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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
COTTON MARKET AT STANDSTILL Closes At Net Changes Of Only 4 To 9
 Points

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 27.-After making moderate declines in the early sessions and wide advances later, the cotton market finally closed for the week at net changes of only to 25 points under the level of last weeks close. The active months were carried over a range of 70 to 161 points, March trading as high as 34.2sc and as low as S2.67c a pound. October traded as high as 27.92c and as low as 27.22c. From net declines of 33 to 56 points, the market rose to net advances of 37 to 105 points. On the close, March stood at 33.19c and October at 27.30c. In the spot department, middling gained 12 points, closing at 33.50, against 28c on. the close of this week last year.
 Strike and political news from Eng land was the main depressing influ- ence of the early part of the week, while the support was derived, for the most part, from the unfavorable &C., counts from the interior of the prog ress of farm work preparatory to plant ing the new crop. Most sections com plained of delay to blowing from wet and cold. The strength of the spot situation in the interior was a con- stant source Of steadiness for contracts as spot offerings were light, while the demand was large enough tonight to all time be in excess of offerings. Late in the week, cotton was favorably ef- fected by the strength of the stock market, although there was hardly the sympathy between the two markets which generally results when a bullish movement is on in stocks.
 During the coming week, general trade news will be carefully considered in an effort to discover whether the betterment reported in some lines of industry Is likely to be permanent. The strike in England is regarded as inn portant to cotton because some cable messages frankly hive admitted has ef- fected trade and made it difficult to transport cotton. The weather will be- come of increased important, and, with the first of February at hand, further cold and wet, with it's resulting delay to blowing, would be considered a buy ing influence of great importance. On the other hand, the advent of dry and somewhat warmer weather probably would precipitate a selling movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
OBREGON EXECUTES
 , ALLEGED REBELS
Firing Squad Shoots Men In
 Juarez Cemetery

FL PASO, Texas, Jan. 27.-Five men were executed by a firing squad in the Juarez, Mexico, cemetery early to- day. following the alleged discovery of plot to turn Juarez over to the rev. Olutionary chiefs.
 Colonel Roman Lopez, commander of the Juarez garrison, announced that large quantity of rifles and pistols. together with ammunition, was found after the plot had been uncovered.
 The men were, taken from the an cient stone jail in Juarez and marched to the cemetery, followed by a crowd attracted by the grim aspect of the partyl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
MERCHANTS MEET
 TO DISCUSS DRIVE
Kiwanis Club Committee Also In Move For Howard High
 School Funds
(ENSLEY BUREAU)

The Ensley Associated Merchants will meet in the Inferior court room Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock for the purpose of transacting several impor- tant matters of business and likewise appointing a committee to serve in the campaign for funds for the Howard High school.
 It was stated Sunday by P. H. Tyler, president of the association that the matter of securing $25,OOO for the Howard high school had been thoroughly threshed out as policy, had been ap- proved by all organizations here, and that the only thing lacking was the organization to put the plan over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
YOUTH KILLED BY
 ACCIDENTAL SHOT
Gun Discharges As He Reaches
 For It In Corner

UNION SPRINGS, Ala, Jan. 27.- Especial Leased Wire.)-Bowman Car michael, 16-year-old son of Mir and Mrs. B. D. Carmichael, was shot and killed Friday night. Young Carmichael was by the accidental discharge of a gun at his home on Southern Heights when the accident occurred, and it is said that the lad reached for the gun which was standing in a corner of the room, and as he caught hold of it, the weapon discharged, killing the boy almost in- stantly. Funeral services were held Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
HUBBARD BROS. & co,

Members New York Cotton Exchange. New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Pre- duce Exchange, Associated Members Li.- srpool Cotton Association. Orders solicited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery. sps- cial attention and liberal terms given fop >pnsiGnments of spot cotton for delivery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28

Bulgaria has a compulsory labor law which provides that all persons of both sexes, namely, men of 20 or over and girls of 1G or over, shall be liable to compulsory labor service, lasting total of 12 months in the case of men and six months for girls. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29
"Ancient History but the
Workers Never Forget

The Chicago Tribune and the Union Trust
Company wonder why the DAILY WOh!hEh
cannot consider their school land lease deal
ancient history" and let it go at that. They
feel that the workers ought to forget
When the Tribune put over It's SS-year
school lease steal in 1880, it no doubt hoped
the workers would forget. 1t showed its
brazen indifference to public protest when, in
1895. it had its lawyer, president OF the school
board, wipe out the 10-year revaluation
clause.
Both the Tribune and the Union Trust Com
panv are rich and powerful. But SO years is
long time and many things are more than
likely to happen before the year 1880. The DO
years ahead are not yet ancient history.
They contain many days OF retrlbutlon Tor the
plunderers of the at present poorly organized
masses.
The Union Trust Company now has the
school land lease to the property at the corner
of Dearborn and w. Madison Streets, which
it calls the "heart of the business center of
Chicago" It is able to put up big fight for
its robbers loot
1t has on its board of directors:
William r. Abbott president of the Illinois Telephone
Co, tentace of the phone trust.
Richmond Dean, vice-President OF the Pullman Co..
the sleeping car trust: ~u,- p.-,..-...
Hale Holden, president OF the chicago burlington
Marvin Hughitt Jr., vice-presdsnt Of the Chicago
d Northwestern hairOao.
George E. Marcy, president OF the Armour Grain
Co.. part of the big food trust.
George A. Ranney, vice-presidsnt and treasurer,
international Harvester Co. -
George G. ThOrp, vice-prssideut Of the Illinois
These in addition to a lot Of smaller fry.
What power facing the workers and farmers
in this one financial institution: phone mag
nate, heads Of powerful railroads, of the food
trust, Of the farm implement trust, and the
steel trust
They feel secure, no doubt, in regarding their
past crimes, including the plundering of the
Chicago school children's land lease as "an-
cient history"
But the day of the workers and farmers is
coming. The oppressed are organizing polit-
ically and industrially as never before.
The crimes of the present masters will never
become "ancient history" An enraged people
will demand that the criminals of today atone
for every crime committed.
THE WORKERS NEVER FORGET!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29
May Day In Europe

Not since the masses of France and Germany
demonstrated in an ugly mood on May LIST,
1920, has the European political powder maya
zine been in such danger of explosion.
Soon national elections will be held in Ger
many. All observers are agreed that the par
ties Of the extreme right and the extreme left
will make heavy gains. The Social-D emo
cratic Party, occupying the middle role but
serving as the kept handmade of the reaction
aries in their dirtiest work against the FAM
ished German proletariat, is losing ground
rapidly and steadily. The effect on the Euro
pean politico-economic situation of the in
evitable sharpening of the class conflict in
Germany ensuing from such parliamentary
situation is inestimable.
The French elections have been deliberately
put off until the German results are known.
French imperialists will then use the growth
of Right and Left strength as club over the
masses. An alarm of new, serious dangers to
France will be sounded to mislead the workers.
The bogus of Junkerism and Bolshevism will
be raised in all Viciousness to stampede the
masses in support of Poincare and the iron and
steel interests organized in the Comite DIES
FORCES.
But the French masses cannot be misled so
easily now. The workers, poor peasants, ex-
soldiers and even some sections of the lower
middle classes, are enraged at the Morgan
hopelessly to American finance monopoly. The
hundred million dollar loan is a drop of relief
in the sea of financial and political troubles in
which the imperialist French government now
finds itself. There is trouble brewing in the
Dawes Commission. The German industrialists
are showing signs of restiveness with its pros
pective terms. Poincare is having the time of
his life holding on. His resignation and imme-
date acceptance of the task of forming a new
cabinet are only straws showing which way
the wind is blowing. A storm of serious dimen-
sions is threatening to overwhelm his present
precarious hold on the government.
Under these circumstances the Communist
Party of France is bound to make considerable
Roadway. With Communist gains in France
and Germany the European volcano is soon
bound to rock the continent to its very foun-
dations. May Day in Europe, 1924, deserves
most careful watching by the workers of the
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29
Hirom's "Victory"

in a contest marked by a most shameful
souandering of money and purchase OF lnfiu-
ence, Hiram johnson has nosed out Cal Cool
idge in the republican primaries of South
Dakota.
The contest was close all the way thru and
was the best proof of the fact that the repub-
lican membership sees no difference beween
the conservatism of Coolidge and the progress
sivism' of johnson. The very fact that the
race was within the republican party shows
that they are both reactionaries of essentially
the same stripe.
Hiram Johnson cannot afford to celebrate
the South Dakota victory with too much pomp
and satisfaction. This state was the one place
where he conferred his heavy artillery. Here
Wrigley spearmint chewing gum dollars, not
pennies or nickels, flowed freely. There was
a bitter anti-administration fight because of
the fierce struggle between Governor Nc
Master and Senator Sterling for the senate
nomination. The Endorsement of Sterling by
Coolidge automatically put the powerful state
republican machine of the governor at the dis
posal of the Johnson forces. Yet the Califor-
MIA senator won only by scratch
The best evidence of the collapse Of the
Johnson candidacy is afforded by the decision
of Wrigley, the millionaire hacker and chief
supporter of the Californian's aspirations, to
stop financing him. Wrigley is jumping on the
Coolidge bandwagon. This dooms the hopes of
Johnson Without plenty of money, capitalist
politics cannot be played successfully.
Apparently there is a reformation Of lines
in the republican party, with all shades of big
capitalist opinion stalking everything on Cool
idge in order to beat back the assault on the
organization and the fundamental class inter-
ests involved. The other day, William Ran
dolph Hearst, who was a loud-mouthed hacker
of Hiram Johnson all the time, came out with
a song Of praise and hearty Endorsement for
Coolidge. Now Wrigley, another johnson
angel, jumps into the openly reactionary fold.
These are the signs Of decisive fight in which
johnson, attempting to pose as a middle Of the
roader, stands no chance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29

overflow, and to the large number
of basement and cellar dwellings,.
During the heat of summer the
pavements are overcrowded at
night with men, women and chill
dren who, finding the sitting atmo-
sphere Of their overcrowded quarters
insupportable, prefer to sleep in the
open air. A generation Of slum
jewellers IS growing up in this large
district of squalor which in the
future will hardly fail to increase
the gravity of Chicago's social and
municipal problems"
The above districts mentioned by
the London visitors did not include
South Chicago and the stockyards
district, as they were recognized to
be, by far, the worst in the city.
Of these two sections, it is briefly
mentioned that "Back to back houses
of wood, resting on piles largely
predominant, and a great number
Of cellars and easements are inhab-
tied. Beds are crowded together
and are often occupied by day and
night workers In turn"
Large sections Of the city," the
report concludes, are constantly
filed with dust and clouds Of smoke
from vast numbers in adjacent
foundries and railroads in adjacent
districts. The air is further pol
luted by piles of refuse accumulate
ing in the streets and alleys. Forty
five per cent of the people live
in rear flats, rear buildings or base
ments, with small windows and no
sunlight. Consumption is steadily
increasing among the poor of Chi
cago generally, and the need for
better housing is urged"
Nothing Has Been Done.
In a quarter Of century, the
municipal government has done alb
solutely nothing to remedy these
conditions. Private real estate con-
Germs, have been the cause OF the
death of hundreds from disease. and
the ill-health and extreme discom-
fort of many thousand more. It is
time the working people of Chicago
saw to it that the city departments
were no longer used as mediums to
carry on graft, or to give favorites
political patronage. 1t is time the
wishes Of the private real estate
concerns were ignored, and their in
fuence curbed, in order to get
something done to abolish the
frightful slums Of the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29

''Most Of these buildings were
erected without any provision
against damp, defect which IS all
the more serious in. Chicago owing
to the marshy soil, and the fact
that during heavy rains the sewers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29
Chicago Has Made No Effort
In Twenty Years to Clean
Up It's Ghettoes and Sums

No effort has been made by the city to clean up Chicago
sums and ghettoes in the twenfour years intervening
tween the disclosures by the City Homes Association 1900 Of
dangerous housing conditions, and the present time
Charles Ball. who has been chief in the sanitary depart
ment of the city DEPARTMENT of over decade told
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29

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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-29

Wheeler are candidates pledges def
mite action to correct these injus.
tees and We propose to do what we
can to make possible the correction
of those economic injustiees through
their success at the pods.
1t is no fantastic thing TO look for
the success of Senator laFollette in
the coming election America Is
seethng with protest against the
Vaccinations of Big Business, the be
tfayal of public trust and the lack
of patriotic, constructive statesman
ship in the two major parties From
these we have, on the one hand a
frank championship oforeaction and
on the other hand a cunning eyaSive-
ness which probably deceived not
even the blindest partisans.
Our report will Immediately be
broadcasted to the entire labor move
ment. In fact that already is in pro
cess of being done, Our system of
non-partisan committees will he IN
action at once throughout the c0un-
try. We are going to do our best 10
elect Lafollette and Wheeler. We
believe the conscience of America Is
aroused to the need of new deal in
our national government and new
morality in public life generally.
OF equal importance to Us is the
congressional campaign While the
action taken here Is in strict con
formity with past policy, ii does
measurably broaden our field Of ac.
ton and we shall take full advantage
Of that fact. We are authorized to
make known generally the records
of members of congress and TO give
these records the widest publicity.
Heretofore we have sent these rec
ords into each individual district. 1t
will be our business now TO apDrse
the whole country as to the attltuae
of all candidates for congress, 50 that
national attention may be centefed
on the congressional contest as a
whole.
] want to emphasize the fact that
our support of Senator LaFollette
and Senator Wheeler does not in any
way OF to any degree identify Us
with OF commit us to doctrines ad-
vanced by any other group that may
be supporting the same candidates.
We are III litiG HEfAs itbA W quinn
with those who may help the cause,
but to win a great victory for human
ity, for democracy, for the great
masses Of the people Of our country.
Something far beyond the ordinary
political issue IS at stake. There Is
at stake the great and all-transcend-
ing issue Of right against worng and
We are for the right with all Of the
vigor which our great movement pos
sesses.
Now that our report has been
adopted, il may not be amiss to say
that its general lines were agreed
upon by the executive committee Of
the national non partisan campaign
committee at meeting held at
Brighton Beach on the day after the
Democratic convention adjourned,
and informally we were certain Of
what our course would have to be
some days before that--the day we
were able to have before US the Demo
cratic and Republican platforms, r.
be exact. | say that so that IT may
be known that we have arrived at
our position out Of the logic Of events
and the records Of men and parties.
and not out Of a series Of assumed
disagreements between ourselves.
That, | think, should be made clear
beyond any possibility Of misunder-
standing.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-29
BY SAMUEL GOMPERS
President American Federation OF
lahnr

Our executive council has approved
the candidacy Of Senator LaFollette
and Senator Wheeler and every re
source nj cur command vii BE used
in the effort 70 bring abou; their
election said President Samuel
Gompers today. in > statement deal
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-29
We ARE OUT TO Win FOR
LaFOLLETTE AND Wheeler
SAYS GOMPERS TO COUNCIL

stand hy that refusal in he present
instance. We have maae il elea1 that
between three candidates fer the
presidency Ne find one distinctly
preferable to the other I've. aua the
same thing applies Il the platforms.
We have protested against certain
grave injusticeS and Inequalities yeaf
after year. The platform upon which
Senator tsaFollette and Senator
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-28

their real value, But even that
him to hand casually across a count
er. 1t would take him a week 70
raise the money. And in seven
more days I would be Independent,
freed forever from the necessity of
crime!
So I thought. I even congratulate
ed myself that l was of sach differ
ent clay from the ordinary criminal.
For your everyday thief is potential
ly murderer, and worse. Devoid
of imagination, he steals because
stealing seems easier than working.
Trapped, he kills.
Oh, was a philosopher, as l sat
in the window of my living-room
and looked out upon Central Park,
with its freshly green grass, its
newly leaved trees, the lovers walis
ing along the shady paths, or drift
ing in their boats on the 4Ittle pond.
was unique in history. i was a
criminal who could rid myself Of
criminality at will, who could cut
myself off forever from the ways
of wicledness. felt more than
savage wrath; l felt contempt, as l
tossed away from me the evening
paper with its glazing headline.
1t was a sickening stony beneath
the headline. 1t told of the discovery
by police Of evidence Indicating
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-28
yer rung save in The daytime, when

ever rung save in the daytime, When
tradespeople called. / felt a-suddeS.
chill at the sound. linen I master
ed my panic. Some neighbor might
be calling on me, though this was
improbable in New York. Or some
one may have rung the bell by mis-
take. 1t was incredible that the po-
lice should suspect the quiet-living
gentleman who dweEt on the fourth
floor Of the walk-lip apartment
building. And certainly the White
Eagle did not know where to find
the man who had so deity tricked
him a few nights ago. SO | put on
a calm front as | opened the door,
My caller stepped swiftly inside.
Il come from Leedon," he said.
Leedon was the fence with WHOM:
my deal was pending.
Doesn't Leedon know better
than to send anyone here?" l de-
manded angrily.
The intruder was in my living
room now, and in the electric light
I could see him. A big, burly gross
looking man, with light red hair,
belligerent blue eyes and a prog
nathous, stubble-whiskered jaw.
q didn't say Leedon sent me; |
said l came from hiiA," he answer
ed.
"What do you mean?" / asked.
II mean that Leedon, for old
times sake, was hiding me when
you were dickering. with him today.
II over heard you talk. And l de-
cided that half of three hundred
thousand would just about fix, me-
up. Don't try to draw a gun; I've
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-28

the identity of a brute who had
shocked tue city three days ago by
the wanton Staying of child.
The enid had been alone in the
apartment where she lived with hol
parents. A burglar had entered, and
finding the girl alone, had killed her
apparently for the sheer Joy of kill
ing. 7he crime had been justified
not even by necessity. The child.
could have been bound and gagged
if the man had feared that her out
cries would cause his capture. But
the little girl, seeing the intruder,
had asked him not to take locket
which was her mothers gift to her
Enraged at her request, he had
struck her. Her parents had re-
turned later; before she died, she
had told them the facts.
1t was one of those shocking
crimes that periodically make US
wonder how far man is .removed
from the beast. 1t sent whole city
into mourning, and made detectives
out of a hundred thousand citizens.
And now the police had discover
ed that Swede Thomassen, a no.
torious jailbird, was the murderer.
The dragnet was spread, and the au-
thorities were confident that the
man would be apprehended within q
day or 50. l fervently hoped 50, ]
would have killed him myself and
known no conjunction.
had read the sordid story OF
Swede Thomassen's career as the
paper gave it. And l saw that he
had begun as a cheap gangster, had
graduated into petty theft, had then
become highwayman, ard was now
a red-handed murderer. 1t was at
this stage Of my reading that | be-
gan to congratulate myself because
[ was so different from Thomassen.
This difference made me the great
success that l was. For other thieves
visualized, in their moment of ease,
future thefts; l visualized a life Of
Righteousness.
And now, with three hundred
thousand dollars to be mine next
week, my plans became clean-cut,
definite, not mere chaotic hopes, 1t
would be simple / would go to
Australia. l would stay there two
CT three years. Then would return
to America. 1 would go to that city
where | had been born and brought
up, and where my family was
known and respected. | would join
my fathers clubs, l would enter into
the civic life of the comanunitg.
would eYen-and this wees the com
Fpelling force behind my plans
ry.
1t was springs only few days
ago hadBfelt the urge to lead the
normal life of men of MY age and
tradition. | wanted to take pref
ty girl motoring, to dance wish siler,
to squeeze her hand, to kiss her.
perhaps to make her love me, to
love her, to marry ! could possibly
do all these things now; but il
we've not honest, | was at least hon.
orable, I i could ask no ai1i RS e.3ss
langle hersel1 with man upon