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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-17
Lauds Nr. Herrick.

The floor. with men. and the balcony,
with women. were filled TO the limit.
William n. Truesdale was POSTMASTER.
Related 10 Mr.. Herrick as ! have
been and am Mr.. Hoyt said, "and
warmly regarding him as / do. you
may perhaps appreciate my deep sat
isfaction and keen delgh, when !
awakened TO the realization that this
dear friend Of mine. because of his
unusual ability and efficiency. because
Of his unequalled tact and diplomacy.
because Of his successful discharge of
duties most difficult, delicate and
onerous because Of his infinite and
willing capacity 20 oblige. because of
his generous but discreet and wise
philanthropy. and because, also. OF ms
high courage, shown in his remaining
AT mis- most when others fed, has be
come the most widely known ana best
beloved American in the world to-day.
"Now, all Of us Americans, from Mr..
BRYAN up bowls of laughter here
wish for peace. But those Of US who
are not yet afflicted with what mas been
fittingly characterized as the 'pen-and-
mouth disease do not wish for peace
al any price, viz, at the price OF hu-
initiation and disaster
W heu the applduSt was over VI ID
Hoyt said facetiously that President
Wilson should be commended for not
referring 10 the Mexican question IN
his last annual message to Congress.
He continued:
I'VE have lately been assured by a
distinguished travelling salesman OF
words an incumbent Ola high office,
though. by the way, mis- authority does
not seem for reasons which shall he
nameless. 10 be commensurate with has
place-that in case OF an emergency
1000. 900 men would quickly respond 70
our Presidents call. think ne said
they would come out in about an hour.
From describing how Mr.. Bryan
launched our two battleships Brother
~ Love" and Good Fellowship on
Lake Chautauqua.' the speaker pro
ceeded 10 criticism of Secretary Dan
iels of the Navy.
Are Americans Unified?
Mr.. Herrick, describing how the var
ious factions in European nations had
united when their countries were
threatened. questioned whether we OF
this country had been brought to a
state Of mind by conditions in the
past two years that would bring US
together. should the United States be
come involved in international dispute.
"The evils that were discovered IN
our national life" he said, have
been dwet upon with constantly in
..o..;nc, ornpbasie not 10 say pXag-
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SOUTH rs NOT ALONE

BRIDGEPORT, CONN.-Mrs. Mary
Scully, A. F. of L. organizer, believes
the South is not the only section of
this country where child labor is ex-
plotted. She says;
"Puritanical New England has long
looked askance and pointed the accus-
ing finger at the South for employing
child labor, but my Investigations
have convinced by Connecticut should
first cast the beam out of her own eye
before trying to pluck the mote from
the eye of the South or any other sec
ton of the country.
Labor laws supposed to be for the
protection of women workers in Con
necticut have long been a joke. 1t is
the most backward state in this re-
spect in New England Connecticut
is not one bit further advanced in re-
gard to child labor and its laws for
the future welfare of the human race
by safeguarding the health of the wom-
en- workers than in the South. | have
found girls II and II years old work
ing in factories here for 8, II and 10
cents a day"
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HERE'S FOR A BIG T|ME!.
Labor Day To Be Celebrated By Sports,
Games, Speech and Dancing g--Out-
doors and Indoors
City Park and Ad Joining Streets To Be
Scene Of Joity
MANY PRIZES OFFERED |!

Just to show that there is nothing
small about Eyeretts merchants, Bob
Mills showed us a list of prizes as
long as his ARMAND that's going
some! All donated by Everett's pub
lic-spirited merchants. Well acknowl-
edge each prize with thanks to donor
when we see who wins it. There'll
be all sorts of sports and games;
races for fat men, thin men, young
girls, old-there, steady now! Any
how, no one will be sighted. There'll
be something doing all the time for
young and old, for everybody.
Commissioner Salter agreed to have
Wetmore street alongside the Park as
spiCk and span as a waXed ballroom
floor And Brother Wagner with his
AL band will be there with the strains
that induce that rhythmic, fascinating
glide, dip and-all that.
Charles Perry Taylor Secretary of
the State Federation of Labor, will
be orator of the day. He will have a
special message for the people of Ev-
erett-ALL OF THEM-and no one
should fail to hear this able spokes-
man of organized labor
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HILLYER KIND TO ROOKIE
TELLER INTERESTS

Shortly after this, the coal oper
ators secured the appointment by Cob
ernor Carlson of an additional judge
for the Third Judicial District, and
the Governor appointed CRANKY Hill
yer, of Lamar Colorado. On March
3, 1915, Judge Hillyer came to Trini-
dad to hold court Immediately upon
his first appearance as judge, Lawson
filed a petition, which was sworn to,
which stated that Judge HilIyer was
one of the coal company attorneys en-
ployed by the allied coal operators in
their prosecutions against the strikers.
These allegations were supported by
the aftidavits OF numbers OF citizens.
1t was further stated that Judge Hill
yer, in addition to appearing in court
on behalf of the mine operators in
their prosecutions against strikers,
was bitter in his denunciation of the
strikers, and had repeatedly stated
that the miners were outlaws who
Continued on Page Two)
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working people of Everett had The
Labor Journal in the field, cleared
for action"
Roughly speaking, there We're four
thousand votes cast in favor of mu-
nicipal ownership of the water and
power plant to one thousand Who voted
in the interest of the Stone-Webster
concern and the First National Bank.
Doubtless the six thousand copies
of The Labor Journal which were put
into the hands of Everetts citizens
election week helped some"
And here it is no more than Just
that we give due credit to Attorney
r. j. Faussett for the hard work he
put in getting at the facts in the
question and placing them before the
public for their consideration. For
these labors he received no money
compensation, and The Labor Journal.
speaking for the Everett Trades and
Labor Council, herewith tenders CRATE
full acknowledgment of Nh. Faussett's
efforts in behalf of the people of Ev-
erett
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LARKIN DRIVES HOME
UNVARNISHED TRUTHS
PLEADS FOR GREATER SOLlDAR.
ITY OF LABOR

"Jim" Larkin, the incarnation of the
reputation of Fiery Cross Orator" in
his eloquent appeal for greater solidar-
ity of the forces of labor in his speech
at the Peoples Theatre Wednesday
evening. He deplored the narrow con-
cepton of the mission of labor as rep
resented by Samuel Gompers and 9TH
er leaders of the A. F. of L., declaring
that it is a great mistake for organized
labor to take the capitalist system for
granted. A genuine labor movement
cannot afford to compromise with
their enemies, the capitalists, he as
serted. Labor, he affirmed, must unite
not only on the industrial field, as a
unit, but must work hand in hand with
the Socialist Party to capture the pow
ers of government for the workers, to
the end that wage-slavery may be
speedily abolished.
Speaking as Catholic, Larkin de-
nounced those enemies of the work
ing class who assert that the political
and economic program of the Socialist
Party is antagonistic to religion, the
Christian home, or the church. He
declared that the Socialist movement
was big enough. broad enough, and toll
Grant enough to include workers of
all faiths or of no faith at all Inst
as the unions and other political par
ties do not exclude people because of
their religious views, just so the So
cialist Party must welcome to its
membership workers of any or no
religious persuasion, to the end that
they may unite to overthrow the sys
TEN that robs them of the products OF
their toll.
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DEMAND FREEDOM OF
SPEECH

WORCESTER, MASS. - Municipal
authorities have resurrected an old or
dinance and unionists are arrested on
the charge of constructing the
streets" Jacob Levine, chairman OF
the organizing committee of the Cen
tral Labor union, was arrested on this
charge when addressing a meeting OF
shop men and the organized workers
have appointed a committee to pro
tect freedom of speech. Severa
speakers have been arrested within
the past month, but the law so fal
has only applied to meetings of work
ers
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Labor Journal Gives Efficient
Aid In Fight For Adequate
Municipal Water Plant

Why don't you take some credit for
the successful fight you put up for a
city-owned water and power plant?'
The above question has several
times in substance been asked Of the
Labor Journal
Well, what's the use Dragging about
it?
Naturally, we are proud to think
that organized labor in Everett is
strong enough and wise enough to
keep its own paper in the field to
fight in the interest of those who
make this burg famous as The City
of Smokestacks." AS pure and abund-
ant water is a common need of the
people, we merely acted CON
with our principles in fight
ing the Stone-Webster octopus,
With the Morning Tribune making
a show of itself as the servant Of spe-
cial privilege, and the Herald stand
ing with folded hands, too shrewd to
enter the battle against a three-to-one
list, it is we'll that the
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CAN'T STOP THE THINKER

A bishop once said to Louis XI Of
France Make an iron cage for those
who do not think as we do-an iron
cage in which the captive can neither
lie down nor stand upright"
Not long after the bishop offended
the king and for fourteen years was
confined in the same cage
Moral, The people that would sup.
press the man who thinks for him
self are the first and worst victims OF
suppression "-EX
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COME, TOHERS!

Come night! Know that the sun shining
wonderbeng should toll for profit OF
sunlight that abundant for ALL like
within of ALL It is like locking
you fe,ala within reach DID you
BUT CEASE LETTING OTHERS ORDER YOUR LIVES. Come
toilers, of the night
the night Sun and wind and wave hold
youhod silent great lessons for And for
infinite hands millions of miles today;
Beauty sending hills the valleys the rocks the
clouds, and in infinite voices OF usic-FoR
YOU! FOR YoU YOU KNoW DID YOU kNoW Come,
tolers, of the night
Come, night Land in plenty awaits coal
machinery schools and houses OF
comfortalal easily here for you
DID YOU BUT HOLD OF YOUR LIVES! DID YOU KNOW
THESE DAYS PASSED DOWN TO you OUT OF THE
UNIVERSE YoU-FoR YoU-AND YOU HAVE NO
RIGHT UNDER THE STARS TO SELL THEM TO OTHERS!
JOY JOY KNoWI tOers out of the night!
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WONDERFUL. ELECTRICAL
EFFECTS TO BE SHOWN
AT DANCE MONDAY

And now come the members of Lo
cal 1870, Stage Hands and Operators
with something beautiful and novel
for the dance at Fraternal Hall, Mon
day evening. Dancers will be treated
to some electrical effects never be-
fore seen in a ballroom. Waltz With
Me In Fairyland" would be an appro-
pirate title for some of the numbers,
thanks to the boys of stageland.
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Diamond, Statistician
u. M. w. of A.

houses in which the workmen lived,
and the miners were forced to leave
their homes, and, with their wives
and children, take up their abode in
tent colonies, one of these colonies
being that of Ludlow, where, on April
goth, 1914, occurred the terrible mas
sacre in which mine guards, in the
guise of militiamen, attacked and
burned the tent colony, which resulted
in the burning and smothering to
death of numbers of women and chill
dren
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NO sOCILIsT OFFICIALS

DEIROIT-Trade unionists declare
they will oppose the proposed munici
pal ownership amendment to the city
charter providing for municipal own
ership unless a clause is inserted
guaranteeing arbitration of disputes
with employees. Members of the To-
cal federation of labor's legislative
committee point out another objection
to the proposed amendment. This
permits city officials who manage the
road to compel employees to take a
civil service examination and say you
can come in, but must keep out Of
/ labor unions"
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MY PLEDGE
(From War. What For2'D

(From War, What For?'D
I refuse to kill your father I re-
fuse to slay your mothers son.
refuse to plunge a bayonet into the
breast of your sisters brother. I re
fuse to slaughter your sweethearts
lover refuse to murder your wife's
husband, I refuse to butcher your lit
tie child's father. I refuse to wet the
earth with blood and blind kind eyes
with tears. l refuse 10 assassinate you
and then hide my stained fists in the
folds of any flag.
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CONTRIBUTORS TO FUND
FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION
OF LABOR JOURNAL

The following organizations paid fol-
the free distribution of The Labor
Journals special issue on the munich
pal water plant election:
Electrical Workers, IS; Carpenters
IS, Trades Council, $3.55; Building
Laborers, SO; Plasterers, SO: Team
sters SO; BARRIERS, SO; Plumbers, $3.50;
Painters, $3.50; Cigarmakers, 81;
Molders, 81.
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STORY OF GUN-MEN

When the miners went out on the
strike the allied coal companies
brought into the field professional
gunner from all over the United
States, including the strike-breaking
detective agency known as the Bald
win-Felts Agency, and armed them
with high-power rifles and machine
guns. The sheriff of the county com
missioned these men, many of whom
had been brought from other states,
as deputy sheriffs. In other words,
he commissioned the hired gunmen
of the coal companies as officers of
the law. Prior to the massacre at
Ludlow, to-wit: on October %, 1913,
one of these men, John Nimmo, was
killed in a battle at Ludlow. 1t was
for the death of this man, Nimmo
that Lawson was sentenced to i'm
prisonment. AS shown from the evil
dence produced in court, Lawson had
no part whatever in the battle in
which NlmmO was killed.
After the killing of the women and
children at Ludlow in April. 1914,
grand jury was empanelled at Trini-
dad Although the coroner's jury
which held an inquest over the bodies
of these women and children had re-
ported blame on the coal companies,
not a coal mine operator nor one of
their alleged guards" was indicted,
but instead, indictments were re-
turned against great numbers of mi
ners, A partisan report was made
by the grand jury, blaming the miners
and whitewashing the operators, and
to this day not single indictment
has been returned for the massacre
ners who lost their lives in the ashes
of Ludlow.
John r. Lawson was one of the
indicted men. He was, as before
stated, accused of the alleged murder
of the mine guard NimmO.
Upon the return of the Indictment
the attorneys for the United Mine
Workers filed on behalf of Lawson
plea in abatement. This plea asked
that the indictment be quashed, and
alleged under oath that the coal op-
orators had been permitted by the
G m oiS9 20
members of the grand Jury, and that
they had filled the panel with coal
company partisans, including coal
company employees, alleged deputy
sherifts, and men who had actually
participated as hired men for the coal
companies in actual battles which
had occurred, and who had boasted
that they had killed striking miners.
II was shown in the plea that the
judge of the court had not caused the
grand jury to be drawn from the reg
ular jury box, but had authorized the
sheriff to select the grand jurors, and
that the sheriff allied with the coal
companies had permitted the coal op-
orators to name the grand jury, with
the result of securing indictments
against the miners and permitting the
operators crowd to 90 free.
SUBSERVIENT OFFICIALS
OF COLORADO
To this plea in abatement, as
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! filed denying the charges, but Jesse
G. Northcutt, the chief attorney for
the allied coal operators, signed and
filed demurrer, setting up that, even
admitting all the allegations in the
plea in abatement to be true, they
furnished no ground for the quashing
of the indictment. This demurrer was
also signed by Fred Farrar, Attorney
General of the State of Colorado. In
other words, the Attorney General Of
the State of Colorado permitted the
appear in court against Mr.. Lawson,
and to claim that, even if they had
packed the grand jury, it furnished
no cause of complaint to Mr. Lawson.
The startling claim made by this de.
murrer was heard before Judge
Charles c. Butler, of Denver, who
was called on to come down to the
Trinidad district and determine
whether or not the plea in abatement
was good Judge Butler Mortified the
coal operators and the Attorney Gen.
eraI of the State of Colorado by hold.
ing that the plea in abatement WAS
GOOD. In other words, he Overruled
the demurrer, and said that the At
torney General and the coal opera
tors attorney would have to file a
denial of these charges or else Mr.
Lawson would be released. 1t is
worthy of note at this point that so
incensed did the powers that be be-
come at Judge Butler for this ruling
that he has not been since called up
on to preside in any other matter in
any strike case, and, as will be seen
later in this statement, a scheme was
adopted of having a new judge to pre-
side. After Judge Butler had ruled
that it was illegal to permit a grand
jury to be packed by the coal opera
tors, a denial of the charges made IN
the plea in abatement was placed upon
lup ItCOIQS. l MS pItStllNCt ill ASouC
of fact and Mr.. Lawson was entitled
to have the question of fact tried and
disposed Of But the Attorney Cen
eral and his associate, the coal COM
pany lawyer. gave Mr.. Lawson no op-
portunity to prove the truth of his al
legation. They dismissed the indict-
ment filed against Mr. Lawson, and
thereby prevented him from proving
the truth of his charges. and imme-
diately filed an information" making
the same charge The information
was simply a written statement signed
by the Attorney General that Lawson
committed said alleged offense, and
was sworn to by one Of the sheriff's
deputies who had himself participated
in the battles which had occurred.
This information was filed on the 18th
dav of February 1915
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Wants lingo Solons
AT The Front

! MADISON. VISA scheme to put
all jingo congressman in the front
ranks as privates in any war they
may vote for is proposed in a joint
resolution introduced by Assemblyman
Pieper.
Basing his argument on the state
ment that "it is an undisputed fact
that if those who are directly respon-
sible for the terrible slaughter now
going on in Europe would be COM
PEELED to stand in the front rank of
battle and do the actual fighting in
stead of sitting in some office, or
watching the process Of slaughter
from some sheltered place through a
spy. glass, we'll removed from the
point of danger, there would be no
war" the resolution proposes plan
to insure that those responsible are
placed where they will reap the re-
suit of their votes
WANTS POLICY CHANGED
Congress is asked to modify the
military policy of the country in the
following directions in order TO carry
out the proposed plan,
BY the abrogation of all secret
treaties between the United States and
any foreign power.
BY repeating all existing laws per
tanning to military duty and substi-
tuting the requirement that in case
of war every congressman who is
such at the time war is declared shall
be compelled to enlist and serve as a
private soldier during the war at a
compensation of $13 per month and
no congressman to be promoted dur
ing any war for which he voted
By the enactment of laws to pro
vide for the election of new CON
gress Immediately upon a declaration
of war, such declaration to result in
the forfeiture of office by all sitting
members
SEND RICH MEN
To provide that the first line of
defense in case of war shall be made
up of all the millionaires Of this coun.
try, first guaranteeing such million
aires ample police protection to pre-
vent oyercrowding at recruiting sta
tions
To further provide that the only
other citizens liable TO compulsory en-
listment shall be preachers, lawyers
and editors, and all other men having
an income of $4,000 or over per year
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TOLEDO, O-The Toledo Machine
& Tool Company has signed an eight
hour agreement with the Machinists'
union. The new scale calls for a min
imum wage of 40 cents an hour for
machinists and As cents an hour for
die makers. About 400 men are af
fected
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Made in the United States" re-
marked Great Britain az it handed
Washington a thesis on the law OF
blockade.--Wal Street Journal.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-05

In this strikingly handsome
dining set the pieces all match
beautifully. 1t is one of the
newest Adam designs in genuine
mahogany; accurately illustrated.
The workmanship on every piece
throughout is superb. The price
will be special for one days
selling, S145.00.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-13

advocate woman suffrage to exercise
mat duty and responsibility, than their
appearance here TO urge upon Congress
the abiogatioH OF this fundamental
principle"
THOMAS jefferson says. with respect
10 everything external we he one ma
ton only. firmly hooked together. In
tcrnal government is what each state
shouid Keep to Itself" I'm debates in
Connecticut on the adoption Of the
Federal Constitution Oliver wolcott
said: The Constitution erectually Sc
cures the states In their several rights
" must secure them for its own sake
Tor they are tn. pillars which uphold
the general system" We have greater
authority-onc Of the authors OF tho
Constitution. Alexander Hamilton.
who says: We're tn" Ia Ms or the Union
To new-mod"l the internal policy OF any.
state and I" alter it's civil and criminal
institutions, wcr. they 10 penetrate
the reccsscs Of domestic life and con-
troll In all respects tho private con-
duct Of individuals. there might bc
more force IN tho objection. and the
same Constitution which was happily
calculated Tor one state might sacrifice
the welfare Of another. The blow
aimed at tn" members must give a
fatal wound 10 the head; and the de-
struction of the States must be "a, once
a political suicide. Can the national
government be guilty OF this mad
ness"
Chief Justice Marshall says: NO
political dreamer VAS ever wild enough
TO think OF breaking down the lines
which separate the states and of COM
pounding the American people into one
common mass"
How Southern women can ask for
this amendment cannot understand.
The fifteenth amendment had dan
Scrous consequences and IL was tried
then Ito compel each State to submit
its local suffrage to Congress"
Everett Wheeler calls the ants THE
Home Rule Party" He believes in
the dependence Of man upon woman
and woman upon man. each supreme in
the proper sphere. We believe In the
authority OF the Union, but equally do
We believe in protecting the rights
OF each individual State. 1t Is only
by preserving tn. security and au-
thority of each tina, tie happiness and
prosperity Of the whole can he attain
cd. Happiness and prosperity depend
upon obedience TO law" He concludes:
Home rule is the law of America"
NELLIE HARkE FIR HENSON.
Richmond. Va. Gov. II. 1918.