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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

lacking on our side for radio, for paid
advertising, and other expensive pub
hcity avenues, it was impossible be-
fore election day to offset the ava
lanche of untruths that were launched
by the opposition.
Employers Back Campaign
ut was impossible also in that space
OF time for the confused public to
pierse the smoke screen which con-
cealed the real enemies and the real
forces of the opposition, namely, the
Associated Industries of Massachu-
sets and the National Manufacturers
Association, working behind and
through the screen of a Citizens
Committee for Protection of Our
Homes and Children Under the i'm
print of the committee, tons of liter
ature and scores of speakers were sent
all over the state, spreading the lie
that the amendment originated in
Russia, that it was intended to re-
move children from the pernicious in
huence of the family and national
ize them; that it would prohibit boys
from helping their father on the farm,
or girls from washing dishes at home;
that it would destroy parochial
schools; that it would give Congress
control of education; that it would in
terfere between parent and child in
some new and unprecedented way.
Voters Not Told Truth
Because of the fact that the man.
ufacturers from behind. their smoke
screens were able to reach the public
with those lies, while the friends OF
the amendment were unable through
lack of money to reach them with the
truth, the voters of Massachusetts,,
not knowing what they did, voted by
majority of 100000 to allow child
labor to continue in these Southern
states where Massachusetts, mill own
ers have investments.
when the smoke has cleared away
the people of Massachusetts will re-
call that those same Massachusetts,
mill owners used to urge a Federal
child labor law because they felt
themselves handicapped in competi-
tition with the Southern mills that en-
ploy child labor. Now that Massa-
chusetts manufacturers have built or
bought mills of their own in the South,
they are opposing Federal legislation.
To continue the competition between
the States is now to their advantage,
and can be used as a lever to modify
even the child labor laws in Massa-
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 20
Approximately $4,88e stands behind
the job Of every man or woman in a
manufacturing plant in the United
States. This figure represents the
average investment of capital per
worker in industry, according to data
collected by the U. S. Census Bureau.
The Census Bureau made a thorough
investigation of manufacturing of ev-
cry kind. It tabulated the number
of workers employed in each line, the
value Of the products turned out and
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 20
Farm and factory wage scales in
their fluctuations follow almost par
allel lines of increases and decreases,
it is revealed in a study of data cover
ing a period of more than ten years
which were collected by the United
States Departments of Commerce and
Agriculture.
According to the Commerce Depart
ment's records, common labor en-
ployed in the factory now is working
at scales which range approximately
twice those of 1918 OF an advance
about double to the prewar period.
On the farm the wage level shows an
advance of about So per cent over
prewar levels, according to the Agri-
culture Department.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

With small variations, these same
proportions of increase in comparison
with 1918 are to be noted from 1891
to 1928. In 1923 factory wages
showed an increase of 90 per cent over
prewar compared with an advance of
IS per cent on the farm; in 1922 the
proportions were so and 3S per cent
and in 1912 they were 80 and AZ per
cent.
The two scales were closest in 1920
when factory scales stood at a level
about 100 per cent over 1918 and
farm scales about ia per cent.
The official data revealed that high
factory wages tend to increase wages
in the rural districts by drawing labor
away from them.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

their machines and capital investment.
On the average, the Bureau found,
someone with nearly one half million
dollars must be found before jobs can
be created in any line for one hundred
persons.
In some lines of manufacturing the
capital investment necessary is large
In the manufacturing of food products
the investment runs up to So, per
worker. The iron and steel industry
ranks next with an average Investment
of $5,494 per wage Garner.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

"A man should serve an appren-
ticeship in union leadership the same
as serving an apprenticeship at a
trade" said Mr.. Wilson.
Fake Members Expelled
at is business proposition and a
profession. l have seen old time
labor union officers, who have devoted
lifetime to the labor movement,
relegated to the rear by gas bags and
wind bags who are newcomers in the
unions. We waste no time with that
sort of gentry. We expel them if
we obtain proof that they are serving
some other purpose than trade union
ism," he concluded.
"The international Seafarer's Fed
GRAFTON embraces measures, mates, en-
gineers and seamen of various coun-
tries in Europe and the international
Seamen's Union of America" said
Secretary Damn, in explanation as to
its jurisdiction.
Peter Shaughnessy, of the brick
layers, and his wife came into Mr..
Wilson's Room in the Blackstone Hotel
while we were talking. Peter and the
"missus" were there to pay their re-
spects to the "old man" as the other
seamen in the delegation term Mr..
Wilson. Mr.. Shaughnessy, it will
be recalled, was the delegate last
year from the American Federation
of Labor to the British Trades Union
Congress.
Immigration Agreement Made
Both Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Damn
considered it advisable to discuss
either European or American politice.
They said, however, that America had
a perfect right to determine as to the
quality of its citizenship and that
the bona fide sailors of the world
would cooperate in carrying out the
provisions of the immigration act of
1924 and the Fa Toilette seamep's
act. There was some misunderstand-
ing as to the application of the two
acts, and it was with the purpose of
getting an understanding on these
points that Mr.. Wilson visited Pres
dent Coolidge and Secretary Davis of
the Labor Department at Washing
ton. Mr.. Wilson said that satisfac-
tory agreement had been made.
To boil it down and put it in simple
terms, any alien sailor can quit his
ship when it is in a safe berth in a
United States harbor and seek en-
ployment to another ship. He is al
lowed so days in the United States
to seek a new ship. He may engage
in other work while he is searching
for job on the seas. He must, how
ever, furnish undisputable proof to
the immigration officers that he is
professional seamen. The best way
to do this is to keep his union dues
paid and to report from time to time
to the officers of the union.
Seamen Won't Smuggle
Professional seamen should realize
that the taking on of immigrants to
man ships at foreign ports is a dis
elimination against them and keeps
them out of work. The United States
does not want these people as a part
of it's population, and the bona fide
sailors of the world are not DESTROYS
of assisting in their smuggling into
this country.
It was a pleasure to meet these
gentlemen, and your correspondent
was glad to say to them that he rep
resenter the bona fide labor press of
America-both the United States and
Canada.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21
Healing Cream
Stops Catarrh
ClOgged Air Passages Open at Once
NOstrils Cleared

If your nostrils are clogged and
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or a cold, get Ely's Cream Balm at
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this pure, antiseptic, germ destroying
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How good it feels. Your head is
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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

WEALTHY MAY GO TO FLORIDA
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. 20
Voters of this state have amended the
Florida constitution to exempt inheri-
tances and income from taxation.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

The proposal was adopted by a vote
of seven to one. These exemptions
are intended to attract the nations
wealthy to this state.
The amendment does not affect fed
eral taxes, but it does prevent any
state legislation from making a SINH
lar levy.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

chusetts. The pity is that the people
of Massachusetts, did not see this be-
fore election day"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21
CHILD LABOR LAW IS
DEFEATED BYUES, MASS.

CONTINUED from Page 0nel
agencies, could disseminate their prop
uganda without limit. With a few
notable exceptions, the newspapers
were practically closed to friends of
the amendment, and as funds were
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-21

0FvR'e'sT 'ozAe ~ NALer eover, NAssAssron, &C.
Evening star., 1924-12-14

At the Bargain Annee-
Where
You remember the Bar
gain Annex. Where we sold
$4,000 of mems overcoats
in one day. And only last
Friday, we were so mobbed
on our 99c day we had to call
out the Reserves. We have
a reputation for doing the
sensational at the Annex.
THIS RADIO CONSOLE
SALE WILL ADD TO 1T.
Evening star., 1924-12-14

Just Buy $3.50 Worth of Records
No $3.50 Victor records
Balance arranged small
| monthly
Evening star., 1924-12-14

weekly for 3 weeks ($1O in all)
delivers your piano. $40 cash
delivers it Immediately, of course.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, October % Omitted
States Department of Agricultural
Hogs-Receipts, 10000; very uneven;
largely steady with Tuesdays low
point; few sales weak to 10c lower;
narrow demand; top, 1875; bulk, good
and choice, 200 to $50 pound averages,
9.65a10.25; majority desirable 140 to
180 pound weight. NS.25a930; bulk
packing sows, S.90a9.2O; better strong
weight slaughter pigs mostly 7.5Oa
500.
Cattle-Receipts, 10000; yearlings
and desirable handyweight fat steers
fairly active; fully steady: numerous
loads yearlings, 1880; weightier and
half fat steers and grassers slow;
weak to Csc lower; bulk fed steers,
S.50a10.00; few grassers sold early to
killers; cows and bulls generally
steady: lower grades cows more ac-
tive; bulk Gamers and cutters, ASA
3.25; bulk bologna bulls, 3.75a41O;
veals, steady; bulk to packers, 95Oa
1000; few, 1925; upward to 11.00 to
outsiders; stockers and feeders gen
orally steady.
Sheep-Receipts. 1900; active; fat
lambs strong to Csc higher: packer,
top, 1925; shippers, 1895; culls, HOO
a1150; comeback Westerns to killers,
13.75a14.25; choice fed lambs, 1850;
fat sheep strong; best ewes, 5.OOa
700; feeding lambs strong to higher;
bulk sales, 13.75a13.85; comeback
Westerns as feeders, 13.50a13.75;
breeding ewes, 7.00a7.50.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
COTTON QUOTATIONS
IN HIGHER GROUND
Frost in Part of Belt Factor in
Stronger Prices-Cables
Also Favorable.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 22.-The cot
ton market opened firm at an advance Of
20 to 81 points today in response to
higher Liverpool cables. reports of lower
temperatures in the Southeast, cover
ing and trade buying. After selling up
to 23.15 for December, fluctuations be-
came irregular, but business was fairly
active and prices held generally steady
active months ruling II to % points net
higher.
Private cables reported a good under
tone in Liverpool on favorable trade
prospects and spinners' callings.
Values in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, La, October 22-
The cotton market had a very steady
opening, first trades showing gains
of IL to 16 points. Liverpool was
better than due and the weather map
showed frost in the northern part of
the belt. Despite a highly favora BILE
weekly weather report, which claim
ed that the crop had made good
progress everywhere, owing to warm,
fair weather, the market improved
further after the call, owing to the
official predictions for frost in the
belt tonight. A private authority
made condition $50 and indicated
crop 12.400,000, based on Government
parS.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
CHICAGO GRAIN PRICES.

CHICAGO, October 22.-Owing large
1y to the fact that export business
yesterday turned out to be good deal
larger than most traders had supposed,
wheat tended upward in price today
during the early dealings. Need of
rain in Argentina. together with high
er quotations at Liverpool, counted also
as bullish factor. On the other hand.
conditions for the crop movement in
Canada were favorable and current ad-
vices indicated a fair increase of the
1925 domestic acreage of Winter wheat.
Opening prices, which ranged from II
to u higher, with December 147 to
1.471a and May Isl y to 1.52. were fol-
lowed by moderate reaction and then
by fresh upturn.
Fine weather and excessive market
ing OF live stock kept corn and oats
values easy. After opening unchanged
TO Y up, December, 1.OSA to LOSS,
corn sagged to well below yesterdays
finish.
Oats started at 1s to Il advance,
December SO to So Is Later moderate
declines took place
Sharp new breaks in the hog market
pulled down provisions
Evening star., 1924-10-22
SEEK FUNDS TO PAY
FOR new ENGINE
Southern Maryland Railroad Asks
I. C. c. Rights to Issue
Securities.

Permission to issue securities to
reimburse its board of directors for
a cash payment of $500 to the Bald
win Locomotive Company for pur-
chase of locomotive was sought of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
today by the Washington, Brandy
wine and Point Lookout Railroad
Company. running from Washington
into southern Maryland. The securi-
ties which the road seeks to issue
are to be in the form of a promissory
note payable on demand to the
Hughesville, Md, Savings Bank, bear
ing interest at the rate of per cent
yearly.
w. B. Duke of Baltimore is presi-
dent of the railroad, which operates
trains into several southern Mary
land counties, covering the territory
south to the junction of the Potomac
River and Chesapeake Bay.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
ToDAY's NEW OFFERINGS.
Panama Canal Issue Attracts Con.
siderable Attention.
BY GEORGE II. HUGHES.

NEW YORK. October 22-High-
grade Investment issues were all
around Tuesdays high points. The
recent strength in the Treasury Az 8
led to the report that the Govern
ment contemplated a new long-term
refunding issue. A more probable ex-
PLANTATION, however, was buying by
banks mostly outside of New York.
Baltimore and Ohio first As and New
York, Chicago and st. Louis 5k IS
were among the railroad bonds in
demand.
Foreign bonds were mostly higher.
The German rs were strong above
"a, showing better tone than on
any day this week. French bonds
about held their own.
The most interesting offering Of the
day was s2.600.000 United States
Panama Canal SIS of 1861 at 98k. and
Si,S60,000 United States Conversion
Ss of 1916 and l947 at 9s9s. These
bonds were offered by a dealer who
had previously acquired them in the
open market. They are the only
United States bond obligation now
selling at a discount.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
OIL SHARES LEAD
IN FINAL TRADING
Rise in Gasoline Price Is
Cause-WhoIe Market .
Shows Strength.
BY STUART r. WEST.

Special DlSnatch 10 Inc star.
NEW YORK, October 22.-The stock
market continued strong today. Some
of the big Wall street houses We're
openly advising their customers to
buy, character:Zing the upward swing
as "discounting the election" This
advice was readily taken and there
was an thrush of buying orders from
all over the country which materially
swelled the volume of business
OIL shares Respond.
The advance in gasoline prices, an
nounced late Tuesday, met with
prompt response in the oil shares
These stocks had been under accumu-
1ation for the last month or more
They had shown by the way they re-
sisted the latest of the price cuts
during the Summer that they had
gone into strong hands and were only
awaiting the least encouragement in
the trade news to start forward
Pretty much the entire group were
swept forward
Pacific Oil crossed so on large
transactions. Cosden was heavily
bought as it passed through 25.
Texas Company, above II, attracted
much attention while all of the other
leaders, like Phillips Petroleum, Pro-
ducers and Refiners. Sinclair, Houston,
California Petroleum and Pure Oil,
were active "rd strong. General As
phalt went With the rest.
Rubber Stocks Stronger.
Rubber and tire shares appeared to
have got over the effects of the recent
casual price cutting and Were re-
spending again to the much improved
position in the crude rubber industry.
American Hide and Leather stocks in
the rise OF the preceding day seemed
l. Il
after the close of business that re-
capitalize zion plan had been worked
out which would take care of the 40
per cent. back dividends.
American Can again was easily the
leader among the regular favorites,
advancing readily. L. 5. Steel com
mon was actively dealt in. but was
rather held back by the persistent
weakness in Bethlehem Slee, which
sold most of the day under 40. In
dustrial Alcohol resumed its advance,
and Cast Iron Pipe appeared to have
got over completely the effects of
the adverse court decision. The
amount-S721 ,O0o-necessa to clear
up back dividends is comparatively
slight the way the company's earn
ings have been running for the last
two years.
SpeciaIties Also in Demand.
Among the specialties United Drug.
Mallinson, International Combustion
Engineering, Montgomery Ward. In
ternational Nickel, and Mack Trucks
were in demand. Columbia Gas and
Electric at A was within a point of
Its extreme high.
The market refused to believe in
enthusiastic predictions that Novem-
Der was to be followed by great
forward movement which would in
volve all lines of industry. 1t regis
tered. as 1t had on the previous day,
it's opinions that the elections are not
likely to relieve the uncertainties
which surround the sugar trade and
the woolen trade, and that the in
dependent steel companies are not
going to find their troublesome prob
lem of inadequate profit margin set
tied right away.
Most stocks representing these va
rious lines either hung back, refus-
ing to join in the upward swing, or
else were definitely weak.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
Cement 100 YEARS OLD.
Public Library Collects Special
Information on Subject.

The Public Library has sent letters
to the leading cement dealers and ce-
ment products manufacturers of
Washington, inviting them to use the
resources of the library on Portland
cement and it's uses, in recognition of
the fact that 100 years ago, on Octo-
Der 21, 1924, John Aspidin of Leeds,
England, patented Portland cement
The Industrial division also has a dis
play. of recent pamphlets on the
varied uses now made of concrete,
which will be of interest to engineers,
builders and home-makers. Assisu-
ants will be glad to help any inquirers
to find information in regard to ce-
ment and concrete.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
BANK DIRECTORS
GET BACKING HERE
Clearing House Will Support
Rieman and StrudWick
as Reserve Officials.
BY CHAs. p. sHAEFFER,

The Washington Clearing House Asso-
citation will support Charles L. Rieman,
president of the Western National Bank
of Baltimore, and Edmund Strudwick
president of the Atlantic Life Insurance
Co. of Richmond, to succeed themselves
as directors of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, Harry " Haynes,
head of the local association, announced
this morning
MIR. Rieman is a class "A" director
which classification demands elections
to this group must be bona fide bankers
Class B. includes representatives OF
the industrial field.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond has announced that polls for the
election will be opened on Monday, No
vember II, while the new appointments,
or reappointments, will be dated as of
the first of next year. The terms Of office
are for one year only.
Local banks eligible to cast their
votes in support of the reserve banks
directors include those with capital
and surplus in excess of s599,O0O.
Debating Glass to he Formed.
A class in debating and public
speaking will be organized by the
local chapter, American Institute of
Banking, tomorrow night in the rooms
or the Washington Stock Exchange,
72S Fifteenth street northwest.
The class will be in charge of Rufus
Lusk, Georgetown A. B., and medal
man of that university's debating
team of past years.
The class is being formed for the
purpose of accepting defies of the de-
batting teams of the Baltimore and
Philadelphia chapters, and will meet
every Thursday night at o'clock at
the stock exchange rooms.
The accounting course of the chan
ter was organized last night with an
enrolment of 40 students. A Hallow-
cen party is scheduled for Thursday
night, October 80, at the chapters
rooms, it was also announced.
Bank Acquires Street Bonds,
The Chevy Chase Savings Bank has.
py olrect purchase, acquired the en-
tire allotment of $4,000 of 6 per cent
bonds of the Street improvements of
Chevy Chase, Section 3, which will be
held for investment. Ezra Troth,
cashier. announced this morning. The
bonds mature in one to six years.
The bank was organized in De-
cember, 1921, with deposits of only
S25, All. Since that time it has grown
rapidly, and now has deposits in ex-
cess of s330.000 with total resources
of approximately s59o,0O0.
Bond Issue Allowed.
The Chicago Rock Island and
Pacific Railway Co. was authorized
today by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to as ume obligation in
respect of $3.50 900 of Chicago. Rock
Island and Pacific Railway equipment
trust issue of 1924 certificates to be
sold at not less than 90 per cent Of
par, the proceeds to be used to procure
new equipment.
Trading on Local Board.
National Mortgage and Investment
preferred stock continued to be
rather heavily traded in today, 454
shares changing hands at 8 to 9h.
The closing sales were made at 9i2.
but inasmuch as onlyN four shares
changed hands the gain is discounted
Mergenthaler Linotype sold to the
extent of eight shares at 1641A and
Capital Traction was steady at 92&..
Bonds were listless and unchanged.
Evening star., 1924-10-22
RAILROAD ISSUES
LEADERS IN BONDS
September Earnings Reports
Aid Buying-Sugar Liens
. Very Weak.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, October 22.-Railroad
Issues led an upward movement in
bond prices in today's early dealings.
Stimulated by the favorable Sep
tember earnings reports of leading
Western carriers, buying activity was
extended to a wide range of railroad
mortgages, including st. Paul, Wheel
ing and Lake Erie, Chicago Great
Western. New York Central Frisco
Erie and Seaboard lines.
Trading in St Paul bonds was
marked by one of the periodic bursts
of buying based on current prospects,
which carried prices ! to 2A points
higher. The 4ks of 1923 and the. As
of 1924 and 1884 attracted the best
demand.
Sugar company bonds were con-
spicuously weak, being unsettled by
disturbing trade reports from Cuba.
Warner Sugar Is and refunding rs
broke more than 2 points each to
new 1924 lows at 81 and IS, respec-
lively.
United States and foreign govern
ment obligations were firm, with the
financial district displaying interest
in reports that Jugoslavia and
Czechslovakia were seeking loans in
the American market.