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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-08

Alphonso Daphonse of Perham, Min
nesota. arrived for a visit with john
HOLMAN and other relatives the flrst
of the week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
TEXTILE BARONS
Of Quaker City Back Cam
paign to Smash Union

By International Labor News Service.
South Langhorne, Pa.-Headed by
Capt. A. Bell, formerly of the state
police, the Philadelphia Textile Man
ufacturers' Association, is actively
engaged in an anti-union campaign in
the entire Philadelphia territory. Re-
Gently this association backed the fed
eral full-fashioned mill of Philadelphia
in an effort to destroy the 48-hour
work week. In seeking an injunction
against the hosiery workers union the
Federal Company recently said that
it was suffering serious financial
losses through this strike.
Now in this little town the fight
has broken out again. A local of the
American Federation of Full-Fash-
ioned Hosiery Workers here has been
in existence for some time. The knit
ters about Is months ago organized a
group of weavers employed by the
Eden Company of this town which
makes speciality rug on both hand
and power looms to sell to a quality
trade.
At New Years the Eden Company
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
CLERCYMEN
Issue Appeal For Striking
Miners Families

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Miners and de-
pendents in this county are starving,
declares the executive committee of
the clergymen's fund for miners re-
lief. Hundreds of striking miners
and their families are housed in bar
racks and their condition is rapidly
growing worse.
"There have been many families
found to be really destitute. BY actu-
al contact with these people, housed
not only in temporary barracks but
in all sorts of makeshift shelters in
18 mining communities, 482 families
have already been found who have
not nearly enough to eat and wear"
the report states.
Children are half naked and babies
are starving for milk. Bad enough at
present, the situation grows worse,
and the wretched harvest of malnu-
triton and exposure will be reaped
in the months to come.
"We take no sides in any contro-
versy in the coal industry, but we do
attempt to speak for those who can
not speak for themselves in the name
of our common humanity"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
UNION LABOR LIFE
Opening Agencies Through
out Nation

Washington, D. CAS- q new and
better plan of agency work, the Union
Labor Life Insurance Company is es-
tablishing general agencies through
out the country. In this way the
states and large cities are thoroughly
organized and supervised by compe-
.ent, trained insurance men who have
| group of enthusiastic local agents
preading the good news of labor's
own insurance company and producing
plendid results.
Already the states of California,
Michigan, Ohio and Washington are
rganized, as well as Kansas City,
Chicago and New York, and plans are
n progress for other centers of pro-
uction.
The New York office, which has
oeen established only two weeks, jan
lary % sent to the home office ap-
plications which made the biggest
ay in production the company has
yet had. Union Labor Life is MAX
ng a sure and safe start, and there
is no company which has greater
future, its officers believe.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
Pittsburgh Labor Heads Pledge
Special Fund to Give Miners
Families Milk and Medicine

we direct your attention are common
in the mining camps of Western
Pennsylvania, known as the Pitts
burgh district, we call your special
attention to the notorious violations
of the federal prohibition law in the
camps Of the Pittsburgh Coal Com
pany.
Facts Well Known
1T is notorious as public knowledge
in the Pittsburgh district that this
condition exists in the camps of the
Pittsburgh Coal Company, and that
it has continued to exist for many
months past, apparently without in
reference by officers of the law.
There is no secret about it in these
communities, and the full facts can
easily be ascertained by the bureau of
prohibition. Drunken brawls in these
camps are of common occurrence.
Fights and assaults by drunken men
and women no longer attract moro
than passing attention. Men boot
leggers and women bootleggers sup
ply liquor in these camps Peddlers
of dope circulate among the employees.
"Since this situation developed.
there have been nearly 100 murders
n the coal mining camps of the Pitts
burgh district, many of which can
easily be traced to bootleg liquor as
the cause
Charges Can Be Proved
"All of the facts stated herein are
subject to proof, if the bureau of pro-
hibition will take proper steps in the
premises. The outrageous and i'm
moral conditions existing in these coal
mining camps as result of the bra
zen and continuous violations of the
federal prohibition law constitute a
disgrace to the communities, a humil-
iation to the good citizenship of those
places and a standing menace to the
peace, order, safety and morals of the
people"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
A. F. of L. Executive Council
Approves Shipstead Bill for
Curbing Abuse Of Injunction

He added that clothing and supplies
collected and forwarded were prob
ably equal in value to the money
raised and that considerable amount
of money had been sent direct to Sec
retary Kennedy, of the United Mine
Workers, and not included in the re-
port of Secretary Morrison for that
reason.
On the Boulder Canyon Dam issue
before the council by order of the
Los Angeles convention, the council
voted that it is "in favor of the Boul-
der Dam project" being constructed
with such safeguards thrown around
it as to fully protect the interests Of
Ill the people, and we favor the dis
tribution of the water for domestic,
irrigation and power-generating pur-
poses being placed under the direc-
ion, control and authority of the fed
raj power commission created by the
federal government"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT
Editor, international Labor News

Service
Miami, Fla.-Riding the crest of
growing strength in the decade-long
| fight against the injunction, the
American Federation of Labor execu-
tive council formally endorsed the
Shipstead anti-injunction bill, direct
ed drafting of bill to prevent future
conspiracy suits against labor under
the Sherman act and laid plans for
a great conference of representatives
of national and international unions
in Washington, February Z, to back
up the fight in congress against the
injunction.
On the day of final adjournment
the council lifted the suspension of
the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers,
Express and Station Employees, read
mitting that organization with its
close to 100000 members to the ex-
pressed qualification of President
Fitzgerald, of the readmitted inter-
national. The clerks have been out
two and one-half years because of a
jurisdictional dispute.
Under the terms of adjustment the
American Railway Express Company
has agreed to deal with the teamsters
in all wage negotiations involving
teamsters and with the clerks in all
wage negotiations involving clerks
Agreements to this effect were signed
separately by the two internationals
with the express company. These re-
moved the cause of suspension, and
reinstatement was automatic. The
agreements provide machinery for ad-
justment of any jurisdictional dispute
that may arise between the two
unions.
Two Outstanding Achievements
President Green emphasized for In
ternational Labor News Service that
the two outstanding achievements o.
this hard-working session were plans
by which the national political cam
paign will be at once put under way
and the readmission of the clerks.
President Green also announced
that Secretary Morrison's report show
ed 100000 sent to the miners
through the federation.
We are gratifed over this response
to our appeal" President Green said
I'VE hope the response will continue
The need is greater than before. We
urge all possible further support"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03

announced a 10 per cent wage slash.
The weavers say they were only MAX
ing an average of $50 per week of Sd
hours before the cut.
After action was taken by the
United Textile Workers executive
board, to which international both the
full-fashioned knitters and the rug
weavers belong, it was decided to re-
sist the wage cut. The men were
locked out and the Philadelphia Tex
tile Manufacturers Association has
sent in professional strikebreakers
and private detectives and all the US
ual paraphernalia of union busting"
campaign.
The full-fashioned knitters' local
has accepted the job of leading this
strike under the direction of the U.
T. w. officers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
Chicago Traction Workers
Win More Pay and Insurance
Policies By Arbiter's Award

By International Labor News Service.
Chicago Chicago street car and
elevated employees have settled by ar
bitration with the companies wage
controversy that had extended over
many months and several times had
threatened to develop into strikes.
The agreement extends to June l,
1890 Under it's terms the employees
are granted wage increase of one
cent an hour beginning June l of
this year, and another boost Of one
cent on June /, 1929. Insurance pro-
visions for the street car workers also
are included in the settlement.
Two Arbiters Make Award
The wage award was handed down
by Alderman Oscar F. Nelson and Guy
A. Richardson, the two arbiters who
were selected December IL, last, to
adjust demands of the street car men
for Is cent an hour increase, a
$1,000 life insurance policy, and also
a sick benefit of $40 a week Alder
men Nelson, who is vice president of
the Chicago Federation Of Labor, rep
resented the employees, and Mr.. Rich
ardson the companies.
Approximately $4,000 traction
workers are affected by the wage
award. Demands of the 1000 en-
ployes of the elevated lines were auto
maticalIy adjusted by the award made
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
Officials Assess Themselves
To Aid Coal Strike Victims
Local Unions in Pittsburgh District Strain Resources To
Help Suffering Women and Children-Uni0n De-
mands Government Drive Bootleggers From Non
Union Coal Camps.

By Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Pittsburgh, Pa.-The long drawn
out struggle of the striking coal min
ers in Western Pennsylvania is fur
nishing the labor movement in Pitts
burgh with continued inspiration and
determination to stand with the min
ers to the end.
The central labor unions through
out the United States and Canada,
which have no personal contact with
mine conditions, have little under
standing of the privations that are
being suffered by the women and chill
dren of the striking miners.
The local unions in the Pittsburgh
district and their officials are giving
financial assistance for food and
clothing to the fullest possible ex-
tent. Unions with hundreds of mem
bers out Of work, because of unem-
ployment in the steel and other in
dustries, are taking the money out
of their treasury to aid the miners.
The Central Labor Union and Build
ing Trades Council of Pittsburgh are
exemplifying the highest ideals of the
labor movement.
A. F. of l.. Opens Office
The American Federation of Labor
has opened an office at 1902 keenan,
building, and the fullest cooperation
has been established between Organ
izer William Collins, of the fedora
ton, and officials of the local labor
movement.
During the past week all officers
paid by unions in the Pittsburgh dis
trict held a little 10-cent luncheon for
the purpose of further considering
what could be done to assist the
miners. These officers are already
taxed for the strike, but they voted to
voluntarily assess themselves in addi-
ton to all their other taxes, at least
81 week to create special fund for
milk and medicine for the under
nourished women and children in the
miners barracks.
John H0ehn Is Treasurer
Special Label Agent John Hoehn,
who represents the union label
trades department of the American
| Federation of Labor in the Pittsburgh
| district, is the treasurer of this local
special fund. He has been known in
the Pittsburgh labor movement for
nearly thirty years, and is highly re-
spected. Since the Christmas holidays
he has assumed the burden of CO.
operating with the miners officials in
going to the various mining camps
and finding out where medicine and
milk is most needed. He is one Of
those Industrious trade unionists te
whom time and effort mean nothing
so long as it is in the service Of his
fellow men.
The Pittsburgh labor movement ap.
pointed an advisory committee con.
sisting Of Joseph Duty, chairman Of
the Building Trades Council; William
j Crissman, vice president of Pitts
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
Drive on Bootleggers Urged

Washington, D. C.-The United
Mine Workers of America has filed
with the federal bureau of prohibi-
tion a formal petition calling upon
that bureau to drive bootleggers and
dope peddlers out of the non-union
coal mining camps of the Pittsburgh
district in Western Pennsylvania. The
communication, signed by Philip Muir
ray, of Pittsburgh, international vice
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, reads in part as fol-
lows:
Director of Bureau of Prohibition,
Washington, d. c.
Dear SIR.
"Your attention is hereby directed
to the fragrant and continuous viola
tions of the federal prohibition laws
in coal mining camps of Western
Pennsylvania, where bootleggers
thrive and flourish through the sale
and delivery of Intoxicating liquors in
open violation of said laws. This is
matter that properly comes under
the jurisdiction Of the bureau of pro-
hibition, and in presenting this COM
munication to you the United Mine
Workers Of America intend that il
shall constitute a formal petition fol
an investigation by the bureau Of pro.
hibition of the conditions herein Sc,
out and for such action by said bureau
Of prohibition as shall put an end tt
them. While the conditions to which
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
or the surface lines workers.
Insurance Begins February

Insurance Begins February
The surface lines will inaugurate
the insurance provisions for their
employees February :. They will in
clude the $1,000 life insurance policy
and the $40 week sick benefit. The
latter becomes effective after an en-
ploye has been i'll for more than seven
weeks.
The insurance provision in the ar
bitration award does not include the
employees of the elevated lines, it was
announced. Mr.. Richardson said that
the award will cost the surface and
elevated lines about $3,450,000 an
nually, of which the elevated will pay
$450,0O0. The maximum wage scale
for the traction employees is now rs
cents an hour.
Back Payments Directed
Because of the practical impossi-
bility of making insurance retroactive
the surface lines will pay $35 to en-
ployes who were in service of the
company on June /, 1927, and $12 to
those who entered service between
that date and November l, 1927.
1t was said the arbiters computed
the amount of money would have cost
the surface lines in case the insurance
provisions had been in effect since
June l, 1927.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03

burgh Central Labor Union; Walter
Greenleaf, business agent of the Car
penters' District Council; Joseph
Thomas, president of the Pennsyl-
vania Street Railway Employees, and
Joseph Hoehn, treasurer, special Ia
bel agent for the district.
Collins Special Representative
William Collins is the special rep
resentative of the American Fedora
tion of Labor designated by President
Green to cooperate with the officers
of the Miners Union in charge of
the strike in Western Pennsylvania.
The Pittsburgh local unions have
set high mark for other labor unions
of the United States and Canada to
aim at. 1t would be the greatest
measure of service in the trade union,
if in the districts where there are
many paid labor officials, they could
form club to provide milk and medi-
cine for the undernourished women
and children of the striking miners in
addition to the other assessments that
they may be paying.
Strikers Stand Firm
The strikers are standing firm de-
spite the brutalities of the coal and
iron police which are a daily occur
renee. Governor Fisher promised
President Green and the committee
of the American Federation of Labor
last November that he would investi-
gate these brutalities in the mine dis
tricts. He has failed so far to even
say one word about the situation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-03
JOHN P. COUGHLIN DEAD

New York.-John P. Coughlin, Sec
retary Of the New York Central
Trades and Labor Council, died at his
home after long illness. He was a
member of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists and was one of
the best known trade unionists in the
East.
Evening star., 1928-04-01
GOLDEN RULE MOVIE DEPICTS
TRAGEDY OF CARELESS DRIVING
Star Picture at Fox Features City Children
in Graphic Portrayal of Disaster
Recklessness Brings.
Just a seconds selfish negligence

Just a seconds selfish negligence
and the cost was little girls life.
1t is an old, old story In every city
In the United States-this tragic chain
of circumstances upon which is based
the feature motion picture film. The
Penalty" which yesterday started
weeks run on the screen at the Fox
Theater as a visual lesson to Wash
ington motorists on the necessity of
obeying the Golden Rule.
The picture. which Is presented by
The Evening Star In connection with
the Golden Rule safety driving CAM
paign which has been In progress for
the past week, has a local setting and
Its tragic climax Ia exactly the sort
Of thing that happens every few weeks
on the streets Of washington. 1t has
happened 90 times during the past
five years. according to police records
But. your honor" says the penitent
driver. Il didn't see the child She
ran right out In front of me-"
The judge has heard this story many
Evening star., 1928-04-01
BOY AUTO VICTIM
DIES OF INJURIES
Edmund Joseph Lyddane
Struck While Coasting
Near Home Monday.

One week before his sixth birthday.
Edmund Joseph Lyddane died last night
of injuries received when he was struck
by an automobile while coasting In hts
express wagon on Thirty-fourth street
last Monday The child was hit by the
car of Clifton N, Waters, "a, 1898
Thirty-third street. and sustained a
fracture OF the skull and conclusion OF
the brain. He died at o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
The accident occurred at the corner
OF Thirty-fourth and o streets. The
boy was taken to Georgetown univer~
sity Hospital. unconscious. A short time
later Waters was arrested by police OF
the seventh precinct and held III $1,000
bond TO await the outcome OF the child's
injuries. Last night he was directed to
appear at an inquest at the District
morgue tomorrow morning at H.
Edmund was the son Of Francis
Lyddane OF 33l7 p street. Since his
mothers death two years ago he had
lived with his aunt. Mrs. Wade ii
Coombs, 33i2 o street. Mr.. Coombs Is
superintendent of licenses for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The funeral will be Tuesday. Ed
mund In survived by his father sis
ter, Mary Frances Lyddane. 7. and twin
brothers, Robert Eugene and John
Eustace, :.
Failing or slipping from street car
loading platform early last night. Miss
Rosie A. Mcdonald 90 Of i840 Bilt-
more street, was struck by truck,
Her skull may have been fractured.
She was taken To Emergency Hospital.
where her condition was reported as
serious.
Miss Mcdonald IL daughter OF
John r. Mcdonald, manager for the
American oil Co. She was on the
platform at Eighteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue at the time OF the
accident. The truck was driven by
Leon 5helton, 725 Twenty"third street,
Police believe Miss Mcdonald tainted
or perhaps lost her balance due to the
strong wind.
Her father last night expressed the
belief that she miaealculated the width
of the platform and stepped backward
off Of II.
Miss Mcdonald II a first~aid worker
AT Providence Hospital
The driver was arrested for invests
CATION and later released on $50 cotlat-
eral ON charge Of driving with bad
brakes,
Evening star., 1928-04-01

times before. He has heard it in every
city In the United States Very likely
1t is true. but Is 1t an excuse?
Motorist without Excuse.
THAT doesn't make any difference" J"
he thunders at the defendant. You
were speeding in residential area"
The driver didn't have the shadow
Of a real excuse. He hadn't deliber-
ately violated any law He didn't, of
course. want to run over the little girl.
But he failed to bear In mind that Just
such things are bound to happen TO
any motorist sooner or later who goes
about the streets with the cynical mot
to. Let others look out for them
selves"
How frequently In the past has a
similar story been dictated over the
telephone TO the news room Of The
Evening Star from s0Fae cynical police
reporter. TO whom, accustomed as he Is
10 the raw side OF life. 1t Is just an
other incident Of the days work--just
another first-page story.
After pictliTlng the death OF a little
girl under the wheels OF speeding auto
Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1928-04-01
BRAND NOTE ST|RS
HOPES FOR TREATY
Plan for Six-Power Pact
Viewed With Favor by
u. S. Officials.

by the ASAOf1Hle0 Press
Hailed at the State Department AS
marking a stride toward a world agree
ment renouncing and denouncing war
as a weapon of national policy, the new
BRAND note asserting to immediate
conversations with Great Britain, Ger
many. Italy and Japan to that end was
In the hands of Secretary Kellogg to-
night. awaiting his decision as to the
American reply
Pending detailed examination of the
French communication. department of
ficials withheld comment beyond saying
1t clearly represented IN advance to-
ward time when a nicetine of minds
on the subject among the great powers
will be possible. Mr.. Kellogg was re-
ported as hopeful that a formula for an
anti-war treaty satisfactory not alone
TO France but to all the governments
Of the world can be found.
Stripped OF thee argument that sur
rounds IL In the note handed to the
Secretary by Ambassador Claudel. the
French foreign minister has proposed
that the Washington and Paris govern
ments agree upon a draft multilaterai
anti-war treaty, then join In present.
ing this as working basis to the other
four powers. accompanied by all the
Franco~American exchanges ON the
subject.
Adjustments" Expected.
Out OF that six-way discussion, the
French government hopes will come
ANY adjustments" that present the
possibility OF reconclling previous OBJ
legations with the terms OF the con-
templated new treaty"
The note points out that Secretary
Kellogg has clung not alone TO his In
sistence upon multilateral treaty In
stead OF the bilateral Franco American
pledge again war between them orig
inally suggested by BRAND, but has also
insisted upon ''an unconditional pledge"
In any resulting treaty. In that con-
nection, the new note says:
IF your excellency really believes
that greater chances Of success may be
found In this formula In spite of the
consequences which II involves, eSpe-
cially the necessity OF attaining a treaty
of worldwide scope, the government
would hesitate 10 discuss longer the
question OF Its adherence TO plan
which the American Government orig
mated and for which 1t Is responsible. "
But the note then goes on to make
the new proposal for working up for
mula on which six-power conversations
would be possible. basing II on new
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