El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16
DOCTORS bND
POLICE MAY
UHI0NIZE
English Laws Favor Labor
In Damage Suits and Sal
airy Demands.
AMERICAN DUCHESS
HEADS WOMAN PARTY

labor union.
Recently the official organ Of the
association was muIcted for heavy libel
damages for calling a practitioner a
quack. Insomuch as, under a recent
decision of the British courts, the funds
Of a labor union cannot be touched for
such damages. the doctors felt that the
reorganization Of their association into
a labor union would not be without
certain advantages.
The British Medical Association In
its recent strike aginst the provisions
Of the compulsory state insurance act
emuIated the tactics Of labor unionists,
but in spite of the reputed higher
/ mentality Of its members it suffered
defeat on account of a lack of solidarity,
just as many of its humber exemplars
have.
Following in the footsteps Of the
doctors. the police are contemplating
the formation of a labor union to be
called the Amalgamated Society of
Policemen. Letters appear every week
In the police organ, citing grievances
and suggesting the formation of a
union as the first step towards their
correction. The chief demand is for a
maximum police salary of SO a week.
and one correspondent that
as the police have to enforce fair play
IN the labor disputes of others, they
should have little difficulty in enforc-
ing their own demands. One writer
limited that 1t might go badly with the
public If the police struck for their
rights n of the chief worries of the
police IS due to the s~uffragets whose
activities have added greatly to their
overtime, for which they get no extra
pay Recently thee force has been in
$1,000
tons, u the men feel that their lot
is still cast in hard places.
KipIing Character Dies
James R. Bell the original of Kip
lingS Bridge Builder" is dead at his
home here. Mr.. Bell was a sad re-
hinder Of how the castiron rules of the
ndian civil service hamper the efficien-
cy Of some Of its best members, for he
was at the heyday of his lowers when
he was arbitrarily retired at-the age of
So. He was in excellent health, in the
midst Of some of his best achievements
and willing and anxious to go on with
work, the orders came to cease
his activities.
After his retirement Mr.. Bell passed
nearly every winter in India or China,
where his services as a consulting engi-
neer were welcomed. He came from a
family Of engineers. being the grandson
OF James BreEner, who hoated the
Great Britain" then the largest
steamer in the world. when she strand
ed IN Dundrum Bay on her third trip
across the Atlantic. Mr.. Bell built
some Of the greatest bridges in India
Some OF these structures are great
engineering feats. for the designs have
to provide for foundations and changes
in the courses of the treacherous rivers
they span
Is Having Effect
Home secretary McKenna is being
execrated on account of the Cat and
Mouse" bill, but it is generally admitted
that one effect of this measure has
been to decrease militancy. those on the
fringe Of the suffrage movement hav-
ing gone back to constitutional meth
DDS. leaving only the irrecOncilables to
continue the battle
Mr.. McKenna is being attacked from
two SideS-On one by the more virulent
members Of the opposition press and on
the other by the supporters of mill
fancy in the House of Commons, the
latter section being headed by Keir
HarQ1e. the labor socialist member The
position of the home secretary has been
and still is extraordinarily difficult.
He has had to deal with serious crime
Of widespread arson, and at the same
time he has been compelled to keen his
prisoners alive, in spite of their own
efforts to StarVe. In this connection
he has la to take into consideration
the grave dislike which many people,
both pro and anti s~uffragists, have
against forcible feeding.
Mrs. PankhurSt does not come under
the act; she can be arrested anywhere
and at any time, as she is practically
on ticket of leave.
New WOmen's Party
The Duchess of Marlborough. who was
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, of New York,
has consented to act as chairman Of the
new WOmen'S Municipal Party. This
organization, in future municipal cleo
tons will ignore party lines to such an
extent that the American duchess may
appear as the hackers of a socialist
candidate.
The new party will only concern
itself with the questions which affect
women, and any candidate meeting their
approval viii receive support regard
less of the ticket on which he may be
running. The new party will get down
to work at once. n the duchess viii
preside at a meeting which will decide
which candidates to support at the
pending condor county Council election
at Mile Ed. No boycott viii be placed
on men candidates. but the party has
Indicated that it will seek to have two
or more women on the ticket in every
division.
The council Of the new party, which
will meet at Sunderland House, the
residence Of the duchess of Marl-
borough, in October, represents all
classes n includes working class
members
Returning To Opium
The report of sir J. n. Jordan. British
minister to China, on the opium ques-
ton indicates that there has been some
backsliding in the effort to suppress the
cultivation of the poppy since the in
PRODUCTION of the republican regime.
The report declares that since the
fall Of the Manchus the policy Of sup
preston agreed upon between China
and Great Britain has been weakened,
and there has been an immense recru-
descence in the cultivation of the drug.
In the provinces oil Anhui, Human and
S~hantUng the campaign for the sup
preston of the cultivation of the plant
has been successful. and in consequence
the importation of indian opium into
these provinces will cease. But in
vestigation in other parts of the re-
public tells a different tale. In many
of the provinces the authorities are
pOwerless to prevent cultivation; in
others there is collision tive the
powers and the growers, and in still
others the officials are not inclined to
deprive themselves of a rich source of
revenue
The reports, however are not all
from Official sources many haiuo- c71n-