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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

vertisement in the paper and de-
cided to buy a jar. did and after
/ had used it for about two months,
my trouble was completely cured"
(Signed) Mrs. Ward Chapman,
R. F. D. No. l, c/o G. James.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

The master Of Cascade Grange ami
his wife and the past masters and
their wives are invited to Past
Masters Day observance at Victor
Grange, Saturday, and a goodly num-
Der are planning to go.
Cascade Grange will hold its regu-
lar meeting Saturday night in Grange
hall. After the business meeting an
Easter program will be carried out
A bag treat will be enjoyed and all
members are requested to bring a
bag of candy or popcorn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

and soap powder. It
itched badly, espe-
cially at night. I am
a housekeeper and
every time 1 had to
put my hands in wa
ter the pain was in
tense. One evening
/ read a Resinol ad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03
OAKL.A And
Gordon McTauuart

Citizens Of the town We're very
much saddened by the unfortunate
death of one of the highest esteemed
townsmen. Gordon McTaggart of
Main street passed on very suddenly
Friday afternoon about $50 O'clock
Mr.. McTaggart had lived in Oakland
over rs years and all that time had
been section foreman for the Maine
Central Railroad. He is survived by
his wife and one son, Harold. Flu
neral arrangements will be an
nOunced later.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-11-19

ganize the strike relief aid in Euro
pean centers.
u. s. Cities Help
The Chicago Federation of Labor
plans to raise S15O,O00 among it's
affiliated unions by voluntary assess
ment. New York Painters District
Council No. 8 gave $1,000, the Boston
raincoat makers advanced another
81 900 and Detroit needle trades locals
sent $500.
The strikers, already hampered by
a blanket injunction from picketing,
have been enjoined in addition in Bal
timore and Jersey City from organ
izing efforts directed against non
union shops. No violence was cited,
but the courts ruled they could not
interfere with non-union production.
$4,000 on Picket Line
In spite of the mandatory nature
of the restraining order in New York
the fifth month of the strike opened
with $4,000 on the picket line. The
police corraled 40 of them, but since
it was on the eve of election did not
otherwise molest them. Strong-arm
measures may be resumed later.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-11-19
Coal Companies Can Make
Money Under Jacksonville
Scale, Searles Points Out

By international Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Complete vim
dication of the stand taken by the
United Mine Workers in respect to
the business and soundness of the
Jacksonville wage agreement, is in
dicated in statement by Ellis
Searles, editor of the United Mine
Workers Journal, in which he points
out, in the Journal of November Is,
the conspiracy by certain coal opera
tors to "bust the union"
Some of those union-busting COM
panies that repudiated their contracts
with the United Mine Workers Of
America have recently admitted by
their own acts that they simply sought
TO fool their employees" Mr.. Searles
statement said, when they said they
had to reduce wages because they
could not operate under the Jackson
vile agreement. They are now pay
ing the Jacksonville scale and, in
some instances, they are paying more
than the Jacksonville scale. By this
very act they confess their own per-
diferous deception.
Hits ''Brazen Reputation"
Most of these companies are in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
There are some in other fields. They
signed contracts with the United Mine
Workers of America, based on the
Jacksonville scale. Everybody as
sumed that they were honest in their
signatures. But it was not long until
they brazenly repudiated their agree
ments and stigmatized themselves
with the unsavory reputation of con-
tract breakers. They loudly de-
nounced the Jacksonville agreement
which they had previously accepted
and signed They said they could not
pay the Jacksonville scale and live
under it. They reduced wages and
imposed burdensome conditions on
such employees as they were able to
lnQuce 10 eHIef IHeii employ eo oSapo.
Time after time they cut wages,
merely because their employees were
unorganized and unable to defend
themselves. Their employees were the
rag-tag and bobtail of the mining in
dustry Many of the men employed at
the starvation rate were green men
imported from the cotton fields and
mountains of the south. These men
knew nothing about the coal business.
They were not miners. As result,
these union-b busting companies were
unable to get the production out of
them that they formerly got from
their union miners.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-11-19
Found Policy Was Foolish.

| "These companies found that their
reputation of contract, their attempt
| at union busting and their cheap
wages constituted foolish policy. So
some of these companies have sud-
denly announced that they will again
pay the union scale. They were forced
to take this step because there is so
much employment in the unionized
fields that they were unable to get
men to work for their starvation
wages. Union operators are operat-
ing their mines full tilt and paying
the Jacksonville scale.
Gas was stated above, the contract
busting companies walled that they
could not pay the Jacksonville scale
and live. But they are now paying
that scale. This proves that they CAN
pay the Jacksonville scale, and that
they CAN live, operate, do business
and make money under it. 1t proves
that there was no good reason for the
wage reduction in the first place.
Agreement INDICATED
"The action of these companies has
verified what the United Mine Work
ers of America has said all along
that coal companies can operate under
the Jacksonville scale and make
money It was not the Jacksonville
scale that hurt them; it was their own
foolish business policy of engaging in
cut-throat competition when there
was no necessity for their doing SO.
Everywhere, all over the country,
the coal industry is busy. Mines are
operating everywhere, and mine work
ers are employed. Operating COM
panies are making money. Their own
trade journals declare this to be a
fact The Jacksonville agreement has
beens vindicated.
'When the contract-repudiator
tore up their agreements with the
United Mine Workers of America, the
Journal said they were simply en-
barking upon campaign to break
up or cripple the miners union, and
that their claim that they could not
live under the Jacksonville agreement
was merely a subterfuge and smoke
screen to hide their real purposes.
But their campaign failed miserably.
Union Stronger Than Ever
"The Jacksonville agreement is still
here and in effect. The United Mine
Workers of America is stronger and
more virile than evr. 1t taks more
than few contract-breaking coal
companies to destroy the union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-11-19

licans and progressive democrats, the
former elected over their conservative
competitors in the primaries (mostly
in the Vest and the progressive dem
ocrats helped to victory by labor
voted in the election.
The latest figures indicate that the
progressive republicans in the house
will be increased from 40 to so mem
bers and progressive democrats from
40 to 160. Only Is of the progress
i've republicans are La Follettians.
The other % will vote for republican
organization of the house, and per-
haps carry it by two or three votes.
But this would be no violation of
labor's non-partisan tactics, as the
house could be organized against the
reactlonary republicans only with the
aid of some 40 reactionary anti-labor
democratic congressman. Labor
might prefer organization of the
house by such progressive and re-
actionary-democratic combination as
was effected by the aid of Gompers
and La Toilette in 1923. But repub-
llcan congressman refusing to enter
into it have never been accused of
violating labor's partisan policy.
The victories of the labor and pro-
gressive cause in the senate have
been no less impressive There has
been only one important defeat, that
of Governor Sweet, progressive demo-
cratic candidate for the senate in
Colorado. But the splendid progress
sive democrats, Hayden of Arizona,
and Barkley of Kentucky, were elected
and also Wagner in New York, who
has not national legislative record,
but whose state record has been highly
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-11-19

satisfactory. Add to these certain
moderate progressive or liberal demo-
Gratis like Walsh of Massachusetts.
and half q dozen progressive republi-
cans from the West, and it will be
seen that the advance of the labor
and progressive cause has been even
greater in the senate than it was in
the house.
Undoubtedly local issues interfered
and caused the defeat of progressive
ism and of labor in Indiana and other
states. Undoubtedly the ''drys"
gained considerably and the demo-
Gratis slightly. But the great para
mount issue cut across party lines and
even overshadowed the liquor ques-
ton. That issue was progress against
reaction-with organized labor lined
up on the side of progress.
There was hardly a state where
this issue, in some form, was not in
the foreground. In Ohio it took the
shape of direct primaries-which were
sustained by a to l majority.
In New York it was the water
power steal backed by Andrew D.
Mellon and the united republicans.
In Massachusetts it was the reaction
airy Coolidge administration. The
progress VS.. reaction issue dominat-
ed in nearly ever ystate The con-
solidated business interests poured in
their millions without result.
Labor and its progressive allies
were victorious in nearly every case
where there was real fight And
what is more important-these nom
partisan progressive and labor VIC
tories have been increasingly marked
in every election.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-11-19
Smashing Political Victory
Gained for Labor; Non-Partisan
Policy 80 Per Cent Successful

Organized labor lined up for ap.
proximately fifty candidates for Sen
ator and governor, and all but hand.
full we're elected
Organized labor is able to count or
1876 friendly votes in the present
house of representatives In the new
ly elected house labor will certainly
be able to count on considerably more
than 200
1t is probable that the complete
returns will show that the number OF
representatives pledged to labor and
whose records prove that they can be
relied upon absolutely for labor and
progressive measures will number 22O
or majority of the house!
Labor has never yet made any
serious miscalculation in these mat
ters. Almost without exception can
didates elected have proven true to
form-as determined by their voting
records issued by labor's national
non-partisan political committee at
Washington
If the final figures and contested
elections prove that labor has pledged
majority or even half of the house
the result is without precedent either
in the United States or any other
country. Such victory may not be
great enough to guarantee imme-
diate and positive results in con-
gress-in view of the reactionary
president and of political and legal
obstacles still to be overcome. But it
adds to the steadily and rapidly ac-
cumulating evidence that the non
partisan policy offers a brilliant
prospect for future political progress
And even though labor should fall
a few votes short of a majority in the
house, it has always been able to
swing certain neutral congressman
and is absolutely assured of a major
ity on almost any issue vital to labor
that may arise in the coming session
Labor's gains are almost equally
divided between progressive repub-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-11-19
Foreign Workers Send Funds
To New York Cloak Strikers
As Fight Enters Fifth Month

By international Labor News Service.
New York City.-The cloakmakers
still have friends. From ocross the
Atlantic European workers have sent
aid. From every large industrial city
in the United States they are getting
financial help. They are in the fifth
month of their prolonged strike for
the 40-hour week, 36 weeks season
guarantee and wage adjustment, with
slight signs of break in the dead
lock.
A money transfer for $1,190 was
received at headquarters for strike
relief from the German tailors, mem
bers of the German Clothing Work
ers' Federation, with general offices in
Berlin.
Token of Solidarity
But modest sum is being sent by
the garment workers of Germany as
a token of international solidarity
with the women's garment workers of
America" was the accompanying
message of w. Ploog, secretary
treasurer of the German tailors.
A check for $400 was sent by Van
der Heeg, secretary of the Interna-
tional Clothing Workers Federation,
of Amsterdam, with an offer to or
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07
PLAN REWARD OFFER FOR
 CAPTURE OF REMBLAD
Mailman Bandit still At Large Noonsocket May Encourage
 Vigilant ScarCher4

Providence, R. l., May : tP}-City Solicitor Oyila Lambert Of Woon- socket has asked Lucient Jarret, po- lice commissioner, to request the city council to vote a reward of $500, when 1t meets next Monday night, for the capture, dead or alive, Of Arthur Remblad, the mad bandit, :" who, with two gunmen companions, has terrorized the citizens of north rrn Rhode Island and adjoining parts of Massachusetts since last Friday night.
 Mir. Jarret is considering the mat fer of asking for the reward, and Mir. Lambert declared last night that since not only Woonsocket but several ncighhoring towns have been affected by the escapedes Of the desperate fugitive from the Rhode Island hospital for mental diseases, it might be advisable 10 ask Gov ernor A. J. Pothier 10 offer 8 re- wardfor the madman's capture.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07

range when they set out April 26 to find Captain Wilkins and Eielson after they had been unheard from a number Of days.
 For this reason and because the gasoline consumption of the three engines of the plane requires Q great load Of fuel to be carried along, it was believed the Detroiter could not be used for the flights.
 Captain Wilkins knowledge of the topography of the Brooks range and the presence Of Anaktu- yuk Pass, in the opinion of many persons here, may make 1t possible for the Detroiter to reach Point Barrow. where q store of fuel and lubricants can be used to rent the plane for the exploration flight.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07
WILKINS PLANS n
 USE OTHER PLANE
One Machine Wrecked as He
 Starts Flight

Fairbanks, Alaska, May [ lP) - With one plane damaged in an at- tempted take-off yesterday. the De troit aerial arctic expedition last night prepared to attemp. to fly to Point Barrow and over the arctic ice in the remaining plane, the three-engined Detroitar. as soon as possible.
 The Alaskan. which had made three flights to Point Barrow. the arctic base Of the expedition. struck a soft place in the flying field here as Captain George H. Wilkins, commander of the expedi- tion, and Lieutenant Carl B. Eiel- son, pilot, were starting out or the fourth and final trip to Point Bar row, One wing, the propeller and the landing gear were damaged. l. was intended 10 begin the exrlora- ton flights over the blind spot" in the Arctic ocean when the Alaskan reached Point Barrow.
 Success Of the attempted flight with the Dctroiter depends largely on the ahilitv Of Pilot Finlson and Captain Wilkins 10 pick the best place to cross the Brooks range os mountains. It was pointed out that use Of Anaktuvuk Pass would per- init the plan to cross the noun tains in other places ranging from 5000 to 5000 feet in elevation.
 Major Thomas c. Lanphior and Sergeant c, NJ. Wiseley flying the Detroiter. were obliged to return to Fairbanks because the heavily loaded plane was unable 10 rise to 8 height sufficient 10 cross the
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07
NORGE NOW READY
 FOR GREAT VOYAGE
Giant DiTiSible Arrives Safely at
 Kings Bay Base

New York. May ' Gpl-The dirig- ible Norge has arrived at its base in Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. whence it will start during the summer in an attempt to fly across the north pole 10 Point Barrow, the norther- most point in Alaska. The airsbip sailed out ot Vadso, Norway, yes- terday afternoon and covered the roo miles across the Arctic ocean to Spit2bergen In about I4 hours, ac. cording 10 a dispatch to the New
 York Times and the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 Radio Communication During Thursday evening several ldespatChes were received by wireless
 from the Norge as she purred her way northward toward the region where daylight will be perpetual un- til the fall, The first of these idespatchos told how the aircraft had left North Cape, Norway. 1S0 kilo- Imetres astern and was flying at an altitude Of 400 meters In a light southeasterly breeze with the tenn perature at minus one centigrade (30.2 Fahrenheit.) The despatch correctly estimated the time of the journey from Vadso to Kings Bay al from Is to 20 hours. On the flight from Trotsk to Vadso, a similar dis tance, the Norge required 19 hours for the trip.
 Crosses Drifting Ice
 At 5 ?, m.. New York daylight saving time another communication from the dirigible said she had crossed the drifting ice south Of Bear Island which lies midway be- tween the northern Norwegian coast land spitzbergen and passed through
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07

"Ne are united with the British workers in their fight against capt- jaIlsrs, We are sending 2,o0o pesos and are collecting more"
 Eduardo Moneaa, q high official of the federation, declared that or dors had been issued forbiIling the sNpor1a,lon Of coal or coke 10 Great Britain. He also said that the fed
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07

a pitchy fog stretched to the north. ward. All on board the airship were reported we'll
 On her arrival at Tadso from Trotsk early Thursday morning the Norge anchored to the mooring mast
 there and remained until Thursday afternoon, when Commander Noble unleashed her and started her to-
 ward the northern regions. Although
 on the voyage from Trotsk to Vad-
 so the Norge was buffeted by strong winds, which made her roll heavily and those aboard here were thrown about in the gondolas, she neverthe- less negotiated the TOO miles through daylight and darkness and success fully moored in beautiful weather. Was Cold Trip It was cold trip for the crew Iof the hydrogen huoyed aircraft, and Iall of them, and even Commander Mobiles terrier, felt 1t, the dog lnestling close to the fur-clad steers man. Even the drinking water in tthe aluminium contalner froze dur ling the flight.
 Having arrived at Kings Bay preparations doubtless will be begun immediately to put the Norge in perfect condition for the most stren- uous test 1t has undergone since it left its builders hands on April 4 and flew to Putnam, England, and then to Oslo, Norway, then to Trotsk in Russia and to Tadso and Spitz- bergen.
 2000 Mile Test This test will be a flight Of two thousand miles, with Roald Amund- sen and Lincoln Ellsworth, co-di- rectors of the expedition on board. The aircraft will shape her course across the pole and thence to Point Barrow the northermost point in |1laska over uncharted areas. From King Bay the distance is 750 miles to the pole, and thence over that un- known portion of the top of the
 world to Point Barrow is 1.250
 miles.
 f the Nrge should successfully negotiate the passage to Point Bar TOW she later will sail southward and pay visits to Nome, Alaska. and Seattle, Washington.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07

companied by Unitai States Am bassador CrowdeT. was received a inc palace yesterday by Presiden Machada. The presi deut is expect ed to return the visit and Hnspec several of the American warship. now in rhe harbpr here.
 The 2,40H men of the seventeen units Of the confJol feet are beins
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07
Mexicans Sending Money
 For Aid of Strikers

Mexico City. May ' LPt-Replying 10 a request from the Amsterdam international for assistance for the British strikers the Regional Con federation of Labor has sent the fol- lowing dispatch to Amsterdam.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07

eFauon would refuse 10 permit British steamers to take oD coal al Mexican ports.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07

ADMIRAL CHR!sTY RECEIVED
 Havana, May tFl -- Rear Ad- miral Harley H. Christy, command- er of the United States control force and submarine division, &C.,
Evening star., 1926-02-26
RAPID EXPANSION
IN CREDIT METHOD
lnstalIment Sales Held More
and More Vital to In
creased Business.
BY j. {. ROYLE.
Spec cial Dispatch to The Star.

bpeclA Dlspatcn 10 Inc star.
NEW YORK. February 26.-Sales
on the installment plan in 1926 will
total approximately $4,000, ,000, 900.
That was the opinion expressed today
by bankers closely associated with
merchandising and distributing com
panies. Companies organized TO
finance and handle such sales are
broadening their activities, and the
\ method, which for a long time was re-
, >garded as almost exclusively Ameri-
can, is now spreading fast in English
trade circles.
AS is natural, the first articles Of
fered under this plan by British dis
tributorS We're automobiles and radio
sets. The growth of this method OF
selling. which has made sharp ad
vances in the apparel field In recent
months, is attributed to the desire OF
the American people constantly to i'm
prove their standard of living and to
the development of quantity produc-
ton with lower costs and stabilized
prices by the widening of consumer
markets.
Plan Held Necessary.
Automobile men admit that pro
duction probably would fall off 2.OOO.-
900 cars a year if inStallment selling
were abandoned, and naturally they
are anxious to extend this method OF
sales into foreign fields, where they
must come into competition with for
eign cars. Up to a few weeks age
these foreign cars were obtainable
abroad on a cash basis alone, except
In a few instances. The American
manufacturers are turning closer at
tention to the foreign field as the fielG
most possible of expansion, since there
is now one automobile for about
every six persons in the United
States.
The trend of installment buying i