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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27
LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
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FOR SALE Hilton fam OF go acres OF land
large brick house. COW nlrn 10 ace imOdate
% mead OF cattle. never falling spring OF wat,'r
his is cOnsIderei uue of the best dairy farms
In Renss q er County situated between HOOsick
snd bennington, formerly known a. the Perry
Eldred fatm. kea-On tor selling. owner has
oth' business. OssesiOn given rst OF APRIL.
Ter easy. Adde'S W. G. White, Ho sick
Falls. n. Y. iltl2
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27
EoR sALE-Farm of IS acres 2 miles r.,

FOR SALE-Farm OF IS acres, 3 miles from
1 North Bennington. Large house of lOrooms,
finished IN hard wood. newly shmgled. One
barn 90xi2; barn i6x2i, both with basement
aud in good repair; running 'vater piped to
buildings, plenty Of wood for home use: apple
orchard ni ID trees. This farm is only half mile
from school. The land is very productive and
is IN good state Of cultivation Price $500
sl,l0U down. Nash & Hutchins. eff
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27
MISCELLANEOUS

An experienced practical nurse, making
pcCiAlty Of confinement CHsca. Mis-. n. "A.
amos, carr % A. ]. Knapp. 81 the reservoir
Tel. i55-i0 lbu
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27
WANTED

WJANTED-A general housewOrk girl in
w family of two, reference required. H.
quirc ~ Porter ; rect, No. adams. Mass. ilti'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

FOR SALE One cutter. one top buggy
both practically new. a bargain. +. l..
Nichols. 9Sif
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

FOR sALE-Upright new $3.50 piano for slsj
cash. Can be seen az 30l South street. Beu-
uingtOn, call sunday or after Z. NJ. week
day. Must have the money or would take
some hay In trade. Sst24'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

FOR sALE-One 80 egg Cycle Incubator
! 1911 mode. good as net Will sell at halt
p'lee. I ". hatcher. l,r6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

WANTED-A desirable house to rent at
w reasonable figure. Tor year or two with
option 10 purchase. Adde'S Promptly.
Banner office" lott
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

EOR SALE-Bud Le9horns, mature early.
great layers Eggs for hatcling 1--WE cents
each. h. II, Biddle. Haynes Corner. North
Remington, VI lodge
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

FOR sALE-New double tenement on Scott
street; dOuOle tenement ON Washington
stroet; house known as Roberts place, corner
Of Meehs and Putnam streets; also one build
Ing lot on Putnam street; one building lot on
scott street; building lois on Pratt slIoet and
store house with sheds attached. ed on
Franklin Lane. Inquire Of james ). sis.
A5tg4
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

EOR sALE-House OF eight rooms
with toilet. Also stable aud wagon
bed on premises and garden In rear
AgeLi Itf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

WJANTED-Plain sewi.g aud drcssmaking.
w Mrs. l.. A. Morse, y oafOrI, II. st6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

FOR SALE-At low price and easy terms
my home ON Elm street Adore Geo. r.
Hcath. X. r. d. ], Lawrence, Mich Stf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

For SALE-One or two copies of jennings
Memorials of Century. A rare BenpinR.
ton history. q. A. Robinson, Old Bennington
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

WANTED A second hand oil tank hold
ing one barrel. W gallons. Telephone
W. 5. Carpenter, Woodford CITY, Tel. ls5-l4.
5tG
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

WANIED-A woman between 30 and co
w year, old To do general homework. One
ia family. Good place for Woman looking for
good home. Address Box ~, East Airing
ton VI uqtgis
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

FOR sAEE-Ih- Haytrce homestead as
South street, is Offered for sale. This
mousse Is two story structure. ex 5ellently
located aud IN fine state of repair.
Il Is heated 10y hot water furnace and posses
lon can pe given az short notice. Homer Il.
Webster, administ rator. 20tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

FOR SALE-Farm Of SO acres miles west Of
bennington, nearly new room house fin
ished In hard wood. large barn sith sllo ATTACH.
ed, corn house. hog house, work shop, 8 hen
houses. Thi. farm will keep 10 COWS and three
horses, land is all tllable and In good state of
cultivation, water at buildings, good apple or
ehnrd and other fruit. Price $3.50. Nash &
HutchIns. lOOtf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

WANTED ENcrienced insuratce man
w wanted Tor district manager for Bcuu-
lngton County. We write liie accident ami
health insurance A liberal renewal contract
vii be- given TO the right man. For fun par.
ticulars write TO, Oayt,n T.. Bennett. General
Agent for Vermont Columbian National Life
lnsumnce Co. % Portland ST., 81. JuhnsburS
VI. sitf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-27

Miss Eugene McCandllss, who is
recovering from recent severe III
ness, is spending a few days with
her grandfather, Zebra Quackenbush
who is at Pittsfeld. She was ac-
companied by Miss Frances Ernst.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
Try Bauer's ice cream and confec-
tiens. Always fresh; always good
PROMISES, LIKE PIE CRUST,
EASILY BROKEN

Washington-By vote of so nays to
81 ayes, the Tennessee legislature
turned down an employers liability bill
patterned after the federal act, in spite
of the fact that before election the reg
ular Democrats, the Independent Demo-
Gratis and the Republicans all solemnly
pledged their parties to pass an EN-
ployers' liability law, as good, If not
better than the federal act. The gov
ernor, Benjamin w. Hooper, also urged
the passage of this measure. In his
first message he said to the Legislature:
For more than twenty years the enact
ment of this legislation has been prom
ised by candidates and the political
parties, but from some unexplainable
cause, it has always been quietly pigeon
holed or asphyxiated at the psychologist
cal moment" The legislative session
advanced and when it appeared that the
bill was again doomed. the governor
got nervous and he sent this hot shot
hurtling to the legislature: when the
moneyed interests become interested in
legislation, their representatives appear
in legislative halls and bring to bear
every influence that can be conceived
by the keenest intellects of modern
times. 1t is currently reported that one
railroad has issued more than 1880
passes during this legislative session
Evidently the Louisville & Nashville
railroad never lets up. 1t was the most
bitter opponent in Washington when the
federal employers liability act was be
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
DoNNELLY URGES AnNuIrIEs.

Washington-Strong recommendations
that the civil service employees of the
government be retired on annuities
when they reach the age of retirement
or become disabled, are contained in the
annual report of Public Printer Samuel
B. Donnelly. Mr.. Donnelly says that
there are now more than $50 men in
the government printing office who are
more than IS years old, and urges that
it would be of advantage to the govern
ment to provide for the retirement OF
those who have given to the public serv-
ice the best years of their lives and who
may be unable to perform an average
days work. He further asserts that the
basis of such annuities should be length
of service and the salary or wage re-
ceived during their employment, which
in the case of those who have been in
the service for many years would meet
their ordinary requirements during the
remainder of their lives, and that such
plan would result in saving large
portion of the amount that is conceded
generally is now lost through superannu-
alton of employees, and would at the same
time be an act of justice to the indi-
vidual and recognition of long and
faithful service.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
EFFORT TO INCREASE
RAILROAD RATES.

Washington-In the tentative bill
drafted by the United States Employers
Liability and Workmen's Compensation
Commission, this peculiar and appar-
emily innocent joker is Incorporated:
That in any proceeding before the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
rates, all amounts payable under this
act shall be considered as properly
chargable to the operating expenses of
the carrier"
For hours and for days attorneys for
the railroads argued, debated, pounded,
harangued and tried to browbeat the
Federal Commission on Compensation
to advocate legislation granting rail-
roads higher transportation rates. The
section quoted above was the most the
commission would concede. 1t is here
with presented to the public with the
warning that the attention of all United
States senators and representatives
should be called to it and they should
be notified to give it no encouragement
1t was only a few days ago that the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western r. r.
Co. declared dividend of 81 per cent.
and then, for fear it would alarm the
public, it Immediately added 100 per
cent. water to it's common stock. The
Lehigh Valley R. r., on December 20,
declared a dividend of % per cent. and
it's earnings after the dividend was an
nounced showed a surplus of $47,7S6,5 1868
for the last fiscal year. 1t cost the Le-
high Valley 81 cents to make dollar in
the year 1902, and through variety
of economies, chief among which is low
wages, it made a dollar in 1910 by ex-
pending les sthan 60 cents. And yet
these cormorant corporations outrage
ously ask and flagrantly demand an
overburdened public to pay higher rates
on transportation charges, as an excuse
to be able to treat their injured en-
ployes with ordinary decency and who
up to the present they have neglected
and abused.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
Try = Principe de Lees cigar for Al
After-dinner smoke.
LESLIE SHAW EMPLOYS coNvIcTs.

Washington-Leslie NJ. Shaw, for four
years governor of Iowa; for six years a
member of the presidents cabinet as
secretary of the treasury; for many
years one of the chief stump orators
for the Republican party; for many years
a Sunday school superintendent. N
short an eloquent, thrifty, piou5, stand
pat gentleman, who believes in dollars,
first, and men to come in as chance
may permit Leslie has also world
wide reputation as a most charming,
versatile story-teller-he knows how to
mix humor with business. At present
he is the influential president of the
First Mortgage Guarantee and Trust Co.
of Philadelphia, and is also the chair
man of the board of directors of the
American Fibre Reed Co. Mr.. Shaw has
given to the world a prospectus of this
company, which he evidently intended
to be considered a happy combination
of humor and thrift, but which when
analyZed, shows this scheming politician
up in his true nature He says in his
prospectus, amongst other things: THE
Fibre Reed companys factories are To-
Gated inside prison walls, with 800 pris-
oners under contract in Maine, Illinois
and Kentucky" Our prison con-
tracts are made for eight years and gen.
orally continue Indefinitely. We pay for
our labor 80 cents per man per day.
There are no strikes or labor troubles
in prisons. Our company is supplied
with factory buildings, storage ware
houses inside the prison walls, free of
rent. We have free heat, free light, free
power. To acquire similar facilities as
these would necessitate an extra invest
ment of a million dollars. Seven per
cent. is guaranteed on the preferred
stock and ten per cent. on the common; ;
but the company expects its net earn
ings to be double these because it is
seeking prison labor in other states, SO
that the company can control sixty-five
per cent. of the fibre and fifty per cent
of the reed business in the United
States" Leslie quantity adds: "The
company's experience enables it to OBJ
tain contracts and advantages in prefer
ence to other manufacturers who have
not had prison experience" And in an
other part of this prospectus he says in
words more damagingly truthful than
poetic, These are ideal conditions OF
profitable manufacturing" These ex-
cerpts from the gifted Mr.. Shaw's pros
pectus should be enough to make labor
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
The La Belle is a good smoke fer
cents. Try one.
NAVAL CONTRACTS OF 1911.

Washington-The firms that have re-
ceived contracts for building the various
vessels authorized in the naval bill OF
1911 are as follows: Seagoing tugs Nos.
IL and 13 to the New York Ship Build.
ing Co., Camden N. j. Fleet colliers
Nos. II and ~ to the Maryland Steel Co.
of Baltimore county, Sparrows Point,
Md Torpedo boat destroyer No. As TO
the New York Ship Building Co, Cam
den, N J. Torpedo boat destroyer No.
as to the Fore River Ship Building Co,
Quincy, Mass. Torpedo boat destroyer
Nos AZ, as 40 and so to the William
Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Build
ing Co., Philadelphia. Submarine tor
pedo boats Nos. 36, 81, IS and 80 to the
Electric Boat Co. of New York, N. Y.
Contracts for the two battleships, one
submarine tender, one gun boat and one
river gun boat, authorized by said act
have not yet been awarded.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
Try Principe de Lees for . COED
smoke.
WAGES PAID IN WooLEN MILLS.

Washington-The tariff board made
its first report to congress on Dec. 81
This report dealt with the wooden in
dustry (the celebrated Schedule K). 1t
says 35,O29 persons are employed in 164
separate occupations in the industry
piecework prices, range from Sc to SIS
per week The average for worsted
weavers is $12.36 for males and 1854
for females. Woolen weavers earn on
an average $10.63 per week for males
and s10.54 per week for females. These
wages are also based on piecework rates
The weekly hours average 551a, the
same as the average hours for the in
dustry in Great Britain.
OF the 35,O29 employees, 36h per cent
are native born, 631A per cent foreign
born. Thirty-five per cent. of all the
employees in the industry are recent ar.
rivals from Italy and southeastern
Europe. The foremen and supervisors
are principally persons born in the
United States. the British Isles and Ger
many. Eighty-three per cent. of all the
employees had no previous experience in
the industry before going to work in
the wooden mills. Fifty per cent. of
these had been at school or at home.
and 80 per cent had been employed in
other occupations. About 16 per cent.
had been in the industry less than a
year and SO per cent. less than five
years. For highly protected industry
it shows native born workers do not
profit much.
The most remarkable part of this re-
port says, The general indications are
that the lowest labor cost per pound
was found in the mills paying the
highest wages" II is sometimes anus.
ing. and always assuring, that official
investigators invariably prove the as
sertions of organized labor on this point
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
20 KILLED, SO MUTiLATED.
A Partial Record of the Horrible Acct
dents to Workmen on Railroads.

Washington-Within five days the
press has recorded few of the acci-
dents happening on railroads, from
which the following is culled:
Six men killed, five men injured on
the Pennsylvania railroad at Devils
Bend, near Manor, Penn, because of a
collision between two freights; and
later, a westbound express smashed into
the freight wreckage.
At ODESSA, Mimi, on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad, twelve
persons were killed and over twenty in
jured when the second section of a pas
senger train from the West crashed into
the first section which had been stopped
on signal. The blame in this case is
placed upon the brakeman of the first
section, who did not run far enough
back to signal the second section. But
the press is silent as to why the second
section should be in the same block as
the first section. Railroad management
of this kind is criminal in its inefficiency.
At Gate City, Va, on the Virginia &
Southwestern railroad, three men were
killed and three injured because the air
brakes failed to work and prevented the
engineer from controlling his train in
plain view of landslide. Another case
of carelessness.
At Haddonfield, N. j., on the Penn
sylvania railroad, two men were killed
and seven injured while attempting TO
replace wooden structure with new
steel span, which gave away during in
stallation and brought these men to
their death.
At Pottsville, Penn, on the Eastern
Railway Co., sixty-one passengers in a
car were tumbled into a creek, from
which they were dragged with fractured
limbs, broken skulls, wrenched backs
and other serious injuries, caused by 4
broken rail. Desire for profit incites
cheap construction and inefficient man.
agement.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
The La Belle is the best Sc cigar .,
the market
FEDERAL CONTEMPT BILL.

Washington-Hearing on the Clayton
bill, II. r. 13457S, were held by the
house committee on judiciary Dec. to
IL. The committee showed lively in
terest in all the statements made by
friends and supporters of the measure,
and closely questioned attorneys of the
National Association of Manufacturers
and the Anti-Boycott association while
they we're making their opposing argu-
ments. The hearings are in print and
can be obtained on application to Hon.
Henry Clayton, chairman of the COM
mittee. favorable report upon this
measure is anticipated from the com
mittee at an early date.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
COTTON TRADE TROUBLES.

Manchester England-The cotton in
dustry is at present in most disturbed
condition. Mill disputes are frequent
and the employees in many districts,
especially Lancashire, are dissatisfied
with their wages. A joint conference
in the cotton weaving industry was re-
Gently held in this city. The point at
issue was wages. No decision was ar
rived at, and the meeting was adjourned
until Jan s. demand for an advance
of per cent for weavers, winders,
Wrappers and railers employed on gray
and colored goods, and 10 per cent. was
asked on the Haywood towel weaving
list. Meanwhile, there is trouble brew
ing in the Accrington district in regard
to the employment of non-unionists.
There is also dispute at the mills OF
Messrs. George Swindells & Sons, of Boil
lington, and this matter will come up
for further consideration in two or three
weeks
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
WAGES IN FoUNDRIES
AND MACHINE SHOPS

Washington = The United States
Census Bureau is following it's usual
custom of hurting stupendous totals at
the public. 1t always carefully avoids
furnishing Illuminating analytical de
tails, such details as would intelligently
portray what is really taking place in
the industries of the country. An an
alysis of it's table on foundry and ma
chine shop products disclosses that in
the year 1904 the average wage paid to
employees in this industry was $556. III
the year 1909 the average was was in
creased to $605 per year, an equivalent
of about nine per cent. increase IN
wages. The productive value of the en-
ployes averaged $1,9S5 per capita in
1904, and in 1909 this value had in
creased to $2,313 as an average per
capita, or an increase of sixteen and
one-half per cent, showing that the high
speed systems prevalent in this indus
try show a deficiency of about seven
and one-half per cent. less in increased
wages than in productive values.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
FULL CITIZEN RIGHTS FOR
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES

Washington-The Lloyd bill, H. R.
5000, which received much attention dur
ing the last session of congress by the
house committee on reform in the civil
service, is still being strongly urged be
fore that committee for early action. Mr..
Hannibal l.. Goodwin, chairman of the
committee, has called the committee to
meet on Jan. 10 for the purpose of CIV
ing further consideration to the meas
ure, and he has promised to do his ut
most to get it reported favorably.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04

ing considered by congress. 1t has made
the most stubborn resistance to the con-
sideration of any feasible plan of auto
matte compensation for injuries before
the federal commission. This is the
same l.. & N. r. r. that Instituted a
test case against Section 10 of the Erd-
man act, SO that the supreme court de-
clared it unconstitutional and the black
list became legalized. The l.. & N. R..
R. is one of the most bitter opponents
of organizations of labor among en-
ployes.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
U. S. SUPREME COURT
DOING BETTER

Washington-On Dec. is the United
States supreme court sustained the full
crew" law of Indiana. in which a def
mite number of men on trains OF GER
tain length is required. The test case
was brought before the Indiana courts
by the big Four" railroad.
A few days previous to the full crew
ruling, the supreme court sustained the
federal Standardization of equipment"
act which passed the sixty-first congress
and which required foot boards, grab
irons, sills and other appurtenances of
railroad freight cars and locomotives,
to be of standard sizes and to be placed
in similar locations on instrumentalities
of commerce of interstate railroads. The
court held in the latter case, which was
tested by the Southern railway, that
lack of state legislation was not sum-
cient to prevent car being used in
intra and interstate commerce from
being properly furnished with the stand
ard equipments.
The federal act on equipment and
the Indiana full crew" act could very
profitably be used as models for similar
legislation in all the states.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
CAMPAIGN FOR
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION

Washington-A conference in the in
terest of trade training and vocational
education was held in Washington on
Dec. IA, at which representatives of the
American Federation of Labor, the Ma
tional Educational Association of Nor
NAL Schools, the National Federation of
Women's Clubs, the Agricultural Asso-
citation of Colleges and Stations, and OFF,
cials of the Grange, took part. The Will
son bill, H. r. 12156, and the identical
measure, S. 3, by Senator Page, were
unanimously endorsed and steps taken
to vigorously press the principles of
these measures for early passage
through congress.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
CANADIAN LABOR MAN ELECTED

Hamilton, Canada-Allan Studholme,
Labor party candidate for the leglsla-
ture, has been elected. A very bitter
and relentless campaign was waged
against Mr.. Studholme by the Conserve
tives, but the labor people and their
sympathizers supported him with a 10y
atty that was admirable and returned
him n winner.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04

so thoroughly indignant by the imposi-
tion of contract convict labor. that a
louder and more insistent demand would
go forth to representatives and senators
in the sixty-second congress, for an i'm
mediate passage of the bill, H. r. 45601,
for the purpose of protecting free labor
as against the abominable competition
of prison labor.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
Bauer's candies are the best. Always
fresh
STRONG RESOLUTIONS.

Washington-The Washington Central
Labor Union, at its last meeting, adopted
a statement and resolutions in the Nc
Namara case. The attempt of individ-
uals and newspapers to cast odium on
the leaders of labor was severely con-
demned, as was also the commission of
crime and the McNamaras.
United labor bulletin., 1912-01-04
INJUNCTION LIMITATION MEASURE

Washington-The Wilson bill to regd-
late the issuance of injunctions has not
so far had any hearings during the
present congress. While, of course, hear
ings on this question have been had so
often and so continuously from year 70
year that there should be no further
hearings needed, yet there is no time
to lose and an inquiry from your con-
gressman as to what is being done will
be wise and timely. The bill is known
as H. r. 1902.