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Evening star., 1937-06-01
BY IRA WOLFERT.

TN 1922. when skirts and stocks
were beginning their spectacular
climb and "Abie's Irish Rose" was
4 siding shyly into a Broadway
theater, when flappers and cake
eaters were clattering down the Ma
tons sidewalks and the Ohio gang
was rapping softly on the back door
Of the White House, the world the
miners lived in began its slow and
terrible death
There was a gaudy razoo going on
In those days-France edging toward
the Ruhr, Ireland becoming free, Mus
Trotzky waving a red flag before the
bulls of world finance, speakeasies,
nah jong, Harry Greb leathering the
tar out of that United States Marine,
Gene Tunney-and no one seemed to
realize what was happening to COAL
But Lewis realized. He told a
miners convention somewhat sadly:
Every one has retired from Office
(president of the United Mine Work
ers) in a melancholy state Of mind
because certain element of our peo-
pie condemned him. 1t will not be
different with me-" There we're shouts
of mo! Mo-" and Lewis stared stonily
at the shouters.
Elected Officials Ousted.
Two years later Lewis's empire was
ripped down the back and his was a
throne without kingdom. The Lewis
must go!" movement was starting to
snow ball its way down the valley of
coal. In Kansas, Tennessee, Nova
Scotia and, finally, Illinois, Verdun of
mine unlonisnl, he blew the U. M. W.'S
elected officials out of office with a
below and sledge- hammer sleight-of-
hand.
He revoked charters, became the
countrys No. red batter, gave a
twist to the word Communist" that
made it touch a new high in invec-
tive, bucked such progressives as John
Brophv and Powers Hapgood (Who are
now his most trusted lieutenants in
the c. l. o. movemenD right out of
the union. Wherever he went, the
fires of revolt leaped angrily at him
and Lewis fought back with stunning
barrack-room metaphor, whitening
physical aggressiveness, and every
below-the-bel trick in the astute par
hamentarian's black book. Lewis, who
has never been able to distinguish
between the two, was fighting for his
union and his job.
In indianapolis, he gave a delegate
who had been found to possess a
Communist circular a two minute
start on the itching-flsted pack that
was baying for his scalp.
When a convention floor stormed
for a recount on roll call that had
narrowly defeated an attempt to take
from Lewis the power to appoint Or
eanizers. field workers and local eX-
ecutives, Lewis surveyed the tumult
stolidly for a solid hour before pulling
all the stops on his huge voice to
roar: May the chair state that you
may shout until you meet each other
in he'll and he won't change the rule. y
The next day, when the rumbling,
started again, he singled out ring
leader, pointed his gavel at him
scowled ferociously down its length
and shouted: If there are any dele
gates who feel inclined to insult the
Evening star., 1937-06-01
The Story of John L. Lewis

| chairman, let them step up here on
the platform of the floor and try II"
No one did. Today, of 81 mine union
districts, the leaders Of more than
half get their jobs not from the men
they represent. but from Lewis.
Shouted Down Hapgood.
When rebels sought the floor, re
introduced them-in one case--as
industrial buzzards," added, Il want
to warn you against those carrion
birds" and concluded, Il now ask
that you remove your carcasses with
out the door" When his currently
good friend Hapgood, tried to speak
in 1927, Lewis shouted him down with
IT I hear another word from you,
you will be elected" And that night.
Hapgood was taken to a hotel room
and beaten into state by Lewis par
tiSanS.
In 1882, with the Illinois miners in
open revolt against the wage scale
set by the U. M. w., Lewis began his
speech with. These young men Of
foreign extraction are spreading dis
sension along the highways and by
ways Of Illinois, and I have come, with
my pit boots on, to put stop to it"
But the speech did not go so we'll that
day. A miners referendum defeated
the wage scale BY to 2. Lewis over
ruled the vote. The second ballots
were stolen miraculously. and, under
the cry of emergency" Lewis thump-
ed the wage scale into effect with the
head of his gavel. And that was how
Illinois finally tore loose from him,
and even his home local, Panama,
flounced away from his standard.
But these verbal apoplexies were
only minor symptoms of disease that
was soaking the industrys heart in
the gall of death. The major symp-
toms were the strikes. Eleven con-
secutive years of them, none Of them
gay, some of them-aS in Herrin, H.,
VIII re miner turned against miner and
strikers dragged scabs from the pit
to hang them before their hysterical
Womenfolk-murderous.
The disease itself was overcapa city.
The mines were equipped to yield a
billion tons Of coal year. The mar
ket, shrinking naturally in a post
war world and shrinking unnaturally
under the impact of more efficient use
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sonville agreement and bought an
extra 125,00 gun-shielded acres in
the nOn-union South)
Federal Control Demanded.
The temper OF those days is indi-
Gated by the fact that even the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
refuse to sign q union contract for
its 100000 worth of bituminous
mines in the Kanawka field In West
Virginia. Railroad-owned mines, mine
owned railroads, mine -owned dis
tributors and distributor owned
mines, billion-dollar operations In
Fiet to open shop United States
Steel, frantic hodge-podge OF
freight diflerential. manipulated car
shortages-Lewis looked at the tangle
and started bowling for Federal con-
troll. The police job was too tough
for his union.
In the great anthracite strike OF
1925 Lewis asked both sides to join
In request to Congress to enact
legislation providing for completing
regulation of the entire industry
regulation OF profits and the selling
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from these tragic days In the be-
ginning he and the operators still
took their text from the uncompli-
Gated Hanna sermon: Let the union
police the industry But that ended
with the famous Jacksonville agree
ment Of 1924.
That three agreement-to keep
the wage rate at the 1919 $3.50 day
level-emerged from a private dinner
in the Hotel Ambassador in New
York, arranged by George Moore. q
capitalist prominent in Middle West
ern public utilities, who was with
enlightened" capital in looking with
horror upon the costly anarchy that
was pushing the coal industry back
into the jungle. Around the table
sat Melville E. Stone, one Of the
founders and general manager OF the
Associated Press; Judge Richard K.
Campbell, George Barr Baker, the
New York flnancier; Herbert Hoover,
then Secretary Of Commerce, and
Lewis
Lewis Ability Discovered.
With the $3.50 rate the operators
and the union hoped to close 2,50O
Of the country's 1882 mines and
force 100000 miners out Of the in
dustry and into other trades. Hoover
called the agreement "a necessary
surgical operation" and discovered
from across the dinner table that
Lewis Is more than a successful bat
tie leader. He has a sound conception
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OF coal, hydroelectric power and fuel
oil, could handle only about half Of
that output.
No Police for Economic Law.
AS a cure, economic law was pre-
scribing starvation diet for the coal
operators and for the men who de-
pended on them for a living. The
least fit must go, but there never has
been time when men took to starva-
tion peacefully, and. under economic
law, there are no police to tell the
doomed to come along quietly.
In the modern world, fitness" is a
complex thing. Marginal producers
ducked the phlebotomy OF the times
by throwing up barbed wire against
the union, cutting wages, taking ad-
vantage of the freight differentials to
pour coal into the Northern markets
when strikes in the union fields sent
coal prices rocketing to $16 and SIT
ton. And Lewis lost 100000 men in
three years, 100000 more in the
next year.
Lewis whole political philosophy,
the philosophy whose eruptions in 100
different industries make such lively
reading on today's front pages, dates
Evening star., 1937-06-01

Of craftsmanship, Of the long view
interest Of the people and the industry
he serves"
And. President Coolidge, deeply i'm
pressed, offered to take Lewis into his
cabinet as Secretary OF Labor. Lewis
declined, he says, because he did not
(and does not now care for plumes
in his hat, and because he knew
perhaps dimly at that time-that he
would be hamstrung in a Government
that was stubborn in the tradition OF
keeping out Of business.
But the agreement was doomed to
failure. The miners were compelled
by brutal fact to believe that 50 In
cash worked more magic at the
butchers than a promise OF $3.50
from barred mine. The large op-
orators Of the North (ei9ht compan-
les did IS per cent OF the Nation S
coal business) did not resist the
temptation to close their high-cost
union mines and open mines in the
non-union field. (Andrew Melons
Pittsburgh Coal Co. closed 81 union
mines in the flrst year OF the Jack
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Criminals Convene.

One OF the remarkable results OF
State Prosecutor Vyshinskys appeal
to criminals to surrender to the police
and register for new life OF honesty
and industry is the series O. meetings
being held throughout Russia by law
breakers to discuss the invitation. In
Moscow alone 500 criminals have been
listed for jobs. The prosecutor has
been deluged with letters from peni.
tent offenders offering to surrender.
Evening star., 1937-06-01

price Of coal as we'll as every other
phase Of the industry" The operators
blasted his proposal as "unconsti-
tutional"
But the depression lay ahead and
with it the end Of SIT coal. The op-
orators came to fight side by side with
Lewis for the unconstitutional N. R.
A., the unconstitutional Guffey act
and, finally, the new Guney-VinSon
act, which has yet to be tested.
tCopyright. 1887 BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
Children
-.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the
subscribers have obtained from the
Orphans Court for Worcester Coun-
ty, Maryland, letters of. Administra-
ton C. t.. a. on the personal estate
of Upshur P. Stevenson late of Wor-
cester County, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or be-
fore the 9th day of September, 1887.
They may otherwise by law be exclud-
ed from all benefits of the said es-
tate. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make immed-
late payment. Given under my hand
this .25th day of February, 1887.
LUCILLE P. STEVENSON,
WILLARD ]. STEVENSON,
- Administrators, C. t. a.
Test: Paul Jones, Register of Wills.
Feb. 26-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

This youngster found a temporary
home in a box car when the Missis-
sippi river flood drove him from his
own home. He took flood discom-
fort in his stride One thing that
may account for his obvious high
spirits was the fact that water short
age eliminated his Saturday night
bath and the daily scrubbing be-
behind the ears. It was estimated
that more than 100000 people in
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys
were rendered homeless by the flood.
The known dead were estimated in
excess of 400. Contributions by citi-
zens everywhere to the special re-
lief fund of the Red Cross were
more than $17,0O0,000. The storms
damage was estimated at close to
a billion dollars.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
IN MEMORIAM

In sad but loving remembrance Of
my dear mother, Josephine E. Land.
ing who departed this life one veal
ago today, March 7, 1886.
Just one year ago dear mother
You were called from me to rest
But l know twas God who called you
And he doeth all things best.
In my heart your memory fingers
Sweetly, tender, fond and true,
There is not day dear mother,
That l do not think of you.
Yes dear mother, you have left me
Gone from me for ever more,
But hope to meet you mother,
On that bright and happy shore.
A precious one from me is gone
A voice loved is stilled,
A chair is vacant in my home
Which never can be filled.
Her devoted daughter,
Bessie Landing Travis.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the
subscriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County
Maryland, letters Testamentary or
the personal estate of George Wash
ington Beauchamp late of Worces.
ter County, deceased. 49,. Fl.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on OF be-
fore the 9Th day of September, 1887
They may otherwise by law be ex-
Guided from all benefits Of the said
estate. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make immed-
late payment. Given under my hand
this 25th day of February, 1887.
CECIE L. MOORE, Executrix
Test: Paul Jones, Register of Wills.
Feb. 26-3t. -
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
IN MEMORIAM

In loving remembrance of our dear
son and father, Joshua M. Thompson
who departed this life one year ago,
March 2, 1886.
Ore year has passed dear loved one
Since you were called away,
You suffered much and murmured not
AS we watched you day by day.
We are lonely dear son and father
+ without you
Lonely and oh! so sad at heart,
You were our joy and sunshine
Why did we have to part?
Sad today our troubled hearts
And dim our eyes with tears,
For death has robbed us of the one
We thought was ours for years.
With his Savior, he is waiting
In that Upper Garden fair,
He is watching for our coming;
There will be no parti G there.
By mother, Mrs. Ida E. Thompson,
and daughters, Mrs. G. w. Friend
and Miss Lethia Thompson.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

Herman w. Warren and Daisy A,
Warren, his wife, from Frances c.
Truitt, real estate containing 6 '3-4
acres, more or less, on the Southerly
side of the County Road leading from
st. Martins Station to Friendship in
the 9th Elec. Dist. Consideration $40
&c: n; H.. 49,. :,
E. Elizabeth Adkins from John L.
Sanford, Jr:, Assignee, tract of land
containing IL Ia acres, more or less
about 1-2 mile east of the village of
st. Martins in the 9th Elec Dist.
Consideration 1915.
Chas Washington Clarke and Car
RE .Estelle Clarke, his wife from E.
Elizabeth Adkins, tract of land con-
tanning IL IA acres, more or less
about IL mile east of the village of
st. Martins, in the 9th Elec Dist. Con-
sideration 5000 &c.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
Godfrey Child, Solicitor
ORD Err MIST

Godfrey Child, Assignee for the
purpose of foreclosure of Emma G.
Blades, mortgage of Trustees of St.
Johns African. Methodist Episcopal
Church of Pocomoke City, Corpora
ton, eX parte
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, Maryland
In Equity
No. 1850 Chancery
Ordered that the sale of the real
estate mentioned in these proceedings
and made and reported by Godfrey
Child, Assignee for the purpose of
foreclosure of Emma G. Blades, mort
gage of Trustees of st. Johns AT
rican Methodist Episcopal Church of
Pocomoke City, corporation, be rat
flied and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary be shown on or before
the 10th day of March 1887, provided
a copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper printed and publish
ed in Worcester County, Maryland
once in each of three successive
weeks, before the 9Th day of March,
1887.
The report states the amount of
sale to be Two Thousand dollars
($2,OOO.OO.)
BESSIE BOWEN, Clerk.
True copy, test: Bessie Bowen, Clerk
Feb. 1876.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
Tues, March 30, 1887
At 2:3O o'clock p. M.

AT 2:SO o'clock p. M.
the following parcels of real estate
with the improvements thereon, lying
and being situate in Pocomoke City,
Worcester County, Maryland:
l. All that lot or parcel of ground
located on the north-westerly side of
and binding upon Fourth Street and
beginning for the same on the north
westerly line of said Fourth Street
at the south-easterly corner of the land
of Nathan Flax at a post; thence in
a north-easterly direction by and with
said Fourth Street 48 and " feet to
the land of Essie Bevans at a post;
thence in north-westerly direction by
and with said land to Third Street at
a post; thence in south-westerly di-
rection by and with said Third Street
Al feet and 10 inches to said land of
said Flax at post; thence in a south
easterly direction by and with said
land to the beginning, containing one
quarter acre of land, more or less.
and being a part of the same land
that was conveyed to Joshua r. Bey-
ans in his lifetime from Cordelia w.
Long and Calvin H. Long, by deed
dated August 81, 1883, and recorded
among the land records of said Wor-
cester County in Liber 1. T. M. No.
y, folio $50. This property is i'm
proved by a modern dwelling house.
z. All that lot or parcel of ground
located on the south-easterly side of
and binding upon Fourth Street and
beginning for the same on the south
easterly line of said Fourth Street at
h. uoctn of
OF William Wright at a post; thence
by and with said Fourth Street in q
south-westerly direction 1877 feet to
Oxford Street at post; thence in a
south-easterly direction by and with
said Oxford Street ID feet and 6 inch
es to the land of Reverand Emptage
at a post; thence in a north-easterly
direction by and with said land So
feet ard inches to a post; thence
in south-easterly direction by and
with said land SO feet to the land of
the said Essie Bevans: thence in a
northeasterly direction by and with
said land ID feet ard 6 inches to the
land of the said William Wright at a
post; thence in a north-westerly di-
rection by ard with said land of said
Wright 125 feet to the beginning, and
being the same land that was con-
veyed to the said Joshua R. Bevans
in his lifetime from Zadok ]. Hall bv
deed dated May 9, 1876, and recorded
as aforesaid in Liber I. T. M. No. 4,
folio 442. This property is improved
by modern dwelling house.
The above described properties are
we'll located and in a desirable neigh
borhood.
Terms of Sale-One-half cash on
day of sale, balance payable four
months thereafter, said deferred pay
ment to bear interest from the day of
sale and to be secured to the satisfac-
ton of the Trustee, or all cash at the
option of the purchaser, or purchas-
ers. Taxes will be paid to January 1,
1887. Title papers and U. S. Reve-
nue. Stamps at the expense of the pur-
chaser.
THOMAS F. JOHNSON,
Trustee.
March 5-4t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
Sat. March 20, 1887
at three o'clock p. M.

at three o'clock p. NJ,
all those tracts or parcels of land,
or that farm or tract of land, to-
gether with the buildings and i'm
provements thereon, situate, lying and
being in the First Election District
of Worcester County, Maryland, on
the County road leading from Double
Bridges" to Cross Road, wherein said
mortgagors now reside, which was by
deed dated May 26, 1884 granted to
said Marie R. Blades by B. Riley Wat
son and Mary F. Watson, his wife,
which said deed is recorded among
the Land Records of said Worcester
County. being all and the same lands
which were by deed dated April 81,
1928 granted to said B. Riley Wat
son by S. Alexander Slack and wife,
recorded among said Land Records in
Liber B. B. No. 5, folios 4O2 ct sea-,
reference to said deeds and the ref
erences therein contained being here
by specially made for more full
description of said lands. Containing
24% acres of land, more or less, and
being located about one mile from Po-
comoke City.
Terms of Sale: Cash.
Title papers and revenue stamps at
expense of purchaser.
M. WILLIAM MILLER,
Assignee
Feb. 26-4t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
L. Paul Ewell. Attorney
OR ID Err NISI

In the matter of the Estate of F.
Lee Bonneville, Deceased.
In the Orphans Court for Worces-
ter County, Maryland.
Ordered this 23rd day of February,
1887, by the Orphans Court for Wor-
cester County, Maryland, that the
sale of the real estate and personal
property at private contract, men
toned in these proceedings, made and
reported by Joseph C. Stevenson and
Samuel Earl Bonneville, executors of
the last will and testament of F. Lee
Bonneville, late of Worcester County.
Maryland, deceased, be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the con-
trary thereof be shown on or before
the 18th day of March, 1887, pro-
vided copy of this order be- insert
ed in some newspaper published in
Worcester County, Maryland, once a
week for three successive weeks be-
fore the 18th day of March, 1887.
The report states the amount of
sale to be 100000.
JOHN H. GILLISS.
ISAAC ]. DAVIS,
WILLIAM S. GODFREY,
Judges.
True Copy, Test: Paul Jones. Register
OF Wills for Worcester County, Md.
Feb. 26-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Clayton c. Conway and Olevia E
Conway, his wife, from Oscar p
Parks and wife and others, "Little
Worth" containing 10 acres, more OF
less, in the 9Th Elec. Dist, and or
the South side Of the County ROAD
leading from Girdletree to Kle.
Grange. Consideration 1925.
Thomas H. Wilkerson from Godfrey
Child, Trustee, the "Home Place" OF
Isaac Hargis, deceased, near the cas-
tern corporate limits of Pocomoke
City, in the 1st Elec. Dist. Considera-
tion, $425.
Frances C. Truitt from Walter B.
Dymond and wife, property common
ly known as the "Mills Property" at
the Southwest corner of Market and
Morris Streets, in Snow Hill. Con-
sideration $40 &c.
Walter B. Dymond and Helen c.
Dymond, his wife, from Frances c.
Truitt, property commonly known as
the "Mills Property" at the South
west corner of Market and Morris
Streets, in Snow Hill. Consideration
$40 &c.
Arthur F. Shettle from John C.
Stephens and wife, 2 tracts of land
containing 40 1-2 acres and % acres,
more or less, being parts of Beverly
and sometimes known as the "Coul-
bourn Wilson Farm" in the LIST Elec.
Dist. Consideration $40 &c.
James T. Rogers and Katie L. Rog-
ers, his wife, from Herman F. SIAM
mer and wife, tract Of land contain
ing z acres, more or less, on the Wes-
terly side of the County Road lead
ing from Grays Corner to Parkertown
in the 3rd Elec. Dist. Consideration,
$40 &c.
Chas. R. Bunting, Talbot E. Bunt-
ing and Orlando Bunting from Sarah
L. Bunting and husband, real estate
on the Southerly side of Talbot ST.,
in Ocean City. Consideration SIS &c.
Clarence C. Twigg and Charles T.
Twigg from Levin C. Bailey and Wal
ter R. Disharoon, Receivers, the dr.
wing Fooks Land" containing 200
Acres, more or less, in the 9Th Elec.
Dist. Consideration $3.50.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
FOUND AT LAST

Q-623-Relief for muscular aches
and pains when due to rheumatic cts
orders, lumbago, etc. Prescription
Q-623 has helped thousands of people
when many other remedies have fail
ed. Try bottle today. Price $1.OO.
We suggest you try Q-Tabs while US
ing Q-623. Ask your druggist. Lloyd
& Blaine. Pocomoke City, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere APP
probation for the many acts of kind
ness and expressions of sympathy
rendered us during the illness and at
the death of our mother, Mrs. Rose
E. Ennis. We are grateful for the
floral offerings and use of cars and
for the many other attentions shown
us.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05

cd to undergo period of training make them aber
operators Some of these people physically incapable of
properly Many mentally incapable congenitay
incompetent OF reckless And the toll is $4,000 lives
We will solve the accident problem adopt drv
es licensing regulations that will keep incompetent
less driver off the public roads No fright to drive
until he show definitely that he worthy the privilege
bestowed him. - =