The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-08

Boone, Ia, for $1,6O0,0OO damages
against the officers of the United Mine
Workers OF America and of district 13
the United Mine Workers Of Iowa.
Each petitioner seeks $4,000. John
P. White of Oskaloosa, president Of
the national union; w. RI. Rogers.
president of the Iowa miners, and the
officers and directors of the state or
ganization, together with Frank Rice.
president Of the Ogden Miners union,
are named as defendants.
Last February when the white
union miners employed by the Ogden
Consolidated Coal Company struck
without authorization the company
Imported negro union miners, who
allege they ascertained before they
went to Ogden there was no strike on
To support this position they have
filed in court letters from the officers
of the Iowa Miners union, which as
sured them there was no strike at
Ogden. Since going there they have
been barred from the Ogden Miners
union, they they, assaulted, harrassed
and called scabs. They ask the court
to force the Iowa union to recognize
them and grant them a charter for
union of their own.
A large sawmill is being equipped
at Everett, Wash, to make the new
three-cornered railroad tie recently
designed and patented by James T
Hill. The base is eight inches wide
and each of the two sides ten inches.
The chief advantage of this tie is the
saving in timber of 40 per cent, a
broader surface, and simplicity in
tamping or setting.
The saving in timber will make it
possible for the Great Northern to
manufacture 500 ties out of the same
timber that was required to make 800
of the old ones.
The triangular ties will be creosoted
three times, which will make them as
indestructible as steel The mill here
will begin to cut in a week, and a
small mill in Montana will soon be
equipped to manufacture more.
The three-cornered tie had a trial in
Eastern Montana the last few months
and proved Satisfactory
North Dakota's first school of in
struction for the Boy Scouts of North
Dakota will be conducted at the Valley
City Chautauqua, with one of the best
nnCfo6 in oh e+o
Scout council will be formed. Car
rington Boy Scouts have decided to
establish a camp at the Chautauqua,
and several other Boy Scout patrols
in this section of the state are ex-
pected to take similar action.
It is reported in railroad and engi-
neering circles in Spokane, that the
Milwaukee railroad company is plan
ming new road across the Rockies,
which will be used for it's main line
to Puget Sound by way of Spokane.
The line contemplated will require the
! construction of more than 500 miles of
new road, and will run from Lewis
town, Mont, to Spokane It will be a
| shorter line than the present route,
and will do away with some heavy
grades. 1t will also enable the COM
pany to have a route which will not
be dangerously subject to snow or
landslides.
With the prices of the necessities
of life already advanced Is per cent
as the result of the strike of the sea-
men, dock laborers and associated
trades at nearly every port in the
United Kingdom and with rioting re-
ported from dozen cities and coast
wise and foreign traffic, with the ex-
ception of the channel steamers, abso-
lutely paralyzed, England today is fac
in gthe most serious crisis of recent
years.
Advices received at the headquar-
tiers of the Seamen's union here show
that the tieup is complete
To the trouble ashore is added a
serious menace to navigation. The
big Ightships in the mouth of the
Mersey are deserted today, their
crews having joined the strikers. I'm
less the craft are at their anchorage
with their lights at nightfall, incom-
ing steamers will be in danger of
running upon the rocks.
Factories in a dozen cities shut
down today because of a lack of raw
materials.
If the strike is not settled by Satur-
day, score of ocean liners, whose
passenger lists are complete with
tourists, will be held here.
Provided they scrub the floors daily,
keep their bed linen scrupulously
clean and their quarters aired, the
forty-three men and women in line at
the land Office at Duluth, Mimi, may
remain inside the local federal build
ing until the doors are opened for
filing on the lands of the Fond du
Lac Indian reservation. This informa-
ton has been received by L. M. Will
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