davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1926-04-28
SEEK SMALLER UNIT.

CHICAGO, April % GP).-An amend
ment to the rules of the Chicago
Board of Trade authorizing trading in
50-bale cotton contracts instead of
the present minimum of 100 bales
was posted today. At least 10 DAYS
must elapse before the proposed
amendment can be voted upon. The
action was taken at the request of the
smaller shippers, who desired a
smaller unit of contract.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
WILL DEVELOP RESORT.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTA April 28.- Franklin
D. Roosevelt of New York has
purchased the Georgia Warm Spring
property from George Foster Peabody
and will begin at once development Of
an-all-year-around resort the principal
feature of which will be the largest
artificial swimming pool in the world.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
COPPER SCRAP HIGHER.

NEW YORK, April % R.--Copper
scrap has been advanced from "a to
a of cent in the Chicago district.
Lead scrap also is slightly higher.
Heavy melting steel scrap in the Chi
cago district has declined 25 cents a
ton, quotations now ranging from.
$3.50 to $12.75 a ton.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
PARIS PRICES STEADIER

PARIS, April % CP.-Prices were
steadier on the Bourse today. Three
per cent rentes, AZ francs Is centimes.
Exchange on London, 146 francs 92
centimes. Five per cent loan, 81
francs 10 centimes. The dollar was
quoted at 80 francs % centimes.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
EARNINGS INCREASE.

NEW YORK, April % @.-The
New York Dock Co. earned $1.58 a
share on the common stock in 1925,
after preferred dividends, against n
cents a share the year before. Net
income was $610,735, against $554031.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
COMBINED EARNINGS GROW.

NEW YORK, April 28 R.-The
first 81 class one railroads to report
March earnings had aggregate net
operating income of STATIC, 900,
against $5S,07O,O0O in March last year,
ar increase of 2S.7 per cent. Gross
revenues were $424, ,152 900, against
S3S9,246, 900, a gain Of 8.9 per cent.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
RECORD OIL CARGO.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. April 28.-Receipts
of oil products last week were fea-
tured by the arrival of what is re-
garded as the record cargo to this
port. 1t was 100000 barrels of fuel
oil brought by the tanker William
Rockefeller from San Pedro, Calf, to
the Standard Oil Co. One cargo of
$4,000 barrels of gasoline from Mex
leo and 10000 barrels of crude oil
from Houston, Tex, made up the
weeks deliveries.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
S, AL. EARNINGS JUMP.
Net Revenue for Quarter Show!
S1s7,2ee. 90 Increase.
snecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 28.-Operatine
revenues of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way Company amounted to $6,S56,733..
80 in March, an increase Of $1,16S,,
6S4.61, as compared with the cores
ponding month in 1925. Net for the
month, exclusive of interest on ad
iustment bonds, was 1878 3,082.79, a
gain of $50, ,5S6.S7.
Net for the three-month period
amounted to $1,193, 3,173.11, gain of
S187 ,269.90, as compared with the first
quarter of last year.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
FARM LABOR SCARCE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 2S.-
Demand for farm labor is greater than
the supply, according to reports
from State employment officers.
Fruit growers and counting on getting
helm from school children.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
CAPITAL INCREASED.
Richmond Banks, However, Show
$12,OOo,ooO Deposits Drop.
Special Dispatch to The Sta

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. April 28.-Banking
capital here has been increased by
81 ,181, ,625 since December 81, accord.
ing to a report made of the last bank
statement. This was due to increases
by several of the banks following the
merging of four of the largest insti-
tutiOns in the city.
For the same period it is shown that
Evening star., 1926-04-28
CAR LOADINGS INCREASE.
Gain of 35,429 Over Last Week
Recorded by Rail Body.

Placing freight car loadings for the
week ending April II at 964, 1886 cars,
the American Railway Association
last night declared this represented an
increase of 35, ,429 over the preceding
week and Al ,091 over the correspond
ing week last year.
Merchandise in less than carload
lots reached 265,54S cars, an increase
of 800 over the preceding week; coal,
Evening star., 1926-04-28
AMERICAN PIANO co.

NEW YORK. April % R.-Net in
come of the American Piano Co. for
the first quarter this year rose to
$500 ,036, equal, after preferred divi
dends, to $916 a share, against $685.
210, or S445 a share, in the first QUAR-
ter of 1925.
Evening star., 1926-04-28

167,249, an advance of 1852; miscel-
laneous freight, 364,907, an increase of
25,O18; grain and grain products, 37,-
IT'S, an advance of 1884, and live
stock, 27,31S, an increase of 2,4i7.
Evening star., 1926-04-28

PUEBLO.-Farmers in the Arkan-
sas Valley have decided not to plant
sugar beets this year under contracts
offered by the American Beet Sugar
co. carrying a minimum price of Sc
a ton. Growers in the Great Western
Sugar Co.'S territory are receiving a
minimum Of SS a ton.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
BUTTER UNCHANGED.

CHICAGO, April % L9.-Butter un-
changed; receipts, 1927 tubs; eggs,
lower; receipts, 24,357 cases; firsts,
29a29A; ordinary firsts, %; storage
packed, extras, 31A; storage firsts,
3OA.
Evening star., 1926-04-28

Billiard tables are a feature Hf
many of the prominent women $
clubs in London, where the sport has
grown very popular among women
during the last few years.
Evening star., 1926-04-28
TREASURY CERTIFICATES.

Quotations furnished by Redmond & Co..
Evening star., 1926-04-28

A suite built for an unusual
amount of service, large-size
pieces-loose reversible spring
cushion seats. Now offered at
an amazingly low price.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15

Street car traffic was tied up
and police reserves were required
to hold back the crowd that gath
cred last night to watch firemer
fight a stubborn blaze in Miloff'e
Bargain House, 1622-24 Seventh st.
N. w. The fire. of unknown orr
gin. started In the rear OF the store.
Damage was set at 81 500.
The home Of Bembrook Jones, In
Oakcrest, Va. was damaged 81 900
yesterday by fire from an over.
heated flue. Neighboring fire com
panies extinguished the blaze with
chemicals.
The downtown fire apparatus
was kept busy early yesterday ut.
ting out blazes In IL trash boxes.
Police are searching for the Der-
sons responsible.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15
Pan Americas In ROAD Meet

Presidents Of all the Central and
South American republicssnave beer
invited to send official delegates to
the 1927 road congress TO be held
in Chicago during Good Roads Week.
January 10 to Is. the American
Road Builders Association an
nounced today. The increasing in
terest Of the Latin.American cOun-
tries in road building has made 1t
essential they be represented at this
meeting. the announcement said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15

tured by the abundant rainfall Of
tropical climate.
I'VE see the redwood still grow
ing in California We see them
nowhere save in California"
Some great catastrophe leveied
those giant trees, perhaps volcanic
action from Mt. st. Helena.
Volcanic ash poured over the
fallen trunks burying them deep.
During those thousands OF CEN
turtles the redwoods turned to 7 one
First they became wafer-soakeu
The water contained silica. The
chemical action turned the wood to
stone without disturbing the. wood
structure. The petrified grove. now
forms one of our most valued
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15

, His findings. Of value to paleon-
toIogists, are based on the fossil re-
mains Of leaves.
DIR. Clancy was the man, with
Roy Chapman Andrews, who partici-
pated in the discovery of dinosaur
eggs in the Cobb Desert, find that.
amazed the world.
The key that opened times hither.
to locked doors, DIR. CLANCY found
buried deep beneath the petrified
redwood trees in petrified forest,
which is in Sonoma county. near the
city Of Santa Rosa.
The redwoods which were petri-
fled stood as flourishing SoEest per
llaps 600, 900 years ago.
Now it is known that California
was q great forest Of redwoods, nur
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15
GIRL. ESCAPING
FIRE, HURT

While fleeing her smoke,filled
rooms when fire broke cut yester-
day in the building in which they
are located, Miss Margaret E. Cor
Inns, 10, 2002 Rhode Island Ave
N. E., bruised her hand in the
doorway.
The fire, which started in the
basement of the Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Store. beneath Miss Collins
apartment, caused damage of $500
to the building and $500 to the
stock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15

Drawers for utensils, q sliding
break board. an adjustable seat, a
towel rack and pail for refuse
are included in a new sanitary
Kitchen table.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15
California $ History
II Leaf Fossils

BERKELEY Cal. Nov. 15-PeeTing back through the
time beyond the historic beyond even the glacial
ages DR. r. w Clancy Of the University Of California has
reconstructed California of the age when mammals
were Just evolving from the reptiIan period
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15
Poorhouse Bellies

ETHAN, England, Nov. is. The
women inmates Of the poorhUuse are
to have their skirts shortened To
conform with the prevailing mode.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15

records of the California that
existed ages before man came on
earth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-15

An English gas works condenses
ehs naphthaline vapor that is
by-prcduct Of its chief product and
sorms the resulting crystals into
1oth balls.
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
Church Seeks to Fight Gales Thru A. F. OIL.
Continue from Page u

Continue from Page u
the fact that good many Of the labor
leaders OF the American Federation Of
Labor are catholics.
Attack or Desertion.
Thru the A. F. OF L., therefore, the
church is aiming to exert added in
fiuence against the anti-clerical Mexi-
can Federation Of Labor and the Cal
les government. This will bring the
question into the foreground at the
A. F. of L. 46th annual convention to
meet at Detroit on Oct. 4, and IL the
church has its way that convention
will take stand openly against the
Gales government, reversing It's res
olution Of approval at the last con-
vention at Atlantic City, or as sec
ond choice, stating its neutrality
which is deserting the Mexican Fed
Grafton Of Labor in the struggle.
Catholic leaders were recently in
conference in Baltimore and Wash
lngton celebrating the line OF action
to be taken TO influence II not control
the A. #. OF l.. convention.
Catholics Among the Bureaucracy.
At the top Of the A. F. of L. is the
Bureaucracy. Among the big bureau
Gratis the church counts surprising
number; James Duncan OF the Gran
ite Cutters, Matthew Vol of the
Photo Engravers; Frank Duffy, Jacob
Fischer, Martin F. Ryan and James p.
Noonan are members OF the executive
council. Daniel Tobin is treasurer.
James o'Connell OF the Metal Trades
department. All catholics, az well as
are many lesser figures.
Woll Fears for Monroe Doctrine.
Among these there is a division on
whether TO take an openly hostile
The daily worker., 1926-09-30

stand or desert the Mexican federation
by a gesture Of neutrality" Duncan
favors an open break. Woll is more
cautious. He is treasurer Of the Pan
American Federation Of Labor and is
afraid Of destroying his policy of sub
jugating the Latin American move
ment which he aptly calls, "A Monroe
Doctrine for the working class"
In the current issue OF the Amer
ican Photo-Engraver," official organ
Of the Photo Engravers' Union, Woll
has this to say about the Mexican
controversy:
Advises Mexican Labor TO Desert
Gales.
American labor will do we'll to ex-
tend a helping hand: First, by pro-
noting the spirit OF federation here
as well as in Mexico, and second, by
counselling Mexican labor that the
way to success is not by the appeal to
blind passion, religious perjudice OF by
the force of government, but by the
gaining Of the goodwill and co-opera-
tion OF the people at large"
In the above Woll plainly says that
while We cannot be violent about our
support OF the catholic church, Il is
our duty to tell the Mexican Fedora
tion OF Labor to quit supporting the
government and "the force OF govern
ment" in that governments effort to
make the catholic church obey the
law.
A Disguised Attack.
From indications given out at the
time the A. f. Of l.. executive council
met at Montreal to deliberate It's re-
port to the coming convention, this
disguised attack, this desertion OF
Mexican labor, will be the way out
for the bureaucracy at the conven.
tion.
Labor in all other Latin American
countries is behind that OF Mexico IN
Its tight against clerical despotism.
Even Santo Iglesias OF Porto Rico. tho
sort OF adopted member of the re-
dictionary A. r. OF L. bureaucracy and
one OF the two secretaries OF the Pan
American Federation OF Labor, is anti
clerical and backs Luis N. Moronss,
outstanding leader OF Mexican labor
and a minister Of the Gales govern.
meflt. FsvtrF
(Contlnued tomorrow)
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
SHIRTMAKERS find A
STRIKE WINS DEMANDS
And BEATS WAGE CUTS

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s. -(FP)-
Nearly 1000 mems shirt makers
returned to work In Inside and In
dependent shops which settled with
the Amaleamated Clothing Workers
Union almost as soon as a strike
was called. Independent shops are
required to put $500 bond guarantee
that non-unlon workers Will not be
used. Contractors have been de-
niandIns 159S wage cuts.
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
COMP ANY union
{ DEMANDS RAISE
OF Mill OWNERS
Amoskeag Headed for a
Serious Conflict
tspseIaI 70 rha paIIy workerl

MANCHESTER, Sept. 28.-(FP) -
Amoskeag Mills Workers Congress
or company union asks 10 per cent
wage increases for the $4,000 cotton
and woolen textile workers, and re-
jects the company's proposals for
wage reductions. Two hundred and
fifty delegates from all departments
Of the mills were in session.
Sliding Scale Slides DownhIIl.
The company's plan, as set forth by
Agent Parker Straw, calls for slid
ing scale Of wage cuts to be based on
reductions in the prices Of goods sold.
Whenever a large order was booked
at prices below those regularly quoted
the management was to go before the
company union and confer on the ad-
visibility Of lowering wages suf1ci-
emily to get the new business-with-
out sacrifice on the part Of the COM
pany.
Company Union. Took Wage Cut.
Wage agreements expire October l.
Last year wages were unchanged but
October 1924 there was a 10 per cent
cut At that time Agent Straw de-
manded 20 per cent off but compro-
mise of 10 per cent with the. company
union was finally secured. The United
Textile Workers union then asserted
that this 10 per cent cut was not ac-
cepted by the rank and file Of the
workers but by petty bosses in the
Workers Congress.
Real Union May Return.
Trade union organizers see in the
company union wage demands hope
for the return Of a real trade union
They base this on the knowledge that
the company union cannot deliver the
goods in the way of wages,-that its
machinery is too closely related to
the management to permit 1t to be
used to wrest concessions OF such an
important nature as a substantial
wage increase. 4r 't.e Aet
And that the company union dele
gates who yield to the pressure from
the rank and file of the workers by
making the 10 per cent wage demand
will not be- able to explain their re-
fusal to act when the management
says nothing doing. The United Tex
tile Workers Union was well repre-
sented in the plant until the defeat of
the long 1922 strike wiped it out there.
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
By ROBERT W. DUNN.


'THE Botany Mills of Passaic offered
j. their workers nothing new when
they called the scabs into the mill yard
and proposed the company union as
the solution of the present strike. It
will be remembered that several
months ago, early In the strike, a state
ment signed by all the mills appeared
as an advertisement in the local capi-
talist papers. This statement was also
proposal for works councils" or
some form OF "employe representa-
tion"--in other words, company
union.
At the time this offer was made the
workers laughed at It. They refused
to yield an inch in their desire to have
a real labor union instead of boss
controlled company union. They
waved their union cards aloft and
shouted down the company's proposi-
ton. They did the same when the
Botany came forward again with this
old offer.
THE workers in Passaic have had a
taste Of the company union. This
explains their refusal to be tricked by
it now. Since 1919, when the workers
organized In the Amalgamated Textile
Workers of America were disorgan-
lied by the use of the spy system and
the blacklist, the company union has
been in operation at the Forstmann G.
Huffman plants. 1t has been a farce
from the beginning. The workers
have been permitted to elect represen-
tatives to an assembly" which meets
four times year to consider such
questions and grievances as the com
pany's personal manager, Mr.. Rein
hold, allows them to discuss. Dozens
Of aff1davits made by the striking
Forstmann & HUFFMAN workers attest
to the hypocrisy and insincerity of the
plan. It has proved mere snare to
further enslave the workers. It did
not solve any of the workers prob
lens, as is evidenced by the fact that
the Forstmann workers Joined the
strike and have been among the best
lighters. Neither has the company
union broken the strike, altho some of
the company suckers on the assembly
have done all they could to help the
company persuade the workers to re-
turn to the mills and to the tyranny
Of the company union,
ENoRsTMANN & HUFFMAN co. is
4 not the only textile concern in
America that has tried the company
union game. Some of the biggest cot
ton corporations in New England, such
as the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of
Manchester, N. H., and the Pacific
Mills of Lawrence, Mass, have in
stalled this instrument for the purpose
Of keeping their workers out of a real
labor union. AS a matter of fact the
defeat Of the United Textile Workers
Of the A. f. of L. organization that
formerly controlled the Amoskeag
workers is due in large part to the in
PRODUCTION Of the company union The
Pacific Mills also put in a company
union in order to liquidate the labor
union sentiment among their en-
ployes. In both cases the company
union has been a means of introduc-
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
PASSAIC STRIKERS FIGHTING
COMPANY UNIONISM TO A FINISH

ing wage cuts, speed-up systems and
longer hours.
Knowing this experience Of the COM
pany union in such textile mills, the
Passaic workers have put on an ag-
gressive resistance to every proposal
that a company union be instituted as
solution" of the labor problem in
that city. The company union is
thoroly discredited here and the work
ers are so enraged against it that they
would prefer no union at all to such
"a deceitful and insidious device.
THE Botany's talk about having deal
L ings only with its own workers
and about their freedom to organize
in a union" is regarded as the last
gasp of pure open-shoppism. This
statement of the Botany was Of course
melted by the resolution of the Pas
sale workers to Join the United Tex
tile Workers, which the Botany man
ayers had indicated they might recog-
nize. The Botany did not think the
Passaic workers had enough intelli-
gence to get into the A. F. of L. But
as soon as they discovered their in
tentions to join the U. T. w. they hur-
ried to make this 100 pct. open shop
declaration concerning the company
union. In this stand the Botany had
the backing of all the national en-
ployers' organizations that have been
trying to crush this strike from the
start, the open shop department of the
National Association of Manufacture
ers, the National Security League and
the other patriotic" associations as
we'll as the local Citizens Committee
and other strike-breaking agencies.
HOWEVER, a certain sentiment
IL among the decent citizens is re-
fiecting itself even in the local capt.
talist press. This sentiment sees the
Botany going too far in refusing to
deal with the A. F. of L. 1t calls the
Botany "Prussians" and other harsh
names, which they, of, course, deny.
Whether this sentiment will grow dur
ing the next few days remains to be
seen. Whether 1t will help the work
ers to make the Botany change its
mind Is also a matter for the next few
days to decide. II the police, at the
behest1of the Botany, break out into
further orgies of violence, the position
of the strikers and their supporters
will be greatly strengthened and they
may draw in other elements of sup
port in addition to the so-called Slavic
committee and all of the A. F. Of L..
unions.
WHATEVER the next few days or
w weeks may bring about, the work
ers of Passaic are determined that
their lines will not be broken when
they are on the very eve of victory.
The relief stations must be kept open,
their bread tickets must continue.
their babies must continue to get the
milk. that the labor movement can
provide, 1t is the duty Of every worker
who reads these lines to double his en-
ergies on behalf of the Passaic strik-
ers who are battling valiantly against
the company union. The struggle Of
Passaic is the company union against
the labor union. Bread and money
will make certain a victory for real
unionism.
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
VIGIL Radio Program

Chicago Federation Of Labor radio
broadcasting station VIGIL is on the
air with regular programs. It IL
broadcasting on a 1915 wave length
from the Municipal Pier.
TONIGHT.
$500 p. m.-.chleaeo Federation Of Labor
talks and bulletins.
e:15 70 e:3o-Fabie Lady--storiss for
children.
6;3o-The Fiorentlne string Trio,
Vivian Lawrence, Little Joe Warner,
John Roddinaton, Hickey and Johnson.
ssoo--Aamo Cafe Dance Orchestra.
11;0o--Alamo Entertainers.
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
Youthful Cloak Model,
Out of Work, Suicide

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s-Dorothy
Smith, %, of Holden, Mass, a cloak
model out of work, fed to the win
dow Of fourth-floor apartment today
and leaped to the brick-paved yard.
She was found, dying.
She jumped. she said, when three
men entered the room where she was
sitting with friend. 1t was the
apartment of Francis Murphy, 20, a
broker.
The daily worker., 1926-09-30

(contInued tomorrow) }
The daily worker., 1926-09-30

Folicies and Programs
The Trade Union Press
Strikes-In1unctions
Labor and Imperialism
The daily worker., 1926-09-30
Organized Labor-Tradel Union Activities

News and Comment
Labor Education
Labor and Government
Trade Union Politics
The Washington times., 1926-02-24
CATHCART CASE
Up To COURTS

immigration authorities today re-
fused to reopen the Countess Cath
cart case, and announced that so
far as they were concerned the
future status of the attractive
divorce will be left to the courts
to determine.
The policy Of the Department Of
Labor was announced In q telegram
to Arthur Garfield Hays, Of counsel
for the Countess, who had formally
requested a, reopening OF the case
in Washington In order that he
might present additional evidence in
behalf OF her unrestricted entry to
the country.
Theodore q. Risley, Solicitor Of
the Department, declared that 1t
was due both the department and
the Countess to have the legal
points in her case cleared up by
court decision, and for that reason
the habeas CORPUS proceedings IN
the Federal Court at New York
would be gone through with.
RisIey denied today there Is any
mystery" about the midnight de-
cision which permitted the Countess
to land in New York after being
detained at Ellis Island for a week
We knew that the legal pro-
ceedings in this case probably would
take some tiTne." he said, land 1t
was considered unfair to the woman
in this case to hold her at Ellis
Island indefinitely"
Risley said great pressure" had
been brought to bear on the de-
pa<.ment to rescind its decision,
but that the department was de-
termined to go through with 1t to
clarity Its powers under the law.