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FRIDAY, JUNE 7,1929
A BRAVE EXPERIMENT
One of the finest things in America
in recent months is the history of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company. Fol
lowing the tragedy of the last coal
strike Miss Josephine Roche, at great
cost to herself, acquired majority
control of the company. She at once
recognized the union and set up a
genuine scheme of workers' co-opera
tion in the management of the indus
try.
Powers Hapgood, well
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sought and found employment in one
of Miss Roche's mines for the pur
pose of judging at first hand how
her scheme is working out. He h6ar
tily indorses the plan.
The reorganized Rocky Mountain
Fuel Company has had to face terri
ble pressure from unfriendly competi
tors and from suspicious banks. It
is winning out, partly thanks to the
loyal and intelligent support of the
Colorado labor movement.
Union men and their friends in
Colorado and neighboring states are
purchasing Rocky mountain's coal.
They are in tlfts manner giving sub
stantial support to company operat
ed by a lone, social-minded woman,
who is-making a sincere attempt to
redeem at least one Colorado coal
mine from a condition of smoldering
civil war by a real step toward de
mocracy in industry.
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HERE COMES THE BRIDE
This is the time of year when pros'
pective June brides all over the coun
try are preparing to attach the ball
and chain to their adoring fiances.
In the old days, after the. wedding,
the bride used to alter her wedding
dress into an evening gown. Now she
puts it carfeully away for the next
time, An old-fashioned marriage is to
a modern one what a regular play is
to a vaudeville performance.
Orange blossoms appear to be the
favorite flower of the brides anJ
TRusincss Methods
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'"to fee Operation ot a :^:ne cuimot be
there is an accurate knowledge of
Modorn wives, borrowing some m( the method# of
(A» business world, are rapidly lowering tbeir "operating
mtpflnae."
Tak* the matter of home baking, for instance.
WhflB you add up all the costs, flour, shortening, milk,
yeast, and—oftaa overlooked—the value of
WQ find, you save money by buying
BILL BOOSTER SAYS:
OWERES
WO LAW TO MAKE
FOLKS TRADE AT HOME,(
WO MORE THAU TMERESf
A LAW COMPELLING PEOPLE "TO
SAVE TWElR MOUEV^ET
BOTH ARE RE£ARDEP AS
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the favorite drink of the bridegroom.
The bride's father generally gives her
away. No one gives the groom away.
If anyone did there probably would
be no wedding. Most bridegrooms
look sad and worried. Not at the
prospect that is ahead but rather at
the thought of what they are suppos
ed to leave behind. The morning
after the 'wedding the bride is sur
prised and slightly hurt to find upon
reading the paper that there has been
r.o epidemic of male suicides since her
wedding. And when she discovers a
few months later that one of her
most ardent admirers, who swore he
could not live without her, has gained
ten pounds she is a little bewildered.
If all the bodies of the defeated suit
ors who threatened to kill them
selves and did it were placed end to
end, they could be covered by a post
age stamp. Indeed, many of them
decide after awhile that it. is better
to have loved and lost than to have
loved and won. The kind of a girl
who would marry a man to keep him
from killing himself would make an
ideal wife. She would believe any
thing.
Still "here comes the bride"—by the
thousand.—Ex.
CONSCRIPTION COMING
The stage is being set in congress
for the passage of a conscription law
that will empower the president to
call the nation's youth to the colors.
An act of congress is now neces
sary to conscript, but a pending bill
will give that power to the president
Secretary of War Good proposed
a blunt conscription act, but this has
been rejected by senators because it
makes no mention of wealth.
A bill favored by the American
Legion covers this point. It empow
ers the president to conscript youth
and to "regelate" the profits of
business.
The bill is called 'conscription of
capital and labor," but this is mis
leading. It makes no attempt to con
script wealth. Profits are merely
regulated.
Under this system a business man
will be allowed to include deprecia
tion, replacement of machinery, inter
est on investment and all other ex
penses. Then he will be permitted to
charge a "fair profit." This will
check war-time profiteers who des
stroy a nation's morale in war time.
The bill, however, will make no
attempt to seize the means of pro
duction, but the youth of the land
will be seized.
youi time, you
BAMBY BREAD
On doilar-and-cento basic, you can't afford to do
yoor own kakinc---especially when such delicious and
^jwnma bread can be bought so cheaply. But the
rami Important consideration is the fact that we relieve
ymi of the work and worry, leaving your time free for
tmmt dhattas or
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relaxation and recreation.
Why not t*y K out for a week or two? You'll ap
DM cadre hours you have—and the extra pennies,
a loaf of our bread today.
WEIK'S BAKERY
1375-1381 Shuler "Ave. Phone 3883
Bread Is Your Best Food—Eat More Of It
MORE LIVES THAN A CAt
The old propaganda comparing col
lege professors' wages to bricklay
ers, about miners "wearing silk
shirts" and driving Cadillacs, has
sgain shown its head. It seems to
have more lives than cat is Bap
posed to have.
Recently a cartoon appeared in the
eastern press showing a poor and rag
ped professor on the sidewalk, watch
ing a bricklayer with a huge cigar in
his mouth, driving a big' car. John J.
Leary, labor editor of the New York
World, knows his labor,, however, and
effectively answered such propaganda
in his column of labor news. He
wrote:
"The signing of contracts giving
bricklayers yn the New York area $15
a day or better has revived the an
cient joke of the poorly paid professor
and the highly paid bricklayer. It is
based on thev theory that the brick
layer works full time and the pro
lessor also puts in fifty-two weeks a
year. Actually, the bricklayer who
trets in 180 days a year is doing well,
and 200 days is prosperity. In other
words, his annual wage is from
$2,700 to $3,000
"The college professor who does
not get $3,000 a year is out of luck,
and he works fewer than forty weeks
a year, is not exposed to the weather
or the hazards of construction, usu
ally gets one year in seven off with
full pay, and when he gets into the
sere and yellow is eligible for pen
sions."—Illinois Miner.
PRAYERS NOT ANSWERED
Dismayed by the failure of troops
and injunctions to accomplish their
purpose, John E. Edgerton, president
of the Tennessee Manufacturers' As
sociation, advised members to "con
tinue their prayers for the enduring
strength" of southern textile employ
ers who are resisting trade unionism.
Prayers for "those brave spirits
who are fighting our cause and de
fending at tremendous cost the sa
cred right of m^n and women to
work" are badly needed, according
co Mr. Edgerton.
"Let us also pray for our governor
and troops (at Elizabethton) who are
defending the integrity of our consti
tution which guarantees, in the face
of the communistic pressures upon
them from within ^fend without our
borders, to surrender our state to
the forces of anarchy.
"If our prayers are answered, and
I fervently hope they will be, then
we may be spared the embarrass
ment of a conference and other costs
which attachment to principle exacts."
Evidently Mr. Edgerton's prayers
weren't much thought of or they fall
on deaf ears, because following his
appeal textile workers, won their
strike at.Greenville, S. C., and Eliza
bethton.
UNIONS BOOST MEMBERSHIP
The International Association of
Machinists and the International
Union of Operating Engineers each
report increases in membership of
some 3,500 since the first of the year.
Other unions report substantial
m-mbership gains.
It is notable that the unions which
are making aggressive membership
campaigns, as in the case of the ma
chinists and operating engineers, are
the ones making the biggest mem
bership gains. What the»y have ac
complished shows what virtually any
trade union can do if it tackles organ
ization work with energy and deter
mination. That there is apathy among
workers toward organization is gen
erally admitted. But it should not be
forgotten that apathy .can be over
come by hard work, which many
unions are proving.
RADIO CZARS GOING TOO FAR
The federal radio commission has
decided that Station WCFL can not
have full time on the air and it can
not have the power it wants. It is
.shut off at night when wage earners
nave time to listen. The board is said
to have based its decision on the
ground that another station had bet
ter programs. Why should the radio
commission have power to judge pro
grams? If it can hold that power it
can bar labor from the air entirelj
for no other reason than a dislike for
labor programs. This business of
government by commissions and
boards may easily go too far, and it
probably has gone too far already.
There is no such thing as a good czar.
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WINNING AT ELIZABETHTON
The rayon kings at Elizabethton
may ride their high horses if they
like, l?ut they have been beaten by
the mountaineer workers, and that's
that. The right to organize has been
won, and the gateway to the new
industrial south is open. Press on!
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
The Cherry
i Where with our
Little Hatchet
we te
j| jie truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly...........
The country is all stfeamed up over
power company 'ownership of news
papers, who's who in the Washington
social war, and what will happen in
the suit through which a lady hopes
to nick Gene Tunney's roll for fifty
grand.
These, to esure, are great issues.
They are all great issues. Look them
over. No sooned does a newspaper
scandal break than some other big
news, like a divorce scandal, comes
along to push it off page 1.
There is Harry Sinclair, in jail.
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Almost frogotten, just one more bird
in a jailful. But Harry wears his
expensive clothes, while less lucky
ones wear stripes and do ther stuff
under strict discipline.
But Harry is lost to the front page,
while froth fills the columns.
No sooner does a serious story of
true importance come along than a
burst of foam wipes it off. News
papers are strange— the only thing
stranger is the human mass that
stands for .them.
For a time the reporters were wild
for news about Harry. Soon they for
got him. They were determined to
see if he got the same treatment
meted out to others. He doesn't, but
the newspapers are no longer scan
dalized.
Then came great indignation over
ownership of newspapers by power
companies. That, too, will pass. All
indignation passes, but newsaper in
dignation is especially short of life.
Daily newspapers excuse them
selves, saying each day is a new day.
So it is, but abuses are never truly
old news until they are stopped.
Of course, getting to the gizzard of
it, all this scandalizing about power
trust ownership of newspapers is.
mere bluster. Most papers are scan
dalized, not because of the fact but
because it has become public.
Like certain other acts, newspaper
prostitution is an old story, heinous
only when people find it out.
For free utterance and frank opin
ion, read your labor paper. It is
today's freest newspaper.
Some daily papers may be free
spoken about one thing—must all
have their sacred cows, their gods be
fore whom they tremble and shut up.
Not to harp too much on newspa
pers and their ills, there was an ex
ception in the case of Paul Mallon,
Press reporter who published a secret
roll call and got the senate all boil
ing. It was all not overly important,
and it showed the hypocrisy of some
senators much more than it showed
newspaper courage. To most news
papers it was just one more "good
story."
Newspapers could do a real service
if they would get at and print the in
side story of the reparations confer
ence. But they will not. Maybe they
can not, but that is unlikely.
What was the program arranged in
Wall street before the delgeates
sailed? We'll have no secret roll call
story about that, quite surely.
We must have our daily newspapers
and they are a lot better than their
severest critics say they are. Some
are corrupt. Some of merely easy
virtue. Some just careless. Some ig
norant. Indispensable, as a whole.
But let them prate about no grfeat
sanctimonious urge tfo save the race.
That's mere palaver. In most cases
they say, with the gentleman who
took power trust money to start a
paper, "I think I can make money
running a paper there."
It is better to admit the fact. It is
not dishonest. The worst phase about
the whole newspaper business is the
cheap hypocrisy with which good
bad and indifferent business men
seek to wrap their business aims U|
to look like tinseled Christmas par
cels of unadulterated idealism.
STRIKERS WIN
Sweeping Victory in Big
.Brandon Mills
Greenville, S. C.—Textile striker
at the big Brandon mills won a
sweeping victory and workers
throughout the entire Piedmont sec
tion are inspired.
The mills are organized 100 per
cent under the United Textile Work
ers affiliated to the A. F. of L. Sign
ed agreements are secured.
Public sentiment is so strongly in
favor of the strikers that the Tex
tile Manufacturers' Association has
started an advertising campaign to
stem the tide. They claim the speed
up system, known as "stretch out,'
is a forward step, but the workers
claim of long hours and greater pro
duction at lower wages remains un
answered.
First Cf/nstable: "Did you get that
feller's number?"
Second Constable: "Naw, he
too goldarned fast for me."
First Constable: "That was a
pretty brown-eyed gal he had in the
back seat."
Second Constable: fjfe sure was."
FRAUD CHARGES n
Against Vare Compiled For
Senate in Wilson ,,
3 Claim V
Washington.—Election frauds in
the 1926 Pennsylvania senatorial elec
tion are included in a brief support
ing the claim of William B. Wilson,
first secretary of labor and former
?ecretary-treasurer of the United
Mine Workers.
Contesting the claim of William S.
Vare, wTio was declared elected on tffie
face of the returns, but who was
not seated in the senate because of
the charges, the brief fills 79 pages
of election frauds in various eounties
of that state.
Counsel for Wilson charged that
"political corruption so permeated"
Philadelphia and Allegheny county
(Pittsburgh) that the "actual difficul
ty encountered in the investigation of
fraudulent voting and corrupt prac
ices was not so much in the discov
ery of such conditions as in the ascer
tainment of the isolated instances
where they did not prevail."
In Pittsburgh, it is stated, the rec
ord shows a padding of the assess
ors' list by 56,000 names.
"Without dealing with the impor
tant but relatively side issues in the
counties of Delaware, Lackawanna,
Luzerne and Schuylkill, the salient,
unchallenged and undisputed fact re
mains that the people of the state of
Pennsylvania, outside of those twin
centers of political debauchery, Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh, recorder
their uncorrupted ballots for William
B. Wilson. Carrying 55 of the 37
counties of the state, he came to
Pittsburgh with a popular majority
of 97,255 votes and triumphing over
the corruption he met there, In
wept on to Philadelphia with a popu
lar majority of 59,422."
FEDERAL UNION
Is Recruiting Station And
Key to Organization
Washington.—"The Federal Labm
Union is a recruiting station f»t
trade unions," said Wm. Green, pres
dent A. F. of L., in an appeal to ull
voluntary organizers to unite the
workers.
Federal unions include those work
i's where there are not a sufficient
number in their respective crafts
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callings to form a trade union.
After the Federal Labor Union
organized and a sufficient number
any particular craft or calling bf
ome members of the Federal Labni
Union, the Federal Trade Union
must
form a local trade union and affiliate
with the A. F. of L. or with the na
tional or international union
which
has jurisdiction.
No worker who is a member of a
union at the present time can become
a member of a Federal Labor Union
while he is employed at work that is
under the jurisdiction of the union
of which he is a member.
BUILDING LOCKOUT
AVERTED IN N.Y.
New York.—The threatened lock
rut of 75,000 building craftsmen has
been referred to a board of arbitra
tion headed by Supreme Court Jus
tice Thomas C. T. Crain.
The Building Trades Employers'
Association agreed to reinstate its
promise to establish the five-day week
without loss of wages that was grant
ed May 4 and canceled by the board
of governors of the association on
May 12 when they ordered the lock
out.
Daughter: "No, daddy, 1 Won't
need any clothes this summer."
Father: "Ye gods! I was afraid
it would come to that!"
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—While
soviet propaganda machinery con
tinues grinding out plots, the soviets
in Russia seem not to be doing so
well by the proletariat. Dr. Julius
Klein, assistant secretary of com
merce, in a radio talk, drew the pic
ture of soviet failure:
"Clearly, a rather serious plight ex
ists within the soviet union. The
grayest problem arises from the un
deniable shortage of grain and the
consequent scarcity of bread. All so
cial elements are affected, every city
is rationed, prices are mounting,
peasants are leaving their farms.
Russia will be compelled to import
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