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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
HERE THEY ARE
BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS ARE
DISTRIBUTED
COmmendatiOn and Criticism Handed
Out PrOmiscuOusly as Deemed
Just BY Our Hired Man
THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN

The New Year was ushered in dur
ing the coming Of the cold weather,
but as the outer temperature grew
steadily colder the mercury of New
ark's political thermometer began to
mount by leaps and bounds, until it
"riz" pretty high and things began to
pop.
Hardly had Mayor Stevens been in
Quoted into office when he seized his
brand new official ak in his good
right hand and began to lop off
some undesirable branches on the
tree of his municipal family.
The first to bite the dust was Chief
of Police Hager, who during his brief
incumbency had not had time to warm
the seat of his official chair. He was
quickly disposed of by filing charges
and appointing his successor.
Ned Sherburne was the next victim.
He too was got rid of the handy
charge" route and his successor
named.
"Here endeth the First Lesson"
Just where the political lightning
will next strike is not known, but it
is intimated that something else is
likely to happen in the not distant fu-
ture.
The "Hired Man" hopes that Mayor
Stevens has the best interests of the
city and public at heart and that his
actions will be governed by an earn
est desire of promoting and accom-
plishing that object.
1t is also hoped that no "get even"
spirit will crop out during the coming
two years of the administration chos-
en- by a majority of the electors of
the city, but that everybody will bury
the hatchet, and hammer too, and join
in a united effort to make our good
old town bigger, better and more
prosperous than ever.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
NEWARK, OHIO, FRIDAY. JANUARY 4, 1924
.LabOrS0u0OOk for 1924

Labor greets 1924 with increased
intelligence and consciousness of pow
er.
The workers were never more cer-
tain of their position. They do not
ask favors; they demand justice.
They have plumbed philanthrophy
and paternalism to the depths-both
are false; both are akin to the auto
cart, though he may be less scientific
in his method.
The company "union" is the latest
offering of the paternalist, who finds
it increasingly difficult to pose as a
friend of workers while denying them
the substance of liberty.
The injunction process is better un-
derstood by labor. In greater num-
bers the workers now know the diff
ference between government by law
and government by equity-by an IT.
responsible judge who disregards law
and issues orders (injunctions) at
will.
Labor points to the breakup of
party discipline and party idolatry as
vindication of it's long fight for po-
litical nom -partisanship.
Labor declares that industrial de-
mocracy is it's manifest destiny. War
ring in industry must cease, that an
American life, based on order and
service, may be developed.
Never has labor been more sure OF
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
FOLLOWED NEWARK'S EXAMPLE

Considerable unfavorable comment
upon the conduct of couple of New
ark's over-zealous policemen followed
the Leaders exposure last summer OF
the unauthorized attack upon young
Criss-. and a companion, who refused
to obey the command of supposed
hold-up men and halt their automobile
on a country road several miles from
town, but sped on to Newark under a
rain of bullets, escaping death by a
miracle.
The truth of the saying that Ellis
tory repeats itself" was verified In
this instance, according to the follow
ing from last weeks Dayton Labor
Review:
'It's about time to call halt on
the activities of alleged liquor law
enforcement officers, who, not salts
fed with violating the sanctity of
private homes in their search for
liquor, are holding up honest citizens
on the highways and filling their auto
mobiles with bullets.
"The latest outrage of this charac-
ter was perpetrated several nights
ago, when Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughan,
ia Vernon Drive, and her son, Frank,
20, were made the targets of the "of-
ficers."
"Mrs. Vaughan and her son were
returning from visit in West Car
rollton. To avoid heavy traffic they
turned off the Cincinnati pike to the
Sprinboro road and entered the city
by way of South Broadway. AS they
approached the Broadway bridge sew
eral men, armed with flashlights,
stepped into the road and ordered
them to halt.
young Vaughan, who was driving
the car, thinking the hold-up was be-
ing staged by highwaymen, ignored
the command and increased the speed
of his car. A fussilade of shots was
fired after the machine. A rear and
a front tire were punctured, but
Vaughan continued into the city and
stopped at grocery on South Broad
way.
"a few minutes later the alleged
officers drove up, and, according, to
Mrs. Vaughan, abused them roundly
for not stopping. She says that the
men, instead of apologizing when they
realized that they had fired upon the
wrong persons, tried to bluff their
way through. 1t seems that they had
been lying in wait for shipment of
whiskey which, they had been told,
was to be brought into the citv.
"Mrs. Vaughan will institute legal
proceedings against the men,"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
BrOOkhart FavOrS
Squeezing Out Water

Misunderstanding water out
of railroad valuations is necessary be-
fore there can be freight rate reduc-
tions, according to Senator Smith w.
Brookhart of Iowa.
The railroad program outlined by
the Iowa Senator is:
l. Reduction of the capitalization
of carriers not to exceed the market
value of their stocks and bonds.
2. Making it unlawful for rail-
roads to capitalize "unearned incre-
ment" or increased land values.
8. Definition of adequate rteurn"
not to exceed the interest rate on the
bonded portion of the carriers capi-
talization.
4. Reduction of the valuation of
the railroads from $4,000, 100000 to
not more than $12,000,000,000.
"If enacted, my bill will squeeze
out more than $8,00,000,000 of water
ed stock out of the railroads of the
country, reduce freight rates about
81 900, 100000 a year, and put the
railroads on sound business basis"
says Senator Brookhart.
1t is also his purpose to introduce
a bill providing for rigid federal sup
ervision of subsidiary companies fur
nishing supplies to the carriers, thus
attempting to wipe out what Sena-
tor Brookhart termed "a graft of
about $300,000,000 a year."
Reactionaries will seek to prevent
the enactment of far-reaching rail
road legislation by supporting bill
sponsored by Representative Hoch of
Kansas which provides that the Inter-
state Commerce Commission shall un-
dertake a scientific revision of the
rate structure.
This bill follows the recommenda-
ton of President Coolidge's message
to Congress.
The object is not a reduction of
railroad revenues but a readjustment
of rates that will lessen the burden
on some commodities and increases it
on others.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
German Charity and
Profiteering Scheme

New York.-A gigantic plot of
American food gamblers to unload
their surplus of boarded supplies is
what Alfred w. McCann calls the plan
for a $70,000,000 food loan to Ger
many which is being pushed by Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover
Writing in The Evening Mail here,
McCann quotes DR.. j. A. Moorehead,
American Lutheran national council
member just back from Germany, as
saying that German farmers refuse
to part with their crops in return for
the worthless paper marks which the
German government and native food
monopolists offer for them. Moore
head says the Berlin government is
too weak to seize food from the farm
ers and distribute it to the city peo-
pie.
This situation, says Mccain, is
seized upon by American capitalists,
who have bought up the surplus {
30,000,000 bushels of wheat left over
from our 1923 harvest, and now pro-
pose, through Hoover, to raise a loan
that will take the wheat off their
hands and send it to Germany in the
name of charity. McCann urges that
a loan of sufficient size be raised
here by friends of Germany, and
such friends then take actual charge
of its expenditure to make sure that
it does not go into the pockets Of
American food spectators who find
themselves swamped under a monop-
oily of wheat at time when wheat
is everywhere a glut on the market.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04

it's ground; never has it had higher
aims or more lofty purpose.
AS formerly, it's activities the past
year are in line with it's evolutionary
characteristics.
AS usual, the first of these is or
ganization and collective bargaining.
If they are denied the worker is but
a voiceless unit in production. He is
but an individual cog in industry,
without policy, future or hope.
With these and industrial democ-
racy are included education, popular
control of financial credit, opposition
to judicial usurpation, anti-child la
Dor amendment to federal constitution
and other fundamental issues.
The workers will eventually tri-
umph in these causes, as they did in
their fight for free public schools, di-
rect legislation, free textbooks and
other advances that they initiated.
No other movement can approach
the labor movement in things secured
for the workers and for the people as
a whole.
When viewed in its intirety the la
Dor movement towers mountain high
over its opponents.
The workers hope is in organiza-
tion and education Then the men
and women of labor are a factor in
society. Without these, they are
serfs-they depend upon the good will
of others.
Heads up for 1924!
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Child Labor Law
Urged By Women

Washington-Dete to win
favorable action on the proposed Con-
stitutional Amendment, enabling Con-
gress to enact a federal child labor
law, Is national women's organiza-
tions have organized a national Chill
dren's Amendment Committee
through which they will bring pres
sure to bear upon members of Con-
gress in every state.
Local committees of women will be
organized in every congressional dis
trict to call upon their respective
members of Congress in regard to
the proposed amendment. Passage
of the Constitutional Amendment, the
committee declares, is the first step
toward setting a national age mini
mum for working children and a ma
tional standard for working condi-
tions.
Explaining the necessity and the
purpose of their campaign, the COM
mittee cites the following conditions:
On the showing of government re-
ports, more than 100000 children
from 10 to 16 years of age are work
ing in the United States in factories,
mills, canneries, agriculture, mines
and other industries and occupations.
Nearly 100000 of them are between
10 and IA years of age.
Nine states have no law prohibit
ing children under IA from working
in both factories and stores.
Thirty-seven states allow children
to go to work without a common
school education.
Fourteen states allow children un-
der 16 to work from nine to eleven
hours a day; two do not regulate in
any way daily hours of labor of chill
dren.
Five states do not protect children
under 16 from night work.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04

ever wiped off the face of the earth,
has not yet materialized, to any per-
ceptible extent.
Would not a modification of the
Volstead law, legalizing the sale, un-
der state control, of good, wholesome
beer of not over four per cent alco-
holic strength, be preferable to exist
ing conditinos
More stringent measures should be
adopted to put an end to the manu-
facture and sale of the poisonous de-
coctions Unfortunately peddled
about the country, which have already
caused so many deaths, in addition
thousands of cases of partial and to
tai blindness and many lesser ills.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Eighteen Die in
State Fire Trap
(By Federated Press)

Chicago-The fire at the Chicago
state hospital for the insane at Dun
ming, which resulted in the death of at
least 18 inmates, has directed public
attention again to the dangerous con-
ditions due to negligence existing in
many of the state institutions
throughout the country. The Dun
ming fire occurred in a ramshackle
structure which several years ago was
condemned even as a temporary din
ing hall, but since has been used as a
sleeping dormitory.
County Judge Jarecki, who COM
mits most of the patients sent to Dun
ming, when interviewed after the fire
said:
eff something isn't done the people
of this state will wake up one of these
mornings to hear of a tragic horror
that might we'll shock the nation.
Through negligence we have ignored
conditions in our state institutions
that didn't arise yesterday or the day
before. Every hospital in the state
is overcrowded.
After Judge John R. Caverly read
of the Dunning fire he charged GRIM
inal negligence in failing to maintain
properly the criminal court and coun-
ty Jail buildings here and ordered
Superintendent of Public Service H.
A. Gender to appear before the grand
jury. Caverly wants to know just
what funds have gone into the repair
of the CO.. rt building and the jail. if
any, and where the rest of the coun-
ty's appropriation is. Recently both
buildings were declared fire traps
after investigation by a safety COM
mittee
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
NOTHING DONE
CONGRESS DOES NO WORK IN
THREE WEEKS
The Wall Street Gang Is Backing
Vast Propaganda Machine Which
Urges Lower Income Taxes

Washington-After a three weeks
session Congress adjourned for the
holidays without even the considera-
tion of one important bill. The SEN
ate has been tied up because of a
failure to elect a chairman of the
committee on interstate commerce.
Opponents of Senator Cummins, the
present chairman, and one of the
authors of the transportation act, are
demanding that the rate guarantee of
this law be repealed. This section
provides for a "fair return" on the
capital of railroads, and the interstate
commerce commission has ruled that
5 "a per cent is a fair return.
When congress convenes after the
holidays is is evident that the soldiers
bonus and the tax plan, proposed by
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, will
occupy the center of the stage. The
Melon plan provides for cuts in the
income tax and opposes the soldiers
bonus. Friends of the soldiers bonus
charge that the plan is really intended
to relieve the excessively rich of in
come taxes. This can not be done II
the bonus is passed.
1t is clear that no legislative pro-
posal ever had such powerful hackers
as the Mellon plan. The propaganda
has reached the screen and millions
of people are daily called upon to de-
mand that their national representa-
tives "reduce taxes" This is the
covert way of creating sentiment for
the Mellon plan.
Wage workers are assured that
money released through the lowering
Of high income taxes will be put into
the expansion of business and thus
create more employment. The work
ers are supposed to forget that the
same argument was used two years
ago when big business secured re-
duction in excess profits, and the in
come tax rate was cut.
The Wall Street Journal has gone
so far in it's advocacy of the Mellon
plan as to urge its readers to intimi-
date their congressman and senators.
"Let 'em know how many voters in
their district pay high income taxes"
is the thought that the w. S. j. would
convey. This publication also calls
upon its readers to let their congress
men and senators know that there are
more voters interested in income tax
reduction than in the soldiers bonus.
This line of action is indicative of
how big business will attempt to ap-
ply the thumbscrews to lawmakers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Chicago Gamblers
Boost Egg Prices

Chicago.-A profiteer conspiracy to
force Chicago consumers to pay 81
dozen for cold storage eggs is STIR
ring the battle spirit among the
Windy City's housewives. Secretary
Rushkewicz, of the councils 'high
cost" committee, is urging them to
start an egg boycott. Eggs are now
being sold at 80 cents dozen in Chi
cago, although, according to Rushke-
wicz, the storage warehouses contain
30,600,000 dozen-a four months sup
ply if all the hens stop laying tomor-
row. These eggs were placed in stor-
age last spring at 20 to 25 cents a
dozen. The Chicago egg handlers
will do well to take warning. Large
sales at good profits are better than
small sales at large profits.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
THEN AND NOW

For 10 these many, many moons the
5 weighty brains of past and present
self-appointed arbiters of public NOR
ais and conduct have worked overtime
devising some new scheme to throt-
tie the Demon Rum. Even in goOd
old days when our grand-daddies kept
a decanter of the real stuff on the
sideboard, as their forefathers had
done in all ages before them, and took
a "snifter" when the spirit moved
them, the rumble of approaching con-
flict was heard, and finally the bat
tie waged hot and fierce a. theil
very doors.
Step by step the "antis" advanced
from "First the blade, then the ear
and after that the full corn in the
ear" until supreme power was at
tanned, and laws and rules passed in
accordance with their sweet will and
pleasure.
But before the peans self-praise
had subsidized the futility of their
boasted victory was apparent to all.
First we had local option, which
was dismal failure; then we got
county option, and everybody in New
ark knows how that worked in Lick
ing county; and finally state prohi-
bition was wished upon us, but this
panned out no better than it's predi-
cessors.
And last of all came national arid
ness. This supposed cure-all in the
guise of the eighteenth amendment
has not proven the grand success its
god-fathers and god-mothers prom
ised at the christening. 1t has not
put stop to the booze habit, no not
by jug full!
When the liquor traffic in Ohio
was regulated by law, before prohi-
y bition days, saloon men were gener-
ally careful to abide by it's provisions.
1t was difficult for minors, women or
drunken people to get a drink-in
most places impossible. Now what
are the conditions Illicit liquid
poison can be purchased easily, young
boys and girls, who in former times
never thought of indulging in intox-
icants, are said to gather at "booze
parties" where decorous conduct is
laid aside and the utmost freedom
prevails.
Statistics from all over the coun-
try prove that prohibition does not
prohibit. Right here in Newark,
from January l, 1923 until Christ
mas day, SIG arrests were made-297
of which were for drunkenness, 62
for violation of liquor laws, and the
remainder-217, for all other crimes
from murder to chicken stealing, COM
bined.
With such conditions known to ex-
ist it is difficult for the unprejudiced
to see where there exists any i'm
provement over the law-regulated sa-
loon of former days, or to understand
the whoops of joy arising from the
so-called victors in the long drawn
out war against King Alcohol.
The "Hired Man" is not advocating
a return of the open saloon of by
gone times, but merely deploring the
fact that the rosy promises of the
quick dawn of the new day, when the
grog shop would cease to be death
trap for the unwary, and prisons,
jails and almshouses would be for
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Gen. Electric Co. Expanding

New York.-The General Electric
Co. has completed its contemplated
absorption of the Canadian General
Electric Co. Approximately two
thirds of the Canadian total of $10,-
100000 outstanding common stock is
now deposited with the American
General Electric.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
N. Y. Printers Buy Building

New York.-Typographical union
No. 6, through it's Union Holding Co..
has purchased a four-story building
at "a w 10th ST., which, after ex-
tensive alterations, will be occupied
by the executive offices of the organ
ization This is the third trade union
to locate in its own home on 18th ST.,
the others being the N. Y. Printing
Pressmen's union No. 81, at number
%, while 8 w. 10Th st. is the building
of the Intl. Ladies' Garment Workers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Use Students as Strike Breakers

Asheville, N. C.-Student strike
breakers from the nonunion machine
typesetting school at Macon, Ga, are
being imported by the two open shop
dailies of Asheville. The papers were
struck when they refused to arbi-
trate a new wage scale with their 35
printers, members of Typographical
union No. 263.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Teachers Pension Restored

New York.-The 100000 for use
of the Teachers retirement fund,
which was cut out of the New York
city budget for 1924 as finally adopt
ed, was ordered restored by Supreme
Court Justice Cohalan's mandamus
directing the board of estimate here
to make such restoration.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Guilty of Manslaughter

New Brunswick, N. 1.-THE Penn
sylvania railroad was found guilty of
manslaughter by a jury in Middlesex
county court here, after trial of an
Indictment arising from an explosion
of smokeless powder on train, caus-
ing the death of six persons at South
Amboy on Sept. 6, last. The verdict
was reached in five minutes.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Banker Renigs on Income Tax

New York.-A 81 ,224,531.24 income
tax lein against Charles w. Morse,
former banker and steamship man,
charged with having defrauded the
government in wartime shipbuilding
contracts, was filed in the U. S. dis
trict court here by counsel for Chas.
w. Anderson, collector of internal
revenue. 1t is the contention of the
government that Morse did not pay
his income tax for the four years,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Miners Daughter Champion Speller

Edwardsville, III. = Virginia, II
year-old daughter of Robert Edwards,
a union coal miner, carried off high
est honors in the Madison county
spelling contest. Spelling 125 words
perfectly, the only one among "a con-
testants who failed to make an error,
scoring 100 per cent throughout the
various tests, Virginia was crowned
"queen of the Madison county spell
lers."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Pension Ban Removed

Washington.-Secretary of the In
terror Work has removed the ban on
widows of war veterans receiving the
pension that the veteran drew Un-
der certain conditions the pension can
now be paid to the widow.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Company Life Insurance

New Orleans.-Regardless of age
or physical disability employees of the
Southern Pacific railway system will
be given free life insurance policies.
ranging from $3.50 to $4,000, accord
ing to their length of servic with the
company. This blanket policy termi-
mates when the employe quits the
service.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Ry. Clerks Bank Opens

Cincinnati.-The Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks has opened it's bank in
new seven-story headquarters
building, located in the center of the
city's business district. On the open
ing day the bank was visited by 12,-
900 people, who deposited $311,000.
Among the large deposits was one of
$4,000, made by the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Coop. Cigar Co. FlOurishing

st. Louis.-The Commonwealth Ci-
gar Co., owned and operated by union
cigar makers, reports brisk holiday
business. The G. G. G. is a coopera-
tive company organized as result of
a strike of cigarmakers two years
ago.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Women Organize to Reduce Prices

Melbourne, Australia.-Th House
wives Association proposes as a
means of bringing down the cost of
living, to advertise daily names of
tradesmen whose prices are reason
able, and the names of those who are
the most expensive to patronize. This,
they claim, will force profiteers to
lower prices or lose heavily if they
still desire to maintain high prices.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-01-04
Gun Men EMPLOYED

Portland, Ore.-Gun men are used
against striking electrical workers
employed by the Northwestern cleo
trio company. The company has re-
fused to arbitrate and organized la
Dor and sympathizers are aroused at
the despicable efforts to establish the
anti-union shop.