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The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
OF
THE SELECTION OF
"ARCADIA" GIVEN

Explanation of the selection of
the name Arcadia" for Bob Kel-
ly's new dance hall was given The
Mail this week by Mrs. c. ]. Nc
Quillan, wife of Ex-President Nc
QUillan of WinslOW Lodge No. ATT
Of the B. of R. T., and winner of
the $40 prize, on her return from
Albuquerque, in answer to ques-
tions as to the meaning of her sug-
gestion.
Mrs. McQuillan's suggestion,
which was typewriter, and which
was selected by the judges COM
posed of Sam Pritchard, Mrs. Bob
Kelly, Sam Proctor and Frank E.
Brown, was as follows:
ARCADIA
Arcade-an arched building.
Arcadia region of pleasure.
Emblazon this name in electric
lights on your open nights and
no dancing feet will stay away.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. CHARLES J. McQUILLAN.
AS written and presented to the
JUDGES, III the shape of an arch,
together with Arcade and Arcadia
all in some way descriptive of the
hall, equipped the winner with
three aces. The other ace-sug-
gestion Of the name Arcadia by
Mrs. Pat Williams, was presented
to the judges and received the S.
award.
1t is claimed the name Arcadia
is most appropriate and effective
for the reasons that it will not
invoke derision; it requires no
heavy expenditures for elaborate
decoration to render it in keeping
with its name; it is not uncompli-
mentary to its owners or lessees
and it is familiar to many as the
name of other nice dance halls in
larger cities.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

Extra. All about head on col
lision in Winslow roundhouse.
Foreman E A. (Jossum) Kuhn and
machinist w. Miyoshi, accidently
played starring (they saw 'em) last
week in a game known as the "bil-
ly goat special" when both at
tempted to pick up a tool at the
same time Their heads bumped
and Miyoshi was unable to work
the next day, while Poss is for
once practically speechless on ac-
count of nursing a bad cut on his
upper lip. Sorry boys.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
RAILWAY SHOP
Crafts of Canada Present
Demands to Bosses

By international Labor News Service.
Montreal Representative of Rail-
way department No. A, A. F. of L.,
embracing the rail shop craft unions
of Canada, with a membership of
about $4,000, have presented de-
mands to the Canadian railway COM
panies for wage increases of 10 cents
an hour and the restoration of work
ing conditions lost in 1922. The rail
ways also face demands for increas-
ed wages by the conductors and train
men.
Negotiations proceed. But mean.
while the railways have posted or
their bulletin boards such notices as
'The officer commanding the 18th
Light Railway Operating Company
which was operating light railways il
France during the war, is very anx
ious to get in touch with every mar
who was over on the strength of thai
company"
And daily papers hvae been carry
ing letter signed Railway Man." ex
pressing readiness to rally to the de
fense of the nation against the "dic
tation of international unionism."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
STANDARD OIL
Company "Union" Discred.
tied By Labor

Bayonne, N. with profits that
have broken all records, the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey has re-
fused 10 per cent wage increase to
several hundred employees here.
The oil corporation established a
company "union," known as the Re-
public of Labor, but this high-sound-
ing title has failed to raise living
standards.
Sentiment among the workers was
so pronounced when 125 employees in
one department suspended work that
the management shut down the entire
plant to check general walkout.
The Republic of Labor is discredited
and employees now agree with trade
unionists as to the purposes of these
company-controlled organizations.
President Teagle, of the company
assured the employees that he "was
sympathetic with a natural and
praiseworthy desire Of the men tt
make more money" but there was
no system in the company union
or in business conditions to justify
the increase. He said he was paying
the prevailing wage.
The workers point to the company's
profits, and ask if the old industry
the most prosperous in business to
day, must trail behind wage rates
that are set by organized labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
WAGE INCREASES
Bring Settlement of Indian
ap0lis Building Strike

By international Labor News Service
Indianapolis, Ind-More than 1,000
workmen, representing the Indian.
apolis building trades unions, have
returned to work after being out or
strike for some weeks.
The strike was settled through new
wage agreements or arbitration with
all crafts except the painters anc
decorators.
Sheet metal workers, the last of the
craftsmen to agree to a new scale
received an increase of 212 cents al
hour in effect Immediately and 21z
cents to be in effect August /, and {
raise of 5 cents additional to be IL
effect January l, 1927. The agree
ment will be effective for two years
expiring in 1928. Under the old scale
they received $1.05 an hour.
Painters and decorators, after hold
ing several meetings, failed to reacf
an accord with employing contractors
Hosting engineers reached al
agreement with employing contrac
tors on an arbitration basis, aftel
having been on strike since April /
They have returned to work pending
the final adjustments of the scale.
Plumbers and steamftters reached
an agreement with employers, botl
receiving increases of from 5 to Il
cents an hour over the old scale.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04

entire baking industry of the United
Statse. The department of justice
and the federal trade commission
alike charged it with being combina-
tion in restraint of trade, organized in
violation of the Sherman and Clayton
antitrust laws. The hearings Of the
federal trade commission developed
substantial evidence in support of this
charge.
"And yet, under Section 13 of the
consent decree the charge against the
Continental Baking Corporation was
dismissed on the ground that SINH
lar charge was being prosecuted
against the Continental by the federal
trade commission. The court must
have been led to believe that the fed
eral trade commission would prose-
cute this case in good faith. Other
wise, no judge would have agreed to
the dismissal of the charge.
/ But the ink was not dry on the
consent decree before the reactionary
majority of the federal trade COM
mission abruptly stopped the hearings
| in the Continental case and dismissed
the very complaint which had been the
condition for the omission Of the Con-
tinental from the courts decree.
sThat act constituted an outrage
upon the court and a deliberate be.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04

definite correlation between safety
and production, that is, whether the
safe factory in general is the produc
tive factory and vice versa, are ex-
pected," Dean Kimball said, "to has
ten new era of industrial safety in
this country.
"In spite of Is years of highly
effective work in the safety move.
ment, the number of industrial acci-
dents in general still seems to be in
creasing, result that is due appar-
emily to the increasing mechanization
of industry.
"Some means of getting an effec-
tive control Of the situation must be
found. Industry can and must devise
ways to carry its operations on more
safely"
Arthur w. Berresford, Detroit cleo.
trical egnineer, has been named chair.
man of the committee on the Ameri.
can Engineering Council, which viii
direct the survey. Leon P. Afford, ot
New York, who was a member of the
Hoover waste committee, is vic,
chairman.
The field work, centering in New
York and Washington, will embrace
these ten basic industries:
Iron and steel, steam railways
electric utilities, paper and pulp, min
ing, machine building and meta
working, textiles, cement, woodwork
ing, building construction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
Musicians Vote Subscription
Of $4,000 Stock in Union
Labor Life Insurance Co.

brings us new evidence of the need
of union labor life insurance and of
the determination of the membership
of our movement to make it possible
to begin writing insurance at the
earliest possible date"
Treasurer George Perkins has just
paid visit to the offices of the COM
pany here. He was enthusiastic about
what he found and saw and predicted
that stock sales would grow in volume
from day to day. He conferred re-
warding many details of the business
with President Woll and made thor
oug denomination of all the records
of work done.
ut is a satisfying thing to know
that this new service to labor is meet
ing with such response everywhere,
Treasurer Perkins said. "The Amer
lean Federation of Labor investiga-
tion into the question of life insur-
ance showed clearly the need for an
insurance company owned and con-
trolled by labor. 1t will be great
day for union labor when this COM
pany opens its doors for the writing
of business and issues it's first policy.
| believe union labor everywhere
ought to celebrate that day."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
By international Labor News Service

Dy IHLeTildllOldl LdUOf NEWS SeTVICe.
Indianapolis, Ind. - Robert Arm
strong, a vice president of the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees of Amer
ica, who has been here for several
weeks in an effort to organize street
railway workers, has brought an in
junction suit against Mayor John
Duvall, of indianapolis, Chief of
Police Johnson and others of the
police department, asking restrain
ing order against their interfering
with him in the course of his organ
ization work
Armstrong has been arrested sew
eral times by the police and it is
charged the street railway company
instigated the arrests. Joseph and
Russell Fort, Jesse Young, Curtis
Johnson and Carl Lucas, local organ
izers Of the union, have also brought
suits against the same defendants,
seeking to prevent their arrests while
organizing. The Armstrong petition
was filed in federal court and the
others in superior court here.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
CANADIAN
MARCONI co.
Signs Agreement With Wire
less Operators

By international Labor News Service.
Montreal-The Canadian Marconi
Company has signed an agreement
with Wireless System No 4, CONNER
cial Telegraphers' Union of America,
effective to March 81, 1929. The
terms provide for adjustments of dis
putes regarding vacations, subsistence
allowance and overtime, the company
agreeing to meet a committee of men
to deal with future disputes, such
committees to include an international
officer of the union, if the men SO de-
sire.
Wage scale: First year, $40 per
month; second, $75; third, $85; fourth,
$95; fifth, $105; sixth, $115 In addi-
tion an allowance Of $40 per month
where subsistence is not furnished.
In addition bonus of SIS per month
to regular officers in charge of coast
stations, and of $40 to officers in
charge of ship stations carrying two
or more telegraphers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
HOSIERY WORKERS
REVIVE OLD-TIME
UNION SPIRIT

Philadelphia Hosiery workers, af-
filiated to the United Textile Work
ers, have revived the old-time union
spirit in their shop-to-shop organic
ing campaign.
The unionists eat hurried lunch
and spend the noon hour visiting un-
organized shops where literature IL
distributed.
This has brought large numbers Of
the unoragnized into the union, an6
every Tuesday and Friday two mem
bers are kept busy for hours entering
new names on the roll.
The unionists aided unorganized IN
several shops to abolish speeding.
up system and many Of these knitter,
joined the union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
CAR MEN DESERVING
COMP ANY "UNION"

New York.-Alarmed at the coll
lapse of it's company "union," the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
revoked an order that would increase
working hours.
Many of these workers are joining
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes, affiliated to the A. F. of l..
Representative of the company
union" withdrew request for higher
wages. They say "the management
has shown them that the financial
condition of the company is such that
no increase can be considered at this
time"
Members of the legitimate trade
union are not satisfied with the man
agement's evidence" nor with the
ease with which the alleged union"
quits the fight for higher living
standards"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
BREAD TRUST
Not Smashed; Was u. S.
Court Tricked?

Madison, Wis.-Smashing the bread
trust, recently announced by the de-
partment of justice, is fake, says
Senator La Toilette, writing in La
Follette's Magazine. He intimates
that the court was imposed upon by
public officials.
"On its face, the consent decree
signed in the Baltimore federal court,
appeared to be victory for the peo-
pie and against the effort Of William
B. Ward and his associates to monop-
olize the nations Bread" said Sena-
tor La Toilette.
Through apparent collusion be-
tween the department Of justice and
the federal trade commission, which
has recently become known, Ward is
in position to continue his monopoly,
using the Continental Baking Corpor-
alton for that purpose.
"The Continental Baking Corpor-
alton, with log bakeries producing q
billion loaves Of bread annually, is the
largest unit Of the bread trust. It ID
alone large enough to dominate the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
MORE BUREAUCRACY
OPPOSED BY PUBLIC

Washington.-The executive order
to give state, county and municipal
officers federal power to enforce the
Volstead act is declared revolution
ary" and "indefensible." The protest
is nationwide and includes those who
hold opposite views on the act itself,
The senate has ordered committee to
inquire into the legality of the order
and opposition has gained such mo-
mentum that treasury officials have
weakened. They say the power will
be used judiciously."
Under the order a state, county OF
municipal officer can be given row.
ing federal commission to enter other
states. He will be paid nominal
salary. This annuls an order issued
by President Grant that state Off.
cial can not hold federal position
The order has intensified the con.
troversy over the dwindling power OF
states and the encroachment of fed
eral authority, tendency which the
president deplored in his recent
speech at William and Mary College
Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Washington Post, considered &
spokesman for the administration
editorially declares that "the placing
of state officers under federal con
troll would be a radical departure
from the present system of govern
ment in the United States"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
Union Officials Ask Courts
To Stop Police Interference
With Organization Campaign

Organizers Armstrong and Parker,
also a vice president of the union,
have been taken in custody number
of times and have been ordered to
leave the city by the police, but re-
fused to go, standing on their con-
stitutional rights as citizens to re-
main and organize the street car men.
The street car company has put up
bitter fight for years against any
attempt to organize their employees.
A few years ago an injune tion was
obtained in federal court to prevent
the organizers working here. A
friendly city administration passed an
ordinance providing that employees
hired by the company should have at
least thirty days experience in oper-
ating street cars before they could be
employed here. The federal court
enjoined the city from enforcing this
ordinance.
Since Armstrong and Parker have
been in Indianapolis some 19 different
charges have been filed against them
ranging from vagrancy to bootleg
] ging.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
BY International Labor News Service.

by lnCeFIldJlONdl ldDOF NEWS OcTVlCc.
Washington, d. C.-With sub
scription of $4,000 for stock, the
American Federation of Musicians,
Joseph N. Weber president. takes its
place in the leading half dozen organ
izations backing the Union Labor Life
Insurance Company. The musicians
subscription was voted at it's conven-
ton, just held in New York city,
where the organization maintains its
national headquarters.
"The subscription voted by the Mu-
sicians' Union is an indication of the
faith which organized labor has in
this tremendous project" said Presi-
dent Matthew Woll. "We value it all
the more because it was voted in con-
vention by delegates representing the
organization and speaking for all Sec
tions of the country"
Two organizations have subscribed
for the limit, which is $4,000. There
are now two $4,000 blocks taken and
two for $4,000 each. "We are i'm
mensely gratifed at the manner ir
which the sale of stock is proceeding,
continued President Woll. every day
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
Union Working Women Sentenced to Jail
By Notorious Chicago Injunction Judge

that they were defying the court.
But their attitude was insolent. They
attacked other women who wished to
work. One woman attacked a police
man who also had children dependent
upon him, pushed him down an area
way and crippled him for life"
The conference had been peaceful
until then. One of the women muir
INJURED something about public opin-
ion." The judge grew angry.
Il must bid you ladies good day."
he said. II should be less than a Judge
if allowed public opinion to infiu-
ence my actions on the bench"
Policeman" Doesn't Seem Badly
Hurt
The amazon" who, the judge said,
attacked policeman and "crippled
him for life," is Mrs. Florence Corn,
1240 North Kedzie avenue. The
policeman" was a detective, and if
he was badly hurt it was not notice
able when he appeared in court twice
after the alleged attack
Mrs. Corn is five feet five inches in
height and weighs about 130 pounds.
She is pretty little woman with a
pleasant smile and small, soft hands.
Male trade unionists are marveling
at her ability to knock out a big, burly
strike-b breaking detective. She was
fined 500 and sentenced to Jail for
80 days.
Mary Gurewitz, another of the
"Amazons" described by Judge Sulli-
van and against whom he assessed a
fine of $125, is frail little girl who
is now confined in a tuberculosis sani-
tarium.
Onlooker Jailed With Strikers
Another "Amazon" was a waitress
working in restaurant in the strike
bound district. Like many others,
she was an interested onlooker at one
of the strike scenes and was picked
up and jailed along with other pass
ersby. Mere presence in the district
was sufficient to cause arrest and to
invite the wrath of Judge Sullivan.
Buildings in the dress manufacur-
ing district house several shops.
Some of the shops would be operat-
ing on union basis, while other shops
in the same building would be non
union. Men and women employed in
the union shops were arrested while
going to and coming from work
| Their crime was that they were mem.
bers of the union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
Are Accused Of Violating
Courts Anti Strike Writ
Dennis E. Sullivan, Put on Bench by Vice
President Dawes, Furnishes Mothers With
Children, Despite Pleas of Leading Residents

at the Jail, and this probably will be
done. This means, of course, that
these infants are to become the pris-
oners of the state of Illinois because
their mothers have had the temerity
to join labor union in defiance of the
will of Hell-an'- Maria Dawes and his
judicial tool.
Priests, preachers and rabbis, club
women and social workers have plead
ed with Judge Sullivan to show mercy
to these helpless women, but the
judge has been deaf to all entreaties
Leading Women Plead for Mercy
Jane Adams, world famous social
worker, headed a delegation of prom
inent Chicago women who waited or
Judge Sullivan in chambers. Other
women in the party besides Miss Ad-
dams were Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. B. F. Lang
worthy, Miss Mary Mcdowell, Miss
Agnes Nestor and Miss Amelia Sears
They based their plea on "humani-
tartan ideas" 1t would do the com
munity no good, they argued, to send
to Jail 81 women whose crime was
that they had attempted, though law.
lessly, to get higher wages. 1t was
suggested that the wholesale incar.
ceration of a number of women, in
face of criminal conditions in Chicago
today, would Indicate disorder, per.
haps rioting, among certain classes
Can Do Nothing, Sullivan Declares
When the speakers began to talk
feelingly of the plight of the women
defendants, of the little ones depend.
| dent upon them, Judge Sullivan re.
marked acidly:
even if wished, / could do moth.
ing for these women. l have no power
to lessen their punishment. But il
you women had heard the trial Of
these Amazons, l doubt if you woulc
present such a plea.
| 'Day after day, they were warned
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
RETIREMENT BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE

Washington.-The house has passed
an amended federal retirement bill
that raises the $3.50 annuity to 81 900
and increases employers contribu-
tions to the fund from 2h per cent
Of their salary to 31s per cent. The
changes introduced by Congressman
Lehlbach, and favored by federal en-
ployes, called for a $1,000 annuity.
Opposition was recorded by mem
bers of the house before final vote on
the amended measure, but Mr.. Lehl-
bach warned his colleagues that this
is the best that can be secured.
81 think I will be given credit for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04

sincerity in my endeavor to secure
adequate retirement legislation" he
said. II have agreed to pass the bill
that is now before you because
knowing the situation in all it's rami-
fications-I tell you frankly it is this
or nothing"
Under the bill the general clerical
force of the government may retire
at 70 years. Mechanics, mail carriers,
mail clerks and laborers may retire
at 65. Railway mail clerks and those
who have spent the greater part of
their service in hazardous occupa-
tions, in the tropics or in extreme
cold climate, may leave at 62.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
By JOSEPH A. WISE
Staff Correspondent, International
aho,. Ma1uc Caruioa

Staff Correspondent, international
Labor News Service
Chicago. Thirty-seven women,
many of them the mothers of in
fants, have been sentenced to spend
from 10 to so days in the vilest coun-
ty Jail in the world because they are
members of organized labor. Fines
ranging from 500 to $3.50 each have
been added to the Jail sentences.
Seven men also are to be jailed and
have been fined, one man being as
sessed $3.50 and given Jail sentence
of 20 days.
Ninety in All Are Sentenced
These martyrs to trade unionism
are Chicago citizens who are members
of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. They
are charged with violating an injunc-
ton issued by the notorious Judge
Dennis E. Sullivan during the great
strike in the Chicago dress industry
two years ago. Judge Sullivan is the
injunction judge that Vice President
Charles G. Dawes and his Minute Mer
of the Constitution sponsored and ma.
terially helped to elect in the face OF
the official opposition of organized
labor of Chicago.
Ninety men and women are in.
volved. There are 67 women and 2s
men, but some were only fined
Nineteen were sentenced to 10 days
Imprisonment and to pay fine Of
$3.50 each. Others were given 80 anG
so days each and heavily fined.
Children Face Jail With Mothers
A number of the women sentenced
to Jail have four and five children ane
invalid husbands. Authorities at The
Cook county Jail are puzzled as ts
what to do with the children, particu
larly the infants. 1t has been sug
gested that nursery be established
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-04
ENGINEERS COUNSEL
To Study Relation Between
Safety and Factory
Output
By international Labor News Service

Washington, D. C.-To check the
mounting number of industrial acci-
dents a Safety and production study
has been started by the American En-
gineering Council, it is announced
here by the president of the council,
Dean Dexter S. Kimball, of Cornell
University.
'The results of this study, which
aims to determine whether there is