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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20
NATIONAL CONVENTION
EDUCATION BUREAU TO
Be HELD APRIL 1878

By International Labor News Service
NEW YORK CITY, March 10
The following call for the fourth ma
tional convention Of the Workers Ed
ucation Bureau, to be held at Phil
adelphia April II, 10 and 10, has
been issued:
s'The workers education movement
in the United States has, during the
past four years, evolved from vague
dream to a definite reality. It has
progressed from a simple desire for
a fuller life on the part of American
woFkingmen and women to dyna-
mic adventure in democratic educa-
ton and social living. 1t has given
a new meaning and goal to adult ed
ucation and revealed new education
al service of the American trade UNI
ion movement.
"At the 44th annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor,
at FL Paso, Texas, in November of
last year, the workers education
movement was made an organic part
of the American trade union move
ment. The Workers Education Blu
reau of America and it's affiliated col
leges and study classes were formally
recognized as the agencies through
which this vital educational service
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20

to the American trade union move
ment was to be placed at the disposal
of American workingmen and wom-
en-, A plan for the financial support
of the Workers Education Bureau
was unanimously adopted by the con-
vention, adequate for the present
need, equitable in its burden upon the
organization of labor, and in keeping
with the educational aims of the
American trade union movement
"This generous and whole-hearted
Endorsement and support by the
American trade union movement is
a most impressive milestone in the
history of/American workers educa-
ton. It is challenge to all those
concerned in this movement to be
worthy of this trust and to render a
service Commensurate with the cul-
tural needs of American workingmen
and women. We, therefore, invite
the affiliated trade union colleges,
study classes, student associations,
national and international unions and
cooperative societies to the fourth ma
tional convention of the Workers
Education Bureau, to be held in the
city of Philadelphia on the 18th, 18th
and 10th of April, 1925.
"The basis of representation in the
convention will be as follows: ~
international and national unions,
State declarations of labor, central
bodies and local unions are entitled
to one vote each. (2) Trade union
colleges are entitled to one vote for
each class of from one to 10 mem
bers; the representation to increase
in the proportion of one vote for
each additional Is members or major
portion thereof; and provided that
no class should have more than i've
votes. (3) Workers study classes
are entitled to one vote for each Is
students or major portion thereof not
exceeding a total of Ave votes.
"The afiliation of trade union col
leges and workers study classes and
trade unions, whether local, national
or international, must be made and
the afIiliation fees paid four weeks
before the date set for the national
convention to carry full voice and
vote in the convention.
''The sessions Of the convention will
be held in the conference room of
the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, on
Chestnut Street at 9th Street, and
will begin on Friday morning, April
18th, at 10 o'clock. The public is
cordially invited to attend all the
sessions.
James H. Maurer, president; Fam
MIA M. Cohn, vice president; George
w. Perkins, treasurer; Matthew
J Woll, chairman, executive commit
tee; John Brophy, John P. Frey,
Frieda Miller, Harry Russell, John
Van Vaerenewyck, Spencer Miller,
Jr., secretary"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20
UNIONS SHOULD TAKE
UP RADIO BR0ADCASTNG

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. March 19-
Trade unions must give attention to
the possibilities Of radio broadcasting
if they are not to lose pace with the
times, according to James NJ. Lynch,
president Of the International Typo
graphical Union. Mr.. Lynch has adj
vaneed the suggestion that abroad
casting station should be established
and maintained either By the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor or BY a CO.
operating group of large unions.
Opponents Of unionism are losing
no time utilizing this tremendous
new medium for propaganda spread, )"
said Mr.. Lynch. ~The Illinois Manu-
facturers' Association Is making a
sustained publicity drive using radio.
Tell your home folks to tune in on
the factory noon-hour programs
says message issued by industrial
plants, members Of the association.
Here are some Of the topics dis
cussed in these noon~hour programs:
The Shop Agitator,' The Easiest
Way for Factory Employe to Own
His Own Home The Popular Man in
the Factory, 'Americanization, In
terest Of Employees in Total Manu-
featuring Output Sports and Elk
ercise.' Heavily freighted with pois-
on gas against the labor movement
are these little talks to the workers.
Many factories have installed radio
sets with loud speakers in lunch
rooms and rest rooms to facilitate
DINING union hatred into the ears
of employers.
'aThere are more than 100000
radio listeners in the country and
the publicity power of broadcasting
is only excelled by that of the press.
Unionism certainly cannot afford to
leave this field to its insidious and
sleepless foes. Concerning the fact
DRY noon-hour programs the Manu-
features News of Chicago says:
Leading business men, financiers
and industrialists are being called up
on to present thoughts applicable to
the workers welfare. Many employ
ers are making the factory noon-hour
each Tuesday, a weekly better reIa-
tions event. s.;s
'That kind Of educational effort
is not new to organized LAHORE It. is
the same old wolf in sleeps clothing.
Many forces with many different mo-
tives are seeking by diverse means
to gain control of broadcasting. It
is bigger thing than many realize.
The cost of maintaining a station
would be large, but not prohibitive if
a group of trade unions might CO.
operate in the undertaking."
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20
UNIONS WIN LONG
FIGHT TO PAY CLAIMS

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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20
MORE THAN ZOO WORKERS SUDDENLY LET
OUT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

while reluctant to suspend the quail
iiications included in the examine
ITEMS, had about arrived at the point
of agreement. The demand for new
material at the G. o. P. was insist
emit and continual, because the print
ers were not falling over each other
to get on the rolls.
This wholesale dismissal viii no
doubt convince the commission that
the four-year requirement in the ser
vice papers is a just one, and that
there is good reason for printing
trades workers staying away from the
Government service.
The Public Printer says more dis
charges must be expected, and more
than 400 others win be required to
take a week off without pay. OH
cials of Columbia Typographical I'M
ion will appeal to President Coolidge
in behalf of the dismissed employees.
Officials of Columbia Typograph-
ical Union have submitted letter to
President Coolidge alleging incom-
potency on the part of the Public
Printer, gross mismanagement Of the
plant, and urging the President to
order a complete investigation Of the
big print shop.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20
LANDLORDS MUST GIVE
SO-DAY NOTICE RENT
ADVANCE IN INDIANA

By International Labor News Service
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 10.
The fight made over the country by
organized labor against rent profit
teers brought results in the Indiana
Assembly, where an amendment was
introduced and finally prevailed pro-
viding that landlords be compelled to
give a 00-day notice before rents
could be increased.
Since the housing scarcity workers
living in cheap houses have been the
worst sufferers from the rent hogs
who would raise rents half-dozen
times within a year and the tenants
would be compelled to pay because
they had no other place to go.
Under the Duncan bill all tenan-
cies of houses or apartments are des-
ignated "tenancies from month to
month" unless otherwise specifically
designated and landlords are pre-
vented from raising rents unless a
90-day notice is first given.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20

By International Labor News Service
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 10.
Just before the whistle blew at the
close of the day Saturday, March q,
more than 200 printers, stereotypers
and electrotypers were informed their
services would no longer be needed
by the Government Printing Office.
Employees dismissed included men
who had been in the service for 80
years, and it appears that few of the
150 or more recent additions to the
force were discharged.
The Government Printing office has
for several months been making a
nationwide campaign, through the
Civil Service Commission, to secure
additions to the force, particularly
linotype operators, and this sudden
and wholesale dismissal astonished
even the old-timers in the big shop.
1t resembles the shake-ups of pre-
civil days, when at the close of the
session of Congress everyone was
fired.
The Public Printer has for months
been trying to persuade the Civil
Service Commission that examina-
tions must be simplified in order to
obtain eligibles, and the commission,
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20

CONTINUED from Page Onel
and for the past four years efforts
have been put forth to get the claims
paid.
Labor Executives Represent Workers
In the preliminary hearings before
the National War Labor Board Cen
eral Organizer P. F. Duffy of the
American Federation of Labor rep
resented the electrical workers, and
Dave Williams, vice president Of the
International Association of Machin-
lists, represented the machine shop
employees. Williams has continued on
the work for the machinists up to the
present time, while Messrs Edgar
Wallace and Edward McGrady Of the
American Federation of Labor Legis-
lative Committee have handled the
work before Congress very efficiently.
The approval Of this claim by Con-
gress win help in the work being
done by the American Federation Of
Labor to have the Government pay
the wages due under the award grant
ed the employees Of the MINNEAPOLIS
Steel and Machinery Company, which
has also been held up pending ap-
proval Of Congress.
Former Secretary q War Newton
d. Baker, in q decision rendered Mo-
vember 80, 1920, ordered the Mime
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20
PRES. WALKER TALKS
OVER RADIO ON CHILD
LABOR PROBLEMS NOW
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permitted to leave those States that
are responsible for that condition
and go into every other State consti-
tutes an injury to the higher stand
ards of education, work and living
all of the rest of our people, partic-
ularly the working people, in every
other State in the Union, and are a
menace to the safety of our Amer
lean Government and American in
situations.
ITO delay action by even one year
adds to the number of illiterates in
our country, creates citizens below
the standards of knowledge and men,
tai development necessary to pro-
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20

tect and promote either their own
interests or that Of our nation and
breaks down the American standards
Of labor everywhere. For these rea-
sons this problem should be solved
as soon as possible, so as not only TO
prevent an increase Of this bad con-
dition, but to reduce 1t Immediately
and cure it entirely at the earliest
possible moment by developing Amer
lean standards Of life and knowledge
on the part of these children.
Congress- Can Be Trusted
at SIS ridiculous to take the posi-
ton that within our own country we
will permit subordinate division Of
our government in dealing with q
problem Of this character TO create
q condition, foster and nurse It, that
begets a citizenship that is so infer
ior that we would not permit them
to come from any other country on
the face of the earth. We would go
to war and exert to the fullest of our
capacity our military and naval
strength, spend our own treasure
and our lives to make it impossible.
1t is unthinkable that in our system
of government we should permit that
sort of condition to obtain and to
continue"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-03-20

Patr0nize Lab0F Press AdvsTtlaara
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
Forests ADVOCATED as
Memorials to Heroes

National memory forests" as the
most enduring and practical memorials
the nation can dedicate to its dead of
the World war were advocated by P.
o. Anderson. state agriculturist, in an
address.
Mr.. Anderson. World war veteran
and member Of the American Legion.
declared:
1--WE Of the American Legion were
able to get first-hand information re-
garding what provision the older coun-
tries have made regarding their timber
supply. Europe has commercial for
ests. A timber shortage is inevitable
In this country unless reforestation is
done widely-why not memory forests
which will perpetuate the memory Of
our boys enduringly :"
The American Legion, both In ma
tional and state conventions, has
pledged itself to a program of cor.
servation and reforestation
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
MIL WAUKEE ROAD
RECEIVER SOUGHT
Directors Decide Upon Re-
financing Plan With a
Reduced Capital.

5lilwaukee-A financial reorganiza-
ton of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad, one of the largest trans
portatiOn systems of the country, has
been decided on by the directors. A
formal application for a receivership
was prepared for filing in the United
States District court in Milwaukee, as
the company is a Wisconsin corpora
ton.
Following a meeting in New York,
the directors announced that a dras-
tic readjustment of the S765, 900. 900
financial structure had been decided
on te~meet the roads pressing difficult
ties and restore it to a sound basis.
The directors stated that protective
committees are being formed to take
care of the interest Of the different
groups of holders of st. Paul securi-
ties These, committees are expected
to cooperate with the management in
working out financial reorganization
to be presented to the security hold
ers at the earliest possible date.
Reorganization of the St Paul will
constitute the largest railroad debacle
in recent years. The capital account
of the system exceeds $700000.000: it
operates more than 10000 miles of
line, and it serves eleven states. Orig
inally the road was incorporated in
1868 under the laws of Wisconsin.
1t is indicated that the reorganiza-
ton will result in drastic scaling
down of the present capitalization to
a figure proportionate to the earning
power Of the st. Paul in recent years.
Last year despite the general improve
ment in railroad income, the ST Paul
failed to earn its fixed charges by ST.
S6S,60G, while in 1923 the charges were
earned by the narrow margin of only
S207, 6S6.
The st. Paul has outstanding a fund
ed debt of $434, "a, 900 after deduct
ing bonds owned by the company it.
self; $116,274,9OO preferred stock, and
$117, 411,300 common stock. Before the
road built its Pacific coast extension,
which failed to meet the expectations
of the management, the common stock
had sold as high as 1895 and the pre-
ferred sold as high as 134 in the bull
market of 1901. March II the COM
mon sold at 71a and the preferred at
1874.
The immediate cause of the St Paul
crisis is the approaching maturity of
$47,000,000 bonds due July l next.
Bankers have been unwilling to pro-
vide the cash necessary to meet this
obligation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
q TIE .
AMERICAN
LEGI0N
1927 CONVENTION
MAY GO TO PARIS

Authorization by the national execu-
tive committee to National Commander
James A. Drain Of the American Lee
travel committee has given impetus to
movement to hold the 1927 conven-
ton of the Legion in Paris.
Commander Drain had suggested
that the year 1927 would be very suit
able to hold the convention in France.
That year marks the tenth anniver-
sary Of Americas entry into the World
war and also of the landing on French
soil of the first units of the A. E. f. 1t
had previously been suggested that the
1928 convention be held in Paris. Final
decision rests with the national con.
vention.
The national executive committee at
the same time selected October to 9
as the dates for the seventh annual
national convention of the Legion,
which will be held in Omaha, Neb. Sc
lection of the dates had been left TO
the executive committee by the st.
Paul convention.
Preliminary plans for the Omaha
convention are far advanced, accord
ing to Samuel Reynolds, chairman Of
the national convention work commit
tee, who reported to the executive
committee. He said that among the
features of the convention will be a
gigantic electrical parade staged by
Ak-Sar-Ben, a Nebraska organization.
Contests already decided on are:
Band, drum and bugle corps and mems
glee club contests, trap and pistol
shoots and competition between drill
teams of the auxiliary
National standing committees of the
Legion have been nominated by Com
mander Drain and confirmed by the
national executive committee Chair
men Of the committees are:
Rehabilitation, Watson B. Miller,
Washington child welfare, Mark T.
Mckee, Detroit, Mich Americanism
commission, E. X. Bixby, Muskogee,
Okla. foreign committee on American
ism, Harry w. Berdie, Tampico, Mex;
legislative, o. L. Bodenhamer, Ell Do
RADIO, Ark; finance, Wilder s. Metcalf,
Lawrence, Kan; naval affairs, E. e.
Spafford, New York city; military af-
fairs, George E. Leach, Minneapolis,
Mimi; aeronautics, Reed Lands, Chi
cago; foreign relations commission, H.
Nelson Jackson, Burlington, Vt. dis
tinguished guests, Alton T. Roberts,
Marquette, Mich; trustees Overseas
Graves Decoration trust, Milton ].
Foreman, Chicago; oriental, Thomas
Swale, Seattle, Wash; world peace,
Thomas Amory Lee, Topeka, Kan;
trophies and awards, Asa Gambler, At
lanta, Ga; revocation Of post charters,
]. Robert Reichardt, Fort Smith, Ark;
national convention work, Samuel Rey-
nolds, Omaha, Neb.; source records, A.
Eugene Pattison, New Jersey.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
Shepherd Indicted for
Germ Poison Murder

ChicagO-True bills charging MUIR
der have been voted against William
d. Shepherd and Charles c. Faiman
in the grand jury investigation of the
death of William Nelson McClintock,
millionaire orphan" Dec. from ty-
phoid fever
Previously Robert f. Grove, states
attorney, had announced the grand
jury would be kept in session until
William d. Shepherd, McClintock's
foster-father and chief heir of his es-
tate of about S1OOO,00O, and c. C. Fai-
man, former delivery wagon driver,
more Tecently head of a school of bac-
teriolOgy, had been charged formally
with responsibility for the youths
death
Faiman followed up his confession
that for a promised 100000 from the
McClintock estate he had provided ty-
phoid fever germs and schOoled Shep-
herd in administering them to McClin-
took by signing waiver of immunity
and going before the grand jury.
Faiman'S confession that he had pro-
vided germ cultures which Shepherd
administered to McClintock came after
long hours of questioning by John
Sbarbaro and Joseph Savage, the
states attorneys two young assistants
who finally broke down the denials of
Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard
Loeb in connection with the murder of
Bobby Franks.
Succumbfng at last to incessant
questioning, Faiman finally told with
smiling frankness and amazing cool
ness his story of a plot to add still
another tragedy to the long chain that
has passed from hand to hand vfr-
tually intact the McClintock fortune.
The typhoid bacilli he said Shepherd
finally administered TO the youth were
kept and prOpagated four or five
months before Shepherd found the
time suspicious for administering the
deadly potion
He claimed one-fourth of the ST.
0O0, 900 estate, he said, as his reward,
but Shepherd pooh-poohed the idea of
such a division, and after he had drop
ped to 100000 they finally quibbled
until 100000 was fixed as his portion.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
BuIIdoo Mothers Newborn rioers

Macon. Ga.-Two baby tigers. born
in the winter quarters of a circus. are
being mothered by huge bulldog. An
animal trainer, knowing the custom Of
a tigress to slay her first born, took
the animals from the mother.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
Robbers steal Altar

Chicago-A church altar was part
If the loot obtained by five robbers
who Kidnapped two truck drivers and
made off with the truck and its con-
teLts here.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
THE LEGION

4 UTHOR WOOLLEY, ma
"A tionally known speaker, is
extolling the American Legion
in a series Of addresses through
out the country. Speaking at
Ogden, Utah, recently he said:
"The American Legion is one
Of the greatest organizations in
the country and the most select
fraternity In the world. The
President Of the United States
in his message to congress rec
ommends that congress be
guided by the American Legion
in all matters concerning the ex-
service men. Every piece
of legislation beneficial to the ex-
service men was sponsored and
j pushed by the Legion. In
the minds of those who formed
the American Legion were the
ties Of friendship, the spirit of
service in the hour of need, the
love Of country and feeling Of
patriotism. q The Legion
will keep alive the memories of
the great war and thus remove
the inevitableness of war.
By not forgetting the horrors of
the last war, we can avoid fu-
ture wars"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25
Wisconsin NerUs in Brief

Fond du Lac-When his car plunged
through the fence and down a 65-foot
embankment on highway 10 near Fond
du Lac E. Schumacher. Lomira, eS-
capped with a severe shaking up and a
few bruises and injuries. One door
OF the coach was torn off In the fall
and both running boards smashed.
Except for the pane in the door. how
ever, not pane of glass in the closed
car was broken.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25

Spring Green-Grandpa Lescheska,
81, Avoca, who resides at Spring Green
with his daughter, Mrs. f. Riechland,
enjoys remarkably good health. He
has his second eyesight and recently
cut three new teeth.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25

Merrill-The Lincoln county board
voted 20 settle the claims against the
county resulting from the collapse Of
the Judges stand at the fair grounds
last September, for $4,000. The
claims as filed with the county would
have totaled $4,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25

Merrill-The Lincoln county board
at is special meeting voted to discon-
tinue the office of county auditor May
IL. The office having been created at
the November meeting of the board.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25

Phillps-One hundred applicants for
road patrol Jobs in Price county APP
peared in Phillips in response to a
notice by B. NJ. Griffin, highway COM
missioner. Forty-one patrolmen were
hired.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25

Janesville-W. G. Bissell. former
state senator and for many years q
leader in state republican circles, died
at the home of his daughter in James
Vile after an illness since the first of
the year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-03-25

Superior-Rae Ingham, justice of the
peace at Hannibal, near Superior, who
was charged with violation of the
liquor law, was found not guilty by a
federal court jury after five hours
deliberation.