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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
CHIsOx OUTsLUG TIGERS

Detroit - Three Detroit pitchers
failed to check a White Sox comeback
and the Tigers were defeated, Z to 3.
r. II. Z.
Chicago ..........11O OBJ 11O-7 IL 0
Detroit .........O1 020 O00-3 8 l
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06

Observation-Disclosures battlers
pounded three Boston pitchers for IL
hits to defeat the Red Sox, 4 to I.
r. H. E.
Boston ...........O 900 900 1901 6 0
Philadelphia .....100 900 12x- IL o
Durham, Kline, III. Moore and Berry;
EarnshaW and Cochrane.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
Little Man Wins

1.-THE big rowdy declared Frost was
yellow, and was havin' things pretty
much his own way for a few minutes;
but Frost came back directly, and said
he was ready to accept the challenge.
"The crowd formed q ring around
'em, and they started right in fight
ing. It took Frost only about three
:rinutes to cut that teller down to
his own size and put him to sleep.
When it was over, somebody asked
Frost why he backed out when the
big guy challenged him in the first
place.
Frost replied: You don't s'pose I
wanted to break my hands on that big
stiff when I'm in training for the
hardest fight O. my life? I had to go
get my gloves to protect my hands
they were in my coat pocket at the
hotel!'
"Prizefighters have always been
peaceable men, but sometimes they
have been forced to fight outside the
ring. At Cass Lake, Minnesota, Billy
Rhode stepped into a fracas to save
4 friend, and broke his arm on the
head OF his opponent. It left Billy a
cripple for nearly a year, but he al
ways had a place to eat and sleep, as
long as his pal, the 'Swede,'' was
working at the old trade.
"A short while after Billy broke
hts arm, the two heavyweightS, Jack
Beaucholte and Tom Arnold fought at
Cass Lake to settle the heavyweight
championship of the iron range. The
'Swede' was put on the same card for
a around boxing exhibition against
an unknown, and Billy Rhode went
In as the 'Swede's' second. The un-
known was a tall, consumptive lookin'
freak, but was SO fast and clever that
for two rounds he made the North
Dakota lad look foolish. When the
round ended, Billy whispered into his
Pals cal, You dumbbell-can't you
Gee that guy is tryin' to knock you
out? Wade in an clean emf
Fred Moore Conquered
"The kid acted on instructions, and
before the round was half over he
had done what Sailor Sharkey once
did to Kid McCoy-he had put him
down and out with bigger and better
punches.
1T turned out that the unknown
was Fred Moore, the mysterious boxer
who had given a lot of North Dakota
fightin' men a lot of trouble q year
or two before"
"Only On M occasion did I ever
hear of these boys making use OF
what might be called Kid Mccoy
methods in the ring. The Duluth
Eagles pulled off a clambake al
Sparta, Wisconsin, and the only man
they could find to match up with the
SWede' was a colored light-heavy
named John Ramsey. who had train
I'd Leblanche foGi his fight with Nor
Par Dempsey, the time Leblanche K,
Cd Dempsey in one round with a
pivot blow.
1.-The colored gent would fight only
winner take all, and the Swede
wouldn't go OF those terms. Billy
Rhode knew they had to fight OF
starve, 50 at the last minute he told
his pal: You go On and fight the
! big smoke-ITl fix it for you to win.'
when all was set and the fightin'
gloves had been duly inspected, Rhode
slipped a little pouch of shot into the
Swede's' right fist before pulling on
the glove. The colored boy quit III
the 5th round, after absorbin' a lot Of
punishment. On the way back the
sports jeered the colored lad for los
ing. He replied: You t'ink dat
Swede can't hit!-you just 60 up agiu
MIN onct!'
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06

An oft-neglected, but very impor-
tant, item in the golf swing Is bal
ance. Many times you perhaps have
seen golfers rise to their toes at the
impact of club with ball. This is I'M
possible to do and retain balance. It
causes one to fall into his shot, neces-
stating a step forward with the right
foot soon after the ball is hit.
Walter Hagen once said that only
one heel should leave the ground at a
time in the swing. BY settling well
back on the heels in the address you
will find yourself in a more comfort
able position both for the backswing
and the downswing. This also pro-
notes relaxation.
Notice In illustration of star golfers
how the left heel is firm on the
ground at the moment Of impact.
Better still, notice this when you see
a star performer in action.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06

Travea Waner, cousin Of Paul and
Lloyd Waner, big league ball players,
Is IN. independent basketball star In
|oklahoma.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06

One athletic exhibition, featuring
wrestling. attracted more customers
at Amarillo, Tex, than three grand
opera programs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06

COMPLETE TUESDAY SCHEDULE
No other games were scheduled in
the National league Tuesday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
CLAMOR OF RING BATTLES
Will Last for Many Long Years
SAYS OID.TIME SPORTSMAN

Editors Note: This Is the last
of a series of stories written for
the Tribune by a real Old-timer
in North Dakota who always has
been interested in sport and
sporting contests
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
GAMEs

AN other Games In the American
association were postponed because Of
rain and wet grounds.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
LEAGUE
X ASSOCIATION
TUESDAYS RES
American League

New York, IS; Washington, S
Cleveland, IL; st. Louis, s.
Chicago, z; Detroit, 8.
Philadelphia, 4; Boston, I.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06

Chicago, 8; Cincinnati, I.
Boston, 5; Philadelphia, 4.
New York, 8; Brooklyn, 0.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06

American Association
Columbus, s; Milwaukee, 4.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
FORMER UNION
Hosiery Mill Reopens With
NOn-UniOniSts

Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS)-Hiring
strikebreakers from out of town, the
Schletter & Zander full fashioned
mill of this city opened this week
after several months shutdown and
utterly ignored their own ex-workers,
a number of whom are being support
ed by the union through its relief
committee. For ten years at least
the Schletter & Zander mill, normally
employing some 600 people, had been
union shop. Reorganization of the
Brown-Durell jobbing firm, through
which the mill had sold it's goods,
caused shutdown of the plant late
in the spring. Since that time the
workers have had to shift as best
they could. A large proportion of the
force have loafed since then and a
number are seriously up against it
and would be destitute but for the
assistance the Philadelphia branch of
the American Federation of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers was able
to render.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02

Cleveland, o. GLNS)- Members
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men and the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen have
agreed to reduce their monthly mile
age to provide work for unemployed
members of the two organizations.
The reduction of mileage reduces
the wages of those sharing their jobs
with the unemployed, as payment is
on monthly mileage basis.
Arthur F. Whitney, president of the
trainmen, announced that the plan of
his organization is now in operation
on IL lines.
Negotiations are under way, he
said to extend the plan to all the
railroads of the country. Even if
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02

persons were at work for each 100
employed in the base year, while the
payroll total was $105 for each $100
paid during 1926
The index of 1928 is higher than
that Of 1929 when Industrial output
was the highest in history. By COM
parison with 1923, therefore, the
prosperous year of 1929 shows some
unemployment. This is in line with
findings of the United States Census
Bureau, which reports that in recent
years the number of wage earners on
manufacturing payrolls is smaller
than 10 years ago despite the fact
that output has increased steadily
since 1920. Workers thrown out of
employment by the introduction of
improved machinery have not been
finding work in new industries as fast
as they needed positions, it is indi-
Gated. This accounts for a certain
proportion of the present unemploy-
ment which is thus shown to be not
wholly due to economic depression.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
HOOVER SAYS:
prevailing Wage Rate" Is
u. S. Policy

Washington, D. C. QLNS)-Presi-
dent Hoover this week announced
that it will be the policy of the United
States government to require con-
tractors on government work to pay
the rate of wages prevailing in their
communities.
Trade union officials look with
some hope to the future, in view of
this announcement, while holding that
in the past there have been breaches
of this policy in notable instances.
The President pointed to the white
house conferences in which mainte-
nance of wage rates was agreed upon.
He said the example of industrial
leaders in maintaining wages had
been followed by the government,
with what he termed minor excep-
tions, and these, he said had been
corrected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
BUILDING WORKERS
REDUCE WEEK TO
AID UNEMPLOYED

Fort Worth, Tex. (ILNS)-Skilled
building craftsmen of Fort Worth,
numbering more than 700, have
agreed with contractors to work only
four days a week to relieve unem-
ployment. 1t is estimated that about
$50 men can be put to work through
this sacrifice of employed men CIV
ing up day and half of their five
and half days of weekly work. Sheet
metal workers also have agreed to
work on a four-day basis to give their
workers a chance to earn some
money.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
Factory Employment and
Payrolls Loluest in Years

State Mediator L. Hines arranged the
conference.
William F. Kelly, first vice presi
dent of the United Textile Workers
of America, says that wages in the
Duplan mill are lower than in any
important silk weaving plant in the
East and earnings are in many in
stances even less than those of the
Danville, Va, workers. Adult work
ers are taking home as little as $8
and SO per week, while children are
earning Sc and 81 per week. Adults
are being laid off and minors between
Ia and 16 hired
The company has laid off 750 EN-
ployes during the year as aresult of
installing crude stretch-out system
of the same type that has caused so
many strikes in Southern mills. The
average task of the 1000 employees at
work when the shutdown took place
was increased 40 per cent by the
operation of the stretch-out system.
Three reductions in pay have been
made during the present year.
According to financial reporters the
Duplan is one of the two best finan-
cially fixed silk plants in America,
and story was carried in the New
York papers recently telling of the
retirement of some $150,000 worth of
preferred stock out of surplus.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
RAILROAD UNIONS
MAY JOIN A.F. OF |

Cleveland, Ohio ILNS)-Propos-
ais for affiliation of the four big rail
road brotherhoods, numbering about
100000 members, with the American
Federation of Labor, are under con-
sideration, it was revealed here by
A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
81 do not think there are any insur-
mountable obstacles in the way of an
agreement" statement by Whitney
said. "Time has brought about bet
ter feeling and there are possibilities
for an affliation."
President Whitney, James A. Far
quharson, legislative representative
and S. R. Harvey, assistant presi-
dent, will confer with a committee
of American Federation of Labor of
fcials within a short time, it was an
nounced.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
November Index Shows
Big Drop From Year Ago
Figures Indicate Some Unemployment in Prosperous 1929
Due to Displacement of Workers by Improved
Machinery.

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Em-
ployment and payrolls in manufactur-
ing industries dropped to the lowest
point in years in November, accord
ing to the index of the United States
department of labor.
The index figure for employment
fell to n and that for payrolls to 68.
In November, 1929, the corresponding
figures of the index were 95 for en-
ployment and 95 for payrolls. These
figures are relative to a base of 100
points which represents the average
number of workers and average ag-
gregate payrolls in the II months of
1926.
The index thus means that in No
vember, 1880, the number of wage
earners employed was n to each 100
who were working in 1926. The total
payroll of November, 1880, was in the
ratio of S68 for each 500 disbursed
in 1926.
In 1928, the index shows that 107
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
COUzENS CONDEMNS
Wage Cutters Who Would
Destroy elf-Respect

Washington.-Sen Couzens lost
his fight to have the administrations
100000 construction bill include
a provision for the prevailing wage
in that locality, the eight-hour day
and employment of local labo +.
Il certainly am licked in this case"
declared the Michigan lawmaker who
expressed willingness to have the
bill defeated to find out how far the
state and federal governments are
willing to go in the depression of
wages"
"As far as | am personally concern
ed," he said, Il would be perfectly
willing to have the bill defeated in
preference to giving contractors
$116,000,000 for the purpose of de-
pressing wages. In other words, the
$116,000,000 is only a drop in the
bucket, but it is enough to enable
them to go out and tempt thousands
of unemployed to surrender their self
respect and accept whatever wage the
contractor sees fit to pay.
If it is necessary in this country
for conditions to be worse in order
to have them get better, l am fol
making them just as bad as it is pos.
sible to make them in order to ac-
complish that result.
If that sort of thing is necessary
to waken the employers, the federal
and state governments to the neces-
sity of maintaining standards OF
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
Strikers Take Solemn Vow
To Win Union Recognition
With Upraised Hands, Thousands of Danville Workers
Pledge Faith to Continue Fight to Victory-Dra-
matte Meeting Effective Answer to Reports Walk
out Is Weakening

ing. 1t was pledge to those through
out the land who are sending help.
The words surged forth like great
poem, cadence, the courage of peo-
pie, the promise Of people and the
hope of people.
The solemnity and the sheer beauty
of this dramatic ceremony was fol-
lowed in executive meeting by re-
ports of hard, cold fact, showing how
tightly the lines have held. This cor
respondent heard the reports to that
meeting. By actual count, it can be
revealed, only eight out of 229 loom
fxers, the former total working force,
have gone back to work and of these
eight only five have remained in the
mills as strikebreakers.
Strike Grows in Strength
The strike has grown in strength as
the weeks have turned into months.
These descendants of fighting men
and heroic women grow in their con-
viction to fight until victory is won.
They do not think about giving up.
They merely wonder how long it will
take the mill owners to discover that
the union cannot be smashed.
"If there are representatives of
Harry Fitzgerald in this hail." the
meeting was told, "let them tell Fitz-
gerald that the American trade union
movement will support this trike un-
til you go back to work as union"
and the meeting roared its apprecia-
tive cheers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
RAIDER
OF BOSTON COPS
GIVES HIMSELF UP
Big CRATER in New York
and Near Boston for
Months, While Police
Claimed to be Hunting Him

Boston (ILNS)-Ollie Garrett, de-
bonair ex-vice raider of the Boston
police department, defes the world
to find the treasure he has secreted,
and which he obtained by extortion,
fraud and corruption. In five years
as raider he banked $127,000 He
has the effrontery and low measure
of public intelligence to tell the world
he is "broke."
Garrett, for whom the Boston po-
lice were Searching" for about four
months, walked into the Charles
street county Jail in Boston and gave
himself up. He had been in New York
city and in Franklin, Mass, near
Boston, most of the time. While in
New York he was with a notorious
white slave and narcotic gang.
The hunt for Garrett cost Suffolk
county approximately $4,000. Bos-
ton policemen, high and low, claimed
to be securing the country" seeking
him. 1t is quite evident nobody in the
Boston police department wanted to
locate the elusive Garrett, who jump
ed his bonds, which had been placed
at ridiculously low figure when one
considers the 101 counts against the
policeman who was posing as re-
former of public morals and, stimuli
taneously, with the connivance of
several other policemen and politi-
clans, filling several banks with his
ill gotten wealth.
This is the police department, ex-
posed as one of the rottenest in the
world, which was set up as the ideal
by the late police commissioner, Ed
win U. Curtis, and by the then Gov
Calvin Coolidge at the time of the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
OFFICE WORKERS
UNION TO OPEN
WORK BUREAU

Philadelphia (ILNS)-The Book
keepers, Stenographers, Typists and
Assistants Union, Local No. 18049.
will open a public stenographic office.
the purpose Of which will be to secure
work for it's unemployed members.
1t is believed that number of unions
and other organizations which cannot
now afford regular office help will be
able to secure some expert assistance
through the opening of this bureau
Even during hard times organization
work is continuing and girls are be-
ing taken into the union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
Union Railway Workers
Cut Mileage to Aid Idle
BrOtherhOOds of Trainmen and Locomotive Fremen and
Enginemen Put Plan Into Operation Many Lines.

adopted on all roads, he added, it
would not care for all of the 10000
unemployed out of 10000 members.
David B. Robertson, president of
the firemen and enginemen, said that
his organization had put into effect
reductions in mileage on many roads
throughout the country, but still had
about 10000 idle out of the member
ship of 10000.
Alvany L. Johnson, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, said that the employed mem
bers of his organization had agreed
some months ago to share their work
with the idle, but he added that un-
employment among engineers was
almost negligible.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
CANE-CUTTINC
Machine Adds to Sugar
Crisis

Washington.-Cuba vast army of
unemployed is swelled by a cane-cut-
ting machine which, operated by three
men, will replace 200 men, said Ethel
bert Stewart, commissioner United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics,
writing in local newspaper.
The sugar interests Of the world
are now striving to stabilize (limit)
production, but the machines appear
ance at this time, according to Mr..
Stewart, will shatter the effect of any
agreement made by the sugar grow
ers.
"From a humanitarian point of
view," continued Mr.. Stewart, "the
machine is needed. "There is perhaps
no labor still performed by human
hands that is as hard and as labor
ious as that of cutting, piling and
loading sugar cane. Nowhere in all
the field of labor, within my expe-
rience lis machine SO needed from
a humanitarian point of view, but
its presence will be harmful to an
agreement between the growers.
The commissioner refers to the in
PRODUCTION of this machine as a
catastrophe which may make it So
cially and politically impossible to
raise sugar in Cuba.
"Thus our progress feeds our de-
spair. An industry which, taking it
by and large, has paid the least at
tention to its obligations to the world
of mankind which in every country
employs and seeks to employ the
lowest in the scale of civilization, anC
which, in every country in the world
with the exception of Hawaii, pays
the lowest wage of any industry il
that country, has produced a labo,
situation and level Of labor intelli
gence which will probably smash thu
machines as fast as they are intro
duced and reproduce the experience
of the Manchester anti-machin,
riots"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
By CHESTER w. WRIGHT

Danville, Va. (ILNS)-With up
raised hands-the hands that ran the
Dan River Mills until tyranny drove
them out on one of Americas most
heroic strikes-the members of the
striking Textile Workers Union here
stood and repeated a pledge to stay
out until union recognition is achiev-
ed.
Vice President Francis j. German,
of the United Textile Workers, led in
repeating the impressive pledge, a
pledge of loyalty, of determination,
of the will to win, regardless of how
long it takes.
The intoned pledge, recited phrase
by phrase, "on my sacred honor" and
on through the declaration, was said
by men and women whose faces could
be seen only through the sea of hands.
From the stage, where German stood,
with solemn face reciting the sternly-
worded bond, there seemed only an
endless sea of the palms of hands. 1t
was a picture of strength, token of
the impotence of mills without hands.
Conservation to Unity Voiced
The chorus came back, phrase by
phrase, in rising crescendo of sound,
pitched in the solemn key of conse-
Grafton to unity in defense Of sacred
principle.
1t was the impressive answer to
those who say the strike is weaken
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02

Boston police strike. The Curtis
regime was followed by that of Her
bert A. Wilson, who had been active
as politician. AS a result of the
exposures surrounding the Garrett
scandal, Wilson was forced out by
Gov. Frank G.. Allen. The latter ap-
pointed E. c. Huffman, also poll
tician and representative of Charles
lican boss in Boston as we'll as an at
torney. Inness is affiliated with the
Boston taxi trust, which threw the
union drivers out of work and hired
out of-towns. The police strongly
favor the trust.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
RICH SILK FIRM
Refuses Fair Wages To
Workers Who Replaced
Strikers

Hazelton, Pa. (ILNS)-The strike
against the mill of the Duplan Silk
Corporation in Hazelton is four weeks
old.
Injunction proceedings followed
conferences between union leaders
and mill officials which broke down
when it became apparent the company
did not wish to seriously consider any
conditions for settlement at the time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
HOOVER NOMINATES
THE JUDGE WHO
RULED FOR CLERKS

Houston, Tex. (ILNS) = Federal
Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., who
decided against the company union"
of the Southern Pacific railroad in
the action brought by the Brother
hood of Railway and Steamship
Clerks, has been nominated by Presi-
dent Hoover to be judge of the Fifth
Circuit court, at New Orleans. Hutche-
son was appointed to the United
States district court bench here by
President Wilson in 1918. He is a
democrat.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02

wages, then we had better go the
limit and find out just how far the
state and federal governments are
willing to go in the depression of
wages.
Il have nothing further to say, for
think know when | am licked, and
| certainly am licked in this case"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-01-02
DON'T BUDDY Me-
SOLDIER TELLS SCAB

Danville, Va. (ILNS)-A strike
breaker, passing into the Schoolfield
mill past soldier guard said
Hello, buddy; how you'all?"
Don't you buddy me, you blank
ETY., blank, blank. If it wasn't for
you, you blankety, blank, blank, /
wouldn't be here. Get the hell outa
my sight