Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 10, Hammond, Lake County, 25 March 1922 — Page 1

. L. LEWIS CALLS COAL STRIKE GREA TEST IN HISTOR Y

GIVES SIDE OF IE WORKERS

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DECLARED ! UNSOLVED MYSTERY!

Like Cock Robin Characters, all Parties Interested Sing Out "Not I" r.r ceorge n. holmes j (STAFF CO-RESPONDENT !. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, March 23 Get out!

pencil and paper and have a try at J NOTHING new six inch chuck solving: the most pnzling puzzle ex- . holes in the Hohman street asphalt. ,atu- (The jolt. Ouch: You say It. It is a puzzle which affects evtrv ; man. woman and child in these Uni-1 SEYMOUR BREAKSTONE. 7 9 fated states, whether they live on farm i Calumet avenue, tells police his bicor in cities, in New York or in Cah-;'cle s stolen from hiSh school.

tornia. in bungalows or in mansions. It Is more engrossing than the age of Ann, the length or a piece of string, or who killed Joseph Elwell and Will tain Desmond Taylor. It is the great unsoled mystery of the j present. It is this: "WHO GETS THE BIO RAKE-OFF ON A POUND OF MEAT OK ITS; JOUBN-EY FROM THI FARM TO j THE TABLE?" The characters In this Cock Robin ivstery speak: I "NOT T." says the farmer, pointing to his mortgaged farm, his over - uue notrs and his long hours of toil. "NOT I!" WEEPS r&CXEX j NOT I!" weeps the big packing I plant, pointing to Its traditional arsrument that It makes only two cents on the dollar. "NOT I!" cries the retailer, and cites in corroboration the United State Department of Agriculture. "NOT I!" sobs the railroad pointout that the government had to J Kuarantee it 6 per cent so it could tont'nue to operate. 'WEIL, CERTAINLY NOT I" jsiia i5e ultimat consumer, pointing to his pay check, almost stretched out of re?ignizable form by the .pulling and hauling; c-f the butcher, th- bake, t'io landlord and the gas ma n . The United States government has recently been trying to solve the puzzle. It set the department or agriculture, which probably contains r-i'.re rxpeus of various kinds than any other single agency of government, on the trail. But the experts haven't caught up with their quarry as yet. The retailer has long been suspected of being the arch-conspirator, fbut now the department of agriculture gives aim a clean bill of health absolves him of all blame in this mysterious journey from the hoof to the table, in a report recently complied. RETAILER MAZES LITTLE . After an exhaustive survey covering some thirty cities and more than 3.000 retail stores, the government sleuths found that the rnuchmaligTied retailer makes only 2.29 cents on a dollar's worth of meat. ot an exorbitant profit, to be sure. It is not radically different from that which the packer contends he makes. The inquiry covered such cities as ew York, Chicago. Pittsburgh. San Krancisco, Birmingham ,Los Angeles. New Orleans. Baltimore, Memphis, Indianapolis, Hartford and Kaleigh, X. C. Among other things this survey revealed that the cost of retailing meat has nearly doubled since 1913, or v. hereas it cost 3.19 cents a pound to letTil meat in 1913 it cost 3.25 cents in 1319. the government's survey found I that when you pay the retailer a dollar for a steak he spends it in this nay. To the wholesaler for the meat 81. 14 cents. To expenses of retailing 16.57 cents. Profit 2.25 cents. COST OF RETAILING The 15.57 rents which the retailer spends for upkeep is disposed of as follows : Salaries snd wages 10.25 cents. Kent 1.33. Ice and refrigeration 0.77. Wrapping paper 0.T6. I.lfht and power 0.21. Interest on indebtedness 0.51. Miscellaneous expenses 2.74. This would seem to throw the blame further back in the chain than the retailer. Tho railroads, through their authorized spokesmen in Washington, testiflng before numerous comtntttees of congress, have put up hard j luck stories that almost brought tears to the eyes of smpathetic Us-' teners. Labor high, rolling stock depleted, conditions bad, barely able to make operating expenses, say the rrulroads. THE ALtTMIK'TJM DOLLAR Tho packers, though their spokesman and in great volumes of advertialng, have- repeatedly avowed that they mak-j no more than two cents on trie, dollar. One big1 packing concern for months has been putting out an aluminum dollar, calling it th "packing Luse, dollar," which bears out this argument through a i .chart stamped upc-r. its face. Th-i farmer certainly isn't getting It. Country banks filled with farm paper and the bushels of corn that have been used for coal this winter afford amplo proof of tnat. Oovcrnment investigators travel in a circle, from farmer to commission men to packer to retailer to cons-n-r.

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MOVING day on the south side. HOW like a lamb March doth pass out. ANOTHER sign of the coming boom the express business la picking ap. PARK BOA HI) asks tor bids for j concession stand at Harrison pars tor summer. TOLK'E flying squad lias a new Itivver. Now all they need are some emergency calls. "SAVE the surtace and ou save all." says the girl at the cosmetic counter of a local store. STEVE BUN DAK, 524 Fields ave., reports loss of cigars. cigarettes, when thieves force entrance to his More. THE old Chicago road between Gary and Valpai iso is said to be in an impassable condition either with i;ght car or truck. E. J. NICHOLSON, who has been wintering- sit Smyrna, Fla., writes that he wi" "turn this week to his :alm near Crown Point. WTTH seven entertainers the Dixie Jaz2 Band anJ oUler enticemerlVS( tne famous Coney Island pleasure point will re-open again tonight. READING that chlorine killed fish j in an acquariuin, postoif U e employe 'wants to know if it kills carp, what 'will it do to human beings? THE state tax board is having: a Tea.! problem to work out in attempting to put all Indiana com munities on the same tax levy. KARL GRIFFIN, F. C. Barrows and other local men connected with the schools, are among the speakers at Gary educational meet yesterday and today. SOME one suggests that the council adopt a resolution favoring the single standard of morals. This column is open to suggestions in the shape of resolutions. "WHAT'S become of all o the fellows who used to whistle their heads off when the new song hits went the rounds? Seldom you hear men whistling on the streets these days. THE names of Second Lieut. Wilber D. Iowry of Gary and. Second Lieut. Lloyd Rinkenberg of Hammond appear in the list of officers recently assigned to the organized reserves of Indiana. "IT'S time the morals committee was being delegated to Calumet avenue again." writes the same fellow who registered the kick the other day about the window displays at '"the Federal hotel. SOME jitney men are sitting up nights thinking out a way to rorce themselves off the streets. They say ft solution to this problem would bo worth oodles of dough. They acra:t taking $15,000 a month from -f e street car company. BOY at Columbia school preparing composition featuring description, copies word picture of a blra and pins this to a man. Teachers reading it, are convinced with the incongruity, but admit description or bird fits this man. DON'T pet the clock ahead an hour tonight.. The cities of the region. industries, banks, courts, schools ami railroads will not adopt the daylight savings time until the last of next month, instead of midnight, March 26, as they did last year. H . L. WEBB, of Jamestown. N. T., famous through east as daring steeplejack, has come to town to give Hammond a birdseye view. Y esterday he topped the Central school spire. He's stopping with his sister, Mrs. Cate. 444 Sibley street. GRADING completed at Turner Field. Baseball diamond should be in shape by June 1. says Lockle Simpson, barber, councilman ana park commissioner. Question now i of fences, grandstand and other de tails to be worked out. All that's wanting is money. THOMAS J O" CONOR of West Hammond w ho for a year and a half was connected with Kelley & Semnieg in Uar-, has now hooked Up as sjjpsman w-itli Frank Wachewicz and is seliinsr real estate in his old stamping ground. Right off the reel he sold a hous. ATT Y. CHARLES DYER, candidate lor county clerk on the republican primary ballot, has opened headquarters in Room 113 of the First National Bank building at Hammond. Telephone number 656. Dyer workers In all parts of the county are making very favorable reports.. .tIETZ Girls won two basketball victories ths week. Monday they defeated the Harvey Reds. 6to 4. and Wednesday, at Whiting, they beat Blue Island aarain 6 to 3. Monday they play the last game of the season in Hammond with the Blue Island team at the Iafayette gym. PARK BOARD and council park commissioners take trip to view the Hegewisch park yesterday. They see tract of 22 acres, containing two ball

MEETING ARRANGED FOR GARY

Lake County Legion Posts in Session At Crown Point Create Hew Body INTERNATIONAL HEWS SERVICEI CJiOWN J'Oi.M' lnu , Jiaicn a. Awakening- to thy consci jusncij that the American Legion has become one of the m:ei influential and powerful organizations in the United States as evidenced by the increasing picssure of that institution on congress in the matter of adjusted compen.-ation. Lake county p sts, hoping to centralize and concentrate the power of the thousands of members jf the various posts in the county, will send dehgites March Zl to Gary where efforts will be made to complete organization of the Lake conn., Council of An erican Legion Posts. This newly created body, formed by representatives of all posts in the county, was established at meeting of post commanders and adjutants at Crown 1'jint Tuesday night. I.ke co-inty posts are arged to send delegates to this meeting. If none others are elected in the interim it will be the duty of the commander nnd adjjtant to attend. The meeting will bo called at 8 o'clock. It will be held in the American Legion Hut, 563 Massachusetts street, Gary. Roy C. Fsgen. commander of toe Crown Po!nt post, and Roy R. Drowty, commander of Gary Memorial Post No. 17 are temporary officers of tha Lake county council of post. ANNUAL DEBATE . ! East Chicago and HamSchool Debaters Present Able Arguments. . I me annual dual Gebato between the East Chicago and Hammond tchool teams, held last evening 'n Indiana Harbor at the Washington high school auditorium and in Hammond in the higi school rheie. was won by the Hammond high school team, which scored both the negative and affirm ittve decisions. The subject for debate. Resolved: "That the Philippines should be given their independence within the next five years,' was based on the Jones Bill of 1916,' reports of former Governor General Harrison and the investigations from the Wood-Forbes as submitted to President Harding. The affi -mative. basing their arguments on the Jtr.es bill, legislation providing that when the Philippines have established a stable government they are to be given their independence, attempted to show by statistics that educational advancement in the last few years there and the fact that' Filipino people are now practiially making their own laws,' was conclusive evidence thut this archipelago could be released by thiUnited States with a safe assurance of a table government being established. t The negative sid brought out facts in the Wood-Forbes investigations and imports recently Submitted to the approval of the Harding administration that trie Philippine government had not as yet established a stable government. Investigations and magazine articles written by Miss Gertrude Emerson we.-e also cited by the negative side. ATlnnlv VrcallTr F.nM hlcnjto. Itnmmood. Alice Mae Jones. Gordon Chapman. Russell Limon. Waldo Bail. John Wisniwskl. Joseph Ingraham Affirmative filvt Hnmmond. Knnt 1'hlrniro. Au"ten Forkner. Chc-ter Rosenthal Julia Walker. Joseph Pall. Vtirna Gaugh. Joseph Ridinger. HAMMOND MAN IS IN TROUBLE LA PORTE. Ind.. March 24. Frank E. Enright, of Hammond. Ind.. the ex-soldier, who is being held in jail because he is mentally deranged, may return to his home. A brother is taking an interest in the case, Deputy Frank Fosdick stated today. Enright was. picked up near Wanatah over a week ago. fields, tennis courts, fences, hedges, a pi y place. They'll make Turner Field and other Hammond parks as pletsant as the Hegewisch park, they say. WEST Hammond is spending $180,000 to buy and equip a playground and municipal athletic field. Seems like Hammond should be able to buy the property adjoining Turner field on Michigan and Calumet avenues for a similar purpose. How about it, councilmen. Are we broke?

HAMMOND WINS

CHAfcGE GOVERNOR ACCEPTED BRIBE IN BANK SCANDAL;

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Got. J. B. A. Robertson. Thi lnrlirtmppt is no Burorise) ! to me or any of my frends. I am I ready -o meet the issue without de- ; lay," says Gov. J. B. A. Robertson i cf Oklahoma, discussing his arrest ' on a charge of accepting" a bribe to permit operation of the Guaranty State bank of Okmulgee, Okla., while it was in an alleged insolvent ! condition. Fred G. Dennis, former j state banking commissioner, and . several prominent Okmulgee eapi italists were ind'cteH with Robert son. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! CHICAGO, ILL., March 25 Walter Gowarskl, of Highland, Ind., was arrested in South Chicago One day this week for speeding. He was driving a Ford coupe, the engine number of which had been changed. His bill of, sale srowing that he had purchased the car from William Navlgato, owner of an automobile repair shop at 42 Nfrth Francisco avenue, he was released and Navigato was arrested charged with receiving stolen property. Through the arrest of Gowarski for speeding the police of Chicago have made wholesale arrests which they say will break up three gangs of automobile thieves who operated through a common clearing house and made a profit of half a million dollars last year. The police say that auto thefts have already been reduced from fifteen a day to three. NOT GUILTY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT, IND., March 25 Harry Diamond, of Gary, proprietor of the Standard Bottling Works, of Indiana Harbor, was found not guilty by the criminal court jury which tried htm on the charge of complicity in the robbery of the Excel Co., Inc., of Hammond on February 6. In the robber- 300 gallons of grain alcoh ol was taken from the warehouse of the company. Diamond was arrested because he had been seen in th- vicinity of the warehouse at about the time the robbery was ( committed. Witnesses, however, . could not furnish positive identification and the was not convinced. SENT TO PRISON Mother of Former Ham mond Policeman Makes Pitiful Scene in Court SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT. Ind, March g. Pleading guilty to charges of grand larceny before Judge Martin Smith in the Crown Point criminal court yesterday afternoon. Jack Wright, former Hammond police officer, and Ed Hanson, garage employe of Hammond, were each fined flOO and costs and were sentenced to spend from one to fourteen years in the state -reformatory at Jefferson ville. The men, arrested Thursday by Chief Bunde for the theft Wednesday ni'jit 125 v.orth of canJy from a locker in the garage In which Hanson was employed, admitted they had taken, at various' times, confections valued at more than $130. The aged mother of Hanson pleaded pltiously for his release. She offered to sacrifice herself for his freedom. She wanted Judge Smith to send her to prison in place of her "son, whose life she said would be ruined by the ignominy of the punishment he was to be accorded. Both men will be taken to Jeffersonville to serve their sentences today.

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DAYLIGHT SAVING IN FOUR CITIES

East Chicago and Hammond Last Night Join Gary and Whiting The city dads of the Calumet repion in Hammond, Gary, East Chicago and Whiting have at last got - together on the daylight savings proposition. Last night the councils of East Chicago and Hammond met and decided unanimously to function in unison with the metropolis of Chicago as Gary and Whiting alrtaly had done.. That means: Clocks will be advanced one hoiir Sunday morning. April 30, They will be turned back to o J standard time on the morning of the last Sunday in September. Two a. m. is the official hour for sotting forward the time the last Sunday in April. Few people will remain up until that hour to do the thing officially. Some will, th Jug h . Most of the cities affected have ordinances on their books passed two years .-.go making day-lig,it saving time operative from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in Octobo". Objections of Chicago residents forced the council of that city to amen! the ordinance of the metropolis shortening the actual period of day-light saving by saving two months. This made it necessary .'or the f ut-lying cities, including Hammond, Whiting. Ea?t Chicago and Gary to amend their ordinances to accord with the Chicago measure. Councilmen pointed out that the Influent? and interests of the big town are so f ar-reachinr' and potent, the smaller cities could do nothing: in this matter bat conform . STEVE VARGO GIVES MS FIGHT Four Times Convicted As Bootlegger He is Taken to Crown Point. Four times convicted of violating the liquor law. Hammond's most arrested boot-legger, whose boast, flaunted in the face ,of police, is that he "would never serve time" for any conviction- in the local courts, yesterday gave up his appeal tight from a recent decision of Special Judge Morthland and was taken to Crown Point ffor transfer to the penal farm where he will spend ninety days. He is Steve Vargo, operator of an alleged soft-drink parlor at 575 Morton avenue. His fourth arrest on charges of selling hooch , over the bar was made several weeks ago by detectives and police of Hammond Central station. He was tried in the city court and Judge Morthland finding him guilty sentenced him to ninety days on the penal farm and fined him $2110. Vargo filed an appeal. Yesterday he gave himself up on advice of his attorneys. He wouldn't take a chance in the criminal court. Three times previous, according to police records, Vargo has been arrested on the same charge. Each time he has escaped with a nominal fine and suspended jail sentence." But now his boast is quieted. Hammond's most arrested bootlegger will serve time. AT CROSSING; 2 DIE B LOOM 1 VGTOM. Ind.. March 25. Harold M. Penny, 4-ti, Columbus, O., architect, and Leroy C. Arnett, 3?. Indianapolis broker, were killed instantly yesterday afternoon by the Chicago express of the Monon Railroad at the depot crossing in Stinesville. The men had left Ellettsvllle in a taxi for Martinsville to catch an Interurban enr for Indianapolis. The driver failed to see the approaching express because of a freight on a sidinsr. Mr. Arnett was a Mason of high degree. CHARGES HUSBAND DESERTED HER Mrs. Mary M. Leuis, 1255 Harrison street, Hammond, today filed complaint in the superior court at Hammond charging that her hujand, William E. Leuis, deserted her on March 8. and asking for a divorce. The General American Tank Corp. and Charles N Scott are made codefendants in that the tank corporation still owes Mr. Leuis some pay. while Mr. Scott holds the contract for the house which Mr. Leuis was purchasing. Mrs.' Leuis wants tha court to order the wages due her husband paid to her. She also wants it arraged so she can sell tinequity in the -property. They were married August 26, 1916. W. J. Whinery is her attorney.

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fex Rickard, seated behind his counsel. Attorney M. D. Steuer, at hit trial in New York. George L. (Tex) Rickard, famous sport promoter, is on trial in New York for alleged mistreatment of young girls. The state is attempting to prove that Rickard lured girls to a little room in the tower of Madison Square Garden and attacked them. Rickard declares that the charges are a frameup.

FORD EMPLOYES TO GET FIVE DA! WEEK WORK

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI DETROIT, Mich., March 23. Promotion oC ideal home life among the 50.000 employes of the Ford Motor Compiny was given by President Edscl Ford today as the 'reason for reduction of the company's work week to fivs days. The change, which will affect all Ford plants without changing the daily wage scale of $6, will leave Fo-d workers two days a week free and

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(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BALTIMORE, MA. March 25. In protest against the adoption of the contract system which carried with it a cut in wages, 2.000 shopmen of the Western Maryland railroad employed in this city went on strike shortly before noon today. It is expected that the men employed in the shops on the road at other points will also walk out. The walkout here was attended by good order. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LOS ANGELES. March 25. J. Stephen Vernon, head clerk at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel, was killed today when the automobile in which he was riding overturned into a ditch. William S. Hall, paymaster at the hotel, and Earl Southgate, auditor, and Chas. H. Fry. assistant auditor, were injured. Hall probably fatally. A broken steering knuckle is believed to have caused the accident. ( BULLETIN) I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. March 25. "Pfckled' herring ought to be plentiful hereabouts today, and there are a lot of fellows who would trade places with a herring for the day. Prohibition agents are pouring 350.000 gallons of booze of all varieties, from "real old stuff" to "white mule," into the Chicago river at Clark st. today. The booze represents the results of raids staged here in the past few months. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 A new radio telephone record was announced today, or four hours last night a powerful sending station of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., conversed and sent music to the Rockridge radio receiving station of the Atlantic-Pacific Radio Supplies Co. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI UNIONTOWN. Pa., March 25. Little Charlie- Martin, aged 7, is recovering today at the Uniontown hospital from numerous injuries sustained Friday afternoon when, while seated on a rear sat in a country school near here, he stuck a pin in a dynamite cap which exploded with terrific force. A dozen other chil-

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will create jobs for 3.000 additional men. Mr. Ford announced. "The Ford company has always sought to preserve ideal home conditions for Its workers," Mr. Ford expalined. "We believe that ide.il home life demands more time than is usually open to the factory worker for devotion to home interests for Kelf-improvement. gardening and building up the home. The five day week of forty hours will be a permanent policy." dren were more or less severely injured by flying splinters from the bursting cap. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE BERLIN. March 25. Chancellor Wirth will make a statement Tuesday to the Reichstag in which he will declare that the German government energetically rejects the proposal of the Reparations commission levying sixty billion marks of new taxes on the already overburdened German people. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. March 25. The defense will complete its case in the abduction and criminal assault charges, preferred against "Tex" Rickard by 15-year-old Sarah Schocnfeld on Monday. There was no session of court today. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. March 24. Eleven persons, including five women and two children, were rescued in a fire in a threestory building in the Bath beach section of Brooklyn today by Policeman lliomas Fitzgerald, who dashed into the blazing structure and led them to safety. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO. March 25, "I'm just tired of life," was the explanation given today by Mrs. May Cramer who attempted to end her life by taking poison. Mrs. Cramer, who is well known in Chicago's artists' colony, is said to have a husband in Princeton, Ind. Physicians say she may recover. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE INDIANOLA. III.. March 25. James J. Healy. 67, the postmaster and leading business man here, committed suicide early today by shooting himself through the head. He had been ill for several weeks with influenza. (BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CLEVELAND. O., March 25. Frank Szus, 41. this morning attempted to kill his wife, two sons and two daughters and then slashed his throat with a razor, dying almost instantly. One of the boys, Frank, 1 1 , is believed to be dying, the others it is believed will rer.ov

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Says Operators are Using Unemployment and Starvation as Weapons

DIXLETIV or I cwfx-?.T4.?1AL ?EWS SERVICEI WASHINGTON, March 25. Convinced by a number of surveys that the nation is well stocked and prepared to withstand the effects of a nationwide coal strike. President Harding and his advisers will take no further action toward preventing the suspension of mining operations, one week from today. Presdient Harding feels that the government has gone as far as it possibly can toward averting the tieup, and that it can go no further until the public Interest la actually endangered. (EDITOR'S NOTE The following statement written exclusively for the International News Servlc byPresident John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers. gives the official view of the union leaders of the underlying: causes of xv'abI Mr. Lewis rails the "greatest strike In history. ") BY JOHN L. LETVI3 (President of the United Mine Workers of America.) (Written for the International X. S. (Written for the I. X. Service.) CLEVELAND, Ohio. March 25. If the United Mine Workers could prevent it. there would be no strike of coal minors. We have done everything humanly possible within the bounds of honor, but two powerful groups cf operators in Pittsburgh and Ohio have deliberately forced the miners to strike. Tbes two groups of operators have two obejets in view: WAT TO BOOST PHICB. First. They want to destroy tha miners' union. , Second. They want to stop th production of coal, and thtis create a scarcity among the people and boost the price on millions of ton of coal on hand and clean up enormous profits. It will be a gouge of the coal consumers' i-ocketbook, but that's what these operators are after. They broke their contract with the miners for the purpose of driving the miners into & strike. If they had kept their written agreement to meet with tTi miners ia a Joint conference to negotiate a. newwage scale there would be no strike and no inconvenience to th public. We want the public to rejneraber when it is compelled to pay a high price for coal that the miners ar: not to blame. In 1921 the union miners of the country wero employed only an: average of 125 days. Thousandshad only 14 to 26 days work in the, entire year. The average earnings, were only $700. This is not enough, to support a family these days. Hut, we are not asking fo ran increase We are w-illing to continue the present wajrc scale in force for an-, other two years. In the hope that there may be a revival of business and industry that will afford theml more steady employment. They are willing to take this chance. ' WHAT CAMPAIGN HAS BERT. For many months past, coal companies in many sections of th country have conducted a campaign for unemployment and starvation of coal miners to compel, them tea take a reduction In wages. In some fields coal companies hST told miners they would give them' work, if they accept a reduction o: a poverty level, and also withdraw ' from the union. This of itself, is enough to sua tain our charge that unemploy-l ment and starvation are the weapons which the operators ax using. - M EX WATT TO WORK. f We regret the necessity for 'th suspension of coal mining. Our.' men want to work and earn a llv-'-ing but the operators are determin-rf ed that th.y shall not. The whole matter Is now In thfl bands of the public. More thanf 600.000 men will iay down thetrt. tools on April 1. because, the operators refuse to make ft wag agreement with them. Men cannot be expected to work when they do not know what they are to get for theiT labor, nor the conditions under which they 'ire to work. R. M .CONGER INDICTED BY GRAND JURY CHICAGO, 111., March 25. R. M. Conger, associated with C E. Talmage in the National Organiiation Co., has been arrested on a charge of using the mails to defraud, it became known today. Conger gaTa bond of J3.O00. Conger's indictment by the rederal grand jury together with C. E, Talmaee. his wife, was suppressed bv Federal Judse Carpenter pendinJ his arrest. This makes the tota arrests six in number. DEATH OF PRIEST'S FATHER Thomas Seroczynski. father of Father Felix Kerozcynskl, pastor ot St. Caiimifs church, died yesterday at the home of his son at the parHe was born in Stuhrn, West Prusjj sla. Poland, July 8. 1S33. Ha cam j to America in April. 1873 and slnc June 1907 had made his home witi Father Serccsynski. He is survlevd by two sons. Fa ther Sjmzeynski and Andrew B., ' daughter. Helen; and three grand children, Helen, Austin and Eliza, beth, and one sister, Mrs. Caroltni Blietschau of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held oi Monday morning from St. Oasimir'j church. Burial will fta made at Ft Wwna,

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