The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1924, Page 3

. Mlinois. _ them to subscribe Wednesday, February 27, 1924 semen cenercennsnt THE DAILY WORKER INDIANA KLAN IN SPLIT FROM NATIONAL BODY Declare Leaders Used Klux for Personal Gain MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 26.—A meet- ing to consider breaking away from the present Ku Klux Klan organiza- tion and the formation of a Klan of the North will be held here on March 24, Klan No, 4, Delaware county, an- nounced today. Klansmen from Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and other states are ex- pected to attend the meeting. The announcemnt states that free speech has been suppressed and other rights have been taken away by lead- ers of the present organization, * ee & May Bore From Within! ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—Ku Klux Klan malcontents from many sec- tions of the country gathered here today with the expressed intention of “curing or killing’ the secret order, E. Y. Clarke, former imperial wizard of the organization who is- sued the call for the gathering, dec- lared he would oppose any effort to organize an order to oppose the Klan. New York Labor in Big Drive for German Workers Aid NEW YORK, Feb, 26.—The local drive to aid the famished workers of Germany is proceeding with enthu- siasm and success. Volunteer work- ers are covering local unions every night, committees are organized in outlying sections, house to house canvasses are arranged and mass meetings are being arranged to spur up interest in the work of saving the workers of Germany from the capi- talist-created famine. The labor unions are responding magnificently to the appeals for funds. Bankers’ Local No. 1 donated $1,400, and Bakers’ Local Executive Board No. 3 voted $1,000 to be ap- proved by the union later on. The executive board of the Paint- ers’ union gave $25.00. The unions are cordially receiving speakers from the New York local of the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Ger- many, under whose auspices the drive is organized. A mass meeting held in Linden, New Jersey, netted $150.00. A mass meeting will be held in Hungarian Home, New York, on March 15. Headquarters for the drive will be organized in the following places: Willigmsburg, 715 Broadway; Froese 1844 Pitkin Ave.; Down- town, E. 12ci"St.;" Yorkville La- bor \ Temple; Harlem, 143 E. 103rd St.; Bronx, 13847 Boston Road; Queens Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest Ave.; Boro Park and Bath Beach at 40th St. Club House. The proposal to start a drive for clothing was held in abeyance pend- ing communication with the national office in Chicago. Hughes Will Not Say Whether Russia Balks U. S. Internationalism (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26,—Secre- tary Hughes declines to “speculate” with regard to future decisions as to calling or taking part in interna- tional conferences. He will not say whether the presence of Russia m an international conference will keep the United States out. This response was given when he was questioned as to his attitude on the appeal sent him by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, which quoted President Coolidge’s peace talks and asked him to invite the president to call a “con- ference of the debtor and creditor nations.” This proposed conference would “make definite settlement, in concrete terms, of reparations, inter. allied debts and disarmament, in or- der to achieve a new peace.” Mr. Hughes points out that he has recently explained, in a letter to Rep- resentative Hamilton Fish, of New York, that he cannot approve any of the disarmament conference plans now suggested. As for the war debts, they are in the hands of a debt commission created by Congress. And the reparations matter is being dealt with, at present, by the Dawes. com- mittee of experts. In short, he will not stove, Chicago Papers Lied in Stating Labor Endorsed Small (By The Federated Press) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb, 26.—The Tilinois joint labor legislative board has not indorsed Len Small, republi- ean, for re-election as governor of Neither at its Chicago meeting Feb. 8 and 9, nor at any other meeting hag it done so. Chi- cago and down-state papers gave wide circulation to a story saying that the joint labor legislative board had given Small an indorsement. Guy Young and Irvine Dy Strain, United Mine Worker members of the joint board, has requested The Fed- the May 30th convention to be held in St. Paul, and elected 49 delegates to attend. : A resolution was then unani- mously adopted demanding withdrawal of the democrats, headed by Governor Charles Bryan, filed for the coming pri- maries, on the Progressive par- ty ticket. ; The state law of Nebraska provides | that a legal political party such as the Progressive Party shall hold its reg- ular annual convention in the month of April. But because of the mixed political situation in the state, due to the fusion efforts of the democrats and the confusion tactics of the re- cently organized Conference for Pro- |greasive Political Action, prominent | members of the Nebraska Progressive Party felt obliged to call this Febru- ary conference. C. P. P. A. Gets the Gate. The Grand Island conference was attended by over one hundred dele- gates from various counties, These for \the most part represented the poorer farmers, with a small sprinkling of rank and file trade unionists. The element which had tried to break into the conference, headed by the State Conference for Progressive Political Action, was composed mostly of trade union officials, rich farmers and pro- fessional politicians—appointees of Gov. Bryan. The purpose of this group—an effort to capture the con- ference—was so apparent that even prior to the opening of the confer- ence great indignation was shown amongst the dirt farmers and the rank and file trade unionists, And as soon as the conference opened, the fight was on. The Credentials Committee recom- mended that only those belonging to or affiliated with the Progressive Party, and who intended to support its candidates, should be admitted to the conference, A substitute to this mo- tion was proposed by Joseph Gilbert, late of Minnesota and the Non- Partisan League, now editor of a newspaper at North Platte. This substitute motion said that the énly qualifications for participating dele- gates should be that they believed in maintaining a third party movement in Nebraska. There was bitter ‘and prolonged debate on this point—Gil- bert and Orton, State Chairman of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, taking prominent part in the discussion. In the course of the de- bate it was argued that if the original motion were adopted this would pre- vent members of the Progressive Party from supporting “good men” in the old political parties, if they might desire to. And that argument seemed to “settle the hash” of the Conference for Progressive Political Action group—with the farmers, particularly—because when the vote nine delegates supported the sub- stitute motion. The original motion carried, with Gilbert, Orton and sev- eral others voting against it, Follow- ing which, these members withdrew from the conference; and with their withdrawal went the only note of disharmony that had been heard there. Thruout all the discussions ‘that followed, on the various matters brought before the conference, there was apparent the finest spirit of friendship and co-operation between the remaining delegates, of the dirt- farmer and rank and file trade union- ist constituencies, The two excep- tions to these classifications con- sisted of Delegates Bigelow and Paul, the first a lawyer from Omaha, whose practice is mostly amongst the trade unionists; and the second a farmer who is now practicing law, among the farmers locally. Brother of Darwin’s Foe Banned. William H. Green, of Omaha, Executive Secretary of the Progres- sive Party, was chairman of the com- mittee that brought in the resolution demanding withdrawal of the names of Bryan and the other Democrats as candidates of the Progressive Party. In supporting this demand, speaker after speaker vigorously denounced the attempts at fusion. One of these —a farmer, 82 years of age—recalled the old Populist Party, which had been “swallowed” in a similar man- ner by the Democrats. All were strongly for getting the Democrats off the Progressive Party ticket, at all costs. All the committee’s recommendations were unanimously adopted. Great enthusiasm was shown for the May 30th convention, and the growing farmer-labor movement. The writer, as National Secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, ad- dressed the conference and appealed for support of the St. Paul conven- tion on May 30th. The conference elected eight delegates from each of the six Congressional districts to at- tend that convention and elected Rev. J. L. Beebe, State Chairman of the Progressive Party, as a delegate at large—thus completing the delega- tion of forty-nine. In addition, a resolution was passed providing that upon return to their homes the delegates to this confer- etated Press to say that “at no time ence should make every endeavor to during the recent meeting of the Illi- nois joint labor legislative board was the name of Len Small mentioned for indorsement.” How man: shop-mates read ‘THE DAIL Get one of of your WORKER. today. Hy. 4 influence all trade unions and farm- ers’ organizations, to have them send delegates to the St. Paul convention on May 30th. The conference continued along in- to the fishes ores a full slate i the various sta’ ices was nominated on the Progressive Party ticket. hk’: was taken, shortly afterward, only| to Farmers and Trade Unionists of Nebraska in Progressive Party Vote to Go to St. Paul May 30th By JOSEPH MANLEY. Secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party ee Altho the Nebraska Conference for Progressive Political Action was not “thrown over a transom’—as one disgruntled democrat expressed it—its delegates were by an overwhelming vote refused seats in the conference of the Progressive Party, held at Grand Island, Neb., on February 22nd. Following this action, the conference unanimously endorsed Demand LaFollette Quit Teapot Party The candidate nominated for United State Senator was W, J. Tay- lor, a well-known Nebraska farmer and a popular champion of the cause of the poorer farmers, especially, Mr, Taylor was easily the best orator present in the conference, and his speeches were filled with illuminating facts in connection with the. growing bankruptcy situation of the farmers whose interests he spoke for, He was the aythor of the motion which de- cided the fate of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, in this conference, and his right to make the closing address on this measure he eannily took advantage of. Mr. Taylor is more than 60 years of age; but he is in vigorous health, and will no doubt become a prominent figure in the growing farmer-labor move- ment. A resolution was also unanimously endorsed in this conference calling upon Robert M, LaFollette to get out of the Republican Party and help lead the farmer-labor movement. Althogether, this conference of members of the Progressive Party of Nebraska has gone a long way toward “cleaning house,” of those elements which have been seeking to destroy it. Their regular State Convention will be held in April. And it is almost certain that, if legal technicalities \will allow—and the champions of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, do not prevent it—-the Progressive Party of Nebraska will become tht State Farm- er-Labor Party. And the conference will have the direct effect of organiz- ing a large delegation, truly repre- sentative of the real farmers and in- dustrial workers of the state, to at- tend the May 30th convention. It will also be committed to the policy of joining hands with sister states, for the organization of a great na- tional Farmer-Labor Party. Mexican Governor Cuts Expenses by Opening Prisons By BERTRAM D. WOLFE (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26—Amid groans and jeers on the part of the capitalist press, Jorge Manrique, Agraristo governor of San Luis Po- tosi, is pushing a big program of social reconstruction in the state of which he has recently become gov- ernor. Finding a pilfered treasury and no money to feed the prisoners, he in- vestigated their cases, talked tg them individually and then opened the door to almost all of them. He thinks petty theft is a result of poverty, exploitation and starvation and not of human cussedness, so those charg- ed with petty thefts were the first go. Then to prevent the, repopulation of the jails, he shut down all the cantinas (saloons) on Sundays and holidays. There is nothing of the Puritan blue laws about this, meas- ure, nor of hypocrisy either. His very enemies admit that the saloons have closed and stay closed. At the same time he cut out bull fights, ‘Then he summoned the state teachers before him and told them that their rigorous, military discipline, imposed upon the school children, was anti- quated and they would have to aban- don it. The new municipal president of the state capital, inspi by the ex- ample of his superior, called a meet- ing of the workers of the city and told them that were entitled to go home at the end of eight hours of work, and that he wanted them to stop at the end of eight hours and he would personally see to it that they suffered no evil consequences, Now the eight-hour law is being enforced, Strike of Linseed Mill Workers Is Won at Superior (By The Federated Press) SUPERIOR, Wis., Feb, 26—The strike of the linseed mill workers at the plant of Spencer Kellogg & Sons here, came to an end after the company’s unsuccessful attempt to operate under the new regulations against which the men were striking. The rule was that each crew of three should operate nine _ linseed | presses, instead of eight. The men quit in a body, and. only two of the strikers returned under the new con. ditions,‘one 6f whom subsequently resigned because of the addea burden, The officials recruited inexperienc- ed and casual help which was avail- able in quantities insufficient to pro- duce one-fourth the usual output, After a week the company conceded the demands of the men for the old conditions. The mill has resumed full operations. Re-Christen Mid-West Labor News, OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 26.—The Mid- West Labor News, official organ, Ne- braska State Federation of Labor, is aring under the new name st News, The change was made to emphasize the close relations between labor and farmer forces in Nel A. Lochray, a board manle. e Federated Press, is editor. of Th OLD WOMAN WHO WITNESSED FIRE MOVES AUDIENCE N. Y. Women Organize to Fight Fire-traps (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 26.—-A meeting for working class women was held here under the auspices of the United Council of Working class women, to protest against the housing conditions on the East Side which make danger- ous fire-traps of the tenements. About fifty women were present. There were eight women speakers, among them an old women who lives across the street from the place that had burned down and destroyed thirteen workers lives last week. Her simple story (she had never been on a platform before) which she told while she wailed as one wails for the dead, made the audience weep so loudly, it seemed as if the meeting itself was turned into a funeral serv- ice. At the end, an appeal was made to the women to organize themselves into a Neighborhood Council, Thirty- three women enrolled and promised to get their neighbors to jojn. They will be given an organizer familiar with organization work. A resolution was adopted demand- ing that the city abolish the fire-traps and build houses for the workers, to rent at cost. _The women were eager for organization. Even the children seemed to understand. One kiddie kept saying to his mother, “Mama, mama, did you give ‘your name. Go on, hurry up! give your name.” Sev- eral young girls enrolled with the idea that it would be a good thing to form a junior group. They are the daughters of women who enrolled. A couple of capitalist party politi- cians came in, but were ignored. Congressman Dickstein of the 12th District and a local assemblyman. The keynote of the speeches was: The working class, if strongly organized can do anything for themselves. The working class women, as part of the working class must stand together to make a better life for the workers and their families. Olgin and Epstein Speakers at N. Y. W. C. Protest Meet © (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—A_ big mass meeting of Arbeiter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) members was held tonight in Clinton Hall here to protest against the action of the reactionary machine of the organi- zation in depriving two members, Abe Epstein and D. Siegal, of their full rights, by making them members at large, and to protest against the campaign of terror instituted by the reactionary officials against the Left Committee of Action and the revo- lutionary party of the Workmen’s Circle membership. This meeting was the outcome of an immense wave of protest thru- out the organization, twenty branches thus far having passed resolutions of protest. The meeting was addressed by Comrades Olgin, Bourgin, and by Comrade Abe Epstein, who is one of the two above-mentioned members of the Workmen’s Circle. Comrade Epstein was received with great applause. In his speech he said: “This is not a question of the expulsion of myself or of Siegel. We have come not merely to protest. We have come to build a movement which will restore the Workmen's Circle to its former position: a non-partisan progressive workmen’s organiza- tion.” Comrade Olgin in his speech said that in his tour over the country he found everywhere that the progres- sive workers are bitter against the bureaucratic methods of the present leadership in the Workmen’s Circle. Warns Against, To Much Optimism Base on Labor Party Victory (By The Federated Press) NEW _YORK, Feb. 26,—A London trade unionist contributes a long let- ter to the current number of Ad- vance, organ of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, in which he tells of shocking conditions in clothing sweatshops working in competition with American shops, and ends with a warning against a too great optim- ism based on the political victories of the English workers. ~The real reason for these, he writes, “is the fact that the mass of the workers, seeing our most er- ful unions suffering defeat after de- feat, have lost faith in the industrial organization as a force for their bet- terment.. As a result of their. de.. spair, they have used the ballot box to a greater degree. But we must not, comrade, exaggerate the victory. . «+ The mass of the workers are apathetic, indifferent. Their su of ~ yee pss hos bg me man in despair groping in the . than a class conscious effort, Still our one ray of hope in the comi: year, is that when the next genera! election comes labor will be power- ful enough to bring relief from the — slavery by appropriate legis- tive measures,” . Kisser Comes Back. - anne bboy Bede fet ont i" amon, 10 resign as prin' ing instructor in the Kansas City, Kansas high school after the had kissed Margarette Pratt, 18 senior, returned to his job toda: letter of resignation was wit at a meeting of the board re Te Page Three Detroit, in Big Come-Back in Daily Worker “‘Sub”’ Drive, Says Chicago Has Got a “‘ Fat Chance”’ To THE DAILY WORKER.—We in Detroit read with a lot of amusement the boasts of the Chicago “DAILY WORKER Booster” outfit. Our amusement springs from our knowledge that Chicago has earned the name of “Windy City” because its people are past masters of the Art of Blow. We accept the handicap of a double population. We accept the handicap of Chicago being the home city of the DAILY WORKER. We accept these handicaps because we can say, with commendable modesty, that when it comes to the “go-getter stuff” Detroit can run circles around Chicago. The Campaign for the DAILY WORKER is going forward with such gratifying results that we are putting on a full time City DAILY WPRKER Representative. Bud Reynolds, king of the go-getters, will devote his boundless energy and incom- parable ability to making Detroit the first DAILY WORKER city in the country, And with our DAILY WORKER organiza- tion hitting on all cylinders, supervised by the irrepressible old His Bud, Chicago has a fat chance. Gladys Cable Sings Silly Song So Well It Sounds Good By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Mabel Lyons, a oan d Chicago pianiste, was soloist with the Civic orchestra on Sunday, February 24, playing the MacDowell second con- certo. Miss ms is a thoro musi- cian of unusual gifts, and she played in a way that showed excellent mu- sicianship at its best. - The Civic orchestra is a symphonic organization founded by the Civic Music Association for the develop- ment of players for established sym- paeny Pie Most of io eighty odd players are young musi- cians, and the results they obtain under the leadership of Mr. Stock and Mr. DeLamarter make them not a student orchestra, but a serious and worth-while alternate for the Chicago Symphony. q Other local musicians played in other halls on the same day. Robert MacDonald, well known as an ac- companist, and a young violinist, Aldo Del Missier, not so widely known, gave a joint recital at thé Playhouse. We heard them play a sonata by Sjogren for violin and piano, in a thoughtful and studious, if not very brilliant manner. Del Missier possesses a beautiful tone, tho his interpretation lacks some- what in depth and feeling. It is rather unusual for MacDonald to play solo, but his performance of the first movement of a sonata by Glazu-| 1, noff showed his remarkable capabili- ties in this field. see Goldie Gross, cellist, and Gladys Cable, soprano, also gave a joint re- cital at the Studebaker. Miss Cable has a small voice, incapable of any very big effects, but she showed abil- ity to take some most idiotic senti- mental songs and make them sound like real music. Where a less skil- ful singer would have only bored one with a’ song like Reichardt’s “When the Roses Bloom”, Miss Cable! made of it a really enjoyable. per- formance. Miss Gross made an equally de- lightful impression. Hers is the soft and feminine tone that @ woman's touch generally imparts to an instru- ment. Her ormance of a com- position by Jensen called “Murmel- udes Lueftchen” demonstrated an enviable technic. * ° The Chieago Business Men’s Or- chestra, the finest amateur orchestra in the city, played a concert at the Edgewater Beach hotel. It is not entirely composed of business men, for there are a good many profes- sional men and workers in it as well. This is about the only amateur orchestra in these parts it main- tains a full symphonic instrumenta- tion without the assistance of a sin- gle hired professional, We were able to hear a movement of a Bruch con- certo played by Carleton Kaumeyer, the eoncertmaster of the orchestra, and the finale of Chaykovski’s fourth symphony, both played with a sur- prisingly good. ensemble, tone quali- ty, and vigor. The director, Clarence Evans, viola player in the Chicago Symphony or- chestra and in the Gordon quartet, has done wonders with the men under him, and too much eredit can not be given him. His orchestra is worthy of better things than a free concert to a perhaps not over-attentive audi- ence in a swell hotel, and Mr, Evans should lose no timg, in, advancing it. Thureday—Lotta, Chatroon,, 9p silts 80) no, and Mae Doellin; idt, fine recital, at Kimball , 8:15. Hi Cowell, _composer-piani: lecture recital tk Fine Arts Recital Chicago Symphony orchestra, ular concert, soloists J, ton, tenor, and Harvey Noack, flute, at Orchestra Hall, 8:15. Friday—Chicago Sym) y 0 chestra, sequier iption con- cert, Claire Dux, soprano, soloist, at Orchestra Hall, 2:1 Symphony or- samba pegs Heri repitition of Friday's concert, t 8:30, Fritz Kreisler,|% Sunda; violinists zecttal at the Auditori Frederick Lamond tal we teuaebe bee Marie Sund , a? ve x jumann-Heink, con- rnestine te Bat net Art Institute, at 3:00 and 4:15, “Monday—Anna Pavlowa and com-|¥ te dancing, Auditorium, 8:15, Here and There HOW MANY, PLEASE? +(Elevated Ad:—‘Funerals as low or as high as you want.’’) *-_* © @ Chanty in Purple. i. ‘ Oh, ag them high, oh, order them ow Oh, order them simple without any show— Forty-eight carriages, flowers and music Fifty bucks down and the rest in in- stallments, I. Oh, order a plain one and order it quick There ain’t any flowers or plumes vein: Gow Next stop is Potters Field—ashes to ashes, Twenty-seven dollars and a faint Amen. INSOMNIA. = e¢ @ @ The papers report Gifford Pinchot is having trouble with his ears. Probably strained them listening for the call to the presidency. es e+ © Get wiser daily—read the Daily. CURRENT FICTION. (The Week’s Best Smeller.) “Let us from this time forth fight | 4 until the stars fall for honest govern- ment, for world peace, for economic and social justin, and for the undy- ing principles of Democracy.”——Wm, feAdoo, ere 2: @ “Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it ’— incoln Star. 70 8-8 “We'll never have a Labor govern- ment in this country unless we jack up Cabinet salaries to compete ‘with union wages.”—Brooklyn Eagle, Bask to get a Cabinet, will we have up union. wages to compete with oil “loans” and retainers?” be ask pra? nil "you are dead to ve you need a ing wage—joi THE WORKERS PARTY bie P and demand it. “Tact as well as a sense of pro- plage ted well as a personal loyalty to sident Coolidge, obviously be grt Denby to resign as 0! ee navy.”—C) Daily News, ni — aon a little indiscretion in x se @ * NOW YOU'RE BROADCASTING!! A loud speaker has been installed in the White House. Now if we can only get a sensible one. ss BRICK LAYER, Dear Here pa A am_a sul lion to the dal; ‘wurker & saw a ad for robots. Wish to say did not git my B pa for 2 days aps Gomez could get robots in usiness office. Yours truly, A WURKER. se e+ @ The Forbes testimony in the in- vestigation of the Veteran’s Bureau ee core ae altho wild life is dis- ie @ open spaces— It is increasing under cover, Get wiser daily—thru the DAILY. Ye okie. Island imm Frente e wire cages. tl it. That won't make Shame sing rn 8 of our country. _ \ eo 3 2 MacDonald is the leader of His Majesty’s government. And if he favors Royalty too much, Labor will have to crown him, | ‘ Read articl and aading on ‘Washingt wet bl we Pages convin: 5 one thing eorge | ‘or— ‘A helluva lot of liars. ; WALT CARMON. sp bRite Mamas eae them to subscribe SIGN 106 No, Le Galle 6t., Room 41 NAME. 7 ints are con-|$ SAYS CANADIAN RR, UNIONS AND BOSSES AGREE ,, Joint Adjustment Board Issues Reports By JOHN ROBUR (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) MONTREAL, Feb. 26.—For over five years. now the chief Canadian railways and six of the leading rail- way unions have successfully operat- ed a joint board for the settlement of differences, apart from the general ‘wage agreements which have been arranged by negotiation, The second report of this joint board, which is known as Canadian Railway Board of Adjustment No. 1, is now issued, The board was estab: lished Aug. 7, 1918, and the first re- port covered the period up to Aug. 31, 1920. The present report deals with eyents since that date up to the end of last September. Leading Unions Included. The six railway unions which are members of the board are the Broth- erhood Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine- men and Firemen, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Railroa:t Trainmen, Order of Railroad Teleg- raphers, and the United Brotherhood: of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers. The railways are the Canadian Na- tional, theyGrand Trunk, the Grand Trunk P: ic, the Canadian Pacific, the Dominion Atlantic, the Edmon- ton, Dunvegan and British Columbia, the Esquimalt and Nanaimo,. the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario, the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo, the New Brunswick Coal and Rail- way, and the Quebec Central, Equal Representation. The board consists of 12 members, six from the unions and six from the railways. The members of the board vote individually and a majority vote is necessary to reach a_ decision. Before the board deals with a dis+ pute it has already passed thru the stage of direct negotiation between the union and the railway officials, so that only the more troublesome cases reach the board at all. In the ive years of the existence of the board, up to Sept. 30, 1923, 180 de- cisions had been given by the board and all of them were unanimous. Street Carmen Win Legal Battle with Cleveland Employers (By The Federated Press) y CLEVELAND,. .-Fob. 26.—The-le- gality of union contracts is upheld in a decision’ handed down by Judge Fred L. Hay of this city. Backed by. the united power of the open shop Chamber of Commerce and the American Plan Association, John §, ‘Baker brought suit against the Cleveland local of he Amalga- mated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of Amer- ica, claiming damages for the loss of his job as motorman because he refused to join the union within. 90 days prescribed in the union shop agreement, ae nylon based RY oie upon the validity of a legally made contract, which it held should be enforced by the courts in the interests of public licy as a long step toward indus- Trial peace. The court upheld the contention of the union and dire: a verdict against the plaintiff wi costs. will waste any more’ of its money in The open shop Chamber of \- merce ig now syendecng, whether it appealing the case.to a higher court. Bandits Carry Away Safe. MORRIS, Ill., Feb. 26.—Five ban- dits burned their way into the State Bank of an, sometime the night and carted away a 2,800 pound safe containing $15,000. 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