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These workers are members'of'the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union. Their contract does not
expire until the middle of next year.
They also have a joint board which
stands instructed to investigate pro
duction conditions. This board was
to report on November 1, but before
that date the employers declared for
a return to the piece work system and
the long work week.
By the record-breaking' vote' of
38,672 to 162 the workers declared
tfiey would strike rather than return
to former conditions.
President Schlesinger of the Gar
ment Workers' Union, charges the
bosses with attempting to destroy the
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Go To Governor as Basis
For Pardon
San Francisco.—Reiterating his be
lief, expressed on ^teveral occasions
since he assumed office in 1919, that
Tom Mooney and Wan-en K. Billings
Tfeere innnocent of complicity in the
1916 preparedness day noma outrage,
and that the two labor leaders now
serving life terms in California peni
tentiaries were given trials he would
not accord "even a yellow dag," Dis
trict Attorney Matthew I. Brady de
clared today that he has completed a
letter to Governor Stephens, outlin
ing: his findings in the case, to serve
as a basis for a pardon.
To a representative of several East
ern dailies which have been prominent
in exposing the frameup of the two
Unionists, Brady asserted' that he
would present his letter to the gover
nor, including affidavits by prosecut
tion witnesses admitting perjury, im-
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CONTRACT-BREAKING EMPLOYERS
FORCE GIGANTIC C4RMF.NT STRIKE
LABOR COST ON WOMAN'S- CLOAK Ifc SMALL
The labor cnat on a woman's cloak that retails for ,-$40 is $7.
The retailer pays $28 for the garment.
The labor cost on a cloak that sells for from $75 to $100 is from
$10 to $12. The retailer buys the garment for about one-half of his
'selling price. The same proportion applies in more expensive gar
ments.—President Schlesinger of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union, in answering manufacturers' claim that a 10 or 20 per
cent wage reduction will affect sel
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New York.—More than 60,000 gar
ment workers are on strike in protest
of one of the most glaring instances
of contract-breaking in the history of
the trade union movement.
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union. In support of this charge the
union executive makes public confi
dential letters from the manufactur
ers' association, written several
weeks ago, in which manufacturers
in other cities are asked to confer
with the employers in this, city and
"perhaps" act collectively on matters
concerning their relations with the
union.
The manufacturers first claimed
that the union "leaders" wejre at
tempting to force a strike, which tli&
membership does not want. The as
tounding strike vote, however, has an
swered this claim. Now the ,bosses
are attempting to gain public Opinion
by the claim that if they win, prices
will be reduced. President Schlesing
er shows that the labor cost of a $40
garment under present conditions is
but $7, and for a $100 garment but
from $10 to $12.
mediately after the Arbuekle trial.
"Will you make any recommenda
tion when you submit your report?"
Brady was asked.
The district attorney halted for a
moment and then said slowly:
"I'd better not."
Although expressing the firm con
viction that Mooney and Billings had
served unjustifiably five years of their
life term, B» ady explained that he
would prefer to let Governor Stephens
judge from the "merits of the case."
Brady was frank enough to admit
that the general official feeling fa
vors the continued incarceration of
the two men .who had been "railroad
ed," and th£^t because of their labor
activity, they were the "right men,"
convicted, however, on the wrong evi
dence.
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Kansas City, Kan. William R.
Deal, secretary-treasurer of the
Coopers' International Union, died in
this city. He was 60 years of age.
His entire manhood was devoted to
the cause of 4abor.
7th Anniversary
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FREE with each Suit or Overcoat.
$9.85,
and
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Anniversary Sale SHOES
(£o or Men's Tan 4)ress Shoes, worth $5.00
tp£«OD of anybody's money.
Mun'b Solid Leather Welt Shoes, in brown or
black, with rubber heels dJO AC
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$3.00 Men's solid Elk
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each purchase of $10 or over. Don't go
home without one.
Indianapolis, lnd.—Alexander Ho
wat, former president of the United
Mine Workers of America, District
14, is in jail at Columbus, Kan., for
one reason and he was removed from
office as president by John L. Lewis,
international president, for an entire
ly differen rebson, according to an
article appearing in the current issue
of the United Mine Workers' Jour
nal, official publication of the interna
tional union. The Journal says:
"Some of those men who are in
op^n rebellion against the laws of the
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or Dress Pants
$4.50 Blue Serge
Dress Pants
$3.50 Corduroy
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ALEXANDER HOWAT,FORMER DISTRICT PRESIDENT OF UNITED
MINE WORKERS' UNION, IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE
FOR ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REASON
SAYS UNION'S JOURNAL
Called Strikes That Were Violations of Joint Agreement and Refused To
Obey Laws of Union in Defiance of International Officers
union are spreading the word that the
autonomy ofi District 14 was suspend
ed by the international organization
and the officers of that district remov
ed from office because those district
officials were making a fight against
.the Kansas industrial court law.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth and, of course, those who make
such statements knew they are un
true. It is only an attempt on their
part to kick up a lot of dust to hide
their illegal and indefensible conduct
in violating the fundamental laws of
the union and the basic provisions of
their agreement with the coal oper
ators of that district. There is noth
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ing else to it.
"These district officers were not re
moved from office because of their
fight against the Kansas industrial
court law. They were removed be
cause they refused to obey the laws of
tixtjir own union and the decision of
their own international convention.
They called strikes tliat Were viola
tions of the joint agreement. The
international union directed them to
put the striking miners back at work
and then take up the grievances in
the regular way, as provided by the
joint agreement. They refused to do
this, but defied the international offi
cers and international union. Then
the international convention, the high
est authority in the organization, de
cided by ah overwhelming vote that
they should put the* striding miners
back at work. Still they "refused and
defied the convention.
"For that reason, and that reason
alone, they were removed from office
and the autonomy of District 14 was
suspended. The Kansas industrial
court was not involved in the case in
any manner whatever, although some
of these men have attempted to hide
behind their own shadows and make
the people believe that they were be
ing persecuted because they were
fighting the Kansas industrial court
law.
"The bald fact is that the officers
of District 14 never have fought the
Kansas industrial court law. They
have fought the court, but they have
not, even up to this hour, made any
attack upon the law creating the
court nor have they made any effort
whatever to have the Kansas indus
trial court law set aside or repealed.
"Throughout all of their dramatics
and heroics they have merely de
nounced and defied the Kansas indus
trial court and then paraded before
the public, with the spotlight turned
on, beating their breasts and shout
ing, "1 am a hero." It was a clear
case of playing to the grandstand,
all of ^hich was at the expense of
the Kansas miners and the good name
of the union.
"Sometimes the thought arises that
perhaps the officers of District 14
were not as anxious to have the Kan
sas industrial court law knocked out
as they appeared to be from their
declarations. As stated above, they
never made any effort to have the
law wiped otat. They violated the in­
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dustrial court law numerous times
and had themselves arrested, but in
no case did they start any proceedings
that could test the constitutionality
of the law itself. And when the^ in
ternational union offered to co-oper
ate with and assist Alexander Howat
to make a full'legal test of the law
Howat did not accept the offer of as
sistance. Sincerity of purpose would
hrfve prompted him to accept the help
of the international
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unioriJ*instead of
completely ignoring the offer. Just
why he ignored the offer no one ex
cept Howat himself knows. Recent
developments, however, would seem
to indicate that he had a burning de
sire to go to jail instead, and thus
attain the self-imposed distinction of
being a martyr with the limelight
shining brightly upon him.
"Howat and those who support him
are indulging in bare-faced deception
of the membership when they make
the statement that the officers of Dis
trict 14 were removed from office be
cause of their activities against the
Kansas industrial court. The Kan
sas industrial court law had nothing
to do with it. It was their own re
bellious refusal to obey the laws of
the union and their own defiance of
the international convention that caus
ed their removal from office.
"If the officials of District 14 had
been half as anxious to knock out the
industrial court law as they professed
to be they could have instituted pro
ceedings many mcnths ago and a de
cision could have been obtained from
the highest courts that would have
settled the question one way or the
other. But they did not do this. On
the other hand, they continued to vio
late the law and defy the industrial
court, and, of course, they landed in
ja.it.
"The international union is just as
bitterly opposed to the Kansas indus
trial law as Howat ever was. Every
official of this union has denounced
the law as being cruel, barbaric and
unconstitutional. The international
officials are just as anxious as Howat,
and perhaps, more anxious, that the
industrial tfourt law shaH be wiped
out,J and they offered to help Howat
to wipe it out with proper legal pro
ceedings, which Hfcwat did not ac
cept. The same international con
vention which ordered Howat to put
the strikers at the Dean and Reliance
strip pits back to work and live up
to the' joint agreement also adopted
a resolution directing that proper
steps be taken by the international
union to test the constitutionality of
the industrial court law. And yet,
Howat defied the convention and the
union.
"It is to. be hoped that the mem
bership of the union will not allow
itself to be fooled by the loud talk of
those who are in open rebellion
against the laws of the union. The
membership should understand that
Howat and Dorchy are in jail in Kan
sas for one reason and*that they were
removed from office i56r an entirely
different reason."
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Washington.—The charge by Unit
ed States Senator Ransdell that
American railroad owners have con
tracts with foreign steamship com
panies, while American vessels are
idle, is a hard blow to rail owners,
who have spent vast sums to develop
a public opinion favorable to them.
Their raids on the treasury, their
wage-cutting, and their general anti
union^policy do not square with their
statements that they are "trustees of
a public utility," that they are only
serving the public, that they^are act
uated by patriotic motives, etc., etc.
Now that it is shown that they
have pledged British, Japanese, Scan
dinavian and German ship companies
"to make every effort within reason"
to secure the necessary amount of
freight required by the foreign ships,
to aid these companies against all
competitors (American ships compete
with these foreigners), to use their
influence to secure tax exemptions
and harbor dues for the foreigners,
give them free wharfage and other
concessions and deliver coal to them
below" the market price and never
over $5 a ton.
The law provides that the railroads
shall file copies of every contract re
lating to traffic with the interstate
commerce commission. It is now dis
covered that the contracts referred to
by Senator Ransdell have not been
filed. The commission has ordered the
railroads to comply with the law, and
the senate, 011 motion of Senator
Jones, of Washington, requests the
commission to furnish it a copy of
these contracts.
Officers of the National Merchant
Marine Association state that there
is no record of an agreement whereby
an American railroad pledged to se
cure trade for shipping under the
American flag.
"With the government turning- over
many millions of dollars to American
railroads, with the railroads utilizing
their resources to secure business for
foreign steamship lines, even to the
extent of employing solicitors to get
cargo, a remarkable situation is de
veloped," these buisness men declare.
"For, while the government is forced
to tie up hundreds of its vessels for
lack of freight, American railroads
continue to turn over cargo to for
eign steamship lines, and these lines
continue to gain steadily in the per
centage of our ocean commerce which
"PUBLIC OPINION HOLDERS"
IGNORE EXPOSURE OF RAILROAD'S AID TO THB
COUNTRY'S MERCHANT MARINE COM
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When you spend shoe money you expect full return
in style, in value and in comfort. Any store that wants
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"Thus the government, by its pay
ment to the railroads, is using its
money to foster competition with its
own shipping and thereby add to the
heavy burden of loss."
Some of the largest railroad Sys
tems have entered into these exclu
sive agreements with foreign com
panies. They include the Pennsyl
vania, Baltimore & Ohio, Boston &
Albany (New York Central system),
Philadelphia and Reading, Boston &
Maine, Grand Trunk, Norfolk & West
ern, Missouri Pacific and Chicago, 1Wil
waukee & St. Paul.
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BACK LABOR PAPER
Advice to Workers From
British Labor Leader
London, England.—44If labor had a
press half as extensive as the press
of its enemies, they would stand very
little chance in the fight with us,"
said John R. Clynes, labor member of
parliament and British food controller
during the war.
"We can be beaten in the house of
commons' lobbies, in the streets, in
tfiie council chambers of a hundred
towns and cities because the press
exerts enormous influence and goes far
to check the advance of labor, despite
the justice and the strength of our
claims.
"The present prices is a heavy han
dicap in the race with capialist news
papers and every member of the
movement, whatever be his degree
or shade of opinion on questions of
policy, should come to the rescue of
a paper which in turn can be made
a tremendous instrument for the lib
eration of labor."
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POKING UP CEMENT
COMBINE
Chicago.—The government has ask
ed for., a federal injunction against
the midwest cement credit and stat
istical bureau from "keeping up an
unlawful combination and conspiracy
in restraint of interstate trade and
commerce in cement."
Twenty-four firms, operating 30
mills, and producing 90 per cent of the
cement used in the middle west, are
involved.
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