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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Will War GOugers
Be Rounded Up F.?

Washington = Congressman Wood
ruff's recent speech in the house on
grating war contractors has resulted
in statement by Attorney General
Daugherty that the government is
proceeding "in an orderly way" to
press its claim against the Lincoln
motors company of Detroit.
Congressman Woodrrff showed that
the government overpaid this COM
pany $9,000,000. The company has
since gone into bankruptcy and has
wound up it's affairs for $8,000,000
1t is now stated that there are pre-
femed creditors, labor, mortgage and
taxes that will consume $3,000,0O0,
leaving but $5,000,000 in the hands
of the receiver to pay the govern
ment's $9,000,000 claim and the claims
of nearly 1000 other creditors.
H. K. Scaife. a former investigator
in the department of justice, is not
enthusiastic over the attorney gen
erals statement that the govern
ment's claim will be pressed. Seattle
recently resigned because, he said,
proper action was not being taken to
follow up the evidence uncovered.
"The trouble with these investiga-
tions is that they are stopped" he
said. "There is a big blast of the
trumpet and the chase is announced.
Small animals have very hard time,
but when the real quarry is jumped,
the attorney general becomes weary.
When we return from the hunt the
hares are chasing the hounds"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
u. S. Can Give Ships
Away and Save None,

Washington Millions of dollars
would be saved the American people
if congress defeated the proposed
ship subsidy and handed private ship
owners $200,000,000 worth of govern
ment shipping without cost.
Ship owners will buy the vessels
from the government at an approx
mated cost of $200,000,000, the pay
ment of which will be extended over
a long term of years.
The government, in turn, will give
the ship owners, as direct subsidy,
$30,000,000 year for 10 years.
This means that the government
will pay So for every 81 received. 1t
would be cheaper for the government
to give the ships away and close up
the shipping board rather than at
tempt to sell the ships under the pro-
posed subsidy bill.
AS matters now stand, the ship
owners will not only get the ships for
nothing, but they will, in addition, be
handed $100,000,000.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
BYERS GRILLED
AGAINST SHOP
MEN DISSOLVED
Western Maryland Railroad Employees
Permitted to Resume Picketing
and Meet Incoming Trains
at the Station

Baltimore = Federal Judge Rose
has dissolved his temporary injunc-
ton against Western Maryland shop
men and maintenance of way men
who are on strike because wages have
been reduced by concern which has
contracted for the railroads repair
work.
Under cross examination President
Byers of the Western Maryland stated
that when he contracted with the
Dickson construction and repair COM
pany he did not know whether the
company had any assets or was sol
vent; that he had never asked for a
financial statement of the company;
that he had asked for no bond for the
fulfillment of the contract; that he
knew none of the company's directors
and that he did not know how much
stock has been issued nor to whom.
These proceedings were SO unusual
that Judge Rose asked the railroad Of
fetal what would happen if the COM
pany "went broke" He was told the
railroad would make another contract,
to which the court significantly re-
piled: "You can make contract like
that over night"
In annulling the injunction the
strikers pledged to Judge Rose that
they would use their best efforts to
prevent any one, particularly the
members of their organizations using
methods that would result in the
claim that non-unionists desisted
from their employment through fear.
1t was agreed that there shall not be
more than three pickets stationed at
factory gate and that "a committee
of not more that three men may come
to the (Hagerstown, Md railroad
station at each incoming train, and
may there, peaceably and quietly in
form persons coming in on the train
that there is strike on at the Wes-
tern Maryland railway shops and the
shops now being operated by the Dick
son construction and repair company"
In signed statement President
Byers agreed that the armed guards
shall not loiter around the streets of
Hagerstown and that their number
shall be reduced "as sneedily as in
my Judgment l think it practicable"
While the court dissolves the in
junction he lets it be clearly under
stood that he does so because the
railroad company has failed to make
case, and that if violence does oc-
cur he will issue an injunction, rather
than permit the proper authorities to
function, as organized labor insists.
The courts action, however, is nota
BILE in two features-it is the first
time a federal judge dissolved his in
junction while a strike is on and the
publicity given to the methods of
railroads in evading the Cummins-
Esch law by contracting their repair
work is bound to be fruitful.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Govt Storage Depot
Handy in Emergency

Columbus, Ohio-Adventages of the
government storage depot in this city
were proven during the past week
when waters of many streams were
rising rapidly and causing much
damage. A telegraphic message from
Mississippi called for the immediate
shipment of 100000 sand bags to be
used to halt progress of the flooded
streams in the Southern state, and in
less than three hours after receipt of
the message cars were loaded and on
their way with the bags. They were
shipped direct to Greenville, Miss,
and word since has been to the effect
that the prompt shipment probably
saved the entire town from being de-
stroyed by floods. There is in storage
at the Columbus reserve depot more
tha 100000 of these bags which were
purchased during the world war, and
they are kept in concrete lined vaults
to prevent damage from rats.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Old Age Pension News
"SCRAPPED" AT SIXTY

Robert Browning, the great English
poet, cried with a robust and cheer
ing faith
"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be
The last of life,
For which the first was made"
Modern science, as if impelled by a
similar faith, has turned itself espe-
cialy to the problem of prolonging
human life. Modern labor legislation,
likewise, has added years to the span
Of the workingman's life. But modern
industrialism, with its emphasis on
production and it's demand on the
workers for 100 per cent efficiency,
is rendering men economically old,
economically useless, at an earlier and
yet earlier age. The following article
dwells on certain economic factors
which make for poverty at sixty.
A few generations ago, as a work.
ingman- became old, he worked less
and produced less, but the conditions
of trade and manufacture permitted
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
-Four Years Profits
Would Buy the Plant

Boston-Tn the last generation the
Pacific textile mills has paid it's stock
holders in cash the par value of its
capitalization four and one-half times
over" says Thomas F. Mcmahon,
president of the United Textile Work
ers, in an open letter to Edwin Farm
ham Green, treasurer of the Pacific
mills. This company is attempting to
lower wages and it's employees are on
strike.
"The public who bought the cloth
and the operatives who have made it."
said the trade union executive, "have
contributed to the Pacific mills in
profits enough to have bought the
company outright at the par value of
its capitalization four or five times
over in the last generation"
The letter calls attention to the
widely advertised claim that south
ern competition forced the reduction
in wages in northern mills and to the
fact that the Pacific mills has part of
its factory property in Columbia, S.
c., and adds: "Are you in any way
using your influence to bring about
an increase in the wages of southern
COCIOH IHlI WOTheIS, OF uO you De-
lieve that the present competition be-
tween the north and south is the best
way to determine what wages shall
be in northern and southern mills 2"
President Mcmahon says that the
position that wage cuts are necessary
because the cost of production of GER
tain goods are higher, is equivalent
to IAN assertion that the workers in
Pacific mills should bear a large share
of the burden of depression" and
asks:
"Do you believe that the workers
in Pacific mills are likewise entitled
to a large share of the benefit of
prosperity ?"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
"YfLLOW DOG"
GOVERNMENT is NOT NEUTRAL
COAL OWNERS AIDED
West Virginia Mining Sections Plas-
tered With InjunctiOns to Aid in
Enforcing Provisions of the
Individual Contract

The power of government is behind
federal injunctions that now plaster
the mining sections of West Virginia.
Most of these injunctions are in sup
port of the individual contract, which
anti-union coal owners make their
employees sign before they give them
work.
In thsi contract the worker agrees
not to join union while so employed.
This contract was upheld by the
United States supreme court in De-
cember, 1917, in the case of, Hitchman
VS.. miners. Since then West Vir-
ginia coal owners, especially, have
used this method to enlist the govern
ment in their war on the Miners
union under the guise of maintain
ing the right of contract"
There can be greater mockery than
to call this forced pledge contract" "
Miners contemptuously refer to it as
"yellow dog" 1t violates the first
element of contract making that
both parties to contract must be
free agents; that there must be an alb
sence of force or intimidation and
that the signing of contract must
be voluntary act by both parties.
1t is idle to say that the elements
of contract-making apply to miners
in the mountains of West Virginia
who, with their families, are far re-
moved from industrial centews.
The miner cannot offer his services
as does the worker in populated cen
ters. His choice is limited to mining
that is controlled by small group OF
men who act together. -
Who will say that under these con-
ditions contract making is equal and
the miner is a free agent when he is
told that he will not be given work
unless he signs contract not to join
a trade union while so employed?
There is neither morality, ethics,
Justice or elemental law in the yellow
dog" 1t is based on the hunger of
babies and the needs of women. 1t
bemeans men by forcing them to agree
not to do a thing that they have a
lawful right to do, and which every
impulse calls upon them to do.
It is jug-handled, one sided and un-
fair. 1t can only be sustained by men
steeped in property ideals.
What can be the thoughts of these
miners who listened but few years
ago to a ship agents tale of a land
across the ocean where all men are
free?
Now these miners see the govern
ment of that free land upholding a
greedy Goa lowner who took advantage
of the needs of babes and forced their
father to sign a pledge thta he would
not join the Miners union.
They see that government warning
trade unionism that they will be fined
and jailed if they talk organization to
miners who surrendered their lawful
right and accepted "yellow dog
because they were forced do so.
Courts may talk about the sacred
ness" of these Contracts" Law
makers may remain silent before the
injustice of the "yellow dog" and the
inequity of injunction judges, but the
men who risk their lives, while held
in this serfdom, will ask each other
if the ship agent told all he knew.
What progress can genuine Ameri-
canism make. among these workers
when they ask that question?
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Coop. Cigar Factory Booming

Tampa, Fla.-The union cigarwork-
ers of Tampa who were forced out of
employment by an open shop cam
paign eight months ago, report that
the cooperative cigar factory founded
to give the men employment, has not
only made net profit of s percent
on the funds invested by the workers,
but has found such a demand for it's
product that it is raising it's capital
from $4,000 to $4,000 to take care
of the increased business.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28

him to go on working long after his
period of greatest productivity was
past. But under the conditions that
govern in the competitive industry of
shops and factories today, the status
of the man whose hearing or eyesight
or hardness may be failing, is entire
efficiency demands that he be scrap
ped at the first sign of exhaustion or
disability.
The Government Census, shows the
proportion of men fifty-fve and over
who are gainfully employed from de-
cade to decade. In 1890 the proper
tion was 85 per cent. In 1900 the
proportion had dropped to 80.7 per
cent. Of" men sixty-fve and over
who were gainfully employed, the
prportion dropped from 1873 in 1890
to 68.4 per cent in 1900. The Census
of 1910 shows a further drop in the
proportion of men forty-five and over
who were gainfully employed, and at
the present time normal industrial
year would show, by analogy, not
more than SO per cent of the men
sixty-five and over to be gainfully
employed. Furthermore, these work
ers "superannuated" at sixty, are
banished from industry with no more
property than the clothes on their
backs.
Why have they not saved anything?
The answer is found in figures, pub
iished recently by the Bureau of La
Dor statistics of the U. S. Department
of Labor. These figures present the
relation between union wages and the
retail price of food during the last
twelve years up to 1919. The tables
show that while the rates of wages
rer week increased 81 per cent in the
years 1907-1919, the retail price of
the most essential articles of food
during the same years increased 127
per cent.
Other Investigations indicate that
in general the histor-, of the wages
Of the unskilled and the semi-skilled
(who constitute the mass of Labor
and from whom 80 per cent of our
dependent old people are drawn)' re-
veals them ever falling just little
short of the minimum for comfortable
existence. Hence, bank account in
such lives is most rare phenomenon.
Low wages with the large share of
sickness and other misfortunes, in
cluding periodical unemployment,
which fall to the lot of families of the
unskilled and the semi-skilled-pre
vent in the mass of cases either saw
| ing or insurance against old age. So
we have this fact of the impossibility
of saving money sufficient to protect
| from poverty in old age, added to the
fact that the industries first use up
the workingman's vigor and then turn
him adrift, "old" at sixty, or at the
latest, seventy. If he is not totally
disabled, he may become janitor or
a watchman, or a street sweeper, but
| if, as more frequently happens, he
is completely disabled, he must be-
come a dependent on his children or
on public charity.
The number of superanuated, men
and women is so overwhelming as to
demand the earnest attention of the
State and Nation. Paupers these
workers grown old are not. Loafers
they are not Degenerates they are
not. And they should not fall victim
to our stigmatization of such. Yet
that is the fate which is in store for
thousands, while those who escape this
fate must yet suffer the humiliation
and sorrow of being burden and a
handicap on those they love.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Many Emigrating to Canada

Ottawa, Can.-According to figures
given to parliament by the minister
of immigration, 148,477 immigrants
were received into Canada in 1921,
of whom 74,262 were from Great
Britain and 48,059 were from the
United States,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Labor and Farm Grange Unite

Seattle-State Federation Of Labor,
Grange, Nonpartisan league, Rail-
Political club and the Good
Government league in this state have
entered a mutual compact to put
across progressive initiative measures
in the coming state election.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Brewery Workers Walk Out

Milwaukee-Over 400 employees of
the Schlitz and Pabst breweries
walked out when the employers re-
fused to modify a Is per cent cut in
wages. The cut would have brought
Milwaukee brewery wages to a point
lower than those of any other large
brewery in the country.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Construction Men Get Wage Cut

Redding, Workers in the con-
struction camp here of the Pacific
Gas & Electric Co. have had their
wages cut from 1925 day to So.
Board at the camp, however (the only
accommodation the men can secure),
still costs $1.25 day.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
LOngshoremen to Unite

S attle-Various longsnore groups
on the Seattle waterfront are being
amalgamated into one union of the
International Long shorcmen Assccj-
alton. Three unlols have had their
charters revoked to make way for the
unification.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Lumber Dealers Getting Action

Eureka. Cal. - Humboldt county
lumber barons are planning a drive
against industrially organized work
men in the lumber industry. The first
move is an appeal to the department
of justice to Investigate" alleged
sabotage on the part of workers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Carpenters Accept Wage Cut

st. Louis-The Carpenters District
council has voted to accept 10 per
cent wage reduction, from $1.25 to
$1.12h an hour, for the coming year.
This, the carpenters declare, is their
final offer to the Master Builders
Association, which recently announced
that carpenters would be paid no
more than 95 cents an hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Refuse to Permit Tag Day

Boston-Despite repeated protests
by the Central Labor union here, the
Eoston oveSseers of the poor persist
in their refusal to grant permit for
a tag day to aid the striking textile
operatives.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Municipal Cars i'm Detroit

Detroit-Municipal ownership Of
Detroit streetcar lines won by four to
one in the referendum. The Detroit
United Railway city system, including
trackage, cars, barns, ETC., will be
purchased by the city for $19,85O,000
and added to the existing municipal
system.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Tent Colony For Strikers

Pawtucket, R. Textile strikers
gathered at mass melting accepted
the offer of Thomas Cheetham, local
real estate owner, giving them free
use of lot 1900 by 200 feet for erec-
tion of tents to be occupied by work.
ers elected from their homes for fail
ure to pay rent.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Union Labor Bank Started

San Bernardino, Cal-The first
union labor bank in California has
just been started here. The bank
operates under the state banking laws,
but. is owned and controlled by the, la
bOr unions.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Anti Declines to Talk

Indianapolis-A. J. Allen, secretary
of the local union busters, has de-
clined an invitation to address the
Indianapolis central labor union.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Circus For Labor Benefit

Duluth, Minn.-Permissio has been
granted the Duluth Labor Temple as
sociation to bring circus to this city
during the summer. The proceeds will
be used toward erecting a new labor
temple here.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Explain Union Shop

Detroit, Mich.-The local federation
of labor is arranging for a gigantic
open air meeting against anti-union
shop advocates.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
General Labor Notes
Short Items Gathered For Benefit OF
Hasty Readers
Santa Fe Profits jump

New York-Profts of the Atchison,
Topeka q Santa Fe railroad for 1921
were S4,268,307, as compared with
$37, ,380,590 for the previous year.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
What Labor Is Doing
Wage Increases and Progress Made
Throughout the Country
CO-Ops. Pay Dividend

Henryetta, Okla.-Ihe cooperative
society at this place has declared
quarterly dividend Of per cent.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Will Not Make Cut

San Francisco-The California Me-
tai Trades Association has announced
that it will not put into effect the IL
per cent wage cut that it had
threatened.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
To Carry Compensation Insurance

San Francisco-The United Bridge
& Structural Iron Workers, Riggers
& Housemovers' union, is backing a
move to compel subcontractors to
carry compensation insurance.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Legislators Kick on Wage Cut

Winnipeg, Cana motion to re-
duce the compensation of members
from 1900 to $1,000 was defeated in
the legislature by a vote of 80. to IL.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
MR.. MERCHANTS:

Has it ever occurred to you that
The Leader goes into the homes
of the best paid workmen of New
ark and Licking county? 1t is
carefully read by every adult men,
her of the household.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
MR.. wORKINGMAN:

The Leader is your paper. 1t
publishes matter pertaining to your
life and welfare. It wants your
support. Your cause would be weak
without labor paper to champion
it. Support The Leader.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-08

all the ramifications of domestic pol
itics in many lands responsible for the
attitude of some of the delegates.
There is an earnest effort to carry
out the purpose of the conference,
with. all the matters on the agenda,
whose approximately just settlement
is a sine qua non of an agreed ratio
of armament and a naval holiday by
mutul consent.
The conference will be a practical
success. Both Che o~verhopeful, ex-
pecting a new heaven and a new
earth, and the overpessimistic, who
imagine the world is on the down hill
to Sheol, will be disappointed. But
the final results will "surpass expect.
atoms" of the statesmen of the world
at the time it was called.-St. Louis
Times.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-08
DRAWS DANGER LINE FOR
TRADE ASSOCIATIONS.

The department of justice has
drawn the line across which trade as
sociations may not go by methods
which aim to restrict competition and
by practices held to be in restraint
of commerce.
Attorney General Daugherty briefly
outlined the following as a rule of
business conduct for the trade groups:
They cannot fix prices.
They cannot divide territory.
They cannot, by contract, limit
production.
Mr.. Daugherty said recent decis-
ions of the courts were clear as to the
limitations that the antitrust laws
had imposed upon trade associationes
The decision, he said, also made it
equally apparent that the course of
the government in its procedure
against the associations, which by
combination 9r aggression had sought
to destroy competition had been vim
dieated.