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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
STUDENTS POETRY
 IS PUBLISHED HERE
Volume Is By University Of Ala
 bama Undergradqa

E A gesture fraught with eight en- couragement to those interested in lit erary creation and pregnant with much possibility for the future was the ap- pearance in Birmingham during the past week of a volume of poems writ ten by University of Alabama students and published here by the Studio Book shop. The book is entitled, Some Uni versity of Alabama Poets," and was edited, compiled, or arranged and also conceived by Carl l.. Garner, associate professor of English and professor of poetry at the University of Alabama. The volume is called First. Series,' and it is genuinely heartening produc- ton, especially as it is the first of it's kind undertaken in Alabama. Stim- ulation to creative activity by the un- dergraduates has been one of the dis tinguishing features of Professor Car mer's work at the university. Last year, he presented student written plays by student actors in the tours of the Blackfriar Players through the state.
 Some University of Alabama Poets'' contains the works of score or more of students, a large number of whom are from Birmingham. Most of the poems are written in the modern free style, almost sans reg1e 1e"-except the rule of deep poetic feeling. Some fringe too on the modern tragi-comic cynicism of the intellectual futility of existence" lightly .symbolized in fluttering wings, fliekering candles, and t.vapid-fragrant Eodors.' A few smack of the terrific freedom and bold rebellion of youth (which "cares not for your God" Some Fpierce to profundity of free and fundA- mental thought. Almost all of them are beautifully woven pieces of fine worth, high credit to the University of Ala bama, to Professor Garner, and to the students.
 The book was printed sby the Bir- mingham Publishing company, and is bound in red, boards with white stamp | ing NA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
NEW COMPANY
 TOOPEN HERE
 IN FEW WEEKS
Standard Manufacturing Company At Work
 On New Home

The new building of the Standard Manufacturing company at Twenty second street and Fifth avenue, south, which will be used as distributing head quarters for the Birmingham district, will be completed by the middle of July, 1t was stated Monday.
 The structure is of four stories, re- lnforced concrete, and represehtes an investment of S150,000. A quarter of a million dollars worth of stock will be installed.
 In operation, offices and stock rooms, the company will require a force of from 30 to 40 people. Most of this per sonnet will be recruited from Birining- ham with few of the men in charge to be moved here from other offices of the company. W
 Among the striking features for the building is an elaborate display room on the ground floor, which officials de- clare IS second to none in the country. Offices on the second floor will occupy the same amount of space; 76x20 feet, directly over this display room, while the remainder of the floor area, approxi- mately 5000 squaref feet in all, will be utilized as stock ronfiis.
 The Standard Manufacturing com pany, headquarters At Pittsburg, whole sales plumbing supplies, steam plant and mine fittings, etes It has six fac tories and branch offices, extending throughout the country into foreign fields. z
 In charge of local business will be II J. Fremaux, formerly of New, Or leans, as manager, and H. F. Kelso. assistant. Temporary offices Of the company are 2S21 Age-Herald building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
INJUNCTION IN FORCE Court Rules Ennis Failed to Establish
 Right to Use Label

Ruling that Clyde Ennis, owner of a printing plant in Ensley, had not established his right to use the label of the Allied Printing Trades Council on campaign literature and other print. ed matter, Judge William NJ. Walker Monday afternoon oyerruled his mo tion to dissolve the temporary injune. tion granted by Judge Roger Snyder May 5 upon petition of the council.
 Affidavits and oral statements were presented at formal hearing on the motion Monday morning; and Judge Walker stated he would take the case under advisement and announce his ruling as soon as he could arrive at a decision. The affidavits forming part of the testimony were read after the hearing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
AVENUE B PAYING
 STILL UNDER FIRE

Recirculation of the Avenue B paving petition has resulted in a number of names being secured approving bitu- lithic or sheet asphalt for the roadway.
 Another group of interested property owners wants concrete and, it is said, will continue to press for the use of the latter material
 The petitions is scheduled to be con sidefed by the city commission at its meeting Tuesday morning and a lively contest between the paving partisans is reported to be brewing. The stretch under consideration lies between Four teenth and Eighteenth streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
SEEK SUCCESSOR
 FOR C. W. RURKETT
City Board To Fill Vacancy
 Caused By Demotion

Successor for G. N. Burkett, recent ly denoted by the city civil service board from the rank of police field sergeant to patrolman, will be appoint ed Tuesday night by the promotion and demotion board of the police depart ment.
 Several applications for the position have been turned in by members of the force, according to Fred H. Nc Duff, chief of police and chairman of the board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13

deffuitsIy when the investigation woG1E be taken up again but admitted taee were several other cases on the grahH jury dockat. It is thought that ths probe of city affairs will be we'll under way, however, by Thursday or Friday.
 County officials refused to comment Monday on reports that the findings of the certified public accountants enz9 pIoyed ta examine the books of the public Improvement department might result in additional indictments on charges similar to that returned against William M. Lehman, fornasr clerk in that department, who is nov free on $5,000 bond awaiting trial June Q eu a charge of ambezziement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
TO RESUME PROBE OF CITY SHORTAGE.
Grand Jury To Handle Routine Cases First,
 However

Routine rases wIm be dfispased eff by the Jefferson county gunnd TErY before investigation is resumed ef the al1eged shortage of funds inn the pHhhe inn prgEemena department eff tine city of Birmingham, arcar,dmg to hnfarnratnan at the count house M6md1F afternoon following the re-eamvemlng af the grand jury after m1nHhS recess
 Solicitor Jim DnvEx dlBtlhue1 to state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
NEGROES IN BAD
Brothers Have Difficulty; One In Jail,
 Other In Hospital

Dave Sanders, negro, of Zion City, lay critically wounded at Hillman hos pital Monday night and his brother, Johnny Sanders. was lodged at the city jail, charged with assault with in- tent to murder as the outcome of the wounding, Monday afternoon. of the former.
 Both brothers claim the shooting was accidental Dave told police that the gun was in his brothers hands at the time the shot was fired, while Johnny declares that the gun went off while Dave was examining it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
ADDRESSES TRAFFIC CLUB
.S. O. McCufdy Discusses Manufactur
 Of Portland Cement

S. c. MeCurdy, sales manager of the Phoenix Portland Cement company, Monday addresses the May luncheon of the Birmingham Traffic and Transpor- tation club, using as his subject, the manufacture of cement in it's various stag,~. Vice President Stanfiel pre- sided in the absence of President Will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
REsTAURANT MAN KILLED

WINFIELD, La. May 12.-J Wade Long, one of the most widely known men in Vim parish and proprir etor of a local restaurant, was killed today when his automobile was struek by n train at crossing just north If here. s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
HIGGINBOTHAM SENTENCED
Given Five Years On Charge. of For
 gerry

Clarence Higginbotham was sen fenced to the state penitentiary for five years Monday by Judge William B. Fort after he had entered plea of guilty to charge of second degree for gery.
 He was indicted by the grand jury few weeks ago and is alleged to have signed the name of K. W. Higgin- botham to a check made out on Bir- mingham bank for s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
ALLEGED BURGLAR AfsREsTED

AIeX WlIlams, negro, Z536 Leila avenue, was arrested. Monday in Bes- semer by W. l.. Brannon and H. c. Jones, city detectiyes, on charge of burglary and grand larceny. He is wanted in Clanton, Aia., the detectives say, for breaking into and robbing a store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
POSTPONE MEETING
Chamber Of Commerce Directors To
 Meet Thursday Week

Directors meetings of the Chamber of Commerce scheduled for Thursday has been postponed for one week, ac cording to announcement MondRy by o. l.. Bum, secretary-manager.
 Postponement was fixed in order tr bring the meeting as near as possible to the last of the month when six new directors are to be seated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
IN PREsIDENTIAL RACE
Socialists Nominate Carpenter Flo
 White H0,lsa

White House
 NEW YORK, May 12.-Frank T. Johns, S5 years old, a carpenter of Portland, Ore, was nominated for president of the United States at the convention of the socialist labor party today.
 The party represented by 40 dele gates from 15 states, also nominated Verne l.. Reynold of Baltimore, for the vice presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
CAR INSPECTOR HURT L. o. Little Sustains Crushed Foot
 Under Freighf Car

Crawling under a freight car to make an inspection, l.. O. Little, 1140 National street. Peil City, car inspec- tor for the Louisville and Nashville railroad, sustained a crushed foot when the car was struck by an engine in the yards Monday afternoon.
 He was removed to St. Vincentis hos pital in Johns ambulance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-13
The First National Bank

VI BlrInlnBhAifl, Ala March 81st, 101a
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05
A Cracker-Jack

Really informative reading upon the labor move
ment is not at all plentiful Much is written but
little is said. Particularly upon the controversial
subject of the work of the Communists in the labor
union and the general fight of the left wing revolu-
tionary group against the reactionaries who seek
to hold the ranks of labor for conservative and
even class collaborative policies.
The question of what the A. f. of L. is doing
and has done in the steel drive is subject of first
Importance. Thousands and tens Of thousands of
dollars have been spent What the results are is
told by VIM. q. Foster in the August Labor Herald,
in spirited criticism of the A. F. of L. officials
in charge of the so-called Campaign" Since
Foster when he resigned as secretary treasurer of
the great steel strike of 19192O left $130,000 in
the treasury, it would interest anyone who cares
at all about the labor movement to know what
Foster charges has been done by the present Of
fcers to spend this great treasury Read it in the
Labor Herald for August.
Another article of great clarity and worth is
dealing with the why, after years of effort
to establish broad labor party, the Workers
Party was compelled to nominate its own candi-
dates to defend as the only political party of la
bor the principle of independent working class po-
litical action.
Perhaps the most Informative article of timely
character deals with the Dawes Plan as interna-
tional "open shop movement. This article, writ
ten by Harrison George, exposes not only Dawes
and the movement to enslaye German labor, but
lays bare the fundamental contradictions of CAPT
talism which now are forcing it>toward its his
torical DOOM
Articles on the unions among the needle trades
and wildly sharp analysis Of the international
problems Of the worlds unions by A. Losoysky,
secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions
are among numerous good things in the Labor
Herald for August
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05

.NNLY the future can estimate ac-
~ curately the significance Of the
visit that our Secretary Of State,
Charles Evans Hughes, and our Sec
rotary of the Treasury, Andrew w.
Mellon, are now paying Europe.
These two men, amongst the ablest
of American diplomats and financiers,
are not accustomed to deal with small
matters. These two giants of our inn
perialist junta are the handspring of
a most gigantic attempt now being
made by the Yankee capitalists to
dominate the most highly developed
industrially and politically continent,
Europe. OF the two Mr. Hughes is
more of the talker Mr.. Mellon is the
doer.
The Rival Of Rockefeller.
Mr.. Mellon, whose name is now fire.
quently associated with such interna-
tional financiers as Thomas w. La
mont, of ]. P. Morgan & Company,
Montague Norman, Governor of the
Bank Of England, and Reginald Nc
Kenna, Chairman Of the London Joint
City and Midland Bank, is himself
one Of the richest men in the world.
Many believe that our Secretary of
the Treasury is the rival Of Rookie
Teller. Some consider him the wealth.
est man in the world.
At any rate, when Mr.. Mellon is
in Europe, it is a sure sign that bust
ness is being handled and that it is
being handled on stupendous scale.
Looking into the role played by Mel
Ion in American industry and finance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05
Are You Opposed to War Mr.. LaFolIette

Wilson's. Only the other day
Coolidge said he was, "unqualifl
sympathetic with the aim to n
war impossible The democl
party platform declares against
and for a visionary referendum
as does yours. But since nei
yours nor the democrats platform
fers to abolish capitalism, the c;
of war, both are equally hypocrit
Both are aimed to lull the ma
into trusting that war will be avo
until they are in it. Then you,
Toilette, and all your kind, will a
vote appropriations and give full
port-just as you did before.
You are the same kind Of frau
Bryan, who, on the verge of
said: IF war should come, we
all support the government, of col
yet at this moment it is our sa
duty to preserve the nation from
horrors of war" All that the Y
eminent of Wilson, the hypod
had to do to silence Bryan, the i
critic, was-simply-to declare 1
BY this simple means all fools
pacifists, liberal, labor and soci
traitors, were won over at once
course"-to support the govern
and the war!
Away with Cheats and Frauds
War is the consequence of
talism"-say we Communists.
is but an extension of political {
rels between rival imperialist
tions.
In this campaign the Commu
will point out that just as you
to oppose war in the past, so you
fail in the future. More, that in 4
platform, you make no pretense
solution for capitalist wars. ThaI
are deceiving them with phrases
lulling them to a sense of false
curity from which they will be a
ened by the thunder of guns anc
call to the trenches and death.
this campaign the Communists
say: Down with capitalist "
Down with hypocritical phrs
Against war the workers shall
the banner Of proletarian revoluti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05

amnesty for class war prisoners. So
timid were you that you did not
speak for the release even of the pa
cifist conscientious directors" held
by the war department until a full
year after the war ended! You were
no LiebknechtI You did not have the
bravery to attack the war in time OF
warI And you cannot now gain sup
port from radicals on the ridiculous
ground that your wife asked release
from prison of those who did attack
war. Your wife may be a noble
woman as Debs states-in fact she
seems to be better man than you
are-but your "war record" is a rec
ord of timidity and cowardice, LaFoi
Iette!
You talk of liberty" Yet you op
posed the infamous Espionage Act
NOT because it sent men to prison
but misunderstanding to your own
claims-it carried a provision that
the postoffice department could deny
SOA totA Aud1AluS pIAFAlO6CS W uCWS
papers! And you own a newspaper
What were to you, the hundreds Of
workers thrown into prison under
this outrageous law? Less than
nothing? You never raised your voice
in protest over the lumber strikers
of Washington being thrown into
"bull-pens." Nor the crime of the
"Bisbee deportation" known around
the world! Nor the illegal persecu
ton of the socialists and the /. w
W.! Liberty, even bourgeois, fake
liberty, would have died utterly II Its
life had depended on your courage In
time of war, Bob LaFoIIetteI Few
were the voices raised in our defense
when we laid in prison as workers
objecting to capitalist war. And yours
was not one of them! You had
learned your lesson from the capital
list criticism Of your st. Paul speech
and you were silent Where is your
war record" Mr.. LaFollette?
How Do You Differ From OtherA
Frauds?
But you say you are against war
You say so. So did Woodrow viii
son. We want no more Woodrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05

one gets an idea of the game he is
up to in London. When Mr.. Mellon
takes hand in settling the debt
parley. he is not engaged in thresh.
ing over old straw with negative re.
suits.
Mr.. Mellon is a business man; from
head to foot, Mr.. Mellon symbolizes
the very height of industrial and
financial America. Mr.. Mellon is the
very personification of the octapus
of American Imperialism whose tenta-
cles are now being fastened with
deadly effect on the war-ruined coun-
tries of Europe. Mr.. Melons bust
ness record speaks for itself. 1t shows
what Mr.. Mellon is up to in Europe.
1t shows what Mr.. Mellon, in com
panyf with the Morgan interests, his
close allies, will be doing while MIR.
Hughes will be talking.
A Modern croesus.
At the time Mr.. Mel.on was ap-
pointed secretary to the treasury, he
was either director or president of
four banks, four insurance companies,
and sixty-two other corporations.
Oil, aluminium, locomotives, steel, rad
iators, railway cars, plateglass, motor
trucks, carborundum, bolts and riyets,
and more than huncred other com.
|modities, shipped to all parts of the
world, are in the grip of the Mellon
corporations. The Mellon National
Bank of Pittsburgh has total of
more than one hundred and ten mil
lion dollars in deposits and nearly a
hundred and fifty million dollars in
resources.
1t has been estimated that on the
eve of his becoming secretary of the
treasury Mr.. Mellon was directly and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05
THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON
LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS

to keep the interest and taxes
up. So far, for the past twenty v
| have paid twenty-three hundred
lars interest on two thousand
lar loan-$30O more than the oriI
loan, and the mortgage yet I'M
Many of my neighbofs who also
rowed money at the same time
lost their homes, and are now rer
Hence, / may be classed as on
the thousands of bankrupt far
Of America But | do not def
| will pull through some day.
You have a great paper, bee
your editorial staff are able men
bold defenders of the truth.
friend and Comrade, M. II. o
Brownsville, Tenn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05
1t Was a Fine War

The American Legion Weekly, in its current
issue publishes a symposium on what did the
world gain by the world WARP" to which various
celebrities have contributed, among whom are the
German Crown Prince, General Pershing and
Samuel Gompers.
The Crown Prince finds that instead of peace
being established by the late war, all nations are
arming more feverishly than ever and relationships
of one sort or another are becoming the fad in
Europe Democracy is wearing crown of thorns
or sitting on Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points.
General Pershing says it is yet too early to APP
praise all the benefits gained from the slaughter
of seven million men and the manning of twice
as many but domination by autocracy was killed
and the war proved that the free peoples of the
world will unite to prevent autocracy
Gompers declares: ''The world gained as a result
of the great war freedom from the menace Of
organized militarist Imperialism without which all
peoples sooner or later would have been unclaimed
in bondage and vassalage Democracy is in the
ascendance the dominant form of government"
OF the three opinions, the Gompers drivel is by
all means the most stupid and vicious. The Crown
Prince is something sof realist. Pershing, being
a general and making his living at the killing
business it is not surprising that he should find
virtue in such a magnificent blood carnival the
late war.
But Mr. Gompers, head of labor organization
with almost four million workers as members One
would expect something better even from such a
notorious lackey.
Gompers knows as well as anybody else that
the late war did not free the world from the
of militarist imperialism and did not strengthen
democracy. Militarist Imperialism is today q
greater menace than it before 1914 and demo,
cracy is anything but vigorous. Several European
countries in the grip of capitalist relationships
and even in those coutres where capitalism is still
able to pull along with its pseudo democracy,
there are militant reactionary forces urging the
scrapping of democracy and establishing dicta-
torship on the Mussolini model.
None Of the contributors to the American Legion
symposium mentioned the rise of the Russian
Soviet Republic as a war blessing. Neither did
they say that the failure of the capitalist system
to recover it's prewar vigor is gain for the world.
These are not blessings in the eyes of capitalists
and their lieutenants.
There is more militarism in the world today
than ever before. There is less freedom and Sc
curity for the workers But this very fact is a
symptom of the condition of decay in which CAPT
talism finds itself and brings the workers closer to
the day when they must confer a real blessing on
humanity by consigning the capitalist system to
the dump heap of history.