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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
COUNTRY'S BIGGEST
"OPEN SHOP" RAISES
PRICE OF PRODUCTS

Judge Gary Of the steel trust an
nounces increased prices for steel
products. Last May wages were re-
duced 20 per cent on the ground that
price reductions and general prosper
ity would follow.
1t was stated at that time that
these wage reductions would mean an
annual saving of $l16,3ll 1885 to the
trust.
With this snug sum stored away in
its strong box, and the public, OF
course, long ago forgetting the trusts
reasons for its wage reduction, prices
are now increased.
In defense of his latest price boost,
Judge Gary claims that selling
prices have been so low for months
that many, if not most, of the manu-
facturers have been losing substan-
tial sums"
no reference is made to the un-
organized, helpless steel mill en-
plcyes who are working an eight
hour day for less than SO. Rates for
10-hour men range around 81, and
IS Is paid for 12-hour men.
The present situation means that
the steel trust has played both ends
against the middle" 1t jollied the
public into the belief that lower prices
would follow wage cuts. Then it in
creases prices.
No change is made in the 10 and
i2-hour work days, nor in the "a
hour work day when employees change
shifts.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
SCRAPS OF PAPER"

Cleveland, 0hio.-The employing
commercial printers of this city have
broken another wage contract. This
time the victims are the short-sighted
compositors who took the places Of
the locked-out printers on May l.,
when the employers broke their
agreement to put into effect the A.
hour week. The bait which caught
the strike-breakers at that time was
an individual wage contract calling
for wages about $40 over the regular
scale. Now the employers have in
formed them that their work does not
Justify the continued payment of
these wages and they have Topped off
the extra $40. Contracts of some en-
ployers seem to be worth less than
the paper upon which they are print
ed. But the strike-breakers have
learned what is meant by the express
sion between the devil and the deep
blue sea-"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
MCCARTHY UNABLE
TO SPEAK BECAUSE
OF BAD ACCIDENT

ID. Mccarthy, who was TO have
spoken at Rialto theatre last Sunday
afternoon, was compelled to cancel his
engagement at the last moment on
account of an accident in which he
was badly bruised. and which viii lay
him up for some time TO come. The
nature of the accident is unknown,
but 1t has been learned Mr.. Mccarthy
is able to be about BY the use of
erutches.
The failure of Mr.. Mccarthy 10 be
here was disappointment TO the
large number Of people who have been
attending these meetings, and espe-
cially so to the members of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen, of which organization he
is a member.
1t is planned by the b. of l.. +. and
+. to hold the meeting early next
fall.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
KING COAL PROPAGANDIST
ARMY INVESTS WASHINGTON

tcneStS gave testimony IN the sneft %
eattfcsa the Kingdom Of coal In The
public mind.
Ry 10 means all Of the coal machine
Vas laid hefeo the public gaze IN
those hearings. but careful inquiry
reveals tho fact that to-day Washing
ton is a hathed If coal nropaFandisIs
working in the interests at the msne
In the ReeonStretien Committee
hearings, il VAS shawn that eoAl IN
terests had spent nearly million
dollars in three years In various
forms af propaganda ~erk, There is
every reason 10 suppose that the
amount now heing spent ls not less
than a half million dollars 4 year and
il may be that Moro Il being used.
The country generally Is not aware
Of the enormous amount pf prurA-
yanda work Tor big business that IL
being conducted In Washington.
Every powerful interest II represent.
Ell within an easy street car rue at
tho capitol and tho downtown office
buildings and hotels Mnuld BE- serious.
ly deporulated II tho lobbyists and
publicity" men ~efe To vacatn,
II is not 30 be supposed that ~ ef
the lobbyists and propaRandista Tor
King Coal appear openly ~ suchs "
Is a rule With hiR business that tho
mest effective and valuable propA..
gaadists are never known ~ such ana
never appear AS such.
Not all who are engaged Ia support.
ing the efforts nf the National Coal
Association appear a. agents of that
organization.
For the present the agents OF kinK
Coal are fighting an uphill batttie.
with the case of the minera 80 strong
aud clear. Hut the public can have no
Idea Of what devices may bc In the
praceas OF construction by the coal
interests aud tho only safe courHc II
10 be ON guard against all coal own
ers' pronouncements and movements.
The fact ia that big business has
such large and rAtnifyinR machine
for propaganda and lobbying pur-
poses that Il In difficult 20 know when
and where statements and activities
are disinterestod.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

Of the second -claaa craftsmen. A
labor shortage In the building field II
just around tho corner and wages do
not 90 down In the face Of y labor
shortage.
"'rhe period when conditions nutp-
mntically pressed iown on the wage
scale has. for the Tins heing, gone by.
and Il In quite safe pfctilefses@s w
say that tha average level Of wages
In the building trades will remain Nub-
stantially as y now IL for the balance
of the year"
The above. taken from Tho Ameri-
can Contractor, organ Of the Con-
tractors Association, Ii an admission
that the present demand In the Twin
Cities for u reduction Of wages In the
building industry IL entirely uncalled
for, and In simply desire Of those
who Wish 10 dictate TO both labor and
capital the conditions Of employment
Ia this community,
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
BIG ATTENDANCE
OF DELEGATES AT
FEDERATION MEET

A largely attended meeting of the
Twin City Federation of Labor was
held Wednesday night, at which dele
gates from nearly every union affii-
lated were present. New delegates
we're seated from the Sheet Metal
Workers union.
The main theme for discussion was
the local conditions in the building
trades, several members speaking at
length upon the local situation as we'll
as that confronting the workers
throughout the entire country.
Several committees reported. The
Labor Day committee reported having
secured the fair grounds for the
celebration. The attractions this year
will far surpass anything attempted
in former years. A final report from
the various unions voting upon the
referendum shows over 80 per cent of
the entire membership in favor of the
celebration as planned.
The Executive Board reported that
the Gehrig Cafeteria had been re-
moved from the 1--WE don't patronize"
list, and that several other firms
were under consideration.
NNttiNCAiy ICpOit VI Vic SCSiC-
tary treasurer showed a substantial
increase in revenue over the preced-
ing quarter.
The building code committee report
ed that since it began operations to
enforce the observance of the provis-
ions of the building code, violations
Of the code are becoming a thing of
the past. Several violations were re-
ported to the city authorities, and
the offenders were compelled to re-
eonstrduct the work according to law.
The Labor Temple committee re-
ported little progress, owing to local
conditions at the present time, but
that later the campaign for home
Tor organized labor will be renewed
with vigor. 1t was agreed by the
delegates present, after hearing the
reports of the custodian, that labor
temple owned by organized labor is
BADLY needed.
Several visiting delegates were
present from unaffiliated locals, and
alelr presence was a great help in
sowing some of the knotty problems
that came before the meeting.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
WAGES DETERMINE
LIVING CONDITIOF s
OF THE WOR' lRS
(By FRANK MORRISON, .cretar
American Federation of sabor.1

(By FRANK MORRISON .cretary
American Federation of sabor.)
There are many issues Jnfronting
wage earners, but none are more
fundamental than Labor's demand for
collective bargaining. With this as
sured the worker has a voice in con-
ditions affecting what he win think
read, eat and wear, how he will edu-
cate his children and clothe them anc
what manner of home he may have.
When collective bargaining is de-
MED, the worker is powerless; his
employer regulates his life.
This power of the non-union EN-
ployer is accepted by a Commission
reprenesting the Interchurch World
Movement that investigated the recent
strike of steel workers for collective
bargaining. The report says:
"The arbitrary control of the
steel corporation extended outside
the plants, affecting the workers
as citizens and the social institu-
tions in the communities"
In all ages workers have united.
They have struggled for liberty and
they have overthr0wn dynasties and
kings. Despite these upheavals there
was no change in their economic stat
us. They remained interiors, "hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water"
Their working conditions We're set by
employers, whose power automatical-
iy extended TO every social phase OF
their lives.
The modern trade union, as typi-
fied by the American Federation of
Labor, is the first effective challenge
to the world-old theory of serfdom,
maintained in various forms, and
around this challenge centers all OPP
position to organized labor.
To continue this status of infer
iority and maintain control of their
workers, employers talk of their So
called "open" shop and individual
bargaining. These are but new names
for mastery over workers that Is
fought for just as stoutly today as
when feudal barons held their serfs
to the land.
The modern title that anti-trade
union employers have applied to
their serf theory fails to hide its
purpose and effect.
Men can not be free when they are
compelled to bargain single handed
with feudal baron's successor on
rates of pay and working conditions.
Philanthropy can not effect the
principle involved. There can be no
equality between men when an en-
ployer is gentle with his power, for
if an employer has power to give JUS
tice he has the power to withhold 1t.
His employers are subject to his
graciousness and his whims.
There can be no cooperation in in
dustry where an employer is final
Judge of his workers physical en-
durance, wages and the effect of bad
working conditions.
The organized workers have set
their stand of intelligence, solidarity
and determination in an advanced po-
sition against this industrial sArf
theory that mocks every profession
of Americanism by these employers.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
RIG Time PLANNED
FOR final MEETING

Sunday, April %, will be a
day long to be remembered
IN n local labor circles. On
tbat +, day the State Fedora
tion of Labor executive
hoard t, will hold a meeting in
Champaign and in the after
mon a big rousing mass
meeting will be held in the
new Virginia Theatre with
L. -, Wilson. president of the
a., yps..,,,esnmakers of North America, as
=. - nripeipal speaker. Other speak
e. a. aill be Rev. s. c. Fisher, OF Gni-
yeysitF Place church, John walker,
victor Olander, Agnes Nestor and
atber members of the state executive
kasrj will make short addresses.
President Gompers OF the American
radar5fion of Labor, requested Mr..
wilsen to come to Champaign on that
5sv to I'm the date arranged for him
,,'bsn as be found he could not come per-
AIttA HaA ANNNrf
Nr. Wilson is one of the foremost
l.bor leaders in America and q bril-
liant orator. During the war he
served on two labor missions sent to
Europe, being chairman of the one
sent 10 Italy in 1918. For many years
be has been chairman of the resolu-
tion committee of the American Fed
eration of Labor executive council IN
conventions. He has been president
Of the Patternmakers continuously
for the past Is years.
The mass meeting committee
deemed it necessary to secure the
arpest theater in the Twin Cities and
have arranged to hold this the last
indoor and biggest meeting for this
season IN the beautiful new Virginia
theatre. This viii also give to many
the opportunity for the first time to
see the decorations of the prettiest
theater in the state lighted by day.
light
In the evening it is planned to hold
a meeting for unionists only, at
which speakers will say some things
that could not be said very well to an
audience combposed of people repre-
senting all interests. This meeting
will be held at Labor Hall, and will
convene at 1880 o'clock.
Ii is also probable that speakers
will be placed in some of the churches
during the evening, but this is al
question to be decided by the mass
meeting committee later.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
ELECTRICIANS TO
HAVE DISPLAY
AT Il. 4. SHOW

Electrical Workers Union No. COL,
win have display at the Electrical
show Mt the University next week that
for simplicity will be a pleasing re-
lief from tho usual run of electrical
displays, which have always been Of a
mystifying nature, and leaves the
spectator bewiidered as 10 the why
and the wherefore OF the apparatus.
The local union display viii make
everything clear, and will show,
among other things, the most up-to~
date methods of electrical construe-
ton.
An especially beautiful piece Of art
work viii be an electric fish bowl,
which Is sure 10 be pleasant SUR
prise for those In attendance.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
Hmpe Tohacco Profits.

New York. - The world has a
roseate hue for stockholders of the
American tobacco company, which an
nounces that record profits were made
last year. These profits total $751;
1925, as against $14,277 $50 the
previous year. The immensity of these
profits can be appreciated when it Is
recalled that they are exclusive of
all charges, and do not include even
interest on bonds or magnificent
salaries that insiders" vote to them
selves.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
CHEAP-WAGE MANUFACTURES
HIGH BIDDER FOR ARMY SHOES
nv A. p. Of i. News Service)

ap is the main factor shoe merchandising
bids recently made the government for 10000 pairs of army Off
shoes of four specified types. -.
$445 $oUo
"VSt sos5 S5O7, $505, S7.37, 1916 and S575 . -, -
bids the
being S45 bids of being based
workmanship inspection
not understand the these bids
eaoie to varied labor COSTS" the labor editor
more than three labor
the high bidder has running antunon shop Tor many
e-ges without reduction
such instances or labor cost
M 'Ne man factor in merchandising shoes"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
No MIMI ow NERS ARE
IN JAIL.

. Coal mine owners hreke their
!. contract with the miners and
. fonced the miners "a cease wark.
. The mine owners wanted 90
. fence the men Ia cease work.
: The mine owners fonsed the
: present situation upon the eeun-
: try,
: The mine owners are fespon-
. Sihle and some mine owners
/. have hoasted that they wanted
!. just exactly the condition that
|. has been hruaght about.
!. The mine owners accept re
!. sponsihility.
|. AT the time these lines are
!. written NOT A MINE OWNER
: Is IN JAIL Not a mine owner
|. has even been brought into
!. court.
|. Can anyone doubt that II the
|. miners were responsible for the
!. present situation that the courts
|. would have been set In motion
!. at once and that by now every
: official Of the miners osganlsa-
|. ton would Be under complete
!. restraint or behind prison harS
~
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
c. of l.. to Rise Again.

The cost of living Is going to rise
again according to governmental
forecasts; the period Of price decline
that began more than a year ago is
practically ended, in the judgment OF
the officials of those branches of the
government who study economic caus-
es and influences. Rising wholesale
prices supply the evidence upon which
the officials base their judgment OF
what the next few months will bring
to consumers throughout the entire
country. Food, clothing and other
necessities viii cost more in May and
June than now.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
tBy lnternatl Labor News Service.

Thy lnternat1 Labor News Service. }
Washington. ID. C.--prohahly ii
many as three hundred agents of
American coal harens are diligently
at work In Washington In the effort
TO see that King Coal doesn't lose his
crown In the present fight OF finance
against the coal miners.
The presence Of this tremendous
coal lobbying capital became motor.
ious during the Senate ReeonStruc.
,ion Committee Hearings.
With Senator lnow Judge) Kenyon
presiding, the records Of the National
Coal Association were subpoenaed and
examined CONSERVATION rcigned In
the coal camp at the time and fully
seventy.hve witnesses for the coal in.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

j.
Big Biz and Big Bzs pe Little Biz Labor both organized and
both Big Biz Little Biz
injured So it with the open shop movement which nothing than an
thereof When workers well paid and steadily employed business is
ndepad partially Sol
bad because labor deprived Of its buying Sounds
i Ask yourself Little Biz ought to know
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
Taking a Vacation.

= ". Valentine, business agent for
ehe carpenters Union, is taking ad-
vantage of the present business "de-
preston and is taking his annual va
eslien Of a couple of weeks, little
earlier than usual.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
Label League Meets.

The regular meeting of the Wom-
ems Label League was held Thursday
night at Labor Hail. There was a
good attendance, and a good meeting
was held.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

Arabs, Kurds and other Mosiems,
tattoo the foreheads, chins and breasts
of their girl slaves. Thousands of
Christian girls captured, enslayed
tatooed during the war have been
rescued and cared for by Near East
Relief.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

one million persons have tubercu-
lVsiS IN active form, out of a total
population of 105, 100000.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE
FIREMEN AND ENG1NEMEN
10 HOLD SPECIAL MEETING

At Labor Hall on Saturday evening,
April 22. there will be special meet
ing of the y. Of l.. r. Il II. ut Labor
Hall, at which g. w. Mailer, Il special
representative of the international or
ganization will spcak.
This meeting win be open to the
friends of organized labor, and the
ladies are especially invited To at
tend. Mr. Maier has an important
message to deliver, and the meeting
will no doubt be well attended by rail-
road men and their friends.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

Raymond, the small son of J. r.
Sanders. 1911 w. Park street, ur-
bana, is i'll with diphtheria. Mr.
Sanders Is in the Burnham hospital
recovering from an operation, per
formed last Wednesday.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14
LINCOLN SAID:

r am Glad that a system of labor prevails under
wh;ch lahorers can strike when they want to. where
thew are not obliged to work under all circumsan-
cas. and are not tied down to work whether you
nav them for it or not. / like system which lets
a man "quit" when he wants to, ana WISH II mlgh.
10 betfer his condition; that is the true system am
not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago
wac ' ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

More than 100000 900 has been ex-
pended by the Near East Relief in the
last six years in caring for the inno-
cent victims Of Moslem fanaticism
and racial misunderstandings II Is a
conflict In the Near East between Mo-
hammedans and Christianity.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

One death in every 10 is due to
tuberculosis.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

job work at The Review.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-16
FARMERS OPTIMISTIC
AS PRICES IMPROVE

CHICAGO March Is. - Farmers
are more optimistic over conditions
as a result OF the advances IN grain
prices during the past few weeks
according 20 J. ". Howard presi-
dent OF the American Farm Bureau.
Country bankers report affairs
more encouraging as a result, ne
stated
While 10 If true the advance IN
wheat prices has not helped the
farmer great deal because the
wheat has left his hands, the ad-
vance in corn has been OF big fnan-
cial assistance. Howard said today.
Government reports. he pointed
out, showed that 1905 percent OF
tho 1921 wheat crop was in the
hands OF farmers on March 1. 1921.
while f2.6 percent OF the corn crop
was still on the farms.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-16
SCORE KILLED IN
PATH OF STORMS
THROUGH STATES
Nearly 100 Are Injured as
TOrnadOes Sweep Through
Southwest Areas.

At least % persons were killed,
nearly 100 were injured and huge
property damage was done by tor
naoos that swept parts OF OklahO-
ma, Arkansas. Mississippi and Lou
isiana during the past "a hours, &C
cOrding 10 reports today.
Twelve dead and more than so
injured were reported from Sulphur
and Gowen. Okla. where 'twisters''
Wreaked their worst damages.
Eight negroes died in storms that
swept Jefferson and Lonoxe coun-
ties, Arkansas. One of them was
killed near Arkansas City. The in
jUred list was high.
Four persons We're killed in Yves,
Baton Rouge. La, parish and sew
eral were hurt.
Twenty-seven persons injured. one
fatally, was the toll at Cornit. Miss,
by a tornado.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-16
JAPAN PLANS TO
RETAIN CONTROL
Chita Delegate Charges That
Nippon Will Ignore ST.
IBERIA Agreement.

WASHINGTON, March ia new
puppet government will be estab-
lished by japan ir Vladivostok TO
replace the discredited Merkuloh
government, Il was declared here
today by NJ skHrskv. spokesman Of
the delegation from, the Far Eastern
republic of Siberia.
This new government in all
probability VIII be headed by Ere
meieff. a hanger-on Of the late Ad-
miral KoIchak." said Skvirsky. "and
he will be as much The tool Of japan
Is MerkulOn has been"
SkvirslSy charged that MerlCulof's
flight from the maritime frontier
toward VladivostolS was proof that
Japan intended 10 carry out its
agreement to provi lie protection for
him until he reached japan, where
large sums Of Russian gold held in
Japanese banks would be turned
over 70 him This. he said. Is a
part Of the agreement under which
Merkuloff granted vast mining con-
ceEsions to the japanese.
Reneyy French Charge.
ut tuALd ubltBdltH ItutWCu lHc4A
charges that France and Japan
have worked out on elaborate pro-
gram for the advancement OF their
interests in Siberia. TO the exclusion
OF the United States.
Troops Of -he Far Eastern repub-
lie are within easy striking distance
OF Vladvostok, the Chita delegate
said. IF the japanese support were
withdrawn, the forces of the Chita
government would take the city
within n few hours.
The Chita delegate openly ridi-
cUled statements chat Japan has
long ago withdrawn support OF the
so-called white" or counter-revolu-
tionary forces I'm Siberia. Instead of
keeping their agreement 10 permit
no armed forces. ne charged the
japanese imported large numbers of
followers Of Kolchak and Semenofi
over the Chinese eastern railway,
armed them and sent them against
the Far Eastern repTblic, when that
government had demobilized more
than half it's forces.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-16
GIRLS! LEMONS
WHITEN ROUGH
CHAPPED HANDS

Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
OF Orchard White, which any drug
store will supply for a few cents
shake well. and you have a quarter
pint Of harmless and delightful
lemon-bleach lotion TO soften and
whiten red, rough or Chapped hands.
This homemade lemon lotion is far
superior 10 gly-erin and rose water
20 smoother the skin. Famous stage
beauties use IL 10 bleach and bring
that soft clear. rosy-white complex
ion. because II doesn't irritate.-Adv