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The Washington times., 1923-01-02
FIGHT
NEWCOMER
pLANT

Vigorous protests were made
today by property owners near
Sixteenth and X streets northwest
against the erection of sub
station of the Potomac Electric
Power Company at 1614-16-18 X
street northwest.
The District Commissioners
granted the property owners a
hearing today to consider the pro-
tests. Conrad HI. Syme, repre-.
senting. the property owners, de-
clared the chief objection to the
plant would be the noise. He
said it would decrease the value
of property in the neighborhaod.
L. e. Sinclair, general manager
of the electric company. declared
the new station would be equipped
with apparatus which would prac-
tically eliminate noise.
Among the DIRECTORS were Mrs.
George Dewey. of 1901 X street
northwest, wife of late Admiral
George Dewey. q
The Washington times., 1923-01-02
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
DIRECTORS MEET TONIGHT

The last meeting Of the present
board OF directors of the Washington
Chamber Of Commerce will be held
at o'clock tonight in the Homer
building headquarters. OF the thirty
members chosen at the last election
ten Will be retired and their success
sors elected at the annual meeting
January Is. Fourteen nominations
have 80 far been made.
The chambers police and fire pro-
lection committee, Charles w. Darr,
chairman. will meet at noon tomor.
row: This will be the last meeting
Of the present committee.
The membership committee, of
which Ivan C. Weld IL chairman,
held its weekly meeting early this
afternoon.
The Washington times., 1923-01-02
OIL oRED MAN SOUGHT
FOR ALLEGED SLAYINc

bolice are searching for Charles
colored, s26 Second street
invest, who is alleged to have
Cd his wife. Lucy, yesterday dur
a quarrel. 1t is said the wom-
rs head was almost severed from
IL body.
"A razor was used in the gruesome
AEedY.
The Washington times., 1923-01-02
BALLS ABSENCE PREVENTS
D. c. COMMITTEE MEETING

Owing to the absence from Wash.
ington OF Senator Ball, there will
be no meeting of the Senate Dis
trict Committee tomorrow.
1t will meet on January Q. how
ever, and on January IL will hold
a hearing upon the new insurance
legislation, proposed for Washing
ton.
The Washington times., 1923-01-02

DeadIine Club Xmas Party.
The Deadline Clubs Christmas
party will be given at 6 o'clock to.
night in the Dutch room Of the New
Ebbitt Hotel.
The Washington times., 1923-01-02

YES, WE NEED ONE BADLY
What we need badly" said the
Office Goat to the editor, Gig a
private secretary
why, what's hurting your"
Didn't you see where Henry
Ford forgot a desposit of $4,000
600 in a Canadian bank until his
secretary called his attention to
IT,"
The Washington times., 1923-01-02

s'DOn1t Opem until .ChRlstamas,'s =
Thousands eeFiOuAly wrote,
And everybody did anyhow
PETE.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
UNIONS ARE
AIDING LOCKED
OUT BAKERS

Chicago.--0rganized bakery work
ers are making effective resistance
to the Ward baking company's efforts
to establish anti-union conditions in
their several plants throughout the
United States.
This concern is the largest bread
trust in the country. 1t has aimed a
blow at the heart of unionism by re-
fusing to deal collectively with its
bakery workers. No anti-unionism
could be more pronounced, for with
individual bargaining every element
of trade unionism disappears.
The bread trust would establish
Garyism in the food industry. That
the bakery workers are aware of this
is shown by their response to Wards
anti-union declaration.
The trade union movement is rally
ing to the bakers cause and indepen-
dent bakers are profting by the Ward
lockout and are securing the business
of the trust.
The bakery workers are alive to the
value Of publicity and are spreading
their story to every member and
friend of organized labor.
The bakery workers are stripping
the question down to fundamentals by
showing that the bread trust wants
anti-union conditions through its de-
mand that it be permitted to bargain
with individual workers.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
BUILDING HAS HIT
A NEW HIGH MARK
IN EVERY SECTION

Actual volume of building right
now is hitting new peaks the country
over. In answer to GLOOMY GUS
prophets who have been seeing anoth-
er wild 1920, leading construction
authorities point out that conditions
during the present boom are vastly
different from those of three years
ago.
Despite rising costs, they argue, ac-
tual cost of construction is much be-
low 1920. Labor is getting as high
wages as three years ago, but it is
producing far more. Little fall in per
man output so far has been noted,
except among the foaters and the
less expert craftsmen.
The cost plus system which was in
vogue in 1920 has practically van
ished. This was one of the great
evils of the industrial jamboree period
and 1t was the great factor in ending
up labor costs by encouraging loaf
ing, time killing and reduced produc-
ton. This time 1t is absent. Then,
too, contractors are reported to have
q saner view when it comes to bib-
ding against each other for men.
Plasterers have been scarcest and
their pay has shot up to SO an hour,
or SIC day. In 1920 the carpen-
ters were in strongest demand; this
year il is the brieklayers and plaster
ers. General rates for nearly all
crafts are at least up to the $l.25 an
hour mark and in many instances
beyond in the larger cities.
Overtime is not so prevalent as in
1920, which cuts down the amount
of double rate pay. Still on many
jobs the ten hour day and seven day
week are the mode; in fact, many of
the plasterers and bricklayers ask
about the chances for overtime be-
fore taking a job.
Due to bonuses secretly paid, wage
schedules themselves indicate little
as to the comparative level of actual
compensation. But a compilation of
wages paid $4,000 members of or
ganized trades in 63 cities shows that
in May, 1921, weekly pay was 93
per cent higher than in 1913. Rates
per hour were 105 per cent higher
than in 1913.
Actual earnings in the building
crafts by some experts are now said
to be about l3o per cent above 1918.
But in the last ten years the installa-
ton of labor saving devices has cut
down the labor factor in production.
Taking all building crafts and all
men employed in building. some fig
ure roughly that construction per man
employed is now perhaps 20 per cent
higher than in 1918.
In Champaign and Urbana con-
struction work is booming. There
are no idle builders. and common
labor is plentiful. The several large
building projects have absorbed all
available workers, and several con-
tractors are advertising for carpen-
ters, bricklayers and plasterers espe-
cially. 1t is said that when the |. c.
improvement gets to going right, the
demand for labor will be so great
that importations will be necessary.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
APPRENTICES
REQUIRED TO
BE EFFICIENT

We are told BY printers delegates
that il Is now necessary for appfen-
tices working under the jurisdiction
of the local typographical union to
take a course in printing from the
International Typographical union al
Indianapolis, Ind. After working at
the trade certain number of years
an apprentice must undergo an ex-
animation and unless he can demon
strate that he is thoroughly acquaint-
ed with the fundamentals of the print
ers' trade he will not be granted a
journeyman's card until such time as
he may be able 10 prove his efficiency
In this way double check Is put
on an apprentice. If he cannot pass
the tests required by the Internatiou-
al the local organization has no pow
er to make him full pledged mem.
ber; and If he Should pass the lnter-
national examinations, without salts
flying the local union of his mechan-
ical or artistic skill, his application
for membership. as journeyman will
be denied.
There is a two-fold reason for es.
tablishing these stringent rules and
requirements. The International in
sists that all workers within its juris-
diction are entitled to equality of OPP
portunity-and the correspondence
school, with its corps of able instruc-
tors, affords that opportunity. The
other reason is that every employer
of union labor is entitled TO the be/
service in the land and that II Is a
duty which every union owes him to
place in his employ only intellige-.
and thoroughly competent workmen.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
HENRY ALLEN
SHOOTING BULL
OVER IN GREECE

Topeka, Kan.-Former Governor
Allen is in Greece. According to in
formation received here he is cutting
a wide swath throughout that section
of Europe.
The editor of the Kansas Trades
Unionist is suspicious of these tales,
because he, together with other trade
unionists, recall how Allen worked"
the publicity game for his cant
strike" law. This suspicion causes
the labor editor to ask: -.
HAS anybody checked up to see If
some enterprising press agent has es-
caped from Kansas? Henry must
have one of the best in his employ,
who smokes a pipe with a stem as
long as the Kaw river.
If the Greeks knew the truth
about Allen they would be more like
Iv to mumify him than to crown him.
They may be doing so, and Allen does
not know IT,"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
COOLlE LABOR
PATRON BLEATS
HIS ANARCHY

New York Captain Robert Dollar,
vessel owner. rabid anti-unionist and
patron Of Chinese coolies, told the
convention of the national association
Of manufacturers how he and other
San Francisco business men smashed
waterfront strike in that city five
years ago.
The captain said he made Il possible
TO raise 81 100000 in 10 minutes to
fight the strike, and that when vio-
lence occurred be and other business
men notified the district attorney
'1f something lent done about this
tomorrow evening you are going TO be
strung up To a telegraph pole"
Captain Dollar Is well known on the
Pacific coast as an open violator oJ
the seamen's law, and as an employer
of Chinese coolie labor When the
world war started he was operating
his vessels under the British flag.
Rumors of German submarines along
the Pacific coast were heard, and the
doughty captain dropped the British
flag and put his vessels under the
protection Of the Stars aud Stripes
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
No More immigration!

up on immigration restriction is blind
SelishneSS.
Some corporations want cheap
labor" and they don't care how they
get il or what ii costs the country,
America can't let down the bars
without paying price-and the price
may be terrific
Ii will be paid in unemployment in
the spread of the desperation that
grows out of European poverty and
European poverty-strieken movements.
Ii will be paid in lowered standards of
living, in consequent lower purchasing
power; and thus in depression, unem-
ployment and hard times.
We don't want that and if fighting
can prevent it we purpose To prevent ii.
immigration restriction must be
permanent No other policy is safe,
sound or justified
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
WOULD HAVE
LABOR BOUGHT
LIKE GROCERIES

All labor and civic leaders are
united in denonneing as a decided step
backward the recent decision Of the
United States supreme court, in
validating the minimum wage law for
women in the District Of Columbia
Arthur BHshrane, commenting edi-
torially upon the decision, refers to
the same supreme court that calls q
woman's minimum wage law uneon-
stitutional recently announced That
big profits for gas company are
highly constitutional. Mr.. Brisbane
pointed out how the people of New
York were forbidden TO regulate the
price Of gas because that might keep
the company from making reasonable
dividends. Continuing, Mr.. Bris-
bane says. "All that Is confusing 70
those that combine deep respect for
the supreme court with vague idea
IL is lust as imnortant to pay girl
enough to live on as Ii Is to pay gas
stock owner enough dividends 10 pay
for travel in Europe.
Sampel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation Of Labor, de.
clared the ruling to have "basely" set
forth the "reactionary employer view.
point of wage earners."
81 recall no recent decision which so
basely sets forth the reactionary en-
poyer viewpoint Of wage earners.
The court says that labor is to be
bought just as groceries are bought
To buy the labor OF woman In the
district Is now like buying pigs feet
In a butcher shop, according TO the
learned Justice Sutherland. who wrote
the decision
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01

Beware of immigration propagan-
da. 1t is on the way and much more
is coming.
Information in possession of this
newspaper leaves no doubt that a tre-
mendous immigration propaganda is
being prepared with the backing of
powerful financial forces.
This newspaper, in cooperation
with the other bona fide trade union
newspapers, members of the lnterna-
tional Labor Press of America and
members of the international Labor
News Service, intends to fight this pro-
paganda in the interests of American
labor, American industry, American
standards, American citizenship and
American institutions.
Bluntly, the only reason for letting
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
HERE IL A JOB
FOR UNION LABOR
TO TAKE HOLD OF

New York. New dangers to life
aud health Of Workers which are
shortening their lives, lave Increased
greatly since the war; according To
DR.. AUee Hamilton, professor, Indus
trial medicine, Harvard university
Dr. Hamilton says this menace Is
spreading all through Industry IN the
form Of death dealing dusts and pois
ons as we'll as poisonous solvents
about which little Is yet known,
"Theae polsons," ahe says, Are
many aud varied and deadly. A sol,
vent Is used In industry Ia dissolve
other materials. One of them used ln
aitplane cloth during the war, now =
being used In artificial SILK. In paint
Ing, fubber, and shoe manufacture,
dry cleaning and other forms Of work.
benAol hag been introduced as "A sol.
vent. Benzol Is a poison which brings
death TO the worker with startling
suddennoea.
But the number Of persons expos
ed TO industrial poisons 10 small COM
pared 10 those exposed TO Industrial
duts, DR.. Hamilton adds. Dust plays
a part IN innum srable forms Of work
In textiles. granite, marble and
stone cutting. hat making and mining
Of all kinds.
She urges physical examination Of
workers in all trades aH means to
prevent oecupationai diseases.
"fhs,h says cmoment by the
Workers Health bureau, New York
"is a job for the trade union. for the
unions are the only agency the work
ers eah rely on"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
Back FIam Sprin field.

Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Maybe " have
returned from Springfield where they
attended meeting of the Legislative
Board. At this meeting was organized
a State Legislative Board of the l.. A.
to the Brotherh )od of Raili ad Train
men, of which MIS-. Mayhem was
elected vice president from this dis
trict.
Following the meeting a reception
and banquet was given by the SprinG-
field Lodge No. 526, B. of r. T.
Among the speakers present were
Mrs. Clara Bradley, grand president
of the l.. A. to the B. of r. T.; Miss
Janette Rankin, former congress-
woman from Montana, and John H.
Walker, preside9t of the American
Federation of Labor Mr.. Victor
Olander, state secretary of labor, also
several members of the 53rd General
Assembly.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01

.nlv little over one week
ia KAT Reiss Carnival Shows
INV. -,i'.s opens 4 weeks engage
sJ'f-' w ~, he lot on North Neil street,
me- les being June ll-lf, inclusive
Are YOU making preparations "
-tsks 1t IN Il. single at
'oN for We are assured by or
lIa'.-,,i,es lIa','s,i in other cities where the
ssi. 80. show has appeared. aid D!
N41 Ma. ,Hieials that it is The cleanest
PNol,..s company that mas ever ap-
Hsared m these cities: =. nj,
c..! F.'eration of Labor in bringing
NN' N,, Reiss shows to the city Is TO
W., he Federation out OF deDe. Inc
sor,narv comes here at q guarantee
- ~. sypense to the Federation. ah9
~. liberal attendance OF organized
M w Nill be the means OF placing
.IS'i .IS ngrsnt body upon its feet, imam
.iar, again, should the weather De
~" il i almost a duty OF every
- man to patronize this venture
Thsrally. at the same time enjoying
.Se sttractions that have been pro.
aiJod and there are about 20 OF
them. - .,h., ,ov hs
synseted when the Nat Reiss shows
onen here, we print the following
taken from the Galesburg Mail, issue
The golden glow of the Festal Aura
hing low over the northwest part OF
the eity Monday night and a great
synanse of allurement 1t was, this
Some of CLEANS that cut the darkness
of Galesburg's first real spring night
-beckouing the passerby, from all
narts Of the city, enveloping the hun
dreds that swamped beneath it-and
shaving the country side for miles
around that Galesburg's spring carnl-
val the great six days series of at
fractions as presented for the Ralph
NJ Nobne post No. 2S5 of the. Ameri-
can Legion for their building fund
by the Nat Reiss shows was actually
underway. Yes the opening night
the great opening night IN every
sense to meet those thousands OF
brightly colored lights that in every
sense, to repeat, was Monday night
when the festival caught the urge of
the thousands of people who attend
ed and the thousands of people in
turn caught the magic urge of the
festival to make the evening a gal
liant evening; feeting hours of happy
moments clean, wholesome fun con-
tributing new and invigorating items
Of interest to the most vapid OF, fes-I
tiyal celebrations.
Fourteen Major Attractions.
1t was a great opening for the peo-
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
IFTS ALL GO AND SEE
The NAT REISS SHOWS

pie OF Galesbufg. for the Ralph NJ.
Noble post and for the Nat ReiSs
shows that moved into this city late
Supnday afternoon from Peru, IN.
Nothing but praise from the resi-
dents in the vicinity was heard Mon
day evening and after the lights were
turned on the appearance created so
much enthusiasm that the people
Hooked to these Ii entertainments
With eagerness and from now until
the end of the engagement il Is ex-
pected they will return night after
night for the lights will be Just as
bright every night. and the shows will
be just as good.
The festival Is sure of success.
That is apparent from the manner in
which 1t was greeted Monday night.
But assurance rests on tremendously
arduous efforts on the part of the
citizens during the next five days, e
the success Is to come up to original
expectations. Keep in mind that the
object is--a new club house and funds
TO take care of the needy soldier boy
that is the goal-it can only be
reached by vast deluge of shares on
the automobile that is to be given
away. And in patronage to the show
grounds.
Around the midway as already men,
toned will be found several new and
novel attractions, but the biggest nov.
city is that Caterpillar ride, this ride
is the very latest and cost more than
$4,000 to say nothing of the hundreds
n nj f.H l.
are. that this will be the only oppor-
tunity this season to enjoy its thrill
then the big Wild West, with Tumble
In, and the Motordrome along side of
the terrible Twede, The Box of Fun
opposite "She,' and the living won
ders and "How Can She Live?" and
the Ferris Wheel and the Whip and
the Merry-go-round and the Sea-
Plane and the Museum and the Twen-
ty Century Illusions, and so on
around the entire Midway. This is a
brief glimpse of the Nat Reiss shows
attraction as they appear at their
opening night, all clean, all worth
the while. They are owned by Mrs.
Nat Reiss, one of the leading show
owners in America, in fact the only
woman who owns and manages an
organization of this kind and the prin-
cipals of the showman's legislative
committee more than typify that pro-
gram of action her company is de-
void of all those fy-by-night features
that travel as carnivals but whose
only aim is to "film-ham" and hood
wink the public. Mrs. Nat Reiss
beliueves In giving dollar for dol
lar and will not tolerate anyone with
the show whose intentions are other
wise.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
ANTI-UNI0NISTS WOULD
TELL THE WORKERS HOW
AND WHAT TO THINK

In urging the annual convention Il
the national asseciaUea ct mauafae
tuners 10 continue It's apu.umou poi
icy. President Edgeuen made tM.
reference 10 workers.
let them get from vs. their
ideals ana standards of life rather
than from those pseudo friends
Nao exploit them ialpugh appeals
~ their ignorance, prejudice and
oasef passions
How Ike a tlnseled poteutate this
saundsi
What an assumption What a su-
penorlty these autluglonists affect
They talk 81 liberty aud iroedum,
but these are unknown ideals when
they refer - WORKERS.
Il never enters their minds that the
workers. as they, ale entitled t1 their
oNn ldeals. aspirations and intellec-
tual longlngs.
The worker In the opinion OF these
anti unionlsts, Is bat au automatipn
If his Ignorance. prejudice, and haser
passions are net aroused,
And to control this automaton IL is
necessary 10 ser his wages hours and
working eondtonss~to control his
life, Ia aeny him association With
other workers except IA the employer
dictates.
When the worker Is uporgapiaea,
ideals and standards of life' can be
enforced on him that are satisfactory
10 Us
Where the worker l. controlled By
"us,n ethets do his thinking, not only
in maletrs relating to industry, but In
all things that even remotely affect
his life.
Never resentful against injustice
and social wrong, this worker submits
sive aud meek Is referred 60 by Us
as the correct type OF employo.
In short. The ant-union theory l.
more thnl stopping group Of work
efs from striking or haggling with
them ever wage increases,
Anti-nnionism means control of the
workers lives. Ii means just what
Mr.. Edgerton tells his associates
let them get from us their ideals
and standards Of life"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
EMPLOYERS
DON'T THINK
FOR THEMSELVES

New York.-John u. Edgerton,
president of the national association
of manufacturers. is liable to be
court -martialed for telling tales out
Of school
Ia his annual address to the manu-
facturers' association in this city he
said one Of the greatest obstacles Of
American industry are those employ
ers who "hire a good lawyer to think
for them"
This situation now exists in the coal
industry, where attorneys are issuing
proclamations to the United States
coal commission in the name Of the
coal owners.
President Edgerton's charge is more
severe than any statement trade un-
ionists ever made. The organized
workers believe the greatest reflection
that can be made on a person is to say
he does not think.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
Favor Injunction Check.

Springfield, Ill.-The house com
mittee on judiciary Of the state leg
islature has reported favorably a bill
intnended to check the issuance Of in
functions in labor disputes. The bin
is designed to define the status Of
labor as distinct from property; 10
assert the right Of workers to organ
ize; to declare the normal activities
Of such organizations TO be lawful; 70
affirm the right to quit work singly
or collectively, and to prohibit the i'm
proper use of injunctions and other
proelamations during industrial dis
putes.
The first section Of the bill de-
clares that "the labor Of a human be
ing is an attribute Of life, and is not
property
After defining what acts are legal
during a strike, section 4 Of the bill
provides:
mo court, tribunal, Judge, nor ary
officer or official Of this state shall, by
any process, order, injunction, re-
straining order, decree or proelama.
ton, abridge or interfere with any Of
the rights or acts herein declared t.
be lawful or which are otherwise so.