The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 10

PAGE TEN THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TRIBUNE’S HOW'CAN A MOSQUITO GET ALONG WIthouT ANY By RODNEY DUTCHER {of those of skilled and semi-skilled (NEA Service Writer) men workers. Washington, May 20.—Whatever} “One of the great future problems the immediate results of strikes now | of labor is the fact that while the in progress in southern textile cen- | majority of women are in industry ters may be, the work of organizing | because of necessity, many are enter- the underpaid mill workers apparently jing because they want to turn spare 4s going to continue on a large scale. | time into cash and are willing to work Discussion of the situation in the | for low wages.” south was uppermost among leaders| ‘This situation, the woman trade of the Women’s Trade Union league, | unionists asserted, had been especially who have just’ wound up their tri-| hard on women workers in the tex- ennial convention here and who de- | tile, shoe manufacturing and garment cided to move their national head- | industries. quarters from Chicago to Washington + Emphasizes Union Label with the announced purpose of ¢s-| ‘The league is working on plans for tablishing a nearer base for their} a campaign to persuade women gen- campaign to unionize southern indus- | erally to look for union labels on such trial workers. articles of clothing as are made prin- The apparent interest of the Ameri- | cipally by women. It also seeks to can Federation of Labor, as voiced by | educate the public generally to look b President William Green, has also as- | for union labels on shoes and men’s . tonished many persons who had | neckties. By so doing, it holds, wom- never expected to | from the A. F.j en especially can do a great deal to { of L. again. It looks as if the feder- | improve the condition of women who ation also intended to keep up thej work in mills and factories. Inci- } fight to rescue southern mill work- | dentally, the league voted to support hn ers from what they contend areja strike of 30,000 members of the atrocious wage and working condi-| International Ladies’ Garment Work- . * tions. Jers’ union which is planned for June|] EYreckles and His Friends T Hard on the Women against three large New York em- To Meet Tag By Blosser Women mill workers, judging from | ployers’ associations which have re- stories told here, have been getting | fused to recognize the union. ™ : . a the worst of it. Stories of girls who] Mrs. Sarah Green of Kansas City MOUNT REAI YESsR TLL 60 AND WAKE TM GLAD You CAME =) GET YouR CLlomES OW Boy! WAITLL were paid $6 to $10 a weck and| reported to the league on behalf of ‘OY AND HIM OP WITh THE NEWS IW UNCLE HARRV= { ON, FRECKLES — TAG SEES ME IN worked 60 hours a week appear to| the National Waitresses’ union that ALSO GET A MOUNT ENERYTHING TMAT WERE RIDING I WAS SLEEPING WERE GOING To 7S Air. G have startled some of the senators, | the growing demand of employers for FOR FRECKLES: TLL WILL BE To ME STATIO) LIKE A LOG AN' NEET TAG! OUTFIT HELL who must decide whether there is; young and good-looking waitresses GE WANTING THEM — ment warrant for an investigation of tex-| was causing great hardship to older IN DALE AN MEET TAGALONG ‘ WANE SLEPT tile industry conditions in North and | women who must work for a living. TILL AOON IF a South Carolina and ‘Tennessee. Must Be Attractive YOO WADAT Leaders of the Women's Trade} “It is almost impossible for a wait- Woe ME i i oom neers eT Union League revealed that average who weighs over 125 pounds and yearly earnings of women in industry ! is over 30 years of age to get a job,” are lower than they were five years | she said. “Childs’ restaurants in New ago. despite the prosperity enjoyed | York will not employ a girl who is by other classes. Men's earnings have | over 25. What will happen to the increased. rest of us?” “Latest official reports from three Like the A. F. of L., the league has large manufacturing states, New York, | its troubles with the Communists. Its Illinois and Massachusetts, show that | final session was visited by the truck- women wage earners receive on an | load of emaciated strikers from Gas- average about 55 per cent of the|tonia, N. C., including 14-year-old, weekly earnings of men wage earn- | 69-pound Jennie Green, who worked ers,” says Miss Lillian Herstein of the | 60 hours a week for $4.95. The Com- Chicago Federation of Labor. | munist leader who staged the show “The National Industrial Confer-| started attacking the league for its ence Board's reports on weekly carn-| “lack of interest” and some of the ings of men and women, covering | members called him a “liar.” But the 1600 plants in the United States,| ladies of the league took up an im- q showed women’s weekly carnings for | promptu collection of $30 or $40 and all industries for November, 1928, as| gave it to the strikers, urging them 70.5 per cent of the earnings of un-/ not to turn any of the money over skilled men workers and 54.9 per cent | to the Communist organizers. een ToS See revree ese MOM’N POP When Crook Meets Crook AS LONG AS OUR VICTIM ISNT) NOT A BAD DAY'S }( POP LOOKS PRETTY LOW SINCE) YES, HERE'S * OW; JUST TO CHEER GET HIS wi HAWK fe) BAD ON THAT COPPER DEAL ] LITTLE HELD IN DID HAVE ANY COPPER ON IT. / BUT WHAT'S THE GET URES a0 wey ee oor coe nant crossea! : AT WIS EXPENSE. THAT DUTTING OVER A ‘SAY, BY THE WAY, IF YOU HAVE / IDEA OF NOUR iG Bopy OF RICH COPPER ORE Vl Ct REMINDS Me TERE T FAST ONE guST A] THAT DEED TO THE CLAM | DEALT NOUR BACK FROM HII THAT RUNS FROM MY MINE RIGHT) PLLMAKE eorrment. By dnne Austin = s3°% WANT TO GIVE YOU A CALL ON ME POP THOUGHT YOU BOUGHT A to pops OFFICE THROUGH HIS CLAIM AND IT MIGHT / YOU PAY (" CHECK FOR $2500-vouR WHEN WE PUT THAT OVER ° EXTEND INTO THIS ONE THAT YOU BLENTY CUT ON THE PROFITS ow cae oleate SUST GAVE BACK TO ME. FOR THIS Not ten minutes after she had first | says ‘hacked’ she means she’s embar- Y g HERE'S THE WIRE heard the name, Mary Burns, Tony | ress. aC ea ence 3 lary’s outlandish words, an al Tarver had an opportunity to see the cold - molasses - in - January way of girl herself. Mom Ross was telling an speakin’ she has. anecdote of Sandy's babyhood, of} The short bobbed black hair was which Tony would not have missed | swung in a vigorous nod. “They pret’ the slightest word, when the precious | near tease me to death, Miss Tarver. recital was interrupted by a knock at} You'd die laughin’ to hear Sandy the bedroom door. mock me... . But what you doin’ in “That'll be Mary Burns now,” Mrs. | bed this time o' day, Miz Ross? Lordy, Ross chuckled. “I knowed she would- | you ain't sick, are you?” SENT GEORGE n't be able to get along much longer; While Mrs. Ross gave a complete BRAGG PELL-MELL without talking about Sandy. . . .| account of her accident, and permit- Come in,” she called, and in bounced | ted her awed visitor to see the thickly @ very plump. very short girl, who! bandaged ankle, Tony studied this checked her headlong rush to the bed- | girl who had not been content to take side when she saw that her hostess | possession of that sacred house next had a visitor. ' door, but who had also calmly usurped “Oh! Am I buttin’ in, Miz Ross? 1| the most precious prerogatives that just thought I'd run in — went with it—a daily opportunity Tony had time to reflect, ungra-|to see the Rosses, a place in Mom ciously one de a peiligerence nay | Ross's big, motherly heart, friendship surprised her. that if the Burns girl| with Sandy. Although Tony's blue \'tr SORRY, Bos: GOTTA 's Were somber with something like # ike ard 8 rng Sapa ode pea had eyes in her head she could not | e: " have helped seeing the two cars| —wholly unwarranted she knew— perliesg REAL FELLA FoR val ToLD parked before the Ross house. jthey could not blink the fact that ’ Wi “W’ Boss MY CLAN AN He “Mary, this is Tony ‘Tarve: you; Mary Burns was pretty—in a way. vo CAME THROUGH LiKe @ HoLe, have heard me speak of. Not ten min- | Sleck, straight black hair, cut ina 3 NW NER Sock — act utes ago, Mary, I was tellin’ Tony | childish Jackie Coogan bob, with a RELI, Oo NOW IS WIRE Guar! about you and your Ma bein’ the new! short fringe across her narrow fo: renters next door. Tony grew up in/ head; little, sparkling, jet-black ey that house, Mary, and I ‘spect she's a; ‘There was something passionately vi- little mite jealous of you for havin’ | tal about her, in spite of her southern it... . . Well, Tony, you can answer | drawl and her diffidence in finding your own questions now,” she grinned. | herself in the presence of a “society “Tony was askin’ me if you was pretty, | girl"—even though that girl had once | ag ‘ lived in the house next door. The little black-eyed, black-haired | And what was that Mary Burns was girl bridied, and teetered on an em-/ saying?—"Oh, Miz Ross! Guess what barrassed toe. “Aw, Miz Ross,” she!a mean trick Sandy Played on me! Protested in a drawl, “I feel hacked to| He sent me a picture post-card of death.” Grant's Tomb, just to kid me, ‘cause “Hacked?” Tony repeated wonder-|/he knows good and well we was oe ingly, before good manners could re-! all Confederates. Ain't he a case. strain her. | though!” Mrs. Ross’ rich chuckle answered | ther. “Mary is from ‘way down south,| NEXT: Tortures for Tony. ‘Tony. I've figgered out that when she! (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) —— rea 2 | anid were going about handing th IN NEW YORK {0 the cash customers. 7 "em — | Hawkers go continually about, in- New York, Mey 20—In the Chinese] tion of their lines” Bits or ceraied “ “Theatre, which occupies one of the; melon, melon seeds and ginger candy | Seem to be the favorite wares. If the actors are disturbed, they give no indication. The play seems to go ey on. It runs until about | 12:30, : by customs centuries old. . The heavy rush of patronage be- _ In Chinatown the theater is a fam- | %ins just about midnight. I was told ily attair. youngsters romp up| that at 12 o'clock balcony scats are , inventing var- | {rec. To that time there had been on the night I at-| but an average audience. Suddenly, skipping the rope | 85 the free list crashed in, the theater of my seat. A half | becamed jammed. This, I understand, is considered good advertising, a Chinese play tells a continued story 5S i, y Z : which may run for many days and a ' : crowd arrives just in time to pic : up the “to be continued in our nex! ** * Chinese actors, by the way, are among the highest paid in the world. Performers, to gain a general Manhattan follow- |here and the body was taken to Win-|once by » gunhot and l t ing. OMBERT swan, |‘270P: Mimn., for interment. He leaves |onet. once by by-) Fargoan Is Victor Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc, |#even children, two of whom are Miss} After his discharge from service, he! In State Net Meet ———_ Ruth Hardy and Mrs. Bjugsted,| married Miss Ella Pratt, Minneapoiis,j ~ pl 2 ae Burnstad Civil War enemy Plaray was bora Aug. , ssn, | tie came to North Dakota and Grand Forks, N. D., May 20.) ‘Veteran Dead at 91 us Deaabon Hy, Ms spent hs [oa ee bear Burn- ps esy boyhood vicinity “A ton, Harry, died while in service Burnstad, N. Dak., May 20.—Having |came a painter. 4 during a lived 91 years, nine months, and threc| When President days, Henry Hardy, Civil War vet-|Volunteers, Mr. eran, died here recently. Public funeral services were held i HU E