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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
TRICKY PARSON
LEAGUE HEAD is
TOOL OF CAPITALIST
Would Close Soft Drink Room Be-
cause Mem Meet There to Eat Lunch
and Discuss UniOnism
fBy Federated Press '

St. Louis-Proof, in, documentary
form, of conspiracy of the Missouri
Anti-Saloon league with one of it's
liberal contributors to use federal
prohibition agents to harrass the con-
tributor's employees and circumvent
their efforts to unionize has been OBJ
tanned by the Missouri branch, Assn.
Against the Prohibition Amendment.
Party of the first part is the Rev. w.
C. Shupp, superintendent, Missouri
Anti-Saloon league; party of the Sec
ond party, who, Shupp says, has been
a liberal cor tributoi 70 aour' cause,
is Edward F. Goltra, president, Miss
Evidence indicates that Shupp was
the intermediary for Goltra in an eff
fort to have prohibition agents close
soft drink parlor across the street
from the iron works, where en-
ployes of the company gathered to
eat their lunches and meet in the hall
above to talk unionism. On the
strength OF Shupp's complaints; the
place was thoroughly searched by
government agents several times, but
no liquor was found. Still Shupp in
sisted that the raids continue and
that the place be closed as public
nuisance.
Frank T. Diggs, then director in
charge of St. Louis prohibition office,
refused to take seriously Shupp's
complaints. When Diggs refused to
make raids without cause, Shupp's
secretary wrote a letter to Diggs
urging that there be relentless war
on the place to which Shupp and the
iron company objected.
Diggs makes the following state
ment: "Dr. Shupp visited my office
in the federal building, st. Louis,
about a half a dozen times complain
ing that soft drink stand across the
railroad tracks, from Mr.. Goltra's
plant, was causing 'dissension among
the employees of the company and
that liquor was being sold on the
premises. / sent men three different
times to make an investigation, but
they could find no liquor. But DIR.
Shupp became insistent that the place
be closed as a public nuisance. He
said that Mr.. Goltra was a liberal
contributor to what he described as
our cause and that our agents must
get some action against that soft
drink place.
Following the Investigations by
my men, and after l had put one of
the prohibition agents to work in the
plant to try to get the secrets from
the ohter employees l took three of
my best men and searched the soft
drink parlor and hall above where
employees of Mr.. Goltra had been
holding meetings. We were unable
to find drop of Intoxicating liquor
either in the soft drink place or in
the hall above In the course of my
investigation learned that the men
employed in the iron works met in
the halb at noon, they ate their
lunches there, ard had been discuss
ing matters pertaining to unionism.
''It was subsequent to these very
thorough searches that Mr.. Shupp's
secretary wrote me that letter. had
become convinced by this time that
there must have been some other rea-
son than enforcement of the prohibi-
tion law back of DR.. Shupps efforts
to have this place closed as a public
nuisance, and l paid no further atten-
ton to his complaints"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Old Age Pension In
Far-Off Australia

Melbourne, Australia - In Aus
tralia at the present time, 102,415
persons receive old age pensions,
while pensions are also paid to in
valid persons (those unable to work.
to the number of 37,981. The amount
paid to both old age and invalid folk
is $500 per week.
There are 79,491 incapacitated ex-
soldiers receiving pensions ranging
from few dollars to $40 per week,
while 49,051 dependents of deceased
soldiers, and 93,995 dependents of in
capacitated soldiers also receive pen
sions from the Australian govern
ment. The liability for war pensions
is approximately $35 100000 per year,
or 81 per head of population.
Under the maternity allowance act,
instituted in 1912, S25 is paid to the
mother of every child born in Aus
tralia. Since the inception of the act
up to June 80, 1922, 2,280,0O0 claims
have been paid, incolving a total ex-
penditure Of $60,000,000.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
B. of [. {. Asks For
Union Mine Organizer
(By Federated Press)

Huntington, w. Va.-"Send a union
organizer" was the message sent to
President John L. Lewis OF the mine
workers by Grand Chief Warren S,
Stone of the locomotive engineers,
when the brotherhood bought i'm
mense coal lands in West Virginia and
eastern Kentucky.
The second step was to put the
mining camps into proper condition
for union men to live in. The mines
were overhauled and new machinery
installed while model villages are be-
ing built with four-room cottages, a
theater, clubhouse, church, school,
bathhouse and sewage disposal plants
and power houses.
The brotherhood company agrees to
pay the miners 10 cents a ton above
the union scale.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23

New York-"The judges of the
United States courts are the greatest
obstructionists because they are ap-
pointed for life and are not RESPONSE
BILE to the voters"
That is the statement of John Ford,
himself justice of the supreme court
of the state of New York. He follow
ed it with a demand for the recall of
judges, and then continued:
"The greatest danger to free insti-
tutions lies in the encroachment of
the judiciary upon government.
Judges are emboldened to defy public
sentiment by their immunity from
criticism-an immunity which has no
foundation in federal or state con-
stitution or laws, but which came to
us from the English common law and
is a notion inherited from the time
when judges were supposed to be the
deputies of the king and, therefore,
invested with divinity.
"The sooner American citizens get
rid of the idea that a judge is more
honorable than a legislator and that
a court is entitled to more respect
than legislature, the clearer will
become our perception of the evils OF
judicial usurpation.
"The work of years by legislators
and refo1mers," he said, "can be
wiped away in a fleeting moment by
a single judge who imposes his pc
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Bread War Means
Lower Wage Scale
(DV Federated Press)

Chicago-Loaves of fresh bread
have become the ammunition in a To-
cal price war between the Atlantic &
Pacific chain stores and the Piggly-
Wiggly stores. With pound loaves
selling at 10 and II cents the chain
stores cut each other down to a cents,
then 312 cents and finally advertised
free bread in one-pound loaveS with
each purchase. Sugar prices were
also cut.
This ultimately means higher
prices to the public and lower wages
for the bakery workers, the Bakers
Journal points out.
"The insane activity, as it is now
being carried on in Chicago and other
localities between competitors in the
baking industry fighting each other
has found new impetus" the Journal
says, "in the further enslavement of
the workers. The accumulation of
stale bread has increased to such an
extent that, according to absolutely
reliable information of the daily
bread deliveries more than 20@o are
taken out of the grocery stores again.
"Such a devastation of the produc-
tive power in the manufacture of
bakery goods is only conceivable un-
der conditions as they have been
created by the, capitalistic powers in
the baking industry in their fight
against the union"
The lowest price ever before reach
ed for bread in Chicago was in 1908
when two 12-ounce loaves sold for a
nickel, according to Sol Westerfield,
former president, Retail Grocers
Assn. Fifteen years ago, he said,
wheat was go cents a bushel. Satur-
days market was $1.23 I'm Chicago.
Fifteen years ago bakers flour was
from So to $3.50, while now it is from
Sc to 81.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Textile Dividends
Rest on Child LabOi

Boston-The oft-repeated claim
that the huge textile dividends rest
on low wages and child labor was
again developed at conference OF
women in this city.
Atherton Brownell, a member OF
the national child labor committee
said that the cities having the great
est percentage of child labor are also
the cities which have the greatest
amount of cotton manufacture, and
they are all located in Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island.
"The city having the undesirable
distinction of being the worst in the
country with regard to the employ
ment of children is Woonsocket, R
l., closely followed by Fall River
Mass" he said. "Then comes Paw
tucket, R. l. and then New Bedford
and Lawrence, Mass. All of these
cities have more than II per cent in
child labor. Compare these with the
large cities, which have no such man
ufacturers, and you will find them
ranging from 7.2 per cent in Chicago
down to less than per cent in
Cleveland. Boston shows GA pei
cent"
In reply to recent denials by New
Bedford cotton manufacturers that
they were using child labor to large
degree, Mr.. Brownell said:
81 am now able to say on the au-
thority of the United States census
bureau that of the 2,133 children OF
New Bedford from 10 to Is years OF
age, inclusive, 1926 were employed
in the cotton mills in 1920. In Fall
River, out of a total of 1850 children
employed in all activities, 1,775 were
at work in cotton mills"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Beware of the
Flag FIaunter
(By Federated Press)

Washington-Only because it is
taken from the Congressional Record,
will editors dare reprint the follow
ing remarks on the ship subsidy bill,
delivered on the floor of the house by
Representative Anthony F. Griffin, of
New York:
"Mr. Speaker, it is a part of our
history that whenever any special in
terest has knocked at the door of
congress for special legislation it has
invariably disguised its purpose by
Haunting the American flag. We
rightly suspect the man who unfurls
the American flag to promote his
own interests in times of peace. He
may get away with it in war times,
but in times of peace would re-
verse the mandate of Gen. Dix and
say: "Any man who unfurls the
American flag shoot him on the
spot" The American flag should be
the inspiration of men marching to
battle, and not the camouflape of
profiteers making a raid on the
treasury"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
END IN SIGHT
FIGHT FOR A HOUR WEEK is
PRACTICALLY WON
Millions of Dollars Spent by Interna-
tiOnal Typographical Union to Gain
Saturday Half Holiday

Indianapolis, Ind.-The struggle of
the International Typographical I'm
ion of North America for the 44-hour-
week in all commercial printing shops
is today more than ninety per cent
victorious and members are returning
to work constantly under the new
condition, according to a statement
issued at International headquarters.
The fight has ragged for more than
twenty-one months, in which time ev-
eery union nrinter in the United
States and Canada has been paying
strike assessments to support the
men on the firing line. Considerably
more than $12,000,000 has been dis
tributed through the offices of the
International. Todav the only juris-
dictions in which serious contests
continue are located in Canda and
Pennsylvania.
"Gains made by Labor since the
War have been little short of marvel
ous," the statement continues. "The
more significant progress has not
been economic, nor in the strict sense
political, but rather in the awaken
ing of consciousness of Labor's rights
anu POWClSs "A NdoC FdllCIy VI pa
ternalistic welfare schemes, fostered
by the employing class, Objectionable
though Iney may be, show clearly
that the old arrogance is going and
that public opinion is shaking itself
clear of specious capitalistic doc
trines.
with the day rapidly approaching
when the moral and political power
of organized labor will be sufficient
to govern conditions in industry, as
they affect the worker, it is earnest
ly to be hoped that the worker will
give his best thought to the exercise
of his growing power. The task will
be his, no other can perform it for
him. Already Labor has gained pow
erful and Conscientious friends in the
National Congress. More and more
as the cohesiveness of the labor
movement is demonstrated will re-
sponsiveness of labor's demands in
crease.
Eventually those laws that stand
in the way of reasonable aspirations
of labor must be repealed, new laws
must be set up. Obviously new laws
must be wise ones if benefits are to
COIlSlutIcu DIS W tIlclI cIIcCCS OIl dill
society. Incidentally the power of
the courts to overthrow laws, made
by representatives of the people,
must be curbed if a long drawn-out
struggle is to be avoided.
Labor is rapidly attaining power
in the fundamental rule of individual
industries. Here again thought and
careful procedure is essential. Labor
must find it's own way. The old
warnings about immovable obstacles
in the way of higher wages, shorter
hours, etc., are not accepted by in
telligent workingmen today. Labor
must find what the limits are for it.
self. Advice from employers is GER
tainly not to be relied upon.
"The International Typographical
Union had a long fight to gain the
eight-hour day and is just nearing the
finish. of another struggle for the
Saturday half-noliday. In each con-
test it was cried from the hOusetops
that the unions demand was econom-
ically impossible, but victory for the
printers did not impair the prosper
ity of the industry"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Higher Price for Union Job

St. Louis-The contract for print
ing 100000 ballots to be used at a
special election on an $8,O00,000 bond
issue has been awarded to the Caron-
dolet Printing Co., a union firm,
above the bid of the anti-union Con
P. Curran Co. Joseph ]. Hauser,
president, Central Trades and Labor
union, threatened to withdraw sup
port of organized labor from the bond
issue if the contract went to the Cur
ran firm.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Molders in Six Cities Get Increase

st. Louis-An agreement affecting
about $4,000 members in six cities
and providing for a wage increase
averaging 1920 for piece work, and
horizontal advance of so cents a
day for all day workers, with min
imum daily wage of $3.50, has been
signed by the molders' conference
board of St. Louis and vicinity with
the Foundrymen's Assn. Eight hours
are to constitute a days work. The
cities covered by the agreement are
St. Louis, Granite City, H., Belle
vile, ILL.,, New Athens and St.
Charles.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Restaurant Men Liable

Springfield, Mo.-A precedent is
set in recent ruling of the Spring
field court of appeals, which holds
that restaurant proprietors serving
food are liable for damages. The
opinion affirms the Judgment of the
Butler county circuit court which
awarded $1,000 damages to H. S.
Smith, who charged that he suffered
ptomaine poisoning from eating fish
in the cafe.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Missouri Labor Against Cossacks

st. Louis-The Central Trades and
Labor union is on record in resolu-
tions unanimously adopted against
the proposed state constabulary in
Missouri advocated by Gov. Hyde.
The measure is referred to in the
resolutions as strikebrealling
agency and blow at organized lab
or. Copies of the resolution were or
dered sent to all senators and repre-
sentatives from st. Louis city and
county.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
What Label Campaign Can Do

Minneapolis - fifty more union
printers have been put to work in
local shops since the campaign for
wider use of union labels was start
ed by the Minneapolis Trades and
Labor assembly, delegates from the
typographical union reported at a
meeting of the central body.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Traction Men Remain Loyal

Buffalo - Thirty-two weeks of
striking against the Buffalo traction
system by the union street car men
have produced only 46 desertions out
of 2100 men who quite July /, 1922,
when the company locked out it's
union employees. 1t is expected that
the investigation ordered by Gov.
Smith as soon as he took office last
month will reveal elements favorable
to a victory for the men.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Building Trades Win Victory

Bloomington, Ill.-The local build
ing trades council won a notable vic
tory when a damage suit for $4,000
against the officers and several mem
bers of the council was dropped by
the plaintiff, Charles E. Hall,
Bloomington's open shop contractor.
PlaintiIf must pay all costs.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Soldiers Bonus Tax Free

jefferson City, Mo.-The state su-
pervisor of income tax rules that re-
cipients of the Missouri soldiers
bonus need not pay income tax on
money SO received. The ruling holds
that the bonus is gift and gifts are
exempt from income tax.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
More Money for Women

Washington-W Women have at last
broken through the $2500 salary level
to which they have hitherto been con-
fined in the matter Of postmaster
ships. Elizabeth D. Bernard has
been nominated to be postmistress at
Tampa, Fla, at a salary of $4,000.
Allie A. Dickerman has been named
to head the postoffice at Tucson,
Ariz., at $780,.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
10000 Workers Locked Out

New York-Thirty thousand work
ers in the paper mills of Sweden, and
many additional thousands in the
Swedish steel mills have been locked
out. The struggle in the Swedish
paper and pulp mills began Jan. 1,
when the workers struck against a
wage reduction. The strike practi-
cally tied up the entire industry.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Printers Secure Increase

st. Paul, Naturalization meth
DDS have resulted in gains for the
commercial shop members of Typo
graphical union No. 80. The first
lour months rates will be $40 week;
second four months, SAL; third foul
months, SAP. The agreement is based
on the 44-hour week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Construction Workers Walk Out

Friant, Cal.-One thousand work
ers at the Warren Construction Co.
camps here, near Fresno, walked out
again when the demands granted in
the previous strike were not carried
out by the company. Decent bathing
and sanitary conditions won by the
former strike have not been provid-
ed.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Want 48 Hour Week

Providence, r. I.-Textile workers
are helping the campaign to make 48
hours the maximum working week in
Rhode Island industries. They are
giving support to a similar measure
before the New Hampshire legisla
ture to bring these two states in line
with Massachusetts.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Eight Hours at State Capitol

Harrisburg, Pa.-Working hours
for state capitol employees have been
fixed by Governor Pinchot's cabinet.
From to 5 were determined as week
day hours, with 9 to IL as Saturday
hours.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Industries Moving to China

Sydney, New South Wales-T. J.
Mcmahon, a traveller in the orient,
who has returned to Australia, says
that many industries-such as iron
and steel, shipbuilding, motor car
construction, etc.-are shifting to
China, where labor is plentiful and
cheap, and millions are being invest
ed in industrial plants.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Union r. r. Official Dies

Cedar Rapids Iowa-Charles E..
Whitney, general secretary and treas
urer Of the Order Of Railway Conduc-
tors, is dead after a three weeks i'll
ness of heart disease.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Miners Starvation Earnings

Baltimore-In 10 years the average
weekly gross earnings of western
Maryland miners has been $723 for a
work year of 20S days, according to
Francis J. Drum, president of district
No. 16, United Mine Workers of
America.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Fourth Try for State Cossacks

St. Louis-The movement for a
state constabulary this year is the
fourth successive attempt to have the
legislature pass the bill. Each time,
due largely to the efforts of labor
representatives, the bill died in COM
mittee.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Would Create Private Army

Nashville, Tenn.-A bill introduced
in the state legislature would make it
mandatory for the governor, on re-
quest of railroad company, to au-
thorize special agents of these COM
panies to carry arms to any point in
Tennessee.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Fifty Cents for 13-HOur Day

Minneapolis-The United States
Steel Corporation works it's employees
in 12-hour shifts has rival in the
Diamond Iron Works, a local machine
shop, where 13 hours a night is the
regular shift. Wages run from so to
55 cents an hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Brewery Workers Combine

Milwaukee-All the local unions of
brewery workers in Milwaukee have
combined into one local and are now
known as The Amalgamated Brewery
workers Local No. 9.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Want to Compromise

Salem, Ore. - Organized labor's
agitation for higher awards under the
state workmens compensation act
alarms employers, who now offer
small increases in the rates.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Leather Workers Poor Paw

Washington-Workers in the sad
dlery and harness industry were paid
an average weekly wage of $21.42
last year, according to the United
States census.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23

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stands up for labor's cause.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Preparing Safety Code

Columbus, Ohio-Employers and
employed joined with the state indus
trial commission in preparing new
safety code for the building industry.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
Railroad Triples Income

Chicago-A preliminary resport by
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad
shows profits of S17,O36,3O5 for 1922,
compared with $6,651,153 the previ-
Gus year.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
General Labor Notes
Short Items Gathered For Benefit of
Hasty Readers
Oppose State Liability Law

New York-Business men in this
city oppose legislation that would
give the state a monopoly of work
mems compensation insurance.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
What Labor Is Doing
Wage Increases and Progress Made
Throughout the Country
Painters Raise Wages

Rochester, N. Y.-Organized paint
ers have re-established their 1922
scale of raising wages to 81 an hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
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 men,
Der of the household.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-23
MR.. NORWEGIAN:

The Leader is your paper. It
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.
, 1923-05-04

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