davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
JOHNSON MAKES
SHORT COMMENT
Sorry Owners Could Not
See Their Exact
Duty

CHICAGO, Dec. 20-Ban johnson,
president of the American league, who
for two days has refused to comment on
the action of league club owners meet
ing here this week in removing him
from the baseball advisory council, and
advising Commissioner Kenesaw M.
Lands that johnson would be removed
from office if he interfered with the
conduct of the commissioners office,
tonight issued his only statement on the
affair.
Il am sorry" he said, that the
American league club owners could not
conceive their faithful and exact duty
to the public. have no criticisms to
offer"
This statement" he added, "consti-
tutes everything I will have to say
about the major league meeting"
He has given no indication of TAX
ing any action in reply to the resolution
of the American leaguers, who threat
ened him with deposition if what they
termed his misconduct" continued.
ANY chance of resigning as Amer
lean league head?" he was asked.
Il won't answer that one way or
another" he replied. "In fact 1 won't
event admit I'm Ban Johnson"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
TRACK EVENTS
WILL BE HELD
Richmond Games To Be Re-
newed On February Ia

RICHMOND, Va, Dec 20.-Rich-
mond fans of the cinder path are look
ing forward to the renewal next Feb
ruary Il, of the annual University of
Richmond invitation games which
proved the greatest local indoor sport
ing event up until 1914, when it was
temorarily discontinued.
Athletic authorities of the university
have announced that invitations have
been sent out to all the leading col
leges, preparatory and high schools of
Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland,
and it is expected that most of them
will enter teams in the competition
for individual and team honors.
The meet will be held in the coliseum
building. which has seating capacity
of $4,000.
Other leading indoor track meets to
be held in this section or the George
town games, to be contested in Wash
ington on February 81, and the annual
Johns Hopkins meet in Baltimore a
week following on the 2Sth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21

The purchase of Weaver, right
handed twirler with the Nashville Vols
last season, and the sale of Tolson, first
baseman drafted by the Barons from
Charlotte, of the South Atlantic league
to Nashville were announced by Billy
West, secretary of the local baseball
club, Saturday night. The purchase
and sale prices were not announced.
Weaver made a good record with the
Vols last season, despite the rather
weak showing Of the club. and should
make the Barons a dependable member
of the 1925 hurting corps. This pitcher
beat Birmingham twice in as many
days in series toward the end of the
season in Nashville, going in for relief
duty with the score deadlocked on both
occasions and perchance this double de-
feat by the newly acquired moundsman
made the local officials remember
sufficiently to put in good bid for him
recently.
Had $50 Average
The Vol twirler won II games for
Nashville last season while he was los
ing nine, getting an average of $50,
which should be considered extra good,
considering the rather weak club of
which he was a member. The records
show the new Baron struck out 46 and
allowed 81 bases on balls in twirling
ISL innings. He participated in %
games, getting decisions in 20 of them
and came through the season with an
earned run average of $50.
Tolson, first sacker, was sold by the
Birmingham club after they had ac-
auired Bowman, Pacific coast star, who
Is practically certain to cavort at the
initial station in a Barionial uniform
next season. Tolson, however, made a
great record with Charlotte last year,
and is reported to be coming first
baseman. He was drafted at the end
Of the last season. Besides Tolson, the
Barons have another good prospect in
the rocky line for the first base duties
in Heath, who was bought at the end of
last season from Ottamuwa, of the
Mississippi Valley league. He was with
the Barons toward the latter portion
of the 1924 grind and showed up well
for a recruit.
To Be Strong
The continued announcements OF
more ball players of high caliber being
bought by the Baron officials seems to
further indicate that the local entries in
the Southern league race in 1925 will
be one of the strongest contenders the
Magic City has known for many Il sea-
son.
Billy West is optimistic over the
teams prospects, and states the Barons
are still in the market for pitchers.
The local twirling staff, after acquiring
four star moundsmen already, should
be formidable throwing combination,
but there will still be others added in
order to fill the gaps should any of the
new ones fall down.
The pitching corps has at least six
hurlers with class A requirements. with
the possible exception of Red Bates,
although Johnny Dobbs believes he can
make a pitcher out of Red yet.
A Good Trio
Crowder, the pitcher bought from
Rochester, of the international league
Is a youngster with three years expert
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
ANYTHING MILL DO

Graduate want good hard job.
Business Mani have no good hard
jobs.
Graduate-Well, just make it a good
job, then.-Carnegie Tech. Puppet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
RABBIT NAMED CAPTAIN

CHICAGO, Dec. 2O.-Walter "Rab-
bit" Maranville, star second baseman
and shortstop, today was named cap
tain of the Chicago Nationals.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21

DIR. Cunningham wilson, O. L. Carl two
trophies, A. G. Chesney, 1. NJ. Crum
two trophies, Lonnie Munger, L. L.
Stephenson, J. p. Dovel, H. C. Hyding,
DR.. Nabers. There is still one more
match to be shot for these trophies
during 1924, and this match will be
shot next Saturday, December q.
One of the most interesting matches
that was shot during the year was
for the handsome watch chain and
charm which was shot for once each
month, the wilmer wearing it for that
month or until the next shoot took
place. There are IL wins on this beau.
tiful trophy and these IL men will line
up on the 3rd of January at which
time it will be shot off for on 100
targets on a handicap basis, the aver
age based on the last 500 targets shot
over the grounds of the Birmingham
Gun club. This handicap will give
every shooter an equal chance in the
shoot off and it is now creating
great deal of interest as to who will
be winner in this match as some fine
shots are credited with wins on it.
Saturdays handicap was won by
Mrs. o. L. Carl. Second high score
score was won by l. NJ. Crum, while
third place fell to Joe Morgan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
WALKER WILL
GOTO FLORIDA

PINEHURST, N. c., Dec. 20.-Cyril
Walker, American open golf champion,
arrived here yesterday for a brief stay.
lie leaves for Florida soon, where he
will join the professional league.
Despite a sore knee, injured recently,
that has kept him off the links, Walker
says lie is beginning to feel fine and
intends to resume playing while here.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
SCOTT NOT TO
BATTLE TEXANS

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 2O.-The board
of education refused at special meet
ing this noon to grand permission to
Scott High school football team to 90
to Dallas during the holiday vacation
TO meet the Texas scholastic champions
December 81. Scott had been invited
to play by the Texas State Fair Associa-
ton the game being planned las the
feature of an annual celebration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
French Flight From
Europe to India Makes
New Distance Record

PARIS, May Lieutenant Pelle.
tier D'Oisy, French aviator who is
attempting to establish new long
distance fight record, has arrived in
Karachi, from Bender Abbas and is
preparing to take off on the next leg
of his long trip to Japan.
D'Oisy already has established a
distance record for flight from Eu-
rope to India, covering the long dis
lance in an actual flying time of SO
and one-half hours.
D'Oisy flew from Bender Abbas To
Karachi, 1850 kilometers, in seven
hours and Is minutes. The landing
at Karachi was made with some dan
ger, as tire on the landing wheel
was blown out. The greatest Difficult.
ty on the trip was in crossing the
Beluchistan Mountainous deserts. The
aviator is resting today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
Japanese And u. S.
Labor Takers Support
Their Own Masters
tsy The Federated Press,

SEATTLE, Wash, May Labor in
America and Japan could settle the
Japanese immigration problem in the
United States without the friction and
sensationalism which carry the threat
OF war, Bunzi Suzuki, president of the
Japanese Federation of Labor de-
clares in interviews published by the
local japanese language press.
Passing exclusion laws aimed at
the Japanese laborers is an insult to
the Oriental nation. he believes.
Suzuki. who has visited America three
times to study labor problems on the
Pacific coast, declares the problem to
Pacific coast, declares the problem to
be purely economic "If workers
from our country really are under
mining the position of organized la
Dor in America, the Japanese Fedora
ton Of Labor is perfectly willing to
take measures to fix the matter up"
Suzuki asserts. I'VE feel that there
is good ground for complaint from the
American SIDE"
The Japanese government has pro-
hibited the immigration of Chinese
laborers into Japan to improve labor
conditions in the island empire. The
action has the support of the Fedora
ton of Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
Parker Urges Berry
Or Davis To "Non-
Partisan" Labor

HOAQIUM. Wash. May Support
of George L. Berry, breaker of the
New York pressmen's strike. on the
Democratic ticket, and of James Davis
Secretary of Labor, on the Republican
ticket,-both for the office of Vice
president-was called for by William
Short, President of the State Fedora
ton of Labor, at the annual dinner
Of the Carpenters Union held here re-
Gently.
Short predicted that next falls cleo
ton would bring more liberal" adj
ministration than the country has had
for years. Short repeated that or
ganized labor had best remain mon
partisan" and work for the grafters
and takers he named.
This is the notorious yellow labor
leader" whose efforts to smash the
Seattle Central Labor Council because
he could not dominate it are notori-
Gus. His policy is that of Gompers.
"the bipartisan machine" as the Chi
cago Tribune used to call 1t in the
Lorimer affair. His efforts to wreck
the Tacoma Central Labor Council,
which is mildly progressive. are less
widely known, because more under
handed and snealy. In neither case
has he succeeded.
Short Would Be eompers' Shadow.
Shorts policy is that OF Gompers.
He, and his tools, have condemned the
Central Labor Councils of Seattle and
Tacoma for refusing TO cooperate
with the State Federation, in which
his reactionary machine, backed by
Spokane. Yakima, and Bellingham,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
SAL MO N TRUST
A D MITS VICIOUS
LABOR CONDITIONS
Companies Promise To
Bring Reforms

SEATTLE, May z. Grand jury
exposes at Ketchikan and Valdez,
Alaska. of horrible labor conditions in
the Alaska canneries have brought a
promise of reform by the big com
panies. The fact that it was getting
harder to procure labor for their
Alaska Summer bells was another
factor in this promise to ne good.
The Salmon Trusts statement is
signed by George Warren of the Alas
ka-Portland Packers Association,
David Branch of Libby, Mcneil e.
Libby and A. X. Tichner of the Alas
ka Packers Association, and three
representing a committee on Oriental
labor conditions appointed by the AS
ISOLATION of Pacific Fisheries.
Admit Abuses Existed.
The committees recommendations
urge among other things that:
Sub-contractors be abolished: that
at least three meals a day be given
all employees; that each employee be
guaranteed minimum amount Of
SIS in cash over any deductions upon
his return to port; liberal supply OF
drinking water to each labor passen.
ger on the vessels to and from the
canneries and payment Of wages I'M
der contract in the presence of the
labor commissioner.
This is an admission of the grand
jury findings that labor passengers
were denied sufficient drinking water.
were beaten out of their wages, were
underfed and speeded up under a sys.
tenn of sun-contracting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
Pennsy Lays OFF
More Men AS Gompers
Marbles At Pluto Meet

PHILADELPHIA.-The Pennsylva.
mia railroad is again laying off men.
During the week ending April Is, the
number on the payroll was reduced by
1.271 making the total now employed
211.7S2. This is 6,765 ahead of the
low mark in January when only 205..
OF were employed. But it is 20,9s6
less than during the week ending April
is. 1928. Maintenance employees are
chiefly involved.
While the great railroad corpora
ton was throwing some thousands Of
workers out of employment. Samuel
Gompers was telling the National Civic
Federation that the relations between
employers and employees were never
better.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
Hoover's Fish Packers
Threaten To Lock
Out Union Members

SAN FRANCISCO. - Negotiations
between the Alaska Fishermen's
Union and the Alaska Packers Asso-
citation are still deadlocked. The
packers want the men to accept de-
crease of cent, and the men are
asking for the same amount increase.
The union claims that the packers are
preparing to lock them out, and GER
tainly the employers are advertising
for non-union help. If matters cannot
be settled soon, a strike may be
called.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
Small Gusts Park
President; Puts
In Lundin's Man

John G. Kruse enjoyed his job as
president of the Chicago West Park
Board for just about eight hours. He
was sworn in yesterday afternoon and
last night Governor Len Small dis
placed him, selecting DR.. Kohn Dill
Robertson to the presidency.
The governors action is regarded
as slap at William Hale Thompson,
former mayor. Thompson's success
in having Kruse and others placed on
the board was hailed as victory over
Fred Lundin. Small's action. in GUST
ing Kruse and the other Thompson
selections, is held as evidence that
Lundin now is to be Small's chief
lieutenant in Cook county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
EXPECT ROOFERS
TO join WAR ON
ST. LOUIS BOSSES
Painters Battling With
Associated Builders
ey MARTIN a. pILLMoN

(Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press)
ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE painters
are still on strike for an increase of
wages and improvements in working
conditions, and a strike of composition
roofers and pile drivers is an i'm
mediate prospect.
The painters voted few days ago
to reduce their $12 demand to $11 a
day. While many contractors were
willing to settle, the compromise offer
of the strikers was turned down. The
painters present scale is SLIP IL an
hour.
Ask $1.37 An Hour.
Composition roofers demand 1877
IL an hour instead of the present
$1.25. Originally the union asked for
$3.50. The roofers demand s1.S7 IL
an hour. Pile drivers want $3.50 an
hour, at present receiving $125 an
hour. The pile drivers are affiliated
with the carpenters district council.
The local building industry has been
in turmoil of industrial war since
the inception of the Associated Build
ing interests. This group is made up
of employers of every trade in con-
struction. An employer who is a
member Of the A. B. I. is not per-
mitted to sign an agreement with his
employees without the approval and
consent of the one big union of con-
tractors.
BuiIders-Bankers-ReaI Estate.
"Fraternal membership" in the A. B.
l. is allowed the bankers association,
the architects organization and the
real estate board. According to the
striking painters, the real estate board
has sent circular letters to its mem
bers, warning that any member hav-
ing painting done on the basis of $12
a day, the new union rate, will be
penalized.
The striking painters have been
contracting work direct and a large
number have been kept busy in that
way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08

Pacific states the supply exceeds the
demand by from per cent to 10 per
cent.
Farmers were forced to pay higher
wages for farm labor in 1923 than in
1922 but at that the wages were only
81 per cent above the 1914 average.
The average rate with board for male
farm labor in 1923, according to the
department Of agriculture, was $331S
a month compared with $29.17 in 1922
and $21.O5 in 1914. Day wages for
harvest labor with board averaged
$2.45 in 1923, 1920 in 1922 and $1.55
in 1914. The increases from 1922 to
1923 are attributed to the industrial
competition for labor especially in the
northern states.
The average value of plow land de-
creased from $50 an acre in 1920 to
$65 in 1923, according to the Sears,
Roebuck Agricultural foundation. Crop
values an acre fell from $36 in 1919
to SIS in 1921. Farm bankruptcy pro-
ceedings in the federal courts jumped
from 1000 in 1920 to 5000 in 1923. The
foundation expects farm values to
continue downward for about ten
years. Then when the demand for
farm production exceeds the supply,
prices will rise and with them the
orioo of form, land
This is beautiful prospect for the
farmer who borrowed money to put
land under cultivation when the world
needed more food, only to lose both
land and investment when farm
values collapsed. He will live to see
new farm boom, but not as an indie
pendent farmer. He will be a tenant
or wage Garner without interest in the
land. His farm along with others will
have been consolidated into some
great capitalist enterprise farmed by
an expert manager and the profits of
the recovery will go to the capitalist
lending-institution which secured the
land cheap under foreclosure proceed
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08

and other less important locals, con-
troll. His idea of cooperation is for
him to be boss and the others to do
as he says.
Short recently praised the Spo-
kane Central Labor Council as ideal
|It is affiliated with the Chamber of
Commerce, and some of its members
are directors of that organization. Ac-
cording to Ryan's Weekly of Tacoma,
G. Coates, president of the Spokane
Central Labor Council, was selected
as a delegate to the Republican Ma
tional Convention by the state con-
vention which recently met in Wen
atchee
The control Of the Republican par
ty in the state of Washington by the
Power Trust is notorious. In Seattle
and Tacoma there is municipal own.
ership of powerplants. The falls of
the Spokane River have been given to
a private corporation which is also
back Of the Columbia Basin Irriga-
ton plan by which it expects to grab
still more water power. In Belling-
ham, the labor paper fought munich.
pal ownership and stood by the pow
er trust. Doubtless Mr.. Coates will
help the interest of the workers by
endorsing Hon. James Davis, Score
tary Of Labor in the Teapot Cabinet
for the vice-presidency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08

sent to Lynch, KY, a mining camp
on the Cumberland river, in the Har-
Ian coal fields, exceeded, by nearly
two thousand, the voting population
Of that precinct. Enough ballots, he
humorously explained, to give the
coal company a vote for every one
of their employees and every one of
their mules. And he aGGed the fol-
lowing comment: $50 far as / have
been able to learn, Lynch, Kentucky,
is the only place in the world where
mules enjoy the right of suffrage.
Il don't know whether Governor
Fields and the other officials of Ken
tucky's law-enforcing department
have heard of these things or not.
Maybe they don't know that there is
a Corrupt Practices Act on the stat
ute books of that state''
Operators Own Schools.
The public schools in eastern Ken
lucky mining camps are taught in
buildings that belong to the coal op-
orators, and it is no secret, but an
openly admitted fact that teacher re-
ceives, in addition to the regular sal
airy paid him by the state, a regular
stated compensation from the min
ing company in whose camp he hap
pens to be teaching. In some camps
this additional compensation is rails
ed by deducting school tax" each
month from the pay of the miners.
You will note that have not men
toned any of the economic conditions
of the miners in that section, nor have
mentioned any of the harsh, humili-
ating and outrageous treatment to
which they are subjected at the hands
of the coal hogs. could fill large
volume with stories of unspeakable
cruelty and crime, indescribable mis-
cry and squalor, unparalleled auto
cratic insolence and oppression. un-
equalled in hellishness-stories Of the
heartless eviction of women and little
children in the dead of winter, Of bru-
tai assaults and blood-curdling muir
ders committed by so-cailed peace
officers" at the command Of eastern
Kentucky stories, some of
which might sound unbelievable, but
all of which would nevertheless, be
true. / could cite numerous instanc-
es of the kind have just mentioned
but such is not the purpose of this
article. My purpose in writing this, is
to point out, as briefly as possible,
some of the wonderful things which
Governor Fields could be doing which
would be of immeasurable benefit to
Kentucky's toiling masses, were It not
for the fact that to do such things
would be adverse to the interests and
wishes Of the pampered classes; and
the governor, judging by his conduct,
evidently knows which side of his
bread is buttered.
One thing more. If the DAILY
WORKER doubts the veracity or ac-
curacy of any of the statements which
/ have made in the foregoing para
graphs, l shah be glad to furnish the
names of scores of people in various
parts of the eastern Kentucky coal
fields who will verify every assertion
I have made.
(Signed) ALONZO WALTERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
Standard Reaches
Into Russian Oil
Thru Germans
Especial 70 The paiIv work.A

ISpecIaI 70 The Daily Worker)
BERLIN, May z. - Standard Oil
is putting its finger into the Russian
pie indirectly by verbal agreements
with the German Erdoel Company
and the German Petroleum Company.
These firms have just concluded ar
engagements with Russia which bring
them $10,0OO,OOO worth of lubricating
oil and benzine from the Russian re.
sources. Standard has whispered to
these concerns its willingness to take
most of this imported oil from their
hands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-08
scab Road SWINGS Ak.

DANVlLLE, ILL.,, May 7.--Shakeups
among the higher-ups in, the Chicago
d Eastern Illinois railroad shops here
continue as the motive power and com
dition Of rolling stock grows worse.
The road still refuses to settle with
It's union shopmen, who went on
strike in 1922, together with the rest
OF the shopmen in the country. Tho
local shop superintendent is the latest
Official to get the ak from the com
pany.