The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 25

Friday, April 1, 1927. A I PAGE TWENTY- FIVE. Bilyeu's Sacrifice Commemorated By Miners (Continued from Page 19) work for the same wages paid workers south of the Ohio to $3 per day. Illinois miners cannot will not sink to such a level cf degradation as this would entail." BASKET DINNER. A basket dinner scheduled for Manners park pavilion followed.

At 1 o'clock John L. Lewis, national president of the V. M. spofce on Industrial situation and gave the reasons some of the outlyinu miners had reached a separate agreement. This was due to competition trade that would be lost to the unorganised miners, he said.

FEATURES OF PROGRAM. A number of other features of the celebration were on the program Among these was an address of welcome by Mayor H. B. Hershey, dinner the pavilion at Manners Park, tiand concerts at intervals, selections by the University of Illinois Glee club both afternoon and evening dancing throughout the afternoon and International Revue at 8 TTI. At noon the U.

of I. Glee club were ruests at the Baptist church at din- ner, and in the evening will be guesu the club, together i John 1,. Lewis, president of the U. M. of W.

Ten thousand people were in Manners Park dining the afternoon. The banks closed for the day. Kinswomen Of Bilyeu Corner Stone In April 10 Westminster. Church Will Celebrate. It Is expected that the cornerstone of the new Westminster Presbyterian church will be laid Sunday, April 10.

The building: committee of the church says will be in readiness at that time. Plans are expected to So forward at once for a bis service on that date. Progress IB being made on the church, the entrance stand now bcinpr placed and the big art-glass windou frames are In place. The brick worl going so rapidly that It is necessary that the corner" stone be placed at once so that the front part oC tin' building may be erected in i with the other. their lead In the Industrial baseball league of the Y.

M. C. A. by defeating the Cash company Thursday ning- by a score of five to three. The same was pitcher's battlo Sam Williams of the i i team and Kay Tonkers of the Cash team.

Itrmnn To SnrinicHeld. Mrs. Cora B. Kyman will be In Springfield Saturday, presiding at a meeting of the Lincoln scholarship committee of life Illinois W. K.

C. Mrs. Ryman Is chairman of the clau committee. The meeting i bo held at the Abraham Lincoln hotel. The other members of the committee are ilrs.

Helen of PlttKflelrt. who one of the trustees of the i i Mrs. Nellie McNevers and daughter, spectlvely, George a i i a and granddaughter, re- present at the celebration in i Friday. M7-s. McNevers bpoke i of her a and the a a day, Oct.

12, 1S9S. GEORGE BILYEU CONSIDERED HERO Tajlorville, April I. a i Bilyeau, for whom the granite dedicated Friday was erected, was a Taylor- Mile miner who responded to the call for help by the miners of Virden. Other Taylorville men went to the situation also was acute. Negotiations of the year before in Bilyeu a i i a had resulted In a raise of wages from $1.50 to a day for the miners at Taylor- vllle, but at Pana and Virden relief had not been procured.

Armed guards the miners from talking- i the operators at A similar condition prevailed at Virden. THE CALL. Of the i a i obtaining at that time Tom Trppett writes: "From somewhere out of the night came a men in Pana and Virden needed help--phjsical aid-bullets were being shot into the bod- ii of i miners and the time for Distance had come. Taylorville men went to 'their Some to Pana, to the i at Virden. Bilyeu to He was carried "back ID Taylorville--dead.

He and the others had given their lives at Virden a the i should live. THE RIOT. It was October 12. All night the men had stood milling around tht mine in the cold October wind. They a come to persuade the expected trike-breakers to join the union.

Head Of Parade On Virden Day March Building Totals $613,025 1927 Exceeds Last Year By $270,725. The month of March was a Ijiy ono for the builders, the total Investment amounting to which ah more than the, total fur March, 1926, and more a that of the same In 1923. Almost 100 new resiliences were a thorized during- the month. Following Is a summary of the month Investment. I No.

of Permits, a BuHinehs 1 Industrial IMi Residences Public flH Garages 17 Alterations 7." dm' In March, 1926, there were 111 building permits Issued, of which d.1 were for new buildings costing .1 total of $329,175, and 18 were for teratlons costing a total of $13,125, making the total investment for tli" month $342,300. Standard Oil The Standard Oil team a i Miners of four local unions marched yeu at the unveiling of monument in in the parade an honor of George Bll- Taylorville Friday. And then as the a was break- inp, a train of six coaches loaded i i a slipped out of the night. It w.is a i grnarde 1 with company and before the miners what was a i these thugs opened i as the train came crashing up to the mine stockade a i i fire and lets into the union miners from either side. The union men saw their organization tottering and realized that it meant going back to unspeakable non-union conditions (we younger miners do not know what that means).

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