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United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
SEAMEN'S BILL PASSED HOUSE
Substitute for La FoRette Measure Ap-
proved by Senate Last October.

The amended substitute for the Sea-
mems bill. that passed the Senate last
October. where IL was known as the La
Toilette bill. has passed >the House of
Representatives.
The bill was sent to a conference con-
sis.ing of three representatives and
three senators for the purpose of adjust
ing differences between the two legisla-
tive branches. but later the Senate re-
ferred the bill to its own committee for
further study and consideration.
The bill accords the seamen new
status by providing for the abrogation
of all treaties under which seamen have
been arrested. detained and delivered to
their vessels here in the ports of the
United States.
II provides that 75 per cent of the
crew in each department of the vessel
must understand the orders of the Off
GERS. and il determines that in order 10
first have had three years experience.
and on lakes. bays and sounds "a
months experience. which "a months
will be counted into the three years Of
sea service on the ocean. In these pro-
visions the La Toilette seamen's bill and
the House substitute provides that for
eign scamen in ports of the United
States shall be entitled to one-half of
the money earned but il is in such shape
that IL will be very difficult of enforce
mcnt.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
SEPTEMBER,

September, summer and autumn in
one, with heat and frost meeting in the
late DAYS to fight it out, always to the
defeat of frost, which returns later to
claim the mastery by the cold right of
conquestl
The fields bear us new flowers in
September The old are not all gone,
but they must share their ares with
the trespasscrs. The goldenrod gets only
n fair start in late July and in August.
September is its time of abundance, but
it has lost its novelty and man passes
il by to look for the modest blue aster
and for the rare and wonderful fringed
gcntian.
Across the fields in September the
birds drift in loose flocks. The warblers,
the white-throated sparrows, the vesper
birds. the hermit thrushes and the veer-
les are gathering for the march south
ward. They don't want to 60. because
the North is the homeland, but they
must go If they care to eat and live.
September cannot claim the pure gold
of October. but 1t has its share, though
It gathers late. II is rich month
enough, with its fruit, its birds and its
flowers. It has a part of the store of
summer and of the store of autumn. 1t
is more genial than August and brighter
than October. 1t is a good month, and
we have so full days of its companion
ship,-Rocky Mountain News.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
How the 'Gunmen of Industry
Waged War on Colorado Miners

Many important facts relating to the
Colorado industrial struggle are being
made public through weekly bulletins
issued by the United Mine Workers.
Bulletin No. 5 deals with the importa-
tion of gunmen by the operators to
shoot protesting miners into subjection,
and is as follows:
When considering the relation of gum
men to the Colorado coal strike it is
well to remember that they received
s239 645s6 from the operators for muir
dering "a men, women and children; or,
in other words. that the determination
of the strikers is SO vital to the Colo
RADIO coal operators that they are will
ing to pay s7,O4s4l for each life.
For 25 years the gunmcn of industry,
the hired armed guards OF the corpora
tions. have gone hand in hand with
strikes; have. at tAwages NJ 81 to 81 4
day. left nothing undone II their brutal,
inbuman efforts to bn,aS the struggl :
of the woriSs-s and sen.l them back to
work broken in spirit to = main slav 5
to capital.
But in none of the strikes of the last
quarter of century have these so
called detectives" created such hor-
rifying reign of terror. such an absolute
despotism as during the present strug-
gle of the Colorado coal miners
The operators have always been de-
termined that they would not obey the
mining laws of the state. Realizing
that their employees would soon strike
to secure an enforcement OF the stat
utes. they began the importation of
these so-called guards or detectives as
early as January, 1913.
The Baldwin Feltz detective. agency.
composed largely of thugs. who make a
business of beating up and shooting the
workers to break strikes, was employed
bv the Colorado coal operators. Thes.
men had worked for the West Virginia
coal companies and had manned the
"Bull Moose Special" an armored train
from which the strikers and their wives
and children were brutally murdered.
As the summer OF 1913 grew on and
the operators saw that they would
either be compelled to grant the miners
their state and constitutional rights or
90 through a strike. the force of guards
was greatly increased.
When the strike was called September
%. 1918. there We're more than 1000
gunner deputy sheriffs in Huerfano
and las Animas counties. These men
We're fully equipped with high powered
rifles and fully cognizant that they were
employed not as guards of company
property, but as a guerilla band Of thugs
to clean out" the tent colonies. tyran-
nizing the strikers 90 persistently that
they would be forced to leave the eoun-
try.
Twelve machine guns were purchased
by the mine owners and placed at points
Of vantage commanding the tented
homes of the strikers
A C. Feltz. Colorado chief of these
gunmen. constructed an armored auto
mobile in the shops of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company.
1t was taken into the strike district
mounted with a machine gun and
manned by six thugs with high-powered
rifles.
By day this high-powered Death Spe-
cial'' was driven at top speed through
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12

the strike district, shooting into the tent
colonies and maintaining q constant
reign of terror.
BY night powerful searchlights were
played on the strikers tents, keeping
them always in-deadly fear of an at
tack that might come at any moment.
From the time the strike began. Sep
tember 23, 1918. until the Ludlow mas
sacre, April 20, 1914, this paid army of
gunmen murdered or cremated "a per-
sons, whose only offense was striking
for their constitutional rights in Colo
RADIO.
For this ghoulish method OF attempt
ed strikebreaking the coal operators had
paid up to and including August Is,
1914. the sum of s239, ,645.s6
But while the murder of the peace
full strikers and their families was the
terrorizing of the inhabitants of the
other disinterested citizens. has equally
helped to make Colorado stand out as
the only state in the Union where an
archy and gunmen rule has displaced
constitutional government.
The persecution of the striking min
ers and their families is so foreign to
American liberty that it is almost be-
yond belief.
Men known to have been active in the
union were waylaid, robbed and beaten,
their wives abused and their children
tortured by these fiends in human form.
Homes Were robbed and destroyed
Tourists have been treated with the
same disregard as residents of the strike
zone. Men and their families from 9th
er states. touring through the coal min
in anrfnr
fired upon from the ambushes where
these imported gunmen are wont to
waylay strikers.
Persons alighting from trains in Trim
idad, Walsenburg and others of the pic
turesque towns of southern Colorado
have been held up because they were
suspected of being union men or union
sympathizers. Ii they could not prove
to thees paid desperadoes of the opera
tors that they We're not interested in
the strike they were often clubbed into
Inconsistencies or made to get back on
the train at the point of a gun.
Evidence taken by the investigating
committee of the State Federation OF
Labor suggested by GovernorAmmons
and the congressional committee named
by President Wilson prove even greater
outrages committed by this paid army
of imported gunmen.
The coal miners are striking only for
an enforcement of Colorado laws and a
wage scale equal to that in force in the
nueighboring state of Wyoming.
At all times they have been and are
willing to submit their grievances to
any fairminded tribunal
Rather than discuss the differences
they have had with their former en-
ployes the operators fhave preferred to
use an army of paid murderers so that
they might continue their wanton reign
of anarchy and prevent the miners from
securing those rights which the Colorado
laws guarantee them
The substantial citizens of Colorado
have always been with the striking coal
miners because they believe that the
state can prosper only by a strict en-
forcement of the laws.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
A Vote For State Wide Prohibition
Is Vote Against Local Option
VOTE NO ON STATEWIDE PROHIBITION
THE COLORADO BUSINESS MEMS HOME RULE IEAGUE

Government can enact laws estao-
fishing relations between individuals.
but canot put neishborly qualities into
mems hearts. The law can compel a
man to support his wife, but canno;
make him love her. Legislative bodies
can enact Industrial legislation, but
cannot put the spirit OF fair-dealing IN.
to the souls of employer and employed.
Legislatures can pass drastic laws
regulating the liquor traffic. but can,
not lcgislate temperance, or alb.
stinence. or self-control into the heart
of the citizen. things which are OF
more Importance to him than all the
laws that can be enacted In his be.
half.
Fundamentals of Christian cha--
acter and morality must be the work
of individual training and discipline
The spirit of community that IL
moral and honest will be unconscious,
~ reflected in it's laws and In tho
characters of the men chosen 10 fill
official positions. But no amount OF
zeal In executives and Legislators can
create. by fiat. public morality from
n corrupted constituency. The legis-
iation which attemps TO do SO by mi
nutely regulating conduct is Sociai-
istic and contradictory from all the
teachings of eNperience.-From the
Peace Forum" July. 1914.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
GERMAN WORKERS ARE NOT SHOT

Officers of the American Federation
of Labor at Washington have received
the following wireless from Carl Legien,
secretary of the International Fedora
ton of Trades Unions, at Berlin;
Berlin, via Sayville, N. V. Aug. e6.
American press apparently states
German unions and Social Democratic
party are suppressed, leaders impris-
oned, funds seized. Liebknecht. Fran
LuSemberg and hundreds of workers
summarily shot for anti-militarist DEM
onstrations. All such news without
foundation. Party and unions continue
activity unhindered. All our papers APP
pear regularly. No repressive measures
have been taken against us. Equally
false is news about Entertainment OF for
eigners here. May this bloody confla-
grafton end soon sIEGIEN."
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

That newspapers have human side
is illustrated by an incident which tool
place recently. A young man out Of
a position wrote to one Of the larrest
New York newspapers, stating his sb,I-
tiles ano asking for position. He re-
eeived reply to the effect that az
though the paper needed no one at that
time il would place his name ON file.
II also stated that the next days edl.
tion would contain his letter to them
as free add in the classified columns
and that the paper hoped he would Sc
cure position.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
Monsignor Harkins. Holyoke, Mass. !:

Monsisnor Harkins. Holyoke, Mass:
Il was here when the prohibitory
laws were In effect In this state anc
know the evils which existed under
them Under no-license in Holyoks
there would be less drinking. but mora
drunkenness.
Bishop chas. o. Williams. Michigan:
II am in sympathy with the purs
poses those who advocate prohibition
have in mind. but while their motives
are ever so laudable. the means pro-
posed to accomplish the end are i'm
practicable. In fact. consider pro-
hibition at this time wrong because II
10 destructive
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
Regeneration By Legislation
-comppIsion Makes Hypoerites and
Not Converts.

An ominous sign of the times is the
apparently widespread disposition TO
shift responsibility upon the govern
ment. A former chief justice of Con
necticut. in an address. saw this dis
position in the vnst number OF things
which American citizens had been
commanded TO do. or prohibited fro,n
doing. by regulative and restrictive
enactments. and concluded with this
significant remark: I'VE have not
yet reached the condition OF the an
cient Peruvians. whose daily lives
were minutely regulated by govern
mental authority. but we are on a
stream which flows that way
That honesty in n nation must rest
upon individual character and that re.
generation must begin with the indi
vidual. seems to be lost sight OF. The
sole talk of the political agitator. and
too often OF the moral uplifter, is OF
reform by legislation.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
POSTAL SAVINGS LIMIT.

The House and Senate have agreed to
the conference report on the bill in.
ereasing to 81 900 the limit on deposits
by individuals in postal savings banks.
Enactment of this measure is due to
the increased demand that the govern
ment care for savings. The bill limits
to $500 the amount on which interest
may he paid The postal savings system
is running now at slight profit. ac-
cording to Chairman Moon of the House
committee on postoffices.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12

A small boy was one day asked by a
clergyman if he knew what was meant
by energy and enterprise.
NO, sir; don't think | do
The clergyman said; well. | will tell
you. my boy. One of the richest men in
the world came here without shirt on
his hack. and now he has millions.'
"Millions," replied the boy. How
many does he put on at times"
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
Rabbi HIrsch. Chicago:

Rabbi Hirsch, Chicago:
"The best safeguard against drunk.
enness is that drinking should be en-
joyed openly. The saloon In America
is frequented solely by men, and GER
tain, stigma attaches TO those who are
seen there. The worst thing In Amer
lean social life IL the separation of the
sexes. In Germany. where whole fam
lies are in the habit of drinking to-
gether in places OF public resort.
where the wife accompanies the hus-
band as matter OF course. excess is
not found. and the tone OF the German
cafes is as high morally as that OF the
German homes"
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12
Statewide Prohibition
Breeds Bitter Hatred

COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT. FORMER PRESIDENT
UNITED STATES, AND NOTED TRAVELLER AND AU-
THOR, HAS THIS TO SAY
good demand liberty himself,
pride he will that all others will receive the liberty
which he thus claims as his
Probably best true love of liberty country
which treated that country Not
complete liberty religion and
complete live his life desires
provided that doing does not his neghbos
opinion matters religions and political
social beliefs intellect alike
healthy growth Bitter nternecne hatred
based such differences not Of of belief
fanaticm which, whether religious antireous Demo
itself manifestation of the gloomy
bgoy which chief factor the downfall Of
nations.
wide panstakng Investigations of
Colonel has been brought
the dealing the
by gloomy precede the downfall of
Anys Wide Prohibition
incapable themselves
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12

Beats them all. La Belle SC cigar;
union made in Denver.-Adv.
United labor bulletin., 1914-09-12

Beats them all. La Belle sc cigar;
union made in Dcnver.-Adv.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-07-30

r. K Shae, of Wyaconda, Mo, Il
spending few days with M. \
Brown and friends in this city ana
leaves the last of the week for Chi
cago to make months visit with nj;
brother, Harry K. Shae.
Mrs. Belle Magee, of Glenwood
Mo-, will arrive this evening from
an extended visit in Ohio, and will
join her daughter in q weeks visit
with Mrs. Magee's sister-in-law, Mrs.
Lutte Billick of the Gentry Hotel
Washington Journal: :. G. Fox
and family and w F. Clark and fam
| lily spent Sunday in OskaloOsa visit
| ing relatives. They drove over in
| their car and had to stay all night in
SigOurney on account of the heavy
rains. They came home this morning
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Alton and child
rem, OF KeOkuk, were guests Of OsRa
loosa friends Sunday and Monday, and
left this morning, for Lincoln, Nebr.,
to make a months visit with Mr.. AL
tons father and mother Mr.. and
Mrs. G. S. Alton.
Mr.. and Mrs, F., w. Glaze and
daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Morton and
Miss Ruth, departed this morning on
an automobile trip to Iowa City They
go to attend the dedication of the new
Masonic temple there, Mr.. Glaze as
one Of the grand officers, having a
part on the program
Guy Bacon, who has been camping
for a couple of weeks with his broth
er-in-Iaw, Bert Hanna. while recuper-
ating from a well-adVanced case of
blood poison, has returned to the
city. He is much improved and eX-
poets to be back at work on the Daily
Iowa Capital by Sept. /.
Clarence Hillary. of Alton, Iowa,
spent Monday night at the home of
ais uncle, Jack Stringfellow, and went
to Rose Hill this morning to spend
few days with relatives. Clarence
leaves the last OF the week for Bis
marck, North Dakota. to make an
extended visit with his brother.
Mrs. B. o. Terrell drove to Monte
teZuma today to bring back her
daughter Louise, who has been visit
ing there. She was accompanied by
Rev. Thos. Horton and Miss Mary
Horton, and their niece, Miss Edna
Perkins. Miss Perkins, who has been
visiting here a number of weeks, will
remain at her home near MonteZuma.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Evans, residing
southwest of OskalOosa, and Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. G. Harold motOred to What
Cheer Sunday in Mr.. Evans car, and
everything had been lovely until they
returning struck High avenue east
and here they were forced to stop
the car on account of the rain which
descended in torrents, and hold up
the curtains to keep out the water.
After the rain had slaCkened a little
they attempted to start the engine,
but for some unknown reason it re-
fused to run, and the last lap of the
journey was made on foot.
Sigourney News: Vincent DIETRICH
of Oskaloosa, visited at the Sid Mahan
home Sunday.
Pella Chronicle: Mrs. L. A. Bick-
ford was an Oskaloosa visitor We'd
nesday forenoon.
Sigourney News: Miss Ellen Coul-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-07-30
is Commissioning slowly.

is conyalescing slowly.
Fred Mickey arrived home Sunday
evening from weeks pleasure and
business trip to Chicago
A. NJ. Sosua, of St. Louis. Mo. is
making a business call in this city
Of several days duration.
Mrs. Will Nelson, of Melcher, Iowa
is guest at the Jerry }. Ballinger
home, 4lO Fifta avenue east.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Shoemake and
daughter La Verne. have returned
from a weeks visit in Trenton, Mo.
Mrs. Laura Terrell and son Robert,
Of keOta, are spending their vacation
at the F. NJ. Henness home, 1912 c
avenue East.
G. E. Jackson, of Sigourney, spent
Monday with Oskaloosa friends and
left this morning on a business trip
to Des Moines.
Miss Mae Jones, of Winterset, was
in town Monday enroute to Washing
ton. Iowa, to visit with her brotier,in,
law, w. S. Stuart.
Delta Press: Mrs r. ]. Mcdonald
came down from Oskaloosa Tuesday
morning for a visit at the home of her
sister, Mrs. NJ. B. Reed.
E B. Sinclair is down from Mar,
shalltown enjoying a few days with
friends in OskalOosa, and is also at
tending to business affairs.
Misses Irene Farmhouse and Miss
Vera Moore went to Eddyville this
morning to spend the day with Miss
Barnhouseis sister, Mrs. Howard Har.
, rold.
Miss Minnie Anderson, who has
| been enjoying a visit in this city
with her sister, Mrs. Blanchard, re-
turned Monday afternoon to her home
| in Rose Hill.
Charles Hearn, foreman of the G.
R. I. & p. railway freight house, and
wife, arrived home Monday from a
delightful weeks visit with relatives
in Kansas City.
Delta Press: Evan Sargent drove
to Oskaloosa Monday for his wife and
River to get his mother, arriving
home that night.
| Eddyville Tribune: Miss Prudence
Jones, OF OskalooSa, spent part OF last
week visiting at the l.. J. Talmage
home. Miss Inis Talmage went home
with her for a visit
Mrs. Wilson Chase, of Sulphur
| Springs, Ark, arrived in the city
Monday evening to visit with her par.
| ents, Mr. and Mrs. w. r. Cowan and
other relatives and friends here.
l.. e. Fisher, Of Bloomington, H.
was with Oskaloosa friends Sunday
and Monday, and left this morning for
Jefferson City. Mo-, to make visit
with his sister, Mrs. G. B. Smith.
4 Zoe Newkirk. who has been enjoy
ing visit with her grandfather and
grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. John j
Hawk, of 632 North Market street
returned this morning to her home in
Delta
i c. NJ. Adams. of ST. Louis, Mo-, aft
Ter spending few days with friends
In and around Oskaloosa. left Monday
for Minneapolis. where he will make
i1ensextended visit with bis brother, r
w Adams
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-07-30

lson. of Oskaloosa. was q caller IN
lSiGouruey Monday,
Pella Chronicles. Mr.. and Mrs Al
bert Kelderman, of Oskaloosa, visited
relatives in Pella Thursday.
Miss Gale Wright, who has been
visiting friends in this city, returned
yesterday to her home in Wright.
Miss Ethel Carson, of AIS Fifth
iaVenue East, spent Sunday in Abba
with her friend, Miss Eva Dallam.
Ray V. Hauser arrived home yester-
day from a pleasant two weeks vaCa-
ton at the lakes and summer resorts
in Michigan.
Sigourney News: Mrs Geo Whee
Ter and two children, of Oskaloosa,
visited a few days at the McVicker
home this week.
Bussey News: Miss Ethel Penning.
ton, of Oskaloosa, came Monday morn
ing for a visit at the home Of her aunt
Mrs. John Essling.
Pella Chronicle: Henry Rosenberg
and family, of OskalOosa, visited over
Sunday at the home of his father H.
Rosenberg, of this city.
Winterset Reporter: Mrs F.. f.
Smith, who has been visiting at the
home Of her brother, John Clarkson,
left Tuesday evening for her home in
Oskaloosa.
Abba News: Miss Emily Kissick
of OskalOosa, spent Thursday at the
G. l.. Kissick home en- route from
Bussey, where she visited relatives
and friends.
LynnVille Star: Mr.. and Mrs. ArnO
Latham and family were driven to
Oskaloosa Sunday by Levi Martin to
have their little boys arm examined
by the X-ray
LOvilia Press: j. j. Wilson, of Os-
kaloosa, visited from Monday until
Thursday, the guest of his nephews,
+. NJ and K. NJ. Wilson, and niece,
Mrs. w. f. Barnes
Mrs John Van Rawson. who has
been visiting her father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Hanna, at their
home in Lacey, returned yesterday to
her home at Wright
Bussey News: Herbert and Freddie
Johnson returned to their home at
Oskaloosa Monday morning after
visit here at the home of their aunt
Mrs. John Essling and husband
George w. Sewers, who has been
at ais home here several days, super
operations, went to Clear
Lake Saturday evening and will go on
to Minneapolis some time this week
Mahlon Williams left Sunday night
after short visit with his folks and
friends in this city, for Kansas City
to again take his place as solo clar-
inetist in Barnum & Bailey's circus
concert band.
Sigourney News: John Schlitz and
family left Saturday night for Oska-
loOsa, spending Sunday at the home
of Miss Bess Brown and then going
on to Grinnell for a visit at the Ed
SChlitZ home.
w. A. Kitchen, residing 312 miles
southeast of OskaloOsa, departed yes
terday over the M. & ST l.. for Ash
land, Ky, to be gone month attend
ing to business affairs in northeastern
Kentucky and Arkansas.