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White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-11
Roadster Towed from Packing House

Roadster Towed from Packing uo.so
c. c. C%ritchlow's roadster. which
In the big storm twelve days ago was
stalled In the snow between East Ely
and the Packing House ranch. was
lowed In this week by the use of n
strong team, assisted by the cars en-
CINE. The battery had been left in
II n there was some concern over
the probability of 1t being frozen. II
proved to be frozen but not dead. as
the engine started at the first twist
of the starting crank.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-11
Tonopah Railroad Paid for War Use

The Tonopah & Goldfeld Railroad
Company has received the sum Of
$350.000 as remuneration for use of
Its line and equipment by the gov
eminent during the war. The grant
was made by the interstate commerce
commission.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-11

Unclaimed Letters In Ely Postonice
The following letters remain I'M
called for In the postoffice at Ely for
the week ending February .:
F. NJ. Billings. Ruby Jensen, ID g.
Nicholas.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-11

The News is delivered by mail or
~ carrier az So per year.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
World War Veterans
Walking the Streets
(By Federated Press)

Minneapolis - Five hunderd vet
erans of the world war are walking
the streets here in an extremely Sc
yious physical condition due to ne
glect on the part Of the federal gov
ernment besides five hundred other
cases not so bad that need hospital
care at once, according to Stafford
King, state adjutant of the American
legion
In few cases the former soldiers,
growing despondent over their fail
ure to secure medical treatment, have
committed suicide, ling says.
Practically all Of the men in need
of hospital aid are suffering from
tuberculosis. Minnesota is ranked
high among medical authorities as an
ideal state for the treatment of
tuberculosis, but the government has
neglected to provide facilities for the
treatment Of the soldiers in this state.
According to the legion's adjutant,
who placed the charges before the 4d-
Jetant general OF the state, the few
men sent to other states for treat
ment are making slow progress due
to worry and homesickness.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Labor Man Talks to
Railway Stockholders

New Haven, Conn.-Robert Hender--
son, secretary of the federation of
shop crafts on the New Haven & Hart
ford railroad, secured proxy and at
tended a meeting of that roads stock
holders in this city.
The trade unionists started things
when it was proposed to issue $5,OOO,-
900 in bonds to buy new equipment
and replace cash that had been used
to defeat the shop men. "Stock-
holder" Henderson objected.
"If the directors continue this pol
icy of rule and ruin and then ask for
more bonds to buy equipment while
good equipment out of repair is on
the lines, this road will never get
ahead" he said.
sIf the stockholders want this pol
icy continued, there is no hope for
the road. | could talk for hours and
show you things you don't know. |
was offered proxy after proxy by
stockholders, but | did not need them.
"When the New Haven road locked
out it's shop men-for it has been a
lockout since September-they drove
5000 men onto the bricks. You have
created bolsheviki among men who do
not want bolshevism. Is there no JUS
tice in this board | say the en-
ployes had cause to strike"
The unionist was finally seated on
a point of order.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
u. S. Won't Sell Ships
To Labor Union
(By Federated Press)

New York-The U. S. shipping
board has rejected the offer Of the
Marine Engineers Beneficial! Assocla-
ton to buy three cargo ships for
100000. The offer was refused ac-
cording to a letter from Chairman
Lasker, because the engineers union
wished to pay for the vessels at the
rate of $40 deadweight ton, whereas
the boards minimum prices for ship
ping Of the type desired is $50. ton.
The union has replied to the Lasker
letter, limiting that the rejection OF
the offer probably was caused by the
influence of private shipowners and
operators.
Pressure of the steamship owners
upon the board would be tremendous
to prevent the sale to US" the letter
saws, "as they do notwish US to prove
the fact that American vessels can
be operated without being handicap
ped by the reason of the wages paid
to the navigating officers, the seamen,
the marine engineers"
The union calls attention to the
fact that the shipping board now has
1900 of these vessels which it has
been unable to dispose of at price
it asks; that 800 ships of this fleet
are being operated under conditions
called vicious by Chairman Lasker
himself, and that the remaining 900
are lying idle at great expense to the
government.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Pay State and Federal
Income Tax in N. Y.

New York-Hundreds of thousands
of persons probably will keep on pay
ing higher state tax rates from their
small incomes so that a few dozen
politicians appointed in Albany may
hang on to their jobs.
New Workers, in addition to paying
the federal income tax, for several
years have had to pay state income
tax, the state levying on incomes of
single persons above $1,000, and on
incomes of heads of families in ex-
cess of $4,000. Recently there was in
troduced in the Legislature bill, re-
commended by Governor Smith, rails
ing the exemption in the case of single
persons to $4,000, and in the case of
heads of families to $4,000.
But something happened to the bill.
Up in Albany the employees of the
state tax denartment made big fuss.
They figured that if the bill became
law, about one-half of them would
lose their jobs.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Idle Army Wanted
By the Steel Trust

New York-"Judge Gary wants two
Or three men for every job, as was the
case nine years ago." said Frank
Morrison, secretary A. F. Of L., in
an address before the convention of
the United Hatters of North America
The trade unionist called attention
to statement during the war bv a
representative of the steel trust that
100000 Chinese should be brought
here to work on the farms.
"He did not say in steel mills" said
Secretary Morrison" for he knew if
Chinese were imported for farm work
white labor could not compete and
would be forced to the mins. The
meat packers were demanding 1,000,-
600 Chinese at that time"
The speaker said the present immi-
grafton law was passed after the war
to stop the influx of cheap labor.
"Organized labor should prevent
corporations from bringing in millions
of immigrants to replace workers now
here" said Secretary Morrison. Only
today | was told clay workers are
leaving New Jersey by the thousands
and employers are complaining that
they can not get men. They will only
pay a certain wage. They, too, want
freer immigration. They want to get
US where we were in 1914, with mil
lions unemployed"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
New York Gag Laws
Things of the Past

Albany, N. Y.-The Lusk gag laws
are dead. They will be buried with
out ceremony when Governor Smith
signs the repeal bills which now have
passed both houses of the state legis-
lature. The governor pledged himself
to the repeal of these statutes in his
campaign.
One of the laws repealed, provides
that all private schools in New York
state must obtain licenses from the
state commissioner of education
The other provides that teachers in
the public schools must submit to
loyalty tests to be determined by the
commissioner.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
SEAMEN QUIT
NATION WIDE WALK-OUT GAIN
ING ALL OVER L. S.
Numbers of Vessels Tied Up on Eve
of Sailing-Others Put to Sea
Short Handed in Violation
of Law
(By Federated Press)

New York-More than 10000 mem
bers of Marine Transport Workers
union gave instant response to a
strike call here in a walkout which
union officials declare eventually will
affect $4,000 marine workers. Leaders
estimate that the number actually on
strike at this port have reached TO-
900 within "a hours. Seamen are
walking ashore irrespective OF nation
atty or union affiliation, according to
James Walsh, chairman/o of the strike
committee.
The union demands include $40
monthly wage increase, an 8-hour
day, 44-hOur week, overtime at 90
cents an hour. They also have in
corporated in their demands one for
the release of all class war and pol
itical prisoners.
Several ships, billed to sail the day
the strike began, have been tied up,
and dozens of others crippled by the
walkout. One ship which sailed the
union officials declare, left the harbor
with a greatly reduced crew in direct
violation of the u. S. shinning laws.
1t is also claimed that attempts
have been made by the companies to
ship men who have no able seamen's
certificates or lifeboat certificates,
which also is in violation of law.
~eThe ship owners have refused to
consider the unions demands or to
meet it's representatives
'The walkout is becoming nation
wide," said Mr.. Walsh. 81 will not
be surprised if 100000 shall have
withdrawn from American ships in
the various ports within a few days.
The strike now is effective in San
Francisco, New Orleans, Portland and
Philadelphia. 1t is becoming effective
in Boston, and will be in full swing in
Philadelphia within a day or two.
Ship owners here had counted on
the International Seamens union, the
Furuset organization, not to quit, but
this hope was dashed when the |. S. u.
issued a formal strike call shortly
after the Marine Transport workers
strike became effective. The |. S. u.
had served notice on the shipping in
terests that on May l it's members
would leave the sea and seek jobs on
land if it's demand for a $15 month
wage increase was not granted.
The present wages, as posted by
private owners representing the ship
ping board scale, range from $40 for
ordinary seamen and $55 for able sea-
men, to $65 for boatswains, and from
$50 for coal passers and 5000 Tor
firenen, to $65 for oilers and $40 for
deck engineers. However, the private
owners have been paying less than
this scale, usually from $5 to $15 less.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
MEAN "BIZ"
UNION REVIEWS IT'S BID FOR
u. S. SHIPS
Now Offers to Buy Ten Instead of
Three But Government May
Scrap Them and Lose About
So Per Ton
BY Federated Pressl

New York-Why did the u. S. ship
ping board throw out the offer of the
Marine Engineers Beneficial Associa-
ton, to buy three of the boards idle
cargo ships for 100000 cash? The
offer was too small, Chairman Lasker
told the union.
Now information has leaked out
here that the same shipping board is
preparing to place 100 vessels on sale
within few days as Scrap" Eighty
of these shinc are old German built
craft, and 20 were built in the United
are said to be unsuitable for opera
tion for various reasons"-whatever
that may mean.
There is food for thought in the
fact, given out at the shipping board
offices, that some of the ships which
are to be sold at junk prices may be
sold with permisson for transfer of
registry if the purchasers are willing
to spend the necessary amounts to put
them into condition for operationion.'
The shiDs the engineers union tried
to buy also will have to undergo ex-
tensive repairs before they are in
shane to navigate. The price offered
by the engineers was about $40 a
deadweight ton. The price the gov
ernment will receive for the shiDs to
be sold as junk, marine men say, prob
ably will not exceed So or 81 ton.
According to estimates by govern
ment officials, there will be a total
of from 300 to 400 vessels sold as
scrap by the shipDing board.
Since the shipping boards rejection
of the engineers offer for three ships,
Thomas B. Healey, business manager
of the union, has disclosed that the
union has since offered to buy ten
instead of three ships from the board,
and with the offer has submitted a
plan whereby these vessels can be
temporarily transferred until con-
gress can fix definite terms. The
plan contains a provision that the
ships would be manned and managed
by the union, without interference by
the shipping board.
Healey added that the union has
completely worked out plans eventu-
ally to build up fleet of 100 or more
shins, to be owned, operated and man.
aged by subsidiary corporation
acting for the union.
The shipping board at present has
about 1900 ships which it has been
unable to sell at the prices it de-
mands, many of which are in disuse
and deteriorating rapidly.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Negroes Deserving
Southern States

Washington-Southern agriculture
must adjust itself to new conditions
because of the negro exodus, accord
ing to a survey of farming districts
in the south bv the department of
agriculture. The report indicates that
the negro of today will not accept
pre-war conditions. The aersons in
clude unrest among returned negro
troops who experienced more attrac-
tive living conditions away from
farms during and after the war, and
the breakdown Of the contract labor
system.
Georgia is hit the hardest by the
exodus. Approximately 13 per cent,
or $4,000 of the total number of negro
farm workers in that state is esti-
mated to have moved north during
the last IL months, and the move
ment continues, although crops for
the present season are alreadv started
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Japanese a Menace
To Western States

Washington-The japanese are a
menace to the west, attorneys for
California and Washington told the
supreme court of the United States
in arguing alien land cases before
that body. These states prohibit
Japanese owning land, and Japs want
the law set aside.
"The, white people refuse to assimi-
late with the Japanese, and as the
Japanese line advances we retreat,
and we do not like to retreat" said
the attorneys.
~"When the japanese occupy land in
our states they exclude from it people
who might become citizens. We be-
lieve our government, state and ma
tional, will be best protected and
served when our lands are occupied
by those who have sympathy with
our institutions and can be compelled
to contribute to it's preservation" !"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04

Magnify Wages to Conceal Profits

Of $1,739 and $2,173. They are de-
pending on reiteration to impress un-
truthful statements on the public
mind.
This system is shown by the Wall
Street Journals statement that at is
evident wage earners have received
most of the benefits derived from ex-
penditures of nearly $1,100,000,000
for new construction and addition of
$400,000,000 to working capital"
In other words, the trust has
"plowed back" into the business ST.
000,000,000 Of its profits. The work.
ers have no claim against this in
creased valuation. Yet the Wall
Street Journal assures workers they
have received most of the benefits,
when the record earnings for unskilled
labor was S5.02 for a 10-hour day in
1920.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04

New York-These are the days
when financial writer's pity steel trust
stockholders, because labor 'is get
ting all the cream"
1t is stated that the average wage
per employe in the steel trust in 1921
was $1,739, and in 1920 was $2,173.
Against this claim is the fact that
the wage for unskilled labor in the
trust mills in 1921 for 10-hour day
was S4.02, and in 1920 the rate for a
10-hour day was $5.02.
On the basis of a 300-day working
year, which is most extravagant, these
rates would mean an average for un-
skilled labor in 1921 of 81 ,206 for a
10-hour day, and 81 1,506 for 10-hom
day in 1920.
Financial writer's make no attempt
to adjust these facts with their claims
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Convict Contract
Evils Are Laid Bare

Tallahassee, Fla.-The death OF
Martin Tabert, a North Dakota boy
in a convict lumber camp in this
state, has stirred Florida from Key
West to the northern boundary.
1t is shown that the Putnam lun-
Der company, in whose camp Tabert
died, was assured a continuous sup
ply Of labor by arrests on the small
est pretext. The county's law en-
forcement machinery was set up for
the purpose of supplying this de
mand. This permitted the court to
adjust the sentence to the labor de-
mands of the lumber company.
Walter Higginbotham, who is un-
der $4,000 bond to answer first de-
gree murder charges in connection
with the death of Tabert, told the
state legislative committee that he is
known as the whipping boss" for the
Putnam company. He said he whip
ped convicts as often as three and
four times a week and averaged four
men at each whipping. When prison.
ers were charged by guards with
shirking their work, they would be
turned over TO the whipping boss"
in true slavery style.
Governor Hardee charges Sheriff
Jones of Leon county with NAL
feasance in office and recommends to
the state senate that he be ousted
from office. This action follows the
discovery Of the sheriff's policy IN
aiding employers to lease convicts,
Prisoners would be arrested for minor
offenses and officials would advise
them they would be given minimum
sentence if they plead guilty. When
the prisoner threw himself on the
mercy of the court he would be given
a heavy sentence and then leased to
the Putnam lumber company.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Whlskey Bandits Get
Twenty Barrels

Louisville, Ky.-Fifteen men held
up guards at the w. B. Daniels distil-
lery, near Bardstown, KY, early and
carried away 20 barrels of whiskey
in a stolen truck according to reports
received by prohibition officers here.
After overpowering the guards, the
robbers fired more than $50 shots,
apparently for the purpose of pre-
venting interference, the report said.
The truck used by the robbers was
stolen from near the distillery.
Soon after receiving a report of the
robbery, P. Greenmiller, chief prohi-
bition agent for Kentucky and Ten
nessee, left Louisville at the head of
posse of federal agents and polise
armed with riot guns. The posse
members were to block roads leading
from the scene in an attempt to head
off the robbers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Engine Inspector
Calls I'm to Time
(By Federated Press)

Danville, Ill.-The hard boiled Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois railroad is
running up against hard boiled fed
eral locomotive Inspector and the in
snector is winning the battle. E. W.
(Silvertip) Brede, government
boiler expert, is working havoc with
the engines Of this road that has at
tempted to man it's repair shops with
strike breakers since JUL /, 1922.
Passenger trains on regular main line
runs have been limping into port six
hours late on four-hour schedule.
Freights have been nowhere. Brede
sending them to the hospital in short
order. Hurryup work on two of them
made it possible to maintain part
service on one division, but all the
usual extra trains have been aban-
doned
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Oil Workers Organizing

Long Beach, Cal.-Organization of
oil workers in California is picking
up. Locals in southern California of
the International Association of Oil
Field, Gas Well and Refinery Work
ers of America are initiating 10 to 60
new members every meeting night.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
More Money For "Sand Hogs"

New York-Compressed air work.
ers, known as "sand hogs" who are
digging the greatest vehicular tunnel
in the world under the Hudson river
from New York to New Jersey, have
won a strike for higher pay. Here
after, for doing extremely hard work
under conditions that exact a high
death toll, they will receive $3.50 a
day more than they have been get
ting.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Working Scabs Nine Hours

Rock Island, Ill.-Strike breakers
at the Silvis shops of the Rock Island
road are working nine hours day
instead of eight as heretofore. When
the extension of hours was announced
a number talked of going on strike,
but fear of inability to get jobs else
where kept them at work
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Blacksmiths Organization Drive

Chicago-Renewal of organization
campaigns is announced by the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Blacksmiths,
Drop Forgers and Helpers in foun-
dries and wagon and automobile
works throughout the country. The
San Francisco Bay district and the
eastern shops will receive special at
tention. The $1.25 and hour scale
with 81 an hour for helpers is being
signed in many cities.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Child Labor Still an Issue

Sacramento, Cal.-The state assem-
bly, has adopted unanimously reso-
luton asking congress to formulate
and present to the states a constitu-
tional amendment prohibiting child
labor, to offset the decision of the
supreme court that the law already
passed was unconstitutional.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Clothing Workers Demand Increase

New York-A 10 per cent wage in
crease averaging about So a week
for each member, is to be demanded
by the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America for the $4,000 men,
bers of the organization in New York
City. Similar demands will be pre-
sented in the mems clothing centers
of Chicago, Rochester, Philadelphia
and Boston.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
NAVY Dept. Machinists May Strik,

Washington-With strike of ma
chinists threatened at the Newport
r. L., torpedo station because of the
unsatisfactory new wage scale for
navy yard workers announced by the
navy department, w. H. Johnston,
president, International Association
of Machinists, predicts that trouble
will spread to the other yards unless
the scale l. revised.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Cooperation Saves Money

Staunton, Ill.-The miners in this
town run cooperative coal business
which has saved the community $780,
900 in dealers profits during the past
nine years, grocery store returning
its patrons $4,000 in cooperative
dividends since 1919, and a moving
picture house run by a union at cost
price. Staunton has population of
1000 which is 100 per cent organized.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Eight Hour Law For Women

Sacramento, Cal.-The state assem-
bly, has passed an amendment to the
eight-hour law for women, providing
that women cannot be compelled to
take work home to do after eight
hours in the factory.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Metal Trades Favor AmaleamatiOn

Harrisburg, Pa.-When the Penn
sylvania State Federation of Labor
opens it's annual convention here May
8, amalgamation of all the metal
trades workers into industrial unions
will be the issue presented by the
delegates of Harrisburg Central La
Dor union.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
Illiteracy i'm California

Modesto, Calm speech here,
Anna M. Godfrey, of the U. S. depart
ment of labor, told clubwomen that
there are in California 95,592 persons
who are illiterate, unable even to
write their names; and added thCt
the vast majority of these persons
are of the white race.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
General Labor Notes
Short Items Gathered For Benefit of
Hasty Readers
No Cossacks For Illinois

Springfield, Ill.-The bill providing
for the establishment of state police
has been killed in the upper house of
the Illinois legislature. Organized
labor led the fight against the cossack
sVSterG
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
"Hell Ships" Tell Fairy Story

San Francisco-The "hell ships" of
the Alaska packing fleets are ready
to sail again. Men are being invited
to "spend vacation in Alaska" and
inexperienced boys and men desperate
from unemployment are signing up
for conditions that mean one cup of
water a day to drink and wash in,
unspeakable food, fearful living ac
commodations.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-05-04
West Va. Cossacks Retained

Charleston, w. Va.-West Virginia
state police, whose abolition seemed
likely earlier in the session, will have
at least two years more to beat up
and shoot up trades unionists. The
legislature, by a vote of 48 to "A,
laid on the table the bill repeating the
constabulary statute