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take particular pride, are the ones
which congratulate him on his labor
indictments and convictions.
"Pet' of Employers.
The manner in which Mr.. Grove
became the "pet" of the interests is
readily and easily disclosed when the
history of the states attorneys Of
fetal acts is unfolded When he was
running for Office in 1920, he beloved
forth his thunderous threats against
Victor Lawson Of the Daily News and
the Mccormick family of the Tribune.
He would, he announced, put them in
jail if they persisted in their illegal
practices.
On October %, 1920, it is reported
in the Daily News Of Chicago that:
am going to make Victor Law
son observe the law. / am going to
try and make Victor Lawson pay
his taxes, and if don't succeed in
doing it, | am going to put an adj
ditiOnal burden on the taxpayers of
this state. am going to make
the taxpayers of this city buy him
a ticket on the Chicago & Alton
r. r. to Joliet, and / am going to
give Victor a free ride, and then
we are going TO keep him at public
expense until he learns to behave
himself.
Lawson Not jailed.
Mr.. Victor F. Lawson is not known
to have changed his ways materially.
And yet the taxpayer of this state
was not forced to assume any addi-
tional burden by buying him a ticket
to Joliet. Mr.. Grove was to make
Mr.. Lawson "observe the law'-and
if he failed, he promised to put him
in Jail. Mr.. Lawson is not known to
be now observing the law any more
than he did then. Has he been put
in Jail? Has he so much as been
questioned, let alone been arrested?
Today Mr.. Grove says that Mr..
Lawson is a law observing citizen. He
quotes him prominently in his own
pamphlet. Why? Why is Mr. Law
sons present opinion commendatory?
Because Mr.. Lawson feels that the
states attorney has filed the bill as
far as his policy against organized
labor is concerned. Says Mr.. Victor
f. Lawson:
Capitalist Editor Praises Grove.
The showing you made of thirty
six convictions in recent trials of
men who have used the good name
of labor as cloak in the perpetra-
ton Of grave crimes against the
social order is most notable and
encouraging. / congratulate you.
On July 9, 1920, the Herald G. Ex-
aminer reports Mr.. Grove to have
said:
maintain that the States At
torney's Office should Re conducted
as law Office solely, and not as
club to punish enemies, political, or
otherwise, and that it should not
be used to promote political fer
tunes of a faction Of a party; or
used by the incumbent as a step
ping stone for political advance
ment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31

the third mass trial and mass ac-
quittal that has occurred in Trude's
court in three days.
Strikers who were inspired by the
speech of Mother" Jones to go to
the picket line Saturday i'll the pour
ing rain met with great success.
The bosses were unable because of
the rain to get cabs for the scabs.
Rainy days mean good business for
the taxi drivers and they don't have
to wait around for orders.
Pickets Talk to Scabs.
The scabs leaving the shops were
compelled to walk in the rain and
the pickets had a good chance to
talk with them. The police were not
brave enough to come cut in the
rain and risk wet feet and so the
pickets worked undisturbed. Not a
single arrest was made all day Sat-
urday. Not because there was any
lack of pickets on the streets, but
because it was too wet for the
police.
Many scabs after being talked to
promised not to return to work to-
day and the pickets promised to be
on hand to see that they kept their
promises.
Cases Continued TO Tuesday.
-alToday the strikers, who have
been arrested for contempt, will
have a respite from attending Judge
Donnie" Sullivan's court. All pend
ing cases have been set to be heard
tomorrow and the twenty-six strik-
ers who were last week fined and
sentenced to Jail will have bonds set
then.
When the strikers cases were
called Saturday Attorney Leo Le-
Bosky read to the court from the
DAILY WORKER 20 back up his
request that all The strikers SEN
fenced to jail be sent there at once
and not be admitted to bail.
~ want to read to your honor
from a paper that the strikers read,
what they have TO say about the
way the respondents took the sem
fences you imposed" LeBosky be-
gan.
Reads from Daily Worker"
Then he read the beginning of the
story from Saturdays DAILY
WORKER which told how the strik-
ers took their sentences.
"These people boast that no one
Is in Jail. They also call for strik-
ers to go to the picket line in the
next column. They urge the strik-
ers to fout the order Of this court
assuring them that no one has yet
gone to jail for doing it.
II think it is time the court sent
these respondents who have been
sentenced to Jail to 60 to Jail to
show that the orders Of this court
cannot be diregarded.p
LeBosky also pointed out to the
Judge that he was criticized BY the
DAILY WORKER. II have been
criticized before, suppose can
stand that" "Dennie' said.
Before the incident OF the read
ing Of the DAILY WORKER the
court refused 70 accept bonds signed
by Attorney Peter Sissman as SO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31

the dining room, and the serving
maid was standing by, when two
bullets crashed thru the window, fly
ing between Mrs. Kovler and the
maid. Police. were on the job, the
stories continued, and all union Of
ficials and business agents were to
be hauled in for inspection by a wo-
man witness who had been standing
in the street and saw two men run
ming away.
This sounded exciting, so the
DAILY WORKER asked Mr.. Kovler
about it Sunday, after his magma
ton had had time to cool.
Kovler Contradicts Tribune.
Then he said that:
He was not in the room where
the bullets entered:
His wife was not in the room;
His baby was not in the room,
None Of the family were there ex-
cept the serving maid, Mrs. Ella
Loeder. No, he did not think they
wanted to kill the maid. 1t might
have just been an attempt to scare
him, he said.
No Arrests Made.
The detective bureau meanwhile
said they had not made any arrests
and didn't propose to do 50. They
intimated that they regarded Kovler's
story as fishy.
And after all the yarns have &C,
complished their purpose, for the
manufacturer. They spread false
stories about the union which is on
the way to winning higher wages and
shorter hours for the girls he works
in his sweat shop at 337 S. Market st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
Strike Buster Cro1Oe Exposed BY Committee Of 15

On May 2, 1922, the Chicago Daily
News reported that, in a speech be-
fore Rotary Club members at the
Hotel Sherman
States Attorney Robert Il. Grove
warned defendants in recent labor
trials that he was going to put them
either in the poorhouse or the pen-
itentiary. II understand that the
Quesse defense fund is 100000,
but / will put him. either in the
p0orhOuse or the penitentiary.
Every indictment will be tried"
Promises War on Labor.
And, again on August %, 1922, tht
Tribune reported that labor cases still
pending in the criminal courts are tc
receive Groves immediate attention
and quoted him as saying:
We now have an unprecedented
building boom going on in the city
and am going to keep these men
so busy defending themselves that
they will have no chance to kill
building.
If further proof were needed that
Robert e. Grove is an unquestionina
tool and willing agent of the "Citi'
zens' Committee" it is provided BY
the report of February 5, 1924, which
appeared in the Tribune. The es'
sence of this report is reproduced. i
describes banquet held at the Unior
League Club, and stated that
Plutes Laud Grove.
The prosecutor (RObert E. CrOwe)
was a guest at luncheon given in
his honor at the Union League Club.
w. r. Abbott, president Of the Iili-
nois Bell Telephone Company, pres
ided, and there were between thirty
and forty leaders in Chicag0's BUSH
ness life present.
A motion to endorse Mr.. Grove
was made and passed unanimously.
Among those who spoke were I. E.
DOnnelIey, chairman of the Com
mittee to Enforce the Lands
Award; Jas. A. Patten, also an
active supporter of that movement,
and Ezra Warner of Sprague,
Warner & Company.
Other speakers dwelt upon the
history of Groves prosecution of
TABOR cases.
Before the meeting closed, there
was general agreement that those
present would do everything in
their power to aid in States At
torney Groves primary and cleo
ton battles. Dudley E. Taylor,
secretary and attorney for the As
ISOLATION, was directed to keep the
Association on its toes during both
campaigns.
Your committee respectfully sub
mits, therefore, that the facts citeC
in this brief report conclusively prove
that Robert E. Groves numerous ne.
farious practices brand him as one
completely subordinated to the viii
of those who have been and still are
waging a bitter fight against organ
lied labor.
And, your committee further re
specially submits that this report, j
acceptable, be given the widest posi-.
BILE publicity, to the end that the besf
interests Of the community in general
and labor in particular be promoted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
Foul Press Tale
OF Union Shooting
Is Shot to Pieces
fcentinusd from P.rs u

726 S. Cornelia street. Some of
these stories appeared in the
Chicago Tribune and the Her.
aid and Examiner.
No, he didn't see any union men at
the scene of the shooting, he ad.
mitted to the DAILY WORKER.
Union Never Threatened Him.
No, the union had never threat
ened him.
No, he had never had any personal
quarrels with any of the union men
or women who were on strike.
But the union must have done II,
he insisted.
Tribune's Pack Of Lies.
The Sunday morning Tribune had
carried vivid yarn telling how he and
his wife and child were all sitting in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31

attorneys Office and the en-
ployers in order to scare those
bosses who are thinking of
yielding to the union" he said
in a statement to the DAILY
WORKER.
Taylor's Provocateur Methods.
"In every strike Dudley Taylor is
connected with these provocateur
acts occur. The plan is to brighten
employers and to prejudice the pub
lie and the court. Newspapers come
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
Chicago Young Workers
Hold Membership Meeting
Tonight

A membership meeting of the
Young Workers League Of Chicago
will be held tonight at the Folkets
Hus. 2733 Hirsch Blvd. at s D. m.
A report summarizing the work Of
the Chicago League will be made
by p. Herd, the City Organizer.
Plans for future activity will also
be planned.
Martin Abern, National Secre-
tary Of the Young Workers League
OF America, will report for the Ma
tional Executive Committee Of the
Y. w. L. on the recent develop
ments Of the Labor Movement and
fA~'~ reflections upon the young
workers OF this country.
members must attend this
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31

out with big stories against the
strikers on such pretext and boss
es' lawyers make an issue of it in
court.
1.-The Ladies' Garment Workers
Union had nothing to do with the
affair. All the violence in this strike
is on the side Of the employers and
the sluggers and police"
Dudley Taylor could not be
reached by the DAILY WORKER
yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
Words of ''Mother's Jones Spur
Pickets to New Efforts Today

The striking garment workers will go the picket line
this morning with the speech of Mother Mary JONES' de-
vered them Saturday afternoon still ringing in their
Mother" JONES' who is her way California from
New York stopped Chicago long enough Saturday
speak to the strikers.
Mother JONES' veteran of thousand strikes and hun
dreds of a talked to the strikers most of whom girls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31

PORTLAND, Ore, Mar. 30.--The
newly organized Farmer-Labor party
of Oregon indorses the national
Farmer-Labor convention to be held
in st. Paul June II. The Oregon
party officers are Otto Newman.
chairman; Frank Rusmisel, secretary
treasurer; A. L. Karnopp, state or
ganizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31

WASHINGTON, March 3O.-The
postofiice appropriation bill contain
ing an item of $2,750,000 for a day
and night air mail service from coast
to coast was finally passed by both
Houses Of Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
Meyer Perlstein Charges Crowe's
Men Fired Shots At KoULer Home

VicePresdent Meyer Persen of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union charges that the shooting Nicholas
employees
believe the shooting done by agents the states
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29
GRADE CROSSINGS
CAN BE ABOLISHED
ONLY IN LONG TIME
Number And Cost Make Speed Pro-
hibitive

Abolish the grade crossingl" cries
the man in the street, reading of IAN
other family wiped out" But he
thing is easier said than done.
On Class l railroads alone, there
are in the United States 256,362 grade
crossings. The net increase in 1922
was 1856. To eliminate these would
cost on an average $4,000 each, or a
total of some nineteen billions, a sum
on which the annual interest charges
would be almost a billion dollars.
1t is obvious that this is prohibitive
We haven't the money to spend in
such quantity. In cold calculations
the lives lost in Embarrassing acct
dents are not, economically, worth the
amount of money required to elimi-
nate all grade crossings. But when the
National Government undertakes to
build and maintain national highways
doubtless it will set an example for
all States to follow in eliminating
grade crossings from all its mileage.
That grade crossings will eventually
be eliminated is sure; that 1t can be
done in few years by legislation is
futile dream.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29
Fitzgerald Leader WhNT-ADS
Quick Results. Phone 1913.
ARE YOU ALL RUN DOWN.
Many Fitzgerald Folks Have Felt
That Way

Feel all out of sorts?
Tired, achy, blue, irritable?
Back lame and stiff?
1t may be the story of weak kidneys!
OF toxic poisons circulating about.
Upsetting blood and nerves.
There's way to feel right again.
Help your weakened kidneys with
Doan's Pills-a stimulant diuretic.
Doan's are recommended by many
people in this locality.
Mrs. A. F. Dixon, Clio Madison ave-
nue., Douglas, Ga, says: 81 was sort
of run down and was ailing with lame
back. A heavy dull ache through my
kidneys made me miserable and l felt
tired and out of sorts. I had pains in
the top of my head and my kidneys
acted irregularly. l purchased Doan's
Pills and one box cured me of the
ailment."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy--get
Doan's Pills-the same that Mrs
Dixon had. Foster Milburn Co., Mfrs,
Buffalo, N. Y. adv
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29
SURCHARGE
APPEARS DOOMED

Atlanta, Ga, May 2S-The surcharge
on Pullman and chair cars of the rail
roads appears doomed, according to
J. A. Perry, member of the Georgia
Public Service Commission in state
ment made here today to a correspon-
dent of this newspaper. Removal OF
the surcharge has already been recon
mended to the Interstate Commerce
Commission at Washington by Exam
liner Keller.
The Georgia Public Service Com
mission acted on the question back
in 1921. Following a resolution by
Commissioner Perry, which was ap-
proved by the commission, the sur
charge was eliminate for something
more than a year in Georgia, with a
saving in this state of Approximately
$15O,000
This was aborogate by the Inter
state Commerce Commission. effective
August 10, 1922. A striking coinci-
dence is that the same argument made
by Examiner Keller was based upon
the same grounds that were urged by
Commissioner Perry at the time ac-
ton was taken in Georgia. The In
terstate Commerce Commission, how
ever, disapproved the action of the
Georgia Commission three years ago.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29
E D 1 T o R 1 A L

In what way can the National Gov.
vernment build better road than q
State? asks a correspondent.
1t can't. But it does! 1t can build
no better road than any other cen
trail authority, but itdoes build better
roads, as it builds better buildings and
better public works, because the stand
ards of a National Government are
usually higher and less warped by
consideration of immediate expense
than. are those of smaller appropriate
ing bodies.
The United States Government has
for many years followed the invari-
able policy of building anything to
last for long period of time. Its
public buildings are not constructed to
be replaced in ten or twenty years, but
built to withstand the ravages of time
for many hundreds of years. When
the Panama Canal was constructed,
money was not stinted; the canal was
" " ici al tilllS, anu So, Dullt as well
as engineering skill could build it. No
half-hearted effort was made in the
war. The best we had of money and
brains and effort went into it.
When the United States govern
ment begins the building and main
tenance of national highways, it will
build in the same way-with due re-
gard to the future. Too many roads
are built today only for the immedi-
ate present; built too light, SO that
traffic soon cuts them to pieces; built
too crooked, SO that they waste time
while pandering TO local prejudices
against condemnation; built on exist
ing grades rather than economical
grades, to save construction money.
Building the finest and highest type
Of road engineering science under
stands in one of the many reasons
stands, is one of the many reasons
why good road enthusiasts with
vision are working for the day when
real national highways begin to pro-
luce good roads everywhere.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29

not against" Federal aid to roads,
since they recognize that any agency
which builds roads, which creates
sentiment for good roads, which
causes use and spread of hard-surface
highways, is an argument for national
highways. National highway program
indorsers believe that either plan, OF a
central authority, a central force pay
ing the bills, and central organiza-
ton maintaining the highways, will
produce more highways, produce them
quicker, and produce them with
greater economy and therefore greater
value to the body polite than any
other plan.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29
FEDERAL AID AS IT is

Roads on which the national gov
eminent furnishes funds TO assist the
States are in two classes primary
an secondary. Primary Highways
are interstate, while secondary high
ways are intercounty roads correlat-
ing with primary thoroughfare. The
total mileage in any State on which
Federal aid may be given can not ex-
coed 7 per cent of the total mileage
of all public roads in that state. The
primary system must not exceed
three-sevenths of the total eligible for
Federal aid, and on this three seveuths
not more than 90 per cent of the Fed
eral funds available for any State may
be spent, except by agreement between
the State Road Commission and the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Federal road funds are apportioned
among the States agreeing to match
the amounts as follows: One-third in
the ratio which the area of each state
bears to the area of all the states; one
third in the ratio which the popula-
ton of each state bears to the pop
ulation of all the states; one-third in
the ratio which the mileage of rural
delivery routes and star routes in each
State bears to the mileage of rural de-
livery and star routes in all the states
The Federal road system is intended
to give the maximum of service to the
greatest possible number. There are
lii cities in the United States OF
5000 or more inhabitants and 1,04S
of these are located on Federal routes
OF the total population of the United
States, 90 per cent live either on or
within ten miles of highways included
in the Federal system.
Proponents of national highways
built and forever maintained by the
National Government, point out that
all such calculations and apportion,
ments will be unnecessary under their
plan, and that the ends of efficiency
economy, an speed in building road.
can be better served by one central au
thority in absolute control than b,
forty-eight road commissions working
in conjunction with a central author
ity, between which an agreement mus
be had before work is done.
Il Real National highway believers ar
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-05-29

production of cotton under boil vice.
VII conditions is nothing more or less
tnan race between the setting of
Dolls on the plant and the muItipli-
cation of the weevils, scientists de-
clare, and everything possible should
De done to aid the cotton plants in
winning this race.
One of the first steps in furnishing
TINS aid is through preparation of the
SOIL A good seed bed is necessary
TO obtain the best results and it
should be prepared early so as to have
q flrm, smooth and we'll settled bed
at planting. Experts say that the
importance of well prepared seed
bed can hardly be overestimated.
Also, unfavorable weather conditions
shortly before planting often prevents
blowing at that time and early prep
aration does away with this risk.
Planting should be delayed until all
danger, Of frost is past and the earth
is warm enough to cause quick
sprouttng and good stand. Early
planting is recommended but it should
be borne In mind that it is possible
to plant too early so that the plants
become stunted during the early days
Of their growth.
Plant II possible only selected seed
Of an early maturing variety. and of
a staple not less than 7/8 inch. In
formation as to a suitable variety for
your particular locality can be OBJ
tanned from the county agent or the
state college of agriculture. 1t is
definitely proven that increased yields
worth from $40 to $40 an acre may
be obtained by planting selected seed.
One bushel or more should be plant
ed to the acre.
Cotton rows should be from three
to four feet apart, according to the
fertility Of the soil, and spacing in
the row should be from eight to
twelve inches with from one to three
stalks to the hill. Tests under va
rious conditions have proved that
thick spaced cotton natures earlier
and yields more pounds to the acre
than thin spaced.
The Intelligent use Of commercial
fertilizers is an important step in the
profitable production of cotton. Prop
erly used it will both hasten maturity
and materially increase the yield
Contents and their percentages de-
pend on local conditions. The county
agent or the agricultural college can
supply Information on this point. Only
the we'll drained, fertile lands, and
when available, early soils should be
used. 1t will pay to produce cotton
only on land that will produce, under
average conditions, at least one third
Of bale to the acre.
Further information on the subject
Of boil weevil control may be obtain.
ed from the county agent, state col
lege Of agriculture or the National
Boil Control Association, Room 220
Whitney Building, New Orleans, La.