THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEFFNER. OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 24, 1922.
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Marble and Granite
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PENDLETON, OREGON
Fine Monument and Cemetery Work
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placing their orders
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Here are the men who are to try to keep us all supplied in coal this winter. They are ollicers of Coal
MPmmiran Onnmicsion. created by President Harding. These men each have fan authority in their respec
tive districts. Front row, left to right, shows Clyde B. Aitchisoo, Commission; John C Roth, Director
Bureau of Service; E. H. De Groot, Jr., Assistant Director; and F. C. Smith, Chief Inspector. Second Row:
J. B. Ford, Birmingham, Ala.: B. S. Robertson, Bluefield, W. Va.; C. C. Scrapie Huntington, W. Va.; C. S.
, Reynolds, Knoxville, Tenn.; H. M. Priest, Louisville, Ky.; W. L. Barry, Norton .Va.; and S. J. Mayhood,
Thurmond. W. Va.
Community Service
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Pres. Lewis, Miner's Union,
Quotes Authorities on
Labor Problems
OPPOSITION TO STRIKE
PRINCIPLE OF MINERS
Asserts Mine Owners Have
Resorted to Brutality to
Break Union
By JOHN L. LEWIS, President of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Editor's Note: Coming at this time
anything from John Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
is of interest. In the following Mr. Lew
is has gone to some pains to locate and
quote rulings on the rights of the work
ers to organize from men known
throughout the world. To their opinions
he has added some ideas of his own.
The total gives cause for thought and
that, evidently, was Mr. Lewis' idea in
presenting the manuscript.
Opposition to strikes, except as a last
resort and after every other honorable
means of reaching a settlement of dif
ferences has failed, is a cardinal prin
ciple of the United Mine Workers of
America. But they hold firmly and de
terminedly to the well-established prin
ciple of the right of workers to organize
and to deal collectively with their em
ployers. When this right is denied or
attacked the miners stand ready to en
gage in industrial battle for the main
tenance of that rgiht. The right of
workers to organize is fundamental. It
has been pronounced and affirmed by the
government, by the last four presidents,
the congress, the courts, by state legis
latures, by the press, the pulpit, by civic
bodies everywhere and by the public.
Can You Do It?
Theodore Roosevelt, while president of
the United States in 1902, said: "I be
lieve in organized labor. I believe in or
ganizations of wage workers. Organiza
tion is one of the laws of our social and
economic development at this time."
Chief Justice Taft, before his election
to the presidency, said: "What the cap
italist, who is the employer of labor,
must face is that the organization of
labor the labor union is a permanent
condition in the industrial world. It
has come to stay. If the employer would
consult his own interest he must admit
this and act on it. Under existing con
ditions the blindest course that an em
ployer of labor can pursue is to decline
to recognize labor unions as the con
trolling force in the labor market and
to insist upon dealing only with his par
ticular employes. Time and again one
has heard the indignant expression of a
manager of some great industrial enter
prise, that he did not propose to have
the labor union to run his business; that
he would deal with his own men and not
with outsiders. The time has passed in
which that attitude can be assumed with
any hope of successfully maintaining
it." During the war emergency Mr. Taft
served as joint chairman of the War
Labor Board, and it is interesting to note
that after his experience in that work
he said, on August 9, 1919: "Labor un
ions have been necessary to secure to
the individual workman an opportunity
to deal with his employer on an equality
and free from the duress of the immed
iate want of a daily wage, to demand
what he regards as an adequate and just
return for his labor, or to withdraw
from employment."
Hughes Speaks Up.
And this from Charles Evans Hughes,
now secretary of state, in an address at
Columbia University, on November 30,
1918: "I trust there will be no more
struggle in futile opposition to the right
of collective bargaining on the part of
the employe. The recognition of the
right of representation and the prompt
hearing of grievances provides the open
door to reasonable and just settlements.
And in returning to peace conditions
there should be the utmost care to pre
serve every possible means which has
been found helpful during the war for
the investigation of complaints of labor
and for the adjustment of demands."
Employers of importance and vision
concede the right to the workers to or
ganize. Thus John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
said in the Annals of American Academy
of Political and Social Science, January,
1919: "As regards the organization of
labor, it is just as proper and advantage
ous for labor to associate itself into
organized groups for the advancement of
its legitimate interests as for capital to
combine for the same objects."
J. N. Tittenmore, a member of the Em-
biA-iuuiiui-u,ci raui ts. numpnreys of
Phillipsburg, Pa., started on an athletic
career when he was two months old. His
daddy trained him. The feat shown here
is only one of his stunts. He weighs 18
pounds and he has a chest measurement
of 18 inches.
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YOU MIGHT BE SWART
ENOUGH TO PROFIT FRO A
LOSS BUT NOT FROM
. LOSAS YOUR head!
ployers' Group in the president's first
Industrial Conference, October, 1919,
said: "So far as I am concerned, I am
committed in my mind and in my very
scul to unionism as it is expressed by
the administrative faculty of the Amer
ican Federation of Li-bor; and in say
ing that, my friends, I do not sanction
ultra-radicalism."
Harry A. Wheeler, former president of
the Chamber of Commerce of the Uni
ted States and another member of the
Employers' Group in the first Industrial
Conference, said: "We freely accord the
place of the trade and labor unions in
those organizations which the men have
the right to join."
Rights of Workers.
The Chamber of Commerce of the Uni
ted States, in its referendum No. 27, on
a report on principles of industrial re
lations, declared: "The right of workers
to organize is as clearly recognized as
that of any other element or part of the
community."
The labor provisions of the Peace
Treaty affirm "the right of association
for all lawful purposes by the employed
as well as by the employer."
Twenty-six states have enacted laws
specifically legalizing trade unions and
prohibiting discharge on ground of
membership therein. They are Colorado,
Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Lou
isiana, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl
vania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah. Vir
ginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyo
ming.
In the principles and policies of the
War Labor Board, the right to organize
was tnunciated in detail. ThU declara
tion, worked out in conference between
representatives of employers avl em
ployes, and given the force of law for
the war emergency by presidential pro
cU.mation, was as follows: "Thj right
of workers to orfanize in trade uii ns
and to bargain collectively througn ch'-
ren repr uridines is recognized and it
firmed. This right shall not be denied,
abridged or ir.teifered with by the vnr
ployers in any manner whatsoever."
And yet we find coal operators in West
Virginia, Alabama and other states bru
tally denying to their employes the right
to organize or to join the United Mine
Workers of America. Not only do they
oppose the exercise of this right, but
they maintain huge armies of armed
gunmen and thugs whom they turn loose
to ronm the hills and mountain sides
with a roving commission to assault and
JESS WILLARD
Going to fight though
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Former champ Jess Willard is going to
get his chance this fall to regain the
crown he lost to Jack Dcmpsey at Toledo
three years ago. Tex Richard is going
to stage the bout at Jersey City. Jess in
training at Los Angeles looks all of fat
and forty as shown here.
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W ELL AFTER ALL
When you hear a feller grumble at
the hill he has to climb, an' later, see
him crumble in despair, you wouldn't
err in judgment, if you bet yer bottom
dime, that he has built the cross he has
to bear. This thing we call humanity,
is full of human freaks, with fitful an'
imaginative brains. There's very few
that's brave enough to scale the high
est peaks, that knows enough to come
in, when it rainsl n ith blcssin s all
around us, we embrace the things that
curse. We pander to the vicious a pe
tite. We undertake the very thing that's
sure to make us worse, an' shet our
eyes to everything that's right.
Then is It any wonder, that wa
flounder in the sea, and swaller bitter
waters, tempest-tossed? Too often we
Imagine that our trouble has to be,
when we only need the rudder that we
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we banish every dread, and cure the
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nearly allers in our little ivory head,
and trouble's hard to manage in a
bone!
Wearing Her Championship Belt
Mrs. Grace McClel- & v
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is the new champion &3si -?
woman pistol shot. -n-- , 'C'F I
She won her title in , - 'XJT I
recent competition w I
at San Antonio, U v ' I
where she scored -j f t ,
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wearing the cham- VfL
pionship belt and . S'Si; i
shooting a gold- r Vsn2!w . 1
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awarded with the PV'7 V5f I
title.
murder, if necessary, those employes
who dare to encourage organization.
Hundreds of coal miners have been beat
en or killed by these lawless gunmen in
the employ of unoin-busting coal com
panies. Scores of union organizers have
been assaulted, beaten up, driven out or
killed in order to prevent the union from
obtaining a foothold in these non-union
fields. These coal companies place them
selves above the law, above government,
courts, pulpit, press and the wholesome
force of public opinion. They would
destroy the union and reduce their em
ployes to a still lower standard of liv
ing. What is the great American public
going to do about it?
Many Thrillers Will Be
Feature of Round-Up
PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 23. Wild
Mexican steers which have never felt
the yoke, bucking bronks who have yet
to know the novelty of the touch of the j
saddle, and fast running, sleek horses
these will be the co-stars with the hu-1
man performers at the Pendleton Round-'
Up, September 21, 22, and 23. I
A bunch of livestock unequalled In the
history of the great out-door drama is
being assembled for the events of track
and arena and promises some lively work
for the cowboys who will match their
wits against those of the animals in the
bulldogging, steer roping and broncho
busting. '
The pausclcss thrill for which the
Round-Up is noted will as usual, be par
amount. The association permits not a
moments delay in the staging of the dra
ma and event follows event in quick suc
cession. Among the stars who will participate
will be Tom Mix, motion picture actor,
and his 60 cowboys; Yakima Canutt, Ray.
Bell and Hugh Strickland, all former
champions; Mabel Strickland, clever
trick rider; Lorena Trickey, winner of
the McAlpin trophy awarded the cham
pion woman rider of the world; and
scores of other cowboys and cowgirls
whose lives have been spent in the sad
dle. Entertainment for the evening hours
will be ample. Happy Canyon, that un
tamed village of the West of the old
days when man was untrammeled by law
or convention, will be "wide open" and
will offer games of faro and roulette for
those who would stake their Round-Up
bucks. Like the Round-Up, Happy Can
yon is a community show sponsored by
Pendleton people.
Special railroad rates have been ar
ranged for and the Oregon Journal spe
cial from Portland will be a feature. The
Round-Up association is daily receiving
out-of-town orders for tickets.
HOMEY PHILOSOPHY FOR H22.
Since we are all out helping to make
the world better why not do it In half
the time? If we put the time spent in
kicking into correcting, gee, what a
hole we could knock in the things we
don't like! Most people who don't kick
say "what's the use?" because they
think they are powerless, so they waste
their time grumbling. As soon as one
thing's cured another bobs up. When
we're shaving by wireless there'll be a
kick because the static shakes the ra
zor. Meantime suppose we all butt In
an' better things, and meantime also
smile.
FOR BALE Two bull calves one
came Nov. 16, 1920, and one February 11,
1922. Good registered Jerseys of same
breeding. Will sell either of them. Price
176 and (150. J. R. JOHNSON, Board
man, Ore. 4t
FOR SALE-Thoroughbred White Leg
horn cockerels, laying strain. $1.50
apiece if taken soon. Mrs. Eph Eskelson,
Lexington, Ore.
utvehettes
JvMA MATTHEWS
D.D. LL D.
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Amusement Mania
This is the amusement age. The
craze for amusements foretells the
doom of present day civilization. If
you are a careful reader of history
you will note the similarity between
a this age and the one which preceded
the fall of Greece and Rome. We are
marching toward the same precipice.
The increased population of the
world and the extra facilities afford
ed us make it possible for a quicker
decline. The people seem to have
forgotten all about life's more seri
ous work and are engaged In a mad
competition for pleasure. There are
more people trying to commercialize
this tendency or mania for amuse
ment than ever before, and, for finan
cial considerations they are furnish
ing more kinds of amusements.
Proprieties are being shattered,
principles are being abandoned, and
characters sacrificed in the mad rush
to reach the Beach of Frivolity and
Pleasure.
The old people have become Insane
on the subject; the middle-aged are
Intoxicated; - and the youth of the
land are hopelessly engulfed. Babies
are born in the mad house of Jazs I
and are being rocked In the cradle of
indecency.
The amusement mania of pleasure
insanity seems to have afflicted eighty-five
per cent of the population.
They are today spending millions and
millions of dollars for a day of folly
or a nightride of moral fatality.
They do not soem to agree with
anyone who is trying to cure them
of this awful malady. They are not
willing to co-operate with anyone
who is trying to reform the amuse
ments now being used for the de
struction of society.
The Honorable William H. Hays
deserves the unstinted praise and
support of all Christian people in his
efforts to clean the filthy screens and
wash out the cesspools of moving pic
ture studios.
Every virtue-loving woman In the
land ought to come to his support
and demand the closing of every the
ater which exhibits any picture with
an immoral subject or false coloring.
If you are not willing to support
men who are trying to cure the pop
ulace of their mad amusement In
sanity then you should prepare the
funeral cortege for the wrecked bod
ies of your sons and daughters.
Help us to treat your malady, re
form your amusments, and direct the
people in the road of sanity and mor
al development.