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The Washington times., 1925-03-17
$3.50. ooo, 900 TRANSFER
ATTRACTS NO BANDITS

NEW YORK, March 16.-Secur:-
ties valued at $3.50, 000, 900 were
transferred from the Metropolitan
Trust Company. at 40 Broadway,
to the Chatham and Phoenix Ma
tional Bank and Trust Company, at
149 Broadway, completing the merger
Of the two banks, which was begun
two years ago.
Lest this be taken az reflection
on the trustees of local banditry, be
il added that the treasure was car
ried in four armored cars and pro-
tected by thirty special guards armed
with revolvers and riot guns, and A
detail of fifteen. policemen from the
First precinct, under Lieutenant Nc
Cauliff.
More than twenty tons of secnri-
ties. most of which were negotiable,
were transferred, while police and
plain clothes men stationed along
both sides of Broadway for three
blocks hustled on the curious who
stopped tic look at the queer-iooking
cars.
The Washington times., 1925-03-17
INQUISITIVE COP NABS
TWO CELEBRITIES IN NAME

PHILADELPHIA. March 16.--
Patrolman TIInkson Of the Sixth
district arrested Antonio Valentino
Of Cambridge street and William
Lloyd George of Watkins street.
both colored, who are charged with
the larceny of an automobile.
Hinkson, who stopped the men at
Clarion and cambridge streets
asked them where they got the car,
and both said that it was their
joint property.
Whats your .name?" said Hink'
son to the first man.
Valentino" he answered.
What's yours?"' he asked the
other.
Lloyd George" was the reply.
The two celebrities, who are
charged with the suspicion of lar.
ceny of an automobile. will be ar.
raigned before Magistrate O'Brien.
The Washington times., 1925-03-17
WEAK PARTIES TO JOIN
IN STATE ELECTIONS

Liberal, labor and socialist organ
izations in several States already
have taken steps to amalgamate in
anticipation of the 1926 State cleo
tions, according to Joseph L..
Topper, Washington delegate to the
last convention Of the conference
for Progressive Political action, at
Chicago. Topper addressed a meet
ing of the local delegates at Typo
graphical Temple.
In a report to the meeting, West
ern Starr, president, hailed the re-
lection Of Charles B. Warren by
the Senate as one of the results Of
the progressive sentiment developed
by the 1924 campaign.
The Washington times., 1925-03-17
MINISTER SEE SPEAKER
AT MEMS SOCIETY MEET

Alfred SEE. Chinese minister to
the United States will address the
Mems Society of the Church of .he
Covenant, Eighteenth and N streets
northwest, at it's meeting tonight
at $50 o'clock. He will touch on
the international conference at
Geneva, Switzerland, for the con-
troll of the opium traffic.
: Major Bruce F.. Clark. president
of the society, will preside.
The Washington times., 1925-03-17
Harding Camp Dance

Warren G. Harding Camp No. ),
Sons of Veterans, will hold an en-
tertainment and dance after the
regular business meeting tomorrow
night at 1412 Pennsylvania avenue.
Members of Lincoln and Gushing
camps will be guests.
The Washington times., 1925-03-17
A DAYS
WALK
With jim RING
Poem About the Shamrock.

HOcIl aUOut TIC
They tell us the shamrock can
not be transplanted
To grow just as well in the
foreigners sod
They live in the shadows of green,
dewey meadows
Where first they were sown by
the finger of God.
But all the world over, the shy
little clover
Does serve for its little green
cousin they say,
And that rs the reason you'll find
them in season
Around the trees on st. Fat
rick's Day.
It looks as If the American
Legion, the knights of Columbus
and the Y. NJ. H. A. have just
about taken( over st. Patrick
Day for their own tonight, as all
are giving affairs that threaten
to be very we'll attended, indeed.
What has become of the quaint
old practice of drowning the
shamrock" asks this demon for
research from a purely schplastlC
viewpoint.
Somewhere between this type
writer and the stereotype depart
ment, somebody, yesterday, chang
ed Larry Rubel's last name to
''Subel." The prize for the worst
excuse goes to Ye Ed. who as
sunnes that word has reached
the newspapers that rubles are
off the market
The annual clash between the
White House correspondents and
photographers is fast taking
shape, we surmised, after a sur
yey of activities at headquarters
in President Colleges town
house yesterday.
Manager Durno reports him.
self willing to buy up Bucky
Harris as assistant, providing
that Bucky can qualify by get
ting a newspaper job as Whlte
House correspondent.
On the other side of the fence,
as 1t were, Photographer BUCK
MAY. who has relieved Eddie
Bowling as manager of the photo
graphers' nine-Mr. Dawling haV-
ing taken all the proceeds or
the 1924 match and going to
visit relatives in Mozambique on
same-has laid down a strict
line of training for his men.
In consequence Shorty Jack
son and Harry Van Tine, the
big guns of the camera men,
NAV be seen almost any morn
ing dashing through the Mall
NTH caroeras and tripods
track work.
"One never knows when one
may be called to run for heavy
hitter painted Mr.. Van Tine,
after a, brisk workout.
After due conferences with
Roland Robbins, it looks as II
Paul Specht and his band ere
going to play for the w. IL.
Correspondents Association din
ner, Saturday night. 1t promises
to be a darned sight more gala
than any affair of the kind in
months.
John Pershing. well known war
veteran, got back to town last
night amid cheers. John says
South America is a great country,
but give him the old U. s. A. any
time.
The Generals comment on
South America brings to mind
Secretary Frank Kellogg's dar-
ing statement on same when first
interviewed in Washington after
his sojourn abroad.
what do you think Of South
American" one of the boys asked,
trying to keep the conversation
going.
"T think it offers great posi-
bilities," said Mr.. Kellogg.
If that isn't the sine qua non
of non-committalism, trump 1t
yourself, we invite.
The Washington times., 1925-03-17

was said, to the skill Of the doctor.
bandits. The latter escaped with
$4,000 worth of gems.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

was agreed that the builder should
receive one-half of the saving to the
government in the completion of the
ship below the estimated cost.
1t is charged by the government
that Schwab's company did know what
the approximate cost would be and
despite this knowledge made padded
estimates "to derive excessive, un-
reasonable and unconscionable profits
from said contracts"
The government also contends that
Schwab scaled down the profits of the
other companies to the 10 per cent
basis while permitting his own com.
pany to rake off much larger profits in
addition to the savings" on produc-
tion below estimates.
1t was the war time policy of the
government to pay the bills of the wal
capitalists without much scrutiny, re-
lying on their patriotism to do the
square thing. After the armistice
government auditors got to work or
these patriotic contracts. The govern.
ment's suit against the Schwab com.
pany is the result Of the audit of the
company's accounts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
Labor In National Capital Begins
Fight on Everything Non Union

week, and it is proposed to see that
the major portion of this huge sum
finds its way into the hands of labor's
friends.
Banks and business houses friendly
to the trade union movement will feel
an impetus, while those who maintain
an antagonistic or independent" atti-
tude will be left to the tender mer-
cies of the "open shop" sympathizers.
Labor to Use Buying Power
Trades unionists have long been
sleeping, but at last appear to be
commencing to realize their potency.
Buying power" method strongly
and constantly recommended by the
label trades department of the A. F.
of L., is the little device more infiuen-
tial and persuasive than strikes, and
it's victories are more permanent than
any other method. The almighty dol
lar will be labor's best friend if labor
will only use it as weapon and keep
it out of the hands of the enemy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
ECONOMY stunt
Of u. S. Administration
Means Forced Unempl0y-
ment For Thousands
of Workers

Washington. - Tax reduction and
economy in the administration of the
government are set out as the Off
cial slogans of the republican poll
ticians to retain their control of con-
gress in the congressional elections
of 1925.
Senator Curtis, of Kansas, declares
that the administration will save half
q billion dollars by the reorganization
of departments and bureau now being
undertaken by order of President
Coolidge.
Representative Madden, chairman
Of the house appropriations commit
tee, is bit more conservative and
limits the economy stunt to 1913, ,000,-
900. Madden wants to bring this
economy to the direct attention of the
individual income tax payer by send
ing him a government check for his
pro rata amount of the economy "div-
idend." President Coolidge, how
ever, alarmed by the enormous
amount of bookkeeping which the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
FOOD PRICE
Boosters Keep Right On
Boosting

Washington. Retail merchants
boosted the price of food products Sc
per cent during the 12-year period
ending with March Is, 1925, accord
ing to figures made public by the U.
S. bureau of labor statistics.
For the year ending March Is, they
limited their boosting to per cent.
During the month ending March 15
they lacked up the price Of Is articles
of food, running all the way from a
% per cent boost for pork chops to
10 per cent for butter, 8 per cent for
bacon, and per cent for ham.
According to the bureau, the whole
salers also got active in price raising
during the last year. In round num-
bers they raised farm products IL per
cent, foods IL per cent, miscellaneous
commodities II per cent, and chemi-
calls and drugs per cent. Taking
into consideration the few articles on
which wholesalers were compelled to
drop prices, they increased the gen
eral price level over Z per cent for
the year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
PROCRESSIVES
Plan to Hold La Toilette
Field Day August 1st

By international Labor News Service.
Chicago.-Plans have been laid for
Ia Toilette field day" at River
view park, Chicago, Saturday, Au-
gust l, at which Senator Robert M.
La Toilette, of Wisconsin, is to be
the principal speaker. The event will
be held under the direction of the
progressive party of Illinois, which
is the organization that functioned in
the La Toilette Wheeler campaign in
this state last fall.
The La Toilette Wheeler organiza-
ton, which is still maintaining state
. headquarters in Chicago, has been re-
ceiving some flattering reports from
local units out in the state recently
AS an example, the organization al
Joliet reports that it licked the plat
ter clean at the spring township cleo
ton, putting over its entire slate OF
% candidates. This announcement is
accompanied by the prediction that
the county in which Joliet is situated
will now come under the control Of
the La Toilette Wheeler forces as 9
result Of this victory.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

Madden plan would email, favors the
less spectacular policy of retiring gov
ernment bonds with certain surpluses
that accrue in the treasury.
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
and his advisers insist that the econ
omy savings shall be used to reduce
the surtaXes now imposed on the own
ers of large incomes.
The administration economy stunt
usually takes the form of discharging
government employees, thus depriving
them of purchasing power for the
support of their families and throw
ing them into the army of the un-
employed
1t is authoritatively stated that the
government will dismiss about 1000
workers in the near future, with
more scheduled for the same fate as
the tax reduction policy develops.
Forced unemployment for thou
sands of deserving government work
ers will be labor's share of the ad-
ministration's economy drive.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
Panhandle District Miners
Join Big Strike In Northern
Section Of West Virginia

the strike. The Elm Grove Coal Com
pany, employing some 700 men in
their four mines, announced that they
would live up to the terms of the Jack
sonville agreement and would employ
all union men.
The strike call was in the form of
an invitation to the miners Of the
four affected counties to join the
United Mine Workers Of America and
help maintain ''the present union
standard of wages and working con-
ditions," and was addressed to min
ers who were not working under
union contract and to those who are
not bound under court injunctions.
The strike in the Panhandle district
is in addition to the strike now on by
non-union men in the IL counties of
the northern West Virginia field. Van
A Bittner, who is representing the
International Union in the northern
West Virginia field, informed the In
ternational Union at headquarters
here that the strike was progressing
favorably, despite statements to the
contrary made by operators affected
by the walk-out
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

BY international Labor News Service
Indianapolis, Ind-All the miners
of the Panhandle district of West
Virginia, except those employed by
Windsor Power Coal Company and
the men of the Hitchman Coal Com
pany-the latter two being covered
by injunctions have been called out
on strike by the United Mine Work
ers.
Lee Hall, president of the Ohio
miners; William Roy, vice president
of the district; Frank Ledvinka, pres
ident of Subdistrict 5, of District 6;
John Cinque, vice president of Sub
district 5, and w. I. Roberts, secre-
treasurer of Subdistrict S, signed
the strike call, having jurisdiction
over mines in that particular section.
President Hall, Of the Ohio miners,
later advised international officials
that 81 per cent of the working force
in Marshall and Brooke counties. West
Virginia, were idle; rs per cent of the
force in Ohio county was also out.
Operators admitted that the opera
tions in the four counties comprising
the Panhandle were badly crippled by
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
Child Labor Bad in China
But @. K. in United States
Is Chicago Papers Attitude

American babies are being ground
into profits by Lawson's millionaire
buddies.
Shanghai Conditions Denounced
The Daily News says in an editor.
rial:
Apparently the foreign rate pay.
ers within the international settle.
ment of Shanghai are not as anxious
to correct the almost incredibly hor.
rible condition of the child workers
in the factories and mills within then
jurisdiction as elementary humanity
demands. That opposition
is hardly conceivable, the plain recita
of the facts regarding child labor ir
China by the Shanghai correspondent
of the Daily News sufficiently de.
monstrates."
Pleads for Shanghai Tots
Further along in the editorial Law.
sons newspaper has this to say:
"Child labor in England century
ago presented a sufficiently dismaying
spectacle, but that condition seems
well-nigh ideal when contrasted with
the physical and moral slavery of the
children employed in modern Chinese
factroies.
"It is hoped by persons in Shanghai
who realize the piteous plight of fac
tory children that the model ordi.
nance if adopted and honestly en-.
forced, will serve as an example ir
all Chinese communities
Playing safe all the way through
For the abolition of child slavery in
China and England or any old country
so long as it is undisturbed in the
United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

By International Labor News Service
Chicago.-The hypocritical Chicago
Daily News, published by Victor F
Lawson, millionaire reactionary re-
siding in palace on Chicago's cele-
brated "Gold Coast" on the shores OF
Lake Michigan, is shedding bitter
tears over child slavery in China
Lawson's most recent sorrow comes
as the result of the defeat of an at
tempt to regulate child labor in the
foreign settlement of Shanghai.
Lawson and his newspaper are bit
terly disappointed over the failure OF
the foreign residents of Shanghai to
rise up in their wrath and smite child
slavery, but the Daily News is whole
heartedly for slavery for American
babies. The Illinois Manufacturers
Association, in it's November issue OF
the "Monthly Review for Executives y
listed the Daily News as one Of the
13 Illinois newspapers opposed to the
child labor amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States.
News Fights Amendment
To prove that the Manufacturers
Association had it pegged right, the
Daily News published columns upon
columns of propaganda matter to
prove that child slavery was good
thing for America and that the pro-
of Satan.
It is apparent that Lawson is now
trying to alibi himself and his news
paper out Of bad situation by sniff
ling over the hard lot of Chinese chill
dren who are being shamelessly ex-
plotted in the same manner that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
PRESSMEN
Apprentice Training Pro.
vided in N. Y. City
Schools

By International Labor News Service.
New York.-The superintendent of
the board of education have agreed to
make provision for the training OF
pressmen apprentices in the public
schools along the lines now in effect
with marked success for 1000 future
craftsmen in the building trades.
A central printing trades continual
ton school is to be established, the
board of education renting a floor in
one of the largest prining blocks to
accommodate the students.
The boys will be union apprentices
sent with the joint approval of New
York Pressment's Union, No. 81, and
the Printers League section of the
New York Employing Printers Asso-
citation.
The trades association will provide
the equipment, supplies and supple
ment the salaries of instructors ap.
pointed by the board of education, il
is announced.
AS in the other apprentice courses
a, joint advisory board has been ere
ated to act for the union, the employ
ers and the school board.
with a special group of students
in an industrial building adapted fol
the purpose, with the industry read.
to donate and maintain modern equip
ment and to assist in obtaining tn,
highest type Of instructors, it is evi
dent the success Of the school is as
sured," declared the board Of super
intendents in it's report.
The essence of the plan is that tn
boys interests are protected by tn
union, they have jobs as apprentice
and they are developed on the job an,
in the school to become the best work
men.
! Local 81 is one of the most highl.
skilled unions Of printing pressmel
in the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
UNCLE SAM sues
Bethlehem Steel For Mil.
lions For War Time
Overcharges

Philadelphia The United States
government has sued the Bethlehem
Steel Company for $15,000,000 which
it is claimed the company overcharged
the government on ship construction
in war time when Charles M. Schwab,
president Of Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, was director-general of the
United States feet corporation.
The ship constructing companies
were to be paid the cost Of construc-
tion plus 10 per cent as profit. The
government claims that Schwab's
company maintained it was imprac-
ticable to estimate the actual cost o1
constructing the ships. Therefore il
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
By FRED S. WALKER
Staff Correspondent, Internationa

Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Washington, d. C.-'If they want
war it may as we'll start heren
Those were the words of John Parker,
who commanded the Minute Men at
Lexington in 1776, and that is the
way the Washington Central Labor
Union feels about the trade union sit
uation in the capital of the nation.
A far-reaching and drastic move
ment against everything in the Dis
trict of Columbia that is non-union"
has been initiated and plan perfect
ed for consolidating the IA organi-
cations Of the Central Labor Union
for an intensive drive against the
open shoppers.
Henry Miller, chairman of the ad-
justment committee, is supported by
other officials in the declaration that
he has during the past several
months received information that
Washington has been designated as
the battle-ground for an open-shop
drive, which is to be started grad
ually, trade by trade, until the entire
city is non-union. 1t is this menace
which local labor officials are prepar-
ing to meet. In the words of the
Colonial patriot: "If they want a
war it may as well begin here!"
Employers Form Anti-LabOr Combine
The building trades strike, now on
has resulted in the revelation of q
comprehensive organization of EN-.
ployers, the builders, under the title
of Operative Builders Association
having enrolled construction firms ano
fnanciers for the purpose of breaking
down the building crafts unions. Tt
this end they have threatened to boy
| cott firms granting wage increases
and are using the methods for which
/ labor has been many times con
demned Big business in Washington
including the banks, have been drawn
| into a prodigious combine, the labor
leaders insist, to weaken labor organ
izations in the capital.
The Central Labor Union is in toucl
with "a locals, which, besides the
manual trades, includes seven fedora
employees locals. In all, there ar,
probably almost 100000 trades union
lists in the city, The drive agains
the open shoppers will be waged no
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01

auditors report showing deficiency
of 100000 pounds, according to An
gus Scott, municipal reform member
in the London county council.
Scott points out that the auditor
included charges for repayment on
capital which if they had been deduct
ed would have shown profit of $780,
900 pounds. In addition the tram
ways made road improvements cost
ing $4,000 pounds, which are i'm
properly charged against the tram
ways.
by taking these items out of the
expense account, the tramways show
an actual profit of $4,000 pounds, 2
Scott says.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-05-01
Organized Workers to Carry
War to Foe as Counter-Move
10 Open Shoppers Campaign

only against non-union stores, mer-
chandising without the union label,
houses built by non-union labor, ma
terlals, tools, clothing, and, in fact,
everything that has the taint of "open
shop"
Special Committee to Direct Fight
The Central Labor Union will guide
this activity through a special COM
mittee of 15, appointed for the pur-
pose, and a special committee under
the Craftsmanship of President Clar-
ence Cooper will call upon President
Green, of the American Federation of
Labor, and ask his support and the
support of the federation in the move.
The committee has been carefully
selected and includes H. S. Hollohan,
B. A. O'Leary, ]. M. Bolts, Henry
Miller, Charles Frazier, Arthur Cham
berlain, A. C. Hayden, N. A. James,
Irving Hewitt, Miss Margedant E.
Gerry, Miss Inez Cook, ]. E. Toone,
De Forest L. Ormes, c. C. Coulter,
and w. M. Running.
Local unions are being communicate
ed with, and each organization is ex-
pected to arrange the campaign with
| its own membership. No merchant or
store will be patronzed that is unfair
to organized labor. Every clerk in a
store or business house will be asked
| to show his union button as a mem
| ber of the Retail Clerks, mechanics
will be asked to show their cards, the
label will be demanded in merchan-
disc, and Investigations will be made
as to who built the houses that might
be purchased by members of organ
ized labor.
Drive to Affect Most of City
/ The delegates who attended the last
meeting of the General Labor Union
were enthusiastic over the, plan, and
the movement will probably affect
more than half the population of
Washington directly and many thou
sands more indirectly.
Central Labor Union officials feel
they are on the right road, and they
propose not only to hold the lines they
have occupied in the past but to or
i ganize new locals and build up others
which heretofore have not received
the support to which they are entitled.
i Washington trades unionists expend
i in the neighborhood of $1,500,000 a