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The Washington times., 1936-05-13
ELSIE HARVEY

Services for Mrs. Elsie Harvey,
wife Of Richard K. Harvey, assist.
ant manager Of the w. w. Cham
bers Company, who died yesterday
in her sixtieth year will b. held
Friday morning ct IL o'clock in
the Chambers funeral chapel. In
terment win be in Rock Greek
Cemetery.
Mrs. Harvey. who resided with
her husband ct 1909 Chaplin St..
N. W., died in Garfield Hospital.
She was born In Charleston,
s. c., and came to washington
at an early age.
Besides her husband she Is sur
vived by one son. Kenneth. and
q sister, Mrs. Eva EdmonSton.
both Of washington.
Evening star., 1936-04-14

street railway companies. and the
Standard Oil Co. Of New York. A
more sensitive public morality would
have stormed the State and Federal
capitols demanding legislation to deal
with the conditions exposed in that
article. For the magazines reporters
revealed that Mr.. Bergoff. private
citizen and private detective, hires
thugs and sub-thugs," 10 per cent Of
whom have criminal records, arms
them from private arsenal contain
ing everything from brass knuckles to
tear gas and machine guns: is able
to secure the cooperation of ward
politicians and often gets his thugs
sworn in for labor troubles as deputy
sheriffs; that they are not above
fomenting labor troubles themselves
through agents provocateurs, to induce
strikes which the agency then breaks
with the gangs-at a cost Of thousands
of dollars to employers and misery
and heartbreak for workers. And out
Of this whole outrageous business, the
result of which is to subsidize crime,
encourage industrial anarchy. and
Evening star., 1936-04-14
Thugs Fight:
Industrial
Battles.
Capital and Labor Hire
"Scum" to Garry on
Class War.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

- ONE years ago Louis Adamic
wrote a book which ought to
be in the library of every patri-
~ otic American. 1t was called
Dynamite" and it described the
anarchy in American industry. Mr..
Adamic brilliantly traced the origin
of much Of American gangsterdom and
crime directly to practices traditionally
prevailing in American industry
whereby employers-and workers.
fight out their battles through the
Intervention Of industrial spies and
private hireling armies.
1t is now over a year since Fortune
published an amazing article entitled
"Strikebreaking," a factual investiga-
Evening star., 1936-04-14
stimulate class hatreds, Mr.. Bergoff
boasted that single labor war some
times nets him million dollarsl

stimulate class hatreds, Mr.. Bergoff
boasted that a single labor war some
times nets him a million dollars!
Sanctioned by Government"
Fortune asserted: "Bergoff is in a
business which is not permitted to
exist anywhere in the world outside
of the United States of America. The
U. s. A. remains the one industrial
Nation Of any account that permits
any private citizen to influence the
balance between capital and labor.
In this country, however, q
duly constituted government not only
sanctioned Bergoff's start, but helped
provide the means for it."
Hearings in Washington last week
before the Senate Subcommittee on
Labor and Education threw some
more light on these practices. James
j. Mullen, former employe of q
branch of the United States Steel and
head of the company union in the
Clarion plant, and George A. Patter-
son, who held similar position in
the South Chicago works of Carnegie
Illinois Steel, testified that they had
been offered weekly salaries to act
as labor spies in behalf of an Eastern
bond company financially interested
in the works. The head Of the Labor
Relations Board, Chairman Madden,
asserted that three private detective
agencies had employed $4,000 spies
in recent years and had an income of
$60,000.000 per year. He cited the
Fruehof Trailer case Of Detroit, where
he claimed the Pinkerton Detective
Agency planted a spy as treasurer of
the union who turned out to be so
honest a character that he decamped
with the union funds.
Rothstein in Same Business.
It may be recalled that the late
Arnold Rothstein was also in this
business. He "sold" thugs to trades
unions and employers alike. Where
the thugs are not acknowledged gang
sters they are excellent gangster ma
terial, as indeed are many Of their
employers, the big shots who run this
most profitable Of rackets. The late
William Burns, who, as Fortune says,
should have known" described
Evening star., 1936-04-14

as these can endure, our pious talk
about the unspeakable practices Of
European Fascist governments Is some-
what hollow. For what In the world
Is this form OF organization except q
peculiarly immoral private fascism?
And what content does the great word
Liberty" have as long as liberty means
the brutalizing interference Of hired
gunner and stool pigeons to accom-
plish what industrial employers and
organized workers fail to work out
for themselves? And where do the
rest of us come in? The rest of us
who may live in communities into
which such crew is imported and
who also help pay the bill for crime?
I recommend a campaign against
this system to the American Liberty
League.
(copyrisht. 1886. New York Tribune. Inc.)
Evening star., 1936-04-14

American private detectives as "the
biggest lot of blackmailing thieves
that even went unwhipped Of justice"
The recruits for labor spies and strike.
breakers come out of the scum Of the
slums; the captains" understand
every known racket; the "neutenants"
are referred to by the gangster term
"gorillas." But even they are preyed
upon, for whereas the industry pays
the racket $40 to $40 per day per man
the thug only gets half that much:
his employer pockets the rest.
The public also suffers from this in
dustrial warfare. In strikes the strike
breaking racketeer has no interest in
serving the public. His whole interest
is to terrorize the strikers. In a
street car strike the thugs hired do
not have to know how to run street
cars. And sometimes they keep the
nickelS!
But its worst effects are on labor
employer relationships and on public
morality and social discipline. For
here is large financial interest in the
class struggle, held in the hands of
men who are neither workers nor EN-
ployers, but by the very nature Of
their business are near criminals and
would be so regarded in most coun-
tries. Spies notoriously play double
game. If the strike-breaking business
Is tame, the labor spy can often oblige
by stirring up the workers to revolt
and then assist in crushing the revolt
The morality of both employers and
workers is undermined. The trade
unionist is encouraged to desert his
colleagues; his leaders are tempted to
cenality and the employer is "main-
tanning law and order" with gunner,
thieves and stool pigeons.
Federal Legislation Needed.
State legislation cannot cure the Ill.
An organization outlawed in New York
would merely move into New Jersey
or Connecticut. Federal legislation
is needed. The agencies which engage
in this practice are perfectly well
known to the Federal Government.
They ought to be dealt with II 1t takes
a constitutional amendment to do 1t.
Obviously, as long as conditions such
Evening star., 1936-04-14
BAREFOOT BURGLAR HELD

DENVER, April "a R.-A 60
year-old man held here as Califor-
MAS barefoot burglar" admitted his
identity yesterday, Detective Capt.
James e. Childers said, and explained
he made his raids barefooted "be-
cause my feet are more sensitive than
my mind and feel vibrations when
any one approaches"
The detective said the man, JOS
eph Clyde Reynolds, also admitted
he was known here as the pack rat"
burglar because of his habit of loot
ing one home, then leaving the loot
at a second in exchange for some
thing more desirable.
Evening star., 1936-04-14
ACTORS MOTHER
BEATS DEADL|NE
Reunion of Bartholomew
and High.SaIaried Son
Arranged by Lawyer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 14.-Mrs.
Lillian Bartholomew looked forward
today to reunion with her curley-
haired actor son. at the end of $500
mile mothers duty" journey just 10
days ahead of the legal deadline on a
chance to regain custody of him.
The meeting was to be arranged
today or tomorrow, through attor-
neys for Mrs. Bartholomew and the
boys guardian aunt Miss Millicent
Bartholomew.
Twelve-year-old Freddie has become
famous, in the 1,0o0-a-week salary
class, since his mother last saw him in
their native England two years ago.
For several days there had been con-
Germ for Mrs. Bartholomew'S safety,
expressed by the lawyer she lodged in
New York and by her husband in Eng
land. After her boat docked last week
she assumed another name for her trip
here by airplane.
Goes Into Hiding.
my trip to this country is to protect
my child. want my boy. He belongs
to me and I am entitled to him. This
is all commercial scheme to keep him
away from me-"
Thus was the mother quoted by her
attorney, Leonard j. Meyberg. Worn
out" from the trip, she went into
hiding after conference with him.
The attorney quoted her further:
II want to see to it that his earnings
go into his estate so that he will be
properly educated and taken care of.
This, believe, is a mothers sole
duty"
Meyberg said his client would file
her custody petition by April %, a
six months deadline set by the court
which gave the child to the aunt.
Miss Bartholomew was expected to
return here from Palm Springs, a
desert resort, with Freddie today or
tomorrow.
Uncertain of Attack.
Meyberg said he was uncertain Just
what method he would employ in at
tacking Miss Bartholomew guard
ianship. He indicated, however, that
his client would plead that Freddie
had been given to his aunt's custody
through Misrepresentation.
Through Meyberg, Mrs. Bartholo-
NEW said that her son had been sup
ported partly by her and her husband
until shortly before he left England
to work in motion pictures here in
1884.
Freddie's parents consented to their
son accompanying Miss Bartholomew
to New York, Mrs. Bartholomew de-
clared, on the understanding he would
merely visit there.
Evening star., 1936-04-14
KALORAMA GROUP HEAR
SLUM BAN BENEFITS
p. w. A. Aide Says Juvenile Crime
Will Drop if Environment
Is Eliminated.

Slun clearance projects will further
greatly the eradication Of juvenile
delinquency and other social ills,
Pertholf M. Petit, assistant director
of housing for the Public Works Ad-
ministration, told the Kalorama Citi-
Eens' Association last night.
Petit declared that slum environ
ment inevitably leads youth to asso-
citation with crime and breeds hard
ened criminals at an early age.
With the further elimination of
slum areas, the living standard of
the lower classes will be elevated,
Petit stated. Families slightly above
the mere subsistence" earning power
moving from their present quarters
into the low-cost housing develop
mentS, making room for those below
them in the social scale.
He pointed out that the substance
wage was usually set at about $l,100
per annum, with low-cost housing
projects generally intended for families
in the s1,100 to $1,700 bracket.
Evening star., 1936-04-14

ton into the ac-
tivities of Pearl
Bergof Of 551
Fifth avenue, New
York, Americas
No. ! organizer Of
mercenary armies
for industrial
warfare. Fortune
S h ed tn a t
amongst the in
dustries W hi C h
had found use for
Mr.. Bergon's serv-
ices IN the past
were some of our
leading railroads,
Evening star., 1936-04-14
PINEY BRANCH CITIZENS
BACK CLEANUP DRIVE
More Thorough Trash Disposal
System Urged for City.
Star Commanded.

The Piney Branch Citizens Asso-
citation, meeting at Roosevelt High
School, commended The Star for its
cleanup campaign and made tenta-
tive arrangements for asking o more
thorough trash disposal system in
the city.
Lewis jackson and r. G. McLane
were appointed to represent the asso-
citation today at funeral services for
Evening star., 1936-04-14

John n. Pellen. treasurer OF the asso-
citation at the time Of his death.
McLane and A. L. Evans were ap-
pointed as committee to investigate
and report on the parking problem
in the vicinity of the Fourteenth
street car barns. It was indicated
some action would be undertaken to
require q limit on the parking of
autobiles belonging to employees at
the car barns.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19
COOP
ALLIANCE AIDS LEGITI-
MATE GOVERNMENT

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Five thou
sand pounds, or about $4,000, has
been collected by the International
Cooperative Alliance for the victims
of the Fascist revolt in Spain, ac-
cording to the American League
Against War and Fascism. The Co.
operative League of u. S. A. is an
affiliate of the international Coop
erative Alliance.
A resolution to collect funds for
the cooperatives of Spain for relief
of victims of Fascism was passed at
the convention of the Cooperative
League of U. S. A. in Columbus, o.,
Oct. $40. This money is being col
lected for the purchase of food,
clothing and medical supplies.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19
SHIPPERS EFFORTS TO
BREAK STRIKE ARE
FRUSTRATED

Continued from Page u
from Galveston along the Gulf
Coast and northward to Portland,
Me
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19

No. 1851
NOTICE OF TIME APPOINTED FOX
PROVING WILL, Etc.
In the District court of the Second Jul
dicial District of the State of Montana.
In and for the County of Silver Bow.
In the Matter of the Estate of F. l..
MELCHER, Deceased.
Pursuant to an order of said District
Court, made on the 18th day of November,
1886, notice is hereby given that Saturday,
the 5th day of December, 1886, at 10
o'clock A. M. of said day at the Court
Room of said Court in Department z
thereof at the City of Butte in the said
County of Silver Bow. State of Montana,
have been appointed as the time n place
for proving the Will of said F. L. Melcher,
deceased, and for hearing the petition of
Eta S. Melcher, for the issuance TO Au-
gust Grunert of Letters of Administration
with will annexed. when and where any
person interested may appear and con-
test the same. and show cause, if any he
has. why said petition should not be
granted.
Dated November 10th, 1886.
+. p. KELLY, Clerk of the Court,
BY P. H. SULLIVAN. Deputy Clerk
COURT SEAL
T. j. DAVIS,
Attorney for Petitioner.
First publication Nov. l9, 1857.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19
ENTIRE U.S.. SHIPPING
HEADED FOR TIEUp

Continued from rage ~
AS the East Coast and Gulf walk
out spreads, the most complete tie
up of shipping ever known IN the
history of the United States was ex-
pected, with resultant victory for the
men predicted.
Longshoremen want their union
hiring hall maintained, the 30-hour
week continued and a raise of five
cents an hour, to 81 an hour; seamen
want the union hall continued, main
tenance of the 8-hour day, pay for
overtime and not time off and hui
name living conditions aboard ship
along with wholesome food.
The licensed personnel want rec
ignition of their unions, pay for
overtime and vacation with pay.
No effort has been made or the
West Coast to man the vessels with
strikebreakers with the result, no
disturbances.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19

Gladys Swarthout, Metropolitan Opera
mezzo-soprano, and the Cleveland Orches-
ira under the direction of Arthur Rod
zinski will be featured on the General
Motors Concert, Sunday, November 22nd,
at 500 p. m. over KGIR. Rodzinski will
open the concert, which will be broadcast
Weber's 'oberon." Miss Swarthout will
be heard In the Che Faro" Aria from
Giuek's "Orpheus," and the Gavotte from
Thomas "Mignon." The orchestra will
"Tales From the Vienna Woods" by
Strauss. After the intermission, Rodzinski
will conduct excerpts from Stravinsky's
The Firebug." Miss Swarthout will re-
turn to sing The Lovers Curse" Thomp-
LORD Is Ny Light" The orchestra viii
conclude the concert with Tachaikowsky's
stirring 1912 Overture.
Observing the approaching Thanksgiv-
ing Holiday, Smiling Ed Mcconnell and
the orchestra will present Lets Be
thankful" After opening with "heyond
the Blue Horizon" by Palmer Clark'S En-
semble during the program over kGIR
Sunday, November 22nd, at $3.50 p. m.
Mcconnell and the chorus will present a
medley Of old favorites, including Put
Back to Old virginny," school Days
and Darling Nellie Gray" -
Jack Benny's Dramatic Co., Ltd, Will
present a drama of early American LIE
during their program on Sunday, Noven-
Der 22nd, at $3.50 p. m. overKGIR. Benny
as John Alden will lead the group In q
series Of stirring episodes depicting the
life of the early settlers. Poetess Mary
Livingstone, as Priscilla, has written an
appropriate Ballad for the OCCASION. Don
Wilson aided by the singing Of Kenny
Baker and the music OF Phil Harris and
his orchestra, will attempt to court Mary
in the Miles Standish manner.
Arthur Gehrke, the Human Hiberna-
tor" who sleeps all Winter, will be among
those to tell their unusual stories on the
We the People" program, Sunday, NO
vember 22nd, at 800 p. m. over KGIR. a
resident Of Watertown, Wisconsin, Gehrke
Is the proprietor Of an Inn which does no
business after the Summer months. Each
Fall Gehrke, who weighs more than 400
pounds retires to his bed, not to rise
until the first Robin makes Its appear
ance. Daniel Kampan, Mayor Of Boys
Town, Nebraska, and Rev. E. J. lanni
gan, who founded The community twenty
three years ago A. a retreat for homeless
boys, also viii appear On the program.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19

to have their reports printed and
not autographed or mimeographed.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19
What Is Happening in
The Unions
Continued from page u

to have their reports printed and
not m~ultigraphed or mimeographed.
Jack Driscoll, vice president of the
State Federation of Labor reported
that he and Tim Harrington had
made a visit to Helena to see James
Graham, president of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor, and also Sam
Mitchell, Secretary of State, to get
some definite information relative
as to whether the 8-hour amendment
had carried or not III the last cleo
ton. From their report, some coun-
ties have not yet sent in their re-
turns. They learned that some on
fusion obtains in Yellowstone Coun-
ty. 1t was alleged that the judges
and clerks had not counted the ref
erendum measures but only the list
of candidates.
The Trades and Labor Council is
seeking more information from Vel
lowstone County in regards to just
exactly what did transpire in that
county relative to the 8-hour amend
ment.
A party representing the State
Federation of Labor is watching the
canvass in Yellowstone County. The
official state canvass of the votes
and ballots will be held in Helena,
December 5th, at which time Jack
Driscoll, representing the State Fed
Grafton will be on hand.
Not many of the farm counties
helped the labor unions in the g.
hour amendment. Some of the
farmers should take a course in la
Dor economics, of course this advice
also applies to a good many of the
unionists themselves.
e
TURKEY PRIZES
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19
Unions Ask That
Trucking Companies
Be Given Patronage

Bruce Cook Transfer Company,
the United Truck Lines, operating
between Havre and Great Falls, and
the Moritz and Parrish Trucking
Company, which operates between
Great Falls and Billings, have all
been declared fair.
This agreement sweeps all declar-
alton of unfairness from all hide
pendent Motor Carriers and now
they are entitled to their share of
union patronage in this state.
Pete Connors,
Executive Secretary.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-19

ers union have made all arrange
ments to hold an elaborate turkey
card party at their hall, 821a E. Park
St, on Friday evening, November
goth. Besides the turkeys, there
will be other valuable prizes.
The public is cordially invited.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-07-14

McCarl, chubby, silver haired,
blue-eyed Nebraskan who bears the official
title of Controller General of the United
States, but is known officially as Uncle
Sans foremost no" man.
By law he must relinQuish his office on
June 3O.next Tuesday. Appointed as the
first Controller General in 1921 by Presi
dent Harding under authority of the Budg
ct and Accounting Act for fifteen year
term, he Is not eligible for reappointment.
With the exception of the6Supreme Court
itself there is no other voice in the govern
ment as final as the Controller General
Auditor of all Federal accounts, he not
only keeps the governments books but al
60 passes on the legality of every expendi
ture.
The President appoints him, but lacks
the power to remove him. The Congress
only can remove him by two methods: He
may be impeached, the House proffering
the charges and the Senate acting as a court
or he may be removed by joint resolu
ton Of the House and Senate.
Congress created the position in 1921 be
cause it had no assurance that the money
1t appropriated for specific purposes would
be spent. Heads of departments, for exam
pie, had great leeway in spending their ap
preparations. They could utilize unexpend
ed balances in one bureau to carry on
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-07-14

work in another. Congress rebelled at such
practices and set up the general account
ing Office with the Controller General at
its head.
The Controller General was clothed
with absolute authority. Where the legal
ty OF any expenditure is in doubt the rul
ing by the Controller has the same binding
effect on the disbu rising officers as the law.
Mr.. McCarl probably has been more Sc
verely criticized than any other public off
cial. Presidents, Cabinet officers and dos
ems of other high executives have disa
greed violently with him Members of
Congress by the scores have jumped on
him. The Supreme Court, even the ar
my and navy, at various times have felt
the force of his rulings.
In his defense of the public purse. a
verita BILE saga relation to his exploits has
grown up. Most of the controversies which
nave CT me to the public notice have been
bizarre, but in each case a principle has
been involved. And he always wins his fights
Mr.. McCarl once rejected an expense &C
count OF General Pershing because he fail
ed to turn IN vouchers to prove he had
spent the money; he fought the navy oyer
voucher for cents; he forced the Unit
ed States diplomatic representative in Lis
bon to pay for his own drinking water. he
fought the claim Of railroad for 35 cents.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-07-14
Thai Man McCarI RsiiIes Tussdsy

Washington, l(AP.) For almost fifteen
years, through the period of "normalcy''
with President Harding, prosperity with
President Coolidge. the beginning of the
depression" with president Hoover and
the "New DEAF with President Roosevelt.
the phase That man McCarl" has been
one of the most suggestive on the Washing
ton scene.
That man McCarl" is John Raymond
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This
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Random Notes

Last evening &C. VanPuttsn, Even
gelist gave an interesting lecture. and
illustrated by beautiful Lantern Pictures
who Will Be The Next World.Ruler."
The Image that was interpreted by
Daniel was screened, which prophetic
significance were the four great empires
Of che word. and how they were shattered
20 pieces by fate.
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MAILS CLOSE

Mails for the SIS. MARY" 70 ST. Tho
mas. Puerto Rico and the &. s. will be
closed at 10 q. N. on Wednesday.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-07-14

TIE article on Home Sweet Home vas
submitted 20 Us for publication by q
writer who prefera 20 be known as Z.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-07-14

The Municipal Committee met ysster.
day 10 Christiansted.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-07-14

So. MARY" arrived here today with a
large cargo and will call from Frederik-
sted at IL o'clock noon tomorrow.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-07-14

July has brought q change of weather.
Instead Of the bright hot days Of May
and June the weather 10 sometimes fair,
changing suddenly 20 dark clouds and
high wind with q sprinkling of rain.