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Vol. XI. 
February 7iors. MNG6,"6. 
Tue U. S. M. C. Case 
The decision of the United States 
Supreme Court this week that the 
United Shoe Machinery Co. was not 
in violation of the Sherman anti-trust 
law lends a hopeful view to the case 
of the Beverly concern. 
Shoe will be obliged, however, to 
stand trial on the remaining indict- 
ment which affects the “tying” clauses. 
The clause in question refers to the 
charge that the Beverly concern tied 
up the manufacture of various shoe 
machines in such a way that it consti- 
tuted a monopoly and thereby elimi- 
nated competition. 
The result of the trial of the com- 
pany on this last indictment is doubt- 
ful, but the judgment of the Supreme 
Court on the other indictment would 
indicate that the charge on the one 
remaining would not be sustained. 
Besides adding an entirely new 
scope to the Sherman anti-trust law 
and drawing a distinct line between 
size and competition in such contre- 
versies, the decision of the Supreme, 
Court will give an added impetus to 
the business at the plant of the United 
Shoe in Beverly. For some time bus- 
iness at the plant has been exceeding- 
ly dull, orders of any size having been 
postponed in their completion. As a 
result hundreds of men were thrown 
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of the suit against the company. Now, 
with the partial settling of the suits 
by the government, it is expected that 
business will be resumed at the plant 
with greater vigor than ever. Now 
that the doubtful and most important 
points in the case have been settled by 
the court, there will be no need of 
even a temporary cessation of busi- 
ness at the plant, and a few weeks 
will probably see a full resumption of 
active industry. The fact that things 
have been satisfactority settled will 
mean much for Beverly and the sur- 
rounding cities and towns, from which 
hundreds of men have sought employ- 
ment at the United Shoe Company 
plant. 
. THE GARMENT WorKERS’ STRIKE 
In this period of social unrest and 
the retrogression of humanitarian 
measures by employers of labor, 
strikes are almost a daily occurrence. 
The latest strike to come to the at- 
tention of the public, and one that is 
indeed worthy in its object, is that of 
the 6000 garment workers of Boston, 
who have left their establishments as 
a protest in conjunction with the 
strike in New York of the workers 
in the same trade. 
Higher wages and better working 
conditions quite naturally form the 
bones of contention which the work- 
ers are fighting out with their em- 
ployers, and if some of the reports 
of the garment workers in Boston and 
New York are true, they should re- 
ceive both. It is indeed appalling 
when one considers that in many cases 
hundreds of girls and young women 
work sixteen hours a day for a week- 
ly wage that hardly provides proper 
nourishment and a place to call a 
home. Conditions in the majority of 
the 180 shops and clothing establish- 
ments in Boston are so bad as to 
promote disease and prevent the work- 
ers from giving their employers a full 
return for their labors. 
With the joint strike of the Boston 
and New York workers, however, the 
strikers bid fair to make considerable 
progress in their desires, for the rea- 
son that the business will be com- 
pletely tied up and the expert help 
necessary to the carrying on of the 
business cannot be obtained in such 
large numbers on short notice. 
GETTING WORSE 
The pardon issue is one that has 
out of employment at the beginning been giving the people considerable 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
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WILLMONTON’S AGENCY 
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thought of late in this commonwealth, 
and if the movement is not soon 
checked it promises to run mad. For 
the past two years the number of 
pardons granted has exceeded any 
similar period in the history of the 
state. 
Too much time is wasted in harp- 
ing on capital punishment and not 
enough in trying to stop the bad habit 
of promiscously granting pardons. 
And one thing that makes a bad mat- 
ter worse is the excuse that is now in- 
variably set up that the prisoner is 
sick and of course he must be pardon- 
ed. What are prison hospitals for? 
Are they not as good as those out- 
side our houses of correction?  Be- 
sides casting a slur on the hospital 
surgeon and his facilities, the sick plea 
raised by pardon howlers makes an 
excuse that is not valid. 
After the ice king, Morse, buncoed 
the physicians and fooled President 
Taft it seemed that there would be 
an extended cessation of pardon 
granting on the plea of sickness, but 
it has broken out with vigor in this 
state, and all that is needed is a little 
influence and money to expend to 
gain liberty after committing a capi- 
tal crime. 
Sportinc Instinct Worip Wink 
What is probably the most notice- 
able instinct common to all nations is 
the sporting instinct. The Olympic 
games provides an instance where rep- 
resentatives of all the countries of the 
world meet on a common basis and 
contested in feats of physical prowess 
and agility. A sound contention of 
Professor James that some other out- 
let would have to be found for the im- 
mense energy which went to prepare 
for war would lead one to believe that 
the world of sports provides the op-— 
portunity to get away from warring 
tendencies, to obtain relief from the 
monotonies of the commercial world, 
and in a sense, to take in the greater 
proportion of the whole human race. 
The playground has been the means 
of providing this relief from waste 
physical expenditure and its results 
have been universal. There is such 
an organized method of industry and 
commercialism all over the world to- 
day that there should be some equally — 
spontaneous and universally popular 
relief from the ordinary daily grind _ 
common to the majority of humanity. — 
The world of sports provides this | 
outlet for everyone of energetic na- 
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