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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
WHAT THE MOTOR
VEHICLE SHOULD PAY
BY F. A. Cannon, Executive Sec'y,
Good Roads Association of
Wisconsin

lmposts on motor vehicles in the
form of license fee or a gasoline
tax are, properly speaking, not taxes.
They are just a part of the bill we
must pay because of our ownership
and operation of motor vehicles.
You pay the price when you buy
car. You then buy gasoline, oil,
replace worn parts, pay for repairs,
and buy new tires. The cost of
each of these mentioned things or
services is legitimate part of the
owning and operating a motor
vehicle. When we buy new tire
we regard it as a commercial tran
saction in which we purchase a
commodity in order to operate our
car and expect our dividend in money
or pleasure, or both.
Highway service is just as essential
and is just as much part of the
legitimate cost of operating a motor
vehicle as anything else which we
purchase in order TO enable us to
operate the vehicle with efficiency
and economy.
As has been noted previously in
these articles, the saving resulting
from good roads will more than pay
the tax we pay to get them. When
the public through the demand caus-
ed by the amazing increase in the
number of vehicles is compelled to
spend hundreds of millions of dollars
to build and maintain roads over
which motor vehicles operate, and
which are essential for their opera
ton, the public is rendering a special
service to the users of these roads
and they should pay an equitable
share of the cost of this service.
These arguments apply especially
to trucks and buses which are
operated for profit The railroads
are required to buy their right of
way and build their roads, but the
roads for the trucks and BUSES to-
day are being built at the expense Of
the general taxpayer.
The 100000 motor vehicles owned
in Wisconsin today, travelling on an
average 5000 miles each, will in the
entire year travel a total mileage Of
1900, 100000 miles. No one will
deny that well built and maintained
roads would save the users of these
vehicles cent a mile. This is
equal to the amount that the state
and the counties spent at the peak
point in d given year in highway
construction in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Highway Commits
sion has worked out figures. and
the estimate is low, showing that the
total cost of operating and owning
475,000 motor vehicles in a year
would be $219,780,50O, counting
fixed charges, interest, depreciation,
etc, and the different elements of
operating costs The license fees of
these vehicles viii run $6.500 900,
which they pay towards the roads, or
a little over az
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
Legislators Should Have an
Adequate Salary.

Members of the present legislature
and others who have given thought
to the extremely low pay which
senators and assemblymen are re-
ceiving are in hopes that Wisconsin
voters on April 1st will cast ballot
for the constitutional amendment
which was favorably voted upon by
two successive legislatures This
amendment changes the present law
which allows only $500 per session
for legislators.
With possibly one exception, legis-
lators Of Wisconsin are paid less than
those Of any other state. The 1928
session lasted l84 days which, at the
$500 salary. averaged s272 per day
for each member. This does not
cover the living expenses of the
members, who. in addition to paying
for board and room, pay their own
railway fare to and from their
homes, only single round trip for
the entire session being paid by the
state. Thea, too, senator's and
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
HURLEY COPS
THIRD PLACE
First Honor in District Basket Ball
Tournament at Ashland Goes to
Superior Central.

BY defeating Superior East End
high scnool Hurley copied third
place in the district basket ball
tournament at Ashland which came
to close Saturday evening. The
score was II to Is.
Superior Central carried off the
honors, winning first place by
administering a decisive defeat to the
Ashland high, which landed in second
place. Superior Central swamped
Ashland by the score of SO to u.
After losing the first game in the
tournament Thursday evening to
Ashland by the score of IA to IL,
Hurley registered victory in the next
game, trimming Ondossagon by the
score of 20 to H. Butternut was
Hurley's next opponent, Hurley
taking the game 20 to IS.
In the game with Superior East
End Hurley was apparently defeated
at the close of the first period,
Superior leading by the score of 8 to
2. Hurley came back strong in the
second period, however, and in the
last few minutes OF play registered
the winning basket.
Thomas Hunt, Hurley forward,
was placed on the All-Tournament
second team, and another Hurley
boy, Anton Calvi, was given honor
able mention.
AS a result of winning third Mace
the following Hurleyites were given
bronze medals: Coach Roy Melvin
John Pedri, Gilbert Trier, Thomas
Hunt, Anton Calvi, Edwin Sybeldon,
Lane Wilcox, Leonard Saari and
Harvey Gygi.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
BLAINE SENDS
ECONOMY LETTER
In An Open Letter TO Municipal
Officers Gov Blaine Urges
Economy Throughout State.

Accomplishments of the present
state administration and recon-
mendations for the future in
reference to lowering of taxes and
economy throughout Wisconsin are
presented in an open letter addressed
to Municipal Officers" from Cover
nor John J. Blaine, made public
today,
The governor cites instances to
show that tax burdens have been
lowered since the close of the war
and recommends increased proper
tions of state taxes be devoted to
highway construction and schools
but warns against overtaxing for
any purpose.
IF We are to have further reduc-
ton in the tax burden. we must
work in common to limit unneces-
sary expense" the letter said.
1.-The common councils, the county
boards, the town boards, and the
school boards have to do with 80
per cent of the cost of government.
farm personal property are at low
ebb. Their values have been greatly
deprecated. Farm assessed valua-
ton has been maintained at or adj
vanced over war prices. Now is the
time to adjust those values for as
sessment purposes.
Wisconsin has taken the lead in
highway construction. The state
has paid in full as it went along.
Some of the municipalities have
bonded for the purpose. A bond is
mortgage on every dollars worth
of property in the district. 1t must
be paid in full by taxes. Munich
palities should proceed with caution
in voting bonds"
The governor condemns the pro-
posed gasoline tax as lone of those
painless taxes that filches your
money little by little but it takes it
just the same"
Highways and schools absorb the
greater portion of our taxes,
Blaine continues Good schools are
worth all they cost, but am
apprehensive that educational fads
are finding their way into our
schools. / think there should be a
thorough consideration of our educa-
ton institutions to the end that
education shall cost the average
student less and be of far greater
nrapticaI benefit.
an conclusion, let me urge upon
you careful consideration of the con
stitutional amendment proposed for
your vote at the April election. 1t
is an absolute fact that legislator
cannot make both ends meet on his
present salary This not only is a
cause for shame that we treat our
servants who conduct our business
reaching into many millions of dol
lars each session. but it is the very
worst kind of folly in business
way"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

Suffice to say, the farmers won
out, because they were right and
they dared to adopt modern methods
to place their case squarely before
the public.
There is nothing right about
boycott in the first place, and people
who do not buy the products of their
home community and help it to
prosper, scarcely deserve the right TO
live in it and enjoy the benefits ac-
curing to everyone "a
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
Buying Home Products.

A thousand women of a certain
town established a "butter boycott"
and the farmers were Immediately
aroused. They organized and fired
broadside after broadside through
the local newspapers.
Eliminate "Old Bossy," the farmer
said, and if the housewives decided
to eat substitutes, neighboring cities
would provide an ample market for
their country butter" trade,
Hot soda biscuits and Jersey
butter-real butter-or hot pam
cakes and real butter and maple
syrup, or homemade bread and real
butter. Nothing compounded by
chemists can take the place Of
these" said the embattled farmers.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
|, 1ANDIDATES SET
FOR ELECTION
To Candidates for Mayor and Con-
test, For Alderman in All the
Wards Promises Spirited
Election.

with two candidates for mayor
IA contests for alderman and
srreryisor in almost every ward the
sIdction in Hurley this spring
nromises to be spirited and interest
r the election will increase as the
day draws near.
''; Thursday was The last day for
fling nomination papers so that the
tirket is now complete.
Heading the ticket are the
candidates for mayor, VIM. T..
lennon and VIM. Walter. f. M,
Peible has no opposition for trea-
snrer P. H. Aspinwall is candidate
for Justice Of the peace and Frank
Nolan for constable.
The second ward promises to be
the battle-ground to which good
deal of the interest in the election
viii be directed. There are five
candidates for alderman in this ward
and three candidates for supervisor,
with two aldermen TO be chosen and
one supervisor. A close second to
the Second ward is the Fourth, where
there are five candidates for alder
man and two for supervisors. The
other wards each have three candi-
dates for alderman and one for
supervisor,
Following are the aldermanic
candidates;
First ward-Henry Carter, Dom
mic Friola and Sabatino Lerza.
Second ward-Patrick J. Lancer,
Herman Erspamer, Thomas Jackson,
Joseph Pollock and John Bino.
Third ward-Matt Secor, Arthur
Emunson and Hipolet Pawlicki.
Fourth ward-Arthur M. Williams,
Henry Coach, Andrew Olson, James
i Summers and Gust Dahl.
Fifth ward-Harry F. Davia, M.
Il W. Froney and Chas. Dahl, Jr.
Sixth ward-Birger Julin, Jack
DeFero and Mike Sandritto.
The candidates for supervisor
are:
First ward-Chas. Bonino and
& ThOs Mcdonald.
Second ward-Arnold A. Schafer,
C. F. Castagna and M. ]. Connors.
Third ward-John F. Sullivan.
Fourth ward-Daniel Reid and
Dominic Rubatt.
Fifth ward-George B. Gerry.
Sixth ward-Frank Lukey.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

assemblymen must pay postage,
telegraph tolls and other incidentals
necessary in communicating with
their constituents.
Illinois pays its legislators $4,000
a session besides $50 for incideHtals
and weekly railroad fares. In
other states members Of legislatures
are paid for extra sessions, but this
is not trae Of Wisconsin, where
members are required to work with
out pay
Those interested in better govern
ment favor an adequate salary for
legislators, and many civic, labor,
farm, commercial and other or
ganizat;ons favor the constitutional
amentment in question Their
members are urged to vote favorably
On this subject at the april lst
election
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
Bssrwald Named Manager of Local
Ball Club. 4

"Ruddy' Baerwald was. chosen to
manage the Hurley baseball club at
the meeting of players and fans held
Monday evening in the Legion Club
rooms Leo Hunt was chosen trea-
suFer and E. B. Williams secretary.
10 provide funds for starting the
season it is planned to sell booster"
acket for the first game, the date of
which however, has not been deter
mined yet. 1t is hoped to open the
season the latter part of May, the
opening game depending to a con-
siderable extent on the state of the
weather Who Hurley's opponent
VII be for the first game has not
been decided either.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
Ashland Lake Commerce Big.

Compilations by the U. S. En-
gineer's office shows that the
marine commerce of the port of Ash
land, reached a tonnage of $780,
600 in 1928, with a total value of
$34, 100000. The larger items of
commerce, were the shipments of
iron ore, and the receipts of coal
Ashland very nearly reached the
ore tonnage of Two Harbors, and
outranked Escanaba, and also
Marquette, nearly three to one.
The completion of a dock now
under construction by the Newaygo
company, Ltd Of Port Arthur Can
ada, is intended to divert ground
pulpwood products across Lake Su-
perior to Ashland, to escape the long
freight haul by rail via Fort Francis,
from Port Arthur to southern Wis
cousin. The ground wood will be
brought to Ashland in seows, and
sent by rail to the paper mills fur
Their south.
A heavy ore business is prophesied
at all ore ports this season, but while
Ashland is expected to beat last sea-
sons record of six and a third mil
lion tons of ore, the c. and n. w.
ore dock, now under construction, is
not expected to be finished before
June, and the extension of the steel
and cement ore dock of the $500"
Line will not be finished before 1925.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

The fellow who takes the cake is
generally the one who makes the
dough.
Blocks are good for nothing only to
block good legislation,
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

Whenever a grand jury makes a
report, we always wonder what the
police have been doing.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

l1e law provides that cats in Berlin
a2l De muzzled Fortunately, no
s''h law is enforced here or lots of
$ would be wearing muzzles.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

About the best asset any store can
have is clerk who gives polite
answers to foolish questions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-14
WORKERS PARTY
CANDIDATES GO
EAST And West

Fresh from a triumphant
meeting where they gave the
Communist message to four
thousand people in the Ashland
Auditorium, William z. Foster
and Benjamin CitIow, Workers
Party candidates for president
and yice-president of the United
States, departed on their speak
ing tours yesterday.
Foster, who has just COM
pleted a whirlwind tour of the
Pacific Coast, will speak in De-
troit tonight at the House of the
Masses, while Gitlow is speak
ing in Seymour Hall, Omaha,
Nebraska.
Paths Cross In Chicago.
Gitlow has completed a speaking
tour Of the east and his path crossed
that of Foster, who was travelling east,
at the monster Chicago meeting,
where both candidates spoke.
Close to one thousand dollars was
collected for the Communist cam.
paign fund, after a collection appeal
by Bob Minor, eighty dollars worth OF
campaign literature was sold and one
hundred people subscribed to the
DAILY WORKER. Thousands OF
copies of the special campaign issue
Of the DAILY WORKER were distrib.
uted.
The future dates Of the Communist
presidential candidates are as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-14
/. MIGRANTS ARE
FLEE(ED BY THE
STEAM AGENCIES
10y Federated Press.)

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-Be sure your
friends and relatives who are trying
10 get to the United States from Rus
sia are still in the ports to which you
we're sending money before you send
;ay more. is the warning of the So
Wet consulates in Riga and Libau,
hitch the Central Bureau of the So
{ ETY. for Technical Aid to Russia is
lsoadcasting turnout America.
Thousands of Russians who we're
y Waiting in these ports for the Ameri.
N consuls to wise their passports
l~vo given up trying to emigrate to
. United States under the new i'm
sration restrictions which cut the
} issian quota from about 10000 last
y 3tr to about 1000 this year. These
: ussians have returned to their homes
G gc-e to other places in Russia and
Honey from relatives and friends in
america is going to the steamship
ticket Offices and to petty sharks in
R.gc and Libau who promised to get
tra prospective emigrants their tick.
as and visaes. Thousands of dollars
TIC being lost to these hole.in-the-
Wall Offices which are not forwarding
the money nor informing the senders
taat their friends and relatives have
left the port.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-14
GEORGIA
Tells OF fight
With REACTION
Reply to Lies of Kept
Press in U. S.

EDITORS NOTE-Only recently
the American kept press was filled
to the brim with reports Of the
counter-reycluUpnary movement n
Soviet Georgia. Some Of these sub
sidized sheets saw in the alleged in
surrections against Workers Rule
in Soviet Georgia a movement that
would threaten Soviet Rule in Rus
STA itself. The DAILY WORKER
has just secured a Manifesto issued
by the enlarged Plenum of the Tiff
lis, Georgia, Soviet, and addressed
to the workers and farmers of all
countries. 1t reviews the situation
in this part of the Union of Social
list Soviet Republics, and gives the
lie to the malicious and misleading
accounts that have appeared IN
Americas daily newspapers. The
manifesto in full is as follows:
The enlarged pIenum Of the TIL
lis Soviet has unanimously ad-
dressed the following manifesto to
the proletariat and to the peasantry
Of the whole world.
EOR three and a half years
Georgia has lived under a
Soviet regime. In these three
years the country has made
enormous strides forward on
the road to economic and ma
horticultural restoration. In
the atmosphere of assured in
ternationaI peace which was set
up along with the Soviet rule,
both internally and in the for
eign relations with the neigh
boring republics, the workers
and peasants of our republic
have revealed a zest for work
and a heroism unexampled in
history.
The productive forces, which
were fettered by. the czarist re-
gime and the imperialist war as
much as by the chronic state of
war in the years when the coun-
try was under the administra-
ton of the social-democratic
menshevist party, are now rap
idly developing both in industry
and agriculture. The economic
and cultural interests of labor
are under the sure protection of
the effective social legislation of
the Soviet power.
Education Is Fostered.
Never in the history OF our country
has there been such an eager work
Of construction carried on in all tho
spheres Of the cultural life OF the
people.
Under the Soviet power Georgls
has realized, for the first time the
complete Matchmaking OF all organs OF
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-14
WORKERS CONTRIBUTE
TO FUND TO CARRY ON
COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN

Money has been coming in regu-
Iarly into the local office Of the
Workers Party from the various
AmaIeamated shops since the LaFol-
Iette officials In the Amaleamated
began prosecuting those who refus.
ed to give dollar donations 10 the
LaFoIIette campaign fund, and are
instead purchasing Workers Party
campaign fund stamps which are be.
ing circulated by our comrades In
the shops.
In spite Of the drastic measures
which the LaFolette representa-
tlves are taking to pull the dollars
from pockets OF the workers for the
LaFollette campaign, In many Of
the shops with very little effort our
comrades are able to collect more
money for the Communist Campaign
Fund than goes to the LaFollette
campaign with all their big guns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-14
l.W.W. DELEGATES
MEET HERE In
one CONVENTION
Rank and File Opposes
idea of TwO Gatherings

Delegates to the two conven-
tons of the Industrial Workers
of the World. scheduled to open
yesterday, took matters into
their own hands and served
notice on the officials represent
ing both factions that there
would be one convention on
what they termed neutral
ground" and invited them to
come to the Phoenix Hall, 4O5
w. Division Street, at 2 p. m.
Within the last few months a
controversy has arisen in the
national Office of the |. w. w.
over leadership which resulted
in one faction, the Griffith
Rowan-Bowerman group, re-
sorting to capitalist court in
functions to. restrict the other
faction, in the persons of Tom
Doyle and Joe Fisher, from
conducting the work of the or
ganization.
The membership all over the coun-
try was aroused over this method of
procedure, of taking an /. w. w. or
ganizational matter into the capital
list courts, and both sides were COM
PEELED to issue a call for a conven-
ton to convene Oct. 10. AS the time
approached for the convention the
line between the two factions, repre-
sented by the different groups of lead
ers, became more tightly drawn and
it developed that not one but two
conventions might be held. The halls
rented for the two conventions were
the Emmett Memorial, at Ogden and
Taylor Sts., and another at 1870 w.
Washington St.
Halls Rented and Deposit Paid.
But yesterday when members Of the
i. w. w. came to both these halls,
they found no convention and no sign
of one to be held At both these halls
the janitors told the DAILY WORK
Err reporter that the halls were rent
ed and a deposit paid.
1t developed later in the day that
the whole matter had taken an en-
tirely new turn. The delegates had
taken the matter into their own hands
and served notice on the pickering
officers that there would be one con-
vention.
Rank and File Meets.
ION Sunday night" delegate in
formed the DAILY WORKER, "the
delegates held a netting by them
selves without any officers and de-
cided to call off the two conventions
and take charge of this matter in their
way. They rented the Phoenix Hall
and served notice on their officers
that they were invited to attend the
convention called by the delegates
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-14
HARRINGTON WAS
FOR INJUNCTION
JUDGE HADLEY.
His First Start in Trad
ing With Enemy
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.
(ArticIe Two.)

"AII the coal Frank Earring
ton ever dug would not keep a
gas heater from freezing to
DEATH" This was the comment
made on Farrington's coal dig
ging activities by a miner who
once held an important position
in District IL. But in order to
be eligible for election as an Of
fetal of the United Mine Work.
ers of America a candidate must
at least show that he has some
acquaintance with the subter-
ranean depths where the black
diamonds grow.
Harrington did not like coal
digging worth a cent and shortly
after his father introduced him
to the work at Streator, Frank
discovered he had vocation as
a railroad worker. However,
after he had risen to position of
night yardmaster in his business
his relations with John Barley
corn got him into difficulties,
with the result that he had to
sever connections with this line
of work. He went back to the
mines only to be followed by Mr..
Barleycorn. John and Frank
were close friends those days.
On Road to Wealth.
Bringing liquor into the mines was
considered by the union as cause for
discharge. harrington was discharg-
ed on this count Having secured a
CONTINUED on Page 81