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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-28

Mrs. J. A. Hixon, and Mrs. WWillis
Hawkins.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-28
MRS. COUNCIL. HOSTESS
TO FORTY-TWO CLUB

A lovely party of Friday after,
noon, was that at which Mrs. L. G.
Council was hostess, having as her
guests the members Of her Friday
afternoon forty-tyo club, and a few
additional friends to fill vacancies.
Handsome silver baskets and
vases filled with narcissi and japo.
nicas, and lovely blooming plants
were used effectively in the spac-
ious reception rooms open to the
guests.
Late in the afternoon, at the con.
clusion Of the game, a delicious hot
luncheon was served.
Mrs. Council was assisted in en-
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her petition says about him:
He swore violently when local
stations interferred with his tuning
in on distant stations.
Stayed up late with the loud
speaker connected, so that she and
her daughter were kept awake
night after night and plunged into
a nervous, irritated state seriously
affecting their health.
Insisted she listen while his
friends in other cities sang jazz
songs"
And this interference" caused
the good ship Happy Matrimony/ tC
fade out"
Looks bad for poor hubby unless
the judge happens to be radio far
himself. Then it ought to be easy
sailing
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-28
MISSES ELLIS ENTERTAIN
FOR POPULAR BRIDE-ELECT

Complimenting Miss Elizabeth
Sheffield, whose marriage will be
an interesting social event of Feb
ruary 9Th, was the lovely bridge
luncheon, at which Miss Mabel Ell
lis and Miss Anne Ellis entertained
Thursday morning at their home on
Taylor street.
The spacious reception rooms of
the handsome Ellis home were beau
tifully decorated for this occasion
with bright colored blooming
plants, and vases of lovely narcissi
and japonicas.
Miss Sheffield was lovely in a
handsome dark blue crepe de chine
dress, trimmed with tiny accordion
picatod inserts, and touches of rich
cream lace on the bodice. With it
she wore very becoming smart
spring hat of deep rose milan and
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con, was served on beautifully ap-
pointed trays that were placed on
the card tables, each tray being lace
covered and having for it's central
decoration, an attractive bud vase
Of orange blossoms.
Mrs. Hawkins was assisted in en-
tertaining by Mrs. John Sheffield,
Mrs. e. Mathis, Mrs. Hollis Fort,
Mrs. John Hudson, and Mrs. R. L,
McMath, Jr.
The invitation list included Miss
Elizabeth Sheffield, Miss Gertrude
Davenport, Mrs. Cobb Miner, Mrs.
Stuart Prather, Miss Mary Glover,
Miss Georgia Lumpkin, Mrs. B. F.
EasteIlin, Jr, Miss Mabel Ellis,
Mrs. Arthur Rylander, Jr., Miss
Sara Oliver, Miss Mary Parker, Miss
Hulet Humber, Miss Frances Sparks
Miss Eugenia Parker, Miss Lois Nc
Math, Mrs. Frank Lanier and Miss
Anne Ellis.
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HUGE REVENUES OF
!. DIFFEREN STATES
Continued From Page y


creation; and $127,682, ISL for mis-
.cellaneous purposes, For maintei-
ance Of public service enterprises
the state government expended 3d.
697, 453 for interest on the debt Of
the states, Sal, $685. 99; and for per-
manent improvements. S318,O45, O39
representing 24.8 per cent of the to-
tai governmental costs.
The total revenue receipts Of the
state governments amounting to
$1,159,4 45,130, included 1928
from general property taxes; $780,
0S2,194 from special taxes; $685.
058 from poll taxes; $305, 368, 624
from licenses; 9,409,958 from spe-
cial assessments; $6,O02030 from
fines and forfeitures; $110,716,231
from subventions and gifts: $751;
006,324 from interest, rents and
highway privileges; $116,549,100
from earnings of general depart
ments; and $3,698,438 from earp-
ings Of public service enterprises. In
the AS states property taxes, gem
eral and special represented 400
Fer cent of the total revenues in
1922.
In 1915, 1916 and 1922 the to-
tai governmental costs Of the state
governments, including permanent
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tertaining by her daughter, MrsI
Stuart Prather.
The guest list included Mrs. Sam
Heys, MIS-. Frank Turpin, Mrs. Joe
Bryan, Mrs. L. w. Brown, Mrs. a.
B. Mashburn, Mrs. Lee Hansford,
Mrs. John Sheffield, Mrs. Frank
Sheffield, Mrs. w. NJ. Humber, Mrs
Herschel Smith, Mrs. Howell Elan,
Mrs. j. 7. Warren, Mrs. Z. C. Park
er, Mrs. A. C. Crockett, Mrs. f. B.
Everett, Mrs, Lovelace Eve, Mrs.
Helen H. Wheatley, and Mrs,
Charles Nj. Council.
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Minneapolis, Jan. %. = Enters
now the radio widow
And hers indeed is sad plight
besides which static, short circuits
and cat howls" seems real pleasures.
That is if the allegations she sets
forth in her divorce petition are
true.
The first plaintiff in such a suit
in so far as the records reveal, is
a pretty young Minneapolis woman,
Mrs Cora May White.
Everything was well in the White
household until hubby bought his
radio. But after that Gerald White
paid far more attention to his re-
eeiving set than he did to her, his
spouse charges.
!. Here are just a few Of the things
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-28
is o Gle 1E;5Z
EASTERN STAR CHAPTER
TO MEET TONIGHT

The regular weekly meeting Of
the Order Of the Eastern Star will
be held this evening at 1880
o'clock in the Masonic Hall in the
Planters Bank building.
Last week there were % MEM
bers present, who enthusiastically
joined in the plans and discussions
for work FOR the year, and it is
hoped that an even larger represer-
tation will be in attendance this
evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10

prices for the farm equipment, but
controls freight rates charged the
farmers. These freight rates cost
the northwestern farmers as much
as the whole crop sometimes brings
the farmer in the market.
The American fnanciers do not
care whether or not the American
workers starve thru unemployment.
The Morgan interests, which control
the Harvester trust, have thru the
Dawes plan, made strong bid to
throttle France, Germany, Belgium
and all Europe with the gold wrung
from the American workers and farm
ers. While Russia is crying out for
huge supplies of farm machinery, and
Morgan agents are squandering the
blood of American workers thruout
Europe, these same workers are
tramping the streets looking for work.
Morgan refuses to make an agree
ment with the Soviet government to
sell them Russians much needed farm
machinery in exchange for raw ma
terial and payments on a credit basis.
Meanwhile the Harvester plants are
shut down because there is no mar
ket."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10
So. Chicago Union
Leaders to Appeal
Conspiracy" Case

Appeal to the Supreme Court of
the state will be made in the case of
I. ]. Wind, for many years president
of the South Chicago Trades and La
Dor Assembly, and the five other un-
ion workers who were convicted by
steel trust pressure of alleged "con-
spiracy to boycott"
Theodore Amorski, business agent
of the union meat cutters in South
Chicago; Stanley Wallace, another
business agent of the meat cutters;
e. Boatman, business agent of the
teamsters' union; o. X. Blevins, also
business agent Of the teamsters and
Mrs. Emma Piper, business agent of
the Mattresses, were the other work
ers charged with Wind because of
their legitimate union activities,
which included participation in the
drive to organize the steel workers
and assistance in the 1919 strike.
The Appellate court has already up
held the snap decision OF the lower
courts in the case even tho Il was
clearly brot out that the steel car
corporations of South Chicago were
responsible for the frame-up of the
union leaders. Sentences given were
from one to Ave years in the peni-
Tertiary.
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Continued from page one)
Russion Order Keeps 1t Going.

The international Harvester Trac-
tor works on Western Avenue have
laid off 1,200 men, and the other 1900
are working only five days a week.
Workmen told the DAILY WORKER
reporter when he was inside the
plant, that the harvester works adj
jacent to the tractor works are kept
going only because Of an order for
$500 reapers and binders received
from Russia.
In this depression on the agricuIt-
ural machinery market, when thou
sands of hungry workers are tramp
ing the streets looking for work, the
only market the harvester trust Is
able to turn to is Russia. And yet
the American capitalists pi1-headIy
refuse to deal with the Russian gov
eminent on the large scale required
to divert the impending unemploy-
ment crisis.
Trust Bankruptlng Farmers.
The Harvester Trust has been the
zig factor in banrupting the American
,armers. 1t not only charges top
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10

IdJnerS, Tile priests. III Lnere
was some leftover soup, the
cook would bring it to us,-as a
present" to my father.
! also had other work, when the lit
tie priests children wanted to use me
for horse. They would send the
cook to father to ask for me. And |
would be sent to serve the caprices Of
the little priestlets. 1 was a lively
child, and when amusing the priests
children ] would sometimes forget
and want to play myself, and in the
dust of play would crack or break
something. The priests wife would
come complaining to my father:
Terrible Beatlnss.
"oh, Ivanushka, your Shurka, what
street girl she is! She has broken
this expensive cup" Then my
father in her presence would beat me
with strap or stick till the blood ran
and blue stripes stood out like strings
on my skin.
/ grew up and wanted to learn to
read. A school teacher lived in our
court. Once she called me into the
school when was walking with the
baby. After / saw the school l had
the idea Of learning. But when /
asked father, he said:
''If let won go to school we shall
be without your mothers wages and
shan't be able to buy any clothes but
just shirts and stockings. What do
you want to study for? You are not
boy. You will marry and sit at your
husbands like a learned doll"
But the teacher asked him and he
let me go. Not long did this happi-
ness last. My mother had a new
baby and was taken out of school
in three months and never let 20
back. Then father moved to the vii
lage.
Children Teach Mother.
Here life was harder than ever.
The brothers of my father divided the
heritage; but we did not get the
house. |, 12-year-old girl, went to
the landowners to work. 1 beat out
grain, winnowed, l worked in the
vegetable garden from at dawn until
10 at night. -. For this work l got
10 kopeks to buy my food with. So
without JOY was my childhood.
Quite different is the life of my
children. My oldest son is a Comso-
mol (Young Communist); he has
sports and clubs and many classes to
learn things in. My oldest daughter
works in the Office Of the court. She
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Soviets Successful
In Handling Minor
National Groupings
(Rosta News.)

MOSCOW, July 9.-Speaking of the
national problem in the U. S. S. r.,
Mr.. Ozubar, president of the council
Of peoples commissaries of Ukraine,
told press interviewer that the So
Wet power was constantly pursuing its
work of insuring the development of
the toiling masses of all the nationali-
ties in the union. In Ukraine, he says,
the decree on the equal rights of all
the languages is being effectively car
ried out, and a commission of repre-
sentatiyes Of national minorities has
been constituted, attached to the pre-
sidium Of the All-Ukrainian c. e. c.,
whose task is to elicit the needs of the
national minorities and draw up any
scheme for satisfying such needs.
The Ukrainian government has in
structed the commission to revise the
boundaries Of the various areas so as
to exactly determine the areas with a
majority Of the population of a def
mite nationality. This will allow the
government to satisfy the needs of
the national minorities.
Mr.. ozubar states that, at the Sec
ond session of the All-Ukrainian C. e.
c., the Ukrainian workers and peas
ants vigorously protested against the
persecution Of the national minorities
in Poland and Bessarabia. This again
puts in a worldwide scope the ques-
ton Of the right of each nationality to
its own culture and self-determination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10
HEARST'S OPEN
SHOP DRIVE is
FAILING IN WEST
Everett Men Win Raise /;
Seattle Strike Holds

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)
SEATTLE, Wash, July 9.-The
open shop campaign against news
paper printers in the northwest which
Hearst started when he heightened
hours in the composing room of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer has failed
to spread as scab publishers predicted.
Everett local, No. 410 of the Typo
graphical Union, has just signed
contract with the newspaper publish
ers of that city in spite of the efforts
of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper
Publishers Association, the anti-union
organization.
Wages Raised.
The new Everett contract signed by
the Evening Herald and Morning
News, will run for five years. Higher
wages and better conditions are ac-
coded than prevail in Spokane, Ia
coma, Portland, Vancouver, Victoria
and other northwestern cities. Day
men get a 40 cent increase to $3.50;
night men will receive SS.40, an in
crease Of rs cents.
Protection is given against arbi-
trary discharge-one of the griev-
ances which forced the strike OF the
Seattle Hearst workers. Priority
rights and reinstatement provisions
are included.
Three more holidays, Christmas,
Memorial Day and New Year are
added to Labor Day and July in the
new contract.
Hearst Strike Continues.
Meanwhile the strike of the Hearst
compositors and the lockout of the
stereotypers and mailers, who re-
fused to work with scabs, continues.
The typographical union is advertis-
ing the scab condition and keeping
union craftsmen from the plant. The
press room is an exception. There
union scabs are working, fearing ex-
pulsion by strike-breaker Berry.
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ushes back for another bucketful.
Negroes Usual Goats.

Just standing in this place for a few
minutes l have come out dripping
sweat from head to foot. The men
who work there altho of athletic build,
look like old men. They are not able
to stand this work for long period
of time.
Colored men are employed to do this
work, because the Harvester com
pany thinks that because it is harder
for them to find work They will work
for less money and will stand the ex-
IRENE danger with less grumbling. /
notice that two men were killed in
the Harvester works last month in an
industrial accident"
The colored men working in this
hell hole tell me they make $4,000 a
week when they work full week.
They make five dollars a day. Some
of them work piece-work, and by run
ming around in the intense heat they
make their $500 week.
Women Wear Uniforms.
Another place in the Harvester
works which rivals this slavery is the
Irvine mills. Here women work under
prison conditions. At lunch time as
you walk along Blue Island avenue
these girls call out to passerby and
get them to come over and chat to
relieve the terrible moontony. The
girls wear uniforms just as if they
were in prison-blue caps, blue
dresses made of some thin cheap
cloth, and blue aprons.
Some girls called me over to the
window few days ago as was pass
ing by. Many of the Irvine mill work
ers are older women, some are widows
with children to support. They all
ear a forlorn, hopeless expression,
their despair showing thru their
mechanical smiles. They grinned at
me like kids whistling in graveyard
to keep up their spirits.
Ashamed to Tell Wages.
When l asked them how much
money they made, they were ashamed
to tell me- Thirty dollars a week."
one girl giggled out, but the others all
laughed boisterously at the joke. The
heavy odor of the sisaI fibre from
which the binder twine is made,
drifted out onto the sidewalk. have
been inside Irvine mill, and am sure
that work here for any long period
of time gives the girls tuberculosis.
The whole mill is filed with the
shreds which are continually breaking
off the fibre. The shreds, especially
after being soaked in chemicals, are
injurious to the lungs.
In my next article 1 will tell all
about the assembling plant where the
tractor engines and tractor bodies are
put together.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10
SCAB COAL SHEET
Halls MURRAYS
EUROPEAN TOUR
VIII Visit His Holiness
and Dodge Russia
BY THOMAS MYERscoUcH.

"Mr. Philip Murray, vice-president
of the miners International Union, at
this writing is enroute on the Titanic
for old England. After short stay
in London, he will move to Glasgow,
where he will attend an important
conference of miners leaders. From
Glasgow to Dublin; then to Paris;
thence to Rome and back thru Aus
tria and even on to Berlin.
'In Rome there will be an audience
with His Holiness, the Pope. From
Berlin to Prague, now in Czecho-Slo-
vakia, for the big convention of the
World Mining Congress.
"The convention will convene dur
ing the first part Of August and upon
its adjournment, Mr.. Murray and his
party will journey to Hamburg,
whence they will sail for the Statue
Of Liberty"
Seab Paper Likes Him.
The foregoing, copied from the
Coal Trade Bulletin" scab trade
paper, should be Of interest to the
thousands of coal miners who are at
present wondering where their next
meal is coming from. With unemploy-
ment and it's attendant misery star
ing them in the face, with no promise
of an early abatement in sight, the
miners are indeed benefcient body
of men when they send their officials,
one after another, on tour of Eu-
rope.
The article states that Mr.. Murray
will attend the Mining Congress at
Prague, but l believe the memories
Of the delegates to the International
Convention of the United Mine Work
ers of America held in Indianapolis
last January, will serve to remind
them that Thomas Kennedy, presi-
dent of district Z, and Walter Nesbit,
secretary of district u, were declared
elected as the delegates of the United
Mine Workers to that gathering. Per-
haps it is that no chances are being
taken on the two delegates voting
for things at the congress, that are
not in harmony with the wishes of
the International administration.
international scabblna.
Such things as resolutions against
war and against miners of one coun-
try scabbing upon the other come up
for consideration, as do other things
with an International tinge and it
probably is to guard against trans
gressions of this sort that Murray
has gone along.
Besides, is it not true that when
Lewis returned from his European
tour, the Executive Board voted to
pay him his salary and an additional
$500 for expenses? There is a pre-
cedent established in official councils,
whereby such vacations are declared
valuable to the miners union, hence
their willingness to pay for value re-
ceived. There need be no thought in
the mind Of any person that Murray's
pocketbook will receive a dent as
result Of this holiday he is taking, for
the officials Of the miners union sure
ly do believe in the custom Of being
governed by precedent.
Wide Berth to Russia.
However, there is one thing that all
the miners can gamble on and that
is that Murray, when he meets all
his old friends back home in Bonnie
Scotland" will not tell of his early ex-
periences in America, wherein he
worked in the non-union mines of
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
: NO! Mr.. Murray is not going to
RUSSIA!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10
N. Y.CAP MAKERS
SURE OF WINNING
STRIKE IN week
No Police Interference
Against Pickets
BY LupwELL DENNY,

Federated Press Staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK, July Give hundred
of the 100 members of the United
Cloth Hat and Cap Makers union, who
struck in New York, July 2, were
back on the job in two or three days
with all demands won. The remain
ing 1900 expect to win before the
height of the season in their industry,
which comes about the middle of
July.
Unemployment insurance is one of
the features of the new two-year con-
tract between the union and the Cloth
Hat and Cap Manufacturers associa-
ton, representing 81 of the largest
shops, employing about 1900 men.
The strike was called against indie
pendent shops and members of the
new Wholesale Cap Manufacturers
association to force them to sign the
same contract. Ten of the big indie
pendent shops have settled the strike
on that basis.
Not One Soab.
The union has the strike situation
so we'll in hand that no intimidation
by employers or police has been at
tempted so far. No scabs have been
employed. The New York market is
100 per cent organized.
Machinery for Cancellation and ar
bitration, with DR.. Paul Abelson as
chairman of the adjustment board, is
retained by the new agreement ex-
tending to June 80, 1925. Minimum
wage scale, the 44-hour week and full
pay for five legal holidays are other
conditions carried over from the old
contract.
Unemployment Fund.
Recognizing that the industry
should assume responsibility to it's
workers with regard to unemploy-
ment," says a union statement on the
new provisions, "and should bear the
burden of the hazards of unemploy-
ment as an overhead expense, as it
does the hazards of fire and accident,
the agreement provides that every
manufacturer, member of the asso-
citation, shall pay every week to the
unions unemployment fund a sum
equal to 3 per cent of his total pay
roll" This is in addition to the reg
ular wages paid to the workers.
"Since the distribution of unemploy-
ment benefit involves the most init
mate relations with the workers, the
8 per cent payment is considered as
an increase in wages, but instead of
being paid to every individual work
or it is paid to them collectively
that is, to their union" The prop
erty, control and management of the
unemployment fund rests exclusively
with the union.
The agreement provides for strict
enforcement of the rule that hats and
caps produced for manufacturers by
contractors shall be made only in
union shops under proper sanitary
conditions. The union is signing only
with manufacturers who are willing
to put up cash bond, usually $500,
as security for faithful observance or
the contract.