands.
 The Victory Medal is the official medal issued by the War Department in recognition for service in the World War and all men with hon orable service between dates of April 6, 1917, and November II, 1918, are entitled to same.
 If there are any ex-army men in Bridgeport or vicinity who have never applied or received a Victory Medal they are urged to call at the local Army Recruiting Station, 925 Main street, with their discharge and get their medal.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
By JOHN BRADLEY

MaryWade, wife of ElWood B. Wade. on trial for his life, accused of the foulest murder in the history of the state of Connecticut, went down into her Gethsenane yesterday afternoon and learned to what depths may woman be plunged by the per- hdity of the man who Swore to love, honor and obey her
 And while her soul was beinor torn to it's innermost that same man de- 1iberately walked to the woman who had by her liasons with him destroy ed her own home, the home of Mary Wade and placed upon her children and the children of the young wife a stigma that all time will not re- move from the minds of the people who know of it, and which only the good God in his infinite mercy can temper, deliberately walked to that woman in the presenc of a crowded courtroom and within reaching dis tance of his own wife and before the deputy guarding him could prevent him, stopped and kissed her full on the lips.
 It was the most brutal showing of a depraved mind that probably ever occurred in an American courtroom. and for a moment threw the thron c-s in the room into furor of, excite ment
 And as the guards roughly rushed him from the court into the corrido leading to the cell room downstairs he brazenly laughed. s.-....
 Ethel HutchinS Mott broke into a paroxysm of hysterical weeping and was carried faintinS from the room by two deputies.
 Mary Wade, the wife, fell fainting into the arms of Probation Officer Miss Moran. and was with difficulty revived. It seemed as though surely this last blow must shatter her re maining faith and trust and drive from her bosom any spark of love for her husband remaining.
 But I do not think so, for wher she had recovered she leaned for ward, supporting herself on the back: of two chairs in the press row ant bravely and interestedly watched anc listened through the last two tryinE hours of trying day And whel
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
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Mary Wade Descends
 To Lowest Depths Of
 Misery In Court Room

Judge Comley for the defense some times succeeded in having some bit of evidence ruled out. she smiled hopefully-little realizing how srna11 progress had been made 1T. favor of the prisoner
 Once in the corridor away from the crowd, a deputy in charge of him. spoke to Wade.
 For Gods sake. what made you do that?" he asked him.
 Coolly and impertinently came Wade's reply.
 Hell; I didn't think that my doing that would cause any excite ment.''
 But do you realize that you have not kissed that faithful little wife of yours since this trial began?" asked the deputy.
 "Oh, hell; that's different" was the brutal reply of Wade.
 There is no man can answer for Mary Wade Only she and other wo- men who have been through a simi- lar hell for the man to whom they gave their life and trusted their hon. or and stuck, can reply. It's the eter- nal mystery of woman; the overpow- ering devotion-the mother that is in every woman for "her man. And in the heart of this suffering g l little woman who sits hour after | hour praying and hoping that some l thing may come that will dispel all this hideous nightmare and restore i to her her man and her faith; in 1 her heart is the faith that has up- l held the mothers of all ages and i. | the foundation stone upon which rests 1 all humanity sometimes rudely l shaken but yet enduring. The two sides are here in this sor- i did tra oedy being re-enacted in the courtroom as witness after witness 1 tells of the crime.
 For on the other side is Ethel Mott | who sits through the hours enduring 1 the tortures of wracked conscience l weeping, shuddering and with lips i that are never for a moment quiet | Perhaps in her extremity she is turn. l ing to the One whose love she has debased and is silently supplicatins His mercy and pleading for strengtf
 to carry her over.
 There may be for her the forgive
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
NOSE CL0GGED FROM
 A COLD OR CATARRH Apply Cream in Nostrils To Open Up Air Passages.

Ahi What relief Your clogged nostri1s open right up, the air pas ges of your head are clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawk ing, Snuffling, mucous discharge, headache, dryneSS-no struggling for breath at night, your cold or catarrh is gone.
 Don't stay stuffed up! Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiSeptic cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head; soothe and heal the swollen, inf1amed mucous membrane giving you instant relief. Ely'S Cream Balm is just what every cold and catarrh sufferer has been seeking. It's just splendid
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
CONSIDER BUILDING COSTS.

Chicago, Jan. 5-National leaders of the Lumber Industry are meeting here this morning to consider means of stabi1izing building costs and to encourage building construction pro iects Edward Hines, in calling the conference said the lumber dealers would take stock of their business in cluding labor and living costs and wages paid together with the con sideration for, work with reasonable reduction from the present wage scales rather than high wages and periOdS of idleneSS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
Something. You Want2 Us' Times Want Ads

Back hurt you? Can't straighten up without feeling sudden pains, sharp aches and twinges? Now lisen! That's 1umbago, sciaica or maybe from strain, and you'll get blessed relief the moment you rub your back with soothings, penetrat- ing "St Jacobs Oil" Nothing else takes out soreness, lameness and stiff ness so quickly. You simply rub it on and out comes the pain. It is per
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
RZ&a[ Rnb Backache Away

fectiy harmless and doesn't burn or diScOlOr the skin.
 Timber up, Don't suffer- Get a small trial bottle from any drug store, and after using it just once, you'll forget that you ever had backache, lumbago or sciatica, because your back will never hurt or cause any more misery. It never diSappoints and has been recommended for 60 years.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
NATIONAL BANK CALL.

Washington, Jan. 5-The comp troller of the currency today issued call for the condition of all nation al banks at the close of business on Wednesday, Dec. 29.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1921-09-03
PRES. EBERT
ATACA Pc
MONARCHISTI

Berlin, 3 Septembrie. Gu
ocaziunea sedintei consiliului i'm
perial eri 81 Gu ocaziunca sedintei
comitetului Gle vigilenta All, in
tre reprezentantii Bavariei 81 mi
nistrii imperiali. s'au iscat con
troverse mari. Ministrii Bavariei
au exprimat penibila lor surprin-
dere cauzata prin actiunea pre-
sedintelui Ebert care ma CONSUL
tat consiliul imperial inainte de
a lua masuri extraordinare.
Gradnaur, ministrul imperial
de inferno, explicat situatia
spunand cd guvernul a fOst slit
sd ia hotarire cat Sc poate de
repede.
Cantelarul Wirth, la sedinta
a comitetului de vigilanta care
are sarcina de a supraveghia a.
facerile publice pc durata vacan-
tel parlamentului, tinut o
vorbire vehementa plangandu-se
de caracterul amenintarilor al
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1921-09-03

adaogat suite de cetateni de pc val
lie Lena Greek, Little 81 Big Coal
Creek, aprOape din fiecare jude1
al statului sd Sc uneasca Gu ceta.
tenii din Sharples, Blair, 81 toate
celelalte orase miniere din Imprejl.
rimi, in lupta pentru desfiintarea
acestui sistem din cele mai terrible
care s'a permits sd Sc practice de
autoritatile statului.
"Impresiunea generala care 9
-fost ereata de catre. g.lverner este
ca aceasta miscare de bande arma-
te Sc margineste din membrii Uni
ted Mine Workers Of America. Nj.
mic nu poate Fl mai departe de a.
devar. Din observatiunile mele
personale asupra situated, eu am
descOperit ca Oamenii carl sunt pe
linia focurilor de lupta pentru des-
fiintarea sistemului guarzilor de
mine, consista din mineri, amplo-
iati Gle cal ferate, negustori, doc
tori, preoti earl slujesc la altar, 81
aproape din fiecare element de ce-
tateni a acelor comunitati 81 din
tot statul sunt reprezentate in a
cele forte earl Sc lupta pentru sta
bilirea unei legi adevarate 81 or
dinei in stat.
"CuvIntul de Ordine oameni-
lor de pc linia de lupta, asa cum
l-au definit Ell, este: "Noi ne-am
luptat pentru America in Franta
moi ne-am reinapoiat acasa sa aflam
ca in West Virginia nu suntem in
realitate 81 1ntr 'adevar in Ameri-
ca. MOI ne-am facut judecata sc
luptam in West Virginia pentru
scopul de a reinapoia Statul Tarei
noastre. Ori unde va yeti duce pc
liniile de lupta yeti auzi: 'Sa cas-
tigam West Virginia inapoi Anne
ricei.
America. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1905-current, 1921-09-03

vorbirilor delegation din Bava,
ria. acuzandu-i cd fac greutati.
Norbirea hui Wirth a cauzat @
mare senzatie 81 desbaterile au
devenit extrem de animate.
In vorbirea sa tinuta Gu oca.
ziunea congresului partidului ma
tional al poporului german Ia
Muenchen, Hergt, fostul ministru
prusiac, a declarat:
'Constitutia actuala Germa
niei privita de moi ca un simpln
epizod. Nu vom permite nimanui
ca sa lie retina de la realizarea
visurilor noastre mai scumpe, a,
hume reStaurarea monarhiei 81
punerea i'll practical a idealurilor
ce lea avut fmparatia germana."