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United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03
TO STOP JuRIsDIcTIoNAL STRIKES
Six Big National Unions Sign Agreement
in New York

1t was announced in New York Thurs.
day that the delegates of six interna,
tional unions in the building trades have
completed the forming of an alliance by
which strikes over disputes involving the
work one union should do will be
averted.
The six unions are the Bricklayers and
Masons' Interna tional Union, the Jour
neymen Stoneeutters' International
Union, the International Union of En-
gineers. the United Brotherhood of Car.
penters and Joiners, the Plain and Orn-
amental Operative Plasterers' Society
and the International Hodcarriers and
Building Laborers' Society of America.
They represent more than 100000 work
ers.
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03
46, 900 Men Making
Krupp Guns atEssen

A Scotch woman who has re-
turned to Edinburgh from Ger
many, where she has been stay
ing with friends at Essen, relates
that work is going on at the
Krupp gun factory feverishly day
and night, The gun and ammuni-
tion departments alone are being
operated, but these keep 10000
men constantly employed.
This woman relates also that
foreign spies have been numerous
and that one day Ia Russians
dressed as women were shot. She
says food is abundant in Essen
and some of II Is even cheaper
than before the war.
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03
JIM DuNcAN's ONLY SON DEAD.

The only son of James Duncan, first
vice president of the American Fedora
tion of Labor and international secre-
tary of the Granite Cutters, died on
the morning of September %. The de-
ceased had recently graduated from a
medical college and was entering the
The sympathy of all those who know
Jim" Duncan viii so out to him in
full measure.
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03
WILL EMPLOY MANY IDLE MEN

The Canadian Pacific railroad has an
nounced that the operating departments
of its eastern and western lines would
employ 6,0o0 extra men within the next
two months. The object Of employing
such number Of laborcrs at the time,
the company states, was to relieve dis
trcss brought about by the war in
Europe.
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03

Deposits amounting to S4SO00000
We're in 9,653 postal saving banks in the
country August 81, according to pre-
liminary examination of the reports of
the department. The increase for Au-
gust was the largest since the system
was inaugurated, amounting to Si,-
100000.
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03

Suspender Makers Union No $500 o.
New York has renewed contracts with
its employers without any difficulty.
The agreement expires in August next
year.
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03
FEAR BREAD LINE ON WALL ST.
S. o. S. Signal Sent Out and Is An
swered by the Plutes.

A committee was formed Tuesday af-
ternoon of this week to protect the poor
OF Wall street. New York, against want.
The committee is composed of
wealthy brokers, and the persons who
will receive its attention are the army
of clerks and small brokers of stock
exchange houses who have lost their
places or are working at reduced sal
aries because of the closing of the
worlds stock markets.
1t is to be known as the Wall street
employees relief committee
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03

II you can't boost. don't knock.
Knocking il q disease and In contagious,
50 you better keep away from knock
ing.
United labor bulletin., 1914-10-03

The Sailors Union of the Pacific is
voting on a proposal TO appropriate 81
900 for organization work on the At
lantic coast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
"A CAME FOR RELIEF
Soccer Football, Topeka VS.
Kansas City, New Years.
Proceeds for Fund to Aid Starv-
ing Belgians.

Tom Powell announced today that he
would endeavor to materially swell the
Shawnee county Belgian relief fund by
staging a soccer football game New
Years afternoon-Topeka VS.. Kansas
City. This sport is growing in popular
ity, and in consideration of the fact
that it will be a benefit game. the con-
test the first of the year should draw
Well.
Topeka won from the Schmelzers in
Kansas City Thanksgiving day, and
this team has won two championships
in the Kansas City local league in the
will undoubtedly be a good one, al
though Manager Powell has not fully
decided what one of the Kansas City
teams he will bring here. III get the
best team 1 can," said Powell today.
Word has been received from Harvey
county that the county committee ex-
poets to be able to ship three carloads
of flour for Belgian relief. Nearly B.
OOO eco bushels OF wheat were raised in
the county.
Burlington in Coffey county has
sent a carload of flour, and is still
raising funds. The car was decorated
with banners showing that it con-
tained Burlington's contribution to-
wards the relief of the starving Bel
gians.
The little girls of the Episcopal
church of Burlington contributed 81
Nearly all of the schools in the county
will have a donation
Allen county will provide two car
loads of flour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
FIRST SNOW TODAY BYERS IS DEAD
Shot From His Horse While
FOrding q River
In an Effort to Escape From
His PurSuers.

Pretoria, Dec. 9.-General Christian
Frederick Byers. leader. with General
De Wet. of the South African rebel
lion. is dead. With this official an
nouncement today came the story Of
the terrible end to which General ByerD
came while endeavoring to escape from
column of Loyalist troops which had
overtaken him and fifty Of his followers
on the banks of the Vaal river.
General Byers and his followers had
been pursued since Saturday. Yester-
day they were overtaken along the
Vaal near Greyling. Captain Viljoens,
accompanying the pursuing troopA
demanded the surrender Of the rebels,
but they promptly refused and pre-
pared to make last stand.
The rebels formed along the river
and sharp fighting occurred AZ the
men General Byers was leading en-
deavored to cover the flight of their
commander and other officers with
him.
Byers and others plunged their horses
into the river in their efforts to escape
but in midstream the general was shot
from his mount. He managed to grasp
the tail OF another horse but this ami.
NAL. caught in the swift current, began
to drift rapidly down stream. General
Byers could be heard calling for help
but disappeared during the fighting in
which his men were endeavoring to
make his escape possible.
The field glasses and revolver carried
by the dead rebel leader were found
but it was impossible to reach his body
owing to the recent floods and the
swollen condition OF the vaal.
General Byers was formerly COM
acknowledgement Of the citizen forces
o. South Africa but resigned his place
at the opening Of the European war.
He was opposed to the proposal that
South African forces invade the Ger
man provinces in Africa. He then took
the field at the head Of rebel forces
with General De Wet, who was cap
tured. De Wet il expected to be court
martialed and shot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
Lays Plan for Campaign After
Leaving ONCE.
OUT ON ROAD THREE MONTHS
He viii Cover q Big Territory
in Many States.
Gan Issue in Next Presidential
Campaign" Governor Says.

Immediately after the close Of his
term as governor Of Kansas in January
George H. Hodges will take the plat
form to speak in the interest Of national
prohibition. responding to a large num-
Der Of calls from all over the United
States. His present prospect is for
spending the greater part of three
months stumping for prohibition all tho
way from New Mexico to Mississippis
West Virginia and Minnesota.
Il have accepted in a tentative way
all the requests that have been made
for my services in the campaign now
being waged for national prohibition"
said Governor Hodges this morning,
although it will be impossible to bo
at all of the places in which I have
been asked to appear at the same time.
West Virginia. first as I have been
asked to speak there on either January
Ii or IA. They have invited me to
Columbia, North Carolina, for a meet
ing on February l and 2, and / am
billed to speak in Denver on January
20. The other invitations have left the
dates more for my own option and
shall arrange them as best I can.
THE national crusade against the
liquor traffic is going on with undi-
minished vigor and with every prospect
OF being forced to an issue in the next
national presidential campaign. It
OF course will involve tremendous prob
lens for the country's consideration
when 1t reaches the point of being
made effective for the revenue now de-
rived by the national government from
this source constitutes an important
portion OF all the income for govern
mental expenses.
How About Revenue.
The question Of replacing this
revenue from other directions will
precipitate the most determined fight
from the opponents of the movement.
But these problems can and will be
solved and it is manifest from the
rapidly changing sentiment in COM
munities that have fought out the
prohibitory problem in a local way
that the minds of the people are pre-
paripgsto, settle the question for tho
whole country in the way it has al
ready been settled for Kansas and Tor
many other states"
| Mr.. Hodges has been asked to rive
month of his time as soon as pos
| sible to speaking dates in New Mexico
and in Minnesota. He has PROMISED
to devote most of the months Of Feb
ruary in a similar way in Nebraska,
and has been asked for month az
| soon as he can spare the time in West
Virginia and likewise in Mississippi.
He will spend five days in March in
Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
where ARE THEY?
One Hundred Dangerous Exp1O-
sives at Large in Topeka.
Police Department Frantic,
Fearing Deadly Result.

The Topeka police are looking for a
blow-up at any minute in any part OF
the city. Citizens are hereby warned to
look where they step and be careful
what they sit down on.
Tuesday night some one stole 100
dynamite caps from the construction
camp of ]. A. Pringle, contractor of
the Sixth ward sewer, and every effort
to locate the stolen goods has proved
fruitless.
The theft was discovered early this
morning. and fearing that some chill
dren might have taken them without
knowing what they were, Mr.. Pringle
notified the police station at once.
thorough search has been made in the
neighborhood. and rSrents are ad-
vised to see that their children do not
play with anything that they know
nothing about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
HE KILLS A CHILD
Mission Worker Then 1nflicts
Mortal Wound on Himself.
He Wanted to Marry His VIC
tim, a Girl of IL.

St. Louis, Dec. 9.-Nannie Stricklin,
~ wears old, was shot and Killed IN
the front yard of her home here to-
dav bv Robert Bailey, deacon at
mission. who said he had been trying
TO reform the girl. Bailey shot him.
self and was taken to a hospital In
dying condition.
Mrs. Clara Strick1in, mother of the
child. said that Bailey, for more than
a wear, had annoyed her in efforts to
adopt the child. saying that he wanted
to marry her when she was grown.
The child had stayed indoors for
several days in fear Of Bailey. who
Sunday was driven out of the house
hv Mrs. Stricklin. Today the child
left the house to order coal. Bailey.
who roomed nearby, just then stepped
up and spoke to the child A few
minutes later the mother saw Bailey
raise revolver, aim and fire.
About a year ago Bailey rented a
room at the Stricklin home and soon
thereafter his attachment to the child
became marked. Mrs. Stricklin to get
away from Bailey, moved to another
neighborhood last May, but few
days later, Bailey rented room in
the house next door. Mrs. Stricklin
band. Samuel Stricklin, at Elvins. Mo.
Bailey followed the child to Elvins
and told the father if he could not
have the daughter no one else could.
few days ago Mrs. Stricklin COM
planned to the prosecuting attorney
about Bailey. Bailey is 35 years old.
He told the police he had been trying
on her, and had taken her good books
tO read.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
Martin IN KANSAS
Vice Governor of PHILIPPINES on
Long Leave of Absence.
Unheralded, He Slips Into His
Home in Marion.

Henderson S. Martin. vice governor
OF the Philippine Islands, is at his home
in Marion with his wife and daughter.
having arrived Sunday night on a three
months leave of absence from his post
of duty in Manila. He has sent word
to Topeka friends that he expects to
spend the holidays in Kansas and that
he will visit here for a few days next
week. The Martin family reached home
quietly after an absence of little over
year and had been in Marion for a
couple of days before their presence in
the United States became generally
known.
Unless called to Washington sooner,
Mr.. Martin will remain in Kansas until
after the Christmas recess, but at that
time he expects to be called east to
spend q month or more answering queS-
tfons of congressman and administra-
ton officials about various aspects OF
Philippine legislation is billed for the
short session and Martin has been
called home to furnish first hand infor-
nation. AS vice governor of the is
lands, Mr.. Martin has a wide range of
authority covering educational institu-
tions and the penal system of the island
government. He has also had charge
of the government printing office and
over the bureau established for the pro-
motion Of Philippine trade.
His appointment somewhat more than
year ago to the important post in
the Philippine government was very
popular in Kansas, it being the most
| desirable federal job ever awarded to
a citizen of this state. Mr.. Martin re-
| signed the craftsmanship of the Kansas
public utilities commission to accept
the place.
Freedom for Philippines?
| 1t is understood through the
/ friends of Henderson Martin today
that the Kansan is in the states pri-
marily for the purpose Of producing
arguments in favor Of what is known
as the Jones BILL" which provides in
dependence for the Island possessions
1t is stated also that when the vice
governor returns to his post he will
leave his family in Marion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
State Temperance Union Goes
Into Anti-SalOOn League.
STARTED ROW IN SESSION
Resolution of Admittance
Opened Up Fiery Debates.
Ex-Governor Stubbs Took Part
in the Discussion.

Kansas will aid in the fight for ma
tional prohibition. The influence OF
the Suniower state will be felt with
in the next few years throughout the
nation. In the great work now being
organized to prohibit the manufacture
or sale of liquor in the United States.
Kansas will be in the vanguard. This
was decided this morning after a hot
session OF the Kansas State Temper
ance union, in annual meeting at the
First Baptist church.
A committee was appointed Tues
day afternoon to draw up resolutions
admitting the State Temperance
union as a department of the Anti
saloon League of America There
were seven members OF the commit
tee. Four members voted for the res
olutlon as 1t was drawn up, and three
voted against it.
This morning the resolution was
presented to the delegates Of the
Temperance union.
That started a long round Of fiery
speeches for and against the resolu-
ton. The question was raised that
the constitution Of the Anti-saloon
league had the following provision:
That in the selection Of a state super
fntendent, the state departments
should make the appointment and the
superintendent should serve three
months; then his term would expire
unless the national board Of trustees
cOncurred.
F. p. Lindsay, assistant attorney
general, made an address opposing the
resolutions for the difficulties that
might arise in the superintendency and
the possibility of changing the name
from the State Temperance Union to
the Anti-Saloon League Of Kansas. He
detailed the history of the Kansas
State Temperance Union, of it's early
foundation by such men as former Gov
ernor John p. ST. John. of the struggles
which finally ended in the adoption OF
the amendment of 1879 Lindsay sai6
that the constitutions Of the Kansas
organization and the. National Anti
tSq40oR League conflict. -
/ There were. several other speeches
Following. some on the same line al
Ar.s Lindsay and others sfavuflng ths
immediate adoption Of the resolution
/ Stubbs Was There.
Ex-Governor w. r. Stubbs rose dur.
ing lull in the hot discussions anG
walked to the front of the house. H<
made an eloquent address, urging the
union to work in harmony with th<
great national organization.
Kansas is going to be q vital part
| Of national prohibition" he said, land
we should work shoulder to shoulder
CONTINUED on Page Two1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
WATCH FUR FLY!I
Talk of Repeating Board of Ad.
ministratiOn Law.
Threatened Fight Between
Schools and Legislators.

Gossip about prospective legislation
has it that fight is going to be start
ed by Republican members of the
house for the repeal of the board Of
administration law and a return to the
old plan of government for state edu-
cational institutions by boards Of re-
gents. The Republicans will have a
majority in the house Of representa-
tives, where it is proposed to start the
movement against the board of ad-
ministration, but the movement, if it
starts, is bound to strike q snag when
it reaches the senate, which will re-
main Democratic.
That the opposition to the present
plan of school government has been
fostered in a quiet way from all of the
institutions affected by it. is the claim
which is freely made by enemies of
the board. Some rather revolutionary
ideas have been injected into the edu-
catiOna1 affairs of the state by the new
board which announced at the outset
that it intended to lead the state
schools away from the purely academic
atmosphere into which they have been
directed SO as to turn them to more
practical usefulness. A large number
staff has resulted in the past two years,
it is claimed. to the detriment Of the
work of the several institutions.
IF the senate blocks the Republican
movement against the board of admin
istration.' said a man familiar with
the plans for the attack. today, 1.-The
house may retaliate by shutting down
on the educational appropriation A
number Of Republicans have been in
consultation recently and are organiz-
ing the fight on the administration
boa rd -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
Slight Fall Dampened Growing
Wheat in Kansas.
There Is Nothing but Unpleas-
ant Weather in Sight.

The first measurable snow Of the
season began falling at Topeka early
this morning. 1t was q fine wet snow
and at $50 o'clock measured but
three-tenths Of an inch or when melt
ed .O5. Reports indicate that the
snow covered a large section Of the
state.
The minimum temperature today
was 80 degrees. nine degrees above
the normal minimum for this date.
but at that this is the lowest temper
ature recorded since last week. There
has been very little variation in the
hourly thermometer readings in the
last five days. There is nothing but
unpleasant weather in sight.
The forecast: Probably unsettled
tonight and Thursday; slightly colder
tonight"
Sunny Flora, the local observer.
on account Of the fact that the wind
is in the north and inclined towards
the northwest. II the direction were
northeast then a heavy snOwstorm
might be expected.
The highest temperature on this
date in the twenty-eight years that
the local records have been kept was
sc degrees in 1895: the lowest was
one below zero in 1909. The greatest
precipitation was one and One-haif
inches in 1911.
One and one-haH inches of snow
fell at Pittsburg in the night.
Shippers forecast: Protect 80
hour shipments north and wes'
against temperature Of from Is to 2(
degrees; east and south "a"
The temperature today averaged two
degrees below normal for this date
The north wind increased in velocity
and was hitting a Is mile pace at
o'clock.
The snowstorm was over by II
o'clock The total amount of melted
snow was .06 OF an inch. The depth
of snow was four-tenths of an inch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
FIGHT WITH POLECAT,
Library Duel Gets California PrOfes
sOr a Two Weeks Vacation.

Berkeley. Cal. Dec. ct. c. Hine.
professor of the chemistry department
of the University of California fought
hard battle with a polecat in the
library of the university Tuesday Vic
tory perched on be crown of the sa-
want after he had bombarded his an
tagonist with some of the choice vol
umes of the university library and fol-
lowed up this strategical move by toss
ing a hat box over the invader
quantity of chloroform poured
through a tiny hole in the box stopped
the polecat's activities. The professor
has been given a two weeks leave OF
absence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
One Reason Why Receipts Have
Fallen OF Recently.
TRAVEL IN THEIR MACHINES
Vacations to East No Longer q
Luxury to Kansans.
Wholesale Firms Send Their
Statesmen Out in Autos.

One Of the chief causes which
the railroads will assert has re-
duced their passenger revenues un-
til they are entitled to more than
two-cents a mile is the large number
OF motor cars in Kansas. Motor car
touring is SO common and used by so
many people in Kansas at the present
time. and getting bigger each season.
that the railroads contend that the
passenger traffic now is actually less
each year.
We have no way to figure our ex-
act losses because of motor car tour
ing" said the general manager of one
Of the big Kansas roads. I'VE can't
tell how many thousands of people have
Travelled through Kansas OF from one
part Of the state to the other. All we
know is that there has been a general
falling off in passenger traffic in the
last two or three years. particularly
from the small towns in the same
county to the county seats.
There are towns on our line, small
country towns, varying from ten to
thirty miles from the county seat or
from good trading points where we
should have an average OF ten passen-
! gers every day for the county seat or
trading point. At present We sometimes
do get a single local passenger. Other
days we have three or four.
"Along some of our lines there are
well known motor roads and every day
| can be seen dozens of cars going from
one town to the other. There are fif-
teen or twenty big firms in Kansas
that employ a large number Of travel
ing men. Some of these firms have
purchased motor cars for these travel
! ing men and where formerly the firms
paid us thousands of dollars in railroad
fares they pay us hundreds now. The
travelling men use the motor cars in
making their rounds.
THE motor cars have not hurt the
freight business any but they hit the
express companies some as the folks
whogo to a trading point IN d car take
! the goods home with them where form
! erly they had them sent by express.
There isn't a train in Kansas which
will show an increased business in the
last two years and most of them will
show a material loss every day from
the business of four years ago. or even
before we had the two cent fare. In
some states lack Of funds keeps peo-
pie from travelling but In Kansas it is
too much prosperity, for everyone that
can uses his motor car in visiting and
| travelling"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
is SERIOUSLY ILL
Emperor of Germany Is Suffer
ing From Pneumonia
Combined With Nervous De-
preston Due to OverWOrk.

London, Dec. emperor William
is suffering from pneumonia which is
combined with nervous depression due
to over exertiOn according to kilograms
from Berlin forwarded by the Amster-
dam correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph. The message adds that the
German emperor's doctors have advls-
ed him not to return to the front.
His majesty is also declared to be
suffering from continual headaches.
The Berlin messages declare the
kaiser is extremely violent toward his
advisers and others around him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-09
The Day in Congress.

Washington, Dec 9.-Hearings be-
gun before the senate lands committee
on the land leasing bill. Debate was
begun on the immigration bill. The
secretary Of the treasury submitted
his annual report to the house. Rear
Admiral Fletcher and Brfgadfer Gen.
eral Scott testified before the military
and naval committees on the prepared
ness Of the national defenses.