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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-04-20

What we would like to hear is a
cry of protest from some of our 10
cal internationalists because John
Bull is safeguarding his Suez Canal
rights in Egypt. Any effort by Uncle
Sam to do the same thing in Near
aqua is followed by veritable out
burst of agony from our pro-Euro-
peans.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-04-20

The present slogan of woman's
STYLES seems to be Shorter and few
err" In the old days it was longer
and funnier."
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-04-20

A highbrow is a person who can
stand boredom without complaining.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
COLORADO GUARD
SPLIT OVER OF
FICIAL PETS

Denver. = The Colorado national
guard is split because of the inde-
pendent coal strike in this state. Ad-
jutant General Newton is padding
the payroll with his uniformed pets.
Last month the salaries of these
officers totaled more than the combin-
ed salaries of enlisted men and allot-
ments made to their dependents.
Scores of men have been killed
during the strike social hates have
been engendered, business is wrecked
and millions of dollars lost.
No one dares estimate the total
loss that can be directly traced to the
coal owners refusal to treat with
workers who have been driven into
the |. w. w. camp. The leader of
this movement is Rockefeller's Colo
RADIO Coal and Iron Company, which
maintains a company union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
Traction Interests Lose
First Round in Struggle;
Labor Men Acclaim Victory

By international Labor News Service.
New York City.-First blood has
been drawn by the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street and Electric Rail
way Employees of America in the
injunction battle with New York trac-
tion interests.
The circuit court of appeals has
reversed an injunction granted to the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
against Edward P LAWN, Harry Bark,
Joseph G. Phelan and James F. Walsh,
which restrained them from "inter-
fering" with Interborough Company
union employees and calculated to
compel them to join the Interborough
company union"
This injunction was issued in 1926
and has been operative since then
The company had brought contempi
proceedings against the defendants,
charging violation of the injunction,
but these may be dropped, pursuant
to reversal of the injunction.
History of Case
Following the 1916 strike the In
terborough formed its company union.
In 1926 the defendants were officials
of the company union. On July l,
1926, group of the company union
members voted, $40 to 7, to kill a
proposition proposing that wages and
working conditions should remain un-
changed.
LAWN and others were said to have
made speeches urging withdrawal
from the company union. The follow
ing day a strike took place, following
demands for increased pay. The
strike lasted until July 80, 1926. The
defendants were leaders in the strike
movement.
In the effort to break the strike the
Interborough procured the injunction
from Justice Delehanty. The decree
was in the broadest terms.
Victory Not Complete
The victory for the defendants is
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
ICLESIAS TO
HAVANA

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. Civilian Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, and the Pan-American Fed
Grafton of Labor has requested Santi-
ago Iglesias, secretary Of the Pan
American Federation of Labor, to
proceed as an observer to Havana to
attend the Pan-American Conference
which convenes January 18th.
The American Federation of Labor
and the Pan-American Federation of
Labor are deeply interested in the
discussions which will take place and
the decisions which will be reached at
the said Pan-American Conference.
While attending the proceedings
Of this conference Mr.. Iglesias will
meet representatives of labor of Gu
ba, and other organizations from
Latin American countries. He will
also convey to those labor represen-
tatives of Cuba and other countries
the assurance of the deep interest on
the part Of the American Federation
of Labor and the Pan-American Fed
Grafton of Labor in the industrial, So
cial and economic welfare of the
workers of the Latin American
countries
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
IMMIGRATION
By JAMES M. LYNCH


Congress is in session. Many bills
have been proposed and there will be
many more. Some Of these proposed
laws are intended to amend the i'm
migration statutes, "liberalizing"
these enactments that have proved so
beneficial to the wage earners. And
the "liberalizing" is not intended to
close the loopholes in these laws,
rather to open the gateways to this
country wider so there may be more
abundant supply Of cheap labor and
opportunity for the exploitation of
that labor to the end that conditions
under which men and women work
may be whitfield away for the benefit
of the invested dollar. This benef-
cent scheme is exposed in an editorial
recently appearing the Illinois State
Journal of Springfield. Read it:
"Scores of bills on the subject of
immigration have been introduced in
to congress. A large proportion of
them are clever disguises for more
or less well known schemes to flood
the country with immigrants for the
benefit of those desiring cheap labor.
Not many Of these measures will
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
Compensation Act Covering
Longshoremen Held Biggest
Gain in Labor Laws in 1927

Rhode Island provided maintenance
allowance for the period of rehabili-
tation, and Montana increased the
amount and period of such allowance.
Kansas made a distinct advance in
line with generally accepted stand
ards by placing the administration of
the compensation law in the hands of
commission instead of the courts.
Old Age Pension Legislation
"Old Age pension laws were enact
ed in Maryland and Colorado similar
to those already in force in Montana,
Navada, Wisconsin and Kentucky.
Arkansas and California created COM
missions to study old age pensions,
and New York continued the investi-
cation authorized in 1926.
"Two states-Indiana and Ohio
provided for rock dusting bituminous
mines to prevent mine disasters due
to coal dust explosions, making to-
ia of six states that have rock-dust-
ing laws. In several other states coal
mine safety regulations were
strengthened.
kansas and Maine joined in feder-
al-state cooperation in maternity
protection, leaving only three states
that have not accepted federal aid
under the Sheppard act. New
York enacted 48-hour law for
women.
Child Labor Amendment Ratified
Montana ratified the child labor
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton California and Indiana strength
ened regulation of private employ
ment agencies, and Wisconsin extend
ed the facilities for public employ
ment agencies"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
Sara Conboy, Labor Leader,
Dies at Home in Brooklyn
Following Throat Operation

By International Labor News Service.
New York City.-Mrs. Sara Agnes
Conboy, one of the best known women
trade unionists in the United States,
for the last IL years secretary treas
urer of the United Textile Workers of
America, died after a short illness
January z at her home in Brooklyn,
at the age of 81.
Mrs. Conboy had been i'll a little
more than four days with a throat
ailment that was not considered dam
gerous. An operation was performed,
and she appeared to be recovering
when a fatal cerebral bloodclot devel-
oped. Funeral services were held in
st. Edmund's Church, Brooklyn. Bur-
ial was in Boston, her birthplace.
Mrs. Conboy, as Sara Mclaughlin,
was II years old when her father
died, leaving his wife with five young
children. Sara and her older brother
had to go to work, the girl entering
a candy factory. She later made but
tons, and then became carpet
weaver.
Won Her First Strike
She married Joseph P. Conboy, a
Boston letter carrier, whose death
left her with baby girl to support
and forced her to return to the loom.
A strike, caused by wage reductions,
started in her carpet factory in Rox-
bury, and she at once became the
leader of the $50 women strikers and
kept them together throughout an un-
usually severe winter until the en-
ployers gave in. This success led to
her appointment as general organ
izer of the United Textile Workers,
and for some years thereafter her
time was largely devoted to travelling
from one textile center to another,
organizing the workers.
| A forceful and engaging personal
ity, tact, humor and her absolute de-
votion to the cause of union labor
made Mrs. Conboy an ideal organizer.
Her popularity in the trade union
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
NATIONS PROSPERITY
BASED ON HIGH WAGES

Duluth.-Good wages is the key to
prosperity, says the Duluth News
Tribune in editorial support of organ
lied labors theory of high wages.
Zone of the best indications of
prosperity and the surest method of
making it permanent is to guarantee
every man steady employment at fair
wages" says this publication. "If
workers and farmers are assured
steady and ample buying power, if
they have money to spend for things
beyond the bare necessities, if every
family can enjoy modern facilities and
raise it's standard of living to the
ideal American level, then business
will be good and industry will flour
ish.
"Low wages will not bring pros
perity to the man who receives them
or to the man who pays them"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20

world has not been equalled by that
of any other woman. Samuel Com
pers did not hesitate in choosing her
to christen the Afel, the United
States shipping board vessel whose
name stands for the initials of the
American Federation of Labor.
Appointment From Wilson
Mrs. Conboy was one of the five
women appointed by President Will
son to the Council of National De-
fense in the World War, and the only
woman representing labor AS dele
gate of the A. F. of L. to the British
Trades Union Congress of 1920, she
established a precedent, being the
first woman to thus represent Amer
ican labor.
In 1921 she was one of four women
summoned to Washington by Presi-
dent Harding for the unemployment
conference. In May, 1928, with the
opening of the Federation Bank in
this city, Mrs. Conboy became the
first woman bank director in New
York state.
She also had been member of the
executive board of the national COM
mission on prisons and prison labor,
chairman of the advisory board on
vocational training in the New York
public schools, and member of the
New York housing commission. The
last appointment came from Cover
nor Smith, who often sought her ad-
vice on legislation affecting labor, and
was among the first to send a mes
sage of coincidence to the house.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20

stand examination, however skillful
their construction.
"This country is receiving suffi-
cient new blood under present laws.
1t has a surplus of labor as it is.
We are told that the trouble with the
coal industry is that there are too
many mines and too many miners.
Half the mines and half the miners,
working steadily, would be sufficient
to supply the country with its fuel.
"The report of the federal depart
ment of agriculture only a few days
ago noted a continuation of the mi
grafton from farm to city. Despite
the reduction in acreage and farm
labor, farm products exceed the de-
mand of consumers and prices are
low. The competition of domestic
labor in southern states, working for
wage scales considerably under those
paid in New England, is being felt
in radical curtailment of employment
in textile mills. The truth appears
to be that right now we have too
large surplus of labor, which is
being added to with every improve
ment in machinery and method. 1t
would invite disaster to lower the
immigration bars at this time"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
THE WRONG KIND!
A FABLE
BY VICTOR A. OLANDER
With apologies to Aesop

THE Animals of the Forest decided Organize against
the Tyranny of the Lion They proclaimed the slogan,
I'm Union there is Strength"
The Lion retired to his cave whence he announced
that he had Reformed He agreed that the Animals should
Unite but said he would give them Better than
which was being formed by the Agitators
The Goat decided that the Lion going to be Good
and went into the The Sheep followed dsregarding
the warning of his fellows Then the Calf went in After
while the Lion looked out and saw the Fox who was
Picketing the entrance.
"Why don't you in with the others?" said the
Lord of the Jungle, ngratiatingy.
"Tm afraid" replied the Fox, that the kind of Unity
you have brought about agreeable you than to
them"
"Well" said the Lion complacenty, licking his chops
"they certainly made excellent Steww
Moral: Beware the Company Union!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20

BY International Labor News Service
New York City.-New laws to pro-
tect the safety, health and efficiency
of labor, which were enacted in 1927
by the forty-four states that held leg
islative sessions and by congress, in
clude an important extension of work
mems accident compensation of work
ers in all states in employments
hitherto unprotected, and notably in
creased benefits under existing acts
together with advances in old age
pensions, coal mine safety, maternity
protection ard vocational rehabilita
tion of crippled workers, according to
an annual survey just completed by
the American Association for Labor
Legislation.
"Of outstanding Importance in the
past years output of protective labor
laws" says John B. Andrews, secre-
tary of the association, "is the fed
eral accident compensation law for
longshoremen. This new act of con-
gress covers harbor workers in all
parts of the country for death and in
jury not covere dby state laws when
the injury occurs on board vessel at
the dock. Congress greatly increas-
ed the weekly payments under the
accident compensation law for federal
employees. 1t continued until June
1929, the act for .federal-state coop
Grafton in maternity and infancy pro-
lection.
Compensation Laws Liberalized
More than a score of states liberal
lied certain of the benefits provided
in their accident compensation laws,
with substantial increases in the scale
of compensation payments. New York
increased the weekly maximum pay
ments in cases of total disability from
$50 to $25. Idaho created second
injury fund to protect employers who
give work to handicapped workers
Thre states - Maryland, Michigan
and Illinois-provided extra compen-
sation, to be paid by the employer
for children who are injured while
illegally employed.
Maryland and Wisconsin took pio-
neer action in extending the protec-
ton of accident compensation to con-
victs. South Carolina accepted the
federal vocational rehabilitation act
leaving only seven states that have
not adopted federal-state cooperation
in rehabilitating industrial cripples
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
Amalgamated Wins Reversal
OF 1926 Court Injunction

riod, the decision means, if it means
anything, that the more recent at
tempts of the Interborough to enjoin
3,500,000 members of the A. F. of L.
must fail. The Interborough can not
meet the tests laid down by the court.
1t is, in my judgment, caught on a
two-horned dilemma.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20

not complete, inasmuch as the decree
is reversed only in part. The court
orders the motion RENTED to the
lower court "in order that it may ex-
ercise it's discretion as to whether an
injunction of more limited scope
should be issued upon the facts con-
tined in this record"
The plea for an injunction against
the Amalgamated and against the
American Federation of Labor and all
of its members will come up for ar
guments on January %, with counsel
for labor, it is understood, ready to
proceed, heartened in some measure
by the reversal of the 1926 decree
and it's remission for rehearing.
Labor Men See Victory
Labor men available here today
commented as follows for the Inter-
national Labor News Service:
Hugh Frayne, general organizer
and eastern representative, A. F. of
L.: The decision is victory for labor
and for the courts, which are relieved
of the necessity of transacting busi-
ness which the |. R. T. should do for
itself with it's employees.
James HI. Coleman, Garments or
ganizer: Mr.. Quackenbush has moth
ing to say. l don't blame him for not
talking. If | were in his place /
wouldn't talk. (Quackenbush is 1. R.
T. counsel.)
B. A. Larger, secretary, United
Garment Workers: The decision is
something more than a victory. 1t is
an indication that in at least one
state the highest court approaches la
Dor problems intelligently.
John J. Leary, Jr., industrial edi-
tor, The World: Read in the light of
the Excelsior Bakery case affirming
the right of unions to recruit, and
bearing in mind the declaration of the
court that wage contract must be
freely" made and for definite pc
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20
JOHN O'NEILL PASSES ON

Columbus, Ohio-John H. O'Neil,
fifth vice president of the Molders'
international Union, died in a local
hospital as the result of an automo-
bile accident. For 40 years he was a
member of the Molders' Union. He
was responsible for the passage of
the Work anti-convict labor law in
thic state
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-20

Every union label idea dropped into
an ear will bear fruit some time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-26
Pupils Barely Escape
Death When Fire Races
Baltimore Boys School

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 25.-The
lives of hundreds of school children
were placed in jeopardy when fire,
breaking out at the McDonough
School for the second time within
two days, razed the wooden build
ings, almost completely destroying
the school.
The entire main building, consist
ing of the administration building
proper, and three adjoining wings,
housing over 200 students, was
wrecked.
The flames reached such proper
lions that nine hours after the fire
was discovered firemen still were
pumping water into the structure
to prevent the blaze from spreading
to the gymnasium and cottages sur
rounding the building.
The pupils attending the school
were taken out barely in time to
save them from the flames.
The school has been razed by
other less serious fires many times
in the last few years, but no attempt
was made to build new brick build
ings. The old wooden buildings
were negligently allowed to remain,
with yesterdays result.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-26
CHARGE POLES
PLAN TO seize
SOVIET UKRAINE
War Danger Looms in
Pilsudski Scheme

PARIS, Oct. 25.-A plan to aid
Poland in its attempts to form
greater Polish nation out of terri
tory seized from the Soviet Union,
is reported from German news
sources today.
Announcement of the plan, which
is scheduled to become effective
within the next few years, follows
the visit of Marshal Pilsudski to
take the cure at Rumanian watering
places where he conversed with
number of European diplomats.
The scheme, as reported in Ger
many, envisages the creation of
greater Poland out of a large sec
ton of the present Ukrainian Soviet
Republic and the White Russian
Soviet Republic between the Dnieper
and the Dniester rivers. This
seizure. would include the cities of
Minsk and Kiev and the large Black
Sea port of Odessa.
The balance of the Ukraine, with
Kharkov as the capital, would then
be organized as an Independent re-
public under French control.
The French government is re-
garded as prime instigator of the
plan, tho it is understood that the
British also back it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-26
Soviet Construction
During Next Year to
Increase 26 Per Cent

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Oct. 25.-
Construction during the next year
will present an increase of &c per
cent over last year, according to
figures announced by the State
Planning Commission.
The total expenditure in all
branches Of the economic life of the
Soviet Union is fixed ct 3,126,000,-
900 rubles, the biggest amount being
devoted to housing construction,
which will take 800,00o,000 rubles.
The remainder is fixed as follows:
Industry, 6s0,000,000 rubles; trans
port (besides that without rails),
4s5,00o,o00 rubles; agriculture, 22o,-
100000 rubles; schools, laboratories,
ETC., 203,000,000 rubles; communal
works, 175,000,000 rubles; roads,
14S,000,000 rubles; identification,
130,000,000 rubles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-26
Naval Limitation Is
Doubtful Until 1881,
Coolidge Discovers

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Chances
for successful discussion of disar-
mament are slight before 1881,
when the Washington Conference
will automatically reconvene, Presi-
dent Coolidge made it known yester-
day.
The publication of the terms of
the Anglo-French naval pact have
not brought general limitation of
ornaments any nearer, in the opin-
ion of the president.
His announcement left an impress
sion in official circles that nothing
further is to be said or done on the
subject of limitation before 1881.
The note of the American state
department to the French and Brit
ish governments last month flatly
rejected the Franco British agree
ment to limit 10,000-ton cruisers and
leave unlimited smaller cruisers and
submarines under 600 tons.
Neither France nor Great Britain
has replied to the American note.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-26
YANKEE DOODLE
IN Los ANGELES
5000 Mile Flight Ends
Fail to Lower Mark

MINES FIELD, Los Angeles, Oct.
% (UP).-The monoplane yankee
Doodle" piloted by Captain C. B. C.
Collyer, completed its nonstop
flight from New York to Los An
geles at 2:15 p. m. today, setting a
new mark from east to west across
the continent.
The plane left New York Wednes-
day at Ais p. m.
Collyer, however, failed to lower
the trans-continental flight record,
established in the yankee Doodle"
in flight from Los Angeles to New
York.
The time reported in the flight
today was unofficially announced as
" hours. The mark made in the
west-to-east flight was IS hours and
SO minutes.
The old New York-Los Angeles
record of 26 hours and so minutes
was made by Lieuts. MacReady and
Kelly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-26
BIGGER PROFITS
FOR RASKOB FIRM
General Motors Issues
Enormous Dividend
(By United Press


General Motors Corporation in the
first nine months of 1923 surpassed
all previous calendar years in the
company's history, its earnings
statement for the period revealed
today.
Earnings for the third quarter
were equivalent to SAP a share on
the 17,400,000 shares of stock out
stfnding, bringing the earnings for
the nine months tt $13.42 per share.
Ine the third quarter of 1927 earn
ings amounted to $3.75 a share and
in the fire nine months to $10.75 a
share: Earnings for the full year
Of 1927 amounted to S12.99 a share
and until the present time consti-
tuted a new record for the company