Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 139, 12 June 1922 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1922.

FAVORABLE REPORT ON LABOR HEARD t DESPITE "YEAR OF UNUSUAL STRIFE"

By Associated Press) CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 12. The record of organized labor's . accomplishment in "a year of unusual Btrife "and unusual Industrial depression," Twas laid before the forty-second annual convention of the American Federation of Labor today In the report of the Federation's executive council. - The report declared that American labor during the year, not only suffered from the widespread unemployment that existed, but was beset "by opponents more active and determined than ;ver." . "In addition to strictures on the conduct of employers in numerous cases,

Ihe report added explicit and pointed criticism of congress and of some legislative bodies, declaring such branches of the government to be "succumb

ing to a wave of reaction." Fault was ! found with the action of some courts, Including the supreme court, and with what was described aa President Harding's "proposal to regulate trade .unions." : "It is with no little satisfaction In view of these circumstances," the report on. the other hand declared, "that we are able to lay before this convention a report of achievement, . a report of solidarity, a report of constructlve planning, and a report that

' only inadequately portrays the mil

itant spirit with which our movement has come through the years. The

audacity of those who have made it

their business to attack in every pos

Fible manner the voluntary organiza

tions of the workers has no parallel !ln our country. What our movement , has been compelled to meet has been :a condition In which the predatory : rowers have sought to break down all ; resistance In every quarter and to enrich themselves at the expense of .the whole people. No experience has testified as eloquently to the funda"mental soundness of our organizations and to the manner in which they serve the workers. ,V.Te shall fight with a greater confidence because of the record thathas been made." Claim Indifference.

The report declared that in the direct labor field "workers in a number of industries have been compelled .to resort to cessation of work," because "organized employers" were 'unwilling to meet workers in conference for negotiation." The most Important instance of this policy was

declared to be the cause of the existing coal mine strike, although trouble in the textile, garment, printing, granite, and packing house industries also were cited. ; "The organized mine owners repudiated their agreement with the United Mine Workers of America," the report said, "compelling the mine workers to cease work. . . Packing house mp!oyers were likewise guilty of violation of agreements. . . The contest going on among employers and the printing trades union involves a contemptuous disregard and flagrant violation of an agreement 'by employers and their associations. ' "We have recorded only these violations of agreement by employers which are of national Importance. . . We know of no similar period of time in which there have been eo many wanton violations of contract on the part of great organizations of employers. We submit that it is a vital essential that there be a return of good faith In industry, a return to standards of morality which will restore the pledges of men to their true and proper meaning. If it Is Impossible to have faith in pledges given, then the entire industrial structure will be undermined." Turning next to courts, the executive council protested "most emphatic

ally against such unjust and inhu

mane decisions as that of the supreme court vaiding the act intended to abolish child labor in the United

States. Congress "by this decision, must keep lt3 hands off when the health and life and well being of. the nation's children are concerned," the

report asserted, adding that the supreme court of today i3 far more leg

alistic and less humane In its attitude

and temperament than was the su

preme court of 1918. Claim Hostility. "The year is marked particularly with an increasing hostility of the Judiciary toward the effort of wage earners to prevent deterioration of their standards of life and labor," the report continued, "and we recommended that an appeal be made to that higher court of public Judgment, and that the public conscience be aroused to the great and grave menace which confronts the perpetuity of the constitutional rights and liberties of all our

people and as originally conceived by the founders of our republic." Instances of "most flagrant abuses

of equity power" were declared to be contained In Federal Judge Anderson's order at Indianapolis, enjoining continuance of the "check-oft" system of collecting miners' union dues, and In Federal Judge McCllntic's decision In West Virginia against strikers of the same union In that state. This latter decision the report characterized as "conclusive evidence that the Injunction as used Is devoid of all

sense of fairness and decency and that our courts of equity can be turned con-! venlently into instruments of the greatest iniquity whenever It will best serve the interests of soulless corporations and a mad desire for wealth." Possibility of "relief from the constitutional use of the writs of injunc

tion" by legislative action lay in the political field, the report Baid. Praise Locals The executive council described Its

renewal of non-partisan political campaign organizing in advance of the fall elections and expressed "satisfaction over the wonderful enthusiasm expressed" by every local organization of labor in the effort which it said proved "Not only the wage earners, but the great mass of our citizenship are crying for relief." The campaign efTort will be to focus votes behind a program of "opposition to compulsory labor law," and "opposition to injunctions and contempt proceedings as substitute for trial by jury," the council said.

"Congress has proved that only those who are well-to-do or control great interests can induce it to listen,"

the council 6aid, in detailing the rea

son why it asked the federation to enter the campaign for satisfactory

candidates. "These facts are slowly penetrating the minds of the people. They are beginning to realize the change they thought they wanted, has been an Injury instead of benefit. Unless there is a change In the personnel

(of the house and senate) people can prepare themselves for still greater and greater suffering and injustice." "The idea seems to prevail that the outcome of the 1922 elections means that every liberty of the people can be taken away provided some individual or group of individuals representing the privileged few desire It for their benefit," the report continued. "The statement is often made that if the United States capitol could be trans-

of Commerce is about to begin construction of a $3,000,000 headquarters building In Washington on the 'open shop basis. The experiment is to be tried in the capital of the nation on so pretentious a scale will undoubtedly be watched with great interest by the workers and employers alike. "There is but one answer to the en

tire campaign of employers for the disruption and destruction of the labor movement, and that is continued organization, eternal vigilance, and the

highest degree of solidarity." Suggest Boycott Banks have lent assistance to business organizations "to compel employers who desired to deal fairly with the trade unions to alter their course," the report further asserted. In this connection it was suggested that the boycott was available. "Savings and deposis of wage workers in banks must be so controlled by workers as to protect fully the wage

earner s interest m tnis contest, was the proposal advanced. Operations of the Federation of La

bor in manifold directions were discussed In brief paragraphs in the re

port Out of "more than 400 bills In

troduced in congress" during the present session, it was said, "90 per cent

are inimical to the interests of labor

and th epeople."

A period of declining prices having

set in, the theory of "cost of living"

as argument for wage increases interested the federation greatly, the report said. Studies initiated for development of a new formula were described, and a tentative proposal advanced in the statement that the rule should now be: "In every Industry and gainful occupation a wage based upon human needs and aspirations." Some criticism was implied of "a wage based solely upon costs of living, or subsistence, or a saving wage." In the field of International labor organization, the report said, little alteration of past policies had been necessary during the year, and an attitude of friendliness and association rather than unification was described. Delegates of the American Federation of Labor to the British Trades Union congress, is was indicated, "found

many "Isms" creeping into and gaining some ground in the British Trades union movement, though as yet a large majority of th eleaders and a majority, but a smalt majority, of the rank and file do not subscribe to or accept any of them."

"COTTON QUEEN OF SOUTH" WOULD SIT IN LOWER HOUSE

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Mrs. Lelia Seton Edmundson. Mrs. Lelia Seton Edmundson, "Cotton Queen of the South," who owns and operates a 1,600-acre cotton plantation near Decatur, Ala., and who for a number of years has been working for better roads and

better national laws for the farm

the groom a school teacher. Before, the ceremony Mrs. Ashur Wooley of of Richmond, played "I Love You Truly," and, Lester Benham song, "O Promise Me." To the strains of Men

delssohn's wedding march, the bridal

party approached the altar.

The bride wore a dress of white or

gandie with a veil of tulle bound with orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of white roses. The bride was

attended by Miss Mabel O'Hara, sister of the groom, and the groom was attended by Robert Pence. Little Clay

ton O'Hara acted as ring bearer, car

rying the rings on a lily. As they halted at the altar Miss Techla Vollmer of Dayton sang "At Dawning," at the conclusion of which

the double ring ceremony was pro

nounced by Rev. P. V. Harris of South Whitley, Ind. After the ceremony a weeding breakfast was served to about 30 guests. Upon the table of the bridal party wai

PERSHING TO ATTEND ANNUAL CONVENTION OFDISABLEDVETS

SAN FRANCISCO. June 12. -That General Pershing may attend the second annual national convention of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, to take place in San Francisco, June 25 to 30. was indicated In a telegraphic message recently received by the convention commit

tee from President Harding. The president's wire advices were In re-1 sponse to an invitation extended him! to be present at the conclave of the ! Disabled American Veterans. In hlsj message be Ftated It would be lmpos- j

dio broadcasting station, from conven

tion headquarters in the SL Francis hotel, David F. Supple, prominent business man of this city .and rice-chair-man of the mayor's citizen's commit-, - tee for the - convention, extended an invitation to all veterans of the great war, the message carrying into the states of Texas, Nebraska and Kansas. Radio outfits are being used dally by the convention committee to announce the tentative program and other details of the Disabled Vets' conclave, which is expected to bring 10,000 of America's wounded and dls-, abled heroes to San Francisco.

sible for himself to leave Washing-

a beautiful aneeMoo until early next fall, if at all; Mr. and Mrs? O'Hara left Wednesday la , if

for a trip by auto to Michigan.

PHILOMATH, Ind. Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Shadle and son, Russell, of Centerville, spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Plankenhorn Mr. and Mrs. John Hendrix and son, Russell, nnd Cathryn Miler of Richmond, left Thursday morning for a trip to Niagara Falls, New York City and other eastern points. The trip will be made by automobile Mrs. Forrest Allen

of Pennville, spent Thursday with Mary and Laura Rodenbur'g The Happy Pedestrian class met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Rose

Friday night. Members who attended

ers of the south, says she is .;omg ) were Mr and Mrs. Harrv Lambert

to congress in behalf of tha cotton

planters of the south.. She will enter the Democratic primary in August and nomination there is said to be equivalent to election, as her district is largely Democratic.

News of the Counties

HANNA'S CREEK. Ind. Mrs. Homer LaFuze sustained a broken right arm when she fell down a stairway

ported to the England of the fifteenth "'JL'ff

century half the members of congress

would be 'to the manner born. " State legislative bodies also were taken to task in some cases, chiefly in tha matter of compulsory arbitration laws. The Kansas industrial court was described as "an utter failure" and similar legislation in Colorado was said to be "equally as absurd and fully as dangerous." Harding Accused President Harding was accused of having contemplated "a system of Industrial laws similar to those which prevail in Kansas" when in his message to congress last December he declared that "In the case of labor organizations we might well apply similar and equally well-defined principles of regulation and supervision (as he had just previously recommended for corporations) in order to conserve the public's interests as affected by their

operations."

It is hardly believed possible," the

reports add, "that the president implied that the present administration intends to further a policy which will

deny America's workers the right to

cease working collectively anl to de

termine for themselves the conditions under which they will give service.

Yet the language used leaves little room for a different conclusion." "The decisions of the Railroad Labor Board have given satisfaction neither to the workers or the management," the report remarked In considering the compulsory arbitration subject as demonstrated in transportation fields. "They have tended toward a mere general demoralization of morale of mechanical forces. The Esch-Cummins law, through the board, has practically destroyed the concept of voluntary

agrements between employers and workers and the subject of compensation for services has become a constant source of litigation and irritation." Returning to direct labor matters, organized labor scored victory, the report said, "against organized campaigns for the establishment of the so-called open shop."

"Chambers of commerce throughout the country, with certain notable ex

ceptions, have lent themselves to this

disruptive propaganda," the report stated. "The United States Chamber

Charles Bodsy was badly bruised

when hit by an automobile while riding his motorcycle near Richmond.

Suburban

MILTON, Ind Ruth Ann, the little daughter of Mary sills and Luther Vardaman was brought from Muncie Monday for burial in West Side cemetery.... Children's Day was observed Sunday night at the Christian church with an interesting program. The house wa s crowded. The offering

amounted to $80 Miss Ruth McCor-

mlck spent a few days the first of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Luther Vardaman at Muncie. . . .The Methodist Sunday school will have a Children's Day program Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Carl Clingman entertained Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Squires of Lyonsville over Sunday Mrs. Carl Caldwell, Miss Mary Caldwell, Mrs. Albert Ferris, Mrs. Oliver Wal

lace, Mr. and Mrs. Llnville Wallace, Mrs. Harper Lindsay and Mrs. E. P. Jones attended Earlham May Day, Monday... Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lantz had as recent guest Noah Morris of

Piqua, Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Benton

Wagner and son George and Mrs. Carl

Williams attended commencement at

Indiana university. Miss Alma Wagner was or.e of the eraduates....Mrs.

Charles Ferris has had as guest her!

niece, Mrs. Mary Chauncy. . . .Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Jones spent the week-end with their son. Ernest, at Indiana university Richard George from Phoenix, Ariz., and Bert George who has been In the navy four years, have been visiting Milton friends Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crawford, Rev. and f Ta rC rTm 1 n V onH fomilv "M r end

Mrs. Ed Wilson and Charles Callo

way attended commencement at the College of Missions at Indianapolis Wednesday.... The Embroidery club met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Charles Nugent. .. .The Loyal Daughters and the Hustlers will serve a penny supper at the Christian church basement Friday evenjpig, June 18.... Mrs. Carrie Johnson is visiting her son, Louis at Indianapolis Miss Naomi Squier of Richmond and Charles Ivy of Rochter, were week-end 1 guests of John Posey Jones Mrs.

Martha Everson of Richmond has been visiting Mrs. Flora Vorhees.. The Straight Way class of the Christian church held a class meeting in the basement Friday evening The Loy

al Daughters met with Mrs. Arlon Doll Friday evening. .. .Ross Pitman of Hollansburg, Ohio, was a recent guest of Clarence Pitman. .. .Mr. and Mrs. Theo Crist visited Mrs. -Margie Frazee at the Connersville hospital Tuesday Ros3 Parker was at Indianapolis Wednesday. . . . At the Bible school council of the Christian church at the home of George Wagner the following officers for the new year were elected: Superintendent, George

Wagner; assistant superintendent, E. P. Jones; treasurer, Charles Calloway;

secretary, Leroy Hines; assistant secretary, Bernice Hicks; adult superintendent, Alfred Sample; young people,

Delbart Pitman; children's department, Mrs. McCormick; cradle roll, Mrs. George Wagner home department, Mrs. Sample; temperance, AlP. Jones; pianist, Mrs. Harry Doty; bert Ferris; teacher training, Mrs. E. assistant, Mrs. Arlon DolL Rev. McCormick, Floyd Hines and Roscoe Sizelove were appointed delegates to the state convention at Evansville.

j and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hendrix I and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Harry

weoer ana aaugnter, air. ana ivirs. Roy Rodenburg and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rodenburg, Edith Brown, Jennie Pollett, Mary and Fern Rose, Wilbur West, Jasper, Paul, James, Donald and Esther Kelley, Charles Rodenburg, Frank and Paul Pollett, Joseph Plankenhorn, Ernest Stinson, David Plessinger, James Rose. After playing games, refreshments of

angel food cake, lemonade and strawberries were served '.Mrs. Charles Stinson, of Ablngton and Mrs. Raleigh

Townsend of Centerville called on

Mrs. Charles Brown and daughter, Edith. Thursday Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Fisher and Virgil Plessinger attended a festival at Dunlapsville,

Thursday night.

jirmy operations in the southeastern department will permit him to come west for the convention. Fvarv rreat nower in the world war

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by army and navy officers, and, in j some instances, by units of their fight- j Ing ships and military corps. Vessels of the Pacific fleet of the United States navy are beginning to arrive in San Francisco harbor for the convention, Secretary of Navy Edward Denby having directed that the entire Pacific fleet be in San Francisco bay during the week of the Disabled Vets' national convention. Admiral E. W. Eberle, U. S. N., commanding the Pacific fleet, will reach San Francisco within the next few days; and Is to formally approve a program of official and social activities, in which

he navy is to participate, during the

1a?t week id June. ' Speakers over a high-powdered ra-

CAMPBELLSTOWN, Ohio. At 6 o'clock Thursday morning at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Leary, of New Hope, Ohio, occurred the marriage of two of Jackson township's most prominent young people, Miss Glenna Leary and Heber O'Hara, son of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Hara of Campbellstown, O. The bride is an accomplished musician and

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