Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-05-15
Observation-Disclosures
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Observation-Disclosures
.Iabors White List" is the title of
the instrument now being used IN
Washington to direct attention Of
trades unionists to their friends. The
Trades Unionists last week carried a
list of retail stores friendly TO labor.
having agreements with the Retail
Clerks local. Subsequent issues Of
the paper will publish lists Of firms IN
agreement with other locals.
Our old friend Don Chain, oppres-
sor and prosecutor of striking miners
and their helpless families, cheats the
hangman by getting a jail sentence.
Sure, shes Blind
Washington painters are in the fifth
week of their strike, and show no dis
position to weaken. The builders are
making some rather extrayagant
claims and insist they are being sue
cessful in recruiting non-unlon pant
ers to take the places Of strikers.
Plumbers were due to 90 out the 9th,
but it is rumofed the master plumbers
have met their demands, for which the
Operative Builders Associatio Is
grinding its teeth
The English baronet VINO lost car
20 of booze to our prohibition officers
probably realizes foreigners can not
always safely do in Rome as the Rom
ans do.
The Washington Teachers Union Is
giving a card party, the proceeds Of
which will be turned over to the rep
fesentatiYes of g national organiza-
tions working for the early ratifica-
ton of the Child Labor Amendment
Teachers all over the country are TAX
ing an active part in the campaign,
and every local of the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers is helping to raise
funds to enable the organization to
continue its educational work.
A. l.. Filene, Boston department
store magnate, declares retail store
failures cost $250000,000 a year. And
yet, these business men say strikes
are wasteful!
The Attorney General, after an in
yestigation at the request of the
President, has ruled that Public Print
err Carter did not act arbitrarily or
illegally in dismissing more than
hundred printers month ago, nor
did he violate the statute giving pref
erence to sX-service men. The vet
Grams and the printers will continue
the fight on the Public Printer. A
thorough investiation, they say, will
reveal that there was no justification
for the dismissals. The White House,
local papers say, has no further in
terest in the matter, and it Is a closed
incident.
Senator Wheeler may succeed in
avoiding judicial traps, but his bank
account will grow thin before it's over
with.
Basil Manly, director of the Peoples
Legislative Service, in a statement
just made public, charges the Depart
ment of Justice with failure to prose-
cute the General Electric Co. to de-
termine whether it has been unlaw-
fully engaged in restraint of trade
concerning electric lamps. Mr.. Manly
says he is familiar with the conditions
surrounding the manipulation of the
case, and that prominent financiers
have been influential in suppressing
evidence against the electric trust"
He says he intends to inquire into the
extraordinary radio facilities placed
at the disposal of the present admin
istration without compensation.
d. a. r., in convention here last
week, voted down resolutions favorng
the principal of self-government for
the District of Columbia. How's that
for patriotic organization, whose
fathers are presumed to have been
fevolutionists protesting against taxa
ton without representation