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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-09-17
RE-HEARING OF
JOHN DIX CASE

The case of John Dix, former en-
ploye Of the Consumers Products Co.,
before the State Industrial Commits
sion was reported unfavorably by a
vote of two to one.
Loren Kline, chairman of Compen-
sation and Advisory Committee of
the Newark Federation of Labor, be-
lieving that serious mistake was
made, has secured a re-hearing, and
the case will come up again at the
probate judges office, before Referee
Andrew Voll, Of GAINESVILLE, at ten
o'clock Monday morning, September
20.
John Dix, deceased, while pursuing
his labors at the Consumers plant,
part of the time worked in the cold
storage department, with the temper
ature never above thirty-two degrees;
at other times the temperature in the
place he worked ran up to between
ninety and one hundred degrees. This
sudden change brought on inflamma-
ton of the spine, which produced
PARALYSIS of the lower limbs and Ill
timately caused his death.
Mr.. Kline believes and claims that
his death was caused from injuries
sustained in the course of and arising
out of his employment, and the com
mission contends that it does not come
under the head Of occupational dis
eases which opinion was concurred in
by the board al the first hearing.
Union is one OF Gods glea 'est
4gencies.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-09-17

New Zealand, and though there seems
to have been some recent improve
ment there are still about thousand
persons registered as being without
employment in the City of Auckland.
SYRIA
Observation-Disclosures no sta
tistics are available regarding unem-
ployment in. Aleppo, it is generally
conceded that the situation in this re-
spect is the worst since the war; and
the unemployment problem has been
aggravated by the presence of sew
eral thousand Armenian refugees
from Turkey.
CANARY ISLANDS
Workers Returning difficult
ties of securing work in Cuba at the
present time are forcing great num-
Der of Spaniards to return to the
islands from whence they emigrated.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-09-17
Federal Health
Law Now Faces
Flank Attack
The Manufacturers Generally
Favor Enforcement of
Pure Food Law

Washington, D. ca flank
movement against the federal
pure food law has been launch
ed, according to a statement
issued by the Department OF
Agriculture.
Opponents of this legislation do
not contemplate a direct attack on
the law, bat rather 'to water it down
and make its enforcement more diff
cult"
One of these measures is the corn
surar bill, which was considered by
the last congress. If this bill passes,
the statement says, its success prob
ably will be the forerunner of oChel.
attacks on the integrity OF the pure
food law
"Twenty years ago, when the fed
eral food and drugs act was passed,
it was thought that the right of the
government to protect consumers
against the adulteration of foods and
drugs had been established once foi
all. Yet, to o1ay. that right is under
heavy fire.
"Most people who recall the natior-
wide controversy that preceded The
enactment of the 1906 act will recall
also the disclosures Of food adultera-
tions made that time. In those days
thousands of articles of food were
dangerously or fraudulently adulter-
ated.
Manufacturers generally want the
food and drugs act enforced. They
want it for the protection of the hon
est manufacturer as well as for the
protection of the public. There is
only small group that desires to
profit by unfair competition. This
group, however, is active and not un-
influential. 1t is profiting by the
prevailing drift against regulation" !"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-09-17
NEWARK TO HAVE A
RETURN SHOWING OF
BIG PICTURE PRODUCTION

In booking "The Ten Command
ments" for exhibition at the Gem
theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday
the management gives the people of
Newark another opportunity to wit
ness what has been listed as one of
the most successful moving picture
achievements yet accomplished as to
the production end of this great art.
Richard Dix is in the cast and in his
support are some of the most noted
artists of the screen. If you have
not witnessed "The Ten Command
ments," do so next Tuesday or We'd
nesday as it is an entertainment well
worth your while.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-09-17

Union is one OF Gods grea 'est
4gencies.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-09-17
Gone on Hunger Strike

D. H. Siegel, proprietor of "Dan's
Dollar Store" on North Third street,
serving five day sentence in the
Guernsey county Jail, Cambridge, for
reckless driving and abusing an Off
Ger, has gone on a hunger strike to
get even. He is charged with having
driven through Cambridge at an un-
lawful rate of speed, and refusing to
obey the orders to stop. He was fol-
lowed by a speed cop some distance
out of town before he was overhaul
ed and halted, when it is alleged he
became abusive and refused to return
to Cambridge. Later he was arrest
ed in GAINESVILLE on warrant issued
to the sheriff. His trial and SEN
tence followed He began the hunger
strike as soon as he was locked up.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-09-17
Filling Station Again Robbed

The Dry Creek filling station, which
was burglarized only a short time
ago, was again broken into and rob
bed Sunday night. Some goods and
a small amount of money were stolen.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
Ry. Clerks Union
Is Suspended
From A. F. OIL.
For Not Complying With thu
Order to Surrender Team
SterS and ChauffeurS

Washington, d. C.-Comply-
ing with a decision by the last
convention of the A. F. of L.,
President Green announces the
suspension of the Brotherhood
of Railway Clerks from the
American Federation of Labor.
The suspension stands until the
clerks comply with the convention de-
cision that they yield control of chauf-
feurs and teamsters to the Brother
hood of Teamsters. The question has
been under discussion for months. AS
is the usual policy in such cases, Off
GERS of the A. F. Of L. have made ev-
cry effort to induce the clerks to
maintain the trade union policy.
In explaining the teamsters' posi-
tion at the last convention, President
Iobin of that brotherhood pointed out
the provisions of their charter, issued
by the A. F. of L., which grants them
control over this class of work. This
charter was issued years before the
clerks union was chartered.
"We don't want clerks, but we do
insist that teamsters and chauffeurs
be in one organization" said Presi-
dent Tobin. "You might as we'll take
our charter if you are going to give
to every organization a part of the
membership that works under the
jurisdiction of our international. We
come in touch with every trade. We
haul lumber to the carpenter, metal
pipe to the plumber, paper to the
printer. drV goods and shoes to the
retail clerks, leather to shoe fac
tories, and we haul to the railroads
hundreds of thousands tons of freight
shipped by the express company. We
ask jurisdiction over these drivers
and chauffeurs. We can not have
them here and not have them there;
We are entitled to them everywhere
or we are not entitled to them at ALL"
In announcing the suspension of
the railway clerks, President Green
expressed regret over this lack of ac-
cord in the final decision of organ
lied labor's last court of appeal.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
Big Operators
Gouge Uncle Sam
on the Coal Prices
Soft Coal Charges Trebled Since
Anthracite Mines Have
Closed

Washington, d. C.-Non-un-
ion bituminOus operators of
West Virginia have trebled the
price of coal sold to the govern
ment, since the anthracite shut
down, according to the chief en-
gineer of the government fuel
yards, testifying before a joint
congressional committee.
Mr.. Pope said he bought coal from
Fayette and Mcdowell counties, last
March, for $2.41 a ton, and now he
must pay from $6.16 to $3.50. These
counties are controlled by anti-uniOn
coal barons who operate on the non
union basis, "to protect the public"
Edgar Wallace, a member of the
United Mine Workers, and legislative
representative of the A. F. of L., told
the committee that increased prices
for this coal was not due to labor
costs. He said the miners were paid
the same wages for mining $3.50 coal
CllelG CllCy lCCClNCu lOl IillllIlS pa
coal. He declared also that there had
been tremendous drop in freight
rates from the West Virginia field
during the last six months, none of
which has been subtracted from the
consumers bill.
Charles p. Selden, jr., a Pennsyl-
vania mine operator, and W. W. Griff-
it'll, local coal dealer, staged a
worthy row before the committee on
who is responsible for gouging the
public. The operator said the coal
merchant sold him a ton of coke last
November for $15 which cost him but
81. The merchant assured the com
mittee that in a turnover of 1888 ,250
he made a profit Of only 2 cents on
the dollar He refused to tell the
committee the period of the turnover.
The committee wanted to know the
exact number of business days, but
the merchant said that this was "im
material"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
Organizing for
Slaughter in
the Next War
War Department Said to Be
Already Parceling Out
MunitiOn Contracts

Professor Forrest Rev
Black of the Department of
litical Science Of the State III
versity of Iowa has a startli
expose Of the War DEPARTING
IN its nefarious Vaccinations
make the national treasury sd
for the profiteers IN the next
war, in recent issue of the
New Republic.
The article begins with the state
ment that "The War Department is
engaged at the present time in the
gigantic task of parceling out con-
tracts and various concessions to the
prospective purveyors Of the greatest
nation for the next war. The country
is being districted and contracts are
to be made to furnish the seven sup
ply branches of the army. The ne
gotlations are being conducted in Sc
cret. No outsider can say how many
signed contracts are filed in the vaults
of the War Department at Washing
ton. In general, the plan is for the
war Department to make a contract
with the manufacturer of war sup
plies, assuring him of capacity pro
ductIon; the price to be determined
at the time the goods are delivered
ON the basis of cost plus a normal
rate OF profit; the contract to be au-
tomatically operative upon the dec
laration of war"
Professor Black then goes on to
disclose in detail just what the War
department is doing in the way of
signing up contracts with the poten-
tlal profiteers involving millions, aye,
hundreds of millions Of dollars, so the
contractors for ornaments and sup
plles will have every incentive in the
world to shout for Preparedness" to
subscribe to the "Boy Scouts" and the
Girl Scouts" and the military movies,
and to boost the war propaganda all
along the line so as to speedily pre-
cIpltate the next great slaughter for
the benefit of the profiteers and the
glory of ten million mutilated corpses.
There is no specific legal author
lty for this program of the War De-
partment," says Professor Black, who
adds: ut has never been specifically
sanctioned by congress-"
And yet the War Department, with
cut legal authority and without the
sanction of congress, goes forward on
its own account, at the behest of
Wall street, awarding tremendous
contracts in secret to the prospective
proflteers who came so near robbing
the government blind and bleeding it
white in the last slaughter, and who
will surely complete the looting of the
nation in the next.
AS a matter of fact the War De-
partment is simply the automatic gun
that Wall Street carries in its hip
pocket.
If the searchlight of investigation
is needed anywhere it is certainly
called for in the activities of the War
Department in preparing for and pro-
noting the next world slaughter
American Appeal.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12

share of the goods because they are
far worse off now than six years ago.
and many of them, though better sit
uated than a couple of years ago, are
practically in bankruptcy.
"Seeing the great prosperity of the
country, and realizing that they are
not sharing in it adequately, the
working people in their unions are
concluding that there is only one
thing for them to do. They must ask
for share of the increased produc-
ton.
at all comes back to the great
wealth of the United States and the
fact that large sections of the Amer
ican people are not sharing equally
in the wealth we produce.
"The largest sections of the people
that are falling short are the wage
earners, the lesser salaried workers
and the farmers. Of these three, the
farmers and the lesser salaried work
ers are falling farthest behind"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
Fewer Workers, Larger Output;
Wealth Distribution Is Unjust

Washington, d. C.-The Fed
eral Reserve Board reports d 80
per cent increased production in
American factories in 1925, as
compared with 1919. Despite
the increase Of nearly a third in
output, the board reports that
there are fewer workers employ
ed and that those at work are
paid but 7 per cent more than in
1919.
Such a great increase in produc-
tion must be disposed Of either here
or abroad" declares the department
of social action of the National Cath
olic welfare council.
at is not being sold here" con-
tinues the department, because lab
or's wages have not gone up enough
for them to buy their share of it.
Neither can the farmers buy their
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
The
Mans
Literary
Digest
Judge Means Business
g.:
WITH
APOLOGIES

Judge Collier of the municipal
court has set his foot down re-
garding the enforcement Of the
ordinance governing our traffic
rules, and Thursday of last week
called the attention of Chief of
Police De Witt to their alleged
frequent and flagrant violation,
with the warning that in the
future he expects to see them
lived up to. He said the patrol
men should be instructed to de-
vote more energy to the detec-
tion and apprehension of offend
.ers. If his request is ignored he
promised to take other means
towards the enforcement of the
law.
Special attention will be di-
rected to speeding, unnecessary
use of the horn and driving with
open mufflers.
Speed in the business section,
bounded by Locust street, north
fork of Licking River, the Penn
sylvania railroad track and Sixth
street, is limited to fifteen miles,
and in the other portions of the
city to twenty-five miles an
hour. Drivers exceeding this
are subject to a fine. If they
exceed it by ten miles an hour
the law authorizes a jail SEN
tence, in addition to the fine;
this the Judge says he intends
to impose upon the speeders.
That the Judge is a man Of his
word, and means just what he
says, was given ample proof Sat-
urday morning when four speed
ers got the Imprisonment clause
tackled on to the "$25 and COSTS"
The first man thus honOred
was Ben Montgomery, former
Oakland dealer on East Church
street, who was given two days
imprisonment. This was tenn
porariIy suspended on account
of sickness in the family, but
Ben was ordered to report to
Chief De Witt the following
, week and serve his two days in
prison. Montgomery was driv-
ing at forty-four miles an hour
on West Main street.
The following residents of
Utica got the same dose as Ben,
$25 and costs and two days be-
hind the bars: Herman Johnson,
speed thirty-nine miles; Russell
Pound, thirty-eight miles, and
Russell Nichols, thirty-seven
miles.
Judge Collier should also see
that the ordinance requiring
full stop be made before enter
ing or crossing a main thor
oughfare" is also lived up to, as
at present this wise provision is
a dead letter to a large percent
age of auto drivers, many of
them not even hesitating before
dashing into the prescribed ter
Eitory.
By paying attention to the no.
tice given by our municipal
Judge careless and reckless driv-
els may save themselves some
cash if not to the questionable
pleasure of spending a few days
as guests of the sheriff at the
county bastile.
Better look a little out!
X X
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
News Review of
Current Events
President and His Critics Ac-
cuse Each Other of Play
ing Politics
BY ECWARD w. PICKARD

DRESIDENT COOLIDGE, personally
in conversation with the Washing
ton correspondents and then through
q White House spokesman, told the
country last week that the critics of
his administration were playing poll
ticg' and should not be taken too seri-
oU9!y. Mr.. Coolidge alluded apparent
" to the investigations of the Depart
ment of Justice for failure to proceed
against Secretary Melons aluminium
company, to charges by Senator Nor
riT that the President exerted ques-
tiCrable influence to keep the tariff
hoarG from making sugar tariff recon-
mendatiOns before the election of last
fall, and to attacks made on the fed
eral trade commission. Mr.. Coolidge
said these charges were UnfOunded,
that the government was not derelict
in enforcing the law and that such at
tackS were seasonal coming in years
In which Presidential elections were
held
No sooner were these statements
made public than Senator Pat Har-
rison Of Mississippi arose in the sen
ate to express his great Indignation at
them. He described Mr. Coolidge as
a 'matchless politician" and said: 1T
does not become a resident of the
White House to tell the country that
all the speeches here are to have a
political tinge. There are political
speeches made here and we invite the
President to make his political
speeches, whether he makes them to
the farmers in the West or the cham
Der Of commerce In New York. He has
not made a single speech from that in
New York to the fly-by-night journey
to Chicago but that was an effort to
win favor with the peOple-playing
politics in his speeches. When he per-
suaded some gentlemen on the other
side Of the aisle to change their views
with respect to international peace in
the world he performed one of the
seven wonders Of the world"
Il MONG the important statements
of the Presidents attitude, ema-
mating from the White House are
these:
The President is disappointed by
the postponement by the League of
Nations of preparations for a disarma-
ment conference, and if the leagues
conference does not materlalize, Mr.
Coolidge will return to his original
plan to convene in Washington another
naval armaments.
Mr. Coolidge is still as much op-
posed as ever to the United States
Joining the League of Nations, be-
lieVeS the country still overwhelming
ly determined to stay out, and regards
our entrance into the World court not
step toward the league, but a dem
OnstratiOn Of our care to avoid league
ENHANCEMENT.
The President condemns publicity
statements emanating from the War
and Navy departments charging de-
terioration of our national defenses,
characterizing them as misrepresenta-
tions, designed to obtain larger ap-
preparations. Mr. Coolidge regards the
condition of the army and navy as
satisfactory.
ERMANY'S application for men,
~ bership in the League of Nations
probably will have reached Geneva ha-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
Torture Charged

Our police, or at least some OF
them, are stepping out into un-
desirable prominence recently,
Only a short time ago one of
them was charged with contrib
uting to the delinquency of a
young girl, and last week De
Witt, Burton and Dush were
made defendants in a damage
suit for torture alleged to have
been resorted to by the applica-
ton of third degree work in en-
Continued on Page Two)
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12

- MUGGLING operations along the
~ United States Canadian border are
to be thoroughly investigated by a
special committee of the Canadian
parliament as a result of sensational
charges made by H. H. Stevens, minis
ter Of trade and commerce In the for
mer Conservative government After
asserting that the smuggling during
the last year had caused the Canadian
government a loss of $200,OOO,OOO In
revenues, Mr.. Stevens declared that
notorious crook perjurer, thief and
smuggler had been promoted to be
chief customs officer at the port of
Montreal though the cabinet ministers
knew of his activities.
George II. Boivin, minister of Gus
toms and excise, told parliament he
was willing to institute the investiga-
ton demanded. He said the immense
smuggling of silk, cotton goods Gig
arettes and tobacco into Canada. with
return cargoes of whisky, was not con-
fined to the Quebec border. Condi-
tions at Toronto, Windsor and right
through to Vancouver needed the
thorough probing which the govern
ment was prepared to give. Conser-
vative leader Arthur Melghen ex-
pressed entire accord with the pro-
posal to hold a wide open public In
quiry.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12

y ERMANY'S application for men,
~ bership in the League of Nations
probably will have reached Geneva ha-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12

Continued on Page Two)
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
GARMENT WORKERS ACTIVE

New York-A voluntary committee
of 500, under direction of officers of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers union, is conducting an or
ganization drive in this city. Hun
dredes of non-union shops, employing
thousands of workers, are visited. In
the first three days 120 shops were
tied up. Many of them signed an
agreement with the union.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
FAVOR DIRECT PRIMARIES

Albany, N. Y.-Bills to restore the
direct primary system have been in
troduced in the general assembly.
Governor Smith made this recommen-
dation in his annual message.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
STATE UNIONS TO MEET

Houston, Texas-Officers of the
Texas State Federation of Labor have
issued a call for the annual conven-
ton, to be held in this city, begin
ming Monday, April 10.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-02-12
MANY ARE IDLE
Unemployment Hits European Work
ers Generally

Vienna, Austria - Unemployment
has increased in Austria to an alarm
ing extent The national trade union
organization includes among its sched-
ule of demands for remedial meas
ures the extension of the period of
compulsory school attendance by one
year, thus holding up the constant
stream of young people who are be-
ing turned out of school without the
remotest chance of employment.
Copenhagen, Denmark - Unem-
ployment among trade unions in Den
mark has increased from $4,000 to
$4,000 for the first month of 1926.
One out of every three organized
workers is out of a job. Applying
these figures to both organized and
unorganized, 100000 Danish workers
are deprived of employment.
London, Eng.-The Ministry of La
Dor Gazette gives the number of un-
employed registered at the employ
ment exchanges as 1,233,000