davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-10-25

DR.. r. F. Poole is expected in
bbevills tomorrow from New
|arnswick, N. J. and will visit in
Iuth Carolina for about a month.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
HERE'S A SUGGESTION.

Senator Edge, Of New Jersey, ac
cording to the Congressional Record
suggests the creation of federal com
mission consisting of four "hard
headed' business men and one lawye,
to "interpretativcly administer' the
anti-trus laws for the benefit of bus
mess, big and little.
The senator is anxious to get around
a recent supreme court decision which
outlawed trade associations organized
to enable business men to fix prices
and squeeze out competition.
The four "hard- headed' business
men and the lawyer would "interpret.
atively administer'' the law by telling
business men what they could and
could not do. What they approved
The labor world., 1922-06-17
'REEj,i.D,, NOT AWARD
By j. M. BAER.
The Congressman Oartoonist

nC OOAe9ASSoAA4SAA AAAAlOOlA6ts
In, the face of facts that demand
an increase in their wages, the low
est paid workers received a slash In
their pay at the hands of the United
States. Labor Board. The award was
supported by all the public a-l1 rail-
road members of the board and op-
posed by the representatives of Ia
bOr.
The decision is called an award"
It should be called a "reward." 1t
has the earmarks of a reward to the
campaign contributors who own the
railroads. For every dollar they in
vest in campaigns they receive. a
hundred in dividends. When their
dividends are not sufficiently guar
anteed by congress and through in
efficient management some roads
lose money, they then use the "la-
bor'' board to beat down the income
of the already underpaid employees.
The wages were below the actual
cost of subsistence before they were
cut. With the rising costs it is i'm
possible for family of five to exist
on one workers wages. For example,
take the minimum pay of the work.
ers on the section. It is only twenty
three cents an hour. This amounts
to 1858 per year. Just try to figure
out how five can live on an annual
income of five-sixty-three. If you
stick to the facts w can't figure
it out.
Many women and children of the
section hands appeared before the
board. Their pitiful pleas for mere
existence were ignored. What are HUI
man documents in distress when
profits must be made?
Picture little girl telling an
"open" shopper that her father can
not make enough to support the fam
lily What would be his reply? Some
thing like this. I imagine: "Why,
Mr.. Taft, of the supreme court, says
that the Child Labor law is uncon-
stitutional and you can go to work
in my factory now. The shop is
open!"
The labor world., 1922-06-17

Mr.. Gompers declares the decision
is blow at the very foundation of
the organized labor movement in the
United States. Within the year the
supreme court has handed down four
decisions that hit labor. Here they
are:
No. 1.-The Duplex case, wherein
the court held that section 20 of the
Clayton Act providing THAT no re-
straining order or injunction shall
be granted by any court of the Unit
ed States or judge or the judged
thereof in any case between employer
and employees growing out OF
a dispute concerning terms or con-
ditions of employment" no longer
held and was unconstitutional.
No. 2-That picketing is illegal
because of "the inevitable intimida-
ton of the presence of groups of
pickets." The decision in this case
allowed tea party picketing, one po-
lite missionary at a factory gate.
No. 3-That the child labor law is
unconstitutional. This decision nulli-
fled the law placing tax on prod
ucts of child labor in interstate COM
merce.
No. 1.-The Coronado decision,
holding that unions can be sued and
strike funds seized as security for
judgment.
It appears clear that under this
last decision national unions are LA
BILE in damages for acts of mem bers
! in any case where the officials have
approved the strike or have assisted
! the strike.
History has been made by this de-
cision. The court has written down
something new. This decision, taken
| together with others of the past year
and with still others of the preced-
ing year, show the definite trend of
mind Of the United States supreme
court, case by case, inch by inch
narrowing the limits of labor's free
dom and seeking to limit it's activi-
| ties. 'l~
The labor world., 1922-06-17
DECISION IS FAR REACHING.

AS one studies the decision of the
United States supreme court in the
Coronado case it's far reaching possi-
biitics become. alarming.
Big business has won more than it
expected It now has better than in
corporated labor unions. Stockholders
in corporations are liable only to the
amount of their stock. Members of Ia
Dor unions will be individually liable
as such and their organizations will
be liable. They will be subject to
dual liability.
Here is how it will work. An en-
ploycr, believing he has case against
a labor union, starts suit and gets
The labor world., 1922-06-17
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Reveal
Definite TREND AGAINST FREEDOM

The decision of the United States
supreme court in the Coronado case,
involving the United Mine Workers
Of America, before the court for two
years, is one of a series of definitely
anti-labor decisions in the sense that
they deny to labor the right to do
things that labor has cinsidered it
lawful and constitutional to do.
The Coronado decision makes
unions suable. Unions are unincor-
porated associations, not organized
for profit and hitherto not subject
to suits for damages as entities.
It will not be necessary for unions
to incorporate now "to make them
responsible" Isn't that the way the
advocates of incorporation have
been putting it?
It will not be necessary for state
legislatures and congress to enact
specific laws providing for the incor-
poration of labor unions. What is
the good of a congress anyhow? Or
of state legislature? Haven't we q
supreme court that can make laws
for the people? And they are laws
that will hold water, too. From them
there is no appeal.
Chief Justice Taft went clean
aruond the circus ring to find way
to make unions suable. He pointed
out how this law and that regula-
tion by congress recognized trade
unions. He found a way of gettine
around common law, which recog.
rized from the earliest period that
an unincorporated association Of per.
sons had no other character than 8
partnership in whatever was done
! and it could only sue or be sued in
! the name of it's members. Even the
iniquitous Danbury Hatters' deci-
sion did not admit of the right Of
the employer to sue the union as ar
entity.
Senator La Toilette has well said
! that the court went out of its way
| to make law. It did not hold the
| United Mine Workers union liable
for damages, for it was evident tt
Mr.. Taft that the international of.
flee of mine workers did not have
| anything to do with the Coronado
| strike. The court was content to lay
down the principle that unions were
suable just as corporations are. and
declared that if the Coronado Coal
company wanted damages it. would
have to sue 27 local miners unions
and District No. 21 in and about the
state of Arkansas.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
McCUMBER JUGGLES FIGURES

Senator McCumber of North Dako.
ia, speaking as chairman of the pow
erful senate committee on finance,
said on the floor of the senate last
week:
"The wages Of labor on the whole
are today about 1o5 per cent higher
than they were in 1914.
"The product of the manufacturer
is sold today in the markets on an av-
erage between 40 and so per cent
higher than it was sold for in 1914.'
Both statements ARE untrue, and
Senator McCumber knew they were
untrue when he made them.
His object in giving this false in
formation to the senate and to the
country was two-fold.
First, Senator McCumber is anxious
to drive wedge between the farmers
and organized labor. He wants the
farmers to believe that the workers
in the cities are profiteering, and that
they have not been deflated although
the manufacturers are almost back to
"normalcy.'
Second, Senator McCumber needs
the support Of Big Business He is en-
gagged in a desperate campaign in
North Dakota, and he can not hope
to win without the aid of a generous
campaign barrel. His declaration that
the manufacturers are selling their
products at an advance of only 40 to
so per cent above prewar prices is
calculated to win the favor of certain
profiteering gentlemen who are in a
position to contribute generously to q
politician campaign fund.
The senator will find, however, that
the voters Of North Dakota have him
catalogued. He is billed to return to
private life with several more Of his
senatorial colleagues on March 4 next.
The labor world., 1922-06-17

Judgment. He then finds that the
union has no funds or property upon
which he can levy. What will he do
to collect damages? The savings or
property Of every member will be
subject to attachment as in partner
ship. That can not be done against a
stockholder in a corporation. His liza
bility is limited. There will be no limit
to the liability of member of Ia
Dor union, except the total amount of
the judgment. How long will that
work in America?
The labor world., 1922-06-17
"OTHER FELLOW Is GUILTY.

A Boston grand jury reports that
local coal dealers are not in con-
spiracy to fix prices, and that all the
trouble can be traced to coal mine
owners and railroads. Boston deal
ers, it is stated, are only making a
nominal profit. The guilty wretches
who profiteer on coal are beyond the
reach of the grand jury.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
READ THEM and WEEP
"Senators and Representatives ant

"Senators and Representatives and
political influences generally should
be given to understand that they
must not expect, as a matter of pat
ronage, to dominate or dictate these
appointments, and before they get
immovably behind anybody we
Daugherty to PresidentHarding made
public by Attorney General.
Senator Stanley.-That is given to
the public. Why? AS a note to all
who seek a places upon the bench,
''Do not say anything about Daugh-
erty, because Daugherty shadows the
Republican Representatives and SEN
ators. s.'-Congressional Record.
Senator Watson of Georgia.: I will
not repeat the various charges laid
at the door of the attorney general,
which the attorney general ignores.
They relate to the dismissal of pro-
ceedings against men who have Deen
run down by dry agents, found vio-
case British ship-the J. NJ. Young
comes into New ork harbor laden
! with liquor, is seized, and the cargo
| discharged and the men liberated
on a telegram from Attorney Gen.
eral Daugherty, after he has had an
| interview with Mr.. Fielder. How can
that be explained d?-Congressional
Record.
1--WE are so few in numbers and
so wealthy in resources that we can
manage to get along with politician
made tariffs and dark-lantern tariff
methods. But ought we to gc on with
such tariffs and such methods just
because our wealth is so great and
our numbers so few that We still
can live in spite of such tariffs and
such methods? And we are at
relentless war with the present-day
Republican doctrine of a guaranty
of profit to manufacturers."-
eridge statement Of 1913 quoted by
Senator Harrison in Congressional
Record of June 6, 1922.
| Senator Harrison: I think he (Sen-
ator Watson) was married 70 the
special interests a long time ago,
and he has remained loyal, aye,
faithful to them up to this good hour.
Senator Watson of Indiana: AS I
do in all my marital relations. what
ever they be; if I am married to a
| proposition I stay with it.-Congres-
sional Record.
'The tariff under the policy of
| protection was originally means to
raise the rate of wages. It has been
made tool to increase the cost of
living" Clifford Pinchot's statement
on Payne-Aldrich law quoted by
Senator Harrison. Congressional
Senator Willis: Already the debate
that has occurred on this bill ex4
ceeds more than 100000 words, and
If the discussions as printed in the
Congressional Record were placed
line by line. the debate that has been
had on the bill would reach 10 miles;
and the end apparently is not in
sight, Congressional Record, Of June
6, 1922.
Senator Nicholson-The steel in
terests, nurtured and fattened by a
protective tariff, and now being long
past the infant-industry stage, ask a
total tariff protection Of SAFE 100000
on their products.-Congressional
Record. !.
The labor world., 1922-06-17

Mr.. Gompers has compared the de-
cision Of the United States supreme
court in the Coronado case with the
infamous Taff-Vale decision in Eng
land. He should have dubbed it a
stTaft.veiled, doc;s;or ~
The labor world., 1922-06-17

would stand, and courts could not in
terfere. What they disapproved would
be wiped out.
There has been a good deal of talk
about class legislation, but the Edge
proposal goes little further than any.
thing we have seen Of late.
Why not appoint four hard-head-
ed' bootleggers and one lawyer to
"interpretatively administer" the
Volstead act?
The labor world., 1922-06-17

"Wage Advance For Unsk killed La
bor,' says a headline in local pa
per. What was the advances A West
Virginia concern announced an in
crease Of 10 per cent in the wages Of
its workers to whom it has been pay
ing the meager sum of % cents an
hour. Some wage and some raise.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
MILL MEN WANT MORE.

Employers at the Ferry Baker
mill suspended work to enforce q
wage increase Of 81 a day. The
basic rate is now 50, which makes a
decent living out of the question,
these workers declare, f.. .
The labor world., 1922-06-17

Immediately following the an
nounceTsent made at Washington that
Secretary Hoover had fixed Al maxi
mum price of $3.50 per ton for spot
coal at the West Virginia mines, the
price Of coal advanced to SO a. ton at
Chicago, an increase Of from 25 to so
cents a ton.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
RENEW AGREEMENT.

The largest store in the northwest
which is 100 per cent with organ
lied labor, according to Portland,
Ore, upionists, has renewed its
agreement with the Retail Clerks
union. More than 200 persons are
affected. ,,.E .r,ssaSss.-. .. e..
The labor world., 1922-06-17

The new tariff bill provides for a
duty of from $500 to $32 on foreign
made sewing machines. The Singer
Sewing Machine company has branch
factories in foreign countries, but so
efficient is its American labor that
it has often found it expedient to ex-
port the products Of its American fac.
tories, instead of filling export orders
from a factory in other lands.
The labor world., 1922-06-17

Senator Nicholson-The steel in
terests, nurtured and fattened by a
protective tariff, and now being long
past the infant-industry stage, ask a
total tariff protection Of $475,000,000
on their products.-Congressional
Record .
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
BASS LAKE

Mr.. and Mrs. Hargreays, and. Mr..
L. Shades were in Turtle River
shopping, Saturday, Dec. i, ,16.
/ The children have had hard time
getting to school these cold days.
Some have frozen their ears and fac
es quite badly. ,.&FE,@
Joe Brose> had to have. his horse
killed that got hurt some time ago.
The Bass Lake program will be
December 22nd. .~<.. -
Reseda LaJambe drove to Bemid-
il Monday, December II. ~, :
The Lang family are quarantined
with smallpox at Lavlnia.
Mr.. Chester .Odell made a bust
ness trip to Bemidji Monday. ..
Mrs. Coleman was on the sick list
last week.
We are sorry to hear that Fred
Clark is quite. sick with stomach
trouble and is able to set up but a
short time each day. We hope to
| near of his recovery soon.
Mr.. George was a caller at the
Bass Lake school December 18.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
COW FOR CHRISTMAS

The Pioneers suggestion that men give
their wives cows for Christmas has caused
other editors throughout the northwest to
comment on this uniqe gift. Some favor
ably and some less favorable.
We still contend that COW for Christ
mas gift would be far more senible than
an auto. i
It would be great gift. for Uncle Sam
to give every worthy farmers wife. Yes,
more than that, Uncle Sam should arrange
to provide the farmer with all the stock
for which he can grow proper feed. tie
would get his money back hundred fold.
Ss
They are doing things somewhat diff
ferently in Herrin, Ill. 1t may be necessary
to break the law in order that it may be
enforced. .,
S-s
Did you enjoy the basketball game last
EVENING"? If you were among those pres
ent. YOU are money ahead, though it cost
YOU a few cents to get in.
s---s
Time to begin to chalk UP the new reso-
lutions you intend to break during 1928.
lutions you inted to break during 1923.
-. ..':" 8-3
Better buy your alfalfa seed and auto
tires early-indications are that they will
both be higher by spring.
Today, Thursday, December 2]. The
shortest dav of the whole year. Let's make
'em count, even though they are short.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
FROM OTHER PAPERS

= 1t is a wise suggestion that each
town in Beltrami county that can
possibly do so, send one or more
delegates to the meetings of the
county commissioners when they
meet for the purpose of re-district-
ing the county, which will be in Jan
uary.-Grygla Eagle.
Teachers of vocal music often adj
vertise that they will give special
paines to new beginners, never pay
ing any attention to nearby resi-.
dents.-Stillwater Gazette.
Sturdy American warriors once
sought battlefields Of France. A
different breed of Americans is now
seeking the battlefelds of France
Owatonna Journal-C Chronicle,
Very few people have done as
much good in the world with thei,
money as John Wanamaker who dice
last week. He left the world better
for having lived in it.-Anoka Her
aid. =. -"
q What q new. CONGRESSMAN cannot
understand is why washington pay:
so little attention to a great man
ST; Cloud Times. ..
J The toe Of Italy's boot is turnet
the wrong way for kicking Turke.
out of Europe.-Greenville Pied
mont. -
We have 65 per cent of the world
telephones and goodness knows wha
per cent Of its wrong numbers
Nashville Tennessean. =
I. The trouble with the alarm clocl
is that while it will arouse you in tn
morning it will not put you to bed a
night. Times. -
4 Chicago hotels ask to serve mine
pie with brandy this Christmas. Som
even want to leave out; the pie.
Mnskegon Chronicle. ~ 5s
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21

$4,000, 100000, and this advertising bill
of $800,O00,000 is therefore only 2 per
cent of the total amount of the goods pro-
duced. Advertising is an important and es-
sential element in distribution. It is more
ness enterprise, and keeps it wholesome.
90. Russia tried the abandonment of adver-
tising and found that advertising and busi-
ness both departed together. If you are
going to cut off all the blossoms from a
plant, you are going, after awhile, to have
no more plant-Washingto Herald
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21

now is getting ready to refuse
Christmas cigars.
If you hear a noise it may be the
loud Christmas ties.
Hide the children's presents with
their school books and they will nev-
err find them.
Every girl likes winter sports
if they are handsome.
p The age-old struggle between Ire
land and England has ended again.
High chairs are fine gifts for
young and old. You will find all
chairs are high chairs.
Turkey says she will grant no di-
vorces to foreigners. What foreign
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
i. TIDEWATER EDUCATION

Charles P. Craig, of Duluth, executive
director of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence
Tdewater association, it appears to us, has
about everybody in the United States edu-
Gated to the idea that the deepening of the
st. Lawrence river is the salvation of the
great central west. -.
ten years and the railroads are now about
ten years behind on transportation facih-
ties. Therefore waterway from the lakes
to the Atlantic should be supplemented
The necessity of either route implies the
necessity for both routes. The two routes
with waterway from the lakes to the gulf
constitute an inseparable necessity. The
economies in transportation effected by
either route will be equaled only by the
economies effected by the other route.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
ers want is a divorce from Turkey.

ers want is a divorce from Turkey.
These dsi's nobody seems to DANCE
without a struggle. g."
J. Six months from now you will
have no trouble with the furnace.
In spite of all the shooting, sta
tistics show married men live longer.
West Virginia man Of S3 has just
ridden his first street car. This is
long time to wait for street car:
Some kids get what they want
while others get sensible presents.
If cussing the weather made us
fat we would all be trying to reduce.
A wise man and his money soon
buy Christmas gifts.
If the Nevada boy who shot three
people ever grows up he can join
our army as platoon.
/ Maybe reformers live because it
is against the law to kill yourself.
+ Some Christmas you will see smok-
ing jackets ljsted<as gifts for girls. <.
Christmas is not over: until the
ianitor quits being polite. -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
MONEY MAKERS

Henry Ford's income is said to run i'm
six figures daily. Most of us would be sat-
isied with six figure income annually and
some in lifetime. Mr.. Ford is not back
ward about his secret and tells us how it
is accomplished. He says:
"The man who will use his skill and
constructive imagination to see how much
he can give for dollar, instead of how
little he can give for dollar, is bound to
succeed. I cannot understand why peo-
pie don't see it"
Well, Henry, the hardest thing to see is
the obvious Most of us are too busy look
ing for cure-alls and shortcuts that do not
exist. With gold mine in the back yard
we are rainbow chasers seeking the taoled
pot of gold at it's foot.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21

It will soon be time for new res
olutions.: We call them new but they
are the old ones made over.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
CHRISTMAS TIME

Christmas!
Not, truly, a time for philosophy; vet
time when many ask themselves " why
do we celebrate Christmas?'' The church.
es have one answer, an answer that all
Christians, at least, give to the question.
But the celebration of Christmas has come
to thousands of children who have little or
not cause them to rejoice at the birth of
Jesus; it is celebrated with heartiness and
happiness by those who do not believe in
any religion; by those of alien faiths and
strange; it is time of joy and happiness
thousands of children who have little or
no understanding of it's religious signifi-
canoe; it is warm in the hearts of many men
and women as time or rejoicing, Of neigh
borly love, Of friendship, of kinship, quite
apart from its being the natal day of the
Carpenter of Nazareth.
Christmas means peace on earth, good
will to men. It means an opening of hearts.
1t means thought for the poor and needy.
1t means bringing joy to children who
otherwise and other times have little joy.
1t means love in the heart. It means broth
erhood.
There is no brotherhood without fa-
therhood; there is no brotherhood of man
without Fatherhood of God, and so even
those who know nothing. If there be such
Christmas celebrates; even such as these,
in celebrating Christmas, in receiving or
giving from the spirit Of Christmas, are led
in spite of themselves back to the Creator.
Christmas. (. not time for philosophy
but beautiful time to prove that even phil
osophy must yield to the spirit of the Yule
log, which brings to us all, Christian and
Jew, Mohammedan- and Buddhist, heathen
and believer, just and unjust, alike, the UNI;
fication of that love which, alone OF al
forces in the world, can ever make it Who'll
ly place for brotherhood.
ADVERTISING
The advertising of American business i'm
American monthlies and weekies amounts
10 about $3.50, 100000 year, and newspa-
per advertising to about $3.50, 1000, 900 a
year, $S00,000,000 in all, which is about as
high as the bill for Americas chewing gum,
Q Rip sticks, rouge and powder. .,.
George w. Hinman asks whether this
is worth the money. .,.
And he answers the question in the affir-
NATIVE.
For he says that the value of what the
United States produces amounts to about
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21

One may shop from sun to sun;
but Christmas shopping's never done.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
TOM SIMS SAYS

Give building blocks for Christ
mas because they will build a fire.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21

The man who swears off smoking