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The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-03-22

They would manage somehow to get
through the ordeal Of the morrow and
OF the expensive weeks to follow, she
thought. They always had.
When she awakened he had not re-
turned. She couldn't understand what
had delayed him.
Carricks lay stretched out on his
Overcoat on the Kitchen floor, the five
gas jets of the stove wide open. What
he had found for himself alone there
IL the night had been the hottest and
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-03-22
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Tor Sale by:
Cumberland Motor Co., Cntwood, Va.
Cumberland Chevrolet Sales Corp. Clintwood, Va.
Dickinson County Motor Co, Clintwood, Va.
Buchanan Brothers Motor Co., Clintwood and Darwin VI
Henry Della Carly, Bear Pen Gap Va.
w. j. Branham Son, Skeetrock, Va
Clinchfeld Goal Corp, Clinchco, Va.
Joe Grooms Hays, Va.
w. E. Hughes, Georges Fork, Va
Haysi Motor Co., Hays Va.
E. C. Long, Nora Va.
Mcclure Motor Co., Steinman, Va
Alex Mullins Tarpon, Va. @
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w. M Ritter Lumber Co., Mcclure and Fremont, Va
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w. H. Vanover Darwin Va.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-03-22

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toes with y Shiny new $4,000 Iimor,
SINE Is to remark in good loud tone
so that's one of those Model ASH
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-03-22

isn't only the make and the year your that
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
OHIO OPERATORS
Refuse to Confer With Coal
Miners

By International Labor News Service.
indianapolis, Ind.-Refusal of Ohio
coal operators to accept the invitation
extended by Governor Vic Donahey to
meet with the miners of that state in
an endeavor to settle the coal strike
in that district was not surprising to
the officers of the Ohio district nor
to the international officials, and
shows that the Ohio operators are
dominated and controlled by the
Pittsburgh Coal Company, which
owns much coal property in that
state.
Lee Hall, district president of the
United Mine Workers, accepted the
invitation without reservation and
was willing to cooperate with the
governor in an effort to end the sus-
pension.
The letter of the Operators Asso-
citation to the governor stated that
"such a conference would not change
or correct conditions existing" The
letter also said that several thousand
miners are now at work in Ohio "pro-
ducing 100000 tons of coal per month
under various plans to which they
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
MELLON Is SHOWN
AS Aligned With Foes Of
Miners

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.-The command
ing position of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon and of the Mellon
family millions in the ranks of the
powerful producing interests that
are fighting the organized bituminous
miners, is pointed out by the United
Mine Workers of America in state
ment supporting Senator Johnson's
resolution calling for an investiga-
ton of conditions in the soft coal
fileds.
Andrew w. Mellon, secretary of
the treasury of the United States"
says the statement, "was a member
of the board of directors Of the Pitts
burg Coal Company up to the time
that he became secretary of the treas
ury, and his brother, Mr.. R. B. Mel
ION, has been a member of the board
of directors ever since Andrew w.
Mellon resigned"
The statement also quotes an oper-
ator in the Pittsburgh district as
telling union officers that the policies
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
Long Fight By Union Leader
Brings Sweeping Gains for
School Employees in Chicago

BY International Labor News Service.
Chicago.-Following a twelve-year
fight, under the leadership of Joseph
w. Morton, vice president of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Stationary
Firemen and Oilers, more than 5000
employees of the Chicago board of edu-
cation have been taken from under
the obnoxious contract system and
placed under civil service, and with
the further result that these en-
ployes have joined their respective
unions and have had their wages rails
ed, some of them now receiving dou-
bic their former pay.
Those employees affected are 1,400
school janitors, 600 school mattresses,
$50 school stationary fremen, $50
school clerks, 40 window washers, 81
assistant engineers and 10 inspectors.
The teaching personnel is not affected.
Abolition of the contract system un-
der a state supreme court decision
forced the board of education to be-
come the direct employer of these
5000 employees. This necessitated the
appointment of someone to attend to
the matter. Michael j. Kelly, vice
president of the Amalgamated Meat
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
PANAMA TOILERS
Protest Request For Inter.
yentiOn

BY International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.-The National
Center of Workingmen of the Repub-
lie of Panama has sent to President
William Green, of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and the Pan
American Federation of Labor, a pc
tition which in part reads as follows:
"This organization, integrated by
1000 workingmen and laborers of all
the republic, protests in the most
energetic manner against the request
made by the ex-president, DR.. Bell
sario Porras, for intervention or su-
pervision in the next presidential cleo
tions by the United States govern
ment.
"This labor entity, as we'll as all
the similar institutions affiliated to
this organizations, do not see the
need of intervention or supervision
of foreign government in the next
election for president, deputies and
aldermen.
''The present president, Don Rodol-
fo Chiari, is national guarantee as
well as a guarantee for all the parties
which have their aspirations in the
present electoral campaign.
"In no epoch have we had, since the
separation from Columbia, The guaran-
tee and liberty in electoral affairs,
judicial and administrative, as those
which exist now"
AS this matter has already been
under the consideration of the Pan
American Federation of Labor and
the government of the United States,
through the secretary of state, has
already emphatically stated that no
supervision of the elections in Panama
is contemplated by the government of
the United States, it is believed that
the general elections of Panama will
be free from any kind of intervention
by the American government.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27

Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America, was therefore ap-
pointed director of labor for the board
of education
"Joe" Morton, who is responsible
Cor this notable victory, is also presi-
dent of Local No. z of his organiza-
tion and vice president of the Illi-
nois State Federation of Labor for
many years.
Morton began his fight by the in
PRODUCTION of resolution at the San
Francisco convention of the American
Federation of Labor in 1915. From
then on he doggedly stuck to the job
right up to the 1927 A. F. of L. con-
vention, held at Los Angeles.
Court Actions Won
The battle was directly won through
court action, under Morton's leader
ship. Suit was filed in the Cook
county courts to compel the board of
education to abolish the contract sys-
tenn and install civil service. Morton
won in the lower courts and the de-
cision was sustained by the state
supreme court.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
Labor Puts Injunction Issue
Squarely Up to New York Courts

Transit Company Employees; that they
want labor organization of their
own"
Since he joined the Amalgamated,
he says, he has been constantly
watched by spies and has been called
on the carpet for supposed infractions
of the company's safety rules and the
like
The unions lawyers are going into
court cheered by the court of appeals
decision throwing back the injunction
obtained by the |. R. T. in its first
suit-against the independent union
which engineered the strike of 1926
before the Amalgamated acme into
the situation. While this decision did
not involve the individual contract it
was nevertheless a big victory for
labor.
Decision Cheers Senator Wagner
Senator Wagner wired from Wash
ngton to President Green in Miami:
"No important judicial pronounce
ment in more than decade has had
such beneficent implications in favor
of labor At last we have a definite
determination that the doctrine of the
Hitchman case is not law in New
York. In view of the growth of COM
pany unionism and the spread of the
yellow dog contract this is of unlim-
tied significance"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
NEW YORK TEACHERS
WIN

New York.-Organized teachers,
affiliated to the A. F. of L., have won
a two-year fight for the appointment
of DR.. Abraham Lefkowitz as first
assistant in the high school of Com
merce. DR.. Lefkowitz ranked first in
list of II eligible teachers, but was
refused appointment on the ground
Of radical tendencies"
Organized labor joined with other
citizens against such sweeping powers
assumed by the board of supervisors,
who based their decision on generali-
cations rather than specific charges.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
Woll Urges Business Men
To Demand Of Soviets End
OF Red Propaganda in U. S,

By international Labor News Service.
New York City.-A new blow at
soviet propaganda in this country
through the Russian pocketbook-has
been urged upon American business
men dealing with Russia in letter
written by Matthew Woll, vice presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, in his capacity as acting presi-
dent of the National Civic Federation.
The letter was written to the Amer
ican- Russian Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Woll cited resolution adopted
December ID at the annual meeting
of the National Civic Federation
which closed with these words: eve
appeal to the American commercial
interests now dealing with the soviet
regime of Russia to demand of that
government the suppression which it
is now promoting in the United
States"
Ask Use of Influence
1t is IN pursuance Oh unlS resoiu-
tion," the letter went on, "that we
are appealing to you, not to discon-
tinue trading with the soviet gov
ernment but to use your powerful in
fiuence in demanding and in causing
that government to cease the propa
ganda campaign which, as pointed out
in the resolution, it is carrying on in
this country.
"You will note that our concern is
not about what the soviets are doing
in Russia but about what they are
doing and are attempting to do in the
United States at the very time when
they are sending commissions here to
beg loans and credits which in turn
may be used by them to further their
revolutionary programs"
Credits Help Propaganda
Business men who grant credits to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27

and their employers have agreed, and
at wages acceptable to them" Miners
scout the production statement as
without foundation, and it is directly
opposed to the statement of Governor
Donahey, based on observations made
by his own personal observers, that
the extended coal strike "has affected
detrimentally the entire business
structure of the communities involv-
ed" and caused untold suffering and
destitution among the citizens of the
coal districts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
Union Lawyers Center Fire
On Company Union Contract
Workers Charge Fake Organization Established By Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company Permits Employers
to Dictate Wages and Working Conditions.

/ for definite term-tWo years-and
so the issue is clearly raised in this
case.
| Employers Given Unfair Advantage
Labor's stand-familiar by this
time-is that the company union
form of individual contract is not a
freely made contract between two
equal parties, but lop-sided affair
in which the employer gains every
thing and gives really nothing.
Specifically, in the |. R. T. case, the
unions answer charges that the con-
tract under which the company union
operates, while it pretends to assure
the workers collective bargaining, ac-
tually permits the company to die
tate wages and working conditions
and asserts that the committeeman
who are supposed to represent the
workers are controlled by the Inter
borough and are actually paid by it.
The two-year contract, the answer
charges, is legally void because the
employees were intimidated into sign
ing it under fear of losing their jobs; !;
while it purports to guarantee en-
ployment, workers have been dis
charged without cause; it is unjust
because the company assumes no OBJ
legation, whereas the worker does; /;
and finally, it denies the employees
their constitutional rights of free
speech, in that it prohibits unham-
pered discussion of the trade union
question.
Unions Charge Nationwide Plot
The whole company union scheme,
the unions charge in conclusion, was
part of a nationwide conspiracy to
destroy organized labor. In this
scheme, they assert, the company had
the aid of Ivy Lee, press agent for
the Rockefeller and other powerful
interests. And in carrying it out, the
charge is made, the company has
spied on the men (making false re-
turns to the transit commission to
cover up the sums spent for detective
work.; it has discharged men who
have decided to join the Amalgamat-
ed Association; it has spent large
sums to destroy the Amalgamated; !;
and by replacing experienced men,
bers of the bonafide union with green
workers it is endangering the lives of
the millions who ride daily on the
subway and al" trains of New York.
AS to the sentiment of the |, R. T.
men themselves, listen to this from
the affidavit of William j. Thompson,
defendent in the action. Thompson
is veteran, who went to work for
the Interborough in 1908. He walked
out in the 1926 strike but was taken
back
Workers Want Own Organization
"The statement" he says, "that the
employees do not want the Amalga-
mated Association is absolutely un-
true. l myself have secured many
men to join the Amalgamated and all
these men have joined voluntarily" !"
He adds: "There are many other men
who would join the Amalgamated As
sociation but are afraid to join be-
cause of the intimidation and the
spies. / know that almost every one
of the men are dissatisfied with the
Brotherhood Of Interborough Rapid
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27

Russia for ordinary business pur-
chases may not realize that they are
helping to finance propaganda, Mr..
Woll continued, but they are Indirect
ly nevertheless because their credits
enable the soviet, he said, to release
funds, which it had accumulated for
trade, to the organizations which are
boring from within"
These propagandists have not made
alarming headway, he said, but they
are continually at it. "Their destruc-
tive programs" Mr.. Woll asserted,
ARE prompted not only in the labor
field but in all the foreign born and
negro groups for the purposes of in
flaming them against our government
and our institutions. Furthermore,
they are promoting plans for boring
into the army and navy, the schools
and churches-in short, every insti-
tuition of our country is to be attack
ed in the interest of communism.
This is done largely through such or
ganizations as the workers (commun-
ist) party of America, the Trade
Union Educational League, the chill
dren's section of the Communist In
ternational of Youth, the American
Negro Labor Congress, the Amer
lean Council for the Protection of the
Foreign Born and various alleged and
so-called relief organizations"
Conference Is Asked
Finally, Mr.. Woll requested the
American Russian Chamber of Com
merce to meet with the Civic Fedora
tion's committee on Russian affairs
"that we may present to you in docu
mentary form the evidence on which
is based the resolution adopted at our
annual meeting and which causes US
to make the appeal for your power
full aid"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
By Staff Correspondent, international
Labor News Service

By Staff Correspondent, international
Labor News Service
New York City.-Catching up the
challenge of the powerful traction in
terests of New York city, American
labor is about to fight to a decision
in the highest court of this state the
issue of organized labor against the
company union and the individual con-
tract.
This question, which, with the in
junction that always goes with it, is
the greatest legal issue harrassing
labor today, has never been squarely
put before the court of appeals of
New York state in case involving
all the legal tricks to which employ
ers have learned to resort.
Issue Is Now Squarely Joined
The case of the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company against the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees joins
the issue squarely; and there is no
doubt that it will go all the way up
to the court of appeals for final
decision.
Labor is ready-and it will make
its fight on the broad grounds of eco
nomic and social justice as we'll as
on legal technicalities.
By the time this is in print the case
will have been argued before justice
of the New York supreme court, in
this state, the court in which labor
injunction cases are started. Labor's
defense, prepared by Nathan d. Perl
man and associate counsel, will have
been argued by United States sena-
tor, Robert F. Wagner. The unions
formal answer to the |. R. 7. COM
plant, with attached affdavits, will
have been presented = they fill two
thick printed books, totalling more
than 1900 pages.
Two Divisions to LabOr's Answer
This answer falls into the two main
divisions: G) The broad statement of
labor's true aims and its reasons for
fighting company unions," backed up
by affidavits of President Green, of
the A. F. of L.; President Mahon, of
the transit union, and other labor
men, and by expert analyses of the
economic and social issues involved,
submitted by eminent economists
and (2) the particularized attack on
the l. r. T.'s contract" with it's men,
charging fraud and duress, all back
ed up by affidavits of the workers
themselves.
The big legal point at issue is the
individual contract of employment. 1t
is a commonplace of law that it is
illegal to induce a person to violate a
contract; and in the famous Hitchman
coal case the United States supreme
court decided that labor union could
not organize such workers who had
signed contracts not to join such a
union. In this state the court of ap-
peals decided in the Exchange Bakery
case that where the contract did not
specify a definite time of employment
labor unions could try to persuade
employees to join. A few months ago
the Interborough, however, rounded
up its workers and had them sign up
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27
.OUT-OF-WORK IN
SURANCE FAVORED
BY UNIONISTS

Vancouver, Canada.-The Trades
Council favors a federal unemploy-
ment insurance act. The resolution
states that unemployment is a prob
lem of national character and can
not be satisfactorily dealt with by
provincial or municipal authorities.
The Dominion government is
urged to enact laws providing for
the creation of a state unemployment
insurance fund, by assessments on
industries similar to provincial COM
pensation funds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-01-27

of the Pittsburgh Coal Company are
dominated and controlled, directly or
indirectly, by the Mellon banking in
terests of Pittsburgh and that if he
recognized the union and paid the
wages he was ready to pay they
would ruin him.
In connection with the foregoing
statements, union miners direct at
tention to the fact that the Pitts
burgh Coal Company is the leading
foe of the organized miners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-11
When the Winds Call

high school lad was picked up pennless, in New
York the other day. He had run away from his
middle western home to go to sea; and he confded
to the officers who took him in tow that it was all the
fault of the west wind.
He didn't exactly put it that way, Of course What
he said that every morning he went about his
tasks his fathers farm. the wind came sweeping
in the meadows clear and odcrous with the whey
scent of country dawn.
It stirred strange longings in his breast; his at
tempted fight to sea was an effort to realize those OBJ
scure urges.
He was given railway ticket and sent back home.
He may see salt water again. But the wind
probably will continue to torment him.
1t is one of the little spurs with which the earth
rowels her children now and then, so that they may
not be content to become clods or automatons.
There are many similar little spurs in this life
things that stir to sudden ongngs for escape that
persuade us that there rich experiences in the
world which our daily lives miss.
Yet to yield to these moods-to run away to sea, as
this farmers boy dds to miss the point entirely
Consider the farmers boy for minute. He stands
in dewy pasture, just as dawn, and the morning
breeze sweeps in him and makes him feel that there
far places and great events awaiting him else
where; so he wants to go to sea.
Yet if he should become a sailor, and ship for
singapore or SOcoCra, ne WOulQ pc DeCter Inc
wind and the dawn would still deude him, though his
ship were anchored at Mandalay itself
For the truth is that these disquietng hints given
us by nature are ends in themselves. They are not
meant to be acted on, for that is impossible
When you look down your street on quiet moon
light night and the familiar is TRANSPORTED,
that you feel that life somehow ought to be richer and
beautiful than you have found it-that, in it
self, is enough.
Unless you are more fortunate than most you never
will be able to indulge the wanderlust that fresh
morning inspires but feel your heart beat in unison
with the morning is sufficient.
The SAVIOR of life is made up Of just such trifes
To be able to catch the hints that nature throws out
even if you can not act on them-that is the secret
That brings conviction that the earth is lovely 1t
brings understanding measure of deliverance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-11
SAYS:

NEW YORK, July 11.-Acts Of
L Y heroisnl. alleged and other
wise, figure prominently in the news.
A girl dares a society man to jump
from the deck of a liner, and he
does, giving her more of a kick than
she bargained for and a lot of other
people unnecessary trouble.
A Brooklyn real estate man, re-
GREETING mistakes, of which he did
not make enough to prevent the ac-
emulation Of large fortune, and
fancying himself a coward, commits
suicide to prove that he was capable
Of "one brave act"
On June 80 five men and one
woman left New York in the Rofa,
a ftfty-foot yacht, on a race to
Spain. 1t was a venture that called
for pluck, and the fact that it re-
suited in a shipwreck that might
have proved faUal but for a timely
rescue, does not alter its character
in this respect.
Six weeks ago, Gen. Umberto
Mobile and seventeen companions
flew over the north pole only to en-
counter headwinds and crash against
a mountain on their return trip.
Ever since that disaster, their strug-
gle for life and the various attempts
to rescue them have led to match
less chain of heroic deeds.