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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
WAITE ERNIAY PAC I INQUIRY Is MADE
Government Negotiates With Canada For Lakes To
 Atlantic Route

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.--Inquiries have again been made by the United States government of Canada as to the possible negotiation of treaty which would permit construction of a deep waterway from the lakes to the Atlantic by way of the St. Law renee river. a
 Announcement of the Forwarding of the inquiries was made today at the White House in explanation of the statement made by President Coolidge yesterday in his message to Congress that efforts were being made to obtain 3 treaty with Canada which would make possible "the de- velopment of the great power anc navigation project of the St. LAW renee river" The project was given
 the Presidents indorsement.
 Inquiry was made of the Canadian government about year ago IS to it's position with regard. to such a treaty and the response received was that Premier King and his govern
 ment did not regard it practical b sanction the project at that tlhnr. The response was not interpreted III Washington as definitely closing the
 door to negotiation.
 Tine White House announcement made no mention of any reply to the new inquiries of the American gov ernment and it is presumed that the Canadian government has not vet forwarded it's reply.
 The Great Lakes-St Lawrence
 waterway project has been energeti- cally advocated by the agricultural 1 interests of the middle west who see in the construction of deep water .
 way to the Atlantic direct outlet i for exports to Europe. Rangesl against the middle western Interests have stood the business interests ot New York and a large proportion or l the New England states who conten'i 1 that present needs of transportatloh
 .r,ni, fine railroads are sufficient
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
>CONSOLIDATIONOF
 ROADS IS URGED
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 tenance of competition is now dead. We should therefore secure the largest possible benefits from con- solidation into larger systems by se- curing consolidation in such fashion as will protect and advance public interest.
 Early Consolidation Urgent.
 "The urgent importance of the early consumption of consolidation warrants consideration of methods to expedite it. Under the present provisions for wholly voluntary ac- tion subject to the interstate com merce commission, many consoliId- tions are likely to be long delayed. The difficulties of negotiation be- tween the members of the groups that will be established by the interstate commerce commissions; the complica- tion arising from varying priorities of securities affecting the determina- tion of terms of purchase by enc rail- way line of the property of another; the unwillingness of some lines to ac- quire or to sell.
 "The question of individuality; the difficulties of establishing by nego- tiation the relative value of one property to another; the necessity of holding capitalization within the limits of the actual property values the complexities and conflicts of state regulation and laws-all these problems would find great measure of solution if the consolidated sys- tems were allowed federal incorpo- ration and if after a lapse of some appropriate period for voluntary ac- tion the interstate commerce com mission were given authority to create definite organization commit tees for each system, including rep resentation from the public and from the component roads.
 Ut should be the duty of such committees to develop and perfect a plan of consolidation either through the exchange of securities of the con- solidated systems directly with ths security holders of the component roads or by some other method. ] believe that under such auspices the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08

security holders would be willing voluntarily to make such an eN- change. If minority should refuse. if would be entirely feasible to in- yoke condemnation and purchase of their securities for the consolidated systems at an established fair vaiue. Such a method would permit the de- Termination of the relative value or the different railways considering both the physical properties and the often lower total of their securities, ond due account could be taken ot future as well as present conditions.
 "The ownership of some roads or terminals jointly by two or more consolidated systems could be pro- vided for as there are cases where such a solution would be most ad- yisable in creating more efficient transportation. The public interest could be safeguarded by limiting the total capitalization of consolidated systems to an amount not exceeding the physical value of the railways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
BROADCAST COTTON QUOTATIONS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Secretary Wallace was requested today by Sen ator Harris, democrat, Georgia, to in- vestigate the possibility of distribut- ing the current cotton market quo- tations on the leased wires of the department of agriculture and broad casting them by radio through the facilities of the department. Senator Harris said the cotton grower usually had no information on the current prices when their mar keting was done, especially as to wide breaks in the futures market which has bearing on the spot mar l. et
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
LAST MINUTE
 WIRE BRIEFS
HIRAM JOHNSON DELIGHTED

NEW YORK, Dec. 7-Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, said tonight he had found political con ditions so encouraging in New York and the east generally that he was delighted with his prospects That was the only comment he had to make on the political situation at the close of an all-day session with republican leaders and Frank w. Hitchcock, national manager of his campaign for the republican nomina tion for president.
 Senator Johnson refused to com ment on President Coolidge's mes sage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
N,AuLrFFE BEATS WHITE

life, 1T, of Detroit, easily won the judges decision over Joe White of Montgomery. Ala, in a ten-round bout tonight. The Detroit heavy weight appeared to have regained the condition he was in before he was knocked out by Luis Firpo last sum mer. He had White on the verge of knockout in the third, sixth, ninth and tenth rounds. The bell saved White in the tenth round after Me Auliffe knocked him through the ropes with an uppercut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
WANTS GOV. MCKAY TO RESIGN

INDIA4NAiO OI1Io, IHu,, DtC f.--De- elaring that the only hope he can see for "a speedy termination of the pres ent disgraceful situation is for Gov ernor McGray to resign and take with him every one whose conduct and mode of thought agrees with his" Clyde Walb, republican. state chairman, tonight announced he will call a meeting of the committee at the earliest possible date to affirm or renudiate his Stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
BEATEN EDITOR SERIOUSLY HURT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. 7.-T. F. Lawson, assistant editor of the Free Press, a weekly newspaper published at Stuttgart. who, with his chief, R. A. Berry was beaten by mob which invaded the newspaper office late yesterday. was brought to a hospital here tonight. Lawson appeared to be in great pain and his physicians ex- pressed the fear that he was injured internally. He declared that he rec ognized his assailants and plans legal action against them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
TWO SHOT AS POLICE BATTLE WITH THUGS
Bandits Escape With Payroll De
 spite Bullets

CHICft1O, Dec. IA bandit Was woundeJ and Max Rosand, a passing tear. ster. was perhaps fatally shot during 8 revolver battle between po- lice and three bandits. following pavroll robbery here Friday
 The bandits escaped with S4,l00 wr.sted from Stanley Bogdanski, treasurer of building loan asso- ri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
GEORGIANS ARRESTED
Held In Jersey On Liquor COnspiracy
 Charge

HOBOKEN. N. J., Dec. 7.-Six men accused of conspiracy to transport liquor valued at hundreds of thou sands of dollars from the state of Georgia to. New Jersey were rounded up here late today by federal off, cers. Indictments against the men were returned in Savannah, Ga, sev- eral days ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
MERCHANT SENTENCED

MACON. Ca, Dec. 7-J F. Alex ander. merchant, convicted of flog- ging Ollie M. Perry in a series Of attacks by night riders here, was sen fenced to six months on the county chain gang in city court today.
 Alexander's attorneys immediately filed motion for new trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
PROTECTIVE TARIFF. BEATEN BY VOTERS
England Faces Coalition Gov- ernment, While Lloyd
 George Is Stronger
By CHARLES VI. M'CANN ucased Wire to The AEe-Herald)

LONDON, Dec. 7.--British political life is in chaos, Premier Baldwin is expected to resign, and the country faces a coalition government, be- cause of the definite defeat dealt Baldwin and the conservative party in Thursdays general election.
 At II o'clock Friday night, with returns received from all but 12 dis tricts, the various parties had re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08
$225, ,OOO IS SUM REACHED BY DRIVE
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with this message to his teams; "The measure of success in this campaign
 now depends upon the number of you-and others like you-who stay at it. We are going to succeed"
 The larger donations of the day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-08

Ordinary house closets are being lined with cedar by southern con cern.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
Narcotics Struggled In By Crews Through Viola
 tiOns of Seamen's Act Provision.
By International Labor News Service

By International Labor News SerVlce
 Washington, D. C., Feb 23-Enorcement of standards eplated Act would practically eliminate smuggling this of supply concerned according Patrick Brlen legs of the International Seannen Union
 Newspapers crusadng against the drug habit they which drugs the United States According to legislative sentative Bien the volume of narcotic drugs that enter the United States brought by Oriental or this of the supply the country through Pacific
 Most methods resored to by the smugges who sometimes with the connivance of ships officers
 Naturally the Oriental which the bulk of the employed they lower than white
 Conditions under which drug smuggling possible only because the Seamen Act properly enforced It is OBriens backed by thorough the sub the part of the Seamen that rigid enforcement of the Act would other single thing stop the of drugs the United States.
 Steamship companies which employ Oriental and which the token the ardent of the Seen Act and who largely responsible reality the main factors in the tremendous and drug business which has the lives of thousands the United States
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
GARMENT WORKERS
 ON STRIKE IN BOSTON

Boston, Feb, 17,-Workers in the dress, waist and cloak making trades went on strike here today, according to an announcement of the Interna- tional Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
 The walkout was said by union off, cials to involve 2,5oo workers, most Of them women employed in the manufacture of waists and dresses and about 500 cloak makers, most of them men.
 The response to the strike call was almost complete, according to strike leaders, but arrangements have been made to picket all the shops begin ming this afternoon.
 The strike Is due to the refusal of the manufacturers to sign an agree ment to send out work only to shops in which sanitary conditions had been adopted. The unions are also asking for Io% increase in wages and pro- vision in the agreement for arbitrat- ing disputes
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23

made in the prevention of accidents, ought not to do dangerous work at any age when they are too young to assume responsibility for their own acts. Of the o78 boys who at the time of the inquiry had been employ ed in the mining industry for longer or shorter time in regular or in vaca- ton or part-time jobs, I7S had suffer ed accidents
 With the youngest group of chil- dren overtime was, unfortunately, most frequent. Thus of all the regu- lar workers who were I3 years of age 5I.7 per cent did overtime as com pared with 36.5 per cent of those I4, 37.I per cent of those I5, and 4o.8 per cent of those I0 years of age.
 Occasionally the boys worked in credibly long hours. Thus, during the influenza epidemic I6-year-old boy reported that he worked on one occas- ion from 5 a. m. Saturday morning until I:3o p. rh Sunday He also re- ported working three shifts-24 hours at stretch on several occasions during the winter. Another boy I5 years old reported that during the period of one month he had worked 24 hours at stretch three times a week, sleeping a shift of eight hours between periods of. work While working these long shifts he did his regular gging-the first eight hours and scooped coal for the boiler men for the following I6 hours
 "The reason which was given by 802 children, that their earnings were necessary for the family support, needs special consideration
 Of the 483 children whose fathers earned less than $85o year 238- almost one-half-had left school for full-time employment, while of the I83 children whose fathers earned $I,85o or more a year only II.5 per cent were so employed.
 "A hundred years ago it would have been a matter of general satisfaction that the children of the men killed or who had died from natural causes, or children whose fathers did not make a living wage, were able to find employment and so keep the family from being charges upon public Or private charity. But our system of social accounting has undergone great changes in that time. It Is now gen orally agreed that the old theory was not only unj ust to the individual child but that 1t was, from the standpoint of the welfare of the State, in the long run very costly way to care for widows and orphans. Recent legis- latiVe expressions of the new theory as to the proper distribution of this burden in Pennsylvania are found in its mothers pensions and WOrkmens compensation acts"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
B., M. and P. Union, Local No. 6, Re-elects
 All the Old Officers

At the annual meeting of the Brcklayers, Masons and Plasterers Union, Local No. 6, held at the Irish American hall in Temple street all the old officers were unanimously return ed to office the only change in the list resulting in the overwhelming election of George Cook as business agent.
 Four candidates presented their names for this position and under the system used by the B. M. and P. |. U three ballots were taken, the low est candidate being eliminated and the final ballot resulting in a contest be- tween Cook and the present incum- bent, c. Canavan, in which the latter was beaten by an almost two to one vote
 The officers of the B. M. and P. l. U. are; J, Cavanaugh, president. l. O'Rourke, vice-president; R. Tipping secretary; c. Canavan, financial sec retary; and c. Cook, business agent.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23

* * The breaker boys in the anthracite coal region were not re- garded as working in the mine within the meaning of the Pennsylvania law; and regular inspections of the break CTS, with a view to the enforcement of the child-labor law, were not being made by either department at the time this investigation was made.
 Some children reported that they began work with no certificate other than a work paper bought from the Squire for 50 cents. One child re- ported he had secured employment on baptismal certificate when he was
 "Of the 3,136 children between 13 and 10 years of age who were in cluded in this study, I,34o had left school for. regular employment. At the time of the investigation, I,332 were so employed, and 2o6 were em- ployed at vacation or after-schOOl work, or both so that more than half, 5I.o per cent of the children could be described as working chil- dren. Of these I,Io7 were boys and 52I girls.
 The kind of work these children did was largely determined by, the in QuStr1aI character or the Q1Str1Ct. ne life of the district revolves' around the mines and for the boys more than for their fathers, their place of em- ployment was the mines. The can vass made by the Children's Bureau showed that for the district as a whole GOA per cent of the boys doing full time work were in mining as com pared with 78 per cent of their faith CTS.
 The slate is sharp so that the slate pickers often cut or bruise their hands; the coal is carried down the chute in water and this means sore and swollen hands for the pickers. The, first few weeks after a boy be- gins work his fingers bleed almost. continuously and are called red tops by the other boys.
 "Children, on the other hand, re- gardless of the progress that is being
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
Americas Drug Menace Filters In
 Through Non-Union Oriental Seamen
MUFFINS s

Edison says the navy turned down some 42 war inventions winch ne o11ereu These, says Edison, were locked up and never used.
 Edison doesn't need to do any romano ing about his inventions and we may take his word for his assertions. Government bureaucrats get that way Somehow 1t seems natural tor them And yet there are plenty Ot persons who want to create lot of new govern ment bureaucrats, thinking thereby to solve all the troubles of the nation. Little Boy Blue come blow your horn; France Is Ill the Ruhr and the COWS are in the corn. An explosion in the Phelps-Dodge mine at Dawson, N. M., results in the death of 120 miners. The Dawson mine Is non-unlon. It was non-union in 1913 when 150 were killed by an explosion. If man complained about dangerous conditions it was grounds for discharge. Cleveland H. Dodge is a great philan- thropist He is director of the Near East Relief, which is much different than bothering about the safety of a New Mexico mine.
 Charity is needed for Armenia; ; but d little justice in Dawson wouldn't hurt anything-and 1t might have saved nearly 300 1ives
 Most everyone is shouting with glee, saying that employment Is reaching the peak point again; everybody that wants a job IS supposed to be able to get one now
 Well, if anyone should ask you about that, you tell 'em it's the bunk
 Normally we have a million or more unemployed Normally, so to speak, that is how sick we are, economically
 Some of these usually unemployed are what IS known as unemployab1e; they have no trade or they are broken down or disabled or sick. That doesn't mean that they don't want to work it means they're not able to Work-at least not able all the time
 Employers like to see newspapers print stuff about labor shortage just now because 1t gives them point in their unholy argument for free immigration. Well, we can produc lot more than we do now before we run short of man. power.
 We produced more during the war than we do now, by millions and mil lions of dollars worth, and 100000 of the best workers were taken entirely out of our industrial life, at the same time consuming more than they ever con- stunned before.
 The argument for unrestricted imrni- grafton IS fraud.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
Senators Building Fires
 Under Teapot Oil Deal;
 Lid Off About April l
By International L

By International Labor News Service.
 Washington, D. C.. Feb. 23.-The offensive Teapot and Standard Oil interests have taken with the of Secretary of the Interior Fall is under way in the Senate.
 The Senate Committee Public Lands has selected two geologss-Fred B. ClapP and James A. Levis-to visit immediately and make independent into fasty of Falls making the deal with Sinclair
 Other foundations complete investigation being laid and about April the Committee will work
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
CHILDREN
 IN COAL BREAKERS
By International Labor News Service

 Washington, D. C, Feb. 23Three
  which
 
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The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
GARMENT WORKERS WIN.

New York, Feb. 23.-Organized garment workers are winning their fight against piece work. More than POO shops, employing approximately 1000 of the striking workers, have reached an agreement with the union
 The unions officials have interest ed workers in 300 anti-union shops, who have also joined the movement against piece work. In these anti union shops wages are from $Io to SIS a week
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
CLOAK MAKERS WIN.

Philadelphia, Feb. 23.-Organized cloak makers, members of the Inter national Ladies' Garment Workers Union, have won a to-day strike for improved conditions. The employers agree to handle garments made in union shops only. It is declared this provision is the death blow to the "sociaP shop, which anti-union em- ployers favor
Palisadian., 1923-08-10

idge was already plumed in prepara-
tion for his ascendancy among the his.
toric line of his predecessors in office.
1t is peculiarly fortunate for Ameri-
ca that Calvin Coolidge was on hand;
that he was awaiting the signal for his
turn He has all of the virtues of
loyal citizen. His New England stock
was unpretentious yet progressive.
His life has proved this. 1t has also
proved that in this really rapid rise
in the world he was unconscious OF
his own power. That occasion has
brought him out and can only prove
how sound is the principle of being
right and going straight. 1t is as alb
solutely certain as the sun shines that
Calvin Coolidge is not going to dlsap-
point the American people. However
rigorous he may make his administra-
ton, it will be forward going. He Will
be big and loyal, but when he speaks
he will have in his words ple force
of conviction and the power of truth.
Palisadian., 1923-08-10
Fall in Love After Marriage.

Yu Ling-T&ng. the Chinese scholar,
said a. a Boston dinner party:
"Yod Americans let your young peo-
pie fall in love. and afterward they
marry. We Chinese. on the other hand,
marry our young people, and let them
afterward get acquainted. You prefer
your ways to ours, and certainly your
way does produce the most divorces.
1.-The two ways" Mr.. Ling-Tang went
on, might be compared to two kettles
of water. The first kettle-yours-is
taken at boiling point from the fire by
marriage, and it cools off very rapidly.
The second-ours-is a kettle of cold
water which marriage puts on the fire.
and ever afterward il keeps getting
warmer and warmer. so that, at the
end of 80 years or so. all Chinese cou-
pies are madly in love. e."-Rehoboth
Sunday Herald.
Palisadian., 1923-08-10
OUR NEW PRESIDENT

If Calvin Coolidge had not been
fundamentally sound he could not
have risen TO the heights he has now
attained. He is as clean of record as
any pu6licist who has ever graced the
White House. The fact that he fell
heir to the post of President through
a deplorable tragedy loses him moth
ing in the honors associated with the
high Office. Every inch man. with a
record as clean as a hounds tooth,
Calvin Coolidge has every essential
thing that goes to make a great ruler
of the greatest people in the entire
world. BY birth humble, by education
fitted, by record worthy, by instinct
human and gracious, our new Presi-
dent comes 10 the fore as fresh and
promising a a well-bred colt from
the fields Among the very youngest
of Amer can Pres dents, Calvin Cool