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ANTIS ARE WEEPING
Bakersfield, Cal.—Business men are
Weeping over losses charged to the
recent oil workers' strike, which they
declare was "unwarranted."
The strike was caused by oil own
ers refusing the government's request
to renew an agreement with the work
ers which had preserved industrial
peace for four years.
The oil owners wanted to operate
on the strictly anti-union basis—with
no form of collective bargaining.
They labeled this the "American plan"
^md as usual the business men sup
ported the oil owners, most of whom
are absentee owners.
With patronage down to zero be
cause of reduced ^purchasing power,
these business men are now trying
to find some one or some thing that
will serve as an alibi for their short
sightedness.
OBSERVE STRIKE DATE
Birmingham, Ala .— Railroad em
ployes who left the employ of the
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic rail
road on March 5 last year, because
of wage reductions, will observe the
first anniversary with a public meet
ing.
The strike was called because the
railroad reduced wages in violation
of the Cummins-Esch law, which pro
vides that the matter must be referred
to the United States railroad labor
board, as a last recort. The board or
dered the road to withdraw its wage
cut order. The managers threw the
road into a receiver's hands. The re
ceiver told the railroad board that it
has no jurisdiction, and proceeded to
enforce the wage reductions. The
receiver is the former president of
the road, who resigned to be appoint
ed by Federal Judge Sibley.
START "COMPANY"
UNION
New
York.-—The
Borden's
court
farm
pro­
ducts company has organized a com
pany "union," following the end of a
strike of its milk wagon drivers. The
company's publicity agent says em
ployes are "enthusiastic" over the
new "union," whose main feature is
a string of red tape, starting with
local committees in all branches.
These committees may recommend to
the superintendent of the branch af
fected, then to the district manager,
then to the district committee and then
to the president of the company, who
is
the
of last resort.
WOULD AID MINERS
Washington.—If congress can vote
$1!0,()00,000 tor Russian relief, it
should vote $500,000,000 to relieve coal
miners in West Virginia, Ohio, Ken
tucky and other states, said Congress
men Foster and Thomas before the
house mines and mining committee.
Botli congressmen told of the dis
tress that exists among these workers
because the mine industry is paralyz-
TEN
CRNT
STORE PROFITS
New York.—The S. S. Kresge Com
puny, owner of a string of 5 and 10
cent stores, reports the largest net
profit in its history, last year. After
all charges, including federal taxes
were met, there remained a surplus
of $3,402,0H3.
EVERY BLEMISH RE
MOVED IK A FEW DAIS
By a New Method, and Thin, Pale
People Increase Weight Quickly
By Simply Using a Few 5-Grain
Argo-Phosphate Tablets. They
Act Like Magic.
Even in many stubborn cases that have
baffled physiciuns and beauty specialists for
years. You have never in your life heard
anything like it. They make muddy com
plexions, pimples, eruptions, red spots, black
heads vanish quickly. Your complexion can
In' clear and yon can have a beautiful rounded
ftKuro. Your face, hands, arms and shoulders
ran be made beautiful beyond your fondest
dreams in a few days by this wonderful new
discovery which phosphatides the system. Its
effect many claim is marvelous, this treat
ment is absolutely harmless to the most deli
eate person and pleasant to use.
SPECIAL NOTICE:—Ladies wishing to in
crease bust development should secure one or
two ounces of Rosetone from their druggist
and apply once or twice daily. This is a most
effective remedy and perfectly harmless when
used in connection with argo-phosphate. It
will round out your form and increase your
weight like magic: unless you desire to in
crease your weight do not use argo-phosphate
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LET US DEVELOP
YOUR PICTURES
Chicago. The American trade
union movement has no idealism, so
cial vision or soul, according to the
newly-formed trade union educational
league, VV. Z. Foster, sercetary-treas
urer.
For more than 30 years the Ameri
can trade union movement has com
batted duallists, secessionists and dis
rupters. The league acknowledges
that all these have failed, and duallists
and secessionists are called upon to
abandon their side shows and get in
the trade union organizations which
can, then be given revolutionary pur
poses.
The league is decribed as "an in
formal grouping of the progressive
and revolutionary elements through
out the entire trade union movement.'
There will be no dues, no charters
ind no per capita tax. Revenue will
be secured th'ough contributions and
the sale of literature.
"Militants" of all trades will be
formed to "carry on the work of edu
cation and reorganization in their re
spective localities." These groups will
be divided according to industry and
will be linked up with the trade union
educational ieague.
willing to talk,
"CLEAR-SIGHTED" PERSONS
HEADED BY FOSTER AND HIS TRADE UNION
"EDUCATIONAL" LEAGUE WANT TO LEAD
UNIONS OUT OF DARKNESS
The league's organ, the Labor lie)
aid, revamps the old libel that the
trade union movement preaches the
identity of "capital {meaning capital
ists) and labor." Says this publica
tion:
"Instead of advocating the prevail
ing shameful and demoralizing non
sense about harmonizing the interests
of capital and labor, it (the league)
is firing the workers' imagination an
releasing their wonderful idealinn
Especially Endowed, Havel Graciously Volunteered To
Direct Wage Earners
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INDIAN WORLD'S OLDEST MAN?
"Wrinkled Meat" Claims to Have
Been on Earth 134 Years, and
Is Said to Look it.
Kfi-he-nah gwey wenee (wrinl. II
meat), better known to tourists of
Northwest as plain John Smith. i tl
leged to have recently Crated l.i
one hundred and thirls -fourth hirih
lay, and any one who observes 'In
e a n n u e o w i n k e s i n
Vho Do Not Understand
The Labor Movement"
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face will have no reason to doubt ilia
his given age is correct, alth«i:u!
many will suspect him of withholding
a number of birthdays from the ii i.i
During a recent vacation trip in ih
region of Cass Lake, Minn.. Earl K
E v a n s a w i e i n e s i e s w i e
i
ited "Wrinkled Meat* at his home.
the outskirts of the aforementioned
village, and, on both occasions, found
"Old John" in the best of
spirits
mid
so
lon.ii there
wa
any one to listen.
.Tolm began the routine story of hi
one hundred thirty-four years, ehoos
ing as the first subject his tune
squaws, who. John maintains, are re
sponsible for his many wrinkles and
long nose. "Me have nine squaws,
said John. "All pretty face, but
crazy. Pretty quick me get tired of
squaw throw 'em in the
woods.
good."
"Me big Injun," continued John
"Fight two wars, many battles. Kill
five Sioux and scalp 'ein." At thi
part of his story John points proudly
to his feathered headgear, hanging on
the wall near his floor bed: and upon
which are arrayed the five feathers
representing the five unfortunate
Sioux Indians. Long Prairie and Pine
City were the two principal battles in
which John engaged.
Chicago is his great nightmare,
sighs.
an
he is not a trifle backward about ex
pressing his opinion. "Crazy town,
says John. "Many man, many squaw
too many kids all crazy. Money
money, money, too much money. Me
spend $10 one day." and
then
NOTED AS TROUBLE MAKERS
According to Historian, the Moplaht
Had Evil Reputation as Far
Back as 1518.
Duarte Barbosa's "Account of the
Countries Bordering on the Indian
Ocean and Their Inhabitants," writ
ten about 1518, contains a lengthy de
script Ion of the Mapuleres or Mop
lahs, who even then were troubling
the peace much as they now are.
"In this land of Malabar," writes
Duarte Barboaa, "there are Moors In
great numbers who speak the same
tongue as the heathens of the land
and go naked like the Nayres, but as
a token of distinction from the heath
en they wear little round caps on their
heads and long beards and they are
so many and so rooted In the soil
throughout Malabar that It seems to
me they are a fifth part of its people
spread over all Its kingdoms and prov
inces. They are rich and live well
They hold all the sea trade and navl
gation. They belong to the sect
of Mafamede their holy day Is Fri
day. They marry as many wives as
they can support, and keep, as well
many heathen concubines of low
caste. If they have sons or daughters
by these they make them Moors, and
ofttimes the mother as well, and thus
this evil generation continues to In
crease In Malabar ihe people of the
country call them Mapuleres."
Candy the Newest Industry.
The tremendous Increase in the
number of confectionery shops, the
vast displays of sweet stuff which
everywhere stagger the eye, mean
that candy-eating has become one of
our chief national industries, Arthur
H. FalwslL wrltua la i/WiUe's. "Have
arid energy by propagating the in
spiring goal of the abolition of cap
italism and the establishment of a
workers' republic."
The league advocates affiliation
with the red "trade union" interna
ional of Lenine and Trotsky.
The "educators" have the same con
tempt for the rank and file of organ
zed labor that all revolutionists have.
It is*declared that the rank and file
ipe.sn't understand the labor move
ment and that these wage earners
must be lead. The Labor Herald says
The fate of all labor organization
in every country depends primarily
upon the activities of a minute minor
ity of clear-sighted enthusiastic mili
tants scattered throughout the great
organized masses of sluggish work-
These live spirits are the natural
head of the working class, the driv
ing force of the labor movement.
They are the only ones who really
understand what the labor struggle
means and who have practical plans
for its prosecution. Touched by the
divine fire of proietarian revolt, they
are the ones who furnish inspiration
ivI guidance to the groping masses.
Summed up, this is the position of
iie
trade union educational league:
.After .10 years of duallism, seces
sion and turmoil among the workers
you "militants" and revolutionists
have failed to even impress the
American trade union movement with
your purpose. You have been de
feated at every point.
It
change your tactics.
labor movement.
is time to
(let.
on the in­
side of the unions. You are "the na
tural head of the working class." The
rank and file
does not undestand
the
you laid in yuur winters suppiy oi
candy?" will soon be as common a
question as, "Have you laid in your
winter's coal?" Candy by the ton
must soon be, if It Is not already, the
rule, and we shall have candy bins in
our cellars to which chocolates and
bonbons will merrily slide down Iron
chutes from the candy trucks. "Send
us three ton of egg and nut mixed."
will be an ordinary telephone order
to a confectioner. Inevitably, too, we
shall read of rank extortion practiced
upon the poor, who have to buy their
candy by the pail.
History In a Nutshell.
Some time after the school system
was adopted by the navy a Filipino
was directed to write an essay on
George Washington. This, however,
was the first contribution, and was as
follows:
"George Washington was sore be
cause American persons was not free.
He saile for England on my ship and
sat to king: 'I express declarations
of Indypendance for American per
sons.' King, he say 'Nothin' doin' and
Mr. Washington tell Admiral Dewle
to shoot big guns at him. Blrneby
King, he say he will not run over
American persons again. 'Let George
do it,' he say, and today American
persons She is tree."—Great Lakes
Bulletin.
Mechanism of Glaciers.
In tunneling through glaciers during
the Alpine operations of the war, op
portunity was offered for observa
lions of inner structure and move
ments. In shallow cuttings, character
istics only to be expected at much
greater depths were found. The al
ternation of lighter and denser layers
cannot here be caused by pressure
but must be a primary, sedimentary
formation. Interior crevasses often
ended in a plane of stratification, thus
pointing to the importance of such
planes In
the glacier liieehan'-rn.
BUILT THE FIRST SKYSCRAPER
Whitelaw Re id's Structure That
Housed the Tribune Was the
Wonder of Its Day.
The skyscraper was undreamed of—
until Whitelaw Reld laid the corner
stone of the Tribune building in 1874
The Florentine campanile that he then
lifted into the air gave his contempo
raries what was, for them, a greater
sensation than their descendants have
received from Manhattan's tallest tow
ers. Voyagers coming up the bay
hailed It with astonishment, little Im
agining the formidable structures It
foreshadowed.
The skyline It broke was that of an
essentially flat, low-lying city. In
Reld's eyes New York was not then
precisely beautiful. So we may judge
from the instructions he sent to Clar
ence Cook in 1870, with a request for
a series of architectural articles. "What
I want," he wrote, "Is first a crisp edl
tferial on the prevailing lack of archl
tectural taste in New York, the dreary
miles of browstone fronts, the worth
lessuess of brownstone as a material
for building, the inostrosities given us
by our wealthiest men."
Then article after article was to be
written, discussing the question of ar
chitecture in our cities generally, but
particularly In New York. The "fright
ful example" was to be fearlessly pll
lorled, and suggestions were to be
made.—From "The Life of Whitelaw
Reid," by Royal Cortlssoz.
Spoiling His Style.
•^Dou't you ever read Shakespeare?
*'I used to," said the alert scenario
writer.
"Yes?"
"I'll have to acknowledge that bird
is pretty good, but I found that read
ing his plays was making my style
little heavy, so I qolt."—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
TfaflE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
CHILD AND ALIEN
LABOR IN BEETS
merican Farm Worker Not Pro
tected by Sugar Tariff.
LOW WAGES ARE BEING PAID
"Yankees Not Wanted," Say Flold
Manager* in Colorado and
Michigan.
By H. E. MILES,
Chairman of the Fair Tariff League.
The American farmer and the
American worker are always the chief
objects of solicitude, put forward by
the high tariff politicians, when an up
ward revision of the tariff is In order.
That has always been true and is now
true in Congress in connection with ef
forts to enact the high rates In the
Fordney so-called permanent Tariff
Bill.
The farmer as well as the worker.
however, has come to realize that any
benefit he may derive from an exorbi
tant tariff, levied in the name of pro
tection on an article which he pro
duces, is more than offset by the
tribute which he must pay on arti
cles which he consumes but does not
raise.
Sugar Is a good example of how this
works out with reference to the farm
er. The American beet sugar industry
prospered under a« protective tariff of
one cent a pound 6n Cuban raw sugar.
The Emergency Tariff Act increased
this 60 per cent. One of the arguments
advanced
for
this tremendous lncreas«
was that the beet sugar Industry need
ed this protection In order to protect
the American farm laborer engaged In
aising sugar beets.
Unfortunately for this argument
there is very little American farm labor
in the beet sugar Industry as the rec
ords of the Department of Labor and
the Department of Agriculture show.
Sugar beets are raised and harvested
almost entirely by the cheapest grade
obtainable of foreign labor, contracted
for by the sugar manufacturers and
turned over to the beet growers.
Field bosses In the beet sugar sec
tions have Indeed frequently told in
vestigators that American labor Is not
wanted because "a Yankee can't stand
the hard work."
Child Labor In Majority
Not only is the larger part of the
beet sugar labor this low priced for
eign labor which we are warned
against hut even a larger part are the
children of these foreign families.
In Colorado alone, one of the most
Important beet sugar states, the Na
tionnl Child Labor Committee found
5,000 children between the ages of six
and fifteen years, practically all of
alien parents, regularly eng:tired In the
cultivation of sugar beets.
From the time the beets are in the
ground until they are deliver' I at the
factory the hardest kind of
manual
la
hor Is required. And much of this Is
done by small children. These children
spend long, hard h&urs on their hands
and knees weeding and thinning the
beets. Then when the beets are full
grown they spend more long, hard
hours lifting the heavy rooi* ro their
knees and with a wide sweep a dan
gerously sharp knife cut off the tops
The Federal Children's Bureau made
an intensive study of the Colorado sit
uatlon. Of 1,077 included in this study
seven-tenths were the children of con
tract laborers. Over one-fourth of
them were under ten years
hours.
old.
a small
percentage under eight. Less than
one-fifth were as much »ts fourteen
years old. Considerably
over
a half
ranged from nine to thirteen. From
09 to 8" per cent, according to the
process In which the child was enga
ed.
worked nine hours or more a day
Fr in one-seventh to
one
third, again
varying with the process, worked
eleven hours or more a Jay. The
average working day for all processes
was usually between
nine and sen
Evil Effect on Children
Postural deformities and malposi
tions were found In 70 per cent of the
children examined by the Bureau'
physicians. Another serious effect I
the interference with their educa
tlon. Among 030 children from
nine to sixteen years of age for vviion
school records were obtained over -10
per cent were from one to seven year
below the normal grade for their age
The general study of the National
Child Labor Committee In Colorado
and Michigan indicates that these
MI
con
dltions hold generally throughout th
beet raising sections. A farmer wli
owns or leases land contracts with th
sugar company to furnish a certain
number of acres.on which beets ate
be grown. The company agrees to fur
nlsh the hand labor. The com pan
then contracts with a laborer, usually
a Russian. Jap or Mexican, to do th
work on a definite number of acres
The number of acres a laborer con
tracts to care for Is based largely on
the number of children he has.
The labor employed In the Coloradt
beet fields Is practically all foreign la
bor, Mexican, Japanese and Russian
The Mexicans and Japanese, howeve
do not work their children as much a
do the Russians. The Russian chll
dren often begin work as early as fou
or five years of age.
In Michigan conditions are very sira
liar, excepting that the nationalities
of the workers are more diversified
and there are fewer Russians and Mex
leans and no Japanese. Thev are
made up largely of Hungarians. Slav
from the small provinces, Polish und
Germans. In Michigan, as In
Colom
do, the beet people are exploiting the
foreign laborer and his children..
All of which pretty thoroughly punc
tures any pretense that a high tariff
on sugar will in any way protect Amer
ican farm labor.
Dubious Prospect.
saw Dubson dining with hla
fiancee last evening."
"Did he look happy?"
"Not exactly. Her mother and three
older sisters were present. He looked
to me like a young man who was
wondering if that was just au isolated
instance or was liable to become
fixed habit"—Birmingham Age-Her
ald.
Do you know the value of a Three
A. Card? The Auto Club fives you
one.
HANDCUFF LAWS
\r
Labor and No Class
Legislation Favored By
Sham Americans
St. Paul, Minn.—Business men and
statesmen—would bes and make be
lieves—applauded two state govern
ors at the annual banquet of the St.
Paul Lincoln Club when they de
nounced "class legislation" and favor
ed "ean't-strike" laws.
None noted the inconsistency of the
solemn-faced speakers, who, in sepul
chre tones, insisted that workers be
handcuffed to their jobs and that
every patriot should oppose "class
legislation."
Governor Allen, of Kansas, told
how his law has brought peace and
prosperity to Kansas—or rather, how
he hopes it will if trade union "agita
tors" cease agitating.
Governor McKelvie, of Nebraska,
ailed at the senate farm bloc. It ap
pears that this is the first bloc he
ever discovered in a legislative body,
and his denunciations could be heard
lear into Wall street.
Business men applauded the safe
and sane statesmen, who showed the
need for outlawing strikes and the
danger of "class legislation."
No one suggested that business mer
be jailed or fined if they attempted tc
sabotage production or close their
plants.
SHAM DEMOCRACY
Washington.—The sham democracy
of plantation owners in Porto Rico,
who are urging independence, is
shown in their advocacy of a bill in
troduced by Congressman Campbell
which would create the "associated
free state of Porto Rico."
These plantation owners are al
ways calling on the memory of Jeffer
son and" Lincoln in their plea for
freedom, but the democracy they pro
fess is not evident in the Campbell
bill.
Under this proposal, the legislature
hall elect the governor and lieuten
ant-governor. A resident commis
sioner of the United States to reside
n Porto Rico shall be appointed by
the president of the United States.
This commissioner will be given
powers only enjoyed by autocrats. He
will have complete control of the mili
tary forces of the island, he may de
clare martial law or suspend the writ
of habeas corpus at will, and he may
set aside certain laws.
WOULD SUE UNIONS
Boston.—Organized labor in Lhu
state is arranging to combat the "sue'
law at the polls next November. Un
der this act labor unions can be sued
just as incorporated bodies. When the
legislature passed the bill organize
abor secured the signatures of 15,000
voters who requested that it be placed
on the ballot for referendum at the
next election. If the voters do not re
ject the law it becomes effective tht
first of next year.
THIS ROAD NOT BROKE
New York.—A preliminary report
by the Delaware, Lackawanna 1
Western railroad shows that the 192
net income, before dividends wer
paid, was $19,158,403, compared wit)
$14,658,444 in 1920.
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