GREAT URGE FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS
NOW IS BEFORE SOUTHERN STATES;
LABOR HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS
It’s a queer old world, but a grand old world, and the last part of that
Statement Is the truest. It is a grand old world.
Here in 1937 we have the greatest urge for social and economic ad
vancement which this old world has ever experienced. We have scientific
bnefits impossible to the richest monarchs of 100 years ago literally forced
upon the lowliest humand on this globe. In the fields of medical science,
transportation, home comforts, production and distribution of today is realised
the highest imagings of our ancestors. And it has all developed so suddenly
that we are individually and collectively stunned by the vastness of its
possibilities.
And there are those who would have us believe that there is something
wrong, that this old world is topsy-turvy. The truth of the matter is there
is nothing wrong. It is all so right that our expectancy of wrong misleads us.
Is there anything wrong in a civilization which can produce luxuries
so plentiful that they are common, everyday utilities? Is there something
wrong with the fact taat man’s ingenuity has produced machines which are
capable of taking the heavy toil from the lot of humanity? Is there some
thing wrong in the fact that education has become so prolific that men can
collectively decide and arrive at a solution of their problem, rather than be
forced to trust to the mental capacity and humanitarian instinct of a small
minority.
No there is nothing wrong with a system of society which has made pos
sible these advances for the good of humanity. That intelligent system of
rights (property and human) which has been developed here in America can
solve the simple problem of distribution if it is not heckled and stampeded
into disregard of the very foundations which made possible these advances.
These are things well worth the most serious considration of Labor in
its deliberations on the issues which are being raised today, within its ranks
and without. The American Federation of labor is part and parcel of this
great democratic nation and has contributed its share to the common cause of
the citizens of these United States through many years of building. Let not
the shallow and hypocritical song of anti-American groups mislead you.
There is nothing wrong with our social structure, except possibly its tolerance
of these termites who would undermine the solid foundation of our Republic.
3 Baby Robins Grow
Into His Clothes
Asbury Park, N. J. — Morris
Brenner left his coat hanging
from a tree while he hoed in his
garden. - --**•»
When he went to retrieve the
coat, he found a robin's nest in
the right pocket. Hoping the bird
would move, Brenner left the
coat there and later found three
eggs in the nest on his return.
The next day the eggs had
hatched.
RETURNS HOME SOON
AFTER OWN FUNERAL
Man Hears He Was Burled by
Town After Drowning.
Milford, Conn.—The grim amuse
ment enjoyed by Mark Twain’s he
roes upon returning to town after
an absence to find neighbors mourn
ing their demise was experienced
in reality here by John J. Barrett,
who startled officers of this com
munity by reappearing sound in
health and lively in spirits just three
days after his funeral.
A drowned man, estimated to be
fifty years old and dressed in a blue
serge suit, was taken from the
Housatonic river. He was taken to
the Milford morgue and photo
graphed. Next day three citizens of
Redding, Conn., agreed that the
dead man was John J. Barrett, fif
ty-two years old, of Redding. They
were Mrs. Carrie Phillips, with
whom he had often boarded, and
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Osborne, for
whom he did occasional odd jobs.
There was no reason to doubt
their testimony, so the town au
thorities buried the man, after prop
er rites, as John J. Barrett of Red
ding.
Three days later the original and
authentic Mr. Barrett materialized
in Redding and strode briskly up
the front steps of the Osborne house
and rang the bell.
“Good morning,” he said cheerily
when Mrs. Osborne appeared in the
door. “Have you got anything for"
—But Mrs. Osborne had turned
pale. “What’s the matter, you
sick?” he asked solicitously.
“But I thought you were—where—
were”—Mrs. Osborne’s voice trailed
off.
“Why, I’ve just been up to Fair
field,” Barrett explained. “Been
workin’ on the Morehouse farm.”
Mrs. Osborne, finally convinced
that no specter had entered her
doorway, explained what had trou
bled her. A little later Mrs. Phil
lips underwent a similar emotional
shock when Barrett called to en
gage his old room for a few days.
Advised to straighten matters out
with the Milford authorities, Bar
rett presented himself at headquar
ters and succeeded in identifying
himself. They showed him the pic
tures they had taken of the drowned
man and he agreed with them that
the resemblance was striking, even
uncanny.
And now everybody is wondering
who was buried.
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Starving Tribesmen
Sell Girls at 6 Cents
Allahabad, India.—Young girls
are being sold for as little as six
| cents each by starving aborigines
of the Partagabh, Banswara and
i Tuclam areas, it was reported
recently.
All crops of the 2,000,000 people
of the tribes have been wiped
out, it was said.
American and Canadian mis
sions are attempting to cope with
the relief problem.
AGED* NAVAJO ONCE
SOLD INTO SLAVERY
Now He Herds Flock of Sheep
in Alamosa Canyon.
Alamosa, Cqlo.—Francisco Gal
legos, eighty-eight-year-old Navajo
who herds a flock of sheep in Ala
mosa canyon, thirty miles west of
here, is one of Colorado’s few for
mer Indian slaves now alive.
Gallegos was; bom among a tribe
of desperate Indians who raided
and plundered Spanish settlements
in southern Colorado nearly a cen
tury ago. He; narrowly escaped
death in a pitched battle which
his tribe fought with a group of
white settlers after the Indians had
stolen the white men’s horses.
One of the Spanish settlers sight
ed the Indian baby sitting on the
ground crying in the center of the
battlefield on which the bodies of
his mother and father lay. The set
tler started to shoot but changed his
mind and picked up the infant and
returned him to the Spanish settle
ment where he was sold to Juan de
Jesus Gallegos for a slave.
He was reared by the Gallegos
family but was never legally freed.
When treaties between the whites
and Indians were signed which pro
vided thpt each give up their slaves,
his master agreed to comply with
the treaty but did not know to whom
the child slave should go. The In
dian child had no known relatives
and his tribe refus“d to take him.
Francisco Gallegos knows nothing
of his own people and is even un
able to speak his own language. To
him Spanish is his native tongue.
He is a crack shot With a rifle
and has uncanny success as a
hunter.
In the past he has acted as a
guide in the uncharted mountain
routes.
His master left his “slave son”
flocks of sheep numbering more
than 2,000 upon his death. Gallegos
moved up the canyon and built the
adobe hut where he lives today.
Conflicting reports are offered as
to what became of Gallegos’ sheep.
Some persons say that unscrupulous
neighbors stole his herd and others
say that he lost them gambling. He
herds a few sheep of his own today,
but a county pension is his chief sub
sistence.
Age has left few marks on Gal
legos, who is only slightly stooped.
His hair is black and plentiful and
he can walk twenty-five miles a
day without tiring. Each year his
marksmanship accounts for numer
ous coyotes, mountain lioii3, bears
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Tenancy Work
Money Is Voted
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Con
gress, in one of it* last acts, voted
$20,000,000 to start an experimental
attack, recommended by President
Roosevelt, on the nation’s tenancy
problem.
The third deficiency appropriation
bill, which the senate sent to the
White House, carried two $10,000,
000 items to be used for loans to se
lected tenants for the purchase of
farms and for government purchase
of “unfit” land in the southwestern
“dust bowl” for retirement of pro
duction. Those now living on such
lanr are to be assisted in finding bet
ter farms.
A.F.G.E.UnST
Not Going C. 1.0.
A proposal to affiliate the Ameri
can Federation of Government Em
ployees, an A. F. of L. affiliate, with
the Committee for Industrial Organi
sation has been spurned by the
Chattanooga union of the Federation.
The union, which has thirty-eight
members among TV A office and cleri
cal workers, voted down the proposal
this week, W. L. Williamson, the
president, announced Wednesday.—
Knoxville Labor News.
“Living” Barricade
Halls Truck Caravan
Cleveland. — Housewives on a
suburban street, aroused by a
steady stream of dirt-loaded
trucks past their homes, formed
a “living" blockade across the
street and forced the drivers to
give up.
The contractor agreed to' use
another route. The city promised
to clean the street. ‘
BEAUTY LOSES LEGS;
SUCCEEDS AS MODEL
Distinguished Artists Laud Her
Graceful Hands.
Hackensack, N. J. — The last
laugh is loudest.
Jessie Simpson of Hackensack is
laughing today at the tragedy that
threatened to spoil her life.
Fate played a cruel joke on the
little beauty contest winner when
a recent railway accident cost her
the use of her legs. But Jessie could
take it.
Two months later the tide has
turned. The misfortune that
crumbled her world about her has
brought her to the notice of famous
artists and photographers.
Today Jessie Simpson holds suc
cess in the palms of her lovely
hands. These hands that Howard
Chandler Christy described as be
ing “filled with grace and charm
to the fingertips” have already won
her a six months’ contract as a
model for wrist form watches with
a watch company.
Arthur William Brown said that
she had “the long, slim fingers that
turn up slightly at the end to ex
press grace.” Dean Cornwell saw in
them “the bravery and tenderness
that constitute all true beauty.”
Jessie is basking in bright lights
just when her skies seemed dark
est. Hal Phyfe, distinguished New
York photographer, called her “the
perfect photographic model, beauti
ful without a flaw.” He is waiting
for her to come on artificial legs
to pose in his studio.
The doctors say it will be a year
before Jessie can have her new
legs.
In her effort to jump on a mov
ing commuter’s trains she slipped
and fell beneath the wheels. To
save her life the doctor was forced
to amputate.
Two-Year-Old Counts to
100 and Can Say Alphabet
Camden, N. J. — Two year old
David Barry Hoffman counts to 100,
sings “Pennies from Hea\«n,”
“Margy,’’ and “I’m an Old Cow
hand,” and qualifies generally for
the title l“child prodigy.”
Master Hoffman follows closel> lr.
the footsteps of his 11 year old
brother Arthur, who did the same
things when he was David’s age
and continued to be precocious
through the lower grades of gram
mar school,
David can call off his grandmoth
er’s telephone number and those of
the grocery man, his aunt and his
father’s business phone.}
Son of an accountant and tutored
by his mother, David knows the al
phabet, having learned it by request
ing information from his mother on
the meaning of the odd figures in
his picture books.
Louis, the boy’s father, is proud
of his accomplishments. Rose, his
mother, doesn’t want too much at
tention paid to the child.
Laborers must be recognised as be
ing entitled to as much considera
tion as employers, and their rights
must be equally safeguarded.—Com
mit rion on the Church and Social
Service, Federal Council of the
Churche* of Christ in America.
It is hoped that this right (of la
bor to organise and bargain collec
tively) will never again be called in
question by any considerable number
of employers.—Administrative Com
mittee, National Catholic War Coun
cil.
Tbs Union Label is the O. K. anx
of quality!
C. L 0. UNION FACES DAMAGE SUIT1
OF $700,000; WORKERS ARE SAID TO BE]
DEPRIVED OF MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD 1
ATLANTA, Aug. 26.—Suits asking $700,000 in damages be
cause of expulsion from a CIO union was met yesterday by a union
official’s claim that the seven plaintiffs were not expelled but
merely suspended pending trial.
The CIO, the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, the In
ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers Union and five local and
regional officers of these groups were made co-defendants in ac
tions instituted yesterday by seven women who said they had been
expelled without trial from the I. L. G. W. U. and as a result lost
their jobs.
Mr*. Josephine Walden, business manager of the I. L. G. W. U. local, and
one of the defendants, said today the petitioners had not ben expelled. She de
clined to detail the charges on which she said they were awaiting trial but said
they came under the heading of "conduct unbecoming one of our organ
izations.”
Since the alleged expulsion, the petitions set forth, the plaintiffs had
been deprived of their livelihood because "all factories in the city of Atlanta
are under contract with the local union.”
Each petition asserted “the democratic form of labor organization has
been destroyed and the right of a worker to earn an honest livelihood is at
the mercy of the heads and officers of the associations.”
It was charged the individual defendants "have been for many months
running these associations and directing the activities of members in a
manner that is little short of being dictatorial, making contracts with em
ployers without consulting the workers as to their wishes and desires, calling
strikes at their individual will without obtaining a strike vote from the work
ers, expelling members without filing charges or having a trial, and making
numerous extra assessments without any vote and having the employers
withhold the same from the workers’ pay envelopes.”
Defendants named as individuals and also in their official capacity were
A. Steve Nance, southeastern director of the CIO and L L G. V. U.; Mrs.
Walden. John Martin, regional director of the CIO; Ross Jones, president of
the local; and Cora Hubbard, secretary of the local.
Plaintiffs in the suit, all of whom stated they were power machine
operators, were Mrs. Eural Morris, Mrs. Eulalia Boswell, Mrs. Angie May
Brown. Mrs. Inez Sanders, Mrs. Cecil Jones, Miss Anna Lee Sanderlin and
Mrs. Artie White.
Clerk Yell. “Poison”;
Wrong Man Treated
LaGrange, Ind. — A physician
stopped in a grocery store to get
something to “nibble on.” He
picked a cellophane package of
rat poison from the rack instead
of candy.
The clerk chased him down the
street, yelling “poison!” The doc
tor, not having opened the pack
age, seized the breathless clerk,
told him to cough hard and shout
| ed for an antidote.
HUGE RATS MENACE
PEOPLE IN ENGLAND
Rodents From South America
Become Serious Pest
London, England. — Great Britain
is threatened by a new rat menace.
This time the trouble is the nu
tria, a giant rat from South Amer
ica introduced to this counter for
its fur, which has been escaping in
considerable numbers in several
districts.
The ministry of agriculture, after
a four-year campaign costing thou
sands of pounds, has just won its
fight with the muskrat, which was
breeding in thousands and under
mining river and railway embank
ments, when this new threat ap
peared.
Last month nearly 100 nutrias
escaped from a farm in Surrey. Re
ports of other escapes have been
made all over the country.
The ministry of agriculture has
sent out a circular describing the
nutria and asking local authorities
for evidence of damage done by the
rats.
The nutria averages between
twelve and twenty-five pounds in
weight and when free it bores long
tunnels with a diameter of some
twelve inches in the banks of
streams.
“We do not know at present how
much damage the nutria is likely to
do. Nor do we know its rate of
breeding when at liberty in this
country,” M. C. A. Hinton, deputy
keeper of zoology at the Natural
History museum, said. pj
“It is very independent and elu
sive, seeking lonely stretches of
river to nest. It thus can do a lot of
damage before being discovered. It
is extremely fierce when interfered
with and is likely to turn and fight
dogs or human beings if attacked”
Trade unionism has passed the trial
stage. It has come to its maturity
but of long years of struggle and ex
perience to an earned position of
trust and confidence. The unions
;have built iip standards of life and
living, carefully, step by step.—Wil
liam Green.
I look to the trade unions as the
principal means for benefiting the
conditions of the working classes.—
Prof. Thorold Rogers, University of
Oxford.
Typo Ladies Bridge
And “Sticks” Party
Proves A Success
The Woman’s Auxiliary of Typo
Union No. 338 gave an “all-around”
party at the home of Mrs. Hugh M.
Sykes, on East Boulevard last night
(Wednesday) which was well at
tended. The object was to raise
funds toward defraying the expenses
of the Auxiliary delegate to the Aux
iliary convention, which meets in
Louisville, Ky., in September, joint
ly with the I. T. U. convention, Mrs.
Robert White being the delegate. It
was a success from every angle, and
these gatherings are doing much to
ward welding a band of friendship
and fellowship among the members i
of the craft, to say nothing of the
pleasure of social contact which is
being created. The ladies deserve
credit for the work they are doing,
as it is one of unselfish motive.
Howard L. Beatty, of the Ob
server chapel, will be the delegate
from Typo Union 338, and The
Journal wishes him a pleasant and
profitable trip, as well as Mrs. White.
Reds Are Ousted
From Fla. Union
TAMPA, FLA.—Charles E. Silva,
vice-presdient of the Florida State
Federation of Labor, announced here
that William Gren, president of the
American Federation of Labor, had
given him instructions to “purge the
Florida organization of Communists
and other extremists,” and to begin
the work in Orlando.
Mr. Silva said he planned to leave I
for Orlando immediately to carry out
Mr. Green’s instructions as they ap
plied to the Central Labor Union in
Orlando. “I am instructed to take up
the Orlando chapter, if necessary,
“Mr. Silva stated, adding:
“Mr. Green is determined to rid
all affiliated locals and central bodies
in Florida of Communists and other
extremists,” he continued. “I have
receive instructions to investigate
other Florida locals and to expel all
that can be found.
A Thrill Pack
Is New Thayer
Movie Romance
The “inside story” of the billion
slot machine racket as it operates in
a big city, is laid bare in “King
Gamblers,” a daring and thrilling
motion picture story which opens at
the Charlotte Theatre.
Written by Tiffany Thayer, noted
writer of crime and racket stories,
I “King Gamblers” parallels with
strikig adherence to recent newspa
per headlines, the circumstances
which led several Eastern cities to
smash the racket and to consign the
crooked machines to the ocean bot
tom.
The title role is played by Akim
Tamiroff. He is supported by Claire
Trevor, Lloyd Nolan, Larry Crabbe,
Porter Hall, Helen Burgess and a
number of other well-known featured
players.
Friday
and
Saturday
Movie Actor Tells
“Ten Best Ways to
Get Name in Papers”
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—The movie
actors’ technique in getting their
names in print was revealed last
week by Spencer Tracy, film star.
Listed as the “ten best ways of get
ting one’s name in the papers,” Mr.
Tracy’s suggestions are:
1. Be born. Almost anyone can
get a couple of lines in the “Births”
column that way.
2. Step in front of a truck, and
get in the “Deaths” column. If you
care to die more spectacularly, it may
be worth a paragraph or even a col
umn.
3. Get married, but remember that
thd space you rate on this depends en
tirely on the person you marry.
4. The same goes for divorce.
5. Get named as co-respondent in
someone else’s divorce.
6. Win a sweepstakes, or come
into a lot of dough in any way.
7. If you can’t get the money
any way, abscond with it. Recom
mended as surefire for page one, part
two.
8. If you’re a girl, and good look
ing enough, pose in a bathing suit
alongside a prize cow, or alongside
almost anything, from an all-Ameri
can quarterback to a new gadget for
shelling peas.
9. Write a syndicated byline col
umn.
-10. Buy the paper.
[And another one: Be a Union La
bor organizer in a strike zone.]
ALUMINM WORKERS
VOTE FOR A, F. L. UNION
WASHINGTON, D. C —A tele
gram received at the American Fed
eration of Labor headquarters here
from David Sigman, A. F. of L or
ganizer at Oshkosh, Wis., announced
that the employes of the Aluminum
Goods Manufacturing Company at
Two Rivers and Minotowoc plants
had chosen the American Federation
of Labor Unions as collective bar
gaining agents by the, large majority
of 1,664 to 760.
We affirm as one of the cardinal
principles of the trade union move
ment that the working people must
unite irrespective of creed, color, sex,
nationality or politics.—A. F. of L.
Convention Declaration.
Labor Press
Vital Need
The freedom of the press, guar
anteed to us by the Consitution,
must depend after all upon the sup
port which the readers of the press
give to it. We need scarcely more
than mention the fact the
usual daily newspaper, to say noth
ing of the magazines, do not fee!
called upon to espouse the cause
of organized labor. Such fair pl«"
as is given this cause by these pub
lications is based upon the unan
swerable strength of the position
of the labor movement.
But we wish to emphasize the
fact, that if there were no great
section of the national publications
known as the Labor Press, which
gives its first and last loyalty to
the workers of the nation, and es
pecially to those who are members
of the organizations of labor, the
other sections of the nation’s pub
licity organs would probably pay
much more scant attention to the
rights of labor.
Circulation is the Ute of any
publication. Given readers, any
publication is in a position or pow
er, in proportion to its friends who
show their loyalty to their own
cause by their subscriptions to their
own press, and by their activity in
helping to enlarge its circulation.
The rights of labor will always
depend, to a great extent, upon the
freedom of the labor press. A la
bor paper which circulates freely
in its own community is an index
of the power of labor in that lo
cality. It is a very definite part
of the organization itself, and its
functions are so vital that neglect
of the labor press is sure to reflect
upon the qualities of the labor
movement itself.
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