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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12,1928
DID YOU REGISTER?
Did you register last week, or this?
Well, if you haven't, don't forget that
no one can vote this year unless they
have registered new. There will be
two days next week for registration,
Friday and Saturday, and they will
be your last chance if you want to
vote at the November election. So
don't forget—Friday and Saturday of
next week. All polling places will
be open these two days for registra
tion during the hours 8 a. m. to 2 p.
m., and 4 p. m. to 9 p. m.
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MILLION FOR "TALKIE" ADS
Warner Brothers are to spend a
cool million dollars in dail papers, be
ginning at once, to advertise their
talking pictures. That ought to show
the money involved in the big movie
pictures.
When movie magnates start bear
ing down on the workers who make
their pictures and on the musicians
who provide the music required to
make so many of them palatable, it
will be remembered that Warner
Brothers can peel off a million dol
lars just for daily newspaper adver
tising.
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IMPORTED LOW-WAGE
PRODUCTS
It becomes clearer, week by week,
that American labor is just about as
concerned over the influx of low
priced European commodities coming
here in every-growing volume as it
ever has been over the influx of Euro
pean workers. "Where," it is asked
"is the difference between low wage
workers and low price commodities in
competition with us?" The volume
of commodities now coming into the
United States, to be sold at cut prices,
is almost staggering. The boot and
shoe workers cite imported shoes as
an example. There are many others
It is an issue of importance, and it is,
by the way, as important to Euro
pean trade unionists as it is to Amer
ican trade unionists.
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POWER TRUST ON JOB
Power trust propagandists are ever
on the job. Their publicity agents
are tireless in their efforts and cease
less in their propaganda. Every edi
tor's desk finds a lot of cleverly writ
ten and skillfully handled copy, many
times with the real motive concealed.
Not only has the power trust the
largest army of paid lobbyists in
Washington, it has one of the most
marvelous staffs of writers and pub
licity disseminators that has ever been
organized.
Readers of daily newspapers, week
ly and monthly publications find prop
aganda everywhere if they can but
read with enough discrimination to
CHRIST FO* ALL-ALL FOK
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CHRISTIAN CONFIDENCE:
This is the confidence that we have
in Him, that, if we ask anything ac
cording to His will, he heareth us.—
I John 5:14.
PRAYER:—Dear Lord, Thou didst
assure us that if we ask we shall re
ceive, if we seek we shall find, and if
we knock it shall be opened unto us.
The Volstead Act
The following editorial on the "Volstead Act" appeared in a recent tswie
of the Cincinnati Chronicle. The Press believes it will prove of interest to
its readers and reproduces it:
Whenever the drys discuss the prohibition law, they take the position
that the eighteenth amendment is on the statute books and that it is impos
sible for the wets to get sufficient states to ratify an amendment that would
wipe it out and that, therefore, there is absolutely nothing that those
opposed to prohibition can do about it. They freely admit that the Volstead
law has not been enforced, and that there is some doubt as to whether it
can be enforced for a long period of time, yet they very smugly say to those
who propose a change in conditions: "What are you going to do about it?
We have got you where we want you, and we are going to keep you there
whether you like it or not."
detect it.
There is a determination on the part
of the great electric concerns of this
country to seize all the hydro-electric
power that may be taken away from
the people and to exploit it for a long
time to come.
They seem to think there is no remedy other than an amendment to the
federal constitution, and that such an amendment is impossible at the pres
ent time, so that it is entirely a safe thing to go on taunting their opponents
and prodding them and arousing their anger while they gleefully sit back
in contemptible confidence that they have the upper hand in the situation.
The truth of the matter is, however, that the Volstead law is a dishonest
and hypocritical interpretation of the eighteenth amendement that prevents
congress from leaving the matter of the alcoholic content of beer to the
determination of the different states and in that way complying with the
provisions of the constitution. There is, therefore, something that can be
done by congress without amending the constitution, and it would be a most"
sensible action for that body to take, because then the hypocritical states
that want hypocritical and fanatical legislation could have it without forcing
it upon states that do not want it, and then we would have real temperance
in this supposedly free country of ours and have a solution of the liquor
question satisfactory to a majority of the people, one which does not repudi
$te the constitution, that does not disregard the sacred right of trial by jury,
that respects the sanctity of the home, that will eliminate the present de
plorable condition of bootlegging, snooping and official corruption, and which
will not send p.oor people to jail for being caught with a pint of beer, while
wealthy men and women drink lavishly and uninterfered with solely because
they had money enough to put in a plentiful supply, which is protected by the
laws put over by the fanatical prohibitionists, who had not desire to bother
anyone except the workers.
The drys know that the present hypocritical and discriminatory law
has resulted in wholesale violations and that there is more drinking now,
when it is illegal, than there was before the adoption of the eighteenth amend
ment. They are well aware that the condition brought about by their fanatic
ism has resulted in violations not only of the prohibition law but that it has
been a breeder of contempt for all laws, and that as a consequence of it crime
has been constantly increasing during the past ten years until it has reached
a stage where all sensible people are gravely apprehensive of the future of
the republic. People of all other countries look upon us with pity for our
intelligence, since the facts compel us to admit that our record of crime sur
passes that of any other nation in the world, yet those responsible for
plunging us into this deplorable state of affairs sit down in smug satisfaction
and sneeringly ask us what we are going to do about it.
The only thing that will circum
vent this conspiracy is an intelligent
public, informed and forewarned by
the few remaining unsubsidized and
fearless editors who are unfettered
and unpurchasable. Fortunately there
are a few left.
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Well, we can do something about it, and we ought to do something about
it, and if we do not soon do something about it, then we will deserve the
growing world-wide contempt for our intelligence that is plainly visible to
all with eyes to see. The organized workers stand for intelligence, honesty
and efficiency in government and against imbecility, fraud and incompetency
in public life, and as loyal Americans they will help all other sensible citi
zens to rid the country of the conditions brought upon us by the pesty jug
glers who drink wet and vote dry.
LABOR'S NON-PARTISAN
POLITICAL POLICY
Throughout its existence, the Amer
ican Fdeeration of Labor has followed
a policy of non-partisan political
action from which it has departed
only in real emergencies. This non
partisan policy is in accord with the
voluntary principles upon which the
American labor movement rests.
American labor has held the belief
that a movement held together by
mutual needs and interests and act
ing together, because they can accom
plish through united action much
more than as individuals, has stronger
cohesive qualities and constructive
possibilities than a movement which
depends on any form of compulsion.
The American Federation of Labor
is based on a philosophy of voluntar
ism and distinguishes carefully be
tween matters of individual decision
and those on which the federation
should decide. Two matters which
American traditions have made invio
late are the individual's rights to
choose his church and cast his ballot
in accord with his own best judgment.
America's wage earners are from
many lands and many nationalities
But though they may speak different
languages, belong to different
churches, advocate different political
methods, they have common economic
problems for which they need the la
bor movement. The real solidarity of
wage earners depends on wisdom in
not jeopardizing common interests by
dealing with matters which are per
sonal in nature. Every American citi
zen and therefore every trade union
ist has a right to cast his ballot as
his best judgment may direct.
Should the American Federation of
Labor endorse a specific party repre
sentative or platform, such action
would in effect constitute a notifica
tion to union members that the move
ment expected them to vote accord-
ingly. Should union members exer
cise their rights as citizens and vote
in accord with their best judgment
contrary to the federation's recom
mendations, the seeds of discord and
alienation from the union would be
sown.
The executive council of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor in its recent
meeting decided not to endorse either
republican or democratic candidates
but to leave trade unionists free to
act upon information furnished them
The American Federation of Labor
has no votes to deliver, but it renders
trade unionists the advisory service
of furnishing the labor records of
candidates.
Our non-partisan policy enables our
economic movement to avoid the dan
ger of splitting into groups over par
tisan political issues.—Ex.
PRESIDENT NAMES
Board to Settle Railroac
Dispute
Washington, D. C. (I. L. N. S.—An
emergency board of five members
investigate the wage dispute between
the railroads west of Chicago and the
Order of Railway Conductors
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men has been created by proclamation
of President Coolidge. The board
to report its findings to the president
within 30 days.
The member sof the emergency
board, as announced at the Whit^
House, are: James R. Garfield,
Cleveland, Ohio, secretary of the
terior in the Roosevelt administration
Walter F. Stacy, of Raleigh, N.
chief justice of the supreme court
Norht Carolina Prof. Davis R. Dewey,
of the Massachusetts Institute
Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Ches
ter R. Howell, of Berkeley, Calif.,
attorney and formerly a member
the California state railroad commis
sion George T. Baker, of Davenport,
Iowa.
of
The proclamation lists 47 Western
railroads as being involved in tho
wage dispute, with their conductors
and trainmen, who are said to number
approximately 55,000.
Creation of the board which is
vided under the provisions of
railway labor act was made necessary
by reason of the failure of the United
States board of mediation to adjust
the dispute. In his proc. amation, the
president recites that the dispute
threatens substantially to interrupt
interstate commerce in the territory
where the carriers operate.
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A young husband was recently
playfully questioning wlfle on her
past
"Tell me truly," he said, "did any
other man ever kiss you?"
"Well," was the reply, "I-was once
up the river with a man, and he
started rocking the boat, at the same
time exclaiming: 'Now, Mary, my
dear, either you kiss me or we both
drown!'"
"And did you kiss him?" gasped
the husband.
"Was I drowned?" asked the wife.
THE GUSHER
•She's rich now—her father struck
oil.'
"And she does nothing bit gush."
To the Driver
8top and let the train gro by.
It hardly takes a minute.
Then your car starts off again,
And, better still, you're in it!
Craft Suspected
"My dear," said Mr. Meek ton, "you
should tnlk over the radio every night
and tell the world soine of the won
derful things you say to me."
"Leonidas, look me in the eye! Are
you trying for an arrangement that
will enable you to shut me off as soon
as you get tired of listening?"
Selfish Consideration
"Your wife has become a great poll
tlciun."
"She has," answered Mr. Meekton
proudly. "I hope she will yet suc
ceed 1 bringing up an Issue that
will prevent handmaidens from serv
lng hard-boiled eggs for breakfast
Washington Star.
Snappy
A young man walked into a baker's
shop and asked for two dozen loaves,
The shopkeeper looked surprised.
"Have you a tea party on?" he In
quired.
"No, said the man. "I'm working
at the menagerie, and the kangaroo
has kicked the elephant, so I want to
make a bread poultice."
A Nutty One
"My cow has run away did you see
anything of It around the village?"
asked the farmer who lived on the
edge of town.
"No," grinned the village hnlf-wlt,
"but why don't you borrow a locomo
tive from the railroad it has a cow
catcher?"
USUALLY WITH A ROPE
Tom—"The hanging was done with
despatch." Jim—"Isn't It usually
done with a rope?"
Business Rhymes
The rose, one knows. Is very red.
The violet is blue.
The florist has his overhead,
So render him bis due.
Courting Troublet
"So you're getting married againf
"Yen, and I hope I'll be happier
than I was the last time."
"Be careful—sometimes pne has
relapse which Is worse than the orig
inal ailment."—L'lllustration, Paris.
Verdict
"Weil, how did the lady come out
In her trial?"
"The jury decided that she was
good-looking—w
"Eh?"
"In the first degree."
Read the Press.
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The Cherry
111 Where with our
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about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
Henry Ford, collector of old timo
dance tunes, should send a scout to
Scranton, Pa., and have him look in
on a certain Saturday night affair
which is bringing fame to a certain
mine foreman and a group of union
miners of that city that sits placidly
on top of a maze of coal diggings.
It all started when someone pos
sessed of a roll of money set forth a
plan for the establishment of a recrea
tion hall, swimming pool and other
things and died with the project in its
infancy. All that grew out of the
scheme was a more or less barn-like
hall which is used as union meeting
place and Saturday night dance hall.
Jack Cole is the mine superitend
ent around whose energetic person
ality the Saturday night amusement
more or less revolves. The strange
part of the story is that the whole
venture was by way of being a com
plete flop until Cole got the idea that
old time dances might make the thing
a success.
The idea works, as any visitor will
discover.
When the evening's festivities are
in full swing there will likely be a
couple of hundred miners and their
wives or sweethearts on the floor.
The modern dances get their innings,
but the big drawing card of the eve
ning is always the program of old
time square dances, tripped to such
tunes as were known in the early
doys of the Republic, such tunes as
were scraped out of energetic old fid
dles in the barn dances of other days,
such tunes as are all but lost in the
music o ftoday, unless one digs into
the memories of the oldsters or goes
hunting in such books of folk music
as Carl Sandburg has put together.
There's a young fiddler in the trio
of musicians that makes this Scranton
mine dance rythm who knows his
"Turkey in the Straw" as well as any
son of Vermont ever knew it a half
century ago.
Where he discovered the music he
plays he only knows, and he only
grins about it.
The atmosphere of this miners
dance halls is a lot different from the
average dance resort of the current
vintage. It is not affected by any
of the lingo that has been invented
to give such places a glamor befitting
their price. It is a plain, old fash
ioned Saturday night dance, and noth
ing but, and the price for getting past
the door is just two bits, twenty-five
cents, a silver quarter of a dollar
The dancing that goes on in this
mine revel takes no back stage plac^
be it known. It classes along with
the best to be found anywhere. Cole
himself is at it in every number
There's a fire boss who does a mean
step and there's a barn boss who
takes a last, lingering look at his
string of mules and makes a bee line
for the dance floor. This mule boss
is by way of being what is known as
"some stepper" and rumor has it that
he has learned new intricacies of
movement from the foot work of the
charges over which he watches for an
eight-hour stretch each day.
The mine mules and the mine cat
stay where they are while the bosses
of this and that and the artists of
pick, shovel and powder leave the
works flat on its back to revel for a
night in the hall that would be cold
as the Arctic circle in winter were it
not for a double dose of steam pipes
fed with steam from the mine boilers
and for the wild music that comes
from one of the most efficient trios
extant.
Perhaps this Scranton union dance
hall, home of the dances of old, about
which the king of flivverdom has made
such a fuss, is but a sample of what is
going on in many places. The un
usual things are those about which
we know little and which we do not
commonly see. Towns all over the
may are filled with things that are un
usual to those not of those towns.
Miners have about them things that
are unusual to others so do carpen
ters and iron molders and steamfit.
ters, as well as sailors who go down
to the sea in ships. The fiddler of
Scranton, the masters of the old-time
dance patterns, and the genius who
calls the dance—these folks are hav
ing a lot of fun at the close of each
hard-working week and it was worth
a look, as it would be to anybody who
cares to know what the human race
is doing with itself as it passes this
way.
UNION PRESSMEN
To Honor Memory of Mem
phis Editor
Washington, D. C. (I. L. N. S.)
memorial at the Pressmen's Home
Bear Rogesville, Tenn., in honor of the
late C. P. J. Mooney, editor of the
Memphis Commercial-Appeal for
nearly 20 years.
The building, which will be erected
over one of the many springs on the
grounds of the home, will be built by
Memphis Chapters 18 and 24 of the
International pressmen's and Assist-
ants' Union. G. A. "Jiggs" Rosen
gren, of the Memphis Press-Scimitar,
and head of Local 24, and R. F. Brown,
of the Memphis Commercial Appeal
and head of Local 18, are in charge
of raising the fund.
About $500 will be needed for the
structure, George L. Berry, president
of the international union and head
of the home, says.
Contributions to the memorial fund
will be solicited only from members
of the Memphis chapters of the Press
mne's Union and related unio norgan
izations, Rosengren and Brown say.
Memphis labor has endorsed the me-
morial and more than $200 already has
been raised.
C. P. J. Mooney died in November,
1926, while at work iri^his office at
the Commercial Appeal.
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