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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30

plumbers supplies which were manu-
featured for the most part without
the State while not directly under the
permit system were just as effectively
dealt with by the simple process OF
refusing a permit 10 purchase the ma
terials that were under the system
TO any one who employed a bad
plumber that is to say, one who was
not operatoing under the American
plan
Judge Dooling's decision ends a
tWo-year fight Of the building inter
ests to impose the American plan
on San Francisco. The fight began
when the workers refused to accept
a wage reduction and the Builders
Exchange organized the Industrial
Association and began plotting to en-
force the American" or "Open shop
understanding plan.
The employers refused California
building materials to contractors who
declined to work under open shop
conditions. Finding that union con-
tractors were getting materials from
outside the State, the builders sent
letters to outside firms asking that
materials be withheld from union con-
tractors.
Permits were issued to american
plan" contractors and with these per-
mits materials were obtained, The
permit syetsm was extended to east
ern companies and even into Canada
and Belgium.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30
REUB. DAGENHART
NOW WISHES HE'D
LOST HIS LAW SUIT

Reuben Dagenhart, the boy in
whose name the suit to annul the child
labor law was brought, is now 20
years of age, married, has one child,
weighs 105 pounds, and wishes the
courts hadn't killed the law that would
have taken him and his brother out
of the cotton mill.
Lowell Mellett, correspondent of
the Scripps- Howard newspapers, went
to Charlotte, N. c., to find Reuben
and his brother John. He found
Reuben and asked him what he
thought now about the law of 1916
that was finally declared uncontsitu-
tional by the United States Supreme
Court. Here is a part of the story
Mr.. Mellett wrote
Working in one of the mills were
the Dagenharts. In addition to the
father and son there was a daughter
but she was &c. earning her dollar a
day, and Congress had said nothing
about girls of 16. So the suit, when
the manufacturers had it arranged
read like this: Roland II. Dagen-
hart, an dReuben Dagenhart and John
Dagenhart, Minors, by Roland II. Da-
genhart, their Next Friend, VS.. w. c.
Hammer, U. S. District Attorney
1t was to enjoin the District Attor-
ney from enforcing the law made by
Congress.
The federal court down there is
sued the injunction.
And should not the Dagenhart boys
be grateful for that?
Well, Reuben isn't.
| found him at his home in Char
lotte.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30

]. Raleigh Kelley, assistant attor-
ney general, one of the attorneys for
the government, declared that under
the decision the american plan in
San Francisco was a dismal failure
and that the government had won an
overwhelming victory.
In his decision, Judge Dooling SAID
that from all the mass of evidence
certain facts stood clearly forth,
which he described as follows:
The first is that the defendants
are acting in concert for the purpose
of putting into effect and maintain
ing what is by them designated the
American plan in the building in
dustry in San Francisco and some Of
its neighboring counties. The Amer
lean plan contemplates the employ
ment of union and nOn-union men in
equal proportions, with a non-union
foreman on each job
90 the second fact that the
evidence clearly shows = is
the so-called permit system is the
principal means by which the con
certed action of the defendants is
rendered effective. Under this sys-
tenn no one can purchase the building
materials covered thereby without OBJ
tanning permit from the permit
bureau of the Builders Exchange and
no one can secure such permit who
will not pledge himself to run his job
on the American plan
"A third outstanding fact is that
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30

The report deals with the number
of wholesalers intervening between
the mine and the retailer and the
margins taken by the wholesalers
tending to increase the price of high
priced or premium anthracite during
two recent weeks. The reports for the
two weeks show an increase in the
proportion of such high priced anthra-
cite passing through the hands of two
or more wholesalers. High premium
prices charged by operators TO whole
salers, noted in the commissions pre-
vious reports, show little or no tend
ency to decrease.
Coal passing through the hands of
wholesalers at high premiums are an
extremely disturbing factor in the
market, often serving as the cause,
but more often as the excuse, for the
excessive retail prices being charged
the consumer, says the commission,
which continues:
High prices exist in the wholesale
trade either because they are charged
by producers, or because of high mar
gins taken by wholesalers. At the
present time they are due to both
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30
COMMENT

Col. Forbes says Doc. Sawyer has
been lying; Doc Sawyer said Col.
Forbes was a bad actor; Gen. Organ
says Col. Forbes was a member of
a conspiring gang; everybody says
somebody else was either a liar of a
crook, or both.
1t has been a pleasant party-this
investigation into the conduct of the
Veterans Bureau.
Apparently there has been a good
deal of playing ducks and brakes with
this bureau charged with caring for
the disabled veterans of the war.
Nothing could be more revolving than
to debauch such a bureau.
The truth about the whole thing
belongs to the people and let it come.
The National Founders Association
has prepared an exhibit to show the
remarkable development of open
shop approval among all classes in
America" The first thought in this
connection is that there has been no
such growing approval, but that ap-
prevail has diminished.
Propagandists are trying hard to
keep the so-called open shop alive,
but it's hard job. The whole thing
was a fraud from the beginning and
even payroll can't keep fraud alive
forever.
The tenacity Of the propagandists
would be more admirable if it were
displayed in better cause.
4
Trotsky recently wrote an article,
published in Russia, pointing to a
Omitted States of Europe" established
on a soviet or bolshevik basis, as a
result of the triumph of bolshevism
in Europe.
The bolsheviks continue undated
their efforts to undermine and de-
stroy other governments, particularly
the more democratic governments.
Those who think the bolshevik
propaganda is dead and that the boil
sheviks have abandoned their effort
to foster revolution in other coun-
tries are looking with unseeing eyes
upon a lot of things that are doing
throughout the world.
While bolshevism lives it must be
judged by what it does, and not by
| its professions of piety.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30

what benefit" | asked him, did
you get out Of the suit which you
won in the U. S. Supreme Court"
you mean the suit the Fidelity
Manufacturing Co. won? Git was the
Fidelity company for which the Da-
genharts were working) | don't see
that | got any benefit. ! guess I'd
been a lot better off if they had not
won it.
Look at me! A hundred and five
pounds, a grown man and no educa-
ton. | may be mistaken, but | think
the years I've nut in the cotton mills
have stunted my growth. They kept
me from getting any schooling.
had to stop school after the third
grade and now | need the education
didn't get"
How was your growth stunted?"
81 don't know-the dust and the
lint, maybe. But from IL years old
on, | was working IL hours day
from six in the morning till seven at
night, with time out for meals. And
sometimes | worwed nights besides
Lifting a hundred pounds and | only
weighed 60 pounds myself"
He explained that he and his sister
worked together, con section" spin
ning. They each made about dollar
a day, though later he worked up to
where he could make So. His father
made $15 a week and infant John, at
the time the suit was brought, was
making close to 81 day.
Just what did you and John get
out of that suit them" he was
asked.
why, we got some automobile
rides when them big lawyers from tfs
North was down here. Oh, yes, and
they bought both of us a Coca Cola!
That's all we got out of it."
what did you tell the Judge when
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30
Want Daily Paper.

Charleston, w. Va. Nov. 2S.-Fol-
lowing the instructions of the last
state federation of labor convention,
President Harris has appointed COM
mittee to submit plans for the estab-
lishment of a daily newspaper by the
trade unionists of this state.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30
BUILDERS COMBINATION
forbidden TO BOYCOTT
UNION LABOR CONTRACTORS
CBy International Labor News sevice.J

San Francisco, CAL Nov. ga smashing blow was
given the american plan" by decision of United States
Judge NJ T. Dooling ordering building material men to
abandon their permit system.
Judge Dooling issued decree forbidding the Build
ers Exchange the Industrial Association of San Fran
cisco and other defendants to withhold certain building
materials from contractors who refuse to employ workers
under the so-caled "AmercaD' or "open shop" PLAN
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30

Another raid on the pocketbook has
started. The anthracite coal mining
has been resumed. Governor Pinchot
figures that the cost of production and
freight to the operators will increase
the price of coal Coo ton. The
operators put it at 75c. The consumer
will be lucky if he gets it for a dol
lar a ton increase.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30

Chicago, Nov. 28.,-Organized meat
cutters and butcher workmen defeat
ed an injunction and the owner of a
chain of Is stores who broke his
agreement and attempted to operate
under the anti-union plan.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30
PROFITEERING RESPONSIBLE
FOR HIGH COAL PRICES, SAYS
GOVT. TRADE Commission
(By international Labor News service.)

Washington, D. c., Nov 28-Exorbitant margins OF
profit taken by wholesale dealers in hard coal largely
responsible for high coal prices the Federal Trade Com
mission charges in the third of series of reports on
thracite
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
FEDERAL AID FOR NEVADA
HIGHWAYS Is ALLOTEI

Federal aid funds allotted to Ne
vada under the various acts of CON
grss, according to the Nevada State
News, are as follows
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
SEVEN WESTERN STATES
IN BIG CELEBRATION

AT great meeting OF seven west
ern states at Denver, Colorado, a per-
manent organization was perfected and
definate plans set in motion for a gil
gantic pioneer west celebration with a
sweep from the Missouri river to the
Pacific coast This is the report brot
back by Earle Smell, Nevada's repre-
sentative at the gathering of states last
Thursday.
The meeting was called upon the
authority of Emmet d. Boyle, e,president
of the Mark Twain Memorial Associ-
alton of Nevada, which originated the
plan for the big celebration with the re-
vival OF the old pony express in the
relay race from St. Joseph Mo-, over a
2C9G mile route to San Francisco, as
the central and unifying feature. All
along the route the passage of this
race is to be heralded by old west dem
onstrations that will combine into the
r:ost tremendous celebration in
many years, says the Reno Journal.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
SILVER CITY

II 10 Of interest to note that fos
the fret tiEas In several years all OF
the mills at Silver City are basy
treating ore from various usines OF
that section OF the Comstock. says the
Virginia chronicle and tho outlook Is
that 1922 will Be the tusiess for sosne-
tisfe In the Cod canyon town.
Everywhere ia the district properties
are heing werked oa more OF iess
extensive scale, and what gives the
greatest encouragement for the per-
manence of the revival there is the fact
that many of the lsadins old time pro-
ducers are being reopened. after years
Of idieuess, and prospecting is to be
carried on at depth for the first time
and In the development OF low grade
bodies Of ose known to exist, Note
able activity is to be seen at the Oest,
Spearhead, Buckeye and many others
Of the famous properties Of other
days. and ressts being obtained thus
early in the work, Is both surprising
and satiafactery. OF special interest
hereabout Ia the work at the Buckeye
mine directed BY n. P. Keryin. son Of
an old time Comstock mine superin'
tendent. Patrick Kervin. who won
conspicuous success as mine exeeu-
tive. Like father like son" seems es-
peciaily applicable IN this instance
mining talents and energy that bids
fair to fully maintain the family ira
dition.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
NOTICE

Scaled bids will be received by the
Board of County Commissioners OF
Mineral County, Nevada, up to the 5th
day of March, at 10 o'clock, am. for
supplying the various county offices
with the following stationery; as same
may be needed and ordered, in the year
1929 to-wit:
Letterheads for Sheriff, Clerk, and
Recorder and District Attorney;
Bill heds for Sheriff, Clerk and Rec
order;
County billheads;
Yellow second sheets, letter size.
Typewriter paper, legal size, ruled
and heavy.
Typewriter paper ,leegal size ruled
and numbered:
Legal tablets, No. ID:
The board reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
Address all communications to the
Board of County Commissioners, Haw-
thorne, Nevada.
By order of the Board,
S. T. Kelso, Clerk.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
WORK TO BE RESUMED
AT LUCKYBOY MINES

1t is reported here that 7. B.
Scrimger and D. F. Buckingham have
secured lease on the Luckyboy mine
through Senator ]. H. Miller.
Mr.. Scrimger, who has interested
capital to operate this property on a
large scale, left for California yester-
day to complete arrangements for the
immediate resumption of work at
Luckyboy
A 100 ton flotation and concentrat-
ing plant will be erected at the mine in
fact, most of the machinery is now
here and it is hoped to have the mill
in operation within the next 80 days
1t is also Mr. Scrimger's intention
to further develop the mine in Alum
Creek, several applications for leases
there now being considered.
The Luckyboy mines have a pro-
duction of about two million dollars
to their credit, and it is the unanimous
belief of those in a position to know
that the main ore bodies have not yet
been touched. The new lessees are
strong enough to develop the prop
erty considerably below the present
workings, and as rich ore now shows
in the tunnel leavkl it will be only a
matter of sinking deeper to recover
large bodies of richer ore than were
mined above.
1t is the intention to install pumps
at the tunnel level of sufficient cap
acity to keep the new shaft clean OF
water, ack of which has been the main
hindrance to work in the past.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
WOOL CLIPS SELL
HIGH rs REPORT

Reports received at the office OF
the Nevada Land & Live Stock As
sociation announce the recent COM
mencement of shcaring in Arizona, an
annual event to which both growers
and buyers of wool look forward to as
. barometer, says Vernon Metcalf sec
retary, as Arizona is the first state to
shear and prices made there are in
dicative of what they will be in other
Western states.
Mr.. Metcalf says reports show that
as high as fifty cents. per pound has
been paid and in that state conditions
are similar to those in other sections,
the difficulty beipg in getting grow
ers and buyers togeather on prices
The sale of clip at Thompson, Utah.
Is reported as recently made at 43H
cents per pound and recent dispatches
from Boston are to the effect that 40
high Is fifty-five cents has beea o.
feTcd in Nevada and refused.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
SUPERVISION FOR
RURAL SCHOOLS

ty school systems in the United
s. es have long furnished for their
cl 'ren the advantages which come
I'm expert professional school super
vision. Large cities employ approxi-
m sly one supervisor for every 20
tea 1ers to help the teachers to give
m : and better instruction to the
&C try children in the schools. Now
&C try children need this same kind
OF xpert service even more than the
cit children because as a rule, the
tet0lers are not so mature or so well
trained as city teachers; they do not
remain as long in their positions and
so 3ecome familiar with their work.
and they have not in most cases. the
advantage OF counsel and advice from
principals and other teachers in the
same or nearby sehool buildings. Of
ten, too the school term is shorter
in the country and one teacher has
many grades and subjects to teach,
while the city teacher has few.
Therefore the country teacher, with
many responsibilities and difficulties,
needs the help of a good supervisor
far more than any other.
Country people are beginning to ap-
preciate the need OF professionally
.rained supervisors. This is evidenc-
cd by the fact that an increasing num-
Der are being employed each year for
work among the rural schools. In
Ohio alone there are over 200 such
supervisors; in New Jersey there are
eraging about one supervisor to every
. rural teachers throughout the
State: Wisconsin employs 81 special
assistants to country superintendents
and two Stale rural supervisors who
exercise general direction to such an
extent that over l,0G0 professional
rural supervisors in the United States
were reported 10 the Bureau OF Edu-
cation in 1921 This is a great ad-
vance in the effort to give the country
boys and girls as good an opportunity
for education as city children have
long had.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The regular meeting of the Board
of Commissioners was held March
5th, all the members present.
County funds counted and fourd
correct, ordered that hereafter reports
of Justices OF the Peace be made in
duplicate, and a copy filed with the
County Clerk and one with the Aud
itor.
Ordered that the Clerk be instructed
to forward notes to Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank as security for emergency
loan Clerk also instructed to request
the bank to send statement for interest
to date on temporary note executed
by the Board FEBRUARY 10th
Ordered that the clerk write az letter
of thanks to the Board of Finance for
their courtesy and prompt action i'll
granting the application for permission
to negotiate an emergency loan.
In response to the advertisement for
BID 20 print county stationary,two bids
were received from county printers.
Evidently neither was satisfactory, as
the matter waslaid over till next
meeting and the clerk instructed to
write San Francisco printers for bids
Ordered that F. W. Plumer be ap-
pointed as night-watchman at Nina
at salary of $500 per month from
FEBRUARY 1923.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
RAWHIDE SAMPLES GO
OVER $4,000 A TON

A revival in mining is the word that
comes in from the old boom camp.
Ten leases are operating on royalty
basis with some excellent. ore being
sacked for shipment. Recently find
of high grade on the old Mint claim
set the leasers in motion, as it was a
reminder OF the boom days of the camp
One piece was taken out that brought
over $780, Samples OF the find were
shown in Fallon bearing out the truth
of the rumor. 1t is anticipated that
Rawhide will ship out more ore this
spring than at any time in the past
five years.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
Items Of Local Interest

Trout are biring Ia Wakes Lake
our LOCAL anglers having captured
many during the week. Bob Young
brought one TO town that weighed
llA pounds.
The county Is laying a 600 foo,
water pipe from the tanks above town
to the county hospital
Frank Yparraguirre. of Sweetwater,
was in town Thursday.
Mike Filling returned Wednesday
after wondering around California
beauty spots for two months.
Miss Mary Wright and Miss Hazel
Daugherty, former high school stu
dents here, were visitors from Luning
Tuesday.
Mrs. I've Beane and daughter arrived
last week from San Francisco, where
they have been spending the winter,
Miss Edith Woodbridge, formerly
teacher teacher in our school and
Charley Box drove over last Sunday
from Fallon, where they now reside.
Peter w. Forbes for many years
leading attorney in Inyo County died
at Bishop March lst, age 70 years.
d. w. Buckingham and I. B. Scrimg
er visited Carson last Sunday
Ed Haller, who was badly hurt last
week, is still suffering greatly but no
fear is Entertained as to his recovery.
Letters from c. C. Ward, of Nina,
announce that he is having a good
time in Havana, Cuba.
l. B. :Scrimger and family and Ed
Haller left last Saturday for Los An
geles. Mr.. Scrimger goes on business
connected with his mining interests and
Haller will enter Los Angeles hos
pital for treatment of burns inflicted
last week.
Miss Vena Nicolas, County Reeor-
der, left las. week for San Francisco,
where she will undergo an operation
for the removal OF a goiter in her neck.
Henry Boerlin and family spent the
week esd ct the Morgan ranch on East
Walker.
On the fir1t Of the year the state
board ci edscation wAs disbwSing
-lnoneys - the couuties on the basis
Of 1887 eh;ldren Ia dsf pub!aG
s. schoaIs ead go teacherA
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
Notice 10 Creditors

In the District Cogrt of the Seventh Judi
cia District of the State Of Nevada, in
and for the county of Mineral.
In the matter of tho estate Of Charles NJ.
Hempie, deceased
Notice is hereby given that the rnder-
signed was, on thc 9th day of January,
\. ID. 1923, appointed and qualified by the
above-entltled Cou O., as Administrator of
the estate of Charles MHempel, deceased.
All persons having claims against said
estate are required to file the same with
the necessary vouchers and statutory afli-
davit attahced, with the Clerk of the
Court within forty lays from the date OF
the first publication OF this notice.
Dated February 10, 1923.
j. II. WHITE, Administrator.
First pub. Feb. 10, 1928.
Last pub, March 81, 1928.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-03-17
u. S. LEADS IN PHONE TALK

1t every man, woman and child in
the United States did his share of
talking over the phone last year,
each would be entitled to l76 con-
pieted calls, according to figures COM
pleted by the Illinois Committee of
Public Utility Information.
The committee reports twenty
billion telephone conversations in 1922
over the l4,3OO,OOO telephones then in
use. To handle the business 3C5,000
persons were employed by the So, 100
telephone companies, and, the COM
mittee impressivtly adds, the %, ,70l,-
600 miles of wire used would encircle
the globe 1888 times at the equator.
In other words, there is enough of the
wire to run 62 double wire telephone
circuits from the earth to the moon, at
its main distance from the earth, and
still have o0,0C0 miles or so left over
for other purposes.
Since DR.. Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone in 1876 the in
dustry has grown with such amazing
speed that the United States with
only sixteenth of tn worlds popula-
ton now possesses two-thirds OF all
the telephones in use.
The 100000 telephones in use,
says the statistician, would build a
railroad trestle &c feet high from
Chicago to Bu'enos Aires, while the
additions and requirements each year
would carry telephone wire two
thirds the way around the earth.
In 1900, he reports, there was one
telephone for every 90 persons; in
1905 one for each "a; in 1910 one to
each in 1915 one to each II, and
in 1921, one to each eight.
Next to Americans the people Of
Denmark are the most telephonically
talkative on earth In 1920, when
Americans averaged 100 converse
tions per annum for each man, wom-
an and child, the Danes were Sec
ond with ll8. Norway and Sweden
were third and fourth, both averaging
above 1OC conversations per inhabi-
,ant. The best the Germans, in
fifth place could do was 81. The
Netherlands and Austria were be-
tween 40 and So Switzerland av-
eraged 80; Great Britain 20, France
l2: Belgium 10 and Italy s.
The investment in telephone prop
critics in the United States totals
$1,750,0c0 900.