davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Cracking Ahead

The asphalt and paving gang
for the past couple of weeks has
been moving along in fine shape
on the public square job, and is
in hopes of finishing up before
the Fourth.
The fly in the ointment is the
shape in which the street will be
left owing to the lower level of
the street car tracks, which will
render traffic inconvenient and
perhaps hazarous, especially to
those unfamiliar with existing
conditions. The other day in
driving a machine from one level
to the other a child was bounced
out, but fortunately was not in
jured.
Paving is also in progress on
several streets in other sections
of the city, and before the sea-
son closes the miles of fine
streets we already possess and
enjoy will have been consider
ably increased.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
u. s. Carriers
Oppose Working
at Night Time
Additional Salary Does Not
Compensate for Sacrifices
Demanded

Washington, D. C.-"The nat
ural sleeping time of man is at
night, and medical authorities
agree that when man is required
to change his natural habits m
furious effects result there
FROM" M. T. Finnan, secretary
of the National Association of
Letter Carriers, told the House
Post Office Committee in sup
port of legislation to reduce
night work in post offices.
"Men engaged in night work must
sleep during the day time. This is
unnatural, and the resultant fatigue
sooner or later proves detrimental to
the workers physical condition. Men
can not secure proper sleep during
the day time, due to the noise that
day naturally creates.
at is more costly to the night
worker and his family to live than it
is to the day worker. The housekeep-
ing arrangements of the family are
necessarily involved. The workers
family who sleep at nights have the
usual meal hours provided for day
workers and their families. This i'm
poses an additional burden upon the
workers wife, who must prepare
meals to meet the convenience of the
family who sleep at night, and meet
with the additional requirements made
necessary on account of the husbands
night work.
"The night worker undergoes social
and moral disadvantages, such as
separation from the family and the
social life of the community, which
can not be expressed in terms of
money. The inconvenience suffered
by the night worker presents an in
sistent demand for compensation.
Secretary Finnan contended that
additional salary is not sufficient
compensation. He demanded the ut
most curtailment of night work be-
tween a. m. and p. m. and time
differential of Is minutes for each
hour of work done between these
hours.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

less is taken sick or suffers a non-in-
dustrial accident at the end of five
years service he is paid for any one
disability benefit for So weeks with
a maximum of $500. But if he sticks
to Bethlehem Steel for 20 years, he
will receive the benefit for 208 weeks,
with a maximum payment of $1,000.
If an employe receives wages in
excess of $2,500 and becomes eligible
for disability benefit at the end of
five years service he will be paid
maximum of 1924 extending over 81
weeks, and should he stick it out for
20 years he can draw $2,496 extend
ing over 208 weeks.
Employees are required to pay
monthly assessments into the relief
fund. The Bethlehem Steel Company
acts as custodian of the fund, and the
plan will be administered by a board
appointed by the president of the
corporation.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
The Sinking
By Citizens
Is Condemned
Many Claim Political Rights
But Shirk Attendant
Responsibilities

Washington, D. C.-Reform-
ers, professional politicians and
citizens who fail to realize their
duties of citizenship, were crit
icised by Chief Justice Floyd E.
Thompson Of the Illinois Su-
preme Court in an address to
the American Law Institute.
"a distinct tendency in this age"
the jurist said, "is to claim the po-
litical rights of citizenship without
accepting the attendent moral obliga-
tions.
"There seems to be an idea among
some of our social and political re-
formers that if the political mechan-
ism were good enough the citizens
would be relieved of any responsible
ity of running the government" he
said. "They are continually tamper-
ing with the machinery, but give lit
tie attention to the machinists.
"To say that men of character car
not be placed or kept in public office
is to say that the American people
are incapable Of self-government. No
citizen is doing his full duty who does
not help solve everyday problems Of
government, but who, the moment
some reverse of fortune befalls, the
constant citizen comes forth to criti-
cize and condemn.
GAS long as politics is game the
professional will always have the ad-
vantage over the amateur. AS long
as the unselfish, public-spirited citi-
zen takes an active interest in poll
tics only when conditions become so
rotten that the stencil STILES him we
can expect the public service to be
what the minority who continually
play the political game make it."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
GOOD BACKING
Trade Unions Protect Interests of the
Workers

Toledo, O.-"Labor unions have
rendered the most effective, useful
and by far the best service to the
working people," says the American
Flint, the official magazine of the
American Flint Glass Workers. Union
of North America
''This has been accomplished partly
through legislation but mostly by
united effort on the industrial field;
but always against an immense
amount of opposition growing out of
ignorance and misunderstanding
"It is not an exaggeration to say
that next after the Christian religion
and the public school they have been
the largest single contributing factor
to the happiness and welfare of the
people.
"Individual effort has accomplished
very little toward securing i'.stice anC
tolerance and establishing peace ir
industry.
Neither will the dreams Of the
workers be realized through the med
ium of company unions.
"There is but one course to follow
which is through the channels of
trade unions organized and controll-
ed by the workers themselves"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

An entirely new thrill for trans
continental travellers is being pro-
vided this summer by motor bus
ses The most interesting and
picturesque scenes of the old
Southwest. far off the beaten path
and beyond the horizons of train
windows. are accessible now with
a three-day break in the long
train ride for a bus tour of 24D
miles over the new Indian Detour
This route, through the ancien
Indian pueblos Spanish village
and prehistoric cliff dwellings u
! the New Mexico Rockies from La,
Vegas to Albuquerque has ius'
been opened bv the Santa te Rail
road and Fred Harvey interest
All arrangements for hotel room>
meals and baggage are made 70,
the tourists while they explore
points of interest IN oldest Amer
ica in fleet of II White de luxe
buses of the enclosed parlor cal
tvpe each seating ii passengers II
comfortable swivel chairs lh'
)usses. knQwn as "Harvevcars
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
No Trouble to Find EN-

There is no excuse for any
body in Newark not patronizing
union barber shop. There's
plenty of 'em for all of us, and
they are pretty evenly distrib-
uted all over the city, from east
to west and between north and
Ssouth. One of them is not far
from your own home, no doubt
much closer than an unfair
Joint, so don't go out of your
way to spend your money at a
scab shop.
A partial list of Union shops
is published for the first time in
today's Leader. 1t was imposs-
ible to see all of them, so addl-
tions to this roll of honor will
appear later. Each one of the
places named carries the shop
card, is strictly sanitary and up
to date, and the artists who will
take pleasure in serving you are
receiving living wages and be-
lieve in Union principles.
Consult the list of Union Bar
ber Shops as it appears each
week in the Leader and select
YOUR favorite. They are all
good, so you can't lose.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
GET OFF EASY
Labor Law ViOlatOrs Not Always Pun
ished by the Courts

New York - Increasing disinclina-
ton of the courts effectively to pun
ish violators of labor laws is reveal
ed in the statistics compiled by the
Consumers League of New York re-
garding court action in labor cases.
The percentage Of employers con-
victed of labor law violators in the
Manhattan municipal term court who
escaped by suspended sentences stead
lily increased during the four-year
period ending June, 1925
In the last year of the four about
half of the employers convicted of
violating the regulations Of the hours
of work for women were so released
and in the same year only about 30
per cent of the violators of the child
labor law were fined.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Bethlehem Relief Plan Ties Workers
to Jobs-Is Really Modern Feudalism

New York-The Bethlehem Steel
COmpany's new relief plan for the
protection of its employees and their
families in case of sickness or death
is typical illustration of the devices
resorted to by modern American cor
porations to tie the workers to their
jobs much as the feudal serfs of the
middle ages were tied to the land.
The sickness and death benefits are
graded so that those who need the
most assistance receive the least-the
low-wage employees, who are the most
needy, are paid the smallest benefits,
while the high-wage employees, who
need the least assistance, receive the
largest benefits.
The lobbying is accomplished by
the device of graduated benefits de-
termined by the number of years an
emplOye has worked for the corpora
ton.
If an employe who is paid $1,000 or
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Still With Us

Looks like the hustling cracks
man was again becoming active
in our midst, as several jobs of
more or less magnitude have
lately been successfully pulled
off. The latest being at Fred
Speer's tobacco jobbing house
on South Second street, which
was broken into sometime be-
fore midnight the other evening
and about fifteen cases Of Gig
arettes carried off. In all the
loss totaled about 100000 Gig
arettes worth between 5000 and
$1,000.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Health and Unemployment Insurance
Funds Raided to Cut Taxes of Rich

London, Eng.-It is useless to rely
upon governments dominated by en-
ployers to do the square thing by
labor, according to responsible trade
unionists who stress the Baldwin gov
ernment's alleged breach of faith in
it's attack on national health insur-
ance and unemployment insurance
funds.
When the national health insurance
act was passed in 1911 the govern
ment agreed to pay two-ninths Of the
expenditures incurred by the approv-
ed societies. The Baldwin economy
government has reduced it's statutory
obligation from two-ninths to one
seventh, thus reducing the funds
available for insurance, and then raid
ed the unemployment insurance funds.
"This is a breach of faith" declares
Man and Metal, the official journal
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

of the Iron and Steel Trades Confed-
Grafton, "and had it been done by an
ordinary commercial insurance com
pany the government would have
wanted to prosecute the company for
fraud"
Man and Metal points out that the
raid on both funds was made by the
government to reduce the taxes paid
by income tax and super tax payers,
whose taxes the government has cut
by AZ million pounds year.
"The workmen who have been de-
prived of unemployment pay ought to
know that the money thus saved is
used to help the wealthy to reduc-
ton in income tax. The dependents
of sick persons, who might have had
increased benefits ought to know that
they too have been plundered to save
the pockets of the wealthy"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

"While employers associations and
chambers of commerce, strange to
say, are fighting federal legislation
which will take children out of the
workshops and factories, they are at
the same time fighting against the
sale of prison-made goods on the
open market" he said.
"Where the sale Of convict-made
goods has been prohibited the chief
reason for such action was that the
convicts displace the free worker. In
like manner the child displaces the
adult wage Garner"
He declared that it is the natural
right Of all children to be free from
bodily toll and the crushing discipline
of time.
President Green called attention to
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

the fact that states that voted for
the prohibition, federal income tax
and women suffrage amendments
voted against federal legislation to
protect the lives of children.
He ridiculed claims that the child
labor amendment, if ratified, will pro-
hibit a girl from helping her mother
do housework or prevent boy from
helping his father on the farm.
"The farmers Of the United States
have been credited with doing great
harm to our cause" he said. "They
have been easy victims of misrepre-
sentation and malicious propaganda" F"
The failure of some states to prop
erly protect children was declared to
be responsible for the submission of
the amendment to protect child life.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
The y
Hired
Mans
Digest
The Weather
SsS
WITH
APOLOGIES

The air is cool, it don't seem like
The good old summer time;
Not what we have been used to
In our warm Ohio cline.
The ice man has a crouch because
His trade is mighty slow.
It's cool enough these nights to make
One think of frost and snow.
The fellow who can't elbow" himself
To dodge the summer heat
At mountain, lake or seashore,
Believes this can't be beat.
And when he starts at a. m.
From his abode to work
He thinks with kindly feelings
Of his FRIEND the weather clerk.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Union Shop for Clerks;
Chain Stores Hang Fire

Pittsburg, Kans. - The Retail
Clerks international Protective Asso-
citation has signed up rs stores for
union hours and wages.
The opposition of the chain stores
'-Woolworth, Kresge and Penny-to
union hours is interpreted by trade
unionists to be merely a subterfuCe
to wage fight against trade union
ism in Pittsburg. The union hours
call for $50 Saturday closing The
chain stores insist on 9 o'clock clos
ing.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
PRINTERS SCALE AGREED UPON

Toledo, O.-The new scale of Typo
graphical Union, No. 63, Toledo, was
consummated last week.
The new scale calls for $51 a week
for men working days on newspapers
and $55 for night work. The agree
ment is to continue for three years.
The scale is equivalent to that in any
city in the country of Toledo's class
and is better scale than that in
some cities of the population of To-
ledo The old scale was $48 and $52.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Anti-UniOn Employer
Sees $4,000 Fade

Cincinnati, O.-Cincinnati uphol-
sterers on strike for the union shop
for carpet and linoleum layers per-
suaded one institution which had plac-
ed a $4,000 order with a union con-
Germ to demand that the job be done
by union men on strike or the order
would be cancelled.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
COOPERATIVE
DOES LARGE BUSINESS

Waukegan, Ill.-The sales of the
Cooperative Trading Company Of
Waukegan amounted to $497,2 in
1925, with a net profit of $21,658.
Sales Of dairy products reached
$263,086 and of groceries $133,053.
The company has capital stock
amounting to $37,450 owned by 1000
stockholders and is increasing it by
paying rebates in stock instead Of in
cash. Savings deposits" from mem
bers are also taken.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

and operated py the Santa re
Transportation Company. are in
charge of Young women courlers
specially trained by the Archaeo-
logical Society of America.
| Westbound passengers on the
California Limited and the Navajo
NAV leave the trains at Las Vegas
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Printers in 18 Towns
Win Wage Increases

Indianapolis, Ind.-The Internation-
al Typographical Union announces in
creases in wage scales in 18 towns.
Newspaper hand men in Sarasota,
Florida, head the list with an in
crease of SO per week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
MOLDERS INCREASE BENEFITS

Cincinnati, O.-The members of the
International Molders' union have
voted in favor of increasing death
and disability benefits by $500 and
raising dues Is cents a week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Child Labor. Industries Harmful;
Greater Evil Than Convict Labor

Atlantic Cty-Competton in the sale of the products of
100000 child is greater to adult bread
than the competition the sale of
the products of 10000 convct declared William Green president
the A. L. before the convention of the General Fedora
tiOnO of MS 1uh
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02
Breeding Trouble

One of the immense old elm
trees in the Sixth Street Park is
CONTINUED on Page Five)
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

Union is the force that halts the
progress Of a fraudulent and selfish
world.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-02

n NJ. to BOARD the busses and en-
train again three DAYS later at Al,
buuueruue. Passengers on the
same trains eastbound transfer TO
the buses at Albuquerque and take
similar trip over the route TO Las
Vegas The tours will be made
every day the year round.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-18
Phoenix Woman, Known in Cuba as Nurse
Who Appropriated Colonel's Hat Popular
Delegate at u. S. W. " Auxiliary Meet
(By Dispatch A. P. wirc)

DES MONIES, Aug. 17-Delegates to
Spanish War Veterans and allied or
ganizations here cut short their bust
ness sessions today for their annual
parade. They were Joined by veterans
of the Civil and World wars, regular
army units and the national guard, and
citizens military training camp stu
dents now in camp here.
Business sessions were devoted to
the selecting of nominees to be voted
upon tomorrow when the veterans also
will decide upon next years conventions
city. Ell Paso, Detroit and San An
tonic have extended invitations.
A successor to Carmi A. Thompson,
national commander, who was unable
to attend because of his mission to the
Philippine islands for President Cool
idge, will be chosen from a group in
Guiding Senator Rice w. Means of Colo
rado Harvey H. Hanna of Nashville;
Frank B .Dodds, Lawrence, Kans., and
Carl G. Juneau of Milwaukee.
Miss Rebecca Horn of Phoenix, Ariz.,
known in Cuba as "the nurse who ap-
propriated the colonePs hat and the
captains sox," is a popular delegate to
the auxiliary convention.
A tornado that wrecked her hospital
and necessitated raid on the officers
quarters was the incident that brought
her distinction.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-18
j. S. MAINTAINS
IT'S HANDS OFF
POLICY AS TO
MEXICAN NATION
Coolidge Authorities Re-
iteration of Policy After
Seeing Kellogg.
NO INT E RV EN- TION
But One Specific Complaint
Made With Regard to
Religious Situation.
NO INT ERV TION
(By Dispatch A. P. wiro)

PAUL SMITHS, N. Y, Aug. IL
Informed through personal report
by Secretary Kellogg of the state
department of the last aspects of
the Mexican situation, President
Coolidge today authorized the reit-
GRAFTON that the policy of the Wash
ington government was one of non
intervention in Mexican domestic af-
fairs.
The government of the United
States, it was said on behalf of the
president at the summer executive
offices, has no authority under
or treaty rights, to interfere in the
purely domestic matters of Mexico.
Although Kellogg had come to
White Pine camp prepared to report
to Coolidge on his recent conference
in Washington with James A.
Flaherty, supreme knight of the
Knights of Columbus, no direct ref
erence was made in the statement
of the government position to the
L
delphia meeting asking that the
United States intervene to protect
Catholic churchmen in their dispute
with President Gales of Mexico.
Neither was there any reference to
the position of James r. Sheffield,
American ambassador to Mexico, who
is en- route to the United States for
vacation and personal report 10
his superiors on the situation in
that country. There have been no
indications that Sheffield would like
to see a stiffening of the Washing
ton governments attitude in it's OIL
lands controversy with Mexico. He
is to confer with Kellogg in Wash
ington, next week.
Whenever the right of American
citizens as to their persons or prop
erty are infringed in foreign coun-
try. 1t was made clear, the Amer
lean government will do what it
can to see that they are duly re-
spected.
Insofar as the religious controversy
in Mexico is concerned, it was added.
Secretary Kellogg has knowledge Of
but one specific complaint, concerning
the taking of church property in
Mexico. That specific complaint was
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-18
Johnson SAY S
HE COMMITTED
THIEF T S
(Ry Dispatch A. p. Wirel

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. 17.-Tom
johnson, indicted today for the murder
of Leonard ErdaIl here last December,
tabulated list of LILO robberies and
burglaries which he "swears" he COM
mitted in A cities and towns in the
United States and Canada.
Brought here last Saturday from Sc
attle, Wash, where he voluntarily list
ed several murders and robberies, he
alleged he had committed, Johnson was
indicted by the Hennepin county grand
jury for killing Erdall, one of the
crimes he confessed.
In his cell in the county jail late to-
day he listed the LILO robberies and
burglaries, by cities, and at the bottom
wrote: 81 will swear on my oath that
all these statements are the truth. |
will confess the rest to the doctor"
Included in his long list of robberies
were IT'S in San Fricsco; Los Angeles,
II; Butte, Mont, 20; Fargo, N D., 12;
Sioux City, Iowa, 40; Omaha, $50; New
York City, IT'S; Dallas, Texas, 10; Fort
Worth, 6; and Galveston, Texas, Is.
Police permitted him to give out the
list without commenting on his state
ment. Many of the robberies listed in
his statement have been verified, it was
ca III
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-18
JUDGE CLARK TO
SPEAK IN CITY
F FRIDAY NIGHT
Especial to the Dispatch)

CLIFTON, Aug. 17.-Speaking at q
double meeting held here and at
Morenci tonight, E. S. Clark, repub-
lican candidate for governor, told
his hearers that the first duty Of
the state in the Colorado river prob
lem was to ascertain the rights Of
the state, then to be sure of pro-
tecting those rights.
mo serious effort has been made
as yet to fix our rights" he said,
and outlined them as being, first,
appropriations of water already made
for irrigation; second, the filing
made by the state for storage and
power sites; third, ownership of the
bed of the stream if it be estab-
lished that the Colorado is naviga-
BILE stream, and fourth, the fact
that any dam constructed between
the Utah line and the mouth OF
Grand canyon will be wholly or part
ly in Arizona, which will afford us
the advantage of levying property
tax and reasonable royalty on all
power generated.
Clark said he believed that the
time was most propitious for con-
cluding agreement between lower
basin states forever guaranteeing all
of Arizona's rights and that it was
better to arbitrate than litigate.
He declared that taxes are too
high and that it is not necessary to
levy additional taxes on any classes
of property but that it is desperate
ly needful to conserve and properly
expend tax money now being col
lected.
Clark leaves Wednesday for a
meeting at Wilcox, to be followed
by meetings at Bisbee, Thursday,
and at Douglas Friday night.