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United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
PLAN WAGE SCALE
FOR TUNNEL WORK
Labor Committee and Tunnel
Commissioners TO Confer
Union Prices for Labor in Various
Crafts to be Employed in Big
Bore. Will Be Insisted Upou

A general plan or agreement to prevail
in the employment OF labor during con-
struetion OF the Moffat tunnel through
james Peak on the Denver d Salt Lake
railroad has been drawn up for submis-
sion to the tunnel commission. In terms
the agreement will call for the rate of
pay which prevails in the various crafts
TO be engaged, such as miners, carpen-
ter-, electricians, engineers, stonemasons,
etc. The eight-hour day il to apply in
every branch, and il is further provided
that in engaging help either the check
out system or straight union employees
may be accepted. II is understood the
commission has already agreed with the
union engineers TO pay their scale OF -
per day.
While letters and verbal statements
have been issued by members OF the com
mission that when the work was started
Colorado workers would be employed and
the union scale OF wages prevailing in
the respective crafts be paid, it was con-
sidcrcd that definite understanding and
Agrccmen, should be entered into so
that all friction during the work OF con
siruciion might be avoided.
Another reason for reaching an agree
ment at this time is in order that con-
tractors bidding for boring the tunnel
may know what price they will have to
pay fer labor.
President Charles H. Meyer OF the
Weston Federation OF Miners, President
John McIennan of District IS. United
Mine Workers. and Pete Johns. business
agent Of the Building Trades Council,
comprise the committee selected to act
In the matter for labor's interests. A
meeting OF theis.hfl cmfwy yhgk vbgiq
meeting with the tunncl commission was
st..l H. hatl a..
'siesaies-s were able "a arrange their al
fairs for the purpose. This commission
il composed Of Jesse Fleming A. McA.
Wilcox and Judge J. G. Helm.
At q recent special cclction the citi-
xens OF Denver voted 20 issue S30p0OoO
OF bouds for the construction Of this
tunnel This amount. with ~ 500 900
10 b. provided hy Newman Erb and those
associated with him in the purchase OF
the Denver 4 salt Lake rail,oad, is the
sum estimated by the engineers to be
required for this work When completed
il will afford dirzct short transoonti-
mental route through the Rockies to salt
Lake City and ON to the Pacific coast.
The bore will be six and a quarter miles
in length and may be used for water
and electric conduits as well.
From $500 to 5000 workmcn will be
required constantly in this enterprise
aud il Is therefore matter Of great
momcn; TO the working people of the
state. The question has been agitstcd
for number of years, first in the Jcgis-
lnturc. then in a state referendum vote.
and at last the obligation was assumed
by the City and County Of Denver. II
j. cNpecaed active work will begin on
thi- gigantic undertaking early this
summer and crews will begin on both
sides of the mountain, working to the
center.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
SETENTEEN MINERS KILLER
FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1914
INCREASE DUE TO IMPORTATION
OF STRIKEBREAKERS.
Inspector Dalrymple's Report Shows
More Than Half the Fatalities oe-
CURED in Southern Strike Zone.

State Coal Mine Inspector Dslrymple
has just compiled report covering the
months of January and February of this
year in which it is shown that II coal
miners were killed during that period.
More than half the deaths have oc-
Cured in the mines in the southern
fields in which strikebreakers are being
worked. The number is an increase
over the past average OF deaths per
1000 tons of coal produced.
Due to the strike, the production of
coal for the first two months of 1914
has decreased 675,79l tons in COMPARE
son with the production during the sim
liar period in 1918. The decreases are
chiefly in the three counties in which
the strike of the United Mine Workers
is being principally contested. The de-
cncases in those counties are: Fremont,
ls9,5e6; Huerfano, l5S,os7 Las Animas.
S6a.043.
The production for the first two
months was l,S56,72S. That for Janu-
ary and February of 1918 was 2,oS2,Sla.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
DYNAMITE PLANT
TRACED TO BOSSES
Strikebreaker ConfeSseS His
Part In the Plot
Seattle Team Owners Association
Make Tragic Failure Of Scheme
10 Defeat feamsterS' Union

Charles killman, a prisoner in the
county jail at Seattle, has confessed to
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Edgar
Wright that he. Jack Semple a pro-
fessional strikebrcakcr, now in jail, and
two other men not yet arrested, planted
dynamite in a house where union team
sters were believed to live with the in
tcntion OF causing the arrest of the
tcamsters for conspiracy. The dyna-
mite was planted on the premises of a
man who had no connection with the
strike and killnan was arrested on sus-
picion.
According TO the confession the Team
Owners Association, suspecting that
striking tcamsters were responsible for
the harncss-cutting on the streets, en-
ployed killman and Semple to get the
goods on the strikers. killman and
Scmplc, according to the confession,
could find no evidence against the strik-
crs and hatched the dynamite plot.
Killman says he and companion
went on February 20 to the Milwaukee
tunnel in Rockdale, on the crest of the
Cascade mountains, and Killman worked
there five hours under the name of Will
liam Brown When he and his compan-
ion quit work that night they came back
TO Seattle with l2 sticks of dynamite.
Killman says the four met in George
town and manufactured a bomb out OF
piece Of gas pipe. This. with the dyna-
mite sticks, was placed under the house
of f. Lyons, lllo Sturgis road. Lyons
is a tannery workman and has nothing
to do with the teamsters' strike; but
strikers had boarded at his home.
Killman said Semple then notified the
sheriff's office of the finding of the ex-
plosive. Deputy Sheriffs Roberts and
Sullivan found the dynamite sticks and
bomb and becoming suspicious of the
eagcrness OF their informants held Kill
man as a witness.
Killmau was asked to tell his story to
Deputy Prosecutor Wright and on his
information Sullivan was ordered to ar
rest Scmple.
"The charge against the man is con.
spiracy," said Wright. "Killman was
frank in his story and has promised TO
plead guilty. Scmplc, / understand.
fcigns ignorance of the plot and will
fight the case. The other two men, ]
am afraid. have left the state"
Scmplc, professional strikebrcaker,
was in trouble several months ago when
dynamite was exploded near shingle
mill in the north end of the city dur
ing n strike.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
Industrial Commission Hearings
Begin Monday at Washington

The United States Commission IN In.
dustrial Relations has announced the
names of witnesses who will testify at
the public hearing TO be held in Wash
ington on the subject of collective bar
gaining, conciliation and arbitration.
The hearings will be held in the as.
scmbly room of the Shoreham hotel be-
ginning Monday morning, April G. and
vii lcontinue for four days. Frank p.
Walsh. chairman of the commission. will
preside and all of the nine commits.
sioncrs will be present.
Each of six large industries in which
trade agreements or other forms of col.
lective bargaining have been in opera
ton during considerable periods will be
considered separately. On Thursday,
April 0, the final session of the hearing
will be devoted to testimony on the Gen,
cral subject without reference to par
ticular industries.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
Fifty Thousand Idle
InIOhio Coal Field

Fifty thousand coal miners in Ohio
were made idle Wednesday when the
operators gave orders 20 close down the
mines because of failure of the recent
Chicago conference between the operat.
ors and officials of the United Mine
Workers to reach an agreement to take
the place Of the one made in 1919 and
expiring April this year. Operators in
central Pennsylvania, in which district
10000 union miners are employed, have
threatened TO follow similar course
unless the old agreement Is renewed.
In Illinois,. Indiana and Iowa thou
sands of miners will remain Mt work
pending negotiations for a new agree.
mcnt. The principal trouble in Ohio is
opposition of the operators TO comply
ing with new state law requiring pay
mcnt of miners on run-of- -thc.minc
basis.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04

Witnesses at the final session will be
samuel Gompers, president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor; ]. A. Emery,
counsel for the National Association of
Manufacturers; Seth Low OF New York
City, president of the National Civic
federation; c. p. Neill of New York
City, former United States commission
or of labor; Judge w. C. Chambers of
the United States Board of Consultation
and Mediation; Louis d. Brandeis of
Boston, and ]. f. Williams of Streator.
ILL.,, chairman of the board of griev-
ances in the cloak, suit and skirt in
dustry of New York City.
The session of Monday morning.
April Q, will be devoted to the coal
mining industry. Frank Peabody of
Chicago. one of the largest operators in
the bituminous field. and another oper-
ator still to be named will testify for
Continued on Page Ski
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
Coal Strikers Jump
on Austrian Consul

DIR. John Schwegel, Austro- Hungarian
consul in Denver, has been recalled by
his home government because of pro-
tests filed at Vienna by his countrymen
who are on strike in the Colorado coal
fields. When the strike was inaugurat-
ed last fall the consul went TO Huerfano
and Las Animas counties and urged the
several hundred Austrians employed in
the mines who had joined the union to
return to work and obey'the mine bosses.
They refused to accept this advice and
began 10 write letters to the foreign
minister at Vienna complaining of DR..
sehwegefs conduct, which has just re-
suited in his being deposed.
For the present Herr Won Fisher
Ankern has charge of the Denver con-
suiate. And the Austrian miners re-
main true to their union obligation to
resist coercion.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
STRIKING GIRLS KEEPING BATCH.
Telephone Operators in Ohio. Showing
Proper Grit in Their Fight.

'Peeling potatoes is easier than the
Notwithstanding work of operating the
plugs and keys of switchboard said
one of the telephone girls on strike at
Canton, Ohio, while arranging the lunch
for her associates on the picket line.
The girls have been on strike for sew
eral weeks because of discrimination
and unjust conditions, and to husband
their resources they have established a
kitchen and dining room in the head
quarters of the Central Labor Union.
where they prepare their own meals.
The girls are being aided by the local
movement, and while comparatively
few are involved the strike has been
conducted so intelligently and vigorous
ly that it is attracting general atten-
tion, and state officials are attempting
to adjust the matter.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
LITERAcY TEST REMAINS IN BILL
Senate Committee Makes Few Changes
in the Burnett Bill.

The Senate Immigration Committee
has reported to the Senate that Il fa-
yors the Burnett immigration bill, with
its literacy clause, recently adopted by
the House of Representatives. Several
amendments to the bill ms II passed the
House are recommended, but the liter
acy, clause was not changed. OF this
the Senate committee says;
The literacy test has been adopted
,ns the best device so far suggested for
reducing immigration where II most
needs TO be reduced. As now reported
II is confidently believed the measure
70 nearly ideal in it's selectivc, admins
trative and restrictive features as II is
possible to make such law"
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
NEW UNION DEPOT
PLANS ACCEPTED
Estimated Cost for Building
and Yards S4,OOO,000
Work Will Begin This Summer and
Be Completed Before the Rush
Of 1915 Travel Opens

Architects Cove & Walsh have COM
pleted plans for the new Denver Union
depot and they have been accepted by
the Denver Union Terminal Railway
Company, was the good news announced
this week by Chief Engineer W. H.
Cowan upon return from a meeting of
the board OF directors in the East. Bids
for this extensive improvement are to
be called for in July and work will
probably begin month later. 1t will
require about seven months to complete
the enterprise. Denver is thus assured
one of the most imposing and commo-
dious railway stations west OF the Mis-
sissippi river.
The improvement will make it neces-
sary to raise the Sixteenth street via
duct five feet Rnd the building OF a
new approach to the viaduct at Twen-
tieth street. Nineteenth street will be
closed by ordinance. 1t is also pro-
posed to move the Welcome arch, which
will conflict with the new depot's archi-
teetural scheme, probably to Seventeenth
street and Wazee
The Sixteenth street viaduct will be
raised five feet above the present level
in order to permit the raising of all the
tracks and installation OF safety de.
vices.
The plans provide for the expendi.
ture OF 100000 in the remodeling OF the
station, Sl50,000 in the construction of
the new train sheds and 100000 in the
building OF the subways and elevators
by which baggage will be handled and
passengers will reach their trains.
Bids on the work will probably be
called for early in July and the con-
tract is expected to be let a month later.
When the new station is completed
| II Will be a gray structure with a ron
tral section in granite and terra Gotta
standing TO the height of the dial of the
present clock.
The central section. which fill be en-
tirely new, will occupy l65 feet of the
total frontage and displace the portion
OF the present depot which IS surmonnt-
ed by the tower.
On either side the structure viii taper
from three stories to two and will final
" terminate in one-story wings.
The whole building will reach from
the middle of Sixteenth street to the
middle of Eighteenth street
In the construction of the building
concrete, steel and hollow tile will be
employed.
The main waiting room will be 81
feet high, 100 feet wide and ITO feet
long.
Above the ticket windows ae-foot
} balcony to be used for a reading and
lounging room and as a passsgeway TO
the offices on either side will be pro-
vided
| feature OF the subway system will
! be a private passage for immigrants.
which will lead them directly from their
trains to the special quarters, and the
| immigrant travel will be kept separate
IRON the general travelling public
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
CHILD LABOR LAW IS PASSED

The new. child labor law passed by
the Kentucky Legislature and now be-
fore Governor McCreary for signature,
provides that in cities of the first, Sec
and third classes no person under al
years of age shall be employed in de-
livering goods or messages between Q
p. M. and @. a. IN. Another provision
prohibits boys under IA or girls under
IS years of age from selling papers or
engaging in any other occupation in
streets or public places.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04
SIXTEEN OPERATORS SIGN SCALE.
No Friction at Union Coal Mines in
Northern Colorado.

Sixteen operators of union coal mines
in the northern Colorado fields have
signed a new agreement with the Unit
ed Mine Workers for the year beginning
April l. President John McLcnnan
states that only few changes as TO
minor matters were made and that not
the least friction was encountered in
reaching the new agreements. The union
mines in the state have been unusually
the best of feeling exists between the
operators and the union.
United labor bulletin., 1914-04-04

be cause for action under the Sherman
antitrust law. He cites the Electro
typers' Union, allied with the Council.
as doing this very thing, and wants TO
Know IL the other unions are doing like
wise He says this should be stopped"
He intimates that the Sherman anti
trust law will be invoked and asks his
New York assistant for information
whether a notice to stop the practice
viii suffice or if it would be necessary
to start suit in the federal courts.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-06-18
VERA CRUZ
THE CAMERA MAN
SideIights and Humors of an
EventfuI Five Weeks
Stay.

calling back to the marine: "Us for the
shanty. See you later
l can see now that our precipitate
dash to cover had it's humorous aspect,
but am sure it wasn't half so funny
as an incident we witnessed from our
base Of retreat. There must have been
another sniper's bullet close to one of
the other photographers, Judging from
his sudden display Of animation and
agility and that Of the Mexican peon
who was Juggling his outfit. The Mex
lean suddenly let drop the camera and
ran like a streak for tree some twen-
ty yards distant. What was our amaze
ment to see our little brown brother
scale this tree with the nimbleness of
a wildcat. In his excitement he had
lost his wits completely, his first wild
thought evidently being that the tree
would afford him protection from fur
Their shots. But once in it's topmost
branches he must have realized that
instead Of affording protection his posi-
ton made him clearly outlined tar
get, for he came tumbling down out
of the branches regardless Of conse-
quences. Then he espied the shanty
behind which we were concealed and
made bead for it. We ran fast no
doubt, but venture to say that the
Mexican ran faster.
High Cost Of an Appetite.
1t had been a busy day, too busy to
think about eating, but now began to
feel the insistent demands of the in
ner man. And so became acquainted
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Of a large towel and reached our der
tinattOn without incident \.
Invisible Sand Dunes.

Another picture shows one OF the
sand trenches built by the marines on
the outskirts Of Vera Cruz This
trench is clever continuance com
pletely concealing the men who occupy
it. There is no visible sign Of human
habitation in one Of these hiding places
until you approach to within dis
lance Of about forty feet. Then all
you see are the barrels of the cooked
rifles of the men lying in wait for a
shot at the enemy. TO prevent a cave
in bags of sands are stacked up on all
four sides Of the trenches, or sand
dunes, as they are called.
Still another picture shows a load
Of hay being intercepted at Los Cocas,
a suburb of Vera Cruz. All entrances
to the city were closely watched by the
marines to prevent guns from getting
in during the outbreak of sniping.
Plague Of Bathers.
During my stay at Ell TEAR, which
is the farthest American outpost Of
Vera Cruz, I had personal experience
with nasty little insect Of the crab
species which is the bane of bathers.
These pests are small, but have tena-
cious grip and no manner of clothing
is protection against them. The
swimmer first becomes aware of their
presence by an itching sensation.
Before I knew the cause Of this itch
ing, which bothered me after my first
swim, supposed it was nothing but
prickly heat. Then happened to no.
tice that a good many Of the marines
and soldiers of the Fourth infantry
spent a lot of time scratching them
selves when in the water. I inquired
the reason for it, and they told me
about these little nuisances. They
| crawl into the flesh, and the victim has
the itches until they die there. There
is nothing dangerous about them.
Their presence in ones anatomy is in
| dicated by the appearance Of a small
| red spot.
'Playing Bear"
| Ever hear of the game ''Playing
! Bear?" I never had until the varying
fortunes of my nomadic calling took
me down to Mexico.
| In my strolls about the city Of Vera
| Cruz I had noticed that the high class
Mexican girls, the "swell chickens" as
we would call them in our vernacular
had habit Of lolling at the windows
Of their homes in the afternoons.
noticed, too, that very often a young
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First Pub. June 1850
Citation for Hearing on Final Account
and for Distribution.

ESTATE OF EGIDIUS LUIJKX.
State Of Minnesota, County OF Mile Laos
In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Egidius Luijkx
decedent.
The state of Minnesota to the next Of kin and
all persons interested in the final account and
distribution of the estate of said decedent:
The representative of the above named de-
cedent having filed in this court his final &C
count of the administration of the estate of
said decedent together with his petition pray
ing for the adjustment and allowance of said
final account and for distribution of the resi-
due of said estate to the persons thereunto
entitled
Therefore, you, and each Of you, are hereby
cited and required to show cause, if any you
have, before this court at the probate court
rooms IN the court house: in the village OF
Princeton, in the county of Mile Laos, state
of Minnesota, on the 9th day OF July, 1914 at
10 o'clock a. NJ. why said petition should not
be granted.
Witness, the Judge OF said court. and the
seal of said court, this 9Th day OF June, 1914.
VIM. V. SANFORD,
Court SeaD Probate Judge.
E. l.. MCMILLAN,
Attorney for Petitioner,
Princeton MINI.
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First Pub. June 4-3t
Citation for Hearing on Petition fol
Determination of Descent of Land.

State of Minnesota. County Of
Mile Laos. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Frank Es]er, decedent.
The State of Minnesota to the next
of kin and all persons interested in
the determination of the descent of
the real estate of said decedent:
The petition of Luella Jane Esler
having been filed in this court, repre-
senting that said decedent died more
than five years prior to the filing
thereof, leaving certain real estate
in said petition described, and that
no will of decedent has been proved
nor administration of his estate
granted in this state, and praying
that the descent of said real estate
be determined by this court:
Therefore, you, and each OF you,
are hereby cited and required to
show cause, if any you have, before
this court at the probate court room
in the court house in the village of
Princeton, in the county of Mile
Laos, state Of Minnesota, on the LIST
day of July, 1914, at 9 o'clock a. M,
why said petition should not be
granted
Witness, the judge of said court
and the seal thereof, this End day Of
June, 1914.
VIM. V. Sanford.
! court Seal) Probate Judge.
Charles S. Wheaton,
Attorney for Petitioner,
| Elk River, MINI.
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Order Limiting Time to File Claims
Within Three Months, and for
Hearing Thereon.

ESTATE OF HENRY BAHLMANN.
State of Minnesota County of Mile Laos, in
Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate OF Henry BAIL
mann. decedent h.
Letters of administration this day having
been granted to Ernest Bahlmann. and it APP
pearing by the aff1davit of said representative
that there are no debts of said decedent -
It is ordered that the time within which all
creditors of the above named decedent may
present claims against his estate in this court
be, and the same hereby is, limited to three
months from and after the date hereof: and
that Monday, the 18th day OF September, 1914, at
10 o'clock a. NJ, in the probate court rooms at
the court house at Princeton, in said county,
be, and the same hereby is, fixed and appoint
ed as the Time and place for hearing upon and
the examination adjustment and allowance of
such claims as shall be presented within the
time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by the publication
of this order in the Princeton Union as pro-
vided by law. "..e
Dated June End, 1914.
WIN. V. SANFORD,
court SeaD Judge OF Probate.
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First Pub. June l1-2t
Notice of SURVEY.

Notice is hereby given, that the
petition of tax payers of section ff-
teen (15), township thirty-seven (37),
range twenty-seven (27), located in
the county of Mile Laos, state of
Minnesota, asking that the hoard Of
county commissioners of said county
shall cause to be surveyed, located
and staked out all section and prop
erty lines pertaining to said section
has been dull " granted by said board,
and that r. S. Chapman, county
surveyor, has been appointed to make
such survey, commencing on or
about July lst, 1914.
By order of the board of county
commissioners Of Mile Laos county,
Min.
Dated this Goth day Of May, 1914.
W. G. DOANE,
(Official Seal) County Auditor.