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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16
A Brain Tester

The late .'strike,' as all
strikes do, struck other
lines Of organized labor a blow
below the belt, in the shape of
a "strike assessment" As a re-
suit a lot of union men who had
nothing to do with, and no in
terest in or sympathy for, the
rioting hoodlums, are wonder
ing what became of all the large
bills and small change taken in
by the professional agitators.
These boys are asking nasty
questions questions that sew
eral professional labor "lead-
ers' had better begin working
out a plausible answer to. They,
these old union men, are won
dering how new cars and ra-
dos appear so quickly after the
end of a strike" and in such
peculiar places. Shove your
feet under a small table, "lead-
ers" and put your corrugated
brows together for some heavy
thinking. You're going to have
Z lot Of fresh explanations to
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16

1t took our beloved ex-Mayor.
William Aye Anderson, to fer
ret out an archaic law calcu-
lated to raise taxes on firms to
such an extent they cannot COM
pete with outside industries.
And now William Aye is a can
didate for the Supreme Court.
1t we can only get enough of
those old North Dakota leaders
in League days, in the impor-
tant Offices in Minnesota, we re
going to have one of the finest
vacation States in the Union
nothing but prairies, woods.
w mps, grasshoppers, and
tourists.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16
That Free Ad

A fellow phoned one day last
week to criticise me for running
a free ad for Elwood Fitchette,
candidate for County Attorney.
He at least spoke his piece in
my ear. Perhaps there's one
or two others who had his in
clination and lacked his cour-
age-I DOM think there is, but
there may be. But this chap,
polite but scornful, asked the
inevitable question, "why?"
That's a fair question in any
mans language and especially
in that fellow chatter because
he doubled on it. He wanted to
know why, in view Of the fact
that Saturday Press carried the
political ad Of no other candi-
date.
Well it's something like this :
I know and admire Elwood
Fichette; admire him for his
ability as an attorney; for the
valiant battles he staged for
clients too poverty-st stricken to
employ defense counsel, when
he was "public defender" ]
know that he put up as brilliant
a fight for those poor devils as
though they had been million
dollar clients and I know why
he resigned as public defend
err l admire him for the cour-
age he displayed upon that &C.
casion. | admire any man who
has the courage of his convic.
tons even though I may not
agree with him.
| have but one vote and less
money. couldn't contribute
| to Fitehette's campaign fund
Men who live on crusts, give
few banquets.
Is my explanation of that
small ads space in this paper
sufficiently clear?
The Old Man.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16

make up p. d. q. which being
translated means, pronto.
The National Tea Co., a love-
ly Wall Street branch, contrib
uted the doughnuts, buns,
loaves, and possibly some Of the
fishes, but even that doesn t ex-
plain the miracle of the new
gas bus and the short wave set.
Come arunnin :" and come
clean!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16

Observers noted a sharp in
crease in printing prices under
the bids handed in to Jean
Spielman. Why not9 Only eight
bidders, and they were hand
picked. It's the old racket, and
the way the undesirable poll
tician always slipped it to the
public.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16

ers" and who put strike
guards on chain store trucks
you have a lot of guesses
com in G and they re all
wrong.
Speaking for myself, per-
sonally and not for Guilford,
who is amply able to speak
for himself, | pledge you
this:
That before I'll put the
soft pedal on a word or line
of criticism Of the class of or
ganized labor that has this
city by the throat, or lay-of
the chain store pets of these
same organized labor racket
GERS, I'll print Saturday
Press on wrapping paper and
run it off on a hand press.
And if [ never run an ad
NOR have a dollar until l
knuckle to the scum who beat
the brains out Of a helpless
MAN and then cheered his
death, I'll be a helluva long
time without ad or dollar,
believe you me.
You fellows have done
more than your part in
wrecking the Independent
merchants Of Minneapolis
and you will doubtless wreck
me, but you'll never see the
day when you can tell me
what to write, think or say.
l thoroughly understand
the economic pressure you
can bring to bear on the
small (and large) merchant,
but here's one old Mick who
has neither love, fear nor re-
spect for your wrath or your
tactics. So just keep up
your anonymous phone cam
paign and watch these col
umns. They are owned and
controlled by no clique,
gang or group and no
communist outfit, masquer-
aiding as legitimate organ
lied labor will ever dictate
one single word or line that
| write. Try and get that
fact in your narrow brain,
you human insect.
j. M. NEAR, Editor.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16

It's all very well to figure out
ways and means to increase tax
es to meet increasing public ex-
pense, but it might be better to
burn little midnight oil figur-
ing out how to reduce public
expense so taxes won't have to
be raised.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16
A Message To A Bug

An extremely loyal "union
labor" bird has been actively
engaged the last few weeks
in calling up the Independent
merchants who have had the
courage to advertise in this
paper, and have handed the
merchants a line of chatter to
this effect:
II see you are advertising
in The Saturday Press. Well,
I live in your neighborhood
and I just want to tell you
that if you want my trade or
the trade Of the rest Of us
union people in this neigh
borhood, you had better quit
advertising in that rag. Who
am II That's none Of your
business, but you'd better
quit advertising in that sheet
if you want our trade" and
bang! goes the receiver. And
the funny part Of it is, that
in many instances the bluff
has worked the merchant,
on the verge Of bankruptcy is
scared stiff at the thought Of
losing another customer so
he cancels his small ad in
the only paper in the Twin
Cities with CUTS enough to
fight his battles.
Now that's all right. I ap-
preciate the fact that "self-
preservation is the first law"
but l want to relay, through
these columns, a message to
the unknown who is using
this typically rat method Of
doing something his absent
courage effectually prevents
doing otherwise.
If you, what ever or
who ever you are, think
for a moment that your
method or your threat will
cause me Cor Guilford, for
that matter) to cease this
fight against chain stores and
chain store angels THE
alleged union labor ''lead-
ers" who purchase chain
store bread to stuff the
paunches Of alleged "strik-
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16


steadily re-employ as many men
as it had on its payroll when
you ordered them Off when
you took them from jobs and
them into buns
for ten days, plus.
You aren't yelping because
the Norris Fruit & Produce
company is employing nom
union men and discharging
union men. Your yelping be-
cause the firm can't put every
man sent out from CHIC on its
payroll. You'r assuming to
dictate to every business man
and firm as to how many en-
ployes it shall support.
Why, when you were on
strike against the Morris Fruit
4 Produce company as well as
many other companies, you said
that if you won this strike the
entire laboring class would ben
eft. You won it, didn't youg
You said you did, at least! And
now you are kicking because
the business you destroyed
won't permit the employment
OF as many men as it did BE-
FORE you "won" that strike!
You fellows said you were on
strike against the Morris Fruit
& Produce company, but you
took in the general public!
You said, in fact and effect,
to small IN er C h ants who
had been getting their fruits
| and produce from the Morris
Fruit & Produce company that
they'd have to let their custo-
mers 60 without and their
shelves remain empty-just be-
cause another fruit and
produce company had seen
fit to ignore your demands.
/ And you call that square
shooting? And now you call
it "chiseling' because a firm
that you tried to put out of
business entirely isn't able
to continue its working force to
the pre-strike maximum. That's
brains-ossified.
I'm not married to the Nor
ris Fruit & Produce company.
Never ate so much as a green
onion from that place that /
didn't pay the full retail price
for, but as long as the labor
chaps choose to hop the neck
of "Big Morris "a man who
feeds more hungry people every
month than these self-anointed
labor ''leaders" say "hello" to
in a year, I, naturally, resent
it. I believe in organized labor,
but not the guerrilla type native
to this section. I deny that la
Dor has a right to force any
business man or firm to main
tain a greater working force
than the business warrants.
I insist that labor has a right
to organize. to so-called "col-
lective bargaining" but I deny
that labor has right to coerce
any man into joining any
union and no more right to
force any individual or firm
into bankruptcy through mali
cious strike or a top-heavy pay
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1934-06-16
AND THEY CALL
IT "CHISELING"

tudt COuultlOI, QIlti IL IL WI |
fined to the Morris Fruit &
Produce company alone?
For ten days the doors of the
Norris Fruit & Produce COM
pany were closed, not by big
Morris" but by organizers i'm
ported by labor!
For ten days, while business
was being destroyed by the
hoodlums, while the small mer-
chant was being forced closer
TO the doors Of our bankruptcy
courts, labor held sway. 1t
rioted and raised hades and cut
it's own throat. 1t destroyed
/ that which it lives upon-busl-
ness! Without business, labor
would starve. 1t has nothing
to sell in the markets OF the
| world but it's brain and Drawn
and when it destroys THAT
market, it's DONE!
It's a nice and easy mouth
full to say that business couldn t
exist without labor, but a little
practice will disclose the fact
that that same mouthful is said
Just as easy the other end to.
And it doesn't require an edu-
cation in the higher brackets
to find out that when it comes
| to a survival Of the two, bust
ness is in a position to hang
on to the thread of life several
hours longer than labor. But
why destroy each other?
i Let's 60 back to the Morris
| Fruit & Produce company:
You labor fellows can't tell
me, and make me believe it,
that "Big Morris is a "chis-
eler." I've known him too
many years. He's given away
to unfortunates of every known
race and creed, more than the
average man earns in wages.
If he's dropping men from his
payroll, it's because the strik-
ers killed off the business he
| had before the strike and not
because he's "chiseler.'
| l don't know of a law that
says that any business man or
firm shall continue a payroll
at a certain point. Perhaps
some Of the labor experts"
know of such a law, but l
don't.
You labor guys opened this
subject didn't. So, let's take
the Morris Fruit & Produce
company as an illustration
that's the firm you jumped on
so let's use it:
| Let's assume that the firm
had one hundred men in its
employ when the strike started.
1t didn't lock them out. It
didn't close it's own doors. You
labor skates told those men to
quit working for the Morris
Fruit & Produce Company! You
told the Morris Fruit & Pro-
duce company that it couldn't
supply it's regular customers
with fruits and vegetables.
For ten days you refused
to allow any part Of that
firms perishable stock to
move. You preferred that it
rotted rather than be sold.
The Washington times., 1934-05-01
DULANEY SHUNS
BOXING POST

The District Commissioners
are today starting all over again
in their search for the two civil
ian members of the newly Great.
ed boxing commission.
Offered one Of the posts, H,
Rozier Dulaney. jr.. real estate
lawyer, declined with thanks,
leaving the field wide open once
more. Three others who pre-
viously refused to serve are w. W
Spaid, banker: Raymond T.
Baker, former director Of the
mint, and Major Henry Leonard,
a former Marine Corps boxer.
The Commissioners said they
will continue to weigh the merits
of all candidates, determined to
get the most outstanding men
available regardless Of their
knowledge Of boxing.
Among those having received
endorsement for the positions
which pay no salary are ]. II.
de sihour. prominent architect:
Major Harvey Miller and others.
Major Ernest w. Brown, super"
intendent of police. has already
been appointed as the police
member of the boxing board.
The Washington times., 1934-05-01
Sports Today
BASEBALL

At Griffith Stadium, Seventh
and Florida Avenue Northwest
New York VS.. washington, $3.50
p. m.
At Eastern High Stadium, Sew
enteenth and A Streets Northeast
Tech vs.. Roosevelt Gnterhigh
series game), $3.50 p. m.
At Byrd Stadium, College Park
Md.-Duke University VS.. Mary
land, 4 p. m.
GOLF
At Washington Coli and Coun
try Club, Jewell Station, Va. In
Vatation tournament, qualifying
sound.
At Chevy Chase Club, Md-The
Post tournament (women), match
play rounds.
At Beaver Dam Country Club
Iandover, Md.-Union Printcrafts
tournament.
BOWLING
At Columbia Alleys, Fourteenth
and Monroe Streets Northwest
City championships (women)
1880 p. m.
At Convention Hall Alleys, Fifth
and L Streets Northwest - City
championships (men), 7:30 p. m.
BOXING
At Portner's Arena, Alexandria
v@-Feature bout, Matte Brown
W. Bob Tow. First preliminary
500 pm.
The Washington times., 1934-05-01
N. E.. Boys Lose
In Boxing Match

Northeast Boys Club boxers lost
an amateur meet to the Oxon Hill
boys at the Northeast Boys Club.
The latter club was presented with
bathrobes with the matches. The
results:
Luke Dalton (oxon). defeated Dick
Bowler IN. E.). so pounds; Henry
Sheriff (oxon). defeated Joe RENO IN.
F.; 70 pS1nd' ,,Es.,tS EsE1 Pay So1GS} dH
pounds; Bobby Herndon IN. Ed. de-
feated Ray Shago. 80 po0nds; Louis
Papageorse IN. Ed. defeated AIRY Dris-
coll (oxonl, IS pounds; Ray Campbell
Charley Hughes IN ED, defeated Bob
Campbell (Oxon). technical x O., sec
ond round, 1l0 pounds.
The Washington times., 1934-05-01
Amateur WreStLers
To Weiqh in Fridnu

Officials In charge Of the Dis.
trict Of Columbia senior wrestling
tournament at the Y. M. c. A.
Friday and Saturday announced
today that weighing.in would take
place Friday afternoon from 1880
to 6 p. m.
Among the competitors will be
those from Gallaudet, Boys Club,
Y. M. c. A.. Oxon Hill, Fort
Humphreys. and the j. c. c. En-
try blanks may be obtained at
the Boys Club
The Washington times., 1934-05-01
MARYLAND NINE
FACES DUKE

Duke University's nine goes gun.
ming for its second victory in as
many days today when 1t takes
on Maryland at College Park at
4 o'clock. The Blue Devils prob
ably will send Connie Mack, jr.,
son of the AS manager, to the
mound.
Georgetown couldn't put out
Jimmy Thompson, former West.
ern High all-around star. and a
few other Duke batters, and, as a
result, the Blue Devils walked off
with an easy 16-to'1 triumph yes
terday at the Hoya Field.
The Washington boy went to
bat five times, and four times he
slapped out clean singles.
Lackey Harknader, on the
mound for Duke, limited the Hill
toppers to seven hits, which wasn't
enough to offset Georgetown's
poor fielding. Nestle, Spiegel and
Cuffe were no great mystery to
Duke and were cuffed for l8 hits.
The Washington times., 1934-05-01
BROWN RULING
FAVOR|TE To
BEAT TOW

Matte Brown will rule the favor.
ite tonight when Washington'S
heavyweight boxing champion.
ship finals find him pitted against
rangy Bob Tow at Porner arena
in Alexandria, Va, but at con.
siderably shorter odds than were
originally quoted in his favor
when he was matched with Tow
over a ten round distance.
Rumors that Brown would enter
the Alexandria punchbowl three
to one pick to win were rudely
dispelled today when Tow follow-
ers aplenty appeared to back their
favorite. The result is that Brown
probably will be no better than
eight to five and, in some cases,
at six to five at bell time.
Tow Sounds Off
That Tow is aroused to his
highest competitive edge was gath
cred this morning when the Alex.
andrian, obviously burning UP
over verbal blasts directed his way
by Matte. exploded
Brown talks a great fight.
But he doesn't always fight that
way.
Il held him even lin fact
thought / beat him) when / was
out Of shape and had a bad ear
last summer. He had been
working out with Bob Goodwin
and was going good then. II he
couldn't beat me at that time
how can he expect to now?"
Brown, in the interim, Cenaci.
ously sticks by his assertion that
he will knock Tow kicking, and
without difficulty. Claiming that
any one of several shots he sank
in Marty Gallagher's body would
flatten Tow in Jig time, Matte
will center his attack to the mid
section.
Meet in Semi.final
A Semi-final of eight heats
finds Pete Galiasao. Baltimore's
featherweight prize, matched with
game Leroy Dougan. Both are
tough punchers and willing
mixers.
Opening fours pit Al Dintaman
vs.. Buddy Spinner, Stanford Car"
rier vs.. Ike Fones and Matte
Palmer VS.. Walter Gum The
first bout will be called at $50
o'clock
The Washington times., 1934-05-01

All but silencing for a day the
rabid hurrahs Of the Kentucky
hardboots pulling for another
Western victory, the wonder horse
from the iodine State" loomed
today as the key racer In the six
tieth running Of the historic stake
at Churchill Downs.
His impressive arrival at the
head Of o powerful sextet Of
Eastern eligibles definitely changed
the prospect for a big field Of
Sossibly 90 starters to o select
band Of maybe as low as II.
Coupling him with Time Clock
as the Brookmeade Stables entry
indicated the latter would be
used to burn out the field by set
ting a dazzling pace. while Cav
alcade comes on to win in the
stretch.
Already he has upset the bet
ting odds, which fast on the heels
Of his record-shattering run in
the Chesapeake Stakes last Sat
urday shifted to him after flat
tering first Mata Hari and then
Sir Thomas for many weeks.
Cavalcade's brilliant speed has
been proven by equaling one rec"
ord and breaking another at
Havre De Grace. Time Clock
hested a. good field in the Florida
Derby. The prospect that these
| two fleet thoroughbreds may
team to force a killing pace sat
urday proved to make uncertain
the starting chances Of q half
dozen other derby eligtbles.
Conceded Nothing
The flashy Cavalcade was con-
ceded nothing, however. by the
hardened WeSternerS who looked
to Mata Hari, Sir Thomas. Rls'
kulus and Bazaar to check the
wave OF sentiment for Mrs. ]. D.
Sloane's colt.
Trainers OF rival stables were
quick to detect that Cavalcade
was shaky when he detrained yes
terday and that Time Clock was
nervous. Their attendants pointed
out that Cavalcade has won two
races and made long journey
by train, all in less than a week
and promised that the Eastern
star will dispel any doubt OF his
fitness with a workout today
Cavalcade Is naturally nervous
they said.
In all the IL runnings Of the
Chesapeake Stakes. which CaVal
cade captured, moreover, only one
colt, Whiskery, In 1927, has come
on to Churchill Downs and wor
the Kentucky Derby. The very
record that Cavalcade broke al
Havre de Grace was set by Mr.
Khayyam, who last year came
on to the Downs and ran un
placed in the Derby. Today the
home folk were banking big on
that same Derby jlnx.
Primed to duplicate a feat only
one other Of her sex has accom-
plished, the fleet Mata Hari was
pronounced today in the peak o1
form after a winter spent run
ming on her private track neal
Lexington. Col. e. r. Bradley
had another filly to throw
against the invaders - Bazaar
whether she will be accompanied
by Blue Again on the colonel1
bid for q fifth Derby triumph was
to be determined this afternoon.
OF all the horses arriving yes
terday from the seaboard. Agra
rian looked best. Speedmore
shipped we'll, too, and Discovery
and Singing Wood. They Joined
Sergeant Byrne, who arrived las
week. to compose the most for
midable Eastern threat-and pos
sibly the most numerous-ir
many years. Spy Hill will be
shipped from Jamaica Wednes-
day to complete the derby field
The Washington times., 1934-05-01

TO SLr1nR along Wuen the going
But the Griffmen are anything
but downhearted as they resume
their series with the Yankees to-
day after a Z to 4 lacing at the
hands Of the Gothamites yester-
day.
There was still considerable dis
cussion today anent Manager Joe
Cronin's Judgment in yesterdays
contest when he withdrew Earl
Whitehill from the mound in
favor of Jack Russell.
How They Feel
The feelings of the Griffmen
on the subject today:
''Fickle fans, these Washing.
ton supporters. One day they
cheer the guy the field over
because he happens to please
with o game-winning base hit.
The next day they boo him
numerically because they be.
leve he pulled o bOner. BAH"
Cronin'S bit Of strategy oc-
CURED in the eighth inning yes,
terday at a time when it ap-
peared that Earl Whitehill was
weakening. Hoag had singled,
Crosetti had walked and Hoag
had scored as a result of two in
field outs to Myer. Cronin
deemed it best for Russell to
pitch to the right-handed hitting
Chapman for the third out.
Russell looked all right in that
inning, retiring Chapman on a
fly to Schultz. But in the next
inning, "everything" went hay.
wire for both Cronin and Russell
and the team.
A home run by Rufflng with
two on base put the game on
ice for the Yanks.
The booing Of the crowd then
reached its noisest. On the surface
it did seem Like the substitution Of
Russell was poor strategy, but was
there a fan in the stands who
stopped to think that this was one
Of the few times in which Cronin's
percentage system Of play had
failed?
Babe Has Poor Day
The Yanks, incidentally, didn't
look as powerful yesterday as the
score might indicate. Babe Ruth,
despite the grand guy he is, looked
uncertain both afield and at bat.
Don Heffner and Frank Crosetu
gave indications Of not being the
best keystone combination in the
world, while Charlie Ruffing, on
the mound, was hit hard and
timely even though he was able to
last the route.
To be sure, Lou Gehrig. Tony
LazZeri and Bill Dickey were
"there" but they've always been
"there," in this reporters opinion,
and will continue to be the back
bone OF the team in the next
two or three years.
But so much for all this. The
Griffs see no reason why they
won't triumph in the final two
games Of the series. Lefty Walter
Stewart will pitch today. while
the same lineup which performed
yesterday will play again In the
field. Danny MacFayden, the
bespectacled hurler. Is slated to
be Manager McCarthy's choice.
The Washington times., 1934-05-01
"Y" Mat Entries
Wei0h in FridQU

Matmen entered in the D. c.
senior wrestling tournament to be
staged at the Y. M. c. A. on Fri.
day and Saturday, will weigh in
on Friday at the "Y" between the
hours Of 1880 and 8 p. m.
Wrestlers from Gallaudet, Boys
cub, Oxon Hill, Fort Humphreys,
J. c. c. and the ''Y'' will compete.
Entry blanks can still be had at
the Boys Club for other teams
wishing to enter the tournament.