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New Britain herald., 1926-11-04
G0RSL|NE DENIES SEEING
 THREE DEFENDANTS NIGHT
 OF HALL-M|LLS SLAY|NGS
JAMES MILLS RESENTS
 BEING CALLED DRAB'
Husband of Slain Woman Says He Tasted Sweets
 of Romance
BY JAMES MILLS

New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. Al think the bitterest few minutes I have had since the death of my wife four years ago, came yesterday in the Somerville courtroom when Senator Simpson. in his outline to the jury painted me a drab ordin- ary colorless man without any TO- nance. He tried to show that it was hard for a woman with my wife's tastes to find any happiness with a man like me.
 I certainly admire Senator Simp- son and I think he's handling this case the way it should have been handled four years ago but just the same it hurt me when he said that because people will get the impres- sion that my wife never loved me. even when she first married me.
 That's not so. l know I'm not the lively kind with romance and such in my heart, but l tried my best to make her happy and I think Dr. Hall and began carrying on with him.
 It was hard for me to sit there In I'm what I am and my poor wife was what she was. I loved her when 1 married her and I never lost that love for her until the day of her death and even now I have nothing but the kindest regards for her memory.
 It was har for me to sit there in the courtroom and listen to them discussing the murder all over again especially when Officer Garrigan told of finding the two bodies in De Russey's Lane, with Eleanor's head resting in the left arm of poor Dr. Hall.
 I'm glad they picked the jury quickly without lot of fuss because I want the trial to go on and be over with. think Senator Simpson is going to try to hurry it along but the way the defense lawyers acted today, it seemed like they wanted to drag it out. This case has been dragged out long enough as it is and row it's time they did something.
 I want it all over with so l can forget about it-not have people coming to me and asking me this and that and who do I think did II and so on. Being at this trial Is big sacrifice to me in time and money because I'm paying man to do my ianitor work at school, but don't mind that If only they'll do something.
 I haven't any hard feeling against Mrs. Hall or Willie or Henry Ste vens, but if the jury decides they're guilty I don't think they ought to be let off unpunished. On the other hand, if they find those three inno- cent. I don't want the state to drop the case entirely. Much as I'm anx- ious to have it over with, don't think there should be any stop until they go right to the bottom and find out who did that awful crime.
 When I came home to New Brunswick last night. I couldn't help thinking all the time l was making the supper for Danny and me. how nice it would be to have Eleanor in the kitchen fussing over the stove like she used to and sing ing a little song. But that can never be again and l ought to know 1t by this time and be used to it.
 Four years have passed but miss her and my children miss her. The trial with all the fuss and noise doesn't help much that way.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-04
BOTTOM 0F SWAMP FALLS INTO MINE
52 Men Believed Killed in Flood.
 ing of Michigan Shaft
40 OF VICTIMS MARRIED
Iron Mine Shafts Were Under Bed
 of Swamp Which Broke Through Own Basin Following Heavy
 Rains.

Ishpeming, Mich, Nov. 4 R}-A grief stricken crowd of women and children. most of them widows and orphans of the victims, kept vigil throughout the night about the great gaping mud-pit which marked the grave of the 52 miners entrap- ped in the Barnes Hecker iron mine near here yesterday when the bot tom of swamp over the shaft gave way, flooding the workings.
 Forty of the men unaccounted for and believed drowned or suffocated were married and all except a few leave children.
 Pathetic Little Groups
 Huddled about bonfires and In company shaeks on the mine sur face the little groups presented a pathetic picture. Hollow-eyed with despair, they clutched at the scant hope that In some miraculous man. ner their loved ones may have been spared. They refused to leave the scene for any rest and spent the night alternately prayir and how ering about the workmen draining the, shaft. Solicitous mine officials and employees served coffee and food to the groups and administered to their comfort as best the facilities afforded, but 1t was little solace for the terrible blow dealt the happi- ness of these simple mining folk.
 Bar Idly Curious
 Curiosity seekers were barred from the company property shortly after the caye-in and only officials and relatives of the entrapped men were permitted on the grounds. Thousands of persons came to the mine In automobiles from all over the iron range district following first reports of the accident and a large staff of state police was kept busy clearing the roads of traffic jams. Officials revealed that the cave-ln
 fConfinyed cp poce 1o1
New Britain herald., 1926-11-04
ZONE LAW BLOCKS MASONIC TEMPLE Board of Adjustment. Denies
 Petition for Special Exception
 NElGHB0RS DEMONSTRATE
Lawyers ~atchell and Hungerford Lead .f,, D. Project-Kil- Rln. "Lu
 bou. {a, sD Nfa Gas Station in L~ 70 2h.V SlI
 'ol7, ADr1

In the course of he. okkfsp the board of adjustment last U on a request Of the Masonic Temple corporation for a special exception on lot lines on it's Russell street property, it developed that, even though the request was granted, the proposed temple might have been ruled out on other grounds.
 The proposition came before the board in the form of an application that the corporation be allowed to proceed to build with a rear yard 22 feet short of the zone require ments and that the street setback line, Is feet less than established by law, be permitted Five affirmative votes of the board of adjustment are required to grant such an exception. After hearing a vote showed three voting in favor. two against, and Commissioners George R. Dobson and S. M. Davidson not voting.
 Letters from H. T. Sloper and H. s. Humphrey, owners of the proper ties at either side of the Masonic plot, were read. showing no opposi- tion on their part.
 Sherwood II. Raymond called at tention to the fact that Russell street is a wide highway and that the side yards are greater than required. No public dances will be held and the building will be for Masonic uses only. he said.
 J. B. Alice spoke in favor of granting an exception.
 Mitchell Leads Objectors Attorney Charles H. Mitchell representing Mrs. c. E. Mitchell. ob- jected. Residents of a restricted street have a right to have the law adhered to, he argued. and he point cd out that moving the Masonic building forward automatically ad- vanced the building line for the en- tire street. Mr. Mitchell found no extraordinary reason why the ex- ception should be granted because the organization should have given | buying, he said.
 MT. Mitchell brought up the ques- tion of whether or not the proposed , building is 8 conforming use. He read the ordinance and stressed the wording of clause setting forth what may be placed in Residence B. district, such as Russell street is. Lodge rooms. it was seen. are specifically ruled out
 Judge w. c. Hungerford. repre- senting nine property owners, ob- jected to granting the exception.
 MT. Raymond insisted the building is no different than a club house and, in fact. is so classified in the catalogue of American Institutions. To rebut this claim. MT. Mitchell said the main use of the building Is a lodge room. and it is to be con- structed about and to serve the pur- poses of a lodge room, and is so called.
 A list of the objectors was taken, as follows: Mrs. c. E. Mitchell, Charlotte Hungerford estate, H. M. Bates, M. c. Levitt. Florence Camp, F. B. Stone and w. L. Hatch. Rev. William H. Alderson. who occupies Trinity Methodist parsonage. filed a personal objection.
 Commissioner George T. Kimball moved that the exception be granted (ContiNued on Page 10)
New Britain herald., 1926-11-04
BIsHuP GUEST IN CONN.

Middletown, Nev 4 Rl-Rt. Rev. John Graham Murray. presiding bishop of the eneral Protestant Episcopal diocese whose home is in Baltimore, will be guest of the Connecticut Church club here to- nigh and With coadjutor Bishop F Campion Acheson. will speak. Othe, guess will be the students at Der kelley Divinity school, The church club has a membership of laymef and clergy from all parts of thu state.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-04
States Star Witness However, Tells of Hearing Shots and Groans-Refutes AL legged Admissions to Detectives.
Vestryman's Girl Friend in Lane Tells Similar Story - Sleuth's Testimony Damages Case Against "Willie".

Courthouse. Somerville, N. J> Nov. 4 lR - A categorical denial that he saw any of the three de- fendants in De Russey's lane the night the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were murdered was made in the Hall- Mills murder trial today by Ralph V. M. Gorsline, vestryman in Dr. Halls church.
 Tells His Story
 Gorsline, said by the prosecution to be one of its chief witnesses, told in a low but calm voice how he had gone into the lane in an au. tomobile with Miss Catherine Ras- tall. also Of New Brunswick. about ten o'clock on the murder night. As soon as they got into the lane, Gorsline said. he turned out the lights of his automobile. A few minutes later he heard four shots and then moans from woman,
 Saw No One, He Says
 "Well. what did you do?" Special Prosecutor Simpson asked.
 We stayed there for about flve minutes longer" Gorsline said.
 Did you see anyone?"
 "No"
 Saw no shadows?"
 No"
 What did you hear first ?"
 H0ra shot fhep ccraayps fbraA shots and then this womans moans"
 Did you know Mrs. Mills?"
 "Yes."
 Didn't you see herr"
 No"
 "Dr. Hall?"
 No"
 Denies Press Account
 "Why don't you cut your throat like you did in the grand jury room?"
 This Senator Simpson explained. referred to a gesture Gorsline was reported to have made in the prcs- ence of one of the grand jurors. Do you deny that you told . reporter on Thursday last that you had seen shadows?''
 T do.'
 You never saw Mrs. Mills throat cut?"
 No"
 Do you deny that you said you saw Henry Stevens in the lane that night when this shooting and throat-cutting was going on?"
 T do."
 Didn't Make Confession
 Did you. on October first, 1922, go to a William J. Burns detective agency in New York and there tell William Garvin, detective there, that your conscience was bothering you because you had not told what you saw in the lane that night? ?" "No."
 Senator Simpson held in his hand several typewriter sheets of paper, to which he referred.
 Did you tell Garvin you saw Henry Stevens standing there with a revolver and that Stevens said to you, hello, Ralph. what are you doing here? - get the Hell out of here?'
 No"
 And did you tell him that you got frightened and ran out of the lane as fast as you could?"
 No"
 Denied It Four Years
 For four years Gorsline denied
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New Britain herald., 1926-11-04
MRS. ROSS ADMITS DEFEAT

Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. { P-The election of Frank c. Emerson. re- publican. was conceded today by Wyoming's woman governor. Nellie Taylor Ross, democrat. who extend- ed her opponent her congratulations for successful administration.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-04
KRESGE DROPS SLIT

Detroit, Nov. P) = Sebastian kresge, chain store operator, today withdrew his divorce action filed sev- crnl months ag0 in circuit court here against Doris Mercer Kresge, his second wife.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
$4,000 RAILROAD WORKERS
RECEIVE 40 CENTS AN HOUR

Railroad layoffs between November
and December put 1851 men on the
street looking for work, according to
the monthly wage statistics issued by
the interstate commerce commission.
These layoffs were largely attributable
to seasonal reduction Mn the mainten-
ance of way forces. There were still
16,509 more workers on railroad pay
rolls than in December, 1924 Com
parison with December 1928 is more
significant. This shows fewer en-
ployes in every group except mainten-
ance of way, The total railroad en-
ployes in December 1925 were 4O,571
less than at the end of'1923. In the
2-year period the number of clerks
fell 1870, the train and engine service
forces 2,S7O, other transportation
groups 5,S16, and the shopmen 34,679.
The reduction in shop forces amounts
to more than go.
The December pay Of the 1,269,2S7
railroad workers employed on an
hourly basis averaged $135 for the
month, compared with $133 in Deem
Der 1924 and $125 in December 1923.
But the apparent 1925 gain over 1923
really reflects an increase in the num-
Der Of work days. Rates of pay on
the average increased 21zTo in the Q
year period. By the layoffs noted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Your Union Meeting

Fourth Tuesday, March %, 1923.
144 Amalgamated Clothing Work.
ers, 1869 N. Robey st.
1873 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1899 NIL.
Fl srickisyers, Sig W. Monroe St.
s7s sriek and Clay Workers, PAVING
Calumet Joint Council, 5i4 W. nth
Sc csrpentsrs, Dixersey and Sheffield.
272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago
4s1 Carpenters. wlttsn's Hall, High.
land Park, ~.
17s6 Carpenters, Springfield and 26th.
Clerks, Grocery, SO w. Van Buren,
is condSctors Csleepins carr, Capitol
BLDG, 10 a. m.
3e1 Electricians, sos 5. State ST.
1880 Electricians, TAI S. Western Ave.
SOP Engineers (Loe.)' so5s Wentworth
400 Engineers, 1870 w. Washington St.
e45 Engineers (Loe.), 2433 W. Roose-
s2s Engineers lLOe.), as47 w. ssth St.
~ Federal Employees, 81 w. RsndoIph
is441 Federal Union, so4s W. 2eth st.
T1e Firemen and Ensinemen, Ogden
20 Hatters (Trimmers), 1865 w. WASH
Hod Carriers, 22s E. 18th ST.. Chi.
Hold Carriers, sf4 w. Harrison St.
~ Hold Carriers, 62nd and La Verane
lls Hod CARRIERS, sl4 ". Harrison St.
Y Leather Workers, III w. Adams St.
z Leather Workers, ~ W. Adams ST.
sfs m seRi"isss, z iss W. raRe ST. ave-
l494 Machinists, 1884 Princeton Ave.
$40 Meat Cutters, 175 w. Washington
57t Meat Cutters, s2os Houston ave.
Marine Fire and oilers, ss7 ".
10 Musicians, IT'S W. Washington ST..
1883 Nurses, Eunk's Hail, oak Park.
lsn 5slnters' 20 ". Randolph 81;
1874 Painters, e4t4 S. HaIsted ST.
US P%iNTsRs, go ". OAK OAK ST st. '''"'
so Hn.tsrs, TrT nnso. and and ogdsr Aye.
lso Plumbers, 1907 Ogden Ave.
Egg PMmbers, 1850 W: WASHINGTON 81.
4o2 Plumbers ALL W. Madison ST.,
Blue island, ILL.,, 1880 p. m.
ITO Railway Carmen, iios7 Michigan
1857 Railway Carmen, Ssa4 s. HsI.ssd
$50 Railway Clerks, $40 W. Washington
Street.
73s Railway Clerks, Moose Hall, Chi.
capo Heights.
e06 Railway Clerks, 643e s, Halsted st.
s21s R;, nS Clerks. 500 W. Washing.
s7s Railroad Trainmen. $3.50 w. Madi.
son Street.
Tesm.tsr.' pIs. Council. aso 8.
Ashland Blvd.
TIT Transfers (Auto). 22o S. Ashland
Blvd.
81 Tile Layers, 1870 w. Washing ton 81.
Walters, 2s4 w. Randolph 81.
1.-THE unIons sre the pillars Of tho
,vorkernr Dovnr 81 onovakv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
WAGES and compensatIon.

PHOENIX, Ariz.-(FP)-While the
workman and his family coming under
the Arizona workman compensation
law receives the most liberal compen-
sation allowed by any state in case
of accident, an immediate effect of its
passage was the doubling of liability
Insurance rates by private companies.
It is believed that in many industries
such as cotton ginning and the manu-
facture Of cottonseed oil, where the
workmen are unorganized, this addi-
tional cost will be met by lowering
wages.
Practically every mining company
of the state accepts the state liability
insurance. The business OF the min
ing companies will represent between
rs and so per cent of the state insur-
ance business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
BY ART SHIELDS, Federated Press.

- FNfhA OAAAG66Og FCA@t GAEQ E-iISos
CHARLESTON, w. va.-FP)-
Supporting company clergyman
with the aid of the checkoff is the
way the Cabin Greek Consolidated
Coal Co. does it ON the upper right
fork of Cabin creek. Rev. Everett
Crowder, whose flock lives in the lit
tie company shacks that are strung
for several miles along the narrow
bottom of the sharp valley the tumbl-
ing stream has worn through the
mountains, is sustained by the dollar
a month contributions checked off his
peoples payroll-and further sums
added by the company.
Theoretically the Contribution is not
compulsory. But a request from the
openshop firm which controls all the
means of life in the valley, is the next
thing to a command, and there are few
Cabin Creek Consolidated employees
who forbid this additional sum to be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Boston Union Drive
to Open with Parade

BOSTON, -(FP)-March % --EIe.
ven Boston trade unions have already
voted to parade on April IL to Faneufi
Hall to formally open the local sctivi-
ties Of the American Federation OF
Labor organization drive. Painters,
postal clerks, longshoremen, leather
workers and leather handlers; horse
shoers; electrotypers, garment work.
ers, metal polishers, Cambridge plas.
terers, stationary firemen, and Nor.
wood painters will be in the fve
parades planned from different direc-
lions to the hall. Boston Central La.
Dor Union is having 10000 circulars
announcing the meeting printed and
distributed to all unions and in the
large unorganized factories OF the
district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
COAL COMPANY USES CHECK-OFF
SYSTEM TO PAY PREACHERS WAGE

deducted, after the store bills, doc
tors charges, rent and other items
have ben checked off. Blacksmiths
and other mechanics and foremen are
expected to go higher. The men ara
given the option of contributing to
Crowder or to the pastor of the Holt
ness or Holy Rollers church, but
Crowder's Methodist institution is pre-.
ferred.
In return, say the union and formep
union men who are still found on this
lost battle-ground, the company pastor
breaches good company sermons. He
advocates the open shop and is explic-
lily reported to have said that a man
cannot be simultaneously a christian
and a member of the United Mine
Workers, which the clergyman consid-
ers a lawless organization. He used
to give pastoral advice to return to
work, before the strikes were called
off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

that the settlement was a victory"
for the miners.
Says Miners Lost Strike.
Debs says the suffering of the min
ers and their families were little
known outside the anthracite region.
The coal owners and the miners lead
ers knew nothing of this suffering and
torment. They ate their ample meals
each day. and slept each night in
comfortable beds. Debs was prompted
to write the open letter to the min
ers, because some of the leaders
would have the miners and public in
general believe that the strike was
won.
Debs says that the statement that
the settlement was a victory is I'M
true and that it does not seem pos
sible the miners can be deceived by
such spurious claim to save certain
faces. The whole letter is a complete
Endorsement of the progressive min
ers' program as he states now what
the progressive miners have continu-
ously stated since the beginning of
the strike, "that it will require a diff
ferent policy than that hitherto pur-
sued if the miners are to hold the lit
tie they have instead of sinking
deeper into wage slavery"
Separate Agreements Foolish.
Debs asks why in the name of com
mon sense should the contract with
the anthracite operators expire at one
time and the contract with the bitum.
nous operators expire at another
time? The progressive miners have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
New Devices Cut Down
Labor Upon Railroads

Railway executives are investigat-
ing a number Of new devices for re-
ducing labor that promise to revolu-
tionize the labor problem and that
will also have important effects upon
the unions.
The once familiar handcar which
carried section hands to and from
their work is now almost obsolete.
In its place is the motor car.
Mechanical means of cutting weeds
along the shoulder of the roadbed are
being used extensively and the work
is being accomplished at considerably
less cost than hand wedding.
New Rail Devices.
Lengthening life Of rails two to
four years and helping solve a prob
lem long regarded by railway engi-
neers as difficult is being accom-
plished now by wide use of station
airy or portable rail cutting, drilling,
and building up devices. These treat
the battered ends Of rails and return
them into useful service at a great
saving in equipment.
Passing of the laborer with his hand
pick to lamp rails, to keep up an even
surface, is seen in the increasing rise
of mechanical tie hampers, operated
by compressed air or electricity.
DltchIng Machines.
Newly invented ditching machines
are replacing the shovel gang. The
average cost of moving dirt with the
ditcher outfit is Fl cents per cubic
yard, compared with so to rs cents
per yard for moving dirt by teams,
and 81 to s1.25 for moving by hand.
The average cost for moving material
by means Of the spreader is IL cents
per cubic yard. Other services rem
dered by the spreader prove its ex-
traordinary value TO the railroads in
reducing expenses and relieving man
ual labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

a Labor Party, working for the cleo
ton Of Strikebreaker Coolidge.
Enemies Combine.
Here in the anthracite the repub-
hcan party rules supreme. Here the
Wall Street pirates are starving the
miners into slavery. Here the miners
have suffered terrible defeat from
the republican coal owners. Here the
whole republican party solidly lined
up with the coal owners, here every
republican paper, and every republi-
can agent during the strike did their
utmost to provoke a campaign of ter
ror and violence against the miners.
This was q sample of what we can
expect from the republican party, and
don't forget, this is the party that
John L. Lewis acted as campaign
committeeman for.
Settlement Proves Betrayal.
How could Lewis fight for victory
for the miners in the anthracite? He
had to either live up to his obligation
as an official of the republican party
and betray the miners or fight for the
miners who are paying him his sal
airy and repudiate the republican
party. The settlement clearly proves
whom he betrayed.
How could the miners expect that
Lewis would carry out their instruc.
ton from various conventions to work
for a Labor Party? To expect the
campaign committee of the republican
party to work for a real Labor Party
for the workers is the height Of folly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Company Union Agrees
to Textile Baron's Terms

MANCHESTER, N. H., March a.
Amoskeag Workers Congress, the
company union of this huge cotton
and worstead mill, voted to continue
their present agreement for six
months. The congress accepted wage
cuts averaging 10 per cent last year,
which remains effective. Company
agent w. Parker Straw told the $50
delegates that the Amoskeag products
were good and the market seemed to
be picking up but he would not
promise nor predict how much work
there would be during the year.
Amoskeag is going in heavily for ray
on, artificial silk, goods and combi.
nations of rayon and cotton.