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The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
A JURY CLEARS GIRL
Finds MarshaILFieId & Co., Guilty Of Paying
Starvation Wages

tried hard. But the day came when
she couldn't go ahead She had no
credit; she couldn't borrow at the
bank. She had nothing to mortgage
except her soul; nothing to sell but
her body.
Then came the argument to thd
jury. The prosecution took the old
Old Testement argument; an eye 70
an eye, the law of force and revenge
The attorny for the defense wa
John D. Farrell. He talked as hu
man being TO the jury. He made n
appeal to the law. He told of tn
wage slavery of the working girl
and he, too, admitted Margaret's gull
guilt.
THE conditions of this case" h
said, "are. such that if the jury be
lieves the girl was not paid enough
wages, it becomes question of mor1
ality. And it is up to you to decide
who is guilty-the Marshall Field
store for paying starvation wages, or
this working girl for taking, some of
their ill-gotten gain. Here is girl
who tried to live on SIS, SO, and 81 a
week. Students of economics agree
that it is not enough for girl to sup-
port herself on. Every one has a right
to enough wages to live on decentlyl
Marshall Field robbed this girl of the
right by not paying her living wageI
Suddenly she found herself with he
back to the wall There were twd
things left for her to do. She could
take the easiest way and go to thu
white lights, or she could steal Sh%
had to make up somehow the differ
ence between her wages and the cost
of living, She showed the good girl
she is by choosing the more honorable
way. She decided to steal. And she
stole from one that could best afford
the loss, and the one that was respon-
sible for her condition. She stole
from Marshall Field, who made thief
of this girl, wants you to send her to
prison.
q contend" said the attorney, ''that
the girl was justified in stealing froni
Fields. And ask you to bring in
verdict either finding her guilty
else acquitting the girl as victim
Fields rotten low, underpaid wages
And if you bring in the latter verde
it will practically be conviction
Fields low wages and lesson to all
employers who pay starvation wages.
And the jury brought in verdict
of not guilty, and Margaret McManus
went free.-Harper's Weekly.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
BIG BLOOD BUSINESS
The Great European War Is Only a Trade Of
Blood for Bread

Associated press dispatches tell
every once in a while of cases where
surgeons and certain medical insti-
tutes have been buying real good
blood and infused it into the veins of
weak patients thereby saving their
lives.
Thus it is related that the doctors
in New York are buying blood of first
class quality and in quantities ranging
in prices from ten to one hundred
dollars. just in answer to one adj.
vertisement the blood sellers-that is
the poor starving people from the
East side-present themselves for the
operation in squads of hundreds.
Blood buys bread, and bread makes
blood.
When one comes to think Of it, there
is nothing so very strange about this
blood business, and it ought not to be
very shocking to laymen.
1t is life and death-common oc-
currences.
Over in old Europe there is big
blood business. 1t has been in pro-
gress on a colossal scale for months
It has cost millions of dollars and kill
ed millions of men. OF course, life
does not seem in business to have the
value that money has; yet the lives of
soldiers and generals are worth much
more that the lives of ordinary people;
possibly the reason is-that they were
trained to kill. At any rate this big
gest of all big blood business-the
greatest of all worlds wars-is at the
bottom, but gigantic bartering of
blood for bread.
Numerous causes may be advanced
for the battle lines which stretch l30
miles from the Baltic to the Adriatic.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

90 miles from the North Sea to the
Alps; thence throughout the Caucasus,
around the pyramids in Egypt, on the
borders of China, and over all the seas
on the Globe. But the real cause is
the same old struggle, Conquest Of
Bread"-more land, foot upon which
to stand, grave in which to sleep.
Yet, the struggle is not confined to
the war trenches. For aeons it has
been present in our big industrial cen-
ters; and under our high commercial
lied civilization it has become fercer
during the last few decades.
This blood business, this struggle
for bread is ever present in the mills,
the fields, the factories, the forests,
on sea and on land. Old and young,
mothers and babes, are alike its VIC
tins.
Millions of men in the United States
and Canada are now hunting for em-
ployment and seeking jobs in every
way.
1t is the hardest of all work.
Our idle industrial army is yearly
increasing; the whole land is still held
in the grasp of greedy grounding
spectators.
There will be war so long as there
are soldiers and generals. Wars pro-
duct is but one result-millions of
crippled men, wailing widows, and
starving babes.
There will be soldiers and generals
so long as property is worth more
than human life. "The Conquest of
Bread" means the conservation of hui
man blood-blood given for the saw
ing of human life.
But before such conquest is pos
sible the world must acquire new sys-
tens, new heroes. A New Race.-Ex.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
(By Lincoln Steffens)

A little piece of big news happen
ed in Chicago on March II, 1914. It's
as small as petty larceny. It's as big
and as new, as 'the unwritten law
and when that justification for crime
was FIRST appealed to /. Here it is, cut
out of THE Day Book, an Adless
Daily Newspaper which, by the way,
is itself little piece of big, news:
"A young woman stole $50 from a
department store, and admitted that
she had taken the money. The verdict
of the jury in effect, was that the guilt
of the department store in paying
less than living wage was greater
than the guilt of the girl who stole
rather than to do the other thing.
Hence, having the lesser guilt, the
girl was not guilty at all"
N. D. Cochran tells the story pret-
ty much as follows:
Margaret McManus, "a years old,
had struggled along since childhood
III uCDdI olOiC0 anu OtAlCA INV
wage institutions which grind human
souls and bodies into dollars. When
she started to work for the Marshall
Field store, she got $s week. She
didn't live at home, she divided a
room with another girl. She gave
good service and was raised t. So and
finally to 81. Her fight against the
cost of living a decent life became
more and more intense, till, one day,
the crisis came. She needed money.
She had no friends, and no bank to
borrow from. She took $50 of Mar
shall Field money, and left the store,
She paid her debts and disappeared.
This was in September, 1912.
The big store never rests when rob
bed. 1t put detectives on the case,
and they caught her in June, 1918.
She was indicted and the case came
up on March IA. 1914, before Judge
N. L. Mckinley and jury, The pro-
secution made its case complete, at no
little expense. The assistant superin-
tendent of Rothchild's another big de-
partment store, where Margaret Nc
Manus had worked, helped to identify
her. So did several salesgirls. But all
this testimony was Of no use
Margaret McManus admitted her
guilt She hid behind no technicali-
ties. She didn't plead "a fit of in
sanity" She was the only witness.
She simply told her own story OF
her struggle to keep body and soul
together with the starvation wages
paid by the big store. She said she
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
FOR THE REFERENDUM

Olympia, Wash.-At meeting of
more than 800 representatives of or
ganized labor in the state, delegates to
the State Federation of Labor, it was
agreed to secure names for referen-
dunn petitions in case the present re-
dictionary legislature sees fit to repeal
any social legislation that has been Sc
cured by the trade union movement.
Each delegate pledged himself to Sc
cure 100 names to the referendum
petitions if the need should arise.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
URGES REMEDIAL LAWS

Albany.-At the state convention OF
the brotherhood of Firemen and En-
ginemen, held in this city, the leg
islative program adopted includes bills
broadening the workmen's cofnepnsa-
ton law to apply to railroad men en-
ployed in both the interstate and intra-
state trade; to have the time OF dis
ability start from the date Of injury
rather than fourteen days, as now pro-
vided; to decrease the length Of
freight trains one-half mile; to pro-
vide air-operated fre-box doors on
locomotives.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
WOULD RAISE WAGES

Boston-Prof. Fisher, of Yale uni
versity, told an arbitration board
that is concidering wage demands of
the Bay Street Railway company em-
ployes that even if street railway
company was suffering under financial
stress and it was necessary to dis
continue certain trips, the company
should not hesitate to increase the
wages Of its employees to meet the
new conditions because of the increas-
ed cost of living. He also said that
the working day is too long, both
from the standpoint of the public as
well as of the workers.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD OWN THE TELEPHONES

Congressman David ]. Lewis Of
Maryland, father Of the parcel post,
announced in public interview on
December 3 his intention to make a
fight for postalization Of the telephone
during this session. Speaking on this
matter Lewis said:
president Vail, Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
has said: There is road to every
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
LIABILITY LAW TO STAND AGREE ON COMPENSATION

Oklahoma City, Okla,-The house
committee on labor and arbitration
has agreed on the terms OF a pro-
posed workmen's compulsory COM
pensation law to apply only to per-
sonal injuries. 1t does not make any
provision for compensation for death.
t was found it takes an amendment to
the constitution TO enact law that
would provide compensation in case
of fatal injury.
By the terms of the bill there is
created state industrial commission
to be composed Of three members
appointed by the governor, who shall
have charge Of the operation Of the
fund to be made up by compul-
sorry contributions from employers.
The bill carries four optional in
features.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
DISCUSS asAFETY FIRST"

San Francisco-The state indus
trial accident commission gave a
safety first" demonstration in this
city. The commission has been hold
ing these conferences in various
parts Of the state for the purpose of
creating a safety first sentiment
Lectures and moving pictures show
work being done in shop and factory
10 protect the toiIer
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
VOTE INVESTIGATION OF JUDGE DAYTON

Washington.-The House has un-
animously adopted resolution from
its judiciary committee providing for
an investigation by the committee of
charges against Federal Judge Day
ton, of the northern district of West
Virginia
The charges were filed several
months ago by Representative Neely,
OF that state, and provided that the
committee inquire whether Judge
Dayton, among other things, had
shown marked favoritism to certain
corporations having extensive litiga-
ton in his court, and whether he had
lent his services as judge to the coal
operators of West Virginia by improp-
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

&@eiiat tnSNShould be. LANDLORDS
grab every available inch OF land with
the hope that its rental value or price
will increase. This causes great guam
titles Of land to be held out OF use.
Within the city limits of Seattle
there is land area of fifty-eight
square miles and seven out Of every
nine lots are vacant. The entire pop
ulationof 3l5O00 souls could be placed
on the area bounded by the Sound the
Lake Washington canal, Lake Wash
ington and Hanford street. This
would allow a 60xlOO foot lot for each
family or group oof six persons, 1000
acres Of parks. large areas for fac
tory and business purposes and lib
erai allowance for streets and alleys.
The whole city would then cover
about eighteen square miles.
Think OF more than two-thirds of
seattle's area(forty square miles) be-
ing given over to crazy land specula-
ton when those forty sections of land
could be used for fine chicken ranches,
truck gardens and farmsl Think of
the wasted millions of dollars worth
Of streets. sewers. water pipes, teIe-
phone equipment, street cars, delivery
service, mail carrier service, etc, this
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

erly issuing injunctions; whether he
has shown hatred and bitterness to-
ward miners on trial in his court;
whether he has used his Office as Judge
to discourage and prevent said miners
from exercising their lawful right to
organize and peaceably assemble un-
der the laws of the United States and
the state of West Virginia.
After investigating the charges, the
committee reported an investigation
was warranted, and in this the House
has concurred.
Judge Dayton has attracted nation
wide attention because Of labor in
functions which have been issued from
his court.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

mans house; there ought to be teie-
phone inside" Bue society, not private
monopoly, built that road; and if every
citizen is to have the telephone, II
must come through the pubiic-service
motive. extended through the postal
function. Telephone conamuni-
cation is in the same class as express
service. It is a natural monopoly, and
must be in the hands Of the public to.
be either cheap q Efficient. Ex
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18
MISSOURI ENDS AN UNFAIR COMPETITION

Jacksonville.-The Musicians union
has been successful in its protest
against employment Of boys from the
Illinois school for the blind as against
musicians who depend upon their cali
ing for livelihood and the support
of their families. President John II.
Walker, of the State Federation Of
Labor, took the matter up with the
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

Mr. Ralph Somerville returned to
*The Jumpers Tuesday. He win
spend the remainder OF the winter on
his fathers ranch.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

Salem, Ore.-In his report to the
Oregon Federation Of Labor Secre-
tary-Ireasurer Stack said:
we should avoid party activity
lest we should be drawn into a polit-
cal vortex which will be the undoing
OF our industrial organizations.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

state board Of administration and sue
ceeded in securing a satisfactory adj
justment OF the matter The board
has issued Instructions to the manag-
ing officer OF the school to diseon-
tinue the practice of allowing. the boys
from the institution to go out and play
music in competition with the music
ians of Jacksonville.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-02-18

The Gem Worker is proving to
be a winner-both with the Labor
Unions and with the Boise BUSH
ness men. Our subscription list
is growing rapidly and is covering
the entire State of Idaho; and
Boise's business men are quick to
show their esteem for labor's
cause by using labor's paper as
an advertising medium.
Evening star., 1915-03-14
"FRUIT OF THE TREE"

THIS the title of love story SUNDAY MAGAZINE,
real story these modern times that has it the thrill of
big things. The author of it is Ella w. Peattie
There aren't really good love stories written nowadays
may
their those earlier day.
what used be considered good love story can't stand
modern We of this generation think of
of the tree than foebears.
IN the issue is THE MAGAZINES IN THESE TIMES.
This make think the article belongs ighbrow
review Its author, Robert Sterling Yard will
forget suggestion of that by the brilliant straightforward
simple which he ideas Perhaps you have taken
the magazines this country for granted and haven't stopped
think the valuable work they have done and should
The difference between hghbrow magazine and SUNDAY
MAGAZINE much in the subject the method of
presentation Our MAGAZINE is first of all interesting and there
any subject of wide Importance that it will present the
ideas presented in graphic, forceful fashion,
As editor and writer Mr. Yard has been close student of
magazines for years. and he knows that apart from unwooe
ness objectionable of which magazine be guilty
is dlness Hell likely make grasp, definite fashion, truths
about which you have been hazy which will much clearer
idea Of magazines and greater enjoyment in Them
HUGH PENDEXTER forward in SUNDAY MAGA
with another of those Sinful Punkett stories That
amazing adventures still recuperang and he has
plenty of time recall the exciting incidents his life The story
DARK MAN OF RED ANT. 1t tells of
the amazing things that followed in the mining when there
appeared what Sinful calls "a horrorscopist."
OF that Louis Tracy, past Of
fiction, would write story without villain in it. The
individual appears the next nsament and he is the clever,
seaing kind of villain that for instant has the sympathy
anybody But all the he able to lot of trouble
before his activities ended
Evening star., 1915-03-14
CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
BRUTo THE BOLT BREAKER

BRUTO THE BOLT BREAKER. ........... BY Paul West
heroic tale describing the wod beae" vaudeville that the
versatile Maxey Conhem put
illustrated by G. E. Wolfe
HISTORY ON THE WALL. BY William p Helm. Jr.
thrilling article the hairang feats performed by moving
picture in getting their records.
illustrated by Rolf Armstrong
HUMOR OF THE scHOOLRooM 49,. BY School Teachers
WILBURS PLACE IN THE SUN. By Sewe1 Ford
Shorty McCabe with astonishing Climax showing how
another of Pyramid Gordon pohumous benefacton worked
out. illustrated by VaMn Wilson
JUST SONG AT TWILIGHT". ... BY w. D. Goidbeck
Illustrated from Painting
FLOWER OF THE GORSE. ..............B BY Louis Tracy
and her father understanding regard
former Mrs. Ingersol.
illustrated by w. Berger
FILMVILLE PORTRAITS. By Walter S. Ball
Subjects: The Bride and the ex-Convict.
illustrated
WORTH WHILE FOLK. By Glen R. Townsend
Professor Ladds wonderful work purifying legislation
North Dakota. Illustrated
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FARMS.
FOR SALE.

TEXAS RANCH-2,OOO ACRES. HOUSE, II
rooms All improvements. Elevation, 1900
feet. Well fenced. watered. $4,000. Will
trade for Virginia farm. Room 116, rs Broad.
New York.
FOR SALE OR RENT AT A BARGAIN-BUN-
galow. Close to ocean southeast coast OF
Florida. Social advantages. Electric light
and city water. Unsurpassed climate. A cash
payment as low as 500 will be accepted, or
II desired, will rent with option of purchase
Price, ST. $50,
130l-f Westminster bldg. Chicago. Ill.
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FOR RENT-HOUSES.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

FOR RENT : 3-SToRY HOUSE; PRIVATE;
central location; would like to rent to a gov
eminent clerk and wife, without children; 8
or 10 rooms, furnished or unfinished, with
dne bath; two lavatories; latest plumbing
and gas; With garage; neatly decorated
throughout; am renting because wish change
F5E hrIct IN 81 e sm AMD h e.
water heat newly installed; $3.50. 1912 4th
ct. Nv; 7r. and sr.; in thorough repair;
cAYWooD 4 GARRETT. 1881 n. Y. ave. NV.
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FUTURE DAYS.
FUTURE DAYS.
Trustees Sale of Valuable Real
Estate, Known as Premises
z13-7I5 and ~ North Capitol

By virtue Of certain deed of trust duly re.
the land records of the District of Columbia.
we, the undersigned trustees. will sell at public
auction, in front of the premises on TUES
DAY. THE TWENTY sixth DAY OF OcTO-
Der. A. D., 1915. AT FOUR O'CLOCK PM,
the following described land and premises, sit
uste in the city OF Washington. in the District
of Columbia. and designated and being lots
% and % in Joseph s. Cabots subdivision Of
part Of square 677. said subdivision is re-
corded in Book N K, page PA, of the records
OF the ONCE of the surveyor of the District OF
Columbia. together with the improvements con-
sisting of premises 7i3-715 and TT North
Capitol street.
Terms of sale: Onethird of the purchase
money to be paid in cash and the balance in
two equal instaliments, payable in and two
years. with interest at 5Ia per ceptum per an
mum, payable semi annually from day Of sale
secured by deed OF trust upon the property
sold or all cash at the option Of the purchase
A deposit of $500 will be required Of the pur-
chaser at the time OF sale. All conveyancine
recording, internal revenue stamps and notariai
fees at the cost Of the purchaser. Terms of
sale to be complied with within fifteen days
from day of sale, otherwise the trustees re-
serve the right to resell the property at the
risk and cost Of the defauiting purchaser after
1--WE days advertisement OF Such resale N some
newspaper published in the city OF Washing.
ton. D. c. JULIUS A, MAEDEL.
629 F st. NV,
JERRY J. DUGAN,
1881 LIST st. NV,
oc15d6ds Trustees.
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Manipulating Virginia Grape
and Fruit Farm.

Sc acres in ALL 60 high state cultivation: 6
meadow; balance timber 60, 900 feet saw tim
ber}; sandy soil with clay sub-soil; produces ex-
celient crops. of corn, oats, clover, grasses,
vegetables and Is especially adapted TO grape
and fruit culture; vineyard of 1900 grape.
vines that produced this year 81. 500 worth OF
marketable grapes; fine orchard of apples.
peaches, pears. figs, etc: acres in tame
btackberries lowner sold over $500 worth of
blackberries this year.; there is fine nursery
on place stock hand. 10000 grapevines
and 10000 berry plants of different varieties,
splendid Sroom, 2-story frame dwelling, nicely
finished inside and out, with beautiful shrub
berry in front yard and grape arbor in rear;
large barn and all other necessary outbuild-
inss: land lies level and is well drained; no
waste land; 500 yards 10 town of Blackwater,
boat landing passenger and freight: boats run
regularly TO cities of Norfolk. Portsmouth and
Berkfey dt is 23 miles to these cities; 2I5
miles to Creeds, railroad station on Norfolk
Southern rwy.: thickly settled and prosperous
section; good white neighbors; very healthful
iucaiity;, title to property perfect abstract
furnishedj the place win pay every year 400
on Investment: property located In Princess
Anne county; Lowest price. direct from owner,
and balance in 8 years: If yon mean bust
ness, address SOUTHERN HOMESEEkERS'
BUREAU WilkesborO. n C.