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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-04-10
NORMAL COLLEGE LOSES.

SAN MARCOS. Texas. April 9-The
San Marcos Bobcats were defeated in
the third game Of the season by the DAN
iel Baker College team Friday afternoon
by a score of 10 70 6. The Bobcats
leave Sunday for trip 10 Denton. where
they will play the Denton normal.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-04-10
WAGES IN STEEL
PLANTS INCREASE
ANNOUNCED TODAY

NEW YORK. April io.-President Eu-
gene Grace OF the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration announced that an increase in
wages would become effective In the
manufacturing plants Of the corporation
April rs. While the amounts will not be
made public until details are developed
through the employees representation
system Of the different plants. II Il ex-
pected that the increase will correspond
with the eleven per cent increase an
nounced BY the United States Steel cor
poration.
NEW YORK. April i0.--The United
Steel corporation yesterday announced
a wage increase of IL per cent. effective
April rs. for day laborers. employed ~
the manufacturing plants Of it's subsid-
iary companies. with an equitable ad-
justment for other classes Of labor in
these plants More than 10000 employ
es are affected and the increase Il is es-
timated will add approximately one-haf
million dollars TO the weekly pay roll.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
SOCIAL COMMON SENSE APPROVES
 8-HOUR DAY

Washington, June 2o.-The United States wemen's bureau has printed in pamphlet form defense of the eight hour day by Miss Mary Van K1eeck, first director of the bureau.
 Experience shows that the most effective results are achieved for the industry and for the worker by keep ing daily hours always at reason able level" she says. Exact medical examination of the individual IS not necessary to demonstrate the desir- ability of the eight-hour day
 Miss Van Kleeck referred to state ment by a group of employers who wanted scientific proof by medical men" before they would accept an eight-hour day for women
 Obviously exact statistics on that point are not available. We need here a combination of what might be called social common sense and scien- tihc procedure. We have had scien- tifc procedure in determining that fatigue is physiological, and that from fatigue one must rest if 1t is not to become exhausting. That IS the sclen- tihc basis for setting some limit to the machine which otherwise would run all day long, and all through the night, because the machine does not know fatigue.
 But 1t Is not necessary for Us to study everyone of the occupations in industry and determine a different working day for each of them.
 Upon the basis of social grow ing standard we must build, using as our method the scientific and techni- cal facts which show us how to ar rive at the goal which is set by our social vision.
 Our social vision grows out of our experience as to what IS good for our communities
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29

The Heart Raider" which will be the feature at the Rialto Theatre next Thursday, with Mahlon Hamil- ton as leading man
 The story IS one of absorbing in terest and there is much relishable comedy. At Palm Beach, Muriel Gray, played by Miss Ayres, Is making an effort to create favorable impress sion on John Dennis, bachelor, DOT trayed by Mahlon Hamilton But the latter believes that Muriel is rather frivolous, and his indifference wounds Muriel deeply. She is determined, however, to force Dennis to take her in his arms, and makes this her boast. Murie1 at first Is miserable failure as vamp, but finally makes good her boast s-
 There is an excellent supporting cast which includes Charles Ruggles, Frazer Coulter, Marie Burke and Charles Riegal. Wesley Ruggles di- rected the picture, the scenario for which was written by Jack Cunning ham, who made the adaptation of the Emerson Hough novel, The Covered Wagon" Charles Schoenbaum was the DhotograDher
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
THE LAW OF THE LAWLESS" PRESENTS PARAMOUNT STAR
 IN FINE SCREEN ROLE.

For the first time in the history of motion pictures, the colorful life of southeastern Roumania-the home of the Tartar and gypsy-has been filmed i'll "The Law of the LaWless, Dorothy Dalton's latest Paramount picture, which will be on view at the R1alto theater for three days commencing Monday.
 Gypsy stories have been filmed, but never in the colorful setting of Dob rudja-the little-known and romantic Rournanian province which numbers many native gypsy tribes among its inhabitants Konrad Bercovici, a gypsy author, wrote the story of "The Law of the Lawless," for the screen from his own personal experience in his native land.
 Bercovici's story tells of a Tartar girl, daugrter of an impoverished householder, who is sold on the auction block to pay her fathers debt She is bought by a gypsy chief who marries her by the color fuf gypsy ceremony, but who respects her dislike for him.
 The girls Tartar sweetheart at tempts to rescue her, but proves him self a coward in the crisis while the gypsy chieftain shows himself a fair and courageous fighter. The girls liking for her Tartar lover gives way u d llCW IoNO Ao4 lliS SyPoy. Ai\ii chief captured by the Tartars, the gypsies, led by the girl wife, attack the Tartar village in a fierce hand fight. The money lender who sold the girl meets his death, the gypsy chief conquers the Tartar youth in a fierce struggle in blazing minaret and the girl proves her love for her husband. Peace brings renewed prosperity for her father and friendly relations between the warning factions.
 Romance, drama and stirring action are packed inot every scene of the story. Dorothy Dalton gives a superb charac- terization of the hot-headed. high-spirited Tartar girl and she is ably supported by Theodore Kosloff in the role of the Tar tar lover and Charles de Roche as the gypsy chief. The latter makes his first American appearance in this picture. Fully Marshall is also featured
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
Manufacturers Record Appeals for More En- frightened View of Wages.
Manufacturers Record.)

The United Business Service of Boston, in which MT. Roger Babson holds 9 controlling interest, though per- haps he-may not direct its actual man agement or expression of views, in a circular letter of May % to its cus- toners, after referring to increasing 1mpertatlons threatening to change the balance of trade against us, says:
 This means that every man i'll busi- ness should exert the full force of his influence to keep prices of labor and raw materials as low as possible Only by such concentrated efforts can we expect to hold present gains
 To state 1t mildly the Manufacturers Record believes that such doctrine is diabolical. Any effort on the part of business interests to exert the full force of their power to keep prices of labor as low as possible is inhuman, un-American, un-patriotic, and Is contrary to the teach ing of the Golden Rule, which more and more men are beginning to realize must be fundamental policy if men are to do their duty by humanity. We trust that MT. Babson IS in no way responsible for such a statement Certainly, If he Is not, he should repudiate 1t openly and vigorously, for MT. Babson professes to believe in the Golden Rule
 The theory that the cost of labor must be kep at the lowest point possible is a theory which intelligent men, getting away from purely personal, selfish grounds, are more and more recognizing as false from every point of view. Such
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
WOMEN,S 8-HOUR BILL TRAVELS
 ROCKY ROAD

Springfield, Ill, June 2o-The wo,, mems eight-hour bill, recently passed by the state house of representatives, has been turned into weapon ot op- pression by the senate. Organized la bor has discovered the 'joker' but is confident a majority of the senators will acknowledge they were caught mapping.
 Senator Hicks of Rockford induced his colleagues to amend the house bill by authorizing the state industrial commission to make rules for the work day in various industries. The plan also provides that court may pass upon the commissions orders.
 In opposing this amendment, off cers of the State Federation of Labor say:
 The power conferred upon the commission Is of such peculiar na- ture that it may, on one extreme, au- thorize the employment of women and girls in certain places I2 or IA hours day Or even longer, while, Ii 1t chooses to go to the other extreme, it may, in effect, practically bar wom- en and girls from certain employ the Hicks amendment would set up an industrial court whose regulatory or prohibitive powers, through the chaneery jurisdiction of the regular courts, might ultimately be directed against the persons of the women and girls instead of only against the firms and corporations which employ them.
 There is some evidence, however, that the Hicks amendment was adopt ed by the senate without any clear un- derStanding of it's terms"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
IDEA OF GRINDING WORKER DOWN
 IS A RELIC OF THE DARK AGES

a policy means the degradation of labor 1t means that labor would be ground down, If this teaching were followed to the last degree. But we rejoice that tl1a1 is not the policy of the intelligent en- ployers of America; 1t is not the policy of any man who loves his fellow man 1t is not the policy of any man who recognizes his responsibility for the betternent of humanity. Any man who takes that position immediately cuts himself off from being in any one oi these classes, and places himself along side of the old feudal system which existed only through the suppression and the practical enslavement of the common people.
 Thank God that spirit is passing away But that is. the spirit which in former times was responsible for creating some of the labor unrest of the country and which drove some men. many of them against their own convictions, into labor unions Better would 1t be for America to absolutely build Chinese wall around itself and live within itself than to seek to develop it's foreign business through the crushing of labor to the point suggested in this United Business Service circular, which says that ''every man in business should exert the full force of his influence to keep the prices of labor as low as possible, and also the prices of raw materials
 Raw materials would mean cotton and wool and thousand and one things which enter into manufactured products It would mean wheat and corn and food stuffs, because they are all the raw ma terials of human existence. And If the price of cotton and wool and other agricultural products are forced down with labor we would again have chaos, not only chaos in business, but chaos i'll government.
 President Harrison wisely said that "a cheap coat makes cheap man, at a time when he was pleading for adequate protection to save the labor of this country from competition with the cheaply paid labor of Europe and the Orient President -Harrison's advice was as much wiser than that of the United Business Service as Heaven is higher than the hell
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29

organized builders, and when there i: surplus (there isn't one nowadays, l they pay less. The following is a table showing the daily wage of building trade: workers in 1910, in 1923, and the mum Der of agreements or settlements dur | ing the six years by which the wage mounted to the 1923 figure: No. O. Trade. 1916. 1923. Agt': Asbestos workers and heatand frost 1nsula-
 tors SAYS $Io 6 Bluestone cutters, flag gers, bridge and curb settlers ----.-.-------- 4.3O 9 4 IBricklayers --------------------- GOO I2 7 |Brlck1ayers' laborers. 32o s 9 Carpenters (Manhat- tan) ----------~-----.------------- 5.25 10 $ Carpenters (Bronx) ~~- 4.75 10 8 Carpenters (Brooklyn) AIS 10 s Carpenters (Queens)- 4.75 10 Carpenters k1ch- mOnd) ------------------------- 4.5O 10 $ Cement maSonS .--------- 5.3O 10 7 Cement and concrete
 workers Qaborers) 800 7 10 Composition TooferS,
 damp and water
 ~proof workers - $50 o7 Electrical workers - 500 10 7 Elevator constructors 5.52 Iot 7 Elevator constructors
 helpers --.,.-.--.-.---,-,.-,- s.52 s7 Engineers, united DOT
 table 6,5o 10 4 !. House shorers and
 sheath pliers --.---------,. 400 o7 Housesmiths, hnishers'
 Local 52 -~--------------- $50 10 5 Housesmiths, structur-
 al .------,-----,,-- $50 10 8 Marble cutters and
 settlers f.---------------------- $50 10 7 Marble carVers --------.---- 900 II 7 Metallic fathers ..-------- $50 10 7 Mosaic workers ----------- 475 9 0 Painters, decorators
 and paperhange 500 10 7 PlaStererS .-------.------.------- GOO I2 9 Plasterers' helpers - 3.75 $50 s Plumbers and gas
 htters -----------------------.--- 500 10 5 Roofers and sheet F5
 metal workers ------- 5.6o 10 6 Slate and tile roofers- OPS 10 Steam filters ---- GOO 10 5 Steam filters helpers $40 8 Stone cutters ---------------- $50 10 $ Stone settlers ----------------- 0.5o I2 $50 Stone maSonS -.----------- 500 I2 0 Tile layers -.- GOO 10 7 Tile layers help
 CTS ----------------------------------, ZO
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29

Note: In several trades in the above table, the 1923 wage includes bonus which continues to the end of this year.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
ONE DEFEAT ENOUGH.

Washington, June 2o.-The state of Kansas, through it's attorney general, has notified the United States supreme court that it will not ask rehearing of the case involving the constitution ality of the industrial court law. This means that the state has abandoned all attempts to set wages by law. With this feature of the law removed, there IS nothing left of 1t but an army of office holders who remind taxpayers how easily they can be fooled by slick politicians
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
THE FAR EAST

Chinese and American Restaurant. Business Mems Lunch, AS Cents. Served from II A. M. to goo P. M. Special Sunday Dinner, $1.oo.
 A La Carte at All Hours. Dancing every evening from 1o-12. The Department of Health City of New Haven has given us rating
 of Ioo&o.
 Lee Woo, Mgr. 67 CHURCH ST. New Haven, Conn.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
CLAY WORKERS GAIN.

Washington, June 2o.-In letter to President Gompers, William Tracy, general secretary of the United Brick and Clay Workers of America, states that substantial gains are recorded for brick and clay workers in the Chicago district
 The agreement provides for the union shop, the check-of, the eight hour day, and wage increases for all classes of workers
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
REJECT STEEL CLAIM.

Washington, June 2o.-The shipping board has served notice on the Beth lehem Steel Company that it's claim for $8,5oo,ooo has been disapproved and that the board will seek return of a portion of the millions paid to the company under war contracts.
 This company has failed to pay to hundreds of workers the money in volved in wage award made during the war by the War Labor Board.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
REJECT OLD AGE PENSION.

Springfield, H., June 2e.-The state senate has defeated the old age pen sion bill which was fostered by fra ternal organization in cooperation with the State Federation of Labor, the United Mine Workers, and the joint labor legislative board of Illin ois.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
STAR PICTURE MAKES
 BIG HIT EVERYWHERE

That Agnes Ayres is one of the most popular stars of the screen Is amply evidenced by the great suc- cess of her new Paramount picture,
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
PROTECT LUMBER COOKS.

Seatte1, Wash, June 2o.-One of the new state laws, just made effec- tive, protects cooks in lumber camps. Formerly they were exploited, but now they will have a labor lien on all products of the camp.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
|242D BUILDING PACT IN SEVEN YEARS
 SETTLED BRICKL.AYERS STRIKE Additional Trade Demands Are Anticipated, De- spite Doubling of Wages in Seventeen aiOr Trades Since 1916.

Settlement of the bricklayers strike ln New Y ork this week was effected by the 242d wage agreement be- | tween employers and employees in the building industry in New f ork city | since 1910. These PAP wage adjust ments have been made at vast cost. Still further wage demands are in sight. At the end of the current year ! many of the contracts between the unions and the Building Trades Elm ployers' Association come to an end and builders are expecting fresh de mandS as a result of the bricklayers' victory.
 Of the major trades, II are now paid more than double the daily wage received in IoIo Six trades are receiving twice the amount paid to them in 1910, and the rest are getting a substantial increase.
 Most trades get from $Io to SIP a day from the Building Trades Elm ployers' Association, which comprises all the important contractors organ izations of the city. At the present time sky wages of $I4 to $Io day are being paid by independent con tractors, mostly on smaller projects in the outlying districts of the city. .
 Building costs have mounted stead- fly, but there have been many other factors besides labor which have contributed. Taking for example of rising wages the course of the Cement and Concrete Workers (Laborers), who have had 10 daily wage boosts III the last seven years, the record IS something like this:
 Starting in 1910 with $224 a day, Il,
 IoI6, for $3 a day. On August 24, 1917, their wages went to Sa.25 a day and on November I, 1918, to $4 6o ito $5.2o a day. Three boosts in 1920 brought them to $6.5o and on June the wage went to $7.
 The following trades have secured the largest of the daily wage in creases since IoI6:
 Increase Brlcklayers .-.--- -$6.oo { Stone masonS ------------------------------- 700 PlastererS -------.---.-.------- GOO Stone oetters $50 Composition Roofers, Damp
 and Waterproof Workers $50 Mosaic Workers | 525 Painters, Decorators and Pa
 perhangers ----------------.----.----- 500
 The accompanying shows the rise of the daily wage curve as represent ed by agreements between organized labor and organized employers in the city. Wages paid by independent builders are not counted, as they vary, now high, now low, dependent on complex causes As, a rule when there is shortage of labor, the inde- pendents pay higher wages than the
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
Washington State News

throughout the district, Il there comes
q rain in June. is forecast for Douglas
county.
The cowlitz county annual track
meet win be held at Castle Rock this
year for both the grades and the high
schools.
The state federation Of women's
clubs has suggested that each town
in the state be known for 8 certain
kind Of flower.
The R. A. Jackson estate At Dayton,
has sold its 1923 wool clip. estimated
at about $4,000 pounds. to . Portland
firm for 40 cents q pound.
The state highway department has
turned over to Whitman county for
its use three Kelly-springfield trucks
and four Nash Quad trucks.
The Columbia river conference Of
the Free Methodist church was held
at walla waIla with Bishop william
Pearce Of Chicago presiding.
Robert A. Mcleod. 81 years old,
farmer living near Custer. was fatally
injured by a bull which attacked him
as he was leading It into barn.
Trustees of the Elks' lodge at Ellsns-
burg have awarded contracts for the
construction Of building in the down
town district. The building will cost
nearly 100000.
Because Of dangerous grades and
curves between Vancouver and Salmon
Creek. on the Pacific highway. the
state highway department may re-
route the road.
About so convicts IN the stats prison
at walla Walla will be paFOled - soon
a. their minimum sentences expire
during the neat few months, according
70 announcement.
The ssth birthday Of vancouvSr'S
historic old apple tree. the Oldest fruit
tree in the northwest ana perhaps on
the Pacific coast. was celebrated at
Vancouver Friday.
The University Of Washington re-
gents have elected Mrs. Ruth Karr
Mckee president and WinlOck W. Mil
Ter Woe president. William Markham
was reelected secretary.
Alleging false arrest. J. N. De Metro
has commenced action In superior
court ct Elsnsburg for damages in
the amount Of $500 against Levi Har-
ley, chief Of police Of Gle Elum.
A. 7. Mack. age 80. farmer, Of Che
welah. was probably fatally injured
when a car in which he was riding ran
head on into q telegraph pole near
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

ed o. Attorneglzsneral LIunsar -
state Treasurer c. L. Babcock.
TIE state has been denied > rehsar-
Ing In the case brought b. the alien
property custodian to collect $4,000
IN enemy alien claims from the state
industrial Insurance fund. according 70
information received from the circuit
court Of appeals at San Francisco By
Attornsy-General John H. Dunbar. An
appeal to the United States supreme
court is being considered By the a.
torney.gsneFal and Edward I. Clifford,
director Of labor and industries.
Just where the boundary between
Oregon and washington runs In the
mouth Of the Columbia river is 3 cues.
ton which again has been brought up
by the recent government drawing for
fiahtrap sites Of the Columbia river
shore Of Pacific county. The bound
airy originally was described as q line
running up the middle Of the north
ship channel and thence easterIy. How
ever, the channel mentioned has dis
appeared and Sand island, which once
stood more nearly in the center Of the
river, is now close to the Washing
ton shore.
As q result Of a decision handed
down by the circuit court Of appeals
in San Francisco, reversing decision
of Federal Judge Cushman at Tacoma.
early summer will see the steel skele-
ton of the 16-story OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lean Bank building at Tacoma. once
more growing to completion. and de-
positors Of the defunct Scandinavian
American bank will be saved about
$4,000. The court Of appeals in San
Francisco reversed decision Of Judge
Cushman, In which the latter held that
a mortgage of $4,000 held by the bank
against the building was no longer .
valid lien because II had been satis-
fled when purchased By F. P. Haskell,
Jr., receiver Of the bank, and that
therefore. the mortgage had been paid.
not merely assigned.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

Chicago. Hin an effort TO stem
the tide Of stringency among the B.
100000 farmers of America. caused by
the overproduetiOn Of 17A.000. 900 bush
els Of wheat, the KILLERS National Fed
GRAFTON. at a meeting launched a cam
paign TO "eat more wheat" It was
estimated that one more slice Of bread
a meal would consume the entire sur
plus. The campaign has been Endorsed
by the Americap farm bureau and
other farmers organizations.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

Kansas City. Kan.-The trek Of
labor to the wheat fields Of the south
west is on. well in advance Of the har-
vest season, despite high wages be-
ing offered in industrial eenters. ac-
cording to George b. Tucker of the
United States farm labor bureau here.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

Clarke county potato growers are
Dlantlng large acreage this year.
Twelve per cent Of the bees IN walla
EValla county are diseased. according
% County Agent A. w. Hasten.
A cleanup campaign IL on IN Union
town. City authorities provided for
frse hauling OF rubbish the first two
days.
The first full carload Of Kennewick
asparagus shipped this season left Fri
day morning by express for Minnea-
polls.
Eartv hpshsia Of wheat ssnarally