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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
CHURCH FUNDS ARE AFFECTED
Large Amount Was Invested in Stocks
of Doubtful Value

Washington-A mass of cancelled
checks and notes, stocks and other
documents was brought to light here
as the outward evidence of how sew
eral men obtained $150,000 in personal
and church funds from Monsignor
James O'Brien, former rector of ST..
Peters Catholic church of this city,
on stocks regarded by legal represen-
tatives of the monsignor and the
church parish as of very doubtful
value.
Whether there will be prosecution
of the men is yet to be determined.
Monsignor O'Brien who is 83 years
old, is in hospital at Baltimore in
a state of nervous exhaustion, aug
mented by partial paralysis, and his
ability to appear as the chief prose-
cutting witness is regarded as prob
lematical 1t may be, however, that
indictments will be sought on the
documentary evidence in the posses
sion of his attorneys and those of the
parish,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
DIDN'T FAVOR JOINT CONSUL
TATION

All manner of excuses were made
by the president of the city council
at Monday nights session to get out
of entertaining the motion of the
chairman of the Committee on Public
Safety. that a joint meeting of his
committee, the safety director, the
policemen charged with shooting with
intent to kill and the victim of their
assault, be called to thoroughly and
informally investigate the matter.
One was that it would possibly be
deemed contempt of court and sub
ject the council members to dire
penalties Finally a friend suggested
that inasmuch as the committee could
be called together by the chairman,
the motion was unnecessary. This
life-saver was eagerly grasped by the
harassed president, who persuaded
the mover and seconder of the motion
to withdraw it.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
BARRIERS Win Out
In Many Cities
(By Federated Press)

New York-Following the victory
of $500 BARRIERS in the Harlem section
of New York, in which they gained
wage advances and shorter hours,
about 1000 BARRIERS in the Yorkville
district, who have been on strike less
than a week, have won all their de-
mands. A similar number of BARRIERS
employed in Brooklyn shops have been
granted their demands.
The Yorkville BARRIERS will have a
contract practically the same as that
of the Harlem BARRIERS. They are to
receive $50 a week, with one-half of
all receipts over $45 a week. 1t is
estimated that this scale will give
each man from SIS to SIS week more
than his old wages.
In Brooklyn a slightly different
settlement has been made. The week
ly minimum scale is $35, and 40 per
cent of all amounts taken in above
$45.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
DRY PLATFORM is DISCUSSED
Anti-SalOOn League Considers It's At
titude in 1924 Campaign

Westerville, Ohio-Decision as to
the attitude the Anti-Saloon league
of America shall take in regard to
prohibition platform declarations
taken by the two mjor parties in the
1924 campaign was one of the sub
jects under discussion by its executive
committee.
Two factions are said to have de-
veloped, one led by DR.. P. A. Baker
and Wayne B Wheeler, who believed
that inasmuch as the vets have forced
the issue of enforcement, political
conventions should be requested to in
clude an enforcement plank in their
platforms.
The other faction headed by Dr.
Ernest H. Cherrington and Dr.
Howard H. Russell argue that it is
the duty of the government to enforce
laws and therefore no issue is in
vOlved
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
THEIR DUTY TO OBEY ORDERS

No one denies that it was the duty
of the two policemen, now out on bail
for their appearance before the grand
Jury to answer for a criminal charge,
to obey the orders of their superiors.
1t is the wisdom displayed by these
"war lords" in unnecessarily weaken
ing the woefully inadequate number
of our city's guardians by sending
men out of town that is criticised for
one thing; but what is condemned
more than anything else is the utter
disregard of ordinary common sense
displayed by the overzealous cops in
firing murderous volleys of bullets
after the car whose occupants sup
posed they were victims of hold-up
gang, and naturally sought safety in
fight.
If the officers now under cloud
really and truly believe their acts
were justified by law or merited by the
circumstances they should court a
fair investigation and not endeavor
to evade it.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Street Car Strike Probable

Oakland, Cal.-The big street car
strike here a few years ago may be
duplicated if the company persists in
refusing the demands of platform
men for an increase of wages. The
San Francisco Oakland Terminal rail
way, which operates the Oakland
street cars and the Key Route ferries
to San Francisco, has offered COM
promise raise, but this is not salts
factory to the men.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
WHAT OF THE FARMER !?

forts. Certainly not the manufacturer
Of the machinery the farmers are
compelled to have to harvest their
crops. Certainly not the fertilizer
concerns which are now charged with
mulcting the farmer of every pos
sible penny for an absolute necessity.
The farmer puts in more hours of
hard labor than any producer in the
country. His work is never done. His
work is a constant gamble for he
never knows whether or not Divine
Providence will favor him with a
large, abundant crop or whether the
elements shall be against him and his
whole years work laid in waste just
before the harvest.
And the farmer and his works are
more needed than any other class of
men and work Without him the ma
ton would suffer famine upon famine.
Men in the cities would starve if the
farmer ceased to struggle to extract
food from the soil. Railroad exec
utives, food exchange officials, barons
of steel mills and machinery plants,
all would be brought to inevitable
hunger and distress should the farmer
lay down on his job.
The world would be at a standstill.
Trains would not move. Factories and
mines would close Mothers and
babes would die in untold millions.
Men would become crazed with
hunger and crime would stalk through
the nation because hunger drives men
to crime.
1t isn't a pretty picture. 1t isn't
a thing to be contemplated with equa-
namity. 1t isn't a thing to be per-
mitted.
That farmer asked the greatest
question confronting the nation today
when he told Mr.. Harding that his
family could not live on a profit Of
ten cents per acre.
His question was: "What is to be
done about it,"
With humility equalled only by
that expressed by Mr.. Harding, we
can but say, 81 don't know"
But we can't permit such a condi-
ton to exist. Farms by the score are
being deserted each year because the
national, state, county and municipal
taxes are fairly eating the farmer
alive. Likewise, the indefensible
profits he must pay on everything he
purchases makes it practically i'm
possible for him to purchase anything
at all.
The farmer is being driven deeper
and deeper in debt. He cannot avoid
it. But he must survive. And the
only solution seems to lie in an act
by the national government that will
bring real protection to the farmer
rather than in constantly extending
him credit which only means that the
government is helping the farmer go
deeper and deeper in debt with no
hope of ever meeting his obligations
other than through the sale of his
holdings.
Congress must needs acts quickly
and with rare judgment else the ma
ton shall be doomed through the un-
relenting robbery of its farmers of
the profits of his toll.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
THEY SURE PASSED THE BUCK

It was amusing to witness the en-
deavors of certain persons connected
with the Safety Department to pass
the buck and side-step the respon-
sibility of not taking action, when the
matter of the two patrolmen now at
liberty under heavy bond, charged
with criminal offense, was brought
before the council Monday night by a
member who could not be gagged and
who, like majority of our citizens
thought the circumstances should be
investigated.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
WHO DID APPOINT THEM?

The legal adviser of the city coun-
Gil was unable to definitely say, when
questioned Monday night, whether it
is the mayor or the safety director
who appoints the city policemen, and
the question of upon whom devolves
the power of their removal is still
trembling in the balance.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Profits Are Doubled

New York-The Vacuum oil COM
pany, Standard oil unit, reports a
clear profit last year of $13,600, ,463,
or more than double the net profits
of $6,158,566 reported in 1921. This
company recently declared a 800 per
cent stock dividend, which increased
it's capitalization from $15,000,000 to
S60,0O0,000.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
SORRY TO LOSE JOE

The city council, with regret, ac-
cepted the resignation of Joseph
Stock, the genial and popular third
ward councilman, who for business
reasons has taken up his residence in
the south. Each individual member
expressed sorrow that he was COM
PEELED to sever the pleasant relations
which had ever existed between them
and wished him continued happiness
and prosperity in his new field OF
labor.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Protect Lumber Cooks

Seattle, Wash.-One of the new
state laws, just made effective, pro-
tects cooks in lumber camps. Former
ly they were exploited, but now they
will have a labor lien on all products
of the camp.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06

1t is more than passing strange
that with all the readjustments that
have occurred the farmer has not
been the real beneficiary Of any re-
adjustment that has raised him
financially.
During the past few weeks Mr..
Harding has been-and is now-on
trip over the country making
speeches in important centers and
telling the people just what splendid
prosperity the country has enjoyed
through the administration Of the ma
ton by his party.
We have no intent of making this
article political in any manner. 1t
shall not criticise Mr. Harding or any
of his statements. 1t simply will
point out that with the thermometer
standing at the limit, Mr.. Harding is
walking on thin ice in discussing
prosperity with the farmer.
In one instance Mr.. Harding helped
run a reaper in harvest field. At
the conclusion of one trip around the
field he jumped down, the honest
sweat pouring from his brow and his
body bathed in the deep perspiration
his unusual exertion had caused. Ma
turally, Mr.. Harding is not in the
physical condition to undertake such
tasks and not suffer in comparison
with the physical endurance Of the
seasoned farmer and farm hand.
While standing in the field, cooling
off, Mr.. Harding discussed real con-
ditions with a man who knew those
conditions and Mr.. Harding learned
that the farmer was unit with all
other farmers in the thought that the
government must do something TO
help the farmers if the farmers are
to be kept raising food and grain to
sustain the nation.
The farmer told Mr.. Harding the
real costs in raising wheat. The rent
of the ground, fitting and sowing,
taxes and labor, seed and fertilizer,
all of which must be paid for were
listed at cost to Mr.. Harding. He was
busy writing down figures and then
totalled them, fuding that an acre IN
wheat cost just $500. Mr.. Mardlng
knew the approximate cost, but ne
hadn't figured it out close. He then
asked the farmer what he was get
ting for his wheat and learned that
the selling price was 05c per bushel
and that the farmer was indeed Tor
tunate if his crop averaged 18 bushels
to the acre. Thus it was learned by
Mr.. Harding that the farmer was
selling his crop of wheat at a proflt
of TEN CENTS per acre. And the
farmer told Mr.. Harding that he and
his family could not exist on that.
What business is there in the
United States today that continues TO
exist on net profit of less than I-lo
of / per cent?
Certainly not the railroads which
take large percentage of the farm
er's funds for transportation. Ger
tainly not the mills which get their
profits through manipulations OF the
farmers products. Certainly not the
wholesale and retail houses which sell
the finished result of the farmers et-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Higher Pay Submitted to Board

Chicago-The U. S. railroad labor
board is considering a joint submis-
sion, rendered by the A. T. & S. F..
Ry. and the Brotherhood of Railroad
Signalmen in volving the workers de-
mand for higher pay. The scale is:
Gang foreman, 81 an hour; leading
signalmen and signal maintenance,
90 cents an hour; signalmen and
signal maintainers, IS cents; assist
ants 70 to 76 cents, and helpers 60
cents an hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
N. Y. LOngshOremen Strike

New York-Three steamship piers
at Hoboken, N. j., this port, have been
tied up by strike of longshoremen
following the refusal of the U. S.
shipping board to assign ten men to
work in each hold instead of eight,
the present number.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Bakers Organizers Working Hard

New York-Fifty union organizers
have started to work here in the large
bakeries throughout the city. They
are engaged in drive to organize
and obtain union conditions and pay
for all the bake shops in Greater
New York which at present are non
union,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Picketing is Legal

Montreal, Quebec-After 20 min
utes' deliberation jury in the kings
bench court decided in the case of
striking cloak makers that picketing
is legal. The cloak makers in this
city and in Toronto are combating
anti-union influences.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Arbitrate Wage Scale

Chicago-Organized street car men
and the surface and elevated COM
panies have agreed to arbitrate wage
differences. Mayor Dever acted as
mediator in bringing the contending
parties together.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Labor Disputes Averted

New Orleans-Contracts amounting
to fourteen million dollars will be
filled in building operations during
the remaining six months of this
year in New Orleans. Disputes in
the building trades have been averted
by slight wage increases,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Bricklayers Win Strike

New York-The strike of the brick
layers union in New York City for a
So day wage increase has been won,
and the bricklayers will return to
work Immediately at a $12 scale on a
two-year contract. The victory is re-
garded as a notable one in the build
inng trades.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Vicious Plan Defeated

Sacramento, Cal.-The state legis-
lature defeated a plan to establish a
three -fourths jury verdict in criminal
cases. 1t is agreed by friends of the
bill that organized labor is respon-
sible for it's defeat.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Shopmen Get Three Cent Increase

Cleveland-Two thousand shop me-
chanics and helpers on the Nickel
Plate system have been raised &c per
hour. The raise affects practically
every shop employe of the system, in
cluding both it's Stony Island, ILL.,, and
Conneaut, Ohio, shops.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Strike is Costly

Buffalo, N. Y.-The attempt of the
local street car company to establish
a hand-picked union" is costing a
pretty penny. Evidence submitted to
the state public service commission
shows that the company's revenue for
the first three months of this year
was $394,163 less than for the same
period year before the strike.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
New Orleans BARRIERS Active

New Orleans-Efforts are being
made to strengthen the BARRIERS
union in this city. Four hundred
members are employed in 1877 shops.
A permanent business agent will be
placed in the field.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Teachers Retirement Act Vetoed

Sacramento, Cal.-Gov. Richardson
has vetoed the State Teachers Retire
ment act, which would have increased
the pension of aged and retired pub
lie school teachers from $500 to $720
year.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
HERE THEY ARE
BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS ARE
DISTRIBUTED
COmmendatiOn and Criticism of Our
Public Servants Bestowed as
Deemed Just By Leaders
Hired Man
HATS OFF TO YOU, GENTLEMEN

HATS OFF TO YOU, GENTLEMEN
The city council, by unanimous
vote Monday evening, adopted reso-
luton granting to the Newark Trades
and Labor Assembly the use of the
court house park and surrounding
streets on Labor Day. The Leader,
on behalf of the Assembly and or
ganized Labor in general, thanks the
members of the council for their
gracious action, and assures them
their courtesy is appreciated and will
not be forgotten.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Will Examine Coal Co.'s Books

Harrisburg, Pam examination
of the books and records Of anthracite
companies has been ordered by the
state auditor generals department,
to determine why the state tax on tom
mage, as reported by the operating
companies, fell so far below the esti-
mates for 1922
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Drastic Income Tax

Madison, Wis.-By vote of Ga to
II the general assembly engrossed the
Dahl general income tax bill. The
proposal calls for a graduated tax on
Individual incomes ranging from 1 per
cent on the first 81 900 of taxable in
come to 10 per cent on incomes over
$4,000.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
What Labor Is Doing
Wage Increases and Progress Made
Throughout the Country
Cleveland Cigarmakers Hustling

Cleveland-An effort to have union
made cigars sold at concession stands
in the parks of this city is being made
by the Cigarmakers union.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Good Conditions in Denmark

Copenhagen-The Danish Fedora
ton of Trade Unions numbered on
March 81, 232,574 members, of whom
38,056 are women. They belong to So
different. unions.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Finland Makes Good Showing

Berlin-The Finnish Federation of
Trade Unions now number 48,176
members, of whom STA are women.
In 1922 the membership decreased
by 413.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Heavy Motor Profits

New York-A profit of $4,446,039
for the first six months of 1923 is an
nounced by the Hudson motor car
company. This profit is after all
charges depreciation and taxes were
paid.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
CLAW Workers Gain

Washington-In a letter to Presi-
dent Gompers, William Tracy, general
secretary of the United Brick and
Clay Workers of America, states that
substantial gains are recorded for
brick and clay workers in the Chicago
district.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Five Per Cent More For Plumbers

New Orleans-The local plumbers
union has signed an agreement with
the master plumbers which grants
them an increase of Is per cent in
wages.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
Use A LITTLE COMMON SENSE

Activity of the police against
speeders is proper enough but the ar
resting officer should consider condi-
tions and location in deciding whether
to make an arrest. The mere fact
that a car is going faster than 15
miles an hour should not be grounds
for arrest.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
CASE OF HELP YOUR NEIGHBoR

Certain Republican members OF
Newark's official family nobly stood
shoulder to shoulder Monday night in
their endeavors to put a quietus on
the demand for an inquiry into the
alleged shooting stunt pulled off by
city policemen a couple of miles out
of town, several weeks ago.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
General Labor Notes
Short Items Gathered For Benefit of
Hasty Readers
Union Shoe Repair Shops Scarce

New Orleans-This city, with a
population of 100000, has only one
shoe repairing shop which employs
union labor.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
MR.. NORWEGIAN:

The Leader is your paper. 1t
publishes matter pertaining to your
life and welfare. 1t wants your
support. Your cause would be weak
without labor paper to champion
it. Support The Leader.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
MR.. MERCHANT:

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 mem
ber of the household.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-26

te) The term adjoining lands'' as used
herein. means lands which are contiguous
and not separated by any street, ave-
IL Accessory Buildings" are stables,
garages or other out buildings used in con-
nection will the principal building on any
(g) AREA means the superficial con-
tents measured on a horizontal plane.
(h) A family is any number of in
dlviduals living together as a single house.
keeping unit, including boarders and
U) The term trades and industries"
includes manufacturing and business OF
all kinds; also amusements and oecupa-
tions conducted for profit; but does not
include the professions Neither does 1t
include churches or religious corporations
nor a duly incorporated golf club or tennis
club.
% Manufacture" as used herein, is
defined as the converting of raw, unfinish-
ed or finished materials or products or
any or either of them. into an article or
articles or substance or a different char
acter or for use for a different purpose
also laundries. cleaning and pressing es-
Adjustments and Industries furnishing
labor in the course of manufacture, or the
refinishing of manufactured articles
(k) The term business as used herein
shall be defined as the sale OF dealing in
goods, wares and merchandise or property
Of any kind, either at wholesale or re-
tail. also banking and any occupation con-
Quoted for compensation; but does not IN
clude manufacturing or the practlce OF a
profession by a member of sucn profession.
unless said member shall be assisted by
more than two persons as assistants or as
s~ociates. nor the operation Of a duly in
corporated golf club or tennis club.
(D storage Warehouse" Is a building
used either In whole or in part for the
storing of goods. wares or merchandise
or other property while awaiting sale, ship
ment or other use. for compensation or in
connection with manufacturing or bust
ness. but does not include Banking Insti-
buttons or Safe Deposit Vaults.
(m) Garage ls a place for the storage
keeping. cleaning or repairing OF motor