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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
FARMERS EYES OPENED;
WILL NOT GO BACK TO
"THE GOOD OLD DAYS"
fBy A. F. Of L. News Scrvice)


Cleveland, O.--"The most revolu-
tionary discovery Of modern agricul-
ture is not the magic of irrigation nor
the marvellous yield Of scientific crop
production. Ii is the farmers dis
coyery Of the industrial worker as his
best friend, his necessary customer
and natural ally" says the press in
formation service Of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers.
"The farmers will not go back 70
the good old days within the mem
ory Of the present generation when
butter brought 10 cents pound, eggs
were cents a dozen, chickens were
12Iz cents each or 81 for IL, while
oats and corn brought from 10 to 70
cents bushel.
THE basic reason for these low
prices was the poverty Of the indus
trial worker, who received but from
30 cents to $1.25 for days work.
$50 long as hundreds Of thousands
Of workers families had 70 live on
less than 81 week, farm produce
brought almost nothing and the
farmers got only a niggardly living
In return for their toll. Conversely
the so-called high wages Of the wal
years brought the farmers the most
prosperity they have ever had"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
WOMEN'S GUILD
TO HOLD PICNIC
AT CRYSTAL LAKE

Today friday the ladies of the
COOPERATIVE Guild are holding pic
mic at Crystal Lake park, and this
evening at $50 the men folks viii as.
semble at the picnic grounds anl CO.
operate with their wives in hiding
from view the large amount of good
things usually brought to affairs of
this kind in nuge baskets.
The ladies are going to enjoy the
ne between their arrival at the
grounds at about o'clock and the
approach of the hungry horde as best
suits their ordinations, and no doubt
will take full advantage of the oppoi-
tubity to conduc. themselves with the
freedom afforded by the absence Of
the men.
All lady members Of the TWIN City
Cooperative Society are members of
the Guild. 1t is not necessary for lady
co-operators to make application for
membership in the Guild-they are
members by virtue of their come slion
with the cooperative movement, ard
they are all invited to come to the
picnic.
1t is the request of the committee
having the picnic in charge that mem
bers Of the Guild come with well-filled
lunch baskets and table service.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
LAF0LLETTE PAYS
HIGH TRIBUTE TO
ANDREW FURUSETH

Cincinnati. 0.-Here is what Unit
ed States Senator LaFollette, speak
ing here to the A. F. of L. convention.
had to say about Andrew Furuseth.
President of the International Sea
mems Union:
You have accorded TO me more
praise and accomplishment than is my
due. | am not the author of the
Seamen's Law. | wish | might claim
il all as mine. To Andrew Furuseth,
more than any other living man, is
due the credit for that piece Of legis-
lation. | think may fairly say that
| added after the matter was submit
ted to me some few provisions to 1t
which gave ii broader public inter-
est and enabled US TO enlist the gem
eral public in its support. II was of
practical value.
81 may say that my contribution
was in extending the life saving pro-
visions to the general public and
thereby enabling US to make broad
er appeal for support for that legisla-
tion but when the time shall come
when we have all passed when some
recognition shall have been accorded
in lasting form to the man who above
all others belongs the credit of the
Seamen's Act.
81 hope there will be raised in this
country, as there has been in England,
n monument TO the leader here, An
drew Furuseth.n
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
NEW PRESIDENT
OF LABEL LEAGUE
TAKES CHARGE

Thursday nights meeting Of the
Nomen's Label League was fairly
well attended despite the fact that the
summer season In here and with It's
coming mary OF the members are
busy with duties that require their at
tentinn at home Meetings Of this
nature at this season OF the year are.
as rule. attended only by the faith
ful few, but the new president, Mrs.
Dangherty, expressed herself as be-
ing greatly pleased at the turnout last
night.
The new president expressed a de-
sire that the League take up In earn
est the purpose Of the organization.
She believed, she said, a great good
may be brought about for the cause
Of labor through the efforts Of the
League, and she said IL was her inien-
ton that the union label of the differ
ent crafts be given the widest pub
LEFTY. She asked the full support Of
the members to this end.
The Women's Label League Is COM
posed Of women Of all organized labor
crafts, who unsefshly give their
time for the advancement Of the In
teregts Of the organized workers by
insisting upon the purchaEe of union
made goods. Union men and women
generally are insistent that the rules
of their organizations be adhered TO
but at the same time when buying
goods show AN indifference as 10
whether or not the article bought
bears the union Label II Is this latter
attitude on the part Of organized
workers the League seeks to correct,
knowing, as they do, that once the
workers demand nni mndc goods,
there will be greater demand for
union wofkmen and labor's position
viii be fortified TO the extent that
opposition from reactionary organiza-
tions will be useless waste Of effort.
The League meets at Labor Hall
every second and fourth Thursday
nights. Wives, mothers, sisters, and
daughters Of union men are eligible
TO membership, and they are invited
to become members of this great
auxiliary to the general labor move
nent.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
Roads Evade Law; Courts Help.
less; Men Must Strike

Washington, u. <, June s2--A
strike 81 half million railway men
threatens to tie up our transportation
system and seriously lniaw cur ma
noaal well-helng, Strike ballots have
gone 60 members Of the Railway hin-
pleseS Department Of the American
can public Is entirely ignorant OF the
facts causing this strike situation be
cause the daily press has suppressed
the truth and Is printing gathled In.
formation and misleading comment
Shall pleeewefk and contracting
out ef shops and employees be accept
ed or Rejected IL the wording OF the
third strike ballot. This Is the cruS,
IL l. confidently believed wage mat.
ters can be adjusted without strike.
but the men als adamAnl on the ques-
ton Of suhleltlng repair contracts.
The uitlmatum served on the Labor
Board on June said that the strike
ballots would go out If the suhlNtinE
of repair shops was not stopped.
The snbletting went on. The strike
ballots went out.
Why are the Railway Employees so
concerned about the business arrange
menta of the railroads and Why should
the public he informed Of the facts Y
Because the snhletting Of contracts Ia
scheme for placing the shop crafts
employees heyond the jurisdiction Of
the Labor Beard and then cutting
their wages below the standard hxed
by the Board. because this cutting Of
wages does not benefit the general
public but Is absorbed by officials and
insiders of the railroad who secretly
organize the outside repair companies,
harauae the Labor Board has called
the practice "palpable subterfuge,
and because Federal court has de-
nounced IL as an evasion Of the law,
Those Who know what Ia going on are
aghast, but the public IL Kept In
ignorance.
More than 100 roads appealing 10
the Labor Board for wage cuts are
guilty of this suhterfuge. Repair
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
WAGE-EARNING
MOTHERS AND
THEIR CHILDREN
(By A. F. of L. News Service

Washington.-"Gainful employment
of mothers of young children fire.
quently means that the children re-
ceive inadequate care during the day,
or no care at all, with over-fatigue
and ill-health of the mothers" accord
ing to a report on the children Of
wage earning mothers made public by
the United States children's bureau,
which made a study of 843 families of
working mothers in Chicago, in which
were 2,066 children under Ia years,
School attendance of children work
ing mothers was much less than in
other cases, and large amount OF
retardation is charged to school alb
sence.
The report pays a tribute to the
skill in planning and management
shown by many of the women in
carrying the triple burden of wage
Garner, housekeeper and mother, and
states that large proportion were
doing housework without assistance
More than half of $50 mothers whose
household arrangements were KNOW
were doing all the washing and cook.
ing. The mothers In general showed
a tendency to sacrifice themselves ir
order to save their children from
tasks too heavy for their years.
Improved economic conditions tha
will make the fathers earnings ade
ouate to support the family and moth
ers' pensions when the father is deaf
or incapacitated are recommended a:
measures for reducing the necessity
for wage earning by mothers o.
Young children.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
CINCINNATI REDS
AND ARTMORS TO
PLAY ON JUNE 20

The baseball fans Of the Twin Cities
and surrounding towns will have q
chance TO see some real major league
baseball and players, June 20, when
the Cincinnati Reds, National League
club, win stop In Champaign for IN
exhibition game with the Artmofs at
North Neil St. Park.
The Cincinnati club will have the
same lineup as they have been play.
ing all season In the National League,
Chuck Fleming, manager Of the
Artmora, will have one Of the strong
est clubs that has ever represented
Champaign. Harold Vaughn of the
Centralia club, or Chief Watkins, the
big Indian pitcher, will do the hurlinF
for the Artmors,
II II seldom local people have an
opportunity Of seeing major league
team In action here at home, and IL
is safe bet that there viii be
record crowd in attendance. The Art
mors have not been beaten this sea-
son. and here's hoping they viii beat
the Redsl
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
Endorses Miners Strike.

~ special to Twin City Review.
O.lcinnati, o., June 16.-When, by
nang vote, the convention of the
anenean Federation of Labor re-
rIpohded to motion submitted by
IAecutlye Council Member w. ID. Ma
A0a II dld two things:
lit gave enthusiastic endorse
ers; Va '''e ''A"
Kit pledged all possible assist
t5ss fSee 70 The miners in the winning of
spondlng to the vote of the con-
~ ,ssa19h, William Green, secretary of
ne United Mine Workers of America,
ms..t 1 a. r. Of L. Executive Council
nra.;oe' r..oer' conveyed officially the ap-
r.;ialioa OF the miners to the con-
ssriOn ssyn Tor Its whole-hearted action.
v,. ~ y nave always understood, / am
W ne said, that the United Mine
n;I;.srs ;G.ners Of America are a fighting,
ssra1 .r,sahl 1i organization, and they have
assS l hesltated to fight when pressed
$50 saihSt the wall or when an attempt
3sfsnlaaqle maqe to infiiet upon them an in
s'''sloie srs wrong. And so now they
arp,el engaged in a mighty conflict,
p5ns;giIlhg for the recognition of a
nsse demanding that an agree
o6ss,,'eanlt s, entered into shall be religiously
,sr ! Just state to you as mat
year. - Information, that about two
cent. s ago the coal operators of the
competitive field, representing
"onhnued on Page Four)
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
NEW OFFICERS
TO BE ELECTED
BY FEDERATION

There should be a full attendance
of delegates at the regular meeting
Of the Twin City Federation of Labor
next Wednesday night, for at that
meeting nominations of candidates for
the various offices will be held. The
election will be held at the first meet
ing in July.
1t seems probable at the present
time that a full set Of new officers
will be chosen, as a canvass of those
now holding office reveals the un-
willingness of any Of the present in
cumbents 10 announce themselves as
candidates for reelection.
Several new delegates will prob
ably be seated at this meeting, 1t be-
ing the custom of many locals TO elect
representatives to the Federation
shortly before the annual election Of
officers so that they may have hand
in choosing those who will guide the
destinies of the parent body during
the coming year, and as the year
ahead will probably be as fateful as
has been the one just Terminating, II
stands the local labor movement well
in hand to take an active interest in
the forthcoming election.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23

shops seemingly placed under the
direction Of private contractors IN
practically every instance are dummy
concerns With nominal capital formed
by railroad officials. The frat act l.
60 cut wages and ahrogate the work
ing conditions established BY the
Labor Roard
Lack Of good faith il contained in
every line 81 the typical contract. 1t
can he revoked at any time at the
discretion az the railroad. The rail-
road furnishes tools. equipment. NJ.
vance money for Wages and pays eost
plus percentage based upon payruiI
expenditures. The contractor Il guar.
antecd n remuneration of not lsss
than $1,000 month.
Costs TO the railruad for repairs
are increasing enormously In splte OF
the cuts In wages. shawiag that this
is merely another way Of mnlctinx the
public TO enrich luslaars.
The strike against the suhlettinn
of repair shops Is already On In the
Western Maryland Railroad where the
men have been out for II ~erks. The
company reserted Ia the injunction
formula. A temporary injunction
was issued by Judge ifnse of the Fed
tta &Nuft iH hatttttfRtts 'ttttN M
ing on the permanent injunction he
asked for copy Of the eontraet. The
railroad company fought shia request
desperately, but finally had to give
In. As soon as Judge Rose anw the
contract be dinmissed the injunction
and denounced the contract aa an
evasion of the law. In this case. AS
In many otherH. the railway employees
and the strike are the only agencies
capable Of defending the interests Of
the public. Government and courts
apparently are helpless To enforce the
law.
The storm clouds gather. The pub
lie remains serene because Ignorant,
iulled 10 sleep by the propaganda Of
the railroad organizations which gets
plenty of space In the daily press
while the real facts ARE suppressed,
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
WAGE SLASHING
BRINGS PROTEST
FROM MERCHANTS

Toledo. 0hio--Business prosperity
by the wage cut route Ii not what u
Is cracked up to be say the antitrade.
union employers, according TO com.
plants of Toledo merchants.
A meat dealer claims that work
ers who formerly bought W and w
worth of meat Mt time now do. well
If they purchase 7b cents worth.
The merchants and manufacturers
association inaugurated the wage cut
ting drive couple Of years ago TO
place Toledo in the class of low wage
cities. Now there IL a general COM
plant by merchants that large num-
befs of their best wage earning GUS
toners are leaving BECAUSE Of the low
wages policy of the industrial employ
efs, led by the Overland company.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23

Peaches handled comparatively
through the Farmers Union State
Exchange for the Farmers Co-opera-
tive association at Bokoshe, in La
Flore county, had the distinction Of
being the first Oklahoma peaches on
the Oklahoma City market as well as
the first peaches Of the year 10 reach
the Kansas City markets.
approximately 500 bushel baskets
of peaches, nearly a carload, have
been distributed by the exchange to
Oklahoma City dealers, according to
II. Il. Converse, manager Of the state
exchange, Monday. More than 200
bushel baskets were sent to Kansas
City, he said.
Most Of the early shipments were
sold al s4.O0 a bushel, Converse de-
clared. and he said the farmers were
more than pleased with the service
of the exchange. The price has
dropped in the past day or so TO 81
to $3.50 per bushel, Converse said,
declared that farmers were pleased
with these prices as compared TO the
usual prices sold under the haphaz-
ard methods in the past.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
Linen shower For Bride.

Miss Rilla Furrow, who is soon 70
become the bride of George Steften,
was pleasantly surprised last Friday
night by a number of friends, who
rendered her a linen shower at the
home of her mother, Mrs. M. d.
Campbell. Miss Furrow was the
recipient of many beautiful and use
full articles. Light refreshments were
served and the evening was spent In
music and games. Those present IN,
cIuded, Mr.. and Mrs. M. s. Burr and
daughter Myra, Mr.. and Mrs. Kirby,
s.r. and Mrs. Michael Steffens' Jr.'
Mrs. M. Steffen, Sr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Yeaw and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Stubbs, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arnold Rich and son, Mr.; and
Mrs. Phillip Shaw, Miss Nellie
Bailey, Mr.. and Mrs. M. u; CampoeLl'
Mr.. and Mrs. James Eagan, Mr..
George Steffen, Mrs. Ben Towner'
and daughter Blendenia, Miss Rilla
Furrow.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
Advertising Campaign Nets IS scabs.

Seattle.--Big advertisements In an
Puget Sound lumber trust newspapers
with an aggregate circulation Of $780,
600 copies, resulted recently in the
recruiting of only 65 men to take jobs
at the Bellingham, Wash, mine, which
operators are seeking to reopen on an
"open shop" basis. OF the So, only
fiye went to work when it became
known that the company had falsely
advertised that there were no labor
troubles at the mine.
A wage of $5.s5 is being offered.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23

How fortunate local labor may feel
that in the Twin Cities and vicinity
there Is an almost total absence OF
unemployment! But how different It
Is in other places where the open
shop movement has secured a strangle
hold upon the community!
The above cartoon was drawn for
The Review by Cartoonist Baer last
spring, and was intended to be used
should the "open" shoppers succeed
with their plans here; but, happily,
organized labor and employers sat
down around a table and adjusted
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23

Quincy has a building boom' II Is
larger place than both the Twin
Cities. IL Is building twenty resi-
denees this sumner, aud the "open"
shoppers Of that place are telling the
world of the wonderful building boom
their town is taking under the open"
shop plan. But Quincy Is an open"
shop town, and the two thousand idle
workers there cannot all be used TO
build twenty houses. While local
workers are busy, Quincy workers are
ssin the stocks.n
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
DID THE SUPREME
COURT APOLOGIZE
TO PLUTOCRACY?

Did the supreme court Of the Unit
ed States apologize to plutocracy
when it expressed its regret in setting
aside damages and costs amounting
to $1,000, 900 against the United Mine
Workers in the Coronado case?
Would the court assure big business
that the judicial war on organized
labor would continue, even If the min
ers did happen to escape in this In
stance?
Did the court take this occasion to
record malice against the miners in
ternational union, though the court
acknowledged that this organization
could not be held for damages because
of local strike?
Despite this acknowledgment the
court makes this astounding state
ment at the close of its decision:
"The circumstances are such as to
awaken regret that in our view Of the
federal jurisdiction we can not affirm
the judgment" lof the lower court
against the United Mine WorkersI.
This statement is most extraordin-
ary when it is recalled that the court
reasoned extensively that the United
Mine Workers was not liable for DAM
ages.
"The motion to direct the jury to
return verdict for the defendants
UNITED Mine Workers) should have
been granted" said the court, which
then proceeds to ignore this viewpoint
and closes its decision with the regret
thar it cannot hold the funds of the
union.
While the United Mine Workers
saved $1,000,000 by the decision the
court handed plutocracy decision
worth millions of dollars--the power
to sue trade unions.
In expressing regret that the Unit
ed Mine Workers could not be neld,
even though there was no evidence
against them, the court also said:
But it is of far higher Importance
that we should preserve inviolate the
fundamental limitations in respect to
the federal jurisdiction"
What is meant by this statement!
Why does the court say that the
escape of the United Mine Workers
is of less Importance than the courts
proper procedure?
Who raised the question Of "funda-
mental limitations
The union is free from wrong. Tie
court says so, but deplores that IT
cannot be held and then hints that it
is better to acquit the union than 10
violate the courts fundamental bmi-
tations.
Did the court wish to convey the
impression that the only way the
United Mine Workers could be
mulcted was by lynch law methods,
and that this would prove disastrous
to the court and could not be used?
Did this information just happen to
reach the court, and did the court
hear that some influential citizens be-
lieve now is the time to lay the
ground work for the "star chamber
court of justice, which reached its
highest infamy in the reign of Henry
VII?
While the courts decision that trade
unions can be sued is remarkable, It's
injection of personal prejudices and
hates is also remarkable.
1t would seem that this court would
be conscious of growing resentment
against its usurpation of legislative
functions and its denial OF human
rights. But the regret that It could
not convict the United Mine Workers
indicates the cynic indifference. OF an
institution that seems to have become
hard boiled to everything but proper
ty and profits.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
Did You Hear Gompers
Over Your Radio?

!. Tuesday evening, June 20, at
|. $40 o'clock President Gompers
4 Of the American Federation Of
!. Labor, delivered a radio address
|. in Cincinnati. The address was
!. entitled "Labor's Appeal to the
|. People"
!. Did you hear the address
|. Did you hear il over set in
!. your own home, or over a set In
!. your meeting hall
!. win you write the answer
!. and address 1t to A. +. Of l..
/. Information and Publicity Serv-
!. ice, A. +. of l.. Bldg, Washing
/. ton, u. c.?
!. 1t win be interesting to know
|. just how many trade unionists
|. heard this, the first radio adj
. dress ever delivered by the
. president Of the American Fed
. Grafton of Labor.
. Write your answer today,
. telling where you heard the adj
. dress and whether you heard II
. distinctly.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23
MISS RILLA FuRR0W
BEc0MES THE BRIDE
OF GEORGE STEfFEN

Mrs. NJ. d. Campbell announces the
marriage of her daughter, Miss Rllla
Furrow, TO George Steiien, which
event took place Wednesday after
noon. June 81, Ia Danyille. Following
the wedding, Mr.. and Mrs. Stehen
departed fer short wedding trip "a
Chicago. They viii return the latter
part of the week and be nj hon'a on
Glenn Park Drive, Champaign.
The bride Ia one Of urhana'r most
popular young ladies, highly esteemed
by host OF friends who wish her
enduring happiness In her matrimon.
ial relations. Mr.. SteIfen IL well
known throughout the Twin Cities
and Is employed at the Illinois Cen
lral shops as d machlnlst.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23

their own differences with the result
that nowhere In the country is there
greater building activities and general
prosperity than is enjoyed in the Twin
Cities.
Notwithstanding this fact, "open"
shoppers are still responsible through
their affiliation with the Manufactur-
ers' Association and other reactionary
organizations, in keeping more than
5000, 900 perfectly good American
citizens idle while they (the open"
shoppers) are getting the country
"back to normalev."